Mark Snyder's emotionally overwrought "As Wide as I Can See," produced by At Hand Theatre Company at Here Arts Center, is overstuffed and immature.
Linked From Backstage at 08:45PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
The material here is on the generic side, with cliches to spare.
Linked From Variety at 08:38PMIt doesn't open until tonight, but "Red" is already proving to be a big seller at Seattle Repertory Theatre. The theater has just announced that it is extending the play's run until March 24…
Linked From The Seattle Times at 08:34PMBy: Sandi Durell The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, reco…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 08:34PMJordan Roth, of Jujamcyn Theaters, will interview Nick Jonas at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on March 4, as part of the 92nd Street Y's Broadway Talks series.
Linked From Backstage at 08:34PMThe theater has picked Keri Kellerman, a Seattle administrator and fundraiser for nonprofit groups.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 08:34PMNow that the Oscars are over we can move on to Broadway's big night, the 2012 Tony Awards. They will take place on June 10 in a three-hour ceremony at New York's Beacon Theatre.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:34PMThe first thing you notice about Evan Brenner, who plays Buddha in a new one-man show at the Bootleg Theater, is that he looks nothing like the pot-bellied, crossed-legged, jolly-looking fig…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:34PMWestfeldt brings her Toronto Film Festival hit, "Friends With Kids," starring Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, and Maya Rudolph, to theater March 9.
Linked From Backstage at 08:34PMIn its revival of the 1912 “Rutherford & Son,” the Mint Theater charts the difficult family dynamics in the household of an industrial mogul.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PMHalf of “Rated P for Parenthood” at the Westside Theater is sweet and wistfully funny, and the other half is a demographically opportunistic mash-up.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PMBroadway darling Kristin Chenoweth is plotting her return to the stage as the star of a 2013 Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the musical On the Twentieth Century. Cheering her on is he…
Linked From Broadway.com at 08:15PMActor Sandy Rustin, in her writing debut, clings to stale parenting scenarios in the musical revue "Rated P for Parenthood" at the Westside Theatre.
Linked From Backstage at 08:12PM"... try as it might (and boy, does it try), the show is only about as funny as it is original — which is to say, not very."
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Actor-writer Mike Daisey will give a special one-night only performance of his acclaimed monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” on April 7 at 7 p.m. at The Chicago Theatre…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:57PMCrystal Pite’s Dark Matters challenges an audience to reflect on nothing less than the mysteries of humankind and the universe itself
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 06:46PMSpring hasn't quite yet sprung, but here are 20 of the most exciting upcoming plays, musicals and classic revivals.
Linked From Time Out New York at 06:37PMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Linked From Playbill at 06:34PMWILLIAM SHATNER SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS TONIGHT ON “CHARLIE ROSE” TV and film superstar William Shatner will appear tonight on “Charlie Rose.” His one man show SHATNER’S WORLD: W…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:27PMEmmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Beau Bridges and Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale have joined the SHOWTIME drama pilot MASTERS OF SEX. Bridges will play University Chancellor Bar…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMEmmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Tammy Blanchard will star opposite Kristin Davis in the original Lifetime TV movie Of Two Minds. Blanchard plays Davis younger sister who is dealing…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth was a guest on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA. The actress spoke about her new upcoming show on ABC entitled GCB, which debuts on March 4th. Click…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMPaper Mill Playhouse is currently in rehearsals for Damn Yankees, directed by Paper Mill Playhouse's Producing Artistic Director, Mark S. Hoebee, with choreography by Denis Jones. The cast f…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMThe future is a wish. What are your wildest dreams for the literary office of the future? 1. In the literary office of the future, isolation and solitude are abolished. No one is alone. 2. I…
Linked From HowlRound at 06:17PMCarrie, the musical, based on the movie of the Stephen King book, was a flop when it opened in New York in 1988. It’s being revived off-Broadway by Stafford Arima.
Linked From Toronto.com at 06:15PMJesus Christ Superstar, with a Canadian cast that includes Paul Nolan, Chilina Kennedy and Bruce Dow, opens in preview Thursday at Neil Simon Theatre.
Linked From Toronto.com at 06:15PMTickets are now available for the world premiere of Paul Weitz's comedy Lonely, I’m Not, starring screen favorites Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby. Performances will begin at off-B…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:13PMTammy Blanchard, who plays sexy secretary Hedy LaRue in the hit Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, is headed for the small screen in Of Two Minds, a n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:13PMThe lifetime achievement award is a new honor
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:58PMCurrently starring Off-Broadway in the revival of Carrie, Marin
Mazzie took the time to speak to Playbill about originating the role of
Clara in the 1994 original Broadway production of Pa…
Linked From Playbill at 05:50PMChildren's Musical Theater San Jose has named Michael Miller to be the company's new executive director, according to MercuryNews.com.
Miller will leave his position as executiv…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:49PMThe cast and creative team of the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Damn Yankees met the press on Wednesday, February 29 at the Foxwoods Theatre rehearsal studio.
Cast members Howard McGil…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:49PMBad Habit Productions has announced casting for
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing...With a Twist!, adapted and directed by Daniel Morris and performing at the Calderwood Pav…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:49PMThe musical tracks for an original cast album of Lysistrata Jones will be recorded on March 1, according to posts on the show's official Twitter and Tumblr accounts. No further details…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:49PMMarin Theatre Company will present Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice, March 29-April 22. Artistic director Jasson Minadakis will direct.
