In the final installment of The Road to Chicago, Billy Ray Cyrus makes his grand Broadway debut as Chicago's newest Billy Flynn! Watch him go big (not down in flames!) and take on "…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:51PMTheater fans had plenty of juicy videos to enjoy this week on Broadway.com, including a preview of Amber Riley’s NYC theatrical debut, a pair of Annie features and more. In case you mi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:51PMDisney’s The Lion King continues to wow theatergoers, and on November 13 the blockbuster show will celebrate its 15th year on Broadway! To mark the milestone Broadway.com wil…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:51PMLes Miserables will hit movie theaters in a few short weeks, and after feasting our eyes on the movie’s first emotional trailer, we absolutely couldn’t wait to “hear the pe…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:51PMThe Public Theater’s production of Wild With Happy, written by and starring Tony nominee Colman Domingo, has announced a one-week extension. The Robert O’Hara-helmed play will en…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMAs everyone heads home this evening to watch the election returns, wring hands, and wonder about what’s to come over the next four years, we ask you to take a moment and reflect upon w…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:46PMA powerful and sexy new comedy from the creator of “Smash.” Jeff Goldblum is no “easy A”. When his Seminar turns writing into a contact sport, words and sex become in…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMThe Oval Office descends into a three-ring circus of political incorrectness in this riotous farce about an unpopular president desperate to be re-elected. Ed Begley Jr. (“Arrested Dev…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMPlaying at International City Theatre in Long Beach, CA October 9 – November 4, 2012 Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. & Murray Horwitz Directed by Saundra McClain Musical Direction…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMJUSTIN LOVE – THE BEST REVIEWED NEW LOS ANGELES MUSICAL OF 2012 – TRAILER http://www.celebrationtheatre.com/onstage.html
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMTony Award® winner Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles) dazzles Broadway audiences again in this delightful new production of the timeless classic Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Jamie Lloyd …
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMA powerful and sexy new comedy from the creator of “Smash.” Jeff Goldblum is no “easy A”. When his Seminar turns writing into a contact sport, words and sex become in…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMThe only Tony Award-winning musical to ever proclaim “It Sucks To Be Us” Book by Jeff Whitty Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Directed by Richard Israel Musical Direction b…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PMAdapted by Christina Calvit from the novel by Jane Austen Featuring Diane Adair, Jane Carr, Chloe Dworkin, Nicholas Hormann, Julia McIlvaine, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Darren Richardson, Jill Ren…
Linked From Footlights at 05:44PM A top choreographer uses rookies for her BAM show Perhaps the most common reason your Average Joe hesitates to get up and dance is a lack of training. But for Jake Shakleton and Micha…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 05:43PMDan Daley sends Praxis a letter from Palestine where he was touring with Arthur Milner’s Facts: Palestine: how much do you know about it? In the little town of Bethlehem on the closing…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 05:43PMIt’s difficult to make out a lot of what is happening in “Ich, Kürbisgeist,” which has its own dialect, but it is still, somehow, powerful.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe Public Theater has extended the world premiere of Wild With Happy, an absurdist-flavored new play about family, death and healing written by and starring Tony Award nominee Colman D…
Linked From Playbill at 05:34PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin celebrates his birthday this week. Playbill.com takes a look back at some of his stage highlights.
Linked From Playbill at 05:34PMiLuminate will present the world premiere of their show iLuminate's: Artist of Light, November 23-January 5 at The Duke on 42nd Street.Miral Kotb will direct the show, which features origina…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:34PMNewsies stars Corey Cott and Kara Lindsay are among the performers who will sing songs of hope, love, and the musical Grease during Oh Sandy, a benefit concert to be held Tuesday, November 1…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:34PMDrama Desk and Theatre World Award winner Kevin Anderson has joined the cast of Steppenwolf Theatre's upcoming production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, which will begin performances…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:34PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editor, Jeffrey Ellis, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Tennessee Awards.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMGrammy and Tony award winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik will headline Michele Clarks Sunset Session Tour 2012 kicking off at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas on November 9. She…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMSaycon Sengbloh Hair, Fela, Wicked, Sarah Stiles Into The Woods, Chris Jackson In The Heights, and Lady Rizo Lady Rizo Unescorted Joe's Pub, The Lily's Revenge lead the lineup of performers…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editor, Jeffrey Ellis, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Nashville Awards.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMBroadwayWorld.com, the premier theater news website in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and in more than 20 other countries, has expanded, updated, and is now ready for this years B…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMThe producers of Glengarry Glen Ross is set to open on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street. The limited run will be extended through Sunday, Janu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editors, Emma Cambey, Tim Carney, Jacqueline Bublitz, and Henry Sachwald, we are VERY excited to announce that voting…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMCHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin played by Rob McClure, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meeh…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMOn March 8, 2013, one of Broadways favorite leading men, Ryan Silverman, will appear with The New York Pops for Come Fly With Me The Songs of Sammy Cahn. Mr. Silverman has previously appeare…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:34PM“I’m the big Miller advocate,” said Susan Marie Rhea, associate artistic director of Keegan Theatre. She means Arthur Miller, the playwright for whom she harbors “a particular passio…
Linked From Washington Post at 05:29PMIf Kristin Chenoweth’s personal elán and ability to elate an audience could be mass-produced, the quest for global peace would be over, as Monday night’s Segerstrom Concert Hall…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:21PMReview: "The Medium" is dark, humorous, and just a little campy. Running through this Sunday, November 11, I would catch it while you still can!
