“Mr. Broadway” is a posthumously published memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld, one of the engines of the Shubert Organization for decades.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMNew seasons at Geffen and Pasadena playhouses, with Lynn Nottage plays at both...New seasons for Laguna Playhouse and Musical Theatre Guild...a 20th anniversary production of Anna Deavere Sm…
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Linked From New York Magazine at 06:44PMAcross the street from a scrap yard, Arsenale Toronto is bringing the Montreal art world to the city in a unique setting.
Linked From Toronto.com at 06:43PMThe previously announced musical American Psycho, featuring music and lyrics by two-time Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will premiere at London’s …
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:31PM6 Characters in Search of a Director, a new play from writer/director Steven Berkoff will play the West End's Charing Cross Theatre. Performances begin May 16, with opening night set for…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:31PMThe London laugh riot One Man, Two Guvnors made its Broadway bow on April 18, and the company of this National Theatre comedy hit is obviously overjoyed to be sharing their show with New Yor…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:31PM“The Bachelors’ Tea Party,” a unique amalgamation of a five-course afternoon tea service and a historical comedy, is more filling than fulfilling.
Linked From Backstage at 06:25PMMeredith Willson's The Music Man starring the Kate Baldwin as Marian and Burke Moses as Harold Hill, plays Washington DC's Arena Stage May 11-July 22.
Linked From Playbill at 06:24PMInteractivity is so much the rage these days both in journalism and in the arts that it's starting to make things like the business of going to see a traditional play or ballet look really o…
Linked From Chloe Veltman at 06:14PMJujamcyn Theaters Jordan Roth, President and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced the judges and guest performers for the 4th Annual August Wi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMLynda Carter, TV's legendary Wonder Woman, returns to the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA, on April 19, 20, and 21 with Body amp Soul, her dynamic new show featuring her unique take on c…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMAndreas Mitisek, Artistic and General Director of Long Beach Opera, will interview Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang on Saturday, May 5 at 4pm, at the Los Angeles County Museum…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:03PMAndree Bernard, Sarah Chamberlain, Ruth Everett, Neil Stuke, Paul Trussel, and Philip Voss will star in Steven Berkoff's new play 6 Characters in Search of a Director, to play London&ap…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:03PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming will be honored at Live Out Loud's 11th annual Young Trailblazers Gala, to be held at The TimesCenter on Monday, April 30 beginning at 6pm. Tony winner B.…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:03PMPhylicia Rashad and her daughter Condola RashadGem of the Ocean as part of the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, to be held at the August Wilson Theatre on Monday, May 7 at 7pm…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:03PMThe 2012 BBC Proms will present over 90 concerts, July 13-September 8.
Highlights of the series, which focuses on classical music, include a semi-staged production of My Fair Lady starring …
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 19, 2012 Breaking news: Jake Gyllenhaal to Make American Stage Debut at Roundabout ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by PATRICK HEALY A play …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:58PMGordon Lightfoot talks about his songs Early Morning Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, Canadian Railroad Trilogy and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Linked From Toronto.com at 05:42PMWhat’s it like to dance with a total stranger, night after night?
Linked From Toronto.com at 05:42PMActress Featured In Premiere Of Will Eno's 'The Realistic Joneses' Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageParker Posey has me dazed a…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 05:38PMLegit News:
Osnes, Fontana set for fairy tale musical
Linked From Variety at 05:38PMOver the years, "The Simpsons"on Fox has engaged a few Broadway talents in guest spots -- Stephen Sondheim, David Mamet and Mandy Patinkin all have put it vocal cameos. The series even paid …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:32PMIn Ghost The Musical, inspired by the hit film that starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, hunky Sam returns from the great beyond (with a little help from accidental medium…
Linked From Playbill at 05:30PMAfter watching the award-winning 1997 S. R. Bindler documentary about the endurance contest in which entrants must keep one hand on the surface of a vehicle at all times in order to win a br…
Linked From Playbill at 05:30PMOn April 19, 1945, New York audiences watched Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan kiss under a blossomed bower for the first time when the original Broadway production of Carousel opened at the M…
Linked From Playbill at 05:23PMTony Award-winning actress Beth Leavel will star in the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma production of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam this July.
Linked From Playbill at 05:23PMYoung artisans look to this weekend's big American Craft Council show for a career boost.
Linked From StarTribune at 05:16PMHailing from the UK and having not been born when most of the events of this play take place, I entered "Magic/Bird", a new play by Eric Simonson, knowing next to nothing about what was to f…
Linked From The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:08PMLocal news and views.
Linked From StarTribune at 05:05PMThis time it's Broadway's new It Boy Josh Young, who is wowing fans and critics alike as Judas in the new revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. During their chat, Young got candid about his ph…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMUzo Aduba, Adam Halpin, Morgan James, Chad Kimball, Kenita Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, and Jeremy Schonfeld will be among the performers for the benefit concert, The Bridge: Where Hope an…
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So when’s the last time you took a good look at WORKING? The script and score for the musical that opened on Broadway more than a third-of-a-century ago keeps getting facelifts. The newest…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 04:57PMOn Monday, a colleague stopped by who'd seen "Angels in America." He wanted to talk about Larry Yando's performance as Roy Cohn in the epic drama by Tony Kushner, now playing at the Court Th…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:54PMKERRY REID reviews "Enfrascada (A Hoodoo Comedy of Jarring Proportions)" at 16th Street Theater ★★★ and "The Improv Play" for InFusion Theatre Company ★★★…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:54PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
"Encores: After the Theatre and Other Stories": Piven Theatre's founding matriarch directs an evening of short works by Anton Chekhov, ada…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:54PMI’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “OOPS! You got out-classed by Carrie White.” I’m talking to you, Bono. Befo…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 04:52PMNOMINATE A YOUNG LEADER OF COLOR TO ATTEND TCG’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON! DEADLINE: TUESDAY MAY 1, 2012 Since 2006, we have gathered groups of young theatre professionals of color fr…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 04:44PMby: Sandi Durell It’s a rare happening that a show can celebrate 25 years of sleuthing mystery as the longest running show on or off-Broadway, and celebrate it did, at the Snapple Thea…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 04:43PMThe Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre season continues with a production of "Pride and Prejudice," an adaptation by Jon Jory of the classic Jane Austen novel. Performances begin Thursday at the …
Linked From The Kansas City Star at 04:43PMOn today’s show: Director Mike Nichols and actress Linda Emond discuss the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Lynn Sherr talks about why we swim and wh…
Linked From WNYC at 04:43PMIt's Bev Sheehan's show, and it's a hit.