In the play, Othello, general of the V…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:49PMFormer “Wicked” stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel have both announced separate concert tours that will keep them on the road throughout North America later this year. Tony Award w…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 05:37PMGuildhall School of Music and Drama
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current crop of Guildhall singers are a well-drilled outfit and a credit to
their great school. The students are not to blame for the disappointment o…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:34PMCAP21 Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From a Midlife Crisis, a new play by Amy Ferris, Ken Ferris and Krista Lyons. It plays a preview day…
Linked From Playbill at 05:33PMCirca, another boundary-pushing circus act (this time from Australia) opens at the Paramount tonight, as a joint presentation of Celebrity Series and ArtsEmerson. I feel comfortable promoti…
Linked From The Hub Review at 05:33PMNBC’s SMASH and iTheatrics have teamed up to create SMASH: Make a Musical, a non-profit program that is currently building self-sustaining, cost-effective musical theater programs in 2…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 05:30PMTopher Grace, best known for his work in the Fox television series “That ‘70s Show,” will make his professional stage debut this spring in the comedy “Lonely, I’m Not,” which wil…
Linked From broadway.me at 05:28PMA New Argentina indeed Check out this photo of the complete cast of the new Broadway production of EVITA, who posed after the company's final run-through at the rehearsal studio late last we…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMThe newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of Carrie, the musical, had its first preview on January 31, 2012 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The show will open officially tomorrow, M…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMIn anticipation of her sexy new ABC comedy GCB, Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth dropped by Good Morning America on February 29 to divulge some secrets about…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:13PMBefore beginning his run as presidential contender Joseph Cantwell in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Eric McCormack took in a performance of Godspell, a s…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:13PMIf you need proof that Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara clean up nicely, look no further than to Annie Leibovitz’s delicious portrait of the Nice Work If You Can Get It stars i…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:13PMForget her trademark horror clowns Mump & Smoot. Karen Hines’s surreal new play mines the truly scary world of network TV
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The 2012 Broadway in Chicago fall schedule got a little more crowded Wednesday with the addition of three shows to its previously announced “Kinky Boots” and “The Book of Mormon.” Ne…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:55PMTrap Door Theatre will offer a one-night-only encore performance of Pierre Notte's Me Too, I Am Catherine Deneuve, translated by Nicholas Tonozzi, on March 4. The event will raise fund…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMJosh Groban, Paul Simon and Trisha Yearwood will be among the performers for A Celebration of Paul Newman's Dream, to be held at Lincoln Center on Monday, April 2 at 7pm. Joanne Woodwar…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMCloris Leachman is to appear in director Scott Coffey's upcoming film Adult World, according to Deadline.com.
Leachman will play the owner of the erotic bookstore that is the onl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMNewsadoozies: A Man-Eating Musical, a new musical comedy one-act will debut at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre at 8pm on Monday, March 12, with an encore performance on Monday, March 19…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMStage veterans Mary Birdsong and Missi Pyle have joined the cast of Thor Freudenthal's film Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Sea of Monsters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMBroadway veteran Molly Shannon will play a recurring role on the HBO comedy series, Enlightened, according to Deadline.com.
The actress will play Eileen, described as "the loyal execut…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:48PMWhat kind of a man was Shakespeare? A cold husband and a cruel father – or quite the party man? Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow recreate his life in two very different productions'I've al…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:41PMKevin SharpThe tawdriness of family life, in "Figure 8" at Theatre of NOTEPhinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. Our…
Linked From LA Weekly at 04:32PMStephen Sondheim may not give a whit about posterity, as he tells a reporter with the London Evening Standard, but that doesn't mean he's content to rest on his classics. In a lengthy chat i…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:32PMTony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth has announced dates for her first concert tour, which is scheduled to kick off May 9 in Seattle. A Tony winner for her work in You'r…
Linked From Playbill at 04:32PMThe new Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar begins previews March 1. Playbill.com looks back at a number of past stage and screen adaptations of…
Linked From Playbill at 04:32PMDavy Jones, who gained lasting worldwide fans as the cute, diminutive, self-effacing English member of the manufactured 1960s pop group The Monkees — but was also the original Artful D…
Linked From Playbill at 04:32PMThe master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…
Linked From This Is London at 04:25PMThe saga of casting Cleopatra for A Noise Within's Antony and Cleopatra also involved two of LA's other classical companies. Former Antaeus artistic director Jeanie Hackett wanted a role t…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 04:24PMNBC has just released a sneak peek clip of next week's SMASH episode entitled Let's Be Bad. In the episode, Derek asks Karen to demonstrate to Ivy the correct way to sing Happy Birthday. Whi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMTasti D-Lite has just unveiled a new flavor, Heavenly Cherry, which was created especially at Tasti D-Lite for Broadway's SISTER ACT. Check out photos from the unveiling of the new flavor be…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMMeet the Team of NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT on Broadway
Meet director Kathleen Marshall and writer Joe DiPietro from the new Gershwin musical comedy, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, coming to…
Linked From YouTube at 04:17PMHere comes Emmy and Tony award winner Kristin Chenoweth, performing for one night only at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, May 18.
Linked From Denver Post at 04:15PMDean Chisnall, 29, a regular West End presence in the six years since he left West London’s Arts Educational drama school, is now stepping into the title role in Shrek the Musical at t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:12PMMichael Urie may play mean-spirited mailroom clerk Bud Frump in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but he was more than welcoming when Broadway.com sto…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:12PMThe catch is, you have to go to Newark to see it! Runs March 1-4. For more info: ringling.com.
Linked From Trav S.D. at 04:12PMThe musical sketch comedy Rated P for Parenthood is delivering a healthy bundle of parenting stories, from the touching to the outright zany, to the Westside Theatre. The new musical by…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:12PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
"Venus in Fur," David Ives' cheeky adaptation of Leopold Sacher-Masoch's erotic 1870 novel and originally mounted at the Classic Stage Company, improves…
Linked From Variety at 04:10PMThe Tony-winning composer Stephen Sondheim is collaborating with playwright David Ives on a new musical.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:07PMGordon, a dark comedy about two young ne’er-do-wells and family dynamics, gets its West Coast premiere
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 04:05PMGrand Center will transform the corner of Grand Boulevard and Samuel Shepard Drive into a venue for temporary public art installations.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:01PMTAKING A LEAP: Dance St. Louisans are floating on air this week following the dance troupe's celebration of its annual Ballet Ball fundraiser on Saturday night at Palladium St. Louis.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:01PM
The following manifesto was presented as part of the American Voices New Play Institute’s 21st Century Literary Office Convening that took place February 24 & 25, 2012 at Arena …
Linked From HowlRound at 03:47PMIn observance of the one-year anniversary of the Tohoku, Japan earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster, CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing) welcomes back Big Apple Playback …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:46PMKelsey Grammer and wife Kayte Walsh attended the Cirque du Soleil production of Viva ELVIS at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, February 28.
The production celebrates Elvi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:46PMOff-Broadway's Gotham Stage Company presented its gala, A Night in Gotham III on Monday, February 27 at Ars Nova .
The evening, directed by Wes Grantom, included musical performances …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:46PMPaper Mill Playhouse has announced its 2012-2013 season, featuring four musicals, and one play.
