Broadway veterans Helen Hunt and William H. Macy and the cast of the film The Surrogate won the Special Jury prize for ensemble acting at 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The movie, written and d…

"There's no booing here. This is a house of love." Those words were spoken by Jennifer Ashley Tepper to the crowd at Joe's Pub at the latest installment of her and Kevin Michael Murphy's addictive, insightful, …

The multi-talented actress discusses her new role in the New Group's production of Russian Transport.

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER closes today at The St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th Street. The musical will have played 29 preview and 57 regular performances. Take a look back at the show's run below

Just a note to publicize an important new source of information on work by women and trans people in Canadian theatre . . .The Feminist SpectatorQueer Performance: Women and Trans ArtistsCTR 149, Winter 2012Edi…

Glenn Weiss was presented with the Directors Guild of America Award for his work ont thel Tony Awards in a ceremony held on January 28 in Los Angeles. Other DGA Award winners were Michael Hazanvicius (The Art…

Grace Kelly is a quadruple threat: she plays saxophone, sings, composes, and arranges. Phil Woods has been playing saxophone for over 60 years since being hired by Quincy Jones to play lead alto with Dizzy Gill…

Actor Taylor Lautner attended Cirque du Soleil's Ovo, playing under the Big Top on the Santa Monica Pier, on Friday, January 27. He was accompanied by an LA Clippers cheerleader named Sara, and a group of …

CHINGLISH, the new comedy which was named by TIME Magazine as the 1 new American play of 2011, will play its final performance on today. It will have played 128 performances.

Maryland Shakespeare Festival in conjunction with the OMBELLICO Mask Ensemble brought something different to the Frederick Cultural Center. Dead Man’s Mambo is billed part Commedia dell’Arte and part clown.…

One of the greatest articles I ever read in Playbill was “Hitpicking,” by Barry Tarshis, which was published in the fall of 1970. 1) Is there at least one major film or TV star in the cast?

As we reported on Thursday, Aoife Mulholland is planning to return to her role as Brooke Wyndham for the final weeks of Legally Blonde's West End run - and her maternity cover Tamara Wall is not best pleased, v…

You may be still catching up on the Academy Award, Golden Globe, People’s Choice, or SAG picks. But this month offers some rare and wonderful treats for film fans of all kinds.

Buzz Mauro Buzz Mauro is the co-director and co-founder of The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Speaking as someone who Continue reading

Soon after Black History Month became a February fixture in the mid-1970s, professional stages in big cities around the country began to pick up on it, and for a time it seemed as though a growing canon of Afri…

The lights already are up on a number of notable shows during the theater season's second half - Body Awareness at the Wilma, the Philadelphia Theatre Company's Scottsboro Boys across the street, The Mousetrap …

1 “The Book of Mormon” (Eugene O’Neill Theatre) The ace original principal cast just renewed for a year. Praise be.

There are plenty of plays out there about civilized people descending into -chaos and destroying their own living...

Taking cues from recent tragedies in social care, Chris Lee – who is a full time social worker – has turned a national topic on its head with Shallow Slumber. A reversed narrative plays with the wid…

To call FellSwoop Theatre’s fifties cabaret bar aesthetic “realistic” would be a criminal understatement. By framing the story of Madame Souza’s fight to rescue her grandson from the crooks who …

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

Actor and humanitarian Sean Penn arrived in Haiti just days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people and left another 1.5 million homeless. Two years later, he's established an organizatio…

If you want to actually hear the songs in Broadway’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” you may have a problem. When teen heartthrob Nick Jonas took over the role of J. Pierrepont Finch (f…

The No. 1 dish at Joe Allen is the sauteed calf’s liver — yes, liver! — but no one goes to Joe Allen for the food. The eatery on West 46th Street’s Restaurant Row is less a hash house than it is a hango…

The strong and diverse musical score, by Galt MacDermot (of Hair fame), also creates a sense of excitement. Genres range from rock and classical to Latin and gospel, though all of the songs have a 70s vibe. Amo…

Dominic Molon, 41, chief curator for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

'It makes it less of a class and more of a night out,' participant says.

