Playwrights Horizons celebrated the opening of Lisa D'Amour's 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist Detroit on Tuesday, September 18 with a post-performance part
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57PMAccording to NBC, The Voice is a show, Where our coaches push buttons strictly on voice alone, which makes this a talent show unlike others. Tonight, week two of The Voice continued with an …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52PMGrace Covenant Church showed Fairfax they know how to throw a celebration: have the Pastor emcee, invite the congregation, and open the doors to the public. Start the night off with a set of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28PMAs a producer, you want to stay culturally relevant with the work you're producing. But maybe there's such a thing as being too culturally relevant? At least when it comes to marketing.
Abo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:16PMThe Pasadena Playhouse, in association with W.I.T. Productions, presents UNDER MY SKIN, with performances now running through October 7, and an official press opening on Wednesday, September…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08PMGreg Caldwell, Jason Huysman and Chuck Spencer in Raven Theatre’s “The Big Knife.” Photo credit: Dean LaPrairie Billy Wilder took perhaps the first high-profile stab at the…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 11:05PMThe title of Lisa D’Amour’s briskly funny but blurry dark comedy “Detroit” could be misleading.
The play, a 2011 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, doesn’t take place in the…
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Detroit - A skilled cast and expert production values make this Pulitzer Prize finalist worth seeing even though it's too extreme finale shortchanges the theme of the Am…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:49PMHEDY WEISS: The South African artist, filmmaker and designer of opera and theater spins deeply personal scenarios while capturing elements of the apartheid era.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:48PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli have taken turns singing tunes by the late Marvin Hamlisch during a stirring memorial service for the composer in New…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:45PMTHE NEW BLACK FEST, a festival of theater, music and discussion from the African Diaspora will launch its 3rd season in October at various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With support f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39PMHEDY WEISS: Some of Chicago’s finest black actors come together for August Wilson’s classic, with bluesy dialogue, a pop soundtrack and operatic scope.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:16PMAccording to MovieLine, The Book of Mormon creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are considering casting Justin Bieber as Elder Price in a future movie adaptation of their musical. They reveal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04PMThe theater is also selling its SoHo location for about $27 million, but the transactions will not affect the Joyce's plans to be the anchor tenant at the performing arts center planned for …
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Chaplin composer Christopher Curtis plays “The Tramp Shuffle” and more hits from the new musical, shares stories of meeting Chaplin’s son and recounts what inspired him to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:39PMTony Award winner Angela Lansbury is featured on the cover of the UK magazine The Gentlewoman's Autumn and Winter 2012 issue, as photographed by Terry Richardson The magazine has revealed im…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMBroadway Box OfficeWeek #16 of the 2012 - 2013 SeasonSeptember 10 - 16; 22 ProductionsTo see how this chart is calculated, click the "Box Office" tab at the top of the page. RANKTHISWEEK …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:30PMAs long as Simon Callow is around, London’s theatre scene will never be short of one-man shows, nor of Shakespeare. A new pretender to the Shakespearian throne, a rival for the hollow crow…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:28PMAnthony Crivello will now be playing the role of Eddie Fuseli in GOLDEN BOY at Lincoln Center Theater, the role for which Bill Camp was previously announced. Additionally, Vayu O'Donnell com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMIn the world premiere of the Theater for Young Audiences’ version of “Big”—surely you’ve seen the 1988 movie, in which Tom Hanks plays “Heart and Soul” and “Chopsticks” on …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMAccording to ArtInfo, Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of John Grisham's novel A Time to Kill is headed to Broadway with lead producer Daryl Roth. Casting is currently underway, and the produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMThe Drama League Presents Fall Intimate Evenings: The Drama League has announced their Fall/Winter 2012 programming for over 40 special performances, events and educational offerings that in…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:08PMHaving hung up his headphones as host of Radio 1's breakfast show, Chris Moyles' new career begins this Friday when he stars as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar in an arena tour.
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Heroes. They’re not just for comic books anymore. With the rise of more serious, “realistic” portrayals of comic book heroes has come a trend of real people making themselv…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 06:51PMIt’s a high-octane, kick-up-your-heels tap-dancing extravaganza, but “42nd Street” has so much more than fancy footwork going for it. The sizzling revival of the musical at Theatre at …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:48PMJoe Cabatit is an actor/writer/comedian living and working in Manhattan. Graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he found more inspired learning at places like the Upright Citizen…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:31PMMike Tompkins got the opportunity to perform with the cast of PITCH PERFECT and pieced together footage of the stars with videos from YouTube users to recreate Nicki Minaj's song Starships. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMThe pairing of food for the stomach and food for the soul made me think of the role of culture in extreme situations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:26PMProducer Daryl Roth is aiming to bring Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of John Grisham's A Time to Kill to Broadway in the spring or summer of 2013, according to ArtInfo. N…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMAfter six consecutive weeks at the top of TicketNews® ' exclusive event rankings, "The Book of Mormon" has finally been dethroned.