The season includes A Chorus Line (October 3r-28t), which has a book by James Kirkwood Jr. …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:46PMAfter selling out a short run in February, Broadway veteran Alec Mapa will return to New York with his popular new show Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy. This encore performance will be presented for o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:46PMYuri Lane, the self-styled human beatbox and recent YouTube celebrity, will stage his current solo show, "MeTube," at Collaboraction, beginning Mar. 16.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 03:46PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The North Plan" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The North Plan" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... Kimberly Senior's zesty production of Jason W…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 03:46PMDisney's The Little Mermaid will flip its fins in the New York metropolitan area once again as part of the Paper Mill Playhouse's 2012-2013 season, which also includes A Chorus Line …
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMThe all Canadian cast of War Horse, the show about a young boy who's horse is sold to the cavalry during WW1, opened last night, February 28, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Pro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMWith less than a week until the only Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian community, our friends and families, a limited number of tickets remain for BROADWAY BACKWARDS 7, whic…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMPaper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee- Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director has announced the 2012-2013 season, featuring four musicals and one play.Paper Mill Playhouse…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMBroadways PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL star and Tony Award nominee Will Swenson takes taxi riders on a tour of his favorite New York City hot spots for food and fun in the East …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:20PMCaissie Levy can definitely wail with a capital W, but the Ghost star recently pulled out all the vocal stops to celebrate the life of the one and only Whitney Houston. Levy was one of many …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:12PMDavid “Davy” Jones, who went from Tony-nominated teen actor to pop icon as a member of the Monkees, died in his sleep of a heart attack on February 29 in Stuart, Florida. He was …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:12PMRun, don’t walk, y’all! Dixon Place is offering a super cool Winter deal for the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret for opening night only (tomorrow night, March 1). See …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 03:12PMOne might not expect four-time Tony winner and Juilliard-trained star Audra McDonald to discuss scatalogical urges while singing or dish on whether Taye Diggs, Sean “Diddy” Combs…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:12PMCate Blanchett, Jan Maxwell, and Hugo Waving are among the nominees for the 28th annual Helen Hayes Awards, honoring theater in Washington, D.C.
Linked From Backstage at 03:11PMAfter three years at New York City Center's Stage II, the Pearl Theatre Company plans move to Signature Theatre Company's old home.
Linked From Backstage at 03:11PMGross ticket sales on the Great White Way continue to climb as sales were up for the third straight week with gross revenue of $20.3 million through the week ending Feb. 26.
Last week's Bro…
Linked From Ticket News at 03:11PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Tony Award winning actress, Kristin Chenoweth, returns to prime time television with "GCB" (Good Christian Belles), portraying a Botox-injecting Bible blogger, Carlene C…
Linked From Reuters at 03:11PMEdward Albee, Judith Malina, and John Clancy spoke to independent theater artists at the Living Theatre in NYC to introduce "nickel" fundraising plan.
Linked From Backstage at 03:11PMThe Elephant Theatre Company -- one of the most recognizable names in Hollywood's Theatre Row district -- has suspended operations for the 2012 season due largely to financial difficulties a…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:11PMAlso: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "A Night with Dusty Springfield" at Asbury Park's Press Room.
Linked From NJ.com at 03:11PMPhoto courtesy of the artistsThe Internationalists
In 2007, a ragtag company of young CalArts grads by the name of Poor Dog Group made its debut on the stage of REDCAT's New Works Fes…
Linked From LA Weekly at 03:11PMTony-winning director Des McAnuff's take on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" makes its way to Broadway after a blow-out premiere at the Stratford Shakespeare Festi…
Linked From YouTube at 03:08PMIn a world where the daily churn of bad news now includes worse and worse news about the journalistic integrity and practices of The Sun, even as they have just launched a new Sunday edition…
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For the fans who thought Lysistrata Jones shuttered too soon, have no fear, the team is here! On April 9th, the original company of the Lewis Flinn-Douglas Carter Beane musical will perform …
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 02:52PMThe premature death at 69—though it would have been premature at any age—of Howard Kissel is a severe loss to everyone involved in the theater, interested in theater, and relative or fri…
Linked From John Simon at 02:46PMTony Award nominee Davy Jones has died of a heart attack, according to published reports. He was 66.
Jones, under his full name, David Jones, received a Tony Award nomination for his perfo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMThe American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMSundance Institute is to present its first New York benefit event, March 12 at New York Theatre Workshop and The Bowery Hotel. Sundance Institute President & Founder Robert Redford will…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMFull casting has been announced for I Dreamed a Dream, the new musical based on the life story of Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The international…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMPerformer Janis Paige has postponed her upcoming The Rrazz Room concert appearances, planned for March 4-5.
The reason given for the canceled performances was illness and a recommendation f…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMTony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will launch her new CD Uptown Downtown with a performance as part of the "Live at Barnes & Noble" series at the bookstore's 150 E…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMThe Mosaic Theatre has announced the cast of its upcoming production of Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman. Performances begin March 8.
Winner of the Olivier Award Winner for Best Play,…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:46PMChristine Ebersole will recreate her Tony Award-winning performance as Grey Gardens' Little Edie during the Sundance Institute's March 12 gala at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan. Acade…
Linked From Playbill at 02:31PMBobby Steggert, Michael Esper, Sue Jean Kim, Virginia Kull, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Amy Rosoff play satellites spinning around an unseen, bullying international mogul in the New York City …
Linked From Playbill at 02:31PMThe American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the…
Linked From Playbill at 02:31PMDuke of York's, London: Zach Braff's debut as a feature film writer was the wonderful Garden State, so it should be no surprise that his West End debut as a writer and performer should …
Linked From The Stage at 02:28PMRose, Kingston: One of the great joys of the British stage is its sense of family and continuity, in which the theatrical torch is regularly handed from one generation to the next. This has …
Linked From The Stage at 02:28PMSoho Downstairs, London: For 20 years Mercury Musical Developments has been dedicated to developing and supporting the craft of composers, lyricists and book-writers working in musical theat…
Linked From The Stage at 02:28PMSouthwark Playhouse, London: Short of being staged in an actual cave, there is probably no more site-specific location for a production of Floyd Collins than the dark, dank vaults of Southwa…
Linked From The Stage at 02:28PMOnce: A New Musical - Montage
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Linked From YouTube at 02:25PMAccording to the London Evening Standard, theater powerhouses Stephen Sondheim and David Ives have teamed up on a new musical, which is currently in the earliest phases of composition. The S…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMTMZ reports that Davy Jones, lead singer of the popular Biritsh invasion band, Monkees, has passed away of a heart attack this morning, February 29, at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart, Fl…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMOscar winner and two-time Tony nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman is back on Broadway in Mike Nichols' starry revival of Death of a Salesman. As Willy Loman, the patriarch in Arthur Miller&r…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:11PMThe game is back on for Broadway’s basketball musical Lysistrata Jones. Patti Murrin, Josh Segarra and the musical's cast will reunite for a concert at Joe's Pub on April 9. Th…
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The following manifesto was presented as part of the American Voices New Play Institute’s 21st Century Literary Office Convening that took place February 24 & 25, 2012 at Arena …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:56PMTony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will launch her new CD Uptown Downtown with a performance as part of the "Live at Barnes & Noble" series at the bookstore's 150 E…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMSignature Theatre Company's production of Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque has announced that it will extend one week and will now close on April 1. The show is currently in p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMScott Bakula will join the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will play an attorney hired by Bree, the character played by Marcia Cross.