Linked From Call Me Adam at 05:21PMWhat are you most afraid of? Posing that question directly to the audience at the outset of his “Smoke and Mirrors” theatrical magic show at the Promenade Playhouse in Santa Moni…
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When the Apples sit down for dinner in Richard Nelson’s newest play Sorry (the third in the Apple Family series), the stakes will be even higher—it’s the day of the 2012 pr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:50PMPeter and the Starcatcher's Eric Petersen will star opposite Kirstie Alley and Rhea Pearlman in the upcoming TV Land pilot Giant Baby, according to Deadline.com.
Created by Marco…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:50PMFor the first time, in over a year, Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark has grossed less than $1 million dollars. Hurricane Sandy is completely to blame for this, as many shows were dark for at l…
Linked From The Broadway Critic Blog at 04:45PMLike many people under the age of 50, Chris Forsyth has never known a world without the Rolling Stones. He remembers hearing “Street Fightin’ Man,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and the …
Linked From citypaper.com at 04:38PMWhen Michael Brush graduated from Towson in 2009, he found many of his friends in the Baltimore area were moving away.
Linked From citypaper.com at 04:38PMNew History
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New History, the current show at Guest Spot’s new Calvert Street location, brings together fo…
Linked From citypaper.com at 04:38PMTrap Door Theatre is a proud participant in the international reading scheme for 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich’s new play Spark. The script-reading scheme has been deve…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 04:37PMLyric Opera of Chicago’s general director Anthony Freud announced today the principal casting and production team for the company premiere and new production of Oklahoma! to be present…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 04:37PMThe Game Show Network's "The Newlywed Game" will air a special segment featuring newlywed Broadway performers Nov. 8.
Linked From Playbill at 04:33PMThe Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sharks in a real-estate office, began previews Oct. 19 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, …
Linked From Playbill at 04:33PMCalling all fans of Les Miserables: We've given you the posters, the secrets of the screenplay, and some first-look interviews.Now, we're bringing you the newly released 30-second TV trailer…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:33PMAs a performer, Lorraine Chapman has few peers in the area. Her body has been forged exquisitely in the ballet studio, and further honed by her early professional career as a ballet dancer.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 04:33PMJust yesterday, the cast and creative team spoke with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge at a special press preview- but a key player was missing. Tony nominee Joshua Henry, who is currently abr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMThe Civilians Steven Cosson, Artistic Director, the award-winning New York-based theater company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents a one-night-only concert performa…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMThe Playwrights Horizons' production of The Whale, the New York premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter A Bright New Boise, opened last night, November 5 at 7PM at Playw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMBroadway favorite Magan Hilty recently posed for the November 2012 issue of Vegas magazine. Hilty will be featured on the cover of the issue, and you can check out a behind the scenes look a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMThe Screen Actors Guild Foundation amp BWW Announce New Partnership on Conversations QampA Series and Expansion of 'Backstage with Richard Ridge'
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMThe PETER AND THE STARCATCHER elections have come and gone, your votes have been tallied and Neverland has a new President...Who is it Read on to find out
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editor, Antonino Prattic, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Italy Awards.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editor, Michelle Petrucci, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Florida Awards.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMLES MISERABLES doesn't hit the silver screen until Christmas Day, but in the meantime watch the just-released new TV spot for the film below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is thrilled to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Dance Company of the Week Mu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMCasting is complete for Steppenwolf Theatre Companys upcoming production of Harold Pinters The Birthday Party, under the direction of ensemble member Austin Pendleton. Ensemble member Kevin …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMWith over 1 million fans on Facebook, the Broadway blockbuster Wicked is taking the next step in mobile interaction by offering its fans a free app, which launched Tuesday, October 30, on th…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:30PMJohn Murphy and Laara Sadiq (photo credit: Tim Matheson)Feats of Literatureby David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesIn Greek mythology the Lernaean Hydra is a many-headed beast. Cut off a head and tw…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 04:28PM“NBC’s ‘SMASH’: MAKE A MUSICAL” Muskegon High School Muskegon, MI Reported by: Cynthia Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher October 1, 2012 …
