Rachel Potter discusses her new country EP, appearing on a reality TV show, and getting her start in Christian music and at a theme park.
Linked From BackstageThe new 2012-13 season at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa is scheduled to feature recent comedies by Stephen Adly Guirgis and David Henry Hwang, as well as a world-premiere work by playw…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesVaudeville, London: It's funny how quickly one hit can become a rolling phenomenon. Farces were once a West End staple, with plays by the likes of Brian Rix and later Ray Cooney regular…
Linked From The StageUstinov Studio, Bath: A film that opened in America this week, titled Hysteria and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rupert Everett, tells the history of the female vibrator from Victorian days…
Linked From The StageSoho Theatre: A routine about call centres might seem like an ordinary way to start a stand up show but it quickly becomes apparent that US comedian Mike Birbiglia operates on another level …
Linked From The StageCheerleaders are coming back to Broadway. Producers announced Wednesday that "Bring It On: The Musical" will form a complex pyramid in New York as part of the show's 13-city national tour. I…
Linked From Boston GlobeThe cast of the Tony-Nominated Broadway revival JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR will perform on 'The View' on Thursday, May 24th at 1100 am ETPT on ABC.
Linked From BroadwayWorldVoting opened on May 3, 2012 and runs through June 4, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards Here are the current standings as of 517 with just 17 days to go in voting
Linked From BroadwayWorldOn May 16, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark welcomed its 1,000,000th audience member. View photos of Yvelisse Fermin from Flushing, Queens with the cast below
Linked From BroadwayWorldOff-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER a glorious, Tony Award-winning musical adap…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe Closeness of the Horizon, premiering tomorrow night at the Odyssey, brought out a spirit of collaboration—and perfectionism—between its playwright, Richard Martin Hirsch, and directo…
Linked From LA STAGE TimesThrillcall, offering listings of live events and select daily deals on local entertainment, has just announced a new agreement with tech company ThingLink to offer rich media tags to Thrillc…
Linked From Ticket NewsThe New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players wrap their 37th season with a fairy-infused story of romance and redemption, 'Iolanthe.'
Linked From New York Daily NewsINTIMATE OPERA Bringing opera to a wider audience is the noble goal of many a musical entrepreneur, but few succeed as well as Josh Shaw and Stephen Karr, founders of the Pacific Opera Proje…
Linked From Stage and CinemaUstinov Studio, BathSarah Ruhl's extended title for her 2009 play – the last in the Ustinov's impressive season of contemporary American plays – is a nod to its two layers. Yes, it is ab…
Linked From The GuardianRecep Tayyip Erdogan condemns 'despotic arrogance' of intellectuals and says he will cut state fundingIn a tale which could have come straight from the time of the sultans, when one wrong wo…
Linked From The GuardianTheatre critics everywhere have been slow to innovate, yet the digital world – from Pinterest to geotagging – offers ever-expanding possibilitiesDiscussions about the future of theatre c…
Linked From The GuardianSoho theatre, LondonMike Birbiglia's girlfriend can win arguments without actually arguing. "That's how I feel," she will simply say – which is as conclusive as it is infuriating. My Girlf…
Linked From The GuardianProducers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" were ordered Thursday to turn over any relevant information to a stuntman who claims he suffered a concussion, whiplash and two holes …
Linked From The Seattle TimesTony award nominee will reprise her role as Judy Garland in musical biopic when it goes on a tour of AmericaBroadway won't be the end of the line for Tracie Bennett's acclaimed performance i…
Linked From The GuardianI was going to refer to “It Is Done,” a play by Alex Goldberg currently running in a back room in Hollywood’s Pig ’N Whistle restaurant, as “site-specific,&rdqu…
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Linked From StarTribuneThe cast of General D. Chappie James Middle School of Science (K634)'s production of Guys and Dolls, Jr. got a special treat last month when How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying …
Linked From PlaybillBeginning Memorial Day Weekend, Broadway’s blockbuster musical JERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, will sponsor Six Flags Great Adventure’s newly-themed…
Linked From Broadway’s Best ShowsThe Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will get an Original Broadway Cast Recording on the Shout! Factory label to be distributed by Sony. The album will be recorded at …
Linked From Broadway’s Best ShowsJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, is proud to announce the return of John Lloyd Youngwho won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Fran…
Linked From Broadway’s Best ShowsThe U.K. tour of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live has announced the special guests who will guest star as The Voice of the Book throughout the production's to…
Linked From TheaterManiaInside Broadway is partnering with the Broadway production of Mamma Mia! to offer two free "Creating the Magic" workshops for New York City public school students at the Winter Gar…
Linked From TheaterManiaEl Portal Theatre is set to present Gary Peterson's Supernatural Magic Show, June 15-24. Tony Clark will direct.
The show is a journey out of reality as we know it and into the world …
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Acting Company will present Andrew Weems' solo show
Damascus at the4th Street Theater June 6-June 24. Ian Belknap will direct the production.
