Noël Coward theatre, LondonGoing to Howard Davies's glorious production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever is like being invited to an irregular house party; the relief is that, unlike the hapless…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMDuke of York's, LondonA study of personal discontent, written by and starring the American actor Zach Braff, All New People gets under way with a visual gag about suicide. Silent, delicate, …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMSouthwark Playhouse; Royal Court; Trafalgar Studios, LondonUnder the railway arches of Southwark Playhouse, bare brickwork gives off a damp pong and the dusky tunnels burrow far back. The pl…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMLinbury Studio theatre, LondonCreating repertoire for a chamber ballet company is tricky. How do you ring the changes, given sparse resources and a mere handful of dancers? Ballet Black, now…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMRose theatre, KingstonSo much is established so quickly in Ibsen's 1888 play about free will, female dependence and the ghosts of the past that it takes a particularly strong cast to shoulde…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMIncreasingly shown in 3D, classic stage works including Madam Butterfly are winning new audiencesIf there is a queue around the block leading into the local cinema this month, it might not b…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:57PMStuart Pimsler's company has trips to Germany and China on tap. But first, it performs at home in Minneapolis.
Linked From StarTribune at 07:50PMMarc Maron spent years shocking audiences and alienating other comics. Then he pulled off the riskiest routine of his life.
Linked From StarTribune at 07:50PMTHRILLING HOPELESSNESS Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. – Jeremiah 42:11. In 1964,…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:29PMACTS OF CONSCIENCE All theater is inherently political, in that a story is only as objective as its teller. But some plays go straight to the 24 hour news cycle definition of politics, add…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:29PMRutherford & Son, Time Gone By: Githa Sowerby's 1912 play Rutherford & Son, at the Mint Theatre, shows its age. This is a revival having been presented by the Mint days before the …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:29PMA Play for All Assistance: Maybe because I was never an assistant I can’t relate to Leslye Headland's new satire Assistance. This bitter, whiney revelation in chic Manhattan offices will …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:29PMThe actress will soon star in the West Coast premiere of 'Good People' in a part not unlike the harried mom she played on 'Malcolm in the Middle.'Jane Kaczmarek didn't see Frances McDormand'…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:29PMRated O is for Offensive and Out-Dated: “Rated P for Parenthood” is tasteless and a show I winced through.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:29PMNEW YORK - Director Julie Taymor has hit back at her former creative partners in "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark,"...
Linked From Boston Herald at 07:29PMMike Tyson will make his stage debut next month in Las Vegas with "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth -- Live on Stage." After that, the controversial former heavyweight champ may take his one-man…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:29PMNineteen little boys in purple cassocks make an arresting visual backdrop to Richard Alston's latest work, a setting of Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, itself a setting of some of t…
Linked From The Independent at 07:11PMI got a lot of signals when I was starting out that being a female theatre director wasn't going to be easy It was a constant theme in the 1970s: there were no role models, just a feeling of…
Linked From The Independent at 07:11PMWhen they're not squabbling histrionically, the Bliss family favours lounging around, boho-style. They appear to be living out some kind of artsy, Arcadian fantasy at the start of Hay Fever,…
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For an essay in the magazine on the fiftieth anniversary of the first production of "Death of a Salesman," I visited Arthur Miller at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, in 1999. With his wife…
Linked From The New Yorker Subscription at 03:57PMAs this is his only work which Shakespeare himself titles ‘comedy,’ a company may feel an obligation to elicit laughter. Ironically, this duty can become burdensome.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMJulie Taymor has finally filed a strong counterclaim in US District Court in New York against the producers of “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” explaining her side of the collapse of thei…
Linked From ShowBiz 411 at 03:14PMLa Vie BohèmeRent rises in the Capitalby Jim MurchisonI probably knew less about Rent than most of the audience last night. Oh sure I knew it was set in New York, based on the Pucinni opera…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 03:12PMNosedive's Apocalypse Gala from Pete Boisvert on Vimeo.