Linked From NJ.com at 04:43PMDavid Rooney James Corden stars in Richard Bean's riotous reinvention of the commedia dell'arte classic, "The Servant of Two Masters," which transfers to Broadway in Nicholas Hytner's smash-…
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 04:43PMBroadway Hunger Games Semi-Finals
We're down to only 6 Tributes! This is the semi-finals. After this there will be only threeee remaining. Here is Scott Alan, our Game Maker, to give yo…
Linked From YouTube at 04:40PMLegit News:
Melissa Errico also joins Off Broadway cast
Linked From Variety at 04:36PMKathie Lee Gifford is the latest celebrity to take in Tracie Bennett’s powerhouse performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow. The stage-loving Today Show host enjoyed hearing Be…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:29PMMelissa Errico, who was acclaimed for her performance as Dot in the 2002 Kennedy Center staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, will take on her fi…
Linked From Playbill at 04:21PM"The National Memorial Day Concert" will air on PBS May 27 at 8 PM live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
Linked From Playbill at 04:21PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean's fresh take on an Italian classic.
Linked From Playbill at 04:21PM92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists will present Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noël & Cole, A Battle of Wits, featuring the songs of Cole Porter and Noël Coward, May 5-…
Linked From Playbill at 04:21PMThis compelling revival breathes new life into the Arthur Miller classic with its unflinching empathy for its conflicted characters.
Linked From Theater News Online at 04:18PMI’ve been hearing lots of ideas and theories lately, well, I hear lots of ideas and theories all the time. One interesting thing I’ve come across in advocacy work recently has been the i…
Linked From Collective Leverage at 04:03PMPopsugar.com has revealed a sneak peek look at Anne Hathaway on the set of the Les Miserables film in London Hathaway is playing the troubled Fantine in the film, which is set for a Decembe…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMPageant, the Musical will have industry readings presented by Shea Sullivan May 1st in New York under the direction of Christopher Gattelli. Conceived by Robert Longbottom, book and lyrics b…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston will present Avenue Q, May 11-June 9. The show has music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, and a book by Jeff Whitty. Spiro Veloudos will direct.
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Linked From TheaterMania at 04:01PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced the celebrity presenters, judges, and participants who will take part in the 26th annual Easter Bonnet Competition, to be held Monday, April 2…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:01PMAshley Brown, Carole J. Bufford, Scott Coulter, Maya Days, Bob Stillman, and Lari White will be among the performers for The Broadway Musicals of 1975, to be held at The Town Hall on Monday,…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:01PMNBC has released a video from the April 23 episode of its hit series Smash featuring star Megan Hilty singing "Secondhand White Grand," a new song by Tony Award-winners Marc Shaima…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:01PMFOX has released a video of Broadway veteran Lea Michele and Glee stars Chris Colfer, Naya Rivera, and Amber Riley performing Whitney Houston's hit "How Will I Know" on the sh…
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Laid off from his LAUSD teaching job while struggling to complete a play, Alan Aymie responded by writing another play, a solo dealing with educational issues. He also found his experiences …
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 03:54PMBlackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, HSL, recently supplied lighting equipment and LED screens to the first production tour of one of the UK's newest boy bands, One Direction…
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMRycote, the Gloucestershire-based manufacturer of microphone windshields and shockmount systems, has scheduled another of its open days.
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMThe Association of British Theatre Technicians and the Stage Management Association held this spring's open Production Managers Forum meeting at the PLASA Focus trade show, Leeds, on April 1…
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMI read with interest your articles on West End ticket prices (April 12).
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMYour West End ticketing special (April 12) made very interesting reading and throws light on the problems that affects London theatregoers. I have often been lucky with day tickets but, if y…
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMI was shocked to see the range of booking fees applied (April 12).
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMAs the breakfast DJ on the first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, Tom Lodge helped to change the way in which rock music was broadcast in Britain.
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMAfter reading your article on 'legal ticket touting' (page 2, March 29), I can suggest a solution to the problem.
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMI was interested to read Tony Smith's letter regarding Gypsy at Leicester's Curve (April 12).
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMTabard has always felt there is something missing from the Olivier Awards, and this week it finally became clear what that something is.
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMFrom one Chicago to another now as we take you on a whirlwind adventure to that toddlin' town (a Frank Sinatra reference - if you didn't get it, shame on you). This month the mayor of the Am…
Linked From The Stage at 03:51PMRegular readers of this blog will know already just how much I bang on about the high cost of theatre tickets and the sorts of ways, both devious and more transparent, that theatre producers…
Linked From The Stage at 03:50PMMore pictures are being leaked from the Les Mis movie. We've seen pictures of the men, and now it's time for the ladies. First up is Fantine played by Anne Hathaway. If you look closely, Ms.…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 03:48PMNeema Bickersteth as Adeline and Starr Domingue as Vonzia in the 2011 run at the LSPU Hall (St. John's, NL) ACT I ProblemsOil and Water takes its timeby Beat RiceI am instantly curious …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 03:48PMStep right up folks! Be among the first to discover Amaluna, the matriarchal circus partially inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, wherein 75% of the 52 performers are women and a specta…
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:47PMTo its CEO Daniel Lamarre, the Cirque du Soleil is still just a modest Quebec enterprise that somehow manages to survive in spite of all odds — and tsunamis.
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:47PM"Sea Marks," "The Mill," "Julius Caesar" and "Deal! The Musical."
Linked From StarTribune at 03:41PMJudy Kuhn will play Fosca opposite Melissa Errico as Clara in the Classic Stage Company's coming revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical drama.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:41PMRoundabout Theatre Company’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, by Nick Payne, will star Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhall in his US stage debut. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the producti…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 03:40PMA singer's grooming is more than hair, clothes and makeup.
Linked From StarTribune at 03:35PMThis is a maddening play, and not in a good way, either.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 03:30PMOn April 12, 2012, Groupon announced that its GrouponLive website would be launching "G-Pass," a new feature that will allow users to bypass box office and will call lines.