The piece is described as an irrev…
Linked From TheaterManiaActress-comedian Andrea Alton is set to perform as the title character in I Can't Even Think Straight: Molly "Equality" Dykeman's Big Gay Pride Show at the Laurie Beechma…
Linked From TheaterManiaYvelisse Fermin from Flushing, Queens was named the 1,000, 000th person to attend Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, at the Wednesday, May 16 matinee. Sh…
Linked From TheaterManiaCasting has been announced for Terminator Too, Judgment Play, which will run June 23-August 11 at Santos Party House. Thomas Blake will direct.
The play is an interactive spoof of the 19…
Linked From TheaterManiaTony Award winners Jason Alexander and Nikki M. James, 2012 Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdysell, and Dominic Marsh will co-star in a film version of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' Of…
Linked From TheaterManiaLife is definitely imitating art for Raza Jaffrey. When Chicago producer Barry Weissler spotted the dashing actor in Smash, he immediately offered him the role of Billy Flynn in the West End…
Linked From Broadway.comInterview with Lisa Steindler by Jamie Gahlon An interview on HowlRound with the A.D. of Z Space.
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Linked From YouTubeSecrets of the Tony Nominees! What is "Nice Work" Star Judy Kaye's Dream Role?
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Linked From YouTubeMy Space: Celian Keenan-Bolger of "Peter and the Starcatcher"
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Linked From YouTubeRocky, the musical version of the Oscar-winning boxing movie, will get its world premiere at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg, Germany, in November. Here, Rocky creatives talk about the new musi…
Linked From PlaybillDylan Baker, Kelly McAndrew and Ted Koch will be part of the Oberon Theatre Ensemble's 24/7 short play event on June 3 at the Drilling Company.
Linked From PlaybillThe Leadership and Public Service High School, nestled at 90 Trinity Place in lower Manhattan, was in the shadow of the Twin Towers when they were attacked in 2001. A grant from the "Sm…
Linked From PlaybillPhiladelphia Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty, May 25-June 24, will feature Daniel Abeles as Greg, a boyfriend tortured by his girlfriend after he m…
Linked From PlaybillDonna Summer, whose songs "Hot Stuff," "On the Radio, "Bad Girls" and "MacArthur Park" defined the disco era, died May 17 at the age of 63.
Linked From PlaybillToday I talk with Ilana Brownstein, known to #newplay followers as @bostonturgy. She’s the founder of the Playwrights’ Commons in Boston and we’re going to be very involved…
Linked From HowlRoundStage and screen stars Brian d'Arcy James and Brooke Shields will co-host The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which will take place on Sunday, June 3 at 8pm at The Town Hall in Manhattan…
Linked From TheaterManiaStage and screen star Liam Neeson is set to play Matt Scudder in the film version of A Walk Among the Tombstones, according to Deadline.com.
The film, adapted by Scott Frank from Lawrence …
Linked From TheaterManiaAustin's Paramount Theatre has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season, which will include seven programming series.
First, the Silver Screen Speakers Series will present conversation…
Linked From TheaterManiaEpic Theatre Ensemble has announced a series of readings and theater presentations throughout May and June.
On May 20 and 21 at the 47th Street Theater, the company will present Jeanna Saka…
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Linked From Broadway.comSarah Lancashire is to star alongside Elaine Cassidy and Matthew McNulty in Bill Gallagher's adaptation of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise for BBC1.
Linked From The StageCommunicado is to return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a version of Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, as one of 12 companies chosen for the Made in Scotland programme, funded by the Scottish governm…
Linked From The StageActor Anthony Rapp's autobiographical show Without You, adapted from his bestselling memoir about his friendship with Rent composer Jonathan Larson, will transfer to the Menier Chocolate Fac…
Linked From WhatsOnStageTo celebrate the end of their 30th anniversary and season, the not-for-profit Inside Broadway will partner with the hit, long-running production of Mamma Mia to offer two free Creating the M…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAccording to an Equity Audition notice, the Steppenwolf's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will begin previews on Broadway on September 27, 2012 in anticipation of its previously…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, theatre veteran and disco legend Donna Summer passed away this morning, May 17 in Florida after a long battle with cancer. She was 63 years old.In the v…
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Linked From JK's TheatreSceneOn May 7th, the Baltimore theatre world received some good news: the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, currently located in Howard County, announced its purchase of the downtown Mercantile S…
Linked From DC Theatre SceneWritten by a man who spent most of his life in a bourgeois harness, Amsterdam Stories focuses on the fleeting thrills of refusal, the chemical and philosphical rush that comes from floating …
Linked From The Arts FuseAn oil painting by Tom Thomson — discovered and purchased in an East Vancouver yard sale — has sold for $126,500 at an art auction.