Linked From Jamespeak at 03:00PM"If you didn’t make allowances in this family, you’d go nuts.” Those words, spoken by James Tyrone Jr. in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, could probably apply in …
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:00PMFrom the Berlin to the Ontario Philharmonic, from Carnegie to Koerner Hall. This should be my cue to reflect on how the differences are not at vast as all that. But the plucky orchestra from…
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Dustin Lance Black's 8, which had a New York reading a few months back, will test its legs in Los Angeles tonight. Rob Reiner will direct a cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Ke…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 01:58PMLate comic described as 'prime minister of fun' during service attended by Lenny Henry and Dennis Taylor among othersHundreds of people lined the streets of central Belfast to pay tribute to…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:51PMAstro Boy Washington audiences have been flocking to Astro Boy and the God of Comics, the live action retro sci-fi piece about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy and its creator Osamu …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:29PMclick photo to enlarge: The cast of War Horse (Patrick Kwok-Choon kneeling centre)(photo credit: Brinkhoff / Mögenberg)Riding the Horse to HistoryOne of the puppeteers/actors in the country…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 01:11PMThis new column, published every 4-6 weeks, will examine issues of translation as they relate to the field of theater and its intersections with other public and civic sectors. According to …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:06PMWhen the guys behind St. Louis sports-humor blog JoeSportsFan needed $5,000 to start a weekly podcast, they didn't apply for a bank loan or seek investors. They turned to the Internet.
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“American Idiot,” Green Day's celebrated 2004 album, counted among its many artistic assets a perfect cover design: a hand holding a red, heart-shaped grenade. That fusion of rage and ro…
Linked From St. Louis Today at 11:59AMOn Friday night, David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gave the hometown crowd the first hearing of the music they’re taking to Carnegie Hall next weekend.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 11:59AMThe Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University, Northridge has unveiled its 2012-13 season
The "Broadway and American Songs" series includes Kelli O'Hara, N…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:52AMStage veterans Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Zachary Quinto, and Lily Rabe will return as series regulars, along with actor Evan Peters, for the second season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:52AMAward-winning actors Piper Laurie and Amanda Plummer and playwrights John Guare and Martin Sherman will be among the participants at this year's Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:52AMThis month I am simply listing concerts I expect will be great. My pick of the month is the Boston debut of a new Flute, Viola, and Harp trio, starring instrumental superstars Marina Piccini…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 11:35AMJeff Zinn directs this absorbing co-production by New Repertory Theatre and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown as…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMThe long-awaited 50-year survey of the wildly inventive Iain Baxter&, whose seminal works from the late 50s forward inspired many of the best-known artists working today
Linked From Toronto.com at 11:16AMGeorge Clooney, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Chris Colfer, Kevin Bacon, John C. Reilly and Martin Sheen are amoungst the stars that will be featured in tonight's one-night performance of Du…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThis post is one of a series honoring Women’s History Month Today is the birthday of Ada Reeve (1874-1966). Born into a London theatrical family, she began performing in the pantomime…
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When it comes to theater, spring has plenty to offer.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 08:57AMConcerts are popping up like daffodils.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 08:57AMINTERVIEW: STEVE HARPER, PAUL ROBINSON and KAZIA COLE Theatre 503's Literary Manager, Co-Artistic Director and Literary Assistant talk to Sophie Reynolds about Rapid Write Response Nights - …
Linked From Theatre Voice at 08:29AMNY1 VIDEO: NY1's Frank DiLella recently checked in with the creative team behind "35MM", a new multi-media theatrical experience set to debut in Brooklyn on March 7.
Linked From NY1 at 08:29AMHow sets and costumes support the musical’s vision Before it even begins, the musical Carrie emanates dread. The set of MCC’s revival, now at the Lucille Lortel, suggests an empt…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 08:28AMAre critics' knives out for "Carrie"?