Linked From Music Theatre International at 04:25PMSAN FRANCISCO — Imagine the police surprise when, during a routine 1967 raid on a party in the Haight-Ashbury district, they hauled in not only weed and hippies but also two of the world…
Linked From Washington Post at 04:17PMThe idea that a person might have sex with a robot came my way via the movie Westworld. Michael Crichton wrote that story about a theme park full of robots where you go to live your Wild Wes…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:13PMLegit News:
B.O. impact estimated at $8.5 million in losses
Linked From Variety at 04:09PMCharles Morey’s spry adaptation of “The Marriage of Figaro” taps 21st-century parallels to Beaumarchais’s original skewering of the rich and powerful.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMThe show's producer says the unusual delay is a matter of logistics, not an effort to sell more tickets before critics weigh in.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMPolka Theatre, London: This jolly little show gives us quiet but boring Mr Polaro (Samuel Jameson complete with white ursine furry legs) being invaded by fun-loving penguins, led by Clare Fr…
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Broadway will finally be back to its normal schedule this week after being dark while Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City last week. A true icon and one of the city's biggest econ…
Linked From Ticket News at 03:56PMBroadway shows reported declines in box-office revenue across the board last week following super storm Sandy. Total Broadway grosses were $13.6 million for the week ending Sunday, down abou…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:56PMThe Surflight Theatre and New Jersey Repertory Company have yet to open
Linked From NJ.com at 03:56PMPreliminary applications are now open for NYTW's Fellowship program, which has been re-imagined as: The 2050 Fellowships. Here's the official announcement from our friends on E. 4th Street: …
Linked From Extra Criticum at 03:56PMNew Jersey resident Carolee Carmello stars
Linked From NJ.com at 03:56PMCountry music star Billy Ray Cyrus made his Broadway debut on November 5 as sly and cunning lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical Chicago. With a now-classic story and score from Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:50PMThe York Theatre Company will present a one-night-only performance of the 1976 off-Broadway revue Starting Here, Starting Now, reuniting original cast members Loni Ackerman, Margery Cohen an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:50PMEmotional Creature, the latest work from Tony winner Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), explores what it is to be a girl—all the joys and thrills, the rites of passage, the growi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:50PMPeter and the Starcatcher's Eric Petersen will star opposite Kirstie Alley and Rhea Pearlman in the upcoming TV Land pilot Giant Baby, according to Deadline.com.
Created by Marco…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:50PMSoho Rep presents We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
Linked From Off-Off Blogway at 03:35PMOprah visits the larger-than-life Bette Midler at her home in New York City to discuss her legendary career and latest movie with Billy Crystal. Get a sneak peek below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMFrom the groundbreaking TV series Your Show of Shows to landmark films like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks has been one of the most influential voices in comedy. Now, thi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMThe cast and creative team gave a special press preview yesterday, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say and watch a preview…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMThe Presidential Election isn't the only vote happening this month. Welcome to the 2012 BroadwayWorld New York Cabaret Awards. After receiving more than 3,000 nominations since we launched t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editors, Paul W. Thompson, M. William Panek and Misha Davenport, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMAfter a record number of nominations, and careful proofing by our local editor, Marakay Rogers, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Central PA Awards.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:32PM1854 Birthday of John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), composer of countless marches, who also found time to write Broadway musicals including Chris and the Wonderful Lamp (1900), The Free Lance (1…
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Howard McGillin celebrates his birthday this week. Playbill.com takes a look back at some of his stage highlights.
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMNew Manhattan nightspot 54 Below, which features a starry lineup of Broadway favorites, has announced its schedule for December. Tony winner Patti LuPone, Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Adam …
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMTony-nominated singing actress Andrea McArdle, who created the title role in the original Broadway production of Annie, has two new albums set for release on Broadway Records.
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMTony Award winner Michael Cerveris and Tony Award nominee Patina Miller both celebrate birthdays on Nov. 6. Playbill.com is looking back at their careers on stage to mark the occasion.