Bakul…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMOpera legend Jessye Norman will publish a memoir entitled Stand Up and Sing!, according to The New York Times. The book will be from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to come out in late 2013.
The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMMike Daisey will offer a one-night-only performance of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, on Saturday, April 7 at 7pm at The Chicago Theatre. The event will be hosted by…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMNaked Boys Singing will return to Off-Broadway on March 15 at the Kirk Theatre.
The revue -- which premiered at Los Angeles' Celebration Theater in 1998 and earlier this year closed …
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMBill and Dan Savage will take part in a talkback following the Friday, March 9 performance of Sarah Gubbins' fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Dan Savag…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMFull casting has been announced for the Toy Box Theatre Company's production of The Empress and El Diablo, a world premiere play written and directed by Jonathan Barsness with a live ga…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PM59E59 Theaters welcomes Glasgow-based Communicado Theatre Company to the Scotland Week celebrations with the US premiere of Federer Versus Murray, written and directed by Gerda Stevenson. Th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:45PMTony Award organizers have announced the official calendar for the upcoming Tony Awards. The weeks leading up to the awards are an exciting time for Broadway and the events aims to enthuse b…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:43PMTour dates for Kristin Chenoweth’s first concert tour have been announced. The Washington Post reports that Chenoweth will kick of her tour on May 8 in Seattle and end in her hometown, Bro…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:43PMArcola, LondonIt is the early 1990s, Estonia is at last independent and Aliide (Illona Linthwaite) is old and living alone in the cottage in the Estonian forest where her parents once farmed…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:38PMBroadway’s PRISCILLA Queen Of The Desert THE MUSICAL star and Tony Award® nominee Will Swenson takes taxi riders on a tour of his favorite New York City hot spots for food and fun in the …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:37PMThe Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones will give it up April 9 in a one-night-only concert version of the acclaimed Broadway score at Joe's Pub.
Linked From Playbill at 01:30PMZach Braff began his West End debut run in his own play, All New People, Feb. 22, prior to an official opening Feb. 28 at the Duke of York’s Theatre. The production is schedu…
Linked From Playbill at 01:30PMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays and two-time Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson will co-star in the Westport Country Playhouse's March 12 staged reading of Simon Gray's Stage Struck.
Linked From Playbill at 01:30PMSignature Theatre Company has announced a one-week extension for Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, starring Tony Award winner Jane Alexander in the title role, which will officially …
Linked From Playbill at 01:30PMFull casting has been announced for I Dreamed a Dream, the new musical based on the life story of Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle.
As previously announced the role of Boyle will…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:30PMBlackbird playwright David Harrower will stage the U.S. premiere of his new drama A Slow Air as part of 59E59 Theater's Scotland Week celebration this April.
Linked From Playbill at 01:30PMWest End granddaddy The Mousetrap celebrates its diamond anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion over 60 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers were welcomed last night at the St Martin’…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:30PM"There are only three kinds of scenes: 'fights, seductions and negotiations.' " -Mike Nichols, quoted by Riedel today
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 01:24PMI used to work for a guy who was at one time a mucky-muck manager/producer in Hollywood. His best days were behind him, but his need for a personal assistant was still vibrant. My duties w…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:22PMHurt Village is a housing project in Memphis. The time is the second Bush term. The project is about to be torn down to make room for a spiffy development that will erase the memory of the …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:22PMAccording to Deadline.com, stage and screen actor Victor Garber will star in the upcoming NBC drama pilot NOTORIOUS. The project is from Universal TV and BermanBraun with a script by Liz Hel…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMOff-Broadway's Gotham Stage Company presented their 3rd annual performance gala, A NIGHT IN GOTHAM III on Monday February 27th, 2012 at Ars Nova 511 W 54th Street, NYC.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMThe LIKEME Organization, founded by country music recording artist and Kansas native Chely Wright, will open its first LIKEME Lighthouse in Kansas City on March 10, 2012. Located in Midtown …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMSundance Institute has announced the first-ever New York benefit celebrating its Theatre Program, the leading play development program in the United States. Taking place on the evening of Mo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMTony Award-winning Kristin Chenoweth, star of the new TV series GCB, will make her Toronto concert debut at Massey Hall.
Linked From Toronto.com at 01:10PMEdward Albee’s mysterious dark comedy The Lady From Dubuque has extended its run at the End Stage in off-Broadway's new Pershing Square Signature Center. Starring Jane Alexander an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:09PMReview of the Saturday, February 25 matinee performance. At the Booth Theatre in New York City. Starring Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Stacy Keach, Judith Light and Justin…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 01:02PMIt’s likely that what Marx and Freud were to the twentieth century, Adorno and Lacan will be to the twenty-first. It took nearly a hundred years for the importance of the former pair t…
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 01:00PMMore than 20 years after a disastrous debut on Broadway, director Stafford Arima revives the horror classic with drastic changes to script and score
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US playwright Jennifer Haley has been awarded the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Nether.