Oh the things you will think when this play you come see— all wonderful things I promise, just take it from me. You’ll see wonders and amazement and I swear that’s the truth— from Continue reading

Artistic Director – Kabosh, Director Belfast IRELAND My favorite book is ‘Grace Notes’ by Bernard McLaverty – a superb piece of work about a creative Belfast woman. Amongst many theatrical experienc…

Relatively Speaking, which features one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, plays its final performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Jan. 29 at 8 PM.

Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Janet McTeer, Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh are among the nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented Jan. 29 at the Los Angeles Shrine Ex…

Broadway's revised revival of the 1965 musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Harry Connick Jr. as a conflicted shrink who uncovers a patient's past life in hypnosis sessions, and the…

The Flea Theater presents the New York premiere of These Seven Sicknesses, a five-hour marathon of all seven Sophocles plays re-envisioned by playwright Sean Graney, officially opening Jan. 29, following previe…

The Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman navigating misunderstandings of language and etiquette on an important business trip to China, ends its run Jan. …

Jersey Boys stars Matt Bogart, Andy Karl, Jarrod Spector and Quinn VanAntwerp recently visited "Imus in the Morning" to perform a medley of songs from the Tony Award-winning musical.

This month's column discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; new releases of Hitchcock's "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Notorious"; Woody …

Children of Eden, the 1991 Old Testament musical by Stephen Schwartz and John Caird, is being revived at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre Jan. 29 for a one-night charity gala performance.

SAYING ‘YES’ TO CLOSERI’ve always had an inclination to say yes to impossible tasks.BY CALEB MCMULLENI had every intention of writing something articulate in some sort of essay format. However, I’m feel…

Where the COC goes to play(Photo: Tim Griffith, courtesy COC)Tale of Two CitiesL’Opera de Montreal’s premiere of Il Trovatore the same day Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company premiered Tosca highlighted some…

It's a tale about a coal miner's son who wants to be a ballet dancer against his father's wishes. The family drama plays out against a major strike in which the government is out to break the union. Sound famil…

There's not much that's ordinary about the centerpiece of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 2011-12 season. Rather than the usual switch this time of year from the grand Benedum Center to the more intimate Byham Thea…

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"End of the Rainbow" finds Judy Garland wrestling with the legend she had created, and her own self-image.

CHEATED OF FEATURE The joy of watching Shakespeare in performance largely depends on the ensemble’s ability to make sense of the language.  In this regard, Sacred Fools’ new Richard III succeeds, a…

IF THIS IS THE CIRCUS, WHERE’S MY BREAD? In 1992, Guy Laliberté gentrified the big top with Saltimbanco, offering pure spectacle at Wagnerian prices, and in the process conflating art with acrobatics.  …

THE NATURALIST THING TO DO In the late 19th century, Naturalism emerged as a viable theatrical style in response to the artifice that had earlier been in vogue.  It was almost inevitable that overly manipulate…

A play about cancer and dying is probably not something that is first on your uplifting winter "must see" list.  But don't click the back button on your browser just yet.  Attention must be paid. &nbs…

King Ubu is a glove puppet going psycho. In the prologue to Simon Stephens's new play The Trial of Ubu, as staged by Katie Mitchell, this miniature scabrous clown, resembling Mr Punch, zips around in a sharp-ed…

What are we talking about?A starry new West End production of François Archambault's satire, a dark comedy in which a yuppie dinner party spirals out of control.

At the start of last week, the name Sergei Polunin was barely known beyond hardcore ballet fans. On Tuesday, the 21-year-old walked out of his job as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet.

Visually striking yet kinetically static, this hourlong marionette musical is driven by an intelligent, humorous script that is probably better appreciated by middle-aged moms than little children.

