Review of the Saturday, March 3 matinee. MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City, NY. Starring Molly Ranson, Marin Mazzie, Christy Altomare, Carmen Cusack, Je…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:59PMThe world-famous Rockettes and Knicks City Dancers along with Broadway stars Tony Vincent American Idiot, NBCs The Voice, Christina Sajous Spiderman, Derrick Baskin Memphis and Justin Johnso…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMCenter Theatre Group is establishing a special daily lottery program for the run of Green Day’s explosive Broadway hit musical American Idiot, presented at the CTG/Ahmanson Theatre March 1…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 05:56PMSpring is almost here and with it comes new Broadway shows, like Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy using the music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin (that's enough to get…
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 07:56AMToday on American Theatre's Facebook page I asked what sorts of souvenirs folks take away from productions they've been involved with. Apart from the usual programs, postcards, and bits of s…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 02:54PMThe Kennedy Center is placing its bets on four Tony Award-winning plays — including “The Book of Mormon” — in its 2012-2013 season, the center announced Tuesday.
Besides “Mormon,…
Linked From Washington Post at 03:48PMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMChinese Theatres will present a screening of the 2000 Oscar-nominated film Billy Elliot, March 12 at 7 pm, in celebration of the premiere of Billy Elliot the Musical at Pantages Theatre on A…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:04PMLove Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2010 follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera, is released on DVD and Blu-ray next week (12 March 2012).
The production was filmed in Australia, where Lo…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:42AMThere will be 17 Broadway openings from March 15 to April 26th, an astonishing turnover with only 40 theaters on the Great White Way, almost too overwhelming to consider. So let’s focus ju…
Linked From The Faster Times at 08:21AMWhat happened to the magical world of music in the mind as the show opener? I miss those. I do. Instead we get Eileen freaking out that her lawyer ditched her. Nobody likes her.
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 02:00AM"This is a man’s world," Katharine McPhee sings to herself in the mirror while stripping down to a lacy bra and tap pants in the fifth episode of NBC’s Smash, appr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:09AMOlivier Award winner Elena Roger is the first Argentine to take on the iconic role of Eva Perón in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s smash musical, EVITA, which begins performances …
Linked From The Hartman Group at 08:10AMThe award-winning York Theatre Company, celebrating librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casting for the first musical The Show Goes…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMHappy Birthday, Stephen Schwartz In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell 1971, Pippin 1972 and Wicked 2003. He has also contributed lyrics …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMBeginning Tuesday, March 6, for the first time in Broadway history, fans of the hit musical revival of GODSPELL can listen online for free to exclusive creative team audio commentary of the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMOk, Godspell fans, if you enjoyed getting a behind the scenes look at the making of Godspell on this blog, then you are going to love this . . . Ever watch DVD commentaries? You know, when…
Linked From Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:10PMBig names in line-up for summer of music, dance and art to celebrate the Goethe-Institut's 50 years in LondonUntil the fall of the Berlin Wall, the popular British perception of German cultu…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:52AMI AM THEATRE: Teresa Eyring
Teresa Eyring joined TCG as executive director in March 2007. Ms. Eyring has been an executive in theatres around the U.S. for over twenty years. Prior to joinin…
Linked From YouTube at 07:43AMScience writer Simon Singh wants to hear from you if you have ever received a psychic reading from Sally MorganPsychic Sally has done it again. By which I do not mean that she has (or has ev…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMSide by Side by Susan Blackwell: Porgy and Bess Star Audra McDonald
One might not expect four-time Tony winner and Juilliard-trained star Audra McDonald to discuss scatalogical urges while …
Linked From YouTube at 11:36AMWilliam Shatner has played an attorney, a starship captain, an alien and a Roman tax collector, among many other roles. Over the past half-century, the Canadian actor has performed on televi…
Linked From WNYC at 12:00PMReview of the Saturday, March 3 matinee. MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York City, NY. Starring Molly Ranson, Marin Mazzie, Christy Altomare, Carmen Cusack, Je…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:59PM“National Lampoon’s Animal House,” the 1978 classic comedy, will become a musical. Universal Pictures Stage Productions, in association with producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel a…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:12PMMy first grown-up show: Oliver! Mom and me way up high in the upper balcony, watching all those kids down below.