Linked From The Stage at 12:55PMKristen Chenoweth, the Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actress-singer, will perform a one-night-only concert, June 16 at 8 p.m., at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph. Best kn…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:51PMThe 2012 Broadway In Chicago fall season schedule just got a little more crowded with the addition of three shows to its previously announced “Kinky Boots” and “The Book of Mormon.” …
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 12:51PMThe New York Children's Theater Festival has announced the participants for its inaugural season, chosen by a judging panel of over 30 industry professionals including Kevin ("Elmo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMTony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, original star of Broadway's Wicked, the original stage production of Rent and FOX TV's smash hit Glee, returns to Th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMSinger-songwriter Howard Fishman stars in a developmental reading of Dead Author Songs, at the 2012 Emerging Artists Theatre New Work series, Thursday March 1, at 9pm at the Tada Theatre. De…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMMonty Python's Spamalot co-creators Eric Idle and John Du Prez were among the guests on Tuesday, February 28 as the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Musical returned to Los Angeles, with an…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. is set to present a return concert engagement of Morton Gould and Carolyn Leigh's new song cycle Nothing is Forever, March 11 and 12 at the Connelly Theatre. The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMBroadway in Chicago has announced the addition of three shows to its slate of presentations for 2012, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
Among the newly announced offerings is th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMA.C.T. has purchased the Strand Theater, a historic cinema in San Francisco's Central Market area that has been closed since 2006.
The new space will give A.C.T. a place in which to pr…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMChildren's Theatre Company has announced the productions for its 2012-2013 season, which will begin in September, according to the Star-Tribune.
The season will open with Liz Duffy Ada…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays, who will soon be on Broadway in The Best Man, and Tony nominee Jayne Atkinson will co-star in the comedy/thriller, Stage Struck, by Simon Gray, a Script in …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMElephant Theatre Company has announced that it will go on hiatus for the year of 2012, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The company has cited financial difficulties as the reason for th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:44PMMike Daisey, the demonstrably effective scold of Apple Inc., is bringing his hit solo show, "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs ," to the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., on April 7.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:43PMLuke Norris’s first play, staged as part of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Festival, is funny and sometimes shockingly honest, writes Sarah Hemming
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "Let's Be Bad," will air March 5 at 10 PM ET.
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMThe Pearl Theatre Company, which left its East Village home in 2009 to lease space New York City Center Stage II, will relocate to the Signature Theatre Company's former home on West 42n…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMSignature Theatre Company has just announced a one-week extension for EDWARD ALBEES THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE, directed by David Esbjornson. The production will now play through Sunday, April 1 …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMAccording to the London Evening Standard, theater powerhouses Stephen Sondheim and David Ives have teamed up on a new musical, which is currently in the earliest phases of composition. The S…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:19PM"No Boundaries" Show From Spanish ChoreographerSpanish choreographer and performer Cuqui Jerez presents "The Rehearsal" as part of Yale's "No Boundaries" performances March 23 at 8 p.m…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:13PMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays , currently playing on Broadway iin "The Best Man", will head the cast of the inventive comedy/thriller, "Stage Struck" by Simon Gray , a Script in…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:13PMMariska Hargitay spends her days chasing bad guys as Detective Olivia Benson on the long-running hit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Away from the set, the Emmy-winning actress is per…
Linked From calgary.broadway.com at 12:09PMComplete casting has been announced for the upcoming musical I Dreamed a Dream, based on the life story of reality TV singing sensation Susan Boyle. As previously announced, the role of Boyl…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:09PMEight-time Tony winner Stephen Sondheim is at work on a brand new musical, according to the London Evening Standard. The legendary composer and lyricist revealed he had written “20 or …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:09PMGlee creator Ryan Murphy has signed a “preemptive deal” with Sony Pictures to direct the musical comedy film One Hit Wonders, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Cameron…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:09PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth is hitting the road for her first-ever concert tour, according to The Washington Post. The Wicked alum will perform in 19 cities during the 2012 North Ame…
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Joey (Brad Cook, Bryan Hindle, Caden Douglas) and Emilie (Addison Holley). Photo by Brinkhoff/MögenburgStunning, Emotional, AmazingGobsmacked...by Dave RossAs I stepped out of the Princess …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 11:59AMMonty Python star Terry Jones is to team up with composer Anne Dudley to create a new opera inspired by The Owl and the Pussycat this summer.
Linked From The Stage at 11:55AMThe shortlist for the fifth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography has been released, according to Whatsonstage.com. The winner of the award, which carries a £2000 cas…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMOn Tuesday, February 28, Grammy Award winner Herb Alpert and Lani Hall debuted their new show at the the Café Carlyle.
Celebrity guests at the opening night show and party includ…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMThe Pearl Theatre Company has signed a 20-year lease on 555 West 42nd Street, the venue recently vacated by Signature Theatre Company. The Pearl will inaugurate its permanent home with its 2…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMOn February 26, CBS Sunday Morning aired an interview with Oscar winner and Tony Award nominee Alan Menken.
Menken discussed his long career, which includes writing the scores for The Littl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMNine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune will perform as part of the Centenary Stage Company season on March 24 at 2 pm and 8pm with Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance. The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will play a seven-week, 19-city concert tour, which will launch on May 9 in Seattle and end on June 24 in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Okl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMMike Daisey, the demonstrably effective scold of Apple Inc., is bringing his hit solo show, "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" to the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., on April 7.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 11:43AMBroadway in Chicago said Wednesday morning that it will present touring productions of "Sister Act," "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and a reprise run of"Les Miserables"during th…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 11:43AMIt’s Opening night for the new Off-Broadway musical comedy Rated P…for Parenthood. With book and lyrics by Sandy Rustin, music and lyrics by Dan Lipton & David Rossmer and …
Linked From Theater Advisor at 11:39AM“So – how do you make money?” -Sunil Vishnu K, I AM THEATRE I spent the better part of a decade running theatre companies in NYC and working in restaurants to pay my bills. Theat…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 11:37AMAlways... Patsy Cline at Theatre at the Center (3 of 3)
ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE is a tribute to Patsy Cline's true friendship with Louise Seger, a fan from Houston. Having first heard Cl…
Linked From YouTube at 11:34AMVirtually the first thing we hear in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea is the painter Ballestad describing his painting of a dying mermaid: "She's been washed up on the sea and can't find her wa…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:29AMRobyn North is currently playing Nellie Collins in Floyd Collins at the Southwark Playhouse, which continues until 31 March.