Groupon, the onli…
Linked From Ticket News at 03:30PMIn March, the Washington Post's chief theater critic, Peter Marks, lamented that the 2012-2013 seasons of several large D.C.-area companies—among them Signature Theatre, the Kennedy Ce…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 03:30PMONE HIT, TWO GUVNORS Once upon a time, you could attend theatre by Americans and watch actors who had worked together for decades. Long rehearsal periods to explore classical texts were co…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 03:30PMSECOND CITY KNOWS EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE Second City calls its 100th mainstage revue Who Do We Think We Are? The question is rhetorical. For more than half a century, Second City has been the …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 03:30PMGET THEE TO BEING SHAKESPEARE There’s simply no other way to encourage your attendance to Being Shakespeare than to submit my unequivocal good word. Those who fret at comprehending Shakesp…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 03:30PMA British comedy that was the fastest selling ticket in the history of London's West End opens on Broadway tonight with its original cast. As Jeff Lunden reports, One Man, Two Guvnors is ful…
Linked From National Public Radio at 03:30PMJake Gyllenhaal will make his American stage debut this summer Off-Broadway in “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” the Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Thursday.
Linked From New York Daily News at 03:30PMAfter huge budget cuts and a damaging labor fight, City Opera is on track this season to balance its budget for the first time since 2000.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 03:30PMReviewers were tripping over each other to find superlatives to praise Corden's hilarious performance
Linked From Daily Mail at 03:30PMBuoyed by a ship-shape cast, the Colony Theatre Company’s “Dames at Sea” revival broadsides the 1930s movie musicals of Busby Berkeley with tongue firmly in cheek. It&rsquo…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:30PMComedian Lisa Lampanelli is best known for her foul-mouthed insults on Comedy Central's Friars Club Roasts, but the raunchy comedienne is determined to show the softer aspects of he…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMGlee will pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston on the series April 24 episode titled, “Dance With Somebody.” Just as the show has previously honored Madonna and Lady Gaga, the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMNick Jonas (How to Succeed), Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess) and Eric McCormack (The Best Man) are among the presenters set to appear at the 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Eas…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMEven superheroes deserve a birthday celebration! On April 18, Reeve Carney, the title star of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, took a break from saving the world when his Broadway co-stars sta…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMPublished in 1940, the title of a Thomas Wolfe novel suggests “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But perhaps you can. It was a homecoming of sorts at the recent 10th anniversary Tommy Tune Awa…
Linked From thepeoplescritic.com at 03:29PMTony Award nominee Felicia Fields, Lillian Castro and Michael Lindner star in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, which officially opens April 19 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook …
Linked From Playbill at 03:22PMBob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan are a father and son grappling with their past, present and uncertain future in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and …
Linked From Playbill at 03:22PMStockard Channing, Judith Light, Nick Jonas, Nina Arianda, Hugh Dancy, Lisa Lampanelli and Corbin Bleu are among the celebrities who will appear at the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition …
Linked From Playbill at 03:22PMThe Town Hall's Broadway by the Year concert series will continue May 14 at 8 PM with The Broadway Musicals of 1975.
Linked From Playbill at 03:22PMThe line-up of presenters, judges, and participants for the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition will include a four-time Tony Award winner, eight Tony Award nominees and more than 200 of B…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:21PMWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank teacher Beth Morrison and Burbank PTA Council President Barbara Miller will be honored by the Burbank Arts for All Foundation at the inaugural gala e…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 03:20PMI’m often asked, “Where shall we go for brunch?” “It depends,” I evasively respond, clueless as to your expectations. Prefer outdoors, indoors or lavish buffet? Quick and cheap or …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMJenniferBowen’s solo show BURNING DOWN TO HEAVEN, about the poet Anne Sexton,was produced at The Marsh Theater and Venue 9 in San Francisco and premiered inNew York City at Women's Center …
Linked From Visible Soul at 03:13PMMarta Rainer(writer/performer) has performed her solo show Unaccustomed to My NameOff-Broadway, across the US and internationally since 2001 – including beingthe first American invited to …
Linked From Visible Soul at 03:13PMConversations with an Executioner, adapted by Philip Boehm, continues through April 29, 2012, at the Kranzberg Center's black box theater.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 03:07PMLegit News:
Musical take on Bret Easton Ellis novel to bow in U.K.
Linked From Variety at 03:06PMWembley Arena, London: After seven series, ITV1's Dancing On Ice is probably not at the peak of its popularity, but there is still enough interest to sustain an arena tour, giving audie…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMNational, London: Cillian Murphy came to prominence when Enda Walsh cast him as the teenage tearaway Pig in his 1996 breakthrough play Disco Pigs. A decade and a half later, Murphy's pe…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMThe Brewery, Bristol: There is much fun to be had in this ludicrously hammy Victorian spoof concerning an allegedly gifted medium who travels the country with her two sisters showing off her…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMCriterion, London: With quite a few of this year's Mountview BA MT graduates already agent-signed and rehearsing for professional work, this showcase intrigues with promise right from t…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMBroadway Studios, London: This early trio of short plays from Barrie Keeffe examines a microcosm of dissatisfied youth in south London in the mid 70s. Brimming with all the angst of any youn…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne: Alan Plater's celebrated 1968 play of the North East miner's struggle was based on stories by his friend and mentor Sid Chaplin. The play has b…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMEastgate Theatre, Peebles: Ed Robson has created a fine new touring version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic yarn for Cumbernauld Theatre.
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Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMJacksons Lane, London: With their thrilling hand-to-hand number, Lauren Hendry and Kaveh Rahnama were two of 2007's outstanding Circus Space graduates. But their first show, The Hot Dot…
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMCharing Cross Theatre, London: I didn't have the best of times watching a new musical version of A Tale of Two Cities, but I also didn't have the worst. Perhaps this Dickens story …
Linked From The Stage at 03:05PMRed Bull Theater has announced additional casting details for its upcoming Monday night reading series.
The series will continue Monday, April 30 with Phil Massinger's The Renegado, fe…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:01PMThe Pushcart Players will celebrate its 38th anniversary with a fundraising event, to be held Sunday, June 3 at the Montclair Art Museum.
Titled A Royal Celebration, the afternoon will feat…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:01PMCast members from Broadway's Godspell will perform a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS entitled Godspell Sings Stephen Schwartz at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, May …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:01PMTony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will headline McCarter Theatre Center's Annual Benefit Gala, to be held Saturday, May 5.