The former Beatle Paul McCartney took over the top eve…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:21PMDowntown LA's new Grand Park will offer free events throughout the fall, including an October 6 aerial dance performance by Bandaloop, hundreds of feet above the park. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:18PMGrammy Award winner Mika's new album The Origin of Love is set for release October 8, 2012, and includes the track, Popular Song. The tune samples Popular from Broadway's WICKED, originally …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMFall Preview Theatre:The fall season has us buzzing with excitement. Scan the paper to see what New York has to offer in the coming season. On Broadway; Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Patti LuPone…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:11PMAs Ronnie in Stephen Adly Guirgis' irresistibly titled play, Anjanette Hall spends much of her time in a bra and underwear, proudly spewing obscenities that would make David Mamet blush, all…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:11PMWhen you're up at 3:00am on your laptop in the library, slaving away at a paper on the Italian Renaissance, do you ever look up and suddenly think, "I'm a theater major. What am I DOING?"Bel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:04PMOur Photo of the Week is the cute orphans from ANNIE in front of the Palace Theatre just after the marquee was installed. Welcome to Broadway girls!
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:03PMEinstein On The Beach, currently at Brooklyn Academy of Music, is one of the most-referenced but least-often-seen spectacles of American avant garde theater. With the combined forces of comp…
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:59PMOver the past year or so, as both an intern and now as editorial assistant for TCG Books, I’ve had the unique opportunity to become intimately acquainted with the now published Train Drive…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:55PMTony winner Anthony Crivello and Vayu O'Donnell complete the cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of Clifford Odet’s Golden Boy. Crivello will replace previously announced star…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMTony winner Anthony Crivello and Vayu O'Donnell join the cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of Clifford Odet’s Golden Boy. Crivello will replace previously announced star Bil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMThis week's Gotta Dance! sheds a little light on one of Broadway's favorite rising stars, former So You Think You Can Dance favorite Neil Haskell, currently taking on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMBring a sharp ear and be prepared to learn some cool stuff while watching Barnstormers. The lines are rapid fire and appeal to the trivia lover. And as you're already in a brewery, grab a b…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:49PMAn annual Broadway series, concerts, leading classical artists and other attractions will be the result of a new arrangement between Washington, D.C.'s National Theatre and the Chicago-based…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMPlays about pornography have much the same problem as plays about professional sports. You can stage plenty of scenes of pregame conversation, locker-room tactics, front-office deal-making a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:38PMJason Danieley and the cast of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George held a surprise p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMPortland Center Stage in Oregon will unveil the world premiere of The Body of an American, about a war photographer haunted by the spirit of the soldier whose body he photographed, Oct. 2-No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PMOn Sunday, September 9, the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce dedicated an entire block of the Third Avenue Community Benefit Street Fair to Theatermania.com. The bloc
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMLast night, gossip columnist Perez Hilton officially joined the cast of the off-Broadway musical revue, NEWSical the Musical, for a four-week run. BroadwayWorld.com's Richie Ridge was there …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMRemember when theater news was a real helicopter landing on the stage of "Miss Saigon?"
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:31PMBroadway vets Claybourne Elder (Bonnie & Clyde) and Wallace Smith (Godspell) are currently leading Kansas City Repertory’s edgy production of the Stephen Schwartz musical Pippin. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMEnemy of the People star Richard Thomas has been named the honorary chair of the National Corporate Theatre Fund, which is currently launching its new education initiative "Impact Creat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMFour-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will be honored for her work in the theater at the NYMF 2012 Annual Gala taking place on Sunday, November 11 at The Hudson Theatre, beginning at 6pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMLast night, September 17, Broadway stars united to sing the songs of a music legend in 'Broadway Sings Michael Jackson' at Le Poisson Rouge. The concert, which featured some of Jackson's big…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMThe truth is that protests against the mosque did not mention parking. Protestors fumed about the threat of shariah law. Parking is a real issue in Sheepshead Bay, the threat of shariah law …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMMarc Kudisch, Anne-Carolyn Bird, Lauren Worsham, and David Garrison will lead the cast of New York Festival of Song's season-opening production Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington. The piece wil…
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Laura Osnes, who has risen from the winner of the reality TV competition You’re The One That I Want to Broadway’s most sought-after leading ladies. In her first so…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMWendy Rosenfield on Philly Live Arts Fringe Festival Critic's Picks. Philadelphia theater, dance, arts
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:54PMTony Award winner Anthony Crivello will take on the role of gambler Eddie Fuseli in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, which begins previews Nov. 8 at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:46PMSecond Stage Theatre has awarded its first Donna Perret Rosen Award for excellence in musical theatre to composer-lyricist Adam Gwon, the songwriter of Ordinary Days and other musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMThere are many universal truths and ideas that connect persons of all backgrounds together. For instance, the language of music transcends the cultural barriers and obstacles that are encoun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMMulti-Platinum, Grammy Award winner Usher will replace CeeLo Green as one of the coaches for the NBC competitive singing reality show, The Voice, according to published reports.Usher's stage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PMGrammy winner Mika is about to release his third album, The Origin of Love, and the pop singer got a little bit of help from Broadway for one of the record's catchy tunes. On "Popul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:39PMThis weekend, direct from Colombia, the critically acclaimed international musical sensation The Most Amazing Story Ever Sung La ms grande historia jams cantada makes its New York debut with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley will star