Linked From StageGrade at 08:27AMA teenage girl fidgets on a red-sheeted double bed, headphones jammed to her ears, laptop at the ready, her hair covered by a hood. She kicks her bare feet and twitches the duvet in time wit…
Linked From John Morrison at 08:23AMF. Murray Abraham stars in a new off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's classic "Galileo." Brian Kulick, artistic director of the Classic Stage Company and the director of the play, dis…
Linked From National Public Radio at 08:18AMIn the smash hit SISTER ACT, leading lady Patina Miller as Deloris van Cartier belts out the song, “Fabulous, Baby.” But how did Deloris van Cartier become so fabulous? Check o…
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GHOST THE MUSICAL’s leading lady CAISSIE LEVY sat down with Playbill.com to talk about introducing New York audiences to the magic and wonder of GHOST THE MUISCAL, which continue…
Linked From The Hartman Group at 08:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:06AMMCC Theatre's re-invented, off-Broadway version of the musical "Carrie" takes another stab at one of the biggest flops in Broadway history.
Linked From NY1 at 08:03AMMs TN is heading up to Sydney tomorrow to participate in Belvoir St's upcoming Sunday Forum on Reviewing Theatre: In Print and Online. My fellow panelists, moderated by The Chaser's Chris Ta…
Linked From Theatre Notes at 08:02AMSTAR TREK. The Musical! OK, not really, but even Mr. Spock would find fascinating what we dug up in the Billy Rose Theatre Division about the original Star Trek actors before they went …
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2012 Frigid Festival, The Red Room, Off Off Broadway
By Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: Tali Brady’s engaging and witty one-woman show explores Austen’s literary and personal lives.…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 07:59AMYesterday I noticed an interesting question from American Theatre Magazine: Is administration an art? I'm an administrator so, I will speak for myself. 60% of what I do, as a director of mar…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 07:56AMSitting in the rehearsal room whilst Dirty Market works towards its work-in-progress piece is a rollercoaster ride. My presence in the process is a complicated one. The company has been kind…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMFind out how Michael Ball got into theatre and now finds himself dying his eyebrows and hiding his dimples to play Sweeney Todd in the West End.
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMI have always seen each professional engagement in an actor’s career as a new opportunity to learn and develop. What is more creatively fulfilling than immersing oneself entirely in the wo…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMThe production of Julius Caesar staged at the Jack Studio Theatre (at the Brockley Jack) was a visual spectacle. The grungy feel of Rachel Cartlidge’s costumes placed this production outsi…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMFloyd Collins, “the greatest caver ever known”, is trapped 55 feet below the ground, whilst the national media creates a carnival that turns a very personal tragedy into a sensat…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMWho does the PR these days for Middle Eastern extremists? Whoever it is clearly wasn’t on board when the Palestine Liberation Front decided to whack the Achille Lauro. Or wasn’t aware th…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 07:45AMNot long ago, my GF and I took her disabled sister out to dinner in the 'burbs. When we visit, we go to places like Ruby Tuesdays or Bob Chins and I am smacked upside the head by the samene…
Linked From Don Hall at 07:45AMRISE ABOVE THEATRE MOVEMENT HANDLES THE TRUTH Just three years after Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men (1989) was produced on Broadway, the play’s popularity was eclipsed by the film…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:40AMThinking of a show's next move is the job of Broadway director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall, whose hit production of "Anything Goes" won the 2011 Tony Award for best musical revival. Her …
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:40AMA STRANGE MIXTURE OF BELLY-LAUGH FARCE AND POLITICAL INTRIGUE The North Plan at Theater Wit is either a farce with dark political conspiracy overtones or a political conspiracy drama played …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:40AMTaymor's lawyers claim in the document that producers "fraudulently induced" her to continue working on the musical even though they were "secretly conspiring to oust Taymor and use and chan…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:40AMThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Joshua Park and Kristen Bell of the original Broadway production perform 'To Hear You Say My Name' at the Rosie O'Donnell Show.
No copyright infrin…
Linked From YouTube at 07:37AMFalsettos
The original Broadway company perform 'Falsettoland', 'My Father's A Homo', and 'Sitting Watching Jason Play Baseball' at the Tony Awards.
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Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy plus the original Broadway cast in this promotional video.
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Eden Espinosa leads the original Broadway company in a performance of 'Once Upon A Time' at the Today Show.