Linked From Toronto.comThe Gershwin score of Nice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Best Musical, will be preserved on a cast album on the Shout! Factory label, the producers announced on May 1…
Linked From PlaybillLincoln Center Theater this week joined New York's three-theatre club—members of this exclusive group include the Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club and, most recen…
Linked From PlaybillProspect Theater Company will present its annual gala, Spring Soirée, which benefits the company's mission to develop and produce new works, May 21 in the Harbor View Room at Batt…
Linked From PlaybillSeveral tour dates have been announced for An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the critically acclaimed concert act that reunited Tony winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin an…
Linked From PlaybillTony Award nominee Lily Rabe will star as Mary Pickford in an upcoming untitled film based on Eileen Whitfield's biography "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood," according t…
Linked From Playbill“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” will end its Broadway run, but will then continue on in the form of a national tour. Producers announced yesterday that the show will close on June 24. A…
Linked From broadwaytour.netHolding a rare summer opening, a musical adaptation of the 2000 film “Bring It On” is headed to Broadway this July. The musical and the movie featuring battling high school cheerleading …
Linked From broadwaytour.netA week before Glee's season three finale, the show treated fans to a jam-packed two-hour episode featuring a dream sequence in which all the New Directions members switched bodies with a…
Linked From Broadway.comMike Bartlett’s Olivier Award-winning play Cock officially opens off-Broadway on May 17. Directed by James MacDonald, Cock stars Cory Michael Smith, Jason Butler Harner, Amanda Quaid a…
Linked From Broadway.comCW has ordered the new TV drama Arrow, starring Anything Goes alum Colin Donnell, according to Entertainment Weekly. Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow is …
Linked From Broadway.comNicky Silver’s side-splitting comedy The Lyons stars 2012 Tony nominee Linda Lavin and Tony winner Dick Latessa as Rita and Ben Lyons, the unconventional and emotionally abusive parent…
Linked From Broadway.comThe new Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It will receive an original Broadway cast recording distributed by Sony. The cast album will be recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Long Is…
Linked From Broadway.comTony Award winner Jason Alexander has signed on to star in a film adaptation of Lucky Stiff, according to Variety. Directed by Christopher Ashley (Memphis, Leap of Faith) and choreographed b…
Linked From Broadway.comThe diva is delighted! Patti LuPone giggled with glee when she learned she had won the 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Diva for her performance in An Evening with Patti …
Linked From Broadway.comFOX has released a promotional video with some of the stars of its hit series Glee discussing the show's third season finale, which will air on Tuesday, May 22.
The video features inte…
Linked From TheaterManiaShout! Factory will release the original Broadway cast recording of Nice Work If You Can Get It, currently running at the Imperial Theatre.
Distributed by Sony with a release date to be ann…
Linked From TheaterManiaBroadway star Jackie Hoffman will be among the stars participating in Match Game Live, to be held at New York's LGBT Center at 7pm on Thursday, May 31. Ben Lerman will host the event.
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Linked From TheaterManiaJoe Orton’s final play What the Butler Saw has been revived at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre, where it opened to press last night (16 May 2012, previews from 4 May).
Starri…
Linked From WhatsOnStageReprising his role from New York and D.C., Danny Burstein stars in "Follies" at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Linked From BackstageThe Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will get an Original Broadway Cast Recording on the Shout Factory label to be distributed by Sony. The album will be recorded at K…
Linked From BroadwayWorldOriginal Four Seasons frontman Frankie Valli recently visited WCBSFM, where he chatted about the Broadway hit JERSEY BOYS making its way to the big screen. While he was there he revealed tha…
Linked From BroadwayWorldblurbThe company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL last month welcomed a new leading man - stage and screen star Corbin Bleu Disney's High School M…
Linked From BroadwayWorldOn this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA, 'How to Succeed in Business' star Nick Jonas helped the ABC crew pull a fast one over on the show's news reader Josh Elliot.
Linked From BroadwayWorldAccording to TMZ, theatre veteran and disco legend Donna Summer passed away this morning, May 17 in Florida after a battle with cancer. She was 63 years old.
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Theatre Bay Area is excited to announce that, thanks to generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation, up to thirty theatre organizations across the country will be able to survey their au…
Linked From Collective LeverageJames Whiteside, Paul Craig and Isaac Akiba kick up their heels in Fancy Free. Photos: Gene Schiavone.It's actually rare that a Boston Ballet program doesn't hang together thematically…
Linked From The Hub ReviewMany plays dealing with the dawn heart of the AIDS crisis feature justifiable anger and fury. Yet Steven Dietz’s 1994 play Lonely Planet demonstrates that a gentle approach can be just as …
Linked From DC Theatre SceneThe Tony Award winning production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday evening, June 24 at the Palace Theatre after a total of 549 performan…
Linked From Theater AdvisorExtra Extra! This just in! Newsies, the breakout new musical, starring Tony Award nominated Jeremy Jordan, has announced that its Broadway run will be open ended. The production will release…
Linked From Theater AdvisorIn an exciting week of news, three shows have announced their intentions. Coming in July will be the critically acclaimed tour Bring It On, which will play the St. James Theater from July 12…
Linked From TheaterInTheNowThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20, will play its final performance at th…
Linked From Broadway’s Best ShowsCanada's spring art auction season begins on Thursday with Heffel Brothers auction in Vancouver.