in the New York premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, about a 600-pound man trying to reclaim his life, beginning Oct. 12…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMContinuing its commitment to nurturing and producing the next generation of musical theatre artists, Second Stage Theatre Carole Rothman, Artistic Director has awarded its first annual Donna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMLike some Cold War Russian mole, burlesque likes to play a dangerous double game. The ideal burlesque show (for most of us) is both classy and dangerous. (Seedy and dangerous is for people w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:28PMChristine Baranski, nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actress in a drama for "The Good Wife," talks about the role, her relationship on the series with Josh Charles and turning 60 as…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:28PMAcademy Award winner Lee Grant and Amanda Peet will be honored with the 2012 Herbert Berghof-Uta Hagen Awards Nov. 5 at the HB Studio and HB Playwrights Foundation annual fall benefit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe theater season is barely under way and already award buzz is swirling around comic actress Katie Finneran, who will take on the deliciously nasty role of Miss Hannigan in the Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PMThe cast of La MaMa's upcoming production Author Directing Author (AdA) met the press on Tuesday, September 18 at their rehearsal studio. The production runs September 28-October 14.The dou
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:19PM(Nabeel Al Raee, Zakaria Zubeidi and their children. Credit: The Freedom Theatre) We are sharing the following press release from The Freedom Theatre concerning the imprisonment of Freedom…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:17PMReeve Carney and Robert Cuccioli -- who respectively star as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark -- joined cost…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMEvery day, Broadway.com brings theater fans up close to their favorite stars and behind the scenes at their favorite shows with our popular, one-of-a-kind video features. Now, we're rank…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PMIn the last week the stars came out to 54 Below to see engagements featuring Linda Lavin with Billy Stritch, Eden Espinoza and Jason Robert Brown. Among those in the audience were Carol Burn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMMustached fans of Peter and the Starcatcher can win some booty on Sept. 19 in the form of free tickets to the evening performance of the Tony Award-winning play with music at the Brooks Atki…
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This morning, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, and Spider-Men from SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark visited the American Museum of Natural History, where they met with curator Norman Platnik in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Woman in White" at Lifeline Theatre ★★
KERRY REID reviews "The Woman in White" at Lifeline Theatre ★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:54PMSt. Ann's Warehouse has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season, the first to be presented in the theater's new home at 29 Jay Street.The season will begin with the American premiere of Mie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMFor a thoroughly enjoyable time, go see The Anderson Twins Play The Fabulous Dorseys at 59E59. Here’s how it goes: it’s not a theater, for the time being, but a nightclub from the 1920�…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:43PMThe NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG opens its 2012-2013 season amidst election fever with a semi-staged political musical theater satire, MR. GERSHWIN GOES TO WASHINGTON, on Saturday, October 20 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMMamaroneck teen on a ‘wild ride’ Carly Rose Sonenclar singing Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.” Got a few minutes with Carly Rose Sonenclar, the Rye Neck eighth-gra…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:36PMPippin director Eric Rosen, who is also Kansas City Repertory Theatres artistic director, has announced that Kevin Massey will step into the title role for three performances 2 p.m. and 8 p.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMComposer/lyricist Adam Gwon has been named as the recipient of Second Stage Theatre's first annual Donna Perret Rosen Award. It comes with $10,000, and is given out for excellence in musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PMBroadway legend, entertainment icon, and Tony Award winner Ben Vereen brings his hit show, Steppin' Out with Ben Vereen, to The Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMSamuel Beckett, the author of Waiting for Godot, is known for the spare, modern rhythms of his plays. Now, as Jeff Lunden explains, the off-Broadway show Sounding Beckett brings together thr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:30PMTheatergoers fighting the good fight against relentless talkers and texters during shows have a new ally: Ninjas.Yes. NINJAS.The Prince Charles Cinema in London has decided to take on show-r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PM'Detroit" is surely one of the most willfully irrelevant titles for yet-another dissection of Suburban Subdivision, Anyplace, USA.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:29PMFans of Grease should like this rendition, despite its dissonance. But, considering the neutering of the original gritty Chicago production into this present-day saccharine version, don't lo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:28PMFilm, television and Broadway Actor Richard Thomas, star of the current Manhattan Theatre Club production of Ibsens An Enemy of the People, has been named Honorary Chair of the National Corp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25PMAdvice from an 8-year-old informed playwright Liz Duffy Adams as she created a swashbuckling musical for Children's Theatre.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:23PMLisa D'Amour's play Detroit, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, opens Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. The play stars Tony winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMFour-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will be honored by the New York Musical Theatre Festival during a Nov. 11 gala at the Hudson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMCAROLS FOR A CURE is the annual two-disc holiday CD compilation of original songs and holiday classics which benefits BCEFA. These CDs boast the best voices from the worlds of Broadway, Off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMTV and stage star Linda Lavin returns to the world of New York cabaret with a new show at the swanky 54 Below. Get a preview of Lavin's eclectic set and find out why she has the hots for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMIn the newest issue of Vogue, newly minted off-Broadway star Jake Gyllenhaal proves he doesn’t have to take it all off to be sexy. The Academy Award nominee, who is currently starring …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMPreviews began August 24 for the Playwrights Horizons production of DETROIT, the New York premiere of the much-heralded new play by Obie Award winner Lisa DAmour. BroadwayWorld brings you hi…
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Universal Pictures has moved the release date of its upcoming movie adaptation of Les Miserables from December 14 to December 25, according to Deadline.com.