Neuwirth is currently starring in Classic Stage Company's …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:01PMThis week, TheaterMania reports on Viola Davis receiving the Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement, Liza Minnelli receiving the the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award, Kevin Kline and Mer…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:01PMThe line-up of presenters, judges, and participants for the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition will include a four-time Tony Award winner, eight Tony Award nominees and more than 200 of B…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMJosh Young, who is starring as 'Judas' in Broadway's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR after originating the role in both the Startford and La Jolla productions of the show, visited Bravo's 'Watch What…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMThe Town Halls 123 West 43rd Street critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year's 12th Season continues with The Broadway Musicals of 1975 on Monday, May 14th at 8PM. 1975 was a year that brou…
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Arts Advocacy Day 2012 was a great day for the arts on Capitol Hill. TCG participated as a National Co-Sponsor as we have for many years. Joining TCG staff for Hill visits was a seasoned and…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 02:43PMMagic Mike - Official Trailer 2012 - Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey (HD)
The official trailer for Magic Mike in HD starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Mat…
Linked From YouTube at 02:42PMRobert Chafe tells an uplifting story of a shipwreck, a rescue, and open-hearted enlightenment set against the backdrop of the civil-rights struggle
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 02:35PMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now celebrating its 3rd electrifying year in New York and over 300 performances at New World Stages, will celebrate national “Record Store Day” wi…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:34PMIt's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? …
Linked From Denver Post at 02:33PMAll aboard! On a journey to discover the Neverland you never knew, Christian Borle, Adam Chanler-Berat and Celia Keenan-Bolger are moving full steam ahead in the whimsical play Peter and the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:29PMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn and Tony nominee Melissa Errico are set to star in Classic Stage Company's previously announced revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's …
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:29PMBroadway was (prat)falling all over itself on April 18 to welcome the sight gags and slamming doors of British slapstick sensation One Man, Two Guvnors to the Music Box Theatre on opening ni…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:29PM"An Accident of Hope" is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:28PMOh my, my, my. There is Joy in Mudville once again. And more than that, there are moments in this play that are so funny you don’t just laugh, you bark. There are a few things at which …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 02:21PMThe free Broadway's Future concert series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul (in association with N and N Productions ) — continued April 16 in the Bruno Walter Audi…
Linked From Playbill at 02:20PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley, who was last seen Off-Broadway in Wild Animals You Should Know, has released a new music video entitled "Beautiful Eyes."
Linked From Playbill at 02:20PMCasting has been announced for the Alley Theatre production of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against, a new dark comedy about a female architect who hits the workplace glass ceiling…
Linked From Playbill at 02:20PMDenver Center Theatre Company has added the world-premiere production of Sense & Sensibility The Musical, drawn from the Jane Austen novel, to its 2012-13 season. Tony Award nominee Marc…
Linked From Playbill at 02:20PMSomeone Else's Story is a debut solo CD from Meredith Braun ... Barb Jungr continues her association with the tales crafted and introduced by Bob Dylan.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:18PMTo continue the focus this week on ArtsEmerson, the Commons, and the College, I have the sheer pleasure of talking with Anne Bogart. There is so much here we could have talked for hours. Suc…
Linked From HowlRound at 02:06PMCasting has been announced for the Alley Theatre's world premiere production of Theresa Rebeck's new play What We're Up Against, to run May 11 through June 12, on the Neuhaus …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:00PMRafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the New York Philharmonic performances of selections from Manuel de Falla's Atlántida, and Carl Orff's complete Carmina b…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe Alhambra Theatre and Dining has announced that the entire run of its upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz will benefit the Community PedsCare Program of Community Hospice of Northeast…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:00PMThe Chicago production of Mark St. Germain's play Freud's Last Session will mark the 156th birthday of the titular psychoanalyst with post-performance celebrations on Sunday, May 6…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:00PMFull casting has been announced for California Shakespeare Theatre's upcoming production of The Tempest, to run May 30 through June 24 under the direction of Jonathan Moscone.
The ense…
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According to published reports, stage and screen actor Jonathan Frid passed away on April 13 of natural causes. He was 87 years old.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMGHOST THE MUSICAL began previews on Thursday, March 15th at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Set in modern day New York City, Ghost The Musical is a timeless fantasy about the power of love. Walki…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMAMERICAN IDOL host Ryan Seacrest has announced on his Twitter account that tonight's show will pay tribute to the late Dick Clark. Posted Seacrest, were putting together a tribute for Dick C…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMToday in the historic Great Hall on Ellis Island three esteemed individuals were honored by The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. for the contributions they have made to this N…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMYou will find yourself in your parents’ house and you will think: how strange to be in a place in which every object evokes memory.
Linked From Toronto.com at 01:39PMThe hit musical has been touring North America since it began in Seattle in 2007. Dancap Productions is bringing it to the Toronto Centre for the Arts July 10-29.
Linked From Toronto.com at 01:39PMOne Man Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s adaptation of the 18th-century Italian farce by Carlo Goldoni, requires two directors, one just for the physical comedy. The slapstick production evokes…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:39PMMelody Madarasz in Café Variations The music of George Gershwin is a good thing; a very good thing. Which is a very good thing for director Anne Bogart, as it repeatedly saves he…
Linked From The Hub Review at 01:34PMAge & Hometown: 41, New York City
Current Role: Doing double duty as 1950s housewife Bev and 21st-century real estate agent Kathy in the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitze…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:28PMDennis Kelly’s play emerges as a taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies that explores equivocation, Sarah Hemming writes
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 01:25PMWhen is a rope not a rope? Answer: When it is a doorway, a window, an ocean wave, a ship’s rail and oh, yeah, when it is used to tie up hostages. I guess it is a rope for the latter, but…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:20PMThe next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "Publicity," will air April 23 at 10 PM ET. Here is an early look, with potential visual spoilers.
Linked From Playbill at 01:19PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who is currently represented on Broadway with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Art…
Linked From Playbill at 01:19PMIndustry readings of the Off-Broadway musical Pageant will be presented May 1 in Manhattan.
Linked From Playbill at 01:19PMThe first class of Doris Duke Artists—an unprecedented new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which awards artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidiscip…
Linked From Playbill at 01:19PMOPENING DELIVER US FROM NOWHERE: TALES FROM NEBRASKA. Tympanic Theatre Company presents 10 short plays inspired by a different song from Bruce Springsteen’s album “Nebraska.” Opens Apr…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 01:18PMThe Chichester Festival Theatre double bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's companion piece South Downs transfers to Harold Pinter Theatre from 24 April (previews…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:07PMOur BBB Video of the Week is an actual music video from Norah Jones which prominently features ANYTHING GOES star Colin Donnell. Here’s the video for “Happy Pills” from Jon…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:01PMJoseph Alsop, the imperious political commentator, is the subject of “The Columnist,” a new play by David Auburn.