As producers, Erasing the Distance has made a brilliant and moving production out of a tender subject matter. From this show I learned that it's okay to look people in the eye and give acknowledgement. You neve…

The Naked City will become a little more modest this weekend when “Naked Boys Singing!,” the all-male, all-nude musical revue, closes on Saturday night after an almost 13-year run in New York.

Metropolitan Opera star Paul Plishka is saying goodbye to the stage after nearly 45 years and 1,642 performances.

The Coterie Theatre and the UMKC Theatre Department have joined forces to produce a remarkably well-acted revival of "The Wrestling Season," a taut one-act play by Laurie Brooks about intense social pressures a…

"Occupy Heart" is a collection of short plays that will run at the Little Casa Theater in downtown L.A. from Feb. 10-26.

Tova Carlin, Ania Diakoff, and Katerina Llanes' Sub-Standard installation​If Los Angeles is a car culture, then the parking garage of the Standard Hollywood represents that beastly reality's bow

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Three gifted sopranos will put aside all rivalry and come together for a program of late Renaissance and Baroque opera and song: Jessica Heuser, Christine Johnson and Elise LaBarge are the Kingsbury E

Is the three-act dead? By Karen McKevitt on the Berkeley Rep Blog: At a company meeting this fall, Artistic Director Tony Taccone declared, “Artists are moving away from the three-act structure. Not because i…

On January 26th Toronto was abuzz with excitement as film and stage star Daniel Radcliffe arrived in the city for the first time ever, to promote his upcoming film The Woman in Black. The story has been a hit …

Overflowing with colorful detail and smartly observed anecdotes, this one-man show is an affectionate, funny, and spicily authentic collage of growing up Puerto Rican in the Bronx of the 1970s.

A change of artists usually means a change of repertoire. Not this weekend at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; the change involves the guest conductor and the soloist, making the retention of all thr

Do critics want to go on living for "Wit"?

WIT by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow and starring Cynthia Nixon opened on Broadway last night, January 26 to rave reviews at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and BWW was there to chat with the cast a…

Roundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource for the theatre commun…

EDDIE ANTAR(Playwright) began his career in theatre working with the Indie theatre company TheArt & Work Ensemble, appearing in many of its productions including JosephHeller's We Bombed in New Haven, anda …

Review: This expansive and glorious metaphor on the American Century is given beautiful treatment at Park Square Theatre.

Last Monday I was fortunate enough to be able to attend TEDxBroadway at New World Stages in New York City. With no direct experience, but a keen interest, in the Broadway scene, I was excited to have the opport…

Please read the following important note from Die Grüppe: Comedy. Who has the right to call themselves funny in this sprawling Los Angeles landscape of starving improvisational artists and earnest sketch shows…

Rorschach Theatre continues to maintain a standard of excellence among its artists with their wonderful production of The Gasllerist. With this production Rorschach will surely see it rise as one of the top ti…

The Metropolitan Opera concludes Robert Lepage's misconceived version of Wagner's "Ring Cycle."

I was going to pick this one randomly, but when I read how Marty Strenczewilk was just as passionately bummed about missing How I Learned the first time around, how could I resist! Marty, you and I are finally …

Wow, a lot happened this week, you guys! Here’s the rundown… The musical Rebecca? So not happening, says all the people who refused to pay for it. Incoming instead? A revival of A Streetcar Named De…

Maura's moderating another panel for The Field's Economic Revitalization in the Performing Arts program on Monday 1/30 at 6:30 at Joyce Soho about "How Artists and Presenters Works Together." FREE.

Principal casting has been announced for Charlie Kaufman's upcoming film, Frank or Fraancis, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elizabeth Banks, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell, Catherine Keener …

Today in 1982, Macbeth opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for 21 performances. Written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest t…

Recently, I Tweeted all of my Twitter followers asking them: Darren Criss and Jeremy Jordan are cute guys!  BUT which Broadway Boys do YOU think are HOT, that others might not?  Actually, as one of my…