The studio decided to pus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMMondays DArk Theatre Company presents new play IF YOU START A FIRE BE PREPARED TO BURN, which will run through September 23rd at the 45th Street Theater, located at 354 W. 45th St. in Manhat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMHave you ever tried to make eye contact with a complete stranger? Or even your best friend? It's scary—right? In today's fast paced society, technology enables us to always have an esca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMCarrie Kaufman, 49, the former editor and publisher of the now-defunct showbusiness trade paper "Performink," is to be the new general manager of the Porchlight Music Theatre, the Chicago co…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMBeing the daughter of not only a comedy legend, but also a full-blown cultural icon, often eclipsed her own ambitions.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:40PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival NYMF announced today Broadway star and multiple time Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee Kelli OHara will be honored for her work in the theater at the NY…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMThat the audience is required to walk in circles for close to two hours in a dark, stuffy space is hardly the biggest problem facing Red Tape Theatre’s confusing and tedious staging of Car…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:40PMThe Broadway Green Alliance BGA is sponsoring a textile drive for the theater industry and its fans on Wednesday, September 19th from 1100 am 100 pm in Duffy Square at 46th Street and Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMThe New York Festival of Song will open its 2012-13 season with Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington, an original concert put together by music-theatre historian Laurence Maslon for Ira Gershwin&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMTony winners The Phantom of the Opera, currently at Broadway's Majestic Theatre, and Annie, which will return to Broadway at the Palace Theatre, have both received a "Part Two&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMSubmissions for The New York Children's Theater Festival will be accepted October 1 through November 12, 2012, it was announced today by Festival co-founders Michael Shawn Lewis, Chelsey Sha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
It's only fair to point out that Chekhov's original "Three Sisters" script doesn't actually include everyone singing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:22PMNorthport's John W. Engeman Theater will present Seussical the Musical as part of the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Youth Theater Series. The production will run Saturday and Sunday mornings…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMCan the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore make sense to contemporary audiences? Eugene J. Hutchins, who's directing Sierra Madre Playhouse's version, decided to give the audience a mo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:21PMThe Tony Award-winning Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is now accepting submissions for the 2013 National Playwrights Conference, which will take place in July in Waterford, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMKevin Massey will step in for Claybourne Elder in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's production of Pippin for three performances beginning Sept. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMThis morning, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, and Spider-Men from SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark visited the American Museum of Natural History, where they met with curator Norman Platnik in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMUniversal has pushed back the release date for the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables, according to Variety. The film will now have a Christmas Day …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMIf you’ve been worried about it, you can exhale. The Paramount Theatre has done it again. Last year, the venerable Aurora theater took a risk and launched its own in-house Broadway series.…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:08PMThink of it as an Impressionist flash mob. Visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago got a musical surprise on Sept. 16 when at the top of the museum's Grand Staircase leading to the Impr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMOn Monday, September 17, Notorious celebrity blogger and internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton joined the cast of Off-Broadway's NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edit
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMTom Hooper's upcoming big-screen adaptation of 'Les Miserables,' starring Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Anne Hathaway as Fantine and a slew of other big-name stars, was previously set for a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMHis Majesty's, AberdeenYou can imagine a stage adaptation of Robin Jenkins's sublime 1955 novel turning out like Of Mice and Men. Set during the second world war on a remote Highland estate,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
Royal Exchange, Manchester: If you had to watch just one Restoration comedy, it could be argued that William Wycherley's bawdy concoction of sexual machinations, misunderstandings and g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55PMWhat happens when two of Hollywood’s biggest Divas end up at the same hotel for the same USO tour and they hate each other? They get booked into the same suite and chaos ensues, naturally.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PM(Photo by Gohar Barseghyan. Pictured: “Abaga” by Torange Yeghiazarian, with George Psarras, Dina Mousawi, Vida Ghahremani at 2009 ReOrient.) So I thought I’d do that thing that writers…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:40PMInternet gossip columnist Perez Hilton joined the cast of Rick Crom's Off-Broadway musical revue NEWSical the Musical Sept. 8. A VIP opening night was held in his honor Sept. 17 at XL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMUniversal will now open the film version of the musical
Les Miserables on December 25 -- the coveted Christmas Day slot -- according to Variety. It was previously announced to open on Decem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMSouthwark Playhouse, London"An empty comedy of intrigue without any reality of emotion whatsoever" was the crushing verdict of critic Bonamy Dobrée on this once-popular 1709 play by Susanna…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMOn Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 630 p.m. at the Seagram Building Plaza 375 Park Avenue, hundreds of guests will join Studio in a School Founder Agnes Gund, event co-chairmen Caroline Kennedy,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMVisitors to the Art Institute of Chicago got a musical surprise on Sept. 16 when a full-sized replica of Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884" was installed, but devoid of mo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMFans of “Les Miserables,” the film starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Ann Hathaway, will have to wait a bit longer. Variety reports that the Dec. 14 release date has been c…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:27PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company concludes their celebration of Athol Fugard with his two-person play "The Train Driver."
