Tug Coker wears short shorts as Larry Bird in Magic/Bird.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 08:45PMOn Twitter Watch, Russell Crowe wrote russellcrowe At last--a good picture of you as Javert and a close-up look at Gymont. Leaves of Russell Crowe httpbit.lyyp9lAl
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMDon't wait for my review, that won't happen for a few days. But get tickets to Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (video above, with LePage himself performing), which plays this week…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:27PMA Wednesday concert will effectively launch a new era for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where conductor and organist Kent Tritle has revived the Great Music in a Great Space m…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:22PMIt seems Mike Daisey was also reflecting on the Chris Hayes piece I linked to this morning. He has now posted some thoughts on his own website. Here are just some of them:And I would l…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 08:02PMPREVIEW: "faith" presented by Culture Project's Women Center Stage 2012 Festival
Co-presented by Poetic Theater Productions
April 3 at 8:30pm & April 4 at 7pm. Off-Broadway at The Living …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:00PM
Have you ever wanted to know what REALLY happens when a Broadway show goes on tour? No, I’m not talking about what kind of reviews they get or if audiences show up to see a scandalous …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 07:58PMSightly tweaked to update the content for modern audiences, *An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein* is a fun diversion for the beginning of an adult night on the town. Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:56PMDance review: Toronto’s Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie performs Varenka, Varenka! — It speaks to the heart without a hint of irony or cynicism.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:44PMOn Twitter, Audra McDonald, who currently stars in Broadway's Porgy and Bess posted this photo and had this to say AudraEqualityMc
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:34PMOn Twitter, Audra McDonald, who currently stars in Broadway's Porgy and Bess posted this photo and had this to say AudraEqualityMc
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:34PMAna Reeder, Jeanine SerrallesPhoto: Carol RoseggIn Jean Genet's intense one-act, The Maids, Claire and Solange are in service to a frivolous woman who treats them with a false bonhomie; she …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:29PMTerry Riley is a composer and performer with a taste for understatement.Halfway through a piano recital the great American composer and pianist gave on Friday night as part of San Francisco'…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:12PM
Performers at the Chocolate Factory, in a sea of tennis balls, animate David Foster Wallace’s brilliant, funny, self-conscious writer’s voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMA revival of “Lost in Yonkers” at the Beckett Theater is warmly satisfying, with a depth of character, humanity and personal investment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMI continue to be amazed by purists who seem to think that any changes to Porgy and Bess represent nothing less than sacrilege. Of course, it started with Stephen Sondheim's now-infamous scre…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 05:01PMThe National Theatre is offering an exclusive opportunity for Entry Pass members aged 16 to 25 to participate in a storytelling course inspired by the production of Inua Ellams’ Black …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00PM
My first real writing in the wake of all this, where I try to make an accounting for what I've done.
SOURCE: Mike Daisey at 03:49PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Michael Mauldin, Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Cleveland State University / Allen Theater Complex, Peter an…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:33PMRobert de Michiell, an illustrator, and Jeffrey Michael Wilson, a theatrical general manager, are to be married Sunday evening in the lobby of the Al Hirschfeld Theater in New York. The thea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMFriday night took us to Exit Art for the opening of their final exhibit, Saturday night took us to see David Neumann's "Restless Eye" at NYLA, and Sunday we finally found some time to write …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:30PMWHEN Mike Nichols had his dazzling comedy act with Elaine May, one of their sketches began with a Jewish mother calling her son and saying, “Hello, this is your mother, do you remember me?…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:28PM
Write Local, Produce Local By Chad Jones on Theatre Bay Area’s website: You don’t have to look hard to find champions of new plays in the Bay Area. But you may have to look a little …
SOURCE: direct address at 02:23PMPlaybill from Mike Daisey's showat The Public TheaterPhoto by Esther at Gratuitous ViolinsIt has been over a week since the revelation that Mike Daisey fabricated and embellished some key in…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:18PMRobert Quillen Camp
Hometown: NYC
Current Town: Santa Barbara, CA
Q: Tell me about All Hands.