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Headlong Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season, which will include the world premiere of the new musical American Pyscho. With music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Ag…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMFederico Castelluccio will play the title role in a reading of Richard Vetere's play Caravaggio Tuesday, April 24 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The reading is part of The Barefoot Theatre…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMSteve Martin, Idina Menzel, and Stephen Sondheim are among the artists who will take part in the summer concert series at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Taking place in Reynolds …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMAlice Ripley will play a concert at the Metropolitan Room on Sunday, May 27 at 7pm.
Alice Ripley's Daily Practice will feature the Tony Award-winner on vocals and guitar, along with he…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMGhostlight Records recorded the cast album of MCC Theater's production of Carrie on April 17. The show's composer Michael Gore, along with Joel Moss, serves as producer. A releas…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMJudy Kuhn and Melissa Errico will star in John Doyle's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion to begin performances at Classic Sta…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMThe Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg offers a well-acted but inertly staged production of Anton Chekhov's classic drama at BAM.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMPan Asian Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of Mayank Keshaviah's Rangoon at the Clurman Theatre from May 25 through June 17, with an opening set for May 31. Raul Aranas…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMNorth Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced the musicals, celebrity concerts and children's shows that will comprise its upcoming season.
Lorna Luft will star as Dolly Gallagher Lev…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMTony Award winner Harriet Harris will appear alongside La Tanya Hall, Jeff Harnar, Edward Hibbert, Colleen McHugh, and T. Oliver Reid in Mad Dogs and Educated Fleas: Noel and Cole a Battle o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:58PMHard to believe but the end of the 2011-2012 school year is mere weeks away If you've been following BWW's Student Center, you'll know we've had a fun time this year showcasing theater progr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Charlie Frasier shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the arts ma…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts announces an all-star summer line-up set to kick off in June. The summer will feature the legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, jazz songstr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMThe April 23rd episode of NBC's musical drama SMASH will be paying homage to 'Bollywood', the colorful movie genre of India. The episode will include an elaborate dream sequence, set to the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner announced today that acclaimedawarding winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Meliss…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMYesterday, April 18, Reeve Carney celebrated his 29th birthday at the Foxwoods Theatre. As a gift, the Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark house crew compiled a video retrospective of the star's j…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMGhostlight Records this week went into the recording studio with the cast of Carrie, to record the first-ever cast album. Release dates for the album will be announced at a later time. The c…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMAndrea McArdle, Broadway's original Annie, joins Tony-nominated actor Constantine Maroulis Rock of Ages, American Idol and Justin Matthew Sargent Rock of Ages, Bonnie amp Clyde for the April…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMOn the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs, the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The program is co-hosted for the seventh ye…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMLIVE with Kelly's upcoming guests include A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE's Blair Underwood, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT's Matthew Broderick and THE BEST MAN's Candice Bergen. See the full list of …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMI may have seen as many as two dozen exhibitions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts over the years, and this one is without a doubt the best one I’ve seen. Entitled…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:58PMFulfilling the dream of playwright Tennessee Williams himself (and using script revisions made when the author originally conceived of the desegregated version of the show), director Emily M…
Linked From YouTube at 12:57PMFlorida Theater On Stage Brad Hathaway reviews CD/DVDs of People in the Picture, Spider-man Turn Off The Dark, Oscar Hammerstein - Out of My Dreams, A Connecticut Yankee,
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:57PMThe first Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" is now playing at the Marquis Theatre, in a production headed by Grammy winner Ricky Martin, Olivier Award winner Ele…
Linked From YouTube at 12:57PMAfter a celebrated London run, U.K. Tour and a U.S. debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, "End of the Rainbow" opens at Broadway's Belasco Theatre. Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett…
Linked From YouTube at 12:57PMAfter a successful 2011 Off-Broadway run at the New York Theatre Workshop, "Peter and the Starcatcher" takes flight at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre under the direction of Alex Timbers …
Linked From YouTube at 12:57PMThe first act of the Shakespeare play looks a lot like “Othello,” but the second half is a rustic comedy.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 12:52PMDrum, PlymouthThe world ends with a bang not a whimper in this latest show from the Belgian experimental theatremakers Ontroerend Goed, which succeeds in squeezing billions of years into jus…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:48PMCardiff High School, WalesBradley Manning, as most people know, is a 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret cables and logs about the Iraq and Afghan wars to WikiLeaks. W…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:48PMA marvelously executed, deceptively straightforward bit of comic roughhouse.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
Linked From New York Magazine at 12:38PMIt will take more than 12 hours for pianist Stewart Goodyear to play all of Beethoven's sonatas in Luminato marathon June 9 at Koerner Hall
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMLack of radio play for jazz means she writes for musicians who will tour the music
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMEach of them has a career independent of the other, but John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey often appear together, to the delight of their fans.
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMMasters of the outdoor concert, British band set to rock Toronto
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMClothes may make the man, but they glorify the woman.
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMDo you recall the old scientific brain teaser: “What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?” Well, you can find an excellent illustration of it this summer at the …
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMSongs transposed from pastoral setting assume a powerful irony
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMWhen Soulpepper Theatre presented Ins Choi’s play, Kim’s Convenience, last January, everyone loved the script, the cast, the direction, but most of all, they loved the set.