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMA host of theatre talents will join forces Nov. 13 for a concert to raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Sandy in Staten Island.
Linked From Playbill at 03:31PMFrom Twitter to Facebook and even Instagram, the Broadway community is finding creative ways to engage their fans in supporting Hurricane Sandy relief efforts with calls to action including …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:31PMThe previously announced Abingdon Theatre Company annual benefit gala has been rescheduled until November 19 at Espace. It was originally scheduled for Monday, October 29, but was cancelled…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:31PMWriter West Liang and director Justin Huen don't let cloudy weather in Hollywood lure them into indolence -- they turn to the theater. Liang's Their Eyes Saw Rain opens Saturday at Company o…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 03:27PMFestival will start accepting applications from performers at midnight on Jan. 19.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 03:24PMAs I write this, it's Wednesday and I'm in Cincinnati, far from the home and computer that I love, not to mention all my Leftover notes. I came here last Friday to see the Cincinnati Conserv…
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In the newest episode of The King of New York, Newsies star Corey Cott gets the stories behind the many Broadway debuts of his cast and also urges all the fansies to…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:49PMThirteen years ago, Dena Hammerstein had a big idea: to bring interactive theater, performed by professional actors, to children in NYC hospitals and care facilities. She founded the nonprof…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:49PMThere's something undeniably watchable and winning about "Memphis," the eager-to-please musical now at the Community Center Theater. It's not the slick, superficial story of music and race i…
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 02:32PMThe Shakespeare's Globe touring company of London will bring "Hamlet" to the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts tonight.
Michael Benz plays the title role in "Hamlet" in a productio…
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 02:32PMThe Public Theater presents the world premiere production of Richard Nelsons new play SORRY. SORRY, play three of The Apple Family Plays, takes place over a meal during the day the country w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMCarnegie Hall today announced information updates for a number of upcoming concerts that have been rescheduled, cancelled, or moved to alternative venues due to the ongoing closure of West 5…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMThe Playwrights Horizons' production of The Whale, the New York premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter A Bright New Boise, opened last night, November 5 at 7PM at Playw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, celebrates its 7th Anniversary on Broadway today, Tuesday, November 6. Take a look back at the past 7 years below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMHappy Birthday Michael Cerveris Cerveris, who currently plays Juan Peron in Evita, has also appeared on Broadway in In the Next Room or the vibrator play, Cymbeline, LoveMusik, Sweeney Todd,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMWhat better way to celebrate the New Year than with a Broadway show Before heading out, plan ahead and take note of the special holiday playing schedule for the week of December 31 thru Janu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMIt's the Broadway musical that was, then wasn't. On December 3, join the intrepid cast of the ill-fated Rebecca when they gather on the 54 Below stage for one night only in Keep the Home Fir…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY columnist Mark Harris sat down with Pultizer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner to discuss the highly anticipated film LINCOLN. Kushner, best known for Broadway's An…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:31PM"Better Nate Than Ever," about a young show-tune fanatic who gets the chance of a lifetime to audition for a Broadway musical of "E.T.," will be released by Simon and Sch…
Linked From Playbill at 02:30PMPulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and Richard Rodgers Award-winning librettist Mark Campbell have adapted the 1959 political thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" as an oper…
Linked From Playbill at 02:30PMThe Broadway company of Chaplin, about the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, recorded the show's original cast album on Nov. 5. Masterworks Broadway will produce.
Linked From Playbill at 02:30PMThe Apple family of Rhinebeck, NY, is reunited for Richard Nelson's Sorry, the latest work in his collection of political plays about an American family, which officially opens Off-…
Linked From Playbill at 02:30PMThe cast of the new Broadway musical Newsies will perform on the Nov. 13 episode of ABC's “Dancing with the Stars: All Stars."
Linked From Playbill at 02:30PMBroadway may be up and running, but lower Manhattan is still without power, which means many of the city's art venues have been scrambling. Canceled performances, impromptu rehearsals and lo…
Linked From National Public Radio at 02:30PMNew York's theater workers mobilized to get their shows back up and running by Wednesday. But with no trains, very few buses and massive traffic jams, the commute wasn't easy. One actress ha…
Linked From National Public Radio at 02:30PMNot that we need additional evidence, but anyone who doubts the quality of musical-theater talent in Kansas City should check out "Shrek the Musical" at the Coterie.