Linked From Toronto.comWhen Tony nominee Matthew Morrison was hired as glee club director Will Schuester at Ohio's McKinley High on the fictional musical series "Glee," Broadway-star-in-the-making Ra…
Linked From PlaybillThe Old Globe's world-premiere production of Nobody Loves You starring Jenni Barber, Alex Brightman, Heath Calvert, Kate Morgan Chadwick, Adam Kantor, Kelsey Kurz, Nicole Lewis and Laure…
Linked From PlaybillUnlike a stand-up comedian or a comic literary stylist such as James Thurber, who engaged in obviously implausible situations, Sedaris’s stories fall into a gray area.
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Linked From CultureFutureThe Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will get an Original Broadway Cast Recording on the Shout! Factory label to be distributed by Sony. The album will be recorded at …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWNLily Rabe will play early film star Mary Pickford in an upcoming movie based on Eileen Whitfield’s biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, according to Deadline.com. The curr…
Linked From Broadway.comOscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in the big screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s best-selling spy novel A Most Wanted Man, according to Deadline.com. Hoffman recently…
Linked From Broadway.comHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Michael Urie is returning to the small screen in this fall in Partners, a new CBS sitcom by Will & Grace creators David Kohan a…
Linked From Broadway.comCW has ordered Emily Owens, M.D., the medical drama starring Mamie Gummer, to series, according to EW.com. Previously titled First Cut, the Jennie Snyder Urman project's pilot was direct…
Linked From Broadway.comCW has ordered the new TV drama Arrow, starring Anything Goes alum Colin Donnell, according to Entertainment Weekly. Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow is …
Linked From Broadway.comDiversionary Theatre has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
To open the season, Diversionary will present the world premiere of Bill Nelson and Anna K. Jacobs' musical about a g…
Linked From TheaterManiaDaniel Abeles will now play the role of Greg in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production for Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, to run May 25-June 24 at the Suzanne Roberts Theat…
Linked From TheaterManiaBroadway veterans Laura Osnes and John Pizzarelli will be part of the 2012 Spring season at The Café Carlyle at The Carlyle Hotel.
Pizzarelli, who starred in the musical Dream, w…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Blank Theatre will present The 20th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, running May 31-June 24 at the Stella Adler Theater.
The festival showcases 12 plays by young adult playwrights fro…
Linked From TheaterManiaWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8 on Monday, June 4 at 7pm.
Shakespeare Theatre Company associate director Alan Paul will direct the readi…
Linked From TheaterManiaAstoria Performing Arts Center has announced that its production of The Secret Garden has been extended one week, through May 26 at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. Artistic direc…
Linked From TheaterManiaNick Jonas, who currently stars in the Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will serve as master of ceremonies for the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway JR. …
Linked From TheaterManiaLOFTY: British philosopher Jonathan Dancy, father of actor Hugh Dancy and father-in-law of actress Claire Danes, will be in the Lou on Sunday to deliver the keynote address at the St. Louis …
Linked From St. Louis TodaySpring Road Conference Day 2! Day 2 is only only a half day – partly because everyone runs off to see matinees, and partly because everyone is still stuffed and a bit hungover from the…
Linked From The Producers PerspectiveThe Maestrosities, a.k.a. the Coolest Band in the World are starting a new web series and they need your help! With one week to go, they are just shy of halfway to their Kickstarter goal. Go…
Linked From Trav S.D.The New York Times is reporting that PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT will play its final performance on Broadway on June 24, 2012 after 23 previews and 526 performances.
Linked From BroadwayWorldKhanisha Foster is a mixed race artist, the Associate Artistic Director of 2nd Story and an ensemble member of Teatro Vista. She was chosen for the Theatre Communication Groupss Young Leader…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe Carlyle Hotel today announced that 2012 Tony Award-nominee Laura Osnes will make her cabaret debut at the Caf Carlyle in an exclusive two-week engagement.
Linked From BroadwayWorldToday in 1985, Broadway book writer Abe Burrows passed away. Burrows wrote or directed such shows as Make a Wish, Two on the Aisle, Three Wishes for Jamie, Say, Darling, Guys and Dolls, How …
Linked From BroadwayWorldNick Jonas the popular singersongwriter who is currently starring in the Tony-nominated How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying will serve as master of ceremonies as hundreds of s…
Linked From BroadwayWorldActor has been offered lead role in musical adaptation set to open in Leicester this autumn, according to reportsA musical adaptation of Finding Neverland will receive its world premiere at …
Linked From The GuardianActor Hal Holbrook has been performing as Mark Twain for six decades. Now, he's getting an award named after the author and humorist.
Linked From Philly.comLife on the road in shows such as "Peter Pan" and "Rock of Ages" offers unusual challenge.
Linked From BackstageSee "Porgy and Bess" stars like Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis perform excerpts from the show.
Linked From BackstageThe Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, has been a box-office hit, playing to near-capacity audiences since beginn…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesSee many of George Bernard Shaw's works performed in a staged-reading format with Tony winners Cady Huffman and Maryann Plunkett.