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:38PMTHE CONTENT OF TODAY'S BLOG MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED WORK SAFE!These days theatres are full of shows that have just opened or are deep into previews. Even a show with 22 seasons of perfor…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:38PMBlair UnderwoodTennessee Williams’ sultry drama, A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Emily Mann opened at The Broadhurst Theater on April 22, 2012. A Streetcar Named Desire is set agains…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 12:36PMLegit News:
Actor to appear Off Broadway at Roundabout
Linked From Variety at 12:31PMJake Gyllenhaal is set to star in an off-Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The Oscar-nominated actor will appear in the ensemble comedy-drama "If There Is I Haven’t Fo…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:27PMDisco is back and better than ever! On the “Saturday Night Glee-Ver” episode of Glee, the McKinley gang took on some of the most famous toe-tapping tunes from the '70s. Broad…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:27PMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the Roundabout Theatre Company's If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, a comic drama by Nick Payne. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:27PMGhost leading lady Caissie Levy stopped by ABC’s What’s The Buzz on April 11 to chat about the new jaw-dropping musical, opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 23. Le…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:27PMIt takes a lot to impress master magician David Copperfield, but the new Broadway musical Ghost features the work of one of Copperfield’s most talented pals: illusion designer Paul Kie…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:27PMI didn’t feel very good after seeing this show, and I have struggled to find the right word to describe how I was feeling. Abandoned. That’s the word. This is a story about a supremely …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 12:20PMThe sixth season of Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground program of new works by emerging writers will launch Oct. 5 with the world premiere of Bad Jews, a comedy by Joshu…
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, the film actor known for such pictures as "Love and Other Drugs" and "Brokeback Mountain," will make his American stage debut starting in l…
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMStephen Sondheim will be joined by Christine Ebersole and Brian Stokes Mitchell for a special evening of story and song July 14 at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Brian Kulick and executive director Greg Reiner, announced April 19 that award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Melissa Errico…
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire presents W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, which officially opened April 13. The limited engagement at the Marriott continu…
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMJane Lynch, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman will host a benefit engagement of Jason Robert Brown's pop musical The Last Five Years May 4-6 at the Third Street Theatre in Hollywood.
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce two new premiere productions at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. If There Is I Haven’t…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:14PMHow would you like to see some of your favorite Broadway stars live (including Donna Murphy, Marc Kudisch and recent Tony-winner Nikki M. James), singing original songs by Stephen Sondheim, …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 12:10PMCasting has been announced for the transfer of David Harrower's A Slow Air from Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre to the Tricycle in Kilburn. The production, which was a hit for the Traverse at l…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:06PMThe Oscar-nominated actor will make his American stage debut next fall in British playwright Nick Payne's comic drama "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 12:03PMCritics sing praises of star James Corden as Richard Bean's Brighton-set farce opens at New York's Music Box theatreAmerican theatre critics have – perhaps fittingly, given the play's high…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMTheatre bloggers are at loggerheads over whether to support productions that play it safe or relish those that take risksStrap yourselves in. Pop on a crash helmet. Theatre bloggers have reo…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMAfter 30 years, the Theatre Alliance calls it quits and spreads out its programs to the Walnut Street and Wilma theater.
Linked From Backstage at 12:03PMCatch Tony award-winner Zoe Caldwell at Pace University's "Masters Series" at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, April 23 at 6 p.m.
Linked From Backstage at 12:03PMNew York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence.
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The Carol Burnett Show will receive its long-awaited retail DVD release from Time Life on September 25.
The CBS series debuted in 1967 and ran for 11 years, receiving 25 Emmy Awards and fiv…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMHeadlong Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season, which will include the world premiere of the new musical American Pyscho. With music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Ag…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMCasting has been announced for The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp, a new musical about the life of English music hall star Dan Leno, to run May 22-June 10 at The Giant Olive Theatre at the Lio…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMOn Wednesday, April 18, the Broadway production of Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre with Nicholas Hytner at the helm.
Opening Night guests included J…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will star Off-Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. Michael Longhurst will …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMNumerous stage stars will be represented in the films premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival, to run May 16-27.
Edward Norton stars in the festival's opener, Wes Anderson&…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMActor Jonathan Frid, who gained fame as Barnabas Collins on the television serial Dark Shadows, has died of natural causes, according to published reports. He was 87.
Frid's Broadway c…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMToday in 2001, The Producers opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 2502 performances. The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMToday, April 19, David Garrison A Day in Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, Titanic, Torch Song Trilogy will make a guest appearance at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't Tell Mama.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMThe 2012 Commemorative Tony Program will be distributed to the guests at the Beacon Theatre and for the first time, more than 25,000 copies will be made available to Broadway fans outside of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced that movie star Jake Gyllenhaal will be making his American stage debut in If There Is I Havent Found It Yet, a comedic drama by Nick Payne at the Ha…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMYesterday, April 18, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now playing at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street, celebrated the beginning of its 3rd electrifying year in New York and the 3…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, today announced that Multi Awar…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the world premiere production of Bad Jews by Joshua Elias Harmon and directed by Daniel Aukin for the fall season. Bad Jews will begin preview p…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMThough not for everyone, this world premiere musical has some good dialogue and lyrics, makes excellent use of the space available, and is generally entertaining. Recent college grads will f…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 11:45AMCulturebot contributor Zhenesse Heinemann offers this report from QMAD's ITINERANT Festival
Linked From Culture Bot at 11:37AMThe Oscar-nominated actor will make his American stage debut this year in British playwright Nick Payne's comic drama "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 11:35AMThe Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite — opened April 18 followi…
Linked From Playbill at 11:17AMTony Award winner Viola Davis and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, who both starred in the Academy Award-nominated film "The Help," are among "the most influential people in th…
Linked From Playbill at 11:17AMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — will celebrate the Academy Award winner's upcoming 70th birthday April 24 at Birdland.
Linked From Playbill at 11:17AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara is back on Broadway this season in the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, which co-stars Tony winner Matthew Broderick.
Linked From Playbill at 11:17AMChad Beckim is a New York City based playwright whose writing credits include …a matter of choice, `nami, Lights Rise on Grace (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 NY Int’l.Fringe Festival; F…
Linked From Visible Soul at 11:11AMI found myself in a very intriguing conversation earlier this week with the creator of a new theatrical piece based on movement (actually three different kinds of movement, which is what mad…
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Our Vaudephone taping schedule is officially on hiatus as I work on my new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube. We will be resuming with a whole…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:56AMToday is the birthday of vaudeville child star Sylvia Froos (for my full article on her go here). Now here’s a clip of her singing “Snuggled On You Shoulder” (1932) lovingl…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:56AMAre you a Broadway Baby BroadwayWorld invites you to enter the 'Follies' Broadway Baby Contest for a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles and two tickets to 'Follies' at the Ahmanson Theatre
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAMERICAN IDOL host Ryan Seacrest paid tribute to his personal idol, Dick Clark immediately following the end of last night's show.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMFountain House, an internationally recognized non-profit organization located at 425 West 47thStreet and dedicated to bettering the lives of people living with mental illness, has announced …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMOn the April 23 episode of the NBC musical drama SMASH, Megan Hilty will perform an original song by composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The tune is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe's most …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMROCK OF AGES will open in theaters on June 15, 2012. The film stars Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, along with Diego Boneta as Drew, Julianne Hough as Sherrie, Russell Brand as Lonny, Alec Baldwi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMThe team behind the new musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT recently sat down to talk about the process of bringing some of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's most beloved standards b…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the 21 performing artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidisciplinary work who have been named as the inaugural Doris Duke A…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:56AMCasting has been announced for the newest installment of The Thalia Follies, entitled, Race for the White House, to play Symphony Space, May 17-19.