North was nominated for a Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Takeov…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:29AMLucky Duck, the new "Ugly Duckling"-inspired musical from Tony Award nominees Henry Krieger and Bill Russell, will flap its wings starting March 16 at the New Victory Theatre. This…
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMComposer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim told The London Evening Standard that he is working on a musical with David Ives, the playwright known for Venus in Fur, All in the Timing and adaptations …
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, opens Feb. 29 following previews from Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMLos Angeles-based playwright Jennifer Haley, whose work has been seen at the 2011 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Lark Play Development Center, is the winner of the 2012 …
Linked From Playbill at 11:28AMAlways... Patsy Cline at Theatre at the Center (2 of 3)
ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE is a tribute to Patsy Cline's true friendship with Louise Seger, a fan from Houston. Having first heard Cl…
Linked From YouTube at 11:24AMWhen there’s a month with a fifth Wednesday, I’ll be heading Way-Off-Broadway for a look at theatrical happenings outside New York City. This Leap Day, we’re hopping around the cou…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 11:23AMAcademy and Grammy Award-winner Alan Menken, composer of Broadway’s LEAP OF FAITH, recently sat down with Martha Teichner of “CBS Sunday Morning” to discuss his prestigious career and …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:22AMThe 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to U.S. playwright and Texas native Jennifer Haley for her play The Nether. At a private reception in London on February 28, the transat…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. www.UnsungMusicals.org has announced a special return concert engagement of the new musical song cycle Nothing is Forever by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner Mor…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMAmerican actor Zach Braff Scrubs and Garden State just made his UK stage acting debut in a new comedy, All New People. The witty play, written by Braff, will be directed by award-winning Pet…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth was a guest on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA. The actress spoke about her new upcoming show on ABC entitled, GCB, which debuts on March 4th.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMIn the video below, Paula Zahn chats with musical theatre legend Andrew Lloyd Webber about his lengthy career, upcoming projects, EVITA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, and more Click below to check…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMAward-winning librettist Hunter Bell and his SILENCE The Musical stars, David Garrison and Jenn Harris, recently visited Theater Talk to discuss the process of turning the classic movie thri…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMContinuing its reinvigoration, The Pearl Theatre Company has signed a 20-year lease on 555 West 42nd Street, the venue recently vacated by Signature Theatre Company, J.R. Sullivan, The Pearl…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM400 custom costumes made of over 2,000 pieces of fabric and countless sparkles need to be maintained for 8 performances every week. It takes a small but talented army to keep these memorable…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMIn SEMINAR, four aspiring young novelists Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park sign up for private writing classes with Leonard Mr. Rickman, an international liter…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMJosh Young, who stars as Judas Iscariot in the Broadway production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, is featured in The New York Times. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:16AMAlways... Patsy Cline at Theatre at the Center (1 of 3)
ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE is a tribute to Patsy Cline's true friendship with Louise Seger, a fan from Houston. Having first heard Cl…
Linked From YouTube at 11:15AMSometimes I wonder if NYC will ever declare Oscar Sunday a city-wide holiday. I mean, the streets are already deserted, people are having dinner parties . . . all we need to do is suspend so…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:11AMAs a new play in the FRIGID Festival notes, Craigslist has institutionalized the notion of a missed connection, with a sublist of its personals ads called just that. As a celebration, Missed…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMWhile it's named after the Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical-realism novel Love in the Time of Cholera, it's difficult to find the same obvious magic operating in the world of Nicole Pandolfo's…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMIf you've ever been an assistant, or if you've ever had a high-pressure/low-paying job, or just a horribly obnoxious boss, you may quickly find yourself developing a severe case of apoplexy …
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMSandrine Lafond's solo show Little Lady is exquisitely executed and utterly esoteric. In this clown-based movement theatre piece, Lafond depicts a character that appears to be part clown, pa…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMIf you're a parent, daredevil stuntman Evel Knievel is probably not the person you want topping your child's list of heroes. But that's exactly the case in Big Plastic Heroes, the solo show …
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMGitha Sowerby caused a major cultural sensation when, in 1912, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced Rutherford and Son, her first play. Not only was the work greeted with universal ac…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMZack, an 85 year old man who’s into sexual games of the S & M category, has been dumped by his slightly older girlfriend for a "younger" (79) man. This is a recipe for humor that s…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMIf you think that a sunny day is enough to cure The Terrible Manpain of Umberto MacDougal you may not fully understand the depths of his "manpain." Rainy days are easy for this woebegone Iri…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMHamlet is one of the most produced of Shakespeare's play in this country. Companies perform it for both its difficulty and audience appeal. However, some feel as though it is overdone or eve…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMBig Girls Don't Cry at this year's FRIGID New York Festival is a fun one-woman piece of clown theater from Canada. Although it has all the patter of stand up, and while Rachelle Elie may be …
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 11:08AMTony nominee Marin Ireland will star in season two of the AMC drama The Killing, according to TVLine.com. Ireland will play Liz, the tough sister of Detective Holder (Joel Kinnaman) beginnin…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:08AMThe announcement of the 2012 Tony Award nominations will take place on May 1 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. The…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:08AMFour-time Tony nominee Victor Garber will return to the small screen to star in NBC’s drama pilot Notorious, according to Deadline.com. Liz Heldens, (Prime Suspect, Mercy) serves as th…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:08AMSeminar star Alan Rickman, who was one of The View’s very first guests in 1998, returned to the morning talk show on February 28 to catch up with the colorful hosts, including special …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:08AMIn a season of high-profile duds like “Don Giovanni” and “The Ring,” the Met has found a winner in a dark horse, Mussorgsky’s moody “Khovanshchina.”
The opera — loosely trans…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 11:02AMWhile the Republican candidates were duking it out in Arizona Wednesday night, Ballet Arizona visited New York for the first time — and it’s a group worthy of bipartisan support.
The com…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 11:02AMWithin one year, Mike Nichols saw two Broadway plays that changed his life.
In December 1947, his last year of high school, he attended the second night of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Wh…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 11:02AMFun fact: After graduating from NYU, playwright Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”) briefly worked as Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant. Now, a tyrannical tycoon looms over her bliste…
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Behind the scenes at Stratford as here comes 60!Preparing the curtain for You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 10:57AMAurora Theatre Company has announced casting for its upcoming world premiere of Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol translated by Margret Schaefer, April 6-May 13. Aurora Theatre Company foundi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMPlaywrights Horizons celebrated the Off-Broadway opening of Leslye Headland's new play Assistance on Tuesday, February 28, with a post-performance celebration at Heartland Brewery.