Linked From The Kansas City Star at 02:30PMFew playwrights capture male narcissism as accurately or as unsparingly as Neil LaBute.
Linked From The Kansas City Star at 02:30PMViva Forever is the new show featuring songs associated with the girl power five and tells the story of Viva and her friends trying to make it as pop stars.
Linked From Daily Mail at 02:30PMMarilyn Maye's a trip. The veteran club singer, now in her 80s, produced 90 minutes of music and banter for an enthusiastic audience Thursday night at Quality Hill Playhouse. She had the cro…
Linked From The Kansas City Star at 02:30PMViva Forever is the new show featuring songs associated with the girl power five and tells the story of Viva and her friends trying to make it as pop stars.
Linked From Daily Mail at 02:30PMHelen Mirren, in her Queen guise, will have a 'tempestuous relationship' with Haydn Gwynne, pictured, in new play The Audience, which is written by Peter Morgan.
Linked From Daily Mail at 02:30PMWhen playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury went to see the dance company Grupo Corpo at BAM, it reminded her of how profoundly restorative live performance can be.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 02:30PMHurricane Sandy, dubbed Franken Storm wreaked havoc on the East Coast earlier this week. Join Candi and Randy as they talk Sandy, the upcoming Election and Broadway. Tune and find out what a…
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Linked From fords.org at 02:30PMChristie Brinkley has finally mastered all that jazz.
The world's greatest supermodel (sorry, Gisele, it's true)...
Linked From Boston Herald at 02:30PM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with T. Oliver Reid. This time around we discuss his debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency with his new show "Drop Me Off in Harlem" from November 28-December…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 02:30PMReview: "Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking": An evening of genius and laughter!
Linked From Call Me Adam at 02:30PMA new advertisement for Madison Square Garden that is plastered all over Manhattan reads as follows: “It’s Friday night. You can either see a Broadway harness malfunction or you …
Linked From Carey Purcell at 02:30PM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with T. Oliver Reid. This time around we discuss his debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency with his new show "Drop Me Off in Harlem" from November 28-December…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 02:30PMWith a cast of 14, most playing multiple roles, TRTC presents the play in a modern, elegant staging
Linked From NJ.com at 02:29PMPerformances resume at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and others.
Linked From NJ.com at 02:29PMDe Shields plays W.E.B. Dubois in a play about his daughter's ill-fated marriage
Linked From NJ.com at 02:29PMElevator Repair Service adapts 'The Sun Also Rises'
Linked From NJ.com at 02:29PMShaker Heights native Russell G. Jones has carved out an enviable career on the New York stage, where he has built a reputation as "an artist's artist," says "Whipping Man&quo…
Linked From Cleveland.com at 02:29PMIt’s rare to see a completely astounding production. Even rarer, a completely astounding production of Chekhov. But Rimas Tuminas’s production for Vakhtangov Theatre is exactly that R…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 02:29PMSinger, songwriter, actor and multi-platinum recording artist Billy Ray Cyrus makes his Broadway stage debut in Chicago as “that silver-tongued prince of the courtroom,” slick c…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:29PMBroadway favorites John Cudia and Ashley Brown will star as Curly and Laurey in Lyric Theatre of Chicago's upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, playing May 4-19. The p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:29PMHurricane Sandy, which darkened Broadway while smashing into the eastern U.S. last week, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with shows losing more than $6 million from …
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 02:22PMAN AUGUST PROJECT In many ways, playwright August Strindberg’s influence in the theater has been far more significant than his public reception. While theater historians and scholars speak…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMTWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE PLAY Developed by Raven Theatre’s Workshop Series, these ten hit-and-run “playlettes” by John Weagly take only 52 minutes to rearrange reality into quirky juxt…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMTHERE’S A HOLE IN DONUTS’ PROMISING STORY Arthur Przybyszewski, the gray bearded and ponytailed proprietor of a donut shop in Chicago, enters his store one morning to find it vandalized.