One older character, Nancy, who looked a little like my mom, died in the seco…
Linked From WNYC at 05:06PMWinners of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards and special prizes include, this year: Stratford Artistic Director Des McAnuff, actor Mary Walsh and director Denis Marleau.Press rel…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:23PMSmash - Episode 5 - Let's Be Bad - Luan Legacy Recap
In the fifth episode of NBC's Smash, we learn that the competition between Karen and Ivy is far from over, and there is just as …
Linked From YouTube at 09:47PMTom Jones, Stephanie Umoh, and Susan Watson will star in The York Theatre Company's The Show Goes On, part of "Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival." Pamela Hunt will dir…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:04PMThe award-winning York Theatre Company, celebrating librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casting for the first musical The Show Goes…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMNick Jonas joined Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth for the Broadway Talks conversation series at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, March 4.
Jonas is currently starring in Broadway's …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:59AMNick Jonas, star of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Broadway invites fans to help support Stop Diabetes, the American Diabetes Association's movement to end the devastati…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMConfusionCharPo is in deep debateby Gaëtan L. CharleboisMaybe it's because I'm old. Maybe it's because Arden Ryshpan, the executive director of Actor's Equity is a friend since our days in …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:06AMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMAbout the author:
These days, Des McAnuff may be best known as the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a post he assumed after a long stint running the La Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:10PMAbout the author:
These days, Des McAnuff may be best known as the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a post he assumed after a long stint running the La Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PM“New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza” strides back into Theater J after its acclaimed 2010 run as an established hit, and the show’s success is no mystery. The David …
Linked From Washington Post at 09:45PMThere will be 17 Broadway openings from March 15 to April 26th, an astonishing turnover with only 40 theaters on the Great White Way, almost too overwhelming to consider. So let’s focus ju…
Linked From The Faster Times at 08:21AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festivals Artistic Director and 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 at …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMOn Monday, March 5, the new Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Jesus Christ Superstar invited members of the the Broadway community to join them at a prev…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:59AMAbout the author:
These days, Des McAnuff may be best known as the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a post he assumed after a long stint running the La Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:10PMWinners of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards and special prizes include, this year: Stratford Artistic Director Des McAnuff, actor Mary Walsh and director Denis Marleau.Press rel…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:23PMAbout the author:
These days, Des McAnuff may be best known as the artistic director of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, a post he assumed after a long stint running the La Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PMRobert Sherman, who has died at the age of 86, was three years old than his brother Richard. And much much quieter. On the two occasions I interviewed the songwriting brothers – once in pe…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 06:55AMDisney songwriter Robert B. Sherman died yesterday, March 5, in London. The Academy and Grammy Award winner, who is honoured along with his brother Richard Sherman with a star on the Hollywo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:56AMSongwriter Robert B. Sherman has died at age 86 in London, according to published reports.
Working in tandem with his brother Richard, the pair won Oscars and Grammy Awards for the scores f…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:57AMOscar-winning songwriter Robert B Sherman, whose credits included classic screen musicals Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, has died aged 86.Together with his y…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:43AMOscar and Grammy Award-winning composer Robert Sherman passed away on March 5 in London at the age of 86. His death was announced by his son Jeff via Facebook.
Along with his brother Rich…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:10PMThe marquees of Disneys New Amsterdam Theatre, home of the musical Mary Poppins, along with the Minskoff and Nederlander Theatres, which house Disney Theatrical Productions The Lion King and…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMSongwriter Robert B. Sherman has died at age 86 in London.
Working in tandem with his brother Richard, the pair won Oscars and Grammy Awards for the scores for the films Mary Poppins, now a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:04PMRobert Sherman, who won two Academy Awards for his work on Disney’s Mary Poppins, passed away on March 5 at age 86. Actor Gavin Lee, who originated the role of the cheery chimney …
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:16PMBroadways supercalifragilistic, award-winning hit Mary Poppins returns to the Ahmanson for an exclusive limited engagement this summer August 9 to September 2 only
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMOscar and Grammy Award-winning composer Robert Sherman passed away on March 5 in London at the age of 86. His death was announced by his son Jeff via Facebook.
Along with his brothe…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PMIf you want to see a master class on acting and experience the serious thrill of a new theatre complex, then hustle on over to Signature Theatre and buy a ticket ($25 for all seats – I am …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 09:03AMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMMemphis Celebrates Theatre In Our Schools Month: Betsy Struxness
Betsy Struxness talks about perseverance in this fantastical tribute to Theatre in Our Schools!