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When I walked into a black box theater at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop with nothing but a bed and two microphones on Wednesday night, I honestly did not know what to expect. However, Taffety P…
Linked From DC Metro Theater ArtsFREUD’S LAST SESSION, New York’s smash hit play by Mark St. Germain, invited audience members to have their moms photographed on Dr. Freud’s iconic couch after Sunday’s Mother’s Da…
Linked From BroadwayWorldBeatrice Terry, a theatre director who was the associate director on several Broadway shows, died May 15 at her home in Jackson Heights, Queens. She had been battling cancer.
Linked From PlaybillThe new West End production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, opens officially May 17 at London's Savoy Theatre, …
Linked From PlaybillNorm Lewis, a 2012 Tony nominee for his performance in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will join Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices for special concerts May 20-21.
Linked From PlaybillTheatreworks USA, the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for young audiences, will present the premiere of the new children's musical Skippyjon Jones this summer at…
Linked From PlaybillOld Jews Telling Jokes, starring Bill Army, Marilyn Sokol, Lenny Wolpe and more, began previews May 1 prior to an official opening May 20 at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.
Linked From PlaybillThe Carlyle Hotel announced May 17 that 2012 Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, who will return to Broadway in a revised version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, will make her cabar…
Linked From PlaybillWings of Desire starts with angels roosting on rooftops, white-clad figures silhouetted against a darkening sky. It ends with an astonishing blast of digital imagery, Birmingham’s Town Hal…
Linked From The IndependentDavid Abeles will now play the role of Greg in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production for Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, to run May 25-June 24 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatr…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Oberon Theatre Ensemble will present 24/7, an evening of seven short plays created in 24 hours, at The Drilling Company on Sunday, June 3.
Playwrights slated to participate are Richard …
Linked From TheaterManiaTimeLine Theatre Company has announced that it will present three free events in connection with its previously announced currently running production of John Conroy's My Kind of Town.
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Linked From TheaterManiaHudson Stage Company will present a free staged reading of Jeffrey Sweet's play Kunstler on Friday, June 8 at the Croton Free Library in Croton-on-Hudson.
Jeff McCarthy will star in th…
Linked From TheaterManiaRogue Machine will present Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom, to run June 9-July 30.
The play tells the story of three sisters in Ireland reliving their crushed dreams. The produc…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe CW has officially given orders to five new series.
Topping the list is the medical drama Emily Owens, M.D, which features stage star Mamie Gummer in the title role as a first year inter…
Linked From TheaterManiaBBC Radio 2's Chris Evans has secured his biggest ever lead over Radio 1 rival Chris Moyles, with a gap of more than two million listeners now between the presenters .
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Linked From StarTribuneThe Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning play COCK opens tonight, Thursday, May 17. Written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James Macdonald and starring Jason Butler Harner as M, Am…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN92nd Street Y's Lyrics amp Lyricists presents 'It's Magic - Nine Decades of Songs from Warner Bros.' Rex Reed celebrates the studio that churned out hits for decades, like 42nd Street, Yanke…
Linked From BroadwayWorldYesterday, May 16, Lincoln Center unveiled its brand new space, The Claire Tow Theatre. This latest theatrical venue on the complex will be the new home to LCTs programming initiative LCT3. …
Linked From BroadwayWorldDeadline.com reports that Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to star in a film adaptation of the John Le Carre spy novel A MOST WANTED MAN.
Linked From BroadwayWorldThis is it It's your last chance to enter the FOLLIES Broadway Baby Contest and win a fabulous trip to Los Angeles Contest closes tomorrow, Friday, May 18, so get your videos in to us and yo…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAs previously announced, BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL is headed to Broadway following a tour that began in 2011. The show will play Broadway's St. James Theater, beginning previews on July 12th, …
Linked From BroadwayWorldEvery person I know who is successful in the arts has something in common they all worked for free, or very low pay, for a long time before hitting it big. This includes administrators, pro…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThis week, James the Intern sat down with Nick Cartell of Jesus Christ Superstar and talked about life as a swing in a show with one of the highest scores on Broadway. And this is Nick’…
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KADM Productions has announced the West Coast premiere of The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend, Matt Morillo’s raucous new sex comedy, for a limited…
Linked From gofootlights.comThere was an interesting piece in Fast Company a couple weeks ago that seems to bolster the idea that creativity is an important component of business success. University of Toronto’s Rotm…
Linked From Butts In The SeatsFor a documentary filmmaker, it's hard to imagine a more intimidating project than making a documentary film about Ken Burns. When Sarah Klein and Tom Mason set out explore the mysterious na…
Linked From Halcyon TheatreAll the big shows on Broadway have opened, I've got my (mother's) subscription to the Signature Theater taking me on a wonderful tour of works -- old and new -- from Fugard, Eno, and Lonerga…
Linked From That Sounds CoolIt’s always a pleasure to welcome the annual summer visits of the Potomac Theatre Project to New York. This year, the company will offer Neal Bell’s Monster, an adaptation of the…
Linked From Superfluities ReduxEdward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will return to Broadway in September in an acclaimed new production seen in 2010-11 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and Arena Stage i…
Linked From PlaybillChristopher Ashley, who helmed the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Memphis, will direct the screen adaptation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 1988 musical Lucky Stiff.