…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMRED AND BROWN IS THEATRICAL GOLD Los Angeles is usually the last major theater city in the states to see productions of playwrights whose works have received praise in their world premiere…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMTHAT’S AMORE I hope San Franciscans actually know how advantaged they are to have a company like 42nd Street Moon, which presents fully staged productions of rarely-seen musicals. Whil…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMATTENTION MUST BE PAID Bootleg Theater continues its run of the world premiere of Death of a Salesgirl, an absurdist tragicomedy with integrated media, about one woman’s struggle to free…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMFLEET FEET, HOLLOW HEART When notes jostled in and out of the written score during the overture of Musical Theatre West’s 42nd Street, it portended a production that doesn’t have all the…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMHERE. THEN. NOW. WHEN? WHAT? WHY? Which 1970’s TV show had the nicest Nazi’s—was it Wonder Woman or Hogan’s Heroes? Which cartoon character is stoned most of the time—was it Shaggy…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMFORGET YOUR TROUBLES. COME ON, GET HAPPY. When the lights go up on Wild With Happy, we see Colman Domingo, in cool shades and wearing his best Paris-Is-Burning attitude, speak his opening …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMMAXWELL COUNTRY: WHERE HEROES ROAM There is only one Richard Maxwell and, in his extraordinarily textured Neutral Hero, he has gone back to his roots. For those of us who have longed for t…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMNOT SURE WHAT IT IS BUT I LIKE IT Staged in the basement of The Chocolate Factory, with exposed pipes, beams and support columns, the drawbacks of Sibyl Kempson’s wonderfully inventive new…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMMONKEY BUSINESS Barrel of Monkeys has spent more than 10 years teaching writing workshops at Chicago schools, but they are best known for turning the creative writing from elementary school …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMTHE SHTICK MAY DETRACT FROM THE PLAY, BUT JUST TRY TO RIVAL THE ACTORS’ GANG The Rivals (1775), Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s wonderful Comedy of Manners, is a play about pretension; every…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMLESS ADO IS STILL MUCH ADO Shakespeare’s plays tend to be longer than those of contemporary playwrights, typically running 120-150 minutes. This leads many theatre directors to wonder …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMHurricane Sandy definitely had an effect on Broadway ticket sales through the week ending October 28. All but four shows on the Great White Way experienced a decrease, and gross ticket sales…
Linked From Ticket News at 02:18PM"Giant" is a musical about a love story based on the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber. Previews began Off-Broadway at The Public's Newman Theater, 425 Lafayette Str…
Linked From Ticket News at 02:18PMTicketfly, a leading social ticketing platform, announced major upgrades to its social sharing tools, purchasing process, and mobile delivery options including Apple Passbook integration. Th…
Linked From Ticket News at 02:18PMOrganizers have officially announced the second-annual TEDxBroadway, a daylong conference that brings together leaders in academics, entertainment, marketing and media to discuss the issues …
Linked From Ticket News at 02:18PMWhen the curtains open on Arena Stage’s production of My Fair Lady tomorrow, the spotlight will be on a distinctly different leading lady: The role of Eliza Doolittle, the unrefined street…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 02:17PMDavid Rothenberg talks about his varied life, which has included Broadway's bright lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American civil war. He’ll …
Linked From WNYC at 02:16PMMichael Shannon and Ed Asner talk about their roles in the play “Grace,” on Broadway. It’s a gripping dark comedy, written by Craig Wright, that asks: are we in control of our lives…
Linked From WNYC at 02:16PMWe’ll be bringing you continuing coverage of Hurricane Sandy as the storm moves through our area. Then Michael Shannon and Ed Asner discuss their roles in the new Broadway play “Grace.…
Linked From WNYC at 02:16PMIn “The Whale,” Charlie’s days are numbered because his weight is off the charts.
He tips the scale at 600 pounds in Samuel D. Hunter’s deeply affecting and piercingly…
Linked From New York Daily News at 02:13PMNoel Coward, LondonYou could hardly have a greater contrast than between the stolid Uncle Vanya that has just opened at the Vaudeville and this mercurially brilliant import from Moscow's Vak…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMYoung Vic, LondonA "blackta" is a black actor, often cast as the token non-white character in a TV drama. When there is only one role, the competition is fierce, so the group of black male a…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMSadler's Wells, LondonAs a gaunt man slowly raises a flute and exhales into it raggedly, an unearthly noise emerges: a blend of ascending siren whistles and long, rasping sighs like the groa…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMPeter Hall has apologised for interrupting a West End performance. But talking back used to be commonplace in the theatre – and perhaps we should have more of itPeter Hall's much-publicise…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMTwo theatre studies tutors knew their college days were numbered because of budget cuts. So they set up their onw theatre - and have thrived. Bernadette Hyland reportsCuts in arts funding, w…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMOrchard theatre, DartfordI don't think you should ever have to grow up, says Greg Davies – and the Inbetweeners and Cuckoo star puts the point into practice in his new touring show. You m…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMSeen a dull or bad show recently? If you are a regular theatregoer you almost certainly will have done. Artists need to embrace criticism if they're going to fