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Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PMThe big BSFC winner was "12 Years a Slave," which beat "The Wolf of Wall Street" for Best Picture, Best Director (Steve McQueen), and Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor).
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 07:56PMMy View Stephen Sorokoff: Cynthia Farrell - A Voice To Be Heard: Usually the thick velvet curtains that separate the bar area from the performance room of the Metropolitan Room prevent you f…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:55PMThat love in all its forms is something worth dancing about is a fact that proves equally joyous and tragic in Chéri.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMWhen I say that the new stage version of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is like a Tyler Perry comedy, only better, I do not mean to cast aspersions on the entertainment empire Perry’…
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DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½
DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ Chica…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 06:57PMDANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½
DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ ... It's the season for ind…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 06:57PMTHEATER REVIEW: 'A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Q Brothers' Christmas Carol' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 06:57PMHave a ball! Start the holidays with the laugh-filled family show –The British Players’ Cinderella, written by James Barry and directed with over-flowing humor by Charles Hoag. Cindere…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29PMPhoebe Legere radiates an aura of excess. Dressed in an Elizabethan-era costume with fetishistic accents, she has a buoyantly outsized presence and a tendency to indulge in a presentational …
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Center Stage’s presentation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration is a unique Christmas tale with local roots. Set in …
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:58PMBroadway favorites Santino Fontana (Cinderella) and Tony nominee Tony Shalhoub will both appear as iconic writer/director Moss Hart in Lincoln Center’s upcoming production of Act One. …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:56PMBooker T. and the MGs play "Red Beans and Rice" in Oslo in 1967: (This is the latest in a...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:54PM"Striving for the unreachable is really quite splendid." Rudolf Serkin (quoted in Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber, Rudolf Serkin: A...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:54PMI'm off to Chicago this morning, there to break bread with Our Girl and see three shows, Remy Bumppo's revival...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:54PMIn Lower Manhattan, the Flea, an Off Off Broadway theater, has managed to persevere and thrive after the post-Sept. 11 devastation.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:53PMLow-budget thriller set in the Philippines is standout winner at 2013 Bifas, with director Sean Ellis also named best director• Interview: Sean EllisA shoestring-budget heist thriller set…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:52PMThe musical Little Women, a troubled piece which replaced its songwriting team prior to a short Broadway life has toured to Seattle in the past without leaving any strong impression.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:04PMChristmas has come early at the 10th Avenue Theatre, where Circle Circle Dot Dot unwrapped its charming and laugh-filled holiday comedy “Bearded” on Friday night.
Linked From The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:04PMThis is a fun, tuneful, and well-performed show, which is equally entertaining for adults and children, and a worthwhile option for theatergoers this time of year.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:04PMEXPENSIVE VANILLA-SCENTED PERFUME For its inaugural stage dramatic production at the glittering new Bram Goldsmith Theater, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is presenting …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:04PMOVER THE DARK HARBOR WATER Walking a cold, mostly deserted Santa Monica Pier on the way to this show, I passed a photographer’s booth blaring the Azealia Banks song about “cunt getti…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:04PMPatina Miller could do no wrong Friday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, even when things weren’t quite going right. The Tony-winning star of Broadway’s current “Pippin…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 8 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMIn SNL's condensed version of The Sound of Music Live, Captain von Trapp introduces his children, including Dooneese, to their new governess Maria.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMYesterday's SIPs came from Broadway's own CINDERELLA, Laura Osnes, who claims she's just 'one of the guys,' the national tours of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and EVITA, as well as La Jolla's SI…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMThe former BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT winner told the London Observer that she visited a specialist a year ago, who noted her 'above-average IQ.' In the interview, Boyle also opened up about her l…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop has announced that actors Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will both be featured as the legendary writ…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMBroadway's Sierra Boggess returned to 54 Below by popular demand for a series of shows on December 2-7. Below, check out a look back at her concert
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMAfter NBC's foray into musical theatre with last week's live broadcast of The Sound of Music starring Carrie Underwood, and with Laura Osnes' Cinderella sashaying on the Great White Way, the…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMOn Friday night, December 6, 2013, with only two months of training and rehearsals to ready its young performers, Synetic Theater staged an impressive opening night Teen production of A Mids…
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by: Sandi Durell If you’re thinking about ringing in the New Year with a real bang, think Broadway Legend and two-time Tony Award Winner CHITA RIVERA! She’ll be..…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:51PMThe production, based on interviews with people affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010, is to have its premiere this spring.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:13PMIra Gershwin, whose lyrics sometimes get short shrift compared to George’s music, earns his due in a new show.