Theatre and drama are esse…
Linked From YouTube at 07:34AMMemphis Celebrates Theatre In Our Schools Month: J. Bernard Calloway
J. Bernard Calloway talks about going from football to footlights in this fantastical tribute to Theatre in Our Schools!…
Linked From YouTube at 07:34AMTraditions of the Memphis National Tour: Motivation!
The tour travels from city to city, but some things never change. Get a peek backstage and check out these fantastical nightly tradition…
Linked From YouTube at 07:34AMThe world-famous Rockettes and Knicks City Dancers along with Broadway stars Tony Vincent American Idiot, NBCs The Voice, Christina Sajous Spiderman, Derrick Baskin Memphis and Justin Johnso…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMThe Kennedy Center is placing its bets on four Tony Award-winning plays — including “The Book of Mormon” — in its 2012-2013 season, the center announced Tuesday.
Besides “Mormon,…
Linked From Washington Post at 03:48PMThe marquees of Disneys New Amsterdam Theatre, home of the musical Mary Poppins, along with the Minskoff and Nederlander Theatres, which house Disney Theatrical Productions The Lion King and…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMSpring is almost here and with it comes new Broadway shows, like Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy using the music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin (that's enough to get…
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 07:56AMChoreography. Nice work if you can get it. Even nicer if you are Geoffrey Doig-Marx and your brush has been selected to paint the dance-canvas on stage for the Department of Thea…
Linked From Act Three - The Reviews at 08:30AMTwo of Broadway’s biggest stars headline the new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, which features the classic songs of George and Ira Gershwin. Matthew Broderick plays a w…
Linked From Stage Rush at 08:35AMTwo-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick, three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara and the goregous gals of Nice Work If You Can Get It showed off some panache in the April issue o…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:10PMDRG Records will release the One Man, Two Guvnors Original Cast Recording on Tuesday, April 10.
The CD will include all 15 songs that are heard in show, performed by Grant Olding and The C…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:01PMAs previously announced, Elizabeth Marvel will return to the cast of its critically acclaimed production of OTHER DESERT CITIES, a new play by Jon Robin Baitz, directed by Joe Mantello, begi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:51AMWith signature Priscilla flair, the smash-hit Tony Award® winning production of Bette Midler’s PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL celebrate its one year anniversary on Broadway and…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:23PMThe Tony Award winning production of Bette Midlers PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL celebrate its one year anniversary on Broadway and 500,000th audience member worldwide on Tuesday…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:01PMMen still dominate the big jobs in performing arts. And I have noticed, shockingly, that female theatre students are still prone to cede to male classmates. But is change finally coming?In h…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:53AMThis interview is adapted from the version that appears in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. This book includes the final report from research firm WolfBrown on the…
Linked From HowlRound at 10:02AMOn Monday, March 5, the new Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Jesus Christ Superstar invited members of the the Broadway community to join them at a prev…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:59AMChristina Sajous definitely knows how to keep us guessing! Last week, the Broadway.com video blogger was stuck in a spider web and got bootylicious babe Beyoncé Knowles to host h…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:13PMThe Book of Mormon star Josh Gad has earned a Comedy Award nomination for Breakout Performer of the Year. Gad will compete for the honor against fellow comedians Zooey Deschan…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:13PMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMThe School of Rock NYC House Band will team up with the cast of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages for a special benefit concert at 7pm on Wednesday, March 14 at The Bowery Electric. Proceeds…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:58AM"Rock of Ages," the touring musical celebrating the rockers of the 1980s, will sit down at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place for most of the summer, Broadway in Chicago said Tuesda…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 11:43AM“Rock of Ages,” the hit Broadway musical with the 1980s hard-edged glam rock soundtrack, will return to Chicago to play for nine weeks this summer at the intimate and generally more gent…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 11:43AMThe national tour of Rock of Ages will play an extended sit-down engagement at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, running June 5-August 4, according to a report in The Chicago Trib…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:01PMZoe Lister-Jones The Little Dog Laughed, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, her own Codependence Is a Four-Letter Word, Salt, Breaking Upwards, NBCs Whitney, Fox Searchlights upcoming Lola Versu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMZoe Lister-Jones will join previously announced stars Jeff Goldblum and Justin Long as part of the new cast of Broadway’s Seminar. Current stars Jerry O’Connell and Hettienn…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:14PMZoe Lister-Jones will co-star with the previously reported Jeff Goldblum and Justin Long in the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's play, Seminar. The three performers will join th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:04PMChristina Sajous definitely knows how to keep us guessing! Last week, the Broadway.com video blogger was stuck in a spider web and got bootylicious babe Beyoncé Knowles to host h…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:13PMHoller If Ya Hear Me, a musical featuring the songs of late rapper Tupac Shakur could be headed to Broadway after getting approval from Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, according to TMZ.…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMAnimal House: The Musical will feature an original score by the band Barenaked Ladies, with direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, who also directed The Book of Morm…
Linked From Toronto.com at 11:18AMThe Pantages Theatre has announced the productions that will comprise its 2012-2013 season.