Linked From PlaybillThe producers of the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man announced May 16 that the run now continues to Sept. 9 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The …
Linked From PlaybillFormer lovers of Anna Haas, beware. You may turn on the radio soon and hear a song that sounds a little too familiar. The 27 year old singer-songwriter from Nasvhille, Tennessee, whose album…
Linked From TheTheatreSourceHow the play finds power in suggestion There are so many things missing: Props, costumes, lighting, sets. Even the seating banks are just unfinished plywood with a few cushions strewn around…
Linked From Theatre Development FundLike many parents with school-age children, a standing feature on many of our Saturdays is toting the kids to various lessons. For all of our kids, those precious weekend hours have revolved…
Linked From DC Metro Theater ArtsRinne Groff Hometown: Lutz and then Tarpon Springs, Florida.
Current Town: New York, NY Q: Tell me about Compulsion. A: I wanted to respond simply with the Dickensi…
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZStars from the original Off-Broadway and Broadway incarnations of William Finn's "Marvin Trilogy" -- including Stephen Bogardus, Alison Fraser, Jonathan C. Kaplan, Michael Rup…
Linked From TheaterManiaPhilip Seymour Hoffman, currently playing Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, will star in the upcoming film adaptation of John Le Carre's A…
Linked From TheaterManiaLily Rabe will star as Mary Pickford in an as-yet-untitled film based on Eileen Whitfield's biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, according to Deadline.com.
The film, featu…
Linked From TheaterMania"It was written for the masses," says the director of a New York organization raising money to bring Shakespeare's work to new audiences.
Linked From National Public RadioOn Tuesday, June 5, Jonathan Ginsburg, artist immigration attorney and author of the visa section of artistsfromabroad.org, along with his fellow artist immigration and entertainment att…
Linked From Theatre Communications GroupIn the beginning, all of the talent was black, but the UniverSoul Circus evolved into an eclectic mix of acts from around the world. Now, the circus is pushing to diversify its audience, wit…
Linked From National Public RadioLast days of "Wicked" sees Nicole Parker as Elphaba
Linked From Denver PostWhen Dan Saks was a middle-schooler at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School back in the early 1990s, he wanted to grow up to be a rock star. But, he said, there was no formal music program at …
Linked From Washington Jewish WeekThe voice was crystal clear, ethereal, uncompromising and unequivocal. It didn't mince words, and it even had a lilting Caribbean or West African accent.
Linked From Washington Jewish WeekDuring this fifth edition, dance lovers can expect further choreographic adventure.
Linked From St. Louis TodayFree Shows Set For Three VenuesCt Free Shakespeare 's production of "Romeo and Juliet" will not only play at Bridgeport's Beardsley Zoo and McLevy Green but at the American Shakespear…
Linked From Hartford Courantby Greta Papageorgiu In this edition of 2 Minutes with Greta, Greta speaks with Ciara Adams from bluemouth inc. about Dance Marathon and immersive versus participatory theatre. Dance Maratho…
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Linked From ArtsJournalWe're switching it up a bit and giving a Wednesday guest blog. This is Patrick Soluri who's going to tell you all about throwing a great party. Take it away Patrick! As a composer and music …
Linked From One Producer in the CityLily Rabe will play Mary Pickford in a biopic movie based on Eileen Whitfields book Mary Pickford The Woman Who Made Hollywood, according to Deadline.com. Scheduled to begin shooting in earl…
Linked From BroadwayWorldFINGERLICKIN FIERCE, a fun and fabulous one-night-only event with Broadway veterans Michael James Scott and Asmeret Ghebremichael took place on Monday, May 14 at The Canal Room. Check out th…
Linked From BroadwayWorldTodays memorable Tony Awards moment for the ages comes courtesy of a former AMERICAN IDOL contestant-cum-Broadway leading man - Constantine Maroulis, who was nominated for Best Actor In A Mu…
Linked From BroadwayWorldMusicians of Mercy is a Baltimore area ensemble that coordinates benefits and performs for the sole purpose of helping those in need. Its founder, Robin Fay Massie, shares with us the ordeal…
Linked From DC Metro Theater ArtsBy Jennifer Ashley Tepper The Tony Awards are coming! When I was a little kid, I would stay glued to my TV set on Tony night. The Tony Awards were better than Christmas, Halloween, and Pajam…
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The Flea, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: Brilliant short plays that are totally naughty, silly, and just really clever.
The Wundelsteipen (and Other Difficult Roles f…
Linked From Theatre is EasyPriscilla Queen of the Desert on Broadway
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As this year's award season is under way and crowds are flocking to the newcomers playing on the Great White…
Linked From About.com - TheaterEvery project includes a set of assumptions. For example, a theatre may be producing a play on the assumption that 10,000 people will pay an average of $25 to see the show. A painter may ass…
Linked From Mission ParadoxA review of the Village Theatre's production of Mel Brooks' comedy "The Producers," in Issaquah through July 1 and in Everett July 6-29.