Tri…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMJennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have welcomed their third child, a baby boy, according to published reports. The couple married in 2005 and are parents to two daughters, ages two and five. …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMFollowing a sold-out performance at Ars Nova's Ant Fest, Slant Theatre Project and the PIT present No No No Yes, to perform at The Pit, March 6-27. The show is created and performed by …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMThe League of Professional Theatre Women has announced 30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years, honoring the 30th Anniversary of the League. This yearlong series will feature 30 brand-new plays, musica…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMVictor Garber will star in the NBC drama pilot Notorious, from Universal TV and BermanBraun, according to Deadline.com.
Written by Liz Heldens, Notorious follows a detective who returns und…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMThe nominations for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films' 38th annual Saturn Awards have been announced, and include numerous stage veterans. The prizes will be p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:42AMThe organizers of the Tony Awards have announced the calendar for the upcoming 2011-2012 Tony Award season.
Linked From Playbill at 10:28AMZach Braff of Scrubs and Garden State fame has brought his new comedy All New People to the West End following a short national tour.Braff, who makes his playwriting debut with the play, als…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:28AMRobyn North is currently playing Nellie Collins in Floyd Collins at the Southwark Playhouse, which continues until 31 March.
North was nominated for a Whatsonstage.com Award for Best Takeov…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:28AMA discussion about the school's decision to cancel an event by the nationally recognized gay performance artist will be held Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Linked From Philadelphia Weekly at 10:26AMEmmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will launch her debut world tour in May. The 19-date North American leg of the tour kicks off May 9th in Seattle and concludes in Chenoweths home…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMOn the March 5th episode of the new NBC musical drama SMASH entitled Let's Be Bad, Karen Katharine McPhee finds a new use for her acting talents as she joins Dev Raza Jaffrey at a high-power…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMLast night, February 28, Regis and Joy Philbin, Paul Shaffer, Reeve Carney, Zane Carney, Peter Cincotti, and more headed to the Cafe Carlyle to celebrate the opening night of multi Grammy Aw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMThe Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) in Durham, North Carolina recently made headlines for taking advantage of a North Carolina state law allowing individual venues to prohibit the resal…
Linked From Ticket News at 10:08AMHard to believe as it may seem (that is, for those who are paying attention), Travalanche turns four years old today. That’s right, she’s a Leap Year Baby, meaning she’s on…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:08AMRated P for Parenthood, a musical sketch comedy about raising kids, opens February 29 at off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre. Helmed by Jeremy Dobrish, Rated P For Parenthood features a bo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:07AMExcitement was running high on February 28 when the cast of the upcoming revival of A Streetcar Named Desire stepped out to greet the press. Broadway.com was on hand to chat up the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:07AMThe varied world of Connecticut dance comes together Saturday, March 3, beginning at 7 p,.m, at Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center , for the anual Ted Hershey Dance and Music M…
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The long-married duo present an extraordinary evening of music at the Cafe Carlyle, giving fresh interpretations to old standards.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:42AMTony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will launch her new CD Uptown Downtown with a performance as part of the "Live at Barnes & Noble" series at the bookstore's 150 E…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:42AMThe Tony Awards have announced the calendar for the 2011-2012 Tony Award season. As previously announced, the 66th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards ceremony will be held at t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:42AMElaine C. Smith, who will play the role of Susan Boyle in the U.K. tour of I Dreamed a Dream, the new musical about Boyle's life, will be joined by James Paterson and Karen Mann as Pat a…
Linked From Playbill at 09:26AMAn eclectic shortlist has been announced for the fifth annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, with contenders including actor James Corden, composer Stephen Sondheim and maveric…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:26AM“There are sixty nine hundred languages in the world,” according to the linguist George, the central of Julia Cho’s The Language Archive.” Half of them are doomed to disappear in the…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMAs rehearsals get underway in Glasgow for I DREAMED A DREAM, the new musical based on the life story of the global singing sensation Susan Boyle, the producers have released full details of …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMThe 2012 Tony Award Nominations Announcement will take place live from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMHas a Broadway show with the word leap in the title ever opened during a Leap Year Never. To celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime event, the producers of Broadways LEAP OF FAITH will make 29 or…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMAnd now here’s the 16th installment in our Vaudephone series, Solomon the Peculiarist: Vaudephone is a co-production of Travalanche/ the American Vaudeville Theatre, and Vaudevisuals.c…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:08AM
Graham Sheffield, the new director of arts at the British Council, has said that he will make the culture sector central to the organisation's mission once more.
Linked From The Stage at 08:53AMBurgess Clark adapts Aaron Fricke's memoir about a gay teen who sues his high school to take a same-sex date to the senior prom.
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:40AMBaltimore native Wallis Simpson, who famously took on the title Duchess of Windsor when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne for her in 1936, has been a muse for many. The Oscar-winning The…
Linked From citypaper.com at 08:28AMMake/Shift
At Open Space through March 9
More at weekly.citypaper.com
Anyone who has ever braved a Manhattan sample sale knows the etiquette of the social changing room: There are…
Linked From citypaper.com at 08:28AMNick shares his thoughts on the musical of Floyd Collins playing in the very appropriate Vaults at the Southwark Playhouse.
Linked From southwarkplayhouse.co.uk at 08:28AMMaking his stage acting and playwriting debut in the UK, Zach Braff brought his new play All New People to the Duke of York’s Theatre last night (February 29, previews from 22 February 201…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:26AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Tontlawald, Cutting Ball Theater.
By Sam Hurwitt
Cutting Ball cut its teeth (or, I suppose, its ball) on experimental theater, so the only real surprise about t…
Linked From The Idiolect at 08:26AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel recently filmed her first-ever musical special entitled "Barefoot At The Symphony." NY1's Frank DiLella sat down with the leading lady to talk about the concer…
Linked From NY1 at 08:25AMLet me get this straight: the State of Texas gave the producers of The Tree of Life $434,252.79 as a subsidy for them to shoot a single film in Texas. And the NEA annual budget is how much?