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Linked From YouTube at 07:37AMBroadway on Tour March 2012
New to Broadway on Tour is the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of the legendary musician, FELA! A new musical comedy is about to step up its game, BRI…
Linked From YouTube at 07:28AMBroadway Backwards 7: Advocate.com Interview
Broadway Backwards 7 is not just another night on Broadway. It's the only annual Broadway event custom-made for the gay and lesbian communit…
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMBPV: Anna Celenza on Beethoven's move to Vienna (1792)
As a part of 'The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna' celebration, we invite you to take a minute and explore the histo…
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMBPV: Saul Lilienstein on the first Prague performance of Janáček's Jenůfa (1916)
As a part of 'The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna' celebration, we invite…
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMBPV: Anna Celenza on Dvořák becoming director of the New York Conservatory (1891)
As a part of 'The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna' celebration, we invite you to …
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMBPV: The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna
As a part of 'The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna' celebration, we invite you to take a minute and explore the history, arts, an…
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMBPV: Béla Gedeon on Ernő Rubik and the Rubik's Cube (1975)
As a part of 'The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna' celebration, we invite you to take a minute and e…
Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMWar Horse Toronto Opening Night
War Horse Toronto had its opening night on February 28, 2012. With a star-studded red carpet, the show won the hearts of audiences and critics alike.
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Linked From YouTube at 07:23AMWar Horse Toronto
This powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a production of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-sized p…
Linked From YouTube at 07:23AMTHE LION KING: On Sale in Miami
On February 11, 2012, tickets went on sale for the Miami engagement of THE LION KING at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
Performances bein…
Linked From YouTube at 07:23AMMeet the Newsies: Jack Kelly
Meet Jeremy Jordan, playing Jack Kelly in Disney's newest Broadway production, NEWSIES.
Visit http://www.newsiesthemusical.com for ticket and performance i…
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BE SURE TO ALSO VOTE IN THE BRAND NEW MONTHLY POLL - TO YOUR LEFT!With their most recent show, Lysistrata Jones, much in the news lately - a reunion concert and cast recording are …
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:48AMDirector, Producer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? This question asks us what sparks that creative flame which kindles the passion to make theater. So much inspirat…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:45AMIn the sense that economics are the root cause, observers might group The Promethean Theatre’s imminent closing with the high profile problems plaguing other South Florida theaters during …
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:41AM1930 Bert Lahr is a Flying High mechanic who breaks an aeronautical record because he doesn't know how to land the plane. The writing team of DeSylva,Brown and Henderson provide the lyri…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMThe Los Angeles reading of Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black's 8, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch, is presented March 3 at the Wilshire Ebell Theate…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMThe Goodman Theatre presents Tennessee Williams' Camino Real in a re-imagined adaptation by Calixto Bieito and Marc Rosich, beginning March 3, prior to an official opening March 12, at G…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMIn the new NBC musical series "Smash," Megan Hilty stars as Ivy Lynn, a veteran Broadway chorus girl hungry to break out of the rank and file of the ensemble and nab the spotlight …
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AM"Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony," which was filmed in November 2011 in Toronto, begins airing on PBS stations around the country March 3; check local listings. In the …
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMTony-winning director John Doyle lends his actor-musician touch to Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, which begins performances March 3 at the Cincinnati Playhous…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMPlaybill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Feb. 19–26, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that George Clooney and Martin Sheen bring 8 home… Kevin Spacey redefines "March Madness"… BC/EFA bends Broadway "B…
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMThe annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women and women singing tunes written for men —will be presented March 5 at …
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMTickets for Broadway engagement of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, a play about race and real estate, will be available to the general public starting March 3.
Linked From Playbill at 12:18AMSomething old, something new: reviews of Jack Tworkov, one of the seminal gang of Abstract Expressionists who rejected their commercialized fame, at Barbara Edwards Contemporary; and the asc…
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:06AMMary Walsh is lying in her bed in Newfoundland, not happy about the fact that a bout of bronchitis has kept her on the Rock when she's supposed to be in Toronto for rehearsals of her latest …
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