Linked From The Seattle TimesPALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- A massive statue of Marilyn Monroe has arrived in the desert resort city of Palm Springs....
Linked From Associated PressMatthew Muckey Takes a Ride Around San Francisco, 05/14/2012
New York Philharmonic Associate Principal trumpet Matthew Muckey takes advantage of a little free time before the second of the …
Linked From YouTubeGlenn Dicterow Rehearsing Bartók in San Francisco, 05/14/2012
During the May 14, 2012, morning rehearsal with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow…
Linked From YouTubePRISCILLA's First-Ever Onstage Wedding!
PRISCILLA hosted its first onstage wedding ceremony on May 15, 2012. Watch the happy couple tie the knot!
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Linked From YouTubeInterviews with LCT3 Artists
Artists talk about their experiences working on an LCT3 show and the opening of the Claire Tow Theater.
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Linked From YouTubeDrama Desk Nominees Sound Off
Jeremy Jordan, Judith Light, Kelli O'Hara, Joely Richardson, and more luminaries share their joy at being nominated for a Drama Desk Award.
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Linked From YouTubeJohn Lithgow & Co. discuss The Columnist
John Lithgow, David Auburn and Daniel Sullivan discuss Manhattan Theatre Club's new play about the life of famous newspaper columnist Joseph…
Linked From YouTubeSweeney Todd
Angela Lansbury of the original Broadway production in a performance of "Worst Pies in London" at the Tony Awards.
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Linked From YouTubeDon't Dress for Dinner Video Feature
Ben Daniels, Spencer Kayden, Jennifer Tilly and the company of the Roundabout Theatre Company's hit production of this hilarious farce discuss t…
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Jim Dale and the original Broadway company in a performance of "There is a Sucker Born Every Minute" at the Tony Awards.
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Linked From YouTubeI Love My Wife
Lenny Baker, Joanna Gleason, Ilene Graff and James Naughton of the original Broadway production in a performance of "I Love My Wife" and "Married Couple Seeks …
Linked From YouTubeBehind the Scenes - Cupcake Wars Party (SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK)
Get a behind the scenes look at the SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK party for Cupcake Wars.
For show information and tick…
Linked From YouTubeBehind the Scenes - Scenic Design by George Tsypin (SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK)
Get a behind the scenes look at the scenic design by George Tsypin.
For show information and tickets, visi…
Linked From YouTubeSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark - Broadway's High-Flying Spectacular
Over 1 million people have seen Broadway's High-Flying Spectacular. See what they have to say and come see SPIDER-M…
Linked From YouTubeAutism-Friendly Mary Poppins on Broadway
Behind the scenes of Theatre Development Fund's Autism Theatre Initiative, which sponsored an autism-friendly performance of Disney's "…
Linked From YouTubeThe Broadway star discusses joining hit the musical and celebrating with fiance Jeremy Jordan.
Linked From TheaterManiaBring It On Cheerleading Bootcamp
Come and experience an explosive new physical challenge... Bring It On Bootcamp, a unique and innovative cheerleading workout brought to you by Extreme Fit…
Linked From YouTubeBring It On goes to Broadway
A historic moment happened on the stage of the Ed Mirvish Theatre on May 15, 2012. The cast of Bring It On The Musical received the news that the show would be …
Linked From YouTubeNeighbouring arts organisations the Southbank Centre and National Theatre have opened a joint ticket office and information point on the South Bank.
Linked From The StageIn 2011, Spooky Action Theater became the recipient of a $1,600,000 bequest in the form of art works, antique furniture, vintage automobiles, and high fashion clothing and accessories. In be…
Linked From DC Metro Theater ArtsTheater Talk- Critics Review the Broadway Spring Season, 2012 (Full Episode)
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Linked From YouTubeJoe Orton's 1969 farce What the Butler Saw has returned to the West End courtesy of director Sean Foley (The Ladykillers), opening to press at the Vaudeville Theatre last night (16 May 2012,…
Linked From WhatsOnStageLast night (15 May 2012) over 150 Whatonstage.com theatregoers enjoyed an Outing to the New Wimbledon Theatre for a new touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express. Produce…
Linked From WhatsOnStageDuring a talk about class at HighTide over the weekend I realised that theatre has its own little class system: The West End, Off-West End and Fringe. It’s a bit of a pithy simile but …
Linked From WhatsOnStageJamilyn Manning-White Sings Sorry, Wrong NumberJamilyn Manning-White, soprano, will star in the one-act opera "La Voix Humaine," in a co-production with Yale School of Drama abnd Yale …
Linked From Hartford CourantHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 17 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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I found myself squirming in my seat from boredom and exasperation, amazed at how much glaringly conventional stagecraft "Salesman" was able to pack into its two acts. The rising action, the …
Linked From The New Yorker SubscriptionShakespeare's Globe, LondonHenry IV: Part I; Compañia Nacional de Teatro, Mexico 4/5Henry IV: Part II; Elkafka Espacio Teatral, Argentina 3/5A burst of Latin percussion from the musicians' …
Linked From The GuardianVaudeville, LondonJoe Orton's final play, unrevised at the time of his death in 1967, is a hard one to get right, since it combines manic farce with non-stop social commentary. That doesn't …
Linked From The Guardian'I'm hired to make it dramatic,' said the Tony Award-winning set designer Scott Pask of his role in presenting the New York Botanical Garden's Monet show.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal SubscriptionThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2012 National Critics Institute to be held July 2-16, 2012 in Waterford, Connecticut. Deadline…
Linked From DC Theatre ScenePlaywright Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities takes that staple, the dysfunctional family drama, and amps up the thematic value by linking the group’s shortcomings to the social-politic…
Linked From Florida Theater On StagePerformers as young as ten are now eligible to join Equity for the first time in more than 20 years, as the union seeks to provide protection to child artists in high-profile shows such as M…
Linked From The StageThe stage musical adaptation of Finding Neverland will premiere at Leicester's Curve Theatre this September.