A: All Hands, my collaboration with Alec Duffy’s Hoi Polloi compan…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 02:06PMTHE TORTILLA CURTAIN RISES TO BIG APPLAUSE A frequently-used device in plot is to create two or more distinctively different characters and see how they function once they are thrown togethe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PM
Legit Reviews||Abroad:
Among the credits for the new production of "Filumena," a 1946 comedy by Eduardo de Filippo, an "Italian consultant" is listed but heaven only knows what …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:39PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Pioneering physical theater company Complicite is working at new levels of complexity and sophistication in this multimedia adaptation of Bulgakov's celeb…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMAs I arrive, things in the Walter Kerr Theatre seem fairly at ease. The team is joking and bantering across the house, and the actors mill about comfortably. But, work is happening fervently…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMEurope’s economic problems, and the austerity programs meant to address them, are forcing arts institutions there to curtail programs, tours and grants.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMWe’re back! With another blog from my friend on tour. Hope you’re enjoying the secret look into tour life so far. Read on for more “confessions.” I should prob…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 01:00PM
This week, it's WICKED and HAIRSPRAY alum Shoshana Bean, who was just back in New York City from her current home on the West Coast. She recently sat down with Richard to reminisce about her…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMThe 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards were held last night, March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square and Glees Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera hosted the event. Check out photos from t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMThis revival of Patrick Marber's play, updated from the Strindberg original, is a potent exploration of a frenzied night, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:39AMThis revival of Patrick Marber’s play, updated from the Strindberg original, is a potent exploration of a frenzied night
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:39AMThis programme from English National Ballet's brief season would have delighted Diaghilev, the man who inspired it, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:38AMThis programme from English National Ballet’s brief season would have delighted Diaghilev, the man who inspired it, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:38AMThe 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards were held last night, March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square and were streamed live online. Footage of the red carpet and ceremony are availab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMOf the 40-student cast and crew, nearly half have a friend or family member in the military. So if ever there was a time and place to reimagine Shakespeare's Macbeth as a tragedy of modern w…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:29AMSometimes there are those characters in a movie or play that you wish could be extracted from the clutter around them and given their own showcase piece. Such is the case with the characters…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:05AMLAST CHANCE TO ENTER TO WIN TICKETS TO LEAP OF FAITH!LAST CHANCE TO CAST YOUR VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL!AND VOTE IN ROUND 9 OF HOT/HOTTER: CARRIE CUTIES!With the press machines of all the ne…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:05AMBill Coyne and Jody Cook in L'IL ABNER (Photo: Michael Portantiere)
Based on the Al Capp comic strip of the same title, and featuring a terrific score by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, …
SOURCE: artsamerica.org at 10:01AMGlyn Maxwell's version of the Greek myth has some powerful ideas of violence, undercut by dull poetry.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Legit News:
Actor joins "Godspell" revival in April
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39AMFunny Man Bob Greenberg is producing and hosting a benefit for the historic Actor’s Temple tonight. (Historic? The stars above were all members!) Joining him on the bill tonight: Deb…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:26AMStarting today through April 15, the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will be running regular screenings of classic Three Stooges shorts. For the full schedule go here.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:21AMThe Fuse's man in Europe is a museum junkie. During the second half of 2011, he got to lots of new destinations, and he found new museums almost everywhere he went. This installment is about…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMLooking At New Works For 2012-13We're use to late summer announcements from Hartford's TheaterWorks f or its new seasons.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:01AMConstellation Theatre Company is one of Washington, DC’s under-the-radar wonders. Founded in 2007, the theater company, in its intimate space at Source, has quietly been doing the big thin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
1. “Lost in Yonkers” (Beckett Theatre) Neil Simon revival finds an Off-Broadway home.
(Venues at FathomEvents.com)
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMJeremy Jordan was a kid when he first saw the big-screen version of “Newsies.”
And he’s been obsessed ever since with the Disney musical about ragtag newsboys waging a strike…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMProducers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced that the award-winning musical MARY POPPINS will perform at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMThe long-running Off Broadway favorite Love, Loss, and What I Wore will close tonight, Sunday, March 25, 2012 after playing for two and a half years and 1,013 performances. March 15th marked…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AM
I posted this on my other blog, but since it involved Halcyon Theatre, I am posting the link here.
Derrick's other blog
The short version is this: I am pledging to lose 15 pounds in 7 week…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:33AMA delightful and engagingly “humble” young boy by the name of Ethan Bortnick, just eleven years old, headlined a concert at The Music Center at Strathmore on Friday, March 23, 2012. He i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15AMNearly a year after work started, lawyer-developer Jeff Rotwitt's Sun Center Studios, built in Chester Township with $50 million from banks, investors and taxpayer financing, is frantic with…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:05AMFrom left: Cara Ricketts, Graham Abbey, Geraint Wyn Davies (Andrew Eccles photo)Occasionally I come up for airTime is probably the most important and scarcest resource in Canadian theat…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMFull of Fire and HopeA journey, cultural dislocation and a playby Matthew Mackenzie (photos courtesy of Matthew Mackenzie)In the fall of 2003 I flew from Alberta to West Africa, with a brief…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe Dame (photo courtesy Barry Humphries)Good-bye, PossumsBugs revisits Oz, the land that gave audiences worldwide Tony Award-winning drag icon Dame Edna, now retiring 57 years after her sta…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMYou Can't Have a Bad Day in a TutuSo what’s a broke-ass, nomadic Fringe fatshionista to do? by Cameryn MooreHow cold does it get in Nashville in November? How wet does it get in Edinb…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMShow Mark's 100th Anniversary Of Ship's Sinking Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageRyan Driscoll is returning to familiar territor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMMike Nichols' new production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is thrilling, insightful, and revelatory. It's an expensive ticket, but it's nonetheless my top recommendation for anyone …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMLi'l Abner, a musical based on the comic strip characters created by Al Capp that was a hit in 1956, is being given a cute dust-off by Musicals Tonight!, Mel Miller's off-off-Broadway siblin…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe writers-actors of Broadway's cult-favorite meta-musical [title of show] draw on their life stories for a new song-filled comedy that asks The Big Questions. Heidi, Hunter, Susan and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRising Phoenix Repertory presents favorites, a new play by Charlotte Miller, as part of the company's Cino Nights series March 25 at the Seventh Street Small Stage in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLove, Loss, and What I Wore, Nora and Delia Ephron's long-running Off-Broadway production that features a rotating cast of notable women, ends its run March 25 at the Westside Theatre. U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column discusses the original cast recording of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's Once, the new Dublin-set Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective presents a one-night-only staged reading of Larry Grossman's 1975 musical Goodtime Charley March 25 at the Joria Productions Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