Linked From Theatre Ideas at 08:24AMNicholas Christopher and Corey Hawkins in 'Hurt Village.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
It’s an odd coincidence that the two excellent plays about contemporary African-American families t…
Linked From The New York Observer at 08:24AMTyrannical bosses should be more careful about mistreating their employees. Their victims may very well develop into talented playwrights who will later skewer them in viciously funny fashio…
Linked From Scheck on the Arts at 08:24AMWe are planning a reception next month so a few weeks ago we were checking the website of a printer we often use for postcards to get pricing for invitations. The next day I got a call from …
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 08:24AMon CUNY TV: Sat., March 10th at 8:30 PM Sun., March 11th at 12:30 PM and Mon., March 12th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM The Academy Award-winning actor joined us in 2009 to discuss …
Linked From Theater Talk at 08:17AMWe are preempted on Thirteen by the PBS Spring Pledge Drive. We will return to the station Friday, March 23rd. Meanwhile, you can watch us online or on our other member stations in New York:…
Linked From Theater Talk at 08:17AMon CUNY TV: Sat., March 3rd at 8:30 PM Sun., March 4th at 12:30 PM and Mon., March 5th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM We pay tribute to our beloved colleague, the late critic Howard K…
Linked From Theater Talk at 08:17AMCheck out this teaser trailer for Cameron Mackintosh's new UK national tour production of PHANTOM THE OPERA, Andrew Lloyd Webber's phenomenal musical success. It features a glimpse of what w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMAccording to a rumour posted by thesun.co.uk, Andrew Lloyd Webber plans to offer U2's Bono a place on the judging panel of the ITV1 talent hunt show for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMThe finale of “Assistance” is an abused employee’s revenge fantasy: A woman curses out her boss, and then dances defiantly as the office around her self-destructs in spectacular fashio…
Linked From The Faster Times at 08:10AMApartheid was virulent and ignored outside South Africa in 1961 when Athol Fugard wrote “Blood Knot,” launching his international career. The American anti-apartheid movement was in full…
Linked From The Faster Times at 08:10AMAdam Pascal, currently playing Huey Calhoun in the Tony Award-Winning musical Memphis, talks to News 12 about his newest role in the smash hit musical.
Check out the interview here!
Linked From The Hartman Group at 08:04AMDon’t miss last night’s episode of Smash featuring Nick Jonas!
Linked From The Hartman Group at 08:04AMLast night, the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association held it’s Annual General Meeting. At that meeting, a Member’s Resolution was put forward by director, playwright and ind…
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The successful casting of non-singing stars (or at least stars not known for singing) such as Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town, Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady and Richard Burton in…
Linked From The New York Public Library at 07:58AMOpening of the show at the theater formerly known as KodakWhat’s a feminist spectator to make of an awardsshow that honors films that have so little to do with women behind the c…
Linked From The Feminist Spectator at 07:57AMThe Mint Theater, Off Broadway
By Alan J. Miller
BOTTOM LINE: An infrequently revived masterpiece from 1912, ably performed by an outstanding cast.
In 1912, Rutherford & Son, by then…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 07:55AM2012 Frigid Festival, UNDER St. Marks, Off Off Broadway
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: A silly-somber plea for acceptance and understanding, which warms the bearded, tartan cockl…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 07:55AMInspired by NYMag.com’s brilliant Reality Index recaps, Dave (@NineDaves, www.NineDaves.com) and I have teamed up to bring you our take on what’s keepin’ it real and what’s faking it…
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 07:52AMThis week's Off-Broadway Tweet links. . . Robert Hogan as Rutherford …
Linked From Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:46AMKristen Chenoweth, the original star of "Wicked"and currently the star of the ABC comedy "GCB," will play a rare concert performance at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St., on J…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 07:40AMGovernment-commissioned Henley report urges the coalition to continue exceptional financial support for Rada and othersFunding for the country's top drama schools must be protected, accordin…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:31AMLas Vegas Previews March 2012 Program
Las Vegas Previews offers viewers a sneak peek of the hottest shows playing on the Las Vegas Strip! Discover the diverse world of Cirque du Soleil, exp…
Linked From YouTube at 07:29AMBroadway Previews March 2012 Segment I
March is an exciting month as The Broadway Channel® welcomes the return of the ground-breaking Tony nominated rock opera, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. …
Linked From YouTube at 07:29AMOff Broadway March 2012
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Linked From YouTube at 07:29AMZach Braff's Scrubs co-star Donald Faison was among the plethora of celebrity guests at last night's West End premiere of All New People.Braff, who makes his playwriting debut with the play …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:28AMThe Phantom of the Opera UK Tour 2012
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The Phantom of the Opera tours the UK in 2012 - opening in preview TOD…
Linked From YouTube at 07:26AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Hit London musical lays New York plans
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Hyde Pierce, Hall join festival lineup
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The "chief business of the American people is business," as that great sage Calvin Coolidge notoriously said.
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:59AMDirector, Writer, Producer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Art, life, people around me, everything everywhere is fodder for my imagination. What’s your favorite b…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:48AMKathleen Turner doesn’t shy from acknowledging that her devotion to the play High, a harrowing look at the world of addiction, is somewhat rooted in her own battle with alcoholism. “I th…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:30AM1932 - Denis Johnston's drama, The Moon in the Yellow River, opens at the Guild Theatre. Egon Brecher stars as a German electrical engineer caught in the Troubles of rural Ireland.
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMMatthew Lopez's Civil War drama The Whipping Man, featuring Che Ayende, Leon Addison Brown and Josh Landay, officially opens Feb. 29 at Hartford Stage.
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMThe Guthrie Theater's production of Conor McPherson's The Birds officially opens in the Dowling Studio Feb. 29 following previews that began Feb. 25. Henry Wishcamper directs.
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMCAP21 Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From a Midlife Crisis, a new play by Amy Ferris, Ken Ferris and Krista Lyons, beginning Feb. 29, pri…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about the joys and quirks of having kids, opens Feb. 29 following previews from Feb. 8 at the Westside Theatre. Courtney Balan ([ti…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, pianist Rob Berman and 19-year-old ragtime pianist Adam Swanson join singer-pianist Michael Feinstein for the Feb. 29 performance of Standard Time with Micha…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMSierra Boggess and Joyce van Patten lead the final New York cast of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, beginning Feb. 29 at the Westside Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMKathleen Turner reprises her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the three-character play High. Performances play The…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMTony Award winners Phylicia Rashad, Chuck Cooper and Leslie Uggams take part in a sold-out stage adaptation of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God Feb. 29 and March 1 at the…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMThe Off-Broadway encore engagement of Hand to God, Robert Askins' critically acclaimed comedy about a possessed Christian-ministry puppet, begins its five-week run Feb. 29 at the Ensembl…
Linked From Playbill at 12:21AMAaron Carter, who made his Broadway debut as a teenager in Seussical, returns to the New York stage after an 11-year hiatus. Meet the new Matt of Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks.
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