Linked From StarTribune at 03:11PMSantino Fontana ("Frozen") and a third actor still to be cast will also stand in for the legendary writer-director in James Lapine's Broadway adaptation of Hart's classic showbiz autobiograp…
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 03:05PM“Around the World,” a streamlined concert reading of Orson Welles and Cole Porter’s musical adaptation of the Jules Verne tale, is at the Mint Theater.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:01PMRECOMMENDED The devil sure knows his way around Chicago. Besides the usual mixture of gang violence and Rham-style politics, Satan has been a feature of many recent stage productions includi…
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By Iulia Popovici. Writing about a national theater as far away from the United States as the Romanian one means, in the end, performing exoticism—playing the monkey for the zoo visitors t…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:55PMBefore heading out to the theatre today, best check for cancellations. The first notice came in from NextStop Theater. Both shows are cancelled for Sunday, January 8th. More notices are tr…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:53PMThe New York Times 12/07/13
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:53PMUpdated 3:11 PM Here are shows canceled tonight due to the weather and projections for icy weather: 1st Stage’s performances of Noises Off is cancelled. Annapolis Shakespeare Company-…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMSantino Fontana, Tony Award-nominated for his performance in Cinderella, and Tony Shalhoub, a two-time Tony nominee for Golden Boy and Conversations with My Father, will star in Act One, a n…
Linked From Playbill at 02:52PMThis is the Part 4 in a series of interviews with the director and cast members of Annapolis Shakespeare Company‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Meet Joel DeCandio. How did you …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29PMThe end-of-the-semester crush is upon me, and I find myself scrambling to grade papers, plan finals, meet with students, and yet still keep up with my blogging backlog. As Tevye said, "…
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Premiere at Hartford's TheaterWorksThe show : "Christmas on the Rocks" at Hartford's TheaterWorks
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:57PMDave Cunningham enjoys some Christmas songs from New York at Manchester's Palace Theatre.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:51PMIn live comedy, it seems that no one feels any further need to apologise for using material about Operation Yewtree. But should they?How soon is too soon to joke about the crimes of Jimmy Sa…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:50PMPG Wodehouse Society treasurer Jeremy Neville praises a clever, cross-dressing stage translation that stays true to the books – and is enormously enjoyableTranslating PG Wodehouse to the s…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:50PMWatch the complete ‘The Sound of Music LIVE’ on MD Theatre Guide below. To comment about the movie, click here.
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:35PMBy HowlRound TV. Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles presents " Aristotle was a Man! ", a panel discussion unpacking the assumptions made by the original dramaturg regarding dramatic struct…
Linked From HowlRound at 01:19PMTony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana are to portray the playwright and theater director Moss Hart in a stage adaptation of “Act One,” based on Mr. Hart’s 1959 autobiography. &n…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PM Shakespeare & Elizabeth I: The Reality Show By: Patrick ChristianoQueen Phoebe Legere is now holding court at the Theater for the New City in…
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Today is the birthday of beloved American humorist James Thurber (1894-1961), among many other things, author of the 1939 short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. This ma…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:58PMToday is the birthday of David Carradine (1936-2009). Given the fact that I was between the ages of seven and ten when his his show Kung Fu aired (1972-1975), I could not let this day pass…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:58PMThe Guardian (UK) 12/02/13
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:51PMWould it be all that nervy to ask if, in the coming years, there might be more, not less, musical experimentation? Couldn't the Boston Pops commission a new seasonal work and showcase it?