Linked From The StageFirst night parties, on the whole, are no place for critics, but it's occasionally interesting to see what goes on behind that gallery of pictures by Dan Wooller for Whatsonstage.com that po…
Linked From WhatsOnStageGbolahan Obisesan's Mad About The Boy, which won a Fringe First at Edinburgh last year, receives its London premiere at the Unicorn Theatre tonight (17 May 2012, previews from 12 May) before…
Linked From WhatsOnStageLittle Theatre Of The Deaf To Continue In West HartfordThe National Theatre of the Deaf is returning to where it was founded 45 years ago -- at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Water…
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The Old Globe's upcoming World Premiere of Nobody Loves You, a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and book and lyrics by Itamar Moses set in the world of reality television o…
Linked From BroadwayWorldMusic-Theatre Group previously announced special interviews with Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal as well as Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, to be moderated by Thomas Schumacher Producer an…
Linked From BroadwayWorldAndrew Lloyd Webber will receive a BASCA Fellowship at this years Ivor Novello Awards tonight 17 May. The BASCA Fellowship is the highest accolade which a composer can receive, bestowed by c…
Linked From BroadwayWorldYesterday, May 16 800-1000 PM ET livePT tape-delayed, AMERICAN IDOL's Top Three returned to their hometowns and found out what songs the judges and Jimmy Iovine have chosen for them to perfo…
Linked From BroadwayWorldGoodspeed Musicals takes to the high seas with the new musical Amazing Grace. This tale about a slave trader who sees the light and dedicates himself to ending slavery will run from tonight,…
Linked From BroadwayWorldReligious and ethnic jokes abound in “Miracle on South Division Street,” the new sitcom — excuse me, play — being appropriately presented in St. Luke’s Theatre located in the bowel…
Linked From The New York Post SubscriptionOur columnist, Cameryn Moore (Tour Whore, every Sunday) is indeed touring her new show power / play to 22 cities across Canada including several Fringe Festivals. Her pictures are alway…
Linked From The Charlebois PostThe first season of NBC's "Smash" has come to a close, but Christian Borle has no time off. During his television hiatus, the 2012 Tony nominee stars as Black Stache in Broadwa…
Linked From Playbill1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.
Linked From PlaybillTony Award winner Julie Taymor and Tony nominee Elliot Goldenthal participate in an interview moderated by Disney Theatrical Group producer and president Thomas Schumacher for Music-The…
Linked From PlaybillThe cast of the Tony Award-nominated musical Once, based on the Oscar-winning film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, …
Linked From PlaybillThe L.A. Theatre Works production of Michael Hollinger's Opus, featuring three-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin, begins May 17 at the James Bridges Theater.
Linked From PlaybillAn unlikely love triangle takes shape in the American premiere of Mike Bartlett's comedy Cock, about a man, his boyfriend and his new girlfriend, which officially opens Off-Broadway May …
Linked From PlaybillChris Peluso, Dennis Parlato, Whitney Bashor, Chris Hoch, Harriet D. Foy and more bring the story behind the famed spiritual "Amazing Grace" to life in a new musical, aptly titled …
Linked From PlaybillThe Old Globe's world-premiere production of the pop-flavored Nobody Loves You — a musical comedy set in the world of reality television, with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and bo…
Linked From Playbill Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: William Shakespespeare's "The Tempest" at Hartford Stage, 50 Church St.
Linked From Hartford CourantLynn Ahrens, Jon Robin Baitz, Julia Brownell, Evan Cabnet, David Cromer, Christopher Durang, Željko Ivanek, Greta Lee, Joe Mantello, Greg Pierce, Paul Rudnick, Bartlett Sher, Sam Watersto…
Linked From TheaterManiaSmash ended its first season this week, and has been renewed for a second, minus Theresa Rebeck, its creator and original show runner (and one of the only women playwrights to be produced on…
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