Created by Symphony Space Founding Direct…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:56AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse has announced casting for Elliot Davis and James Bourne's new musical Loserville, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Steven Dexter will direct the production, which…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:56AMWatershed High School Minneapolis, MN Reported by: Marty Johnson, Director of Education, iTheatrics April 2, 2012 INTO THE WOODS JR, is often considered to musically be one of the most diffi…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 10:43AMFrank Galati's epic adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel at Steppenwolf.
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:37AMProducers Steven C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones recruited composer Terence Blanchard to score the show.
Linked From Backstage at 10:37AMAfter its run at the Young Vic, I decided to direct a short film inspired by Edward Bond's Bingo, starring Patrick StewartEdward Bond's play Bingo, which focuses on the last months of Shakes…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:37AMInspired by the Young Vic theatre's recent production of Edward Bond's Bingo, Epithet tells the story of a contemporary poet with a dubious background, and contains violent language and imag…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:37AM"Open Call" 9 p.m. Thursday, KCET: 100 Voices: A Journey Home: Hosted by mezzo-soprano opera singer Suzanna Guzman, "Open Call" features a wide variety of productions from profiles of artis…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:37AMEagan High School graduate Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA program, have been cast to play Cinderella and the Prince.
Linked From StarTribune at 10:37AMA semi-staged production of My Fair Lady and a celebration of the music of Ivor Novello form part of the line up of this year's BBC Proms.
Linked From The Stage at 10:31AMIt’s open house at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 19, when the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris’ drama Clybourne Park officially opens on Broadway. Pam MacKinnon directs the P…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:25AMHeadlong, the U.K. touring company of which Rupert Goold is artistic director, has announced a slate of five world premieres, including The Effect, a new play by Lucy Prebble whose Enron Goo…
Linked From Playbill at 10:17AMLarry Hart's Praise: An Irreverently Reverent Gospel Experience will be presented April 22 at 6 PM at Middle Collegiate Church.
Linked From Playbill at 10:17AMFollowing the success of his 2010 and 2011 U.K. tours, singing actor John Barrowman will perform at four open-air venues this summer.
Linked From Playbill at 10:17AMIt’s time for the next installment in our Swing/Understudy series! This time, James the Intern spent some time in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre with Book of Mormon’s Jared Ger…
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On the April 23rd episode of NBC's musical drama SMASH entitled 'Publicity', Karen Katharine McPhee finds herself seduced by the glamorous life of new BFF Rebecca Duvall special guest star U…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMFiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music amp Art and the Performing Arts is proud to announce the world premiere of Life Of The Party, a light opera for dark times. Following the huge succ…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMThe National Theatre of Great Britains acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre last night, Wednesday April 18. BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the premiere…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMThe National Theatre of Great Britains acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre last night, Wednesday April 18. Check out coverage of the theatre arrivals below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMMekhi Phifer and Phylicia Rashad will star as Dr. John Prentice and his mother Mary Prentice, respectively, in True Color Theatre Company's production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinn…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:56AMThe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced the last venue on its four-concerts-in-four-days European tour in September. As anticipated, the first concert on the tour will be performed in…
Linked From St. Louis Today at 09:50AM“One Man, Two Guvnors” asks us some tough questions: Is it funny to see an old waiter repeatedly knocked down a flight of stairs? A fat man eat an envelope? A member of the audience humi…
Linked From The Faster Times at 09:44AMSandi Toksvig has joined Sprout Pictures, the independent production company co-founded by Stephen Fry, as a director.
Linked From The Stage at 09:31AMPhoto/Joan MarcusIn 2009's This Beautiful City, The Civilians turned the lens of their investigative theater on a megachurch in Colorado and cut through religion to capture the essence of a …
Linked From That Sounds Cool at 09:22AMDuncan Sheik is still knee-deep in theater projects. The Tony-winning composer is getting ready to mount the first staged production of his new musical The Nightingale this June in San Diego…
Linked From Stage Rush at 09:22AMEarlier this month, Thomas Cott’s You’ve Cott Mail had some stories about dealing with divas. While there are a few divas I have had to deal with, I actually feel like I have enc…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 09:19AMOne of my best friends from college, a remarkable and talented artist, gave me a journal that she made for me the day before she left the Appalachian mountains for Japan. Inside the journal …
Linked From Halcyon Theatre at 09:18AMLoserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, will begin performances at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds June 18, prior to an official opening Ju…
Linked From Playbill at 09:17AM[cross-posted at Huffington Post]
A little over a week ago, I began this series about the flap over This American Life's hour-long "Retraction" of its January broadcast of excerpts of Mike …
Linked From Theatre Ideas at 09:16AM
With the notable exception of Noises Off, theatrical farce is far more often labored than amusing. But One Man, Two Guvnors, newly arrived on Broadway from London’s West End, is…
Linked From Scheck on the Arts at 09:16AMAre critics feeling "Regrets"?
Linked From StageGrade at 09:15AMHow sets and costumes survive the Broadway farce Whether it’s Venice in 1743 or the British seaside in 1963 or Broadway in 2012, you’ve got to have doors. Two of them. And not ju…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 09:13AMStars are generally not low-key people. From Bette Davis to Patti LuPone they are often mannered, fascinating, and almost painfully distinct. They are never generic. Love 'em or hate 'em, yo…
Linked From Show Showdown at 09:13AMIn a departure from 2009's This Beautiful City and 2010's In The Footprint, this latest Civilians show, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce makes a drastic reduction in scope…
Linked From Show Showdown at 09:13AMForrest Leo
Hometown: Talkeetna, Alaska.
Current Town: Brooklyn, New York
Q: Tell me about Friend of the Devil.
A: It’s a farce about a young poet who marries …
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:06AMHere's how busy I've been: I completely forgot to pass the word that Shakespeare & Company's production of Satchmo at...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:05AMCasting has been announced for West Yorkshire Playhouse's forthcoming production of new British musical Loserville with Aaron Sidwell, Gareth Gates and Lil' Chris joining the cast of Elliot …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:03AMShannon Matesky and Harry Groener in Steppenwolf’s “The March“ When adapting a 400 page epic novel for the stage, you usually have about three options: 1) Make the play 6 h…
Linked From Chicago Theatre Addict at 09:03AMAs Judi Dench's Bond days come to an end, a return to London's could stage ensue.