As previously reported, the first offering at the theater will be the Tony Award-winning musical …
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:01PMThe Book of Mormon star Josh Gad has earned a Comedy Award nomination for Breakout Performer of the Year. Gad will compete for the honor against fellow comedians Zooey Deschan…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:13PMThe Kennedy Center is placing its bets on four Tony Award-winning plays — including “The Book of Mormon” — in its 2012-2013 season, the center announced Tuesday.
Besides “Mormon,…
Linked From Washington Post at 03:48PM“Tuck Everlasting,” the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s book of the same name, is set to make its pre-Broadway world premiere in June of next year at Boston…
Linked From broadway.me at 04:39PM“Power, influence…changing the course of history, it’s all in a day’s work,” says John Lithgow, sucking on a cigarette as Joseph Aeslop. In new behind the scen…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:17PMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMThe marquees of Disneys New Amsterdam Theatre, home of the musical Mary Poppins, along with the Minskoff and Nederlander Theatres, which house Disney Theatrical Productions The Lion King and…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMSmash - Episode 5 - Let's Be Bad - Luan Legacy Recap
In the fifth episode of NBC's Smash, we learn that the competition between Karen and Ivy is far from over, and there is just as …
Linked From YouTube at 09:47PMTheater Breaking Through Barriers will present William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, April 14-May 13 at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre. Ike Schambelan will direct.
The cas…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:01PMCasting has been announced for Actor's Express' production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf**ker with the Hat, March 15-April 14. Freddie Ashley will direct.
The play c…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:59AMHoller If Ya Hear Me, a musical featuring the songs of late rapper Tupac Shakur could be headed to Broadway after getting approval from Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, according to TMZ.…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera was expected to open in London in 2010 and then have a Broadway transfer. It did open in London, but the reception wasn’t…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:17AMLong gone are the happy days when the musical was a source of innocent pleasure. They have become cultural juggernauts, devoid of risk-taking and, like the banks, too big to failMusicals are…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:56AMLove Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2010 follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera, is released on DVD and Blu-ray next week (12 March 2012).
The production was filmed in Australia, where Lo…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:42AMConfusionCharPo is in deep debateby Gaëtan L. CharleboisMaybe it's because I'm old. Maybe it's because Arden Ryshpan, the executive director of Actor's Equity is a friend since our days in …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:06AMThe Kennedy Center is placing its bets on four Tony Award-winning plays — including “The Book of Mormon” — in its 2012-2013 season, the center announced Tuesday.
Besides “Mormon,…
Linked From Washington Post at 03:48PMTV's "G.C.B.," "Glee," "Wicked," and Goodspeed Credits Goodspeed Musicals will be honoring the star of Broadway, film and the new TV series, "GCB" ("Good Christian Bitches").
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:15AMHappy Birthday, Stephen Schwartz In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell 1971, Pippin 1972 and Wicked 2003. He has also contributed lyrics …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMBeginning Tuesday, March 6, for the first time in Broadway history, fans of the hit musical revival of GODSPELL can listen online for free to exclusive creative team audio commentary of the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMMy first grown-up show: Oliver! Mom and me way up high in the upper balcony, watching all those kids down below.
One older character, Nancy, who looked a little like my mom, died in the seco…
Linked From WNYC at 05:06PMSmash - Episode 5 - Let's Be Bad - Luan Legacy Recap
In the fifth episode of NBC's Smash, we learn that the competition between Karen and Ivy is far from over, and there is just as …
Linked From YouTube at 09:47PM 