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMTony winner Marc Shaiman might be best known to musical theater fans as the man to brought music to 1960′s Baltimore in Hairspray, or for his memorable score to Bombshell on NBC’…
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Meet Me in St. Louis, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield. Produced by Bucks County Playhouse, adapted by Joe Landry, based on the Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Hugh Wheeler musical. Directed by Gordon…
Linked From Philly.com at 11:59AMBy: Sandi Durell It’s always a treat to hear the rich and formidable voice of James Barbour – albeit, too infrequently I must admit. But harken Barbour...The post Ja…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 11:54AMA stalwart of the Theatre Royal's pantomime since 1984, Martin Barrass discusses York's theatrical institution.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:49AMPut Actors’ Playhouse production of Making God Laugh pretty much in the insightful column. Playwright Sean Grennan uses our recognition of the laughter and pain common to most familial rel…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:49AMMy nine-year-old companion enjoyed Alice in Wonderland rather more than I did, but with one of the Polka’s child-centric shows that is as it should be. I found the acting style very ch…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 11:47AMI haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey. But something tells me that Cuff Me: The Unauthorized Fifty Shades of Grey Musical would make me laugh. It just sounds funny. Frankly, Fi…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AM-- And Ghosts For Hartford Stage's 16th Edition The show: "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" at Hartford Stage
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In further observation of Sammy Davis Jr, ‘s birthday, a fairly unobjectionable holiday clip, featuring a jazzing up of “Jingle Bells” To find out more about the variety a…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:58AMContinuing our series of Christmas themed posts. This 1947 Christmas episode of Jack Benny’s radio program returns us to the recurring Benny theme of last minute holiday shopping. Noth…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:58AMContinuing on with our Christmas themed series of posts… Here is a true television classic, from the first season of The Odd Couple (1970), when the poker players were still regular…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:58AMA diverse selection of shows promised by Leeds' Playhouse next year.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:48AMKipling's classic gets reinterpreted in Leeds. Lively and imaginative but don't expect Disney.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:48AMMistral's Artistic Director and flutist Julie Scolnik knows, after 17 successful years, how to run a terrific series - hire the best people, present a unifying theme, and program excellent m…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 10:47AMShe's played a seductive killer, a damaged prostitute, and an anguished schizophrenic. Does Ruth Wilson never fancy doing something lighter? As she makes her directing debut, she talks to A…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:47AMSoho theatre, LondonThis filthy new musical version of Anthony Neilson's 1995 Christmas play about an out-of-sorts city boy piles on the sentimentalityGary (Navin Chowdhry) is a former city&…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:47AMMusical depicts the decline of the shipbuilding industry in the town where the star grew up.
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Adapted from a post originally published in 2011. The name Georges Méliès (born this day in 1861) is no doubt on everyone’s lips very much these days thanks to the recent release…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:57AM By Myra Chanin Len Cariou is Broadway Royalty. He was the successor to Alfred Drake, Broadway’s first Post-WWII Musical Comedy Superstar who between 1943 …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 09:56AMOne of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway plays running right now is MCC Theater’s Small Engine Repair, a taught, four-man ensemble piece about some blue-collar boyhood buddies reu…
Linked From gothamist.com at 09:51AMThink of these novellas as variations on a common theme: a complicated world is scrutinized through the elemental viewpoint of one of the most memorable characters in American fiction over t…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 09:47AMNew York shows in the 2013-14 season are aiming to do more with less hoopla, and several, including some new top-notch musicals on and Off Broadway, are succeeding thanks to craft, creativit…
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:30AMTeen Tix director Holly Arsenault’s mission is to excite teens about the arts, by offering inexpensive tickets to cultural events. This year, participants have purchased 10,000 tickets thr…
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:30AMA listing of several plays and musicals coming to Broadway that feature artists with ties to the Seattle theater scene.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:30AMMcDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland is known for its well respected music and choral program. Today several vocal students at the school were given the opportunity to perform for and r…
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I was actually given a pretty cool gift recently. Former tour-Elphaba Felicia Ricci (remember when we ready her book “Unnaturally Green” for #BwayBookClub?!) is teaching an onlin…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 08:52AMIt's odd to think of William Shakespeare writing a Christmas play in the same way Hollywood studios release their holiday blockbusters. Yet Twelfth Night, or What You Will, was just that in …
Linked From Philly.com at 08:52AMPARIS (AP) -- Edouard Molinaro, nominated for an Oscar for directing "La Cage aux Folles," a French farce about a gay couple that struck a chord with a broad range of audiences, has died…
Linked From Associated Press at 08:52AMLyttelton, LondonGeorg Kaiser's 1912 expressionist landmark comes to life thanks to a production full of vitality and a beautifully unsentimental central performanceThe National is clearly g…
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:43AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, December 7, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:43AMThe Broadway production of Shakespeare's timeless love story ROMEO AND JULIET, starring international film star Orlando Bloom in his Broadway debut opposite two-time Tony Award nominee Condo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:43AMSecond Stage ends its run of the new musical Little Miss Sunshine today. The show is based on the film of the same name by Michael Arndt. It was adapted for the stage by James Lapine, who wr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:43AMMotown's Tony Nominee Charl Brown, and Saycon Sengbloh will join fellow cast-mate N'Kenge for her Holiday Magic Concert featuring Motown's Jamal Story and 12 year old Ice staking sensation a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:43AMThe Tony nom will take the stage tonight, Dec. 8 at 730 p.m. Tickets are 30. To order, click here.