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:26PMCirque du Soleil will present Dralion at the Long Beach Arena at the Long Beach Convention Center from November 1 to 6. Guy Caron will direct.Fusing the 3000 year-old tradition of Chinese ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMSo where do people hungry for the newest songs of the musical theater go now? Where is the next George Gershwin cutting his ivory teeth? As a musical theater writer and fan, I've spent the l…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:23PMDigital Theatre, which films British theatre productions and screens them online, has launched an app in partnership with Samsung that allows the shows to be viewed on demand via a TV.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PMYesterday, at the top of the museums Grand Staircase leading to the Impressionist Galleries, a full-sized replica of Georges Seurats A Sunday on La Grande Jatte1884 was installed but devoid …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMThe quirky and comic musical revue Awesomer amp Awesomer The Songs of Phoebe Kreutz returned for another run of performances at the Triad 158 W. 72nd St. yesterday, September 17, with a seco…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PM"Les Miserables" had been slated to open Dec. 14 but Universal announced Tuesday that the picture has been pushed back to Dec. 25. That's the same day as "Django Unchained…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:14PMThe Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company production of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity has extended by one week, and will now play through October 7. John Vreeke has directed the production.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMOn Sunday, September 23rd, there will be an invitation only industry reading of Susan Ferraras new play BUZZ at The Atlantic Theater Stage 2. The cast will include Sam McMurray A Soldiers Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMJon Secada and Debbie Gravitte are among the stars of the new musical Loving the Silent Tears, a one-night only production at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on October 27.Created by tw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMLinda Lavin celebrated the opening night of her cabaret act at 54 Below on Monday, September 17. Billy Stritch served as musical director, with musicians including Lavin's husband, St
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMRodgers amp Hammerstein's PIPE DREAM, recorded live at New York City Center's Encores series in March, will be released by Ghostlight Records today Tuesday September 18. Produced by Rodgers…
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Gossip guru Perez Hilton officially made his off-Broadway debut in the cheeky musical revue NEWSical the Musical on September 17. Perez and fellow NEWSical newcomer Leslie Kritzer (as well a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMKansas City Repertory Theatre opens its 48th season with the Tony Award-nominated musical Pippin, which features a score by Grammy-winner Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. The Re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMAs a new blue plaque pays tribute to Pinter's Hackney, and Barry Reckord is commemorated in Shepherd's Bush, there has never been a better time to invest in the next generation of writersHow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMOn the September 25th episode of the NBC comedy THE NEW NORMAL titled 'Obama Mama', Shania Bebe Woods is looking forward to her schools upcoming mock election, but shocks Bryan Andrew Rannel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMAfter making his critically acclaimed Broadway debut in Lombardi, Dan Lauria will return to the Great White Way to play the narrator of A Christmas Story, the Musical! at the Lunt-Fontanne T…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:43PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series is thrilled to announce that RACHEL POTTER, one of the stars of the Broadway production of Evita, will make her Birdland debut on Sunday, October 28 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe Kneehigh Theatre, which presented Noel Coward's Brief Encounter to acclaim at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2009 prior to a celebrated Broadway run, will return to the Brooklyn company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMSEE SCAPE A wonderfully questioning work from 1975, Edward Albee’s whimsical, Pulitzer-winning domestic drama literally reflects our world as seen by diametrical couples. Seascape meets la…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:40PMCasting is complete for the previously announced revival of David Henry Hwang’s drama Golden Child at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Directed by Leigh Silverman…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31PMRachel Potter, who is currently portraying the Mistress in the Broadway revival of Evita, will make her Birdland debut next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMProduction photos have been released for the Savoy theatre's new production of Cabaret starring former EastEnder Michelle Ryan, Will Young and Sian Phillips, among others.
Will Young as E…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:27PMThere are blistering performances in this drama about revolutionary politics and family relationships, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:24PMCaryl Churchill’s latest work illustrates the sheer volume of information at large in today’s world, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:24PMFugitive Songs is the Drama Desk-nominated musical from Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen. The folk-infused contemporary musical theatre score includes many of Miller and Tysens most well-known …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMI love nothing more than checking out revivals of once-successful but long forgotten plays. They are often as illuminating about the times in which they were first produced as the “sur…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:19PMEvita star Rachel Potter will make her Birdland debut on Sunday, October 28 as part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series.The concert will feature songs from Potter's debut country EP L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMBroadway at Birdland's monthly concert series Frank & Friends, which celebrates the music of Tony-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn, continued Sept. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMTony Award nominee Stephen Lang and Corbin Bleu, who was last seen in the Broadway revival of Godspell, will star in the Chiller networks original movie "The Monkey's Paw," acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThe Comden, Green, and Bernstein classic musical On the Town and Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing starring Gretchen Egolf and Christopher Innvar are the first two selections of Ba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMToday in 2008, A Tale of Two Cities opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 60 performances. A Tale of Two Cities is a musical with book, music and lyrics by Jill Santoriello b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMToast of West End seeks Broadway lede “I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” —“…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:02PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 9112012 - 9182012.
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Warren Carlyle got his start as a dancer, but the British-born performer has since climbed the ladder from associate choreographer of The Producers to director and choreog…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMThe hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be the first production at St. Ann's temporary new home in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:58AMIt’s often said there’s no substitute for experience, and Tony Award winner Linda Lavin proved the truth of that adage at the first of her two shows at 54 Below on Monday night. (She re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMTheatre Wit will present All That Jaws, a musical inspired by the classic 1975 film, starting October 19 and running through December 7. Keenan Camp will direct.When a lonely great white sha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMHallmark Channel and American Humane Association announced today that popular television, film and Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth will host the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMSOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAS ARRIVED Daniel Serrano’s Roma al final de la Vía (Rome at the End of the Line) is a highly recommended diamond-in-the-rough, and the 24th Street Theatre presents i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52AMIn 1985 the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Song and Dance premiered on Sept. 18 at the Royale Theatre for a 474-performance run. Bernadette Peters won her first Tony for her performance in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMJennifer Lim, Julyana Soelistyo, and Greg Watanabe are among the cast of Signature Theatre Company's upcoming revival of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, the first production in their Resid…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale and full casting is set for GOLDEN CHILD …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:47AMThe upcoming Broadway revival of the Tony-winning play The Heiress starring Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain (The Help), Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner David Strathairn (Good N…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:47AMPaper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee- Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director has just announced that the New Jersey Theater will tribute A Chorus Line composer Marvin Ham…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMRECOMMENDED “You have had a good life,” the ready-for-retirement Charlie declares to his wife Nancy as they verbally joust during a beach vacation. In playwright Edward AlbeeR…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:46AMDrama Desk Award nominee Jennifer Lim of Broadway's Chinglish, Julyana Soelistyo of Off-Broadway's The Glorious Ones are among cast members of the new Off-Broadway production of Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMSignature Theatre James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director Erika Mallin, Executive Director has announced that tickets are now on sale and full casting is set for GOLDEN CHILD by David Hen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMCity Varieties, Leeds: Yorkshire's master comedian Johnnie Casson wore his host and compere hat to present a cast of Equity luminaries, all gathering to support the City Varieties regen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMTony Award winner Linda Lavin makes nightclub appearances at 54 BELOW 254 W. 54 St. in Manhattan yesterday, September 17 and September 23 at 3 p.m. with musical director Billy Stritch and a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMTituss Burgess, Chester Gregory II, Morgan James, Saycon Sengbloh and Alysha Umphress are among the performers who took part in Broadway Sings Michael Jackson, featuring new arrangements of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMTony winners Kelly Bishop, Donna McKechnie and more alumni of A Chorus Line will perform in honor of Marvin Hamlisch, the musical's late composer, at the Paper Mill Playhouse. The t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMIt’s tough to be a new musical in the fall. First, you have to make it through the slow months of September and October for any chance of holiday season success. Then, if you want a box-of…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:36AMIt’s fall and I’m reading plays. I know it’s fall because the silly pirate hoodie is out. I like to sit on the couch on crisp fall days with the hoodie hood up, football muted in the b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AMThe Performers’ Cheyenne Jackson will host and perform at the Kennedy Center’s New Year’s Eve celebration, Cheyenne Jackson…Music of the Mad Men Era. Jackson will si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:29AMKelly Bishop and Donna McKechnie, who both won Tony Awards for their work in the original production of A Chorus Line, will join dozens of alumni from that musical for a special tribute to c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AM“Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” has always known that embassies are under attack, that diplomatic and romantic relations are chronically strained and that survival i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26AMA newspaper’s archives are a wonderful thing. As Carly Rose Sonenclar’s hometown paper, we’ve watched “The X Factor” star grow up, following her growth as a per…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:24AMLast night, September 17, Broadway stars united to sing the songs of a music legend in 'Broadway Sings Michael Jackson' at Le Poisson Rouge. The concert, which featured some of Jackson's big…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMOn Oct. 7, the opening night of its upcoming production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Chorus Line, New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse will offer a tribute to the composer of that Tony-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThe five-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical Rock of Ages will team up with non-profit organization The Boot Campaign – a Texas-based non-profit that promotes patriotism and awarene…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:19AMThe Kennedy Center will usher in the New Year with Broadway, film, and television star Cheyenne Jackson in New Years Eve at the Kennedy Center Cheyenne JacksonMusic of the Mad Men Era.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMCheyenne Jackson, back on Broadway this season in The Performers, will play a New Year’s concert, Music of the Mad Men Era, with members of the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMThe musical On the Town and Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing will punctuate Barrington Stage Company's 2013 season in Pittsfield, MA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMDirector Richard Jones needs no prompting
to create a hallucinatory dreamworld, stuffed full of exotic characters and
fantastical situations. He’s done it
with many an opera but …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:03AMThe Shakespeare Society, under the artistic direction of Michael Sexton, has announced its 2012-13 season of events. Participating artists include Tony nominee Arian Moayed (Bengal Tiger at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMYouTube is the Walmart of online videos. It’s a giant discount department store, stocked full of everything from “people falling down” to “funny babies” and eve…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Tony-winning director Harold Prince will serve as host of the fourth annual Broadway Salutes event on September 20 in Times Square. Prince will be joined by New York City Council Speaker Chr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:59AM'Three Sisters' eliminates the basics with mixed results, while 'The Judas Kiss' tries it again after failing 14 years ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:58AMFirst Night Records really should have packaged their two new releases as one box set – if you want one of them (and you really should) then you will definitely want them both. Unfortunate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMThe Mint Theater Company's production of Allan Monkhouse's 1911 comedy Mary Broome has been extended an additional week of performances through Oct. 21. The first-ever New York reviv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMMurphy Guyer, who has been seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, South Pacific, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and The Graduate, joins the previously announced cast …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:49AM “My View” written by Stephen Sorokoff If you are reading this to find out what kind of show Linda Lavin performed at 54 Below last night, you have my sympathy. You will p…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:49AMCharing Cross Theatre, London: Alan Hruska's new comedy tells the story of Nellie, a professional woman living happily in a small apartment in Manhattan, who feels perfectly at ease in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMThe Culture Project's 10th anniversary production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated begins its limited engagement Off-Broadway Sept. 15 with an official opening Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present the 26th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction 10 AM-7 PM Sept. 23 in Shubert Alley.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMWHAT’CHA GONNA DO? In a poignant moment in Act II of the new musical Chaplin, cultural icon Charlie Chaplin realizes that life is not a movie. One has to take the tears with the laughter, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:39AM‘Chaplin’ star talks about learning famous walk By Colleen Long Associated Press September 17, 2012 NEW YORK — Charlie Chaplin grins from a giant, grainy screen in his trademar…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:32AMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale and full casting is set for GOLDEN CHILD …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:30AMRECOMMENDED Caryl Churchill made her name exploring the politics of sex and gender. In “The Skriker,” she folds post-natal psychoses and fairytales into the mix for a hard watch that’s…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:30AMMalachy McCourt, Bernard Carragher and Belinda McKeon take part in "Celtic Cross-Over," a Sept. 18 discussion of the Irish influence on the culture of American business, at the Bru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMRoom on the Broom, a new musical adaptation of the popular children's book, will play London’s Lyric Theatre for the holidays. Created by the theater company Tall Stories and prese…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMCharlie Chaplin grins from a giant, grainy screen in his trademark hat and oversized pants while the audience finds their seats at the new Broadway musical about the silent screen legend. Pe…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:25AMOscar winner and Tony nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct Keith Bunin’s supernatural drama Ezekiel Moss, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hoffman made his directiorial debut…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMChaplin, the man who changed the way America went to the movies, is now the musical Broadway cant stop talking about Featuring a book by three-time Tony Award winner THOMAS MEEHAN Hairspray,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:19AMSarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, David Schwimmer, and Amy Ryan in Detroit (photo by Jeremy Daniel)As much as I share Charles Isherwood's love for Playwrights Horizons, which in so many ways …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:11AMAndrew Dixon, chief executive of Creative Scotland, has given a robust defence of the body's financial plans to the Scottish Parliament's education and culture committee.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMCheyenne Jackson, who will return to Broadway this season in The Performers, will play The Kennedy Center's Concert Hall Dec. 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMSometimes it takes a while for the title of a play to register its significance, but this was not the case for Martin Sherman’s Passing By. The nature of Toby and Simon’s relationship wa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMIf you want to hear one great operatic voice make your soul vibrate, go hear Sondra Radvanovsky in Anna Bolena. Washington National Opera opened its season Saturday night giving Washington…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMRECOMMENDED Several memorable Mozart productions have been directed by Diane Paulus and conducted by Jane Glover during Brian Dickie’s thirteen-year tenure as general director of Chicago O…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AMStage and screen star Philip Seymour Hoffman, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Death of a Salesman, will direct the new Keith Bunin film "Ezekiel Moss," Anthony Bregman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Stage and screen favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman will direct the upcoming supernatural drama Ezekiel Moss, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film features a screenplay by Keith Bunin.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMThe transition from Broadway to pop stardom isn’t what it once was. A few go the way of Heather Headley to the top of the charts; most go the way of Ethel Merman’s disco album to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:56AMPresley will star in Snow White, adding to the list of US stars who have graced the south-east London stagePriscilla Presley will make her pantomime debut at the New Wimbledon theatre, Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AMPurely Pacific Northwest from John Eklund on Vimeo.Notes from John Eklund: I am a photographer from Portland, Oregon. I want to share the beautiful NW region through my eyes with time-l…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:47AMSophie Lancaster, the young woman killed in a Lancashire park in 2007 for being a goth, has inspired a series of artistic tributes, the latest of which is a stage play about her tragically s…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:45AMIn honor of the 100th anniversary of the tragic Titanic voyage, Musical Theatre Guild will opens its 17th season with the Tony-winning Maury Yeston-Peter Stone musical Titanic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AM"The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music's Biggest Night" will be broadcast Dec. 5 beginning at 10 PM ET on CBS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the opening night fun on Monday, September 17th - check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMIf there’s a theme that runs through what I admire about Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants, Howard Barker’s plays, Marilyn Nonken’s music, it is something that might be sub…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:24AMRichard Thomas, who is currently back on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of An Enemy of the People, has been named as Honorary Chair of National Corporate Theatre Fund.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMIn Part Two of Taking SHAPE actors Frank Britton and Dane Figueroa Edidi introduce us to their characters Billy and Cordelia McClain. From Frank Britton (Billy McClain): When my journey w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang, Michael Feinstein, Chris Botti, Maria Friedman, Brian dArcy James, Carter Brey, Essential Voices USA, former cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMBringing a vast novel such as Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist” to the stage demands compromise.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:49AMMamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who took “The X Factor” by storm when her audition aired last week, is getting more airtime. Her mom tells me Carly will be on NBC’…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:46AMLegit News:
Philanthropist backed theaters including the Kennedy Center
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30AMHull Truck Theatre: It is as if a grand Victorian dame has finally been allowed to unloosen her corset.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMGate Theatre, London: A robust inaugural season at the Gate from artistic director Christopher Haydon ends a little under the weather.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMLiam Neeson, Gary Barlow and Joss Stone have lent their voices to a new recording of War of the Worlds, which embarks on a new UK tour later this year.
Barlow and Stone lead the vocals on …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
The GALA Hispanic Theatre has launched its 37th season with a bracing, not-to-be-missed U.S. premiere of a comic masterpiece by Agustin Moreto, a Spanish Catholic priest and contemporary of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AMLike all the rest of the suckers, the Countess and I tuned into the premiere of the new NBC show Revolution last night, attracted by the sexy lure of apocalypse promised in the relentless ad…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:55AMLegit News:
Fringe hit opens season; Kneehigh returns
SOURCE: Variety at 07:41AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #231 Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (for my full squib on him go here). We all know about that voice; today we celebrate his feet: To find…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:23AMTonight at The Morgan in Bushwick. BUSHWICK BURLESQUE’s ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW … Starring their special guests . . . GIN MINSKY LEFTY LUCY FEM APPEAL FANCY FEAST and Bushwick …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:14AMA brilliant bit of pre-Halloween season programming at the Barnum museum today, starring their mummy Pa-Ib! Step Right up, Grab Your Pith Helmet and Bullwhip! Your adventure awaits �…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:02AMPerry Pontac writes: After retiring from the stage in the late 1980s, John Moffatt (obituary, 17 September) largely concentrated on BBC radio drama work. He was incomparable. He appeared in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMKelsey Verzotti, 17, who sang “Good Morning, Baltimore” is first to be eliminated in reality TV series Over the Rainbow, which chronicles the search for a young woman to star as Dorothy …
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM
TweetSo this weekend I got dumped by my ex b/f because I wouldn’t drive him home because I had a drink with dinner. He told me that because I always have him take a cab (even though I …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 06:57AMDigital Theatre, which records theatrical productions for digital download, has announced a new partnership with Samsung Smart TVs.
The Samsung app allows viewers to watch productions on t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:40AMNew BBC director general George Entwistle has vowed to "raise the creative quality" of the Corporation's output.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMPlayhouse, London: Charles Dickens had a lifelong passion for performance and the theatre. At an early age his father encouraged him to recite poetry in a local pub and he retained the abili…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMRose Theatre, Kingston: Somerset Maugham is scarcely cutting edge, yet this impassioned 1929 drama about a mercy killing seems oddly topical given ongoing preoccupation with how and when we …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMColiseum, London: ENO's first new production of the season brings to the Coliseum Richard Jones' staging of Martinu's surrealistic dreamscape, already seen in Paris and Geneva…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMTo revive a long-defunct play is dicing with death for a touring theatre company - was the play ahead of its time, or was it not good enough in any time? W Somerset Maugham was a commercial …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" chats with playwright/performer Josh Mesnik about his New York International Fringe show "Have I Got A Girl For You," which is featured in the Fringe Encore Series from Septem…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMFans of Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes' silky vocals have two new reasons to celebrate: her debut solo CD, Dream A Little Dream: Live at the Café Carlyle (Broadway Records), and the New Yor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AM
Brush up your Chekhov - Christopher Durang's newest comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, is premiering at McCarter Theater Center in Princeton and on its way to New York's Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:51AMSignature Theatre James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director Erika Mallin, Executive Director welcomes Claire van der Boom HBO's The Pacific amp CBS' Hawaii Five-0 to the cast of Sam Shepard…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAs previously reported by the Daily Mail, Roger Rees is bringing his one-man show What You Will about Shakespeare to the West End's Apollo on Shaftesbury Avenue tonight, September 18 to Octo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLa Jolla Playhouse previously announced the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of David Mamets Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Playhouse Artistic Dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAbout a month ago I wrote about how our accreditation team used games to get the leadership ready for the accreditation process coming up this year. I had noted that while accreditation is a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:27AMSeason three of NBCs The Voice hit the ground running last week, and tonight, September 17, marks the start to week two. The talent was top-notch, which meant coaches Blake Shelton, Adam Lev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06AMFifty-five years ago yesterday, Louis Armstrong gave an interview in which he spoke out publicly about Orval Faubus' unsuccessful attempt...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom 2003: Every time I see a Pixar movie, I think of the dead end down which the Disney animators...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"It does not matter how badly you paint, so long as you don't paint badly like other people." George Moore,...
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By Peter Filichia –
Remember the 1965 film The Great Race?
In it, the famous ‘20s daredevil known as The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is intent on getting lovely journalist Maggie DuBoi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AMI Want To Live!Potboilers and our livesby Gaëtan L. CharleboisWhen I was a kid, my mother plunked me in front of our TV and made me watch a potboiler called I Want to Live! Starring Susan H…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTaylor Louderman, who is making her Broadway debut as Campbell in Bring It On: The Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMembers of the entertainment industry, including Barbra Streisand and veteran cast members from A Chorus Line, gather Sept. 18 to pay tribute to late Academy and Tony Award-winning composer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Laura Osnes: Dream A Little Dream – Live At The Café Carlyle" is released Sept. 18 on the Broadway Records label.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Patti LuPone, who sold out her extended engagement as the opening act at 54 Below in June, returns to the intimate nightlife spot for an encore run beginning Sept. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSanaa Lathan reprises her New York City role of a maid-turned-movie star in By the Way, Meet Vera Stark starting Sept. 18 when Lynn Nottage's satiric comedy makes its West Coast pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe City Center Encores! concert cast recording of Pipe Dream, Rodgers & Hammerstein's tuneful 1955 oddity inspired by John Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday," is in st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Tony nominee Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer star in the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's acclaimed suburban-set p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre begins its 2012-13 season on Sept. 18 with the first preview of Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts. Opening night is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1911 Disraeli, a new drama, opens tonight on Broadway at the Wallack's Theatre. It stars George Arliss as the British prime minister in this play by Louis N. Parker. Arliss' memorabl…
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