Her character, M, is killed off in the latest film Skyfall, leaving Dench extra time to turn her focus to …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:03AMIn commemoration of Yom Hashoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Traces of Memory, a photo exhibition on loan from the Galicia Jewish Museum …
Linked From Washington Jewish Week at 09:01AM"I just want you to be entertained and prepare for an unforgettable time. There are no clean getaways."
Linked From Washington Jewish Week at 09:01AMComing back from my trip to Israel, I'd say the biggest religious conversion I had was in becoming a writer," said budding playwright Michelle Rosenfarb about her Birthright-like trip s…
Linked From Washington Jewish Week at 09:01AMon Thirteen: Fri., April 20th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., April 21st at 8:30 PM Sun., April 22nd at 12:30 PM and Mon., April 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our guest is the reve…
Linked From Theater Talk at 09:00AMA British comedy that was the fastest selling ticket in the history of London's West End opens on Broadway tonight with its original cast. As Jeff Lunden reports, One Man, Two Guvnors is ful…
Linked From National Public Radio at 09:00AM
Come round the Goddess Wheel and experience history tonight. After a year long workshop and creative process to mount a full stage production, the time has finally arrived. Readings, script …
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 08:57AMThis is an interesting revival of a play which came first out of two thousand entries in a new stage writing competition run by The Observer in 1957 and organised by Kenneth Tynan. Set in Tr…
Linked From John Morrison at 08:56AMLabyrinth Theater Company celebrated the opening night of Brett C. Leonard's Ninth and Joanie Wednesday, April 18 with a post performance party at Knickerbocker Bar and Grill.
Mark Wi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:54AMRobert Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company has issued a statement on the passing of industry legend Dick Clark
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMThe Tony Award-winning actor discusses his role as a dying husband in Nicky Silver's new Broadway play.
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:54AMFresh from its hit run off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, "Peter and the Starcatcher" is now flying high at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway.
Linked From NY1 at 08:48AMThe main image on the cover of the Playbill for Regrets, the new drama playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club through the end of the month, is of a smiling All-American family, circa 1954.&nb…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:46AMAlterLab RecapLast night was AlterTheater's AlterLab salon featuring me and three other playwrights who for the past nine months have been each working on a new play while in residency. Desp…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 08:43AMWith Dennis Kelly’s recent successes bringing him increasingly into the public eye, it’s hardly surprising that DNA has been chosen as a set text for schools. The play explores the desol…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 08:40AMThe man who wrote Saved, with its infamous baby-stoning scene, has not mellowed. After working abroad for the best part of 25 years, Edward Bond is back in London to oversee a trilogy of his…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 08:40AMWhen you walk into an auditorium to see a backdrop full of speakers you know you’ve come to a play with something to say. Since it’s coming from the mind of Kate Tempest, you know it…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 08:40AMLena Dunham on GirlsLena Dunham’s HBO series has been hailed for itssharp, insightful snapshot of 20-something young, white, straight womennavigating their New York City lives in a post-Se…
Linked From The Feminist Spectator at 08:40AMJoel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first reaction? Brianne: I was with my mother sailing into New York Harbor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMGareth Gates and Lil' Chris are to star in the premiere of new musical Loserville at West Yorkshire Playhouse later this year.
Linked From The Stage at 08:30AMDavid Bedella and Sara Kestelman have been cast in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Linked From The Stage at 08:30AMPlaywrights working for the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company are to benefit from an increase of just under 8% on their total minimum fee.
Linked From The Stage at 08:30AMBBC arts commissioner Jan Younghusband has blamed the Corporation's lack of marketing for a perceived shortage of cultural programmes on its channels.
Linked From The Stage at 08:30AMA few unrelated thoughts: 1. I find the whole "people should stop forming arts organizations" conversation to be interesting. It's interesting because people make a very logical case for not…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 08:30AMThe Sounds of Joey
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Linked From YouTube at 08:15AMMary Poppins National Tour Visits Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
The national touring cast of Mary Poppins recently visited the Dell Children's Medical Center of Ce…
Linked From YouTube at 08:01AMMary Poppin s National Tour ~ Michael Dean Morgan as George Banks
Michael is honored to return to Cherry Tree Lance. You may have seen him as the comic hornbill, Zazu, in The Lion King; the…
Linked From YouTube at 08:01AMDIsney's THE LION KING Celebrates 1 Million Fans
On Wednesday April 18, 2012 Disney's THE LION KING will perform its 6,000th performance on Broadway and be the first Broadway musica…
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Cirque du Soleil's latest touring show, Amaluna, will premiere in Montreal on April 19, 2012, followed by Quebec July 25, 2012 and Toronto September 5, 2012. Diane Paulus will direct the pro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:47AMThe Tisch School of the Arts at New York University announced today a distinguished list of alumni will attend their annual gala, Ordinary Miraculous Celebrating Vision, on April 19th at the…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:47AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will open at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on Thursday, April 19.
Pam MacKinnon directs the play, which examines how a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:46AMSometimes a theatre photo is just right, as is this one from Bruce Monk. It is for MTC's Next to Normal with Jonathan Cullen and Steffi DiDomenicantonio and it captures perfectly that moment…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:39AMWriter, Lyricist Montauk, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? … I don’t really look. Ideas seem to find me. What’s your favorite book / movie / play ? I’m an ominivor…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:39AM1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
Linked From Playbill at 12:14AMMiriam Kulick's one-woman show, Open Hearts, a poignant and comedic journey about love of self, the acceptance of family and the courage to move forward, begins performances April 19 in …
Linked From Playbill at 12:14AMWith an "adolescent need to piss people off," Bruce Norris may have reached his zenith with the success of the Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway.
Linked From Playbill at 12:14AMFood For Thought Productions kicks off its 2012 season with a staged reading of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes April 19 at the company's new home, the Beckett Theatre at Theatre…
Linked From Playbill at 12:14AMClybourne Park, Bruce Norris' humor-flecked play about racial and economic changes in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, opens on Broadway April 19 following previews from March 26. W…
Linked From Playbill at 12:14AMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury is honored during the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards April 19 on the historic Ellis Island.
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