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Paper Mill Playhouse, Off Broadway/Regional
By Brett Epstein
BOTTOM LINE: Is it in Jersey? Yes. Is it worth traveling to Jersey to check it out? Double yes.
Child is in a poor livin…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 12:39AMTradition. Nostalgia. Sacred.A choreographer explains the presence of dance in Against The Grain's production of The Messiahby Jennifer NicholsJennifer Nichols, choreographer and dancer, was…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:17AMMotown Tony Award nominee Charl Brown and Saycon Sengbloh are among the performers joining fellow Motown cast member N'Kenge for Holiday Magic, an encore presentation of last year's …
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMJulie Walters receives the Richard Harris Award at the British Independent Film Awards Dec. 8.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMNick & Nora, the legendary musical flop with a book by Arthur Laurents and a score by Charles Strouse and Richard Maltby, Jr., opened on this date 22 years ago. The Playbill Vault looks …
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMBroadway singing actress Natalie Toro celebrates her new holiday recording, "Just in Time for Christmas," with a concert Dec. 8 at Birdland.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMKathy Voytko, Scott Logsdon, Kris Koop Ouellette and Gregg Goodbrod headline a concert version of the musical Chess Dec. 8 at 2 PM at the Richland Performing Arts Center in Johnstown, PA.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMMembers of the first North American touring company of Wicked host A Wicked Night Before Christmas, a staged holiday performance at The Laugh Factory — with net proceeds benefitin…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMThe Manhattan cabaret 54 Below launches its new series, 54 Sings, Dec. 8 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM with songs from the classic Jerry Herman musical Mame.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMSebastian Barry's The Steward of Christendom, starring Tony winner Brian Dennehy, officially opens at the Ahmanson Theatre Dec. 8 at 7 PM following previews that began Nov. 26.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMIf/Then, the new musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal writers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, ends its pre-Broadway engagement Dec. 8 at the National The…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMMartha Clarke's world-premiere staging of Chéri, a new theatrical dance work set in Paris' Belle Époque era that stars Academy Award nominee Amy Irving, officially open…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMSalon/Sanctuary Concerts presents the site-specific music-theatre production More Between Heaven and Earth Dec. 8 at 6 PM at Fraunces Tavern (54 Pearl Street), the oldest structure in Manhat…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMHit List — the fictional musical from the NBC television drama "Smash" that was written by the characters of Jimmy Collins and Kyle Bishop, played on the series by Tony …
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMThe five 2013 Kennedy Center Honorees — comprising opera singer Martina Arroyo; pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer Herbie Hancock; pianist, singer and songwriter Billy Joel;…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMThe Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, starring Orlando Bloom ("The Lord of the Rings") and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful) as Shakespeare&#…
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMThis month's column looks at Sam Wasson's comprehensive new biography "Fosse;" "West End Broadway," Adrian Wright's look at American musicals abroad; Carolyn …
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMWe asked our readers which breaches of theatre etiquette frustrated them most. From late arrivals to cell phones ringing, our readers respond.
Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMMark Brokaw, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Deborah Ann Woll and Richard Schiff chat with Playbill.com about the production of Parfumerie at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Linked From Playbill at 12:15AMSignature Theatre Center’s Cheri, based on the story of Colette's classic 1920 novella, officially opens off-Broadway December 8. Directed, conceived and choreograph…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:12AMAlready sick of the cold weather? We've got some Broadway love to keep you warm! Soothe your mood with the documentary Six by Sondheim, groove to Lea Michele's new single and celebra…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:12AMMarvin Hamlisch Documentary in Preview at Elinor Bunin; On PBS American Masters December 27 By: Ellis NassourPulitzer Prize, Oscar, and Tony-winning composer and conductor Marvin Ham…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 12:08AMAny person involved in the arts knows just how difficult a touring schedule can be. Moving from state to state, city to city, apartment to apartment without loved ones or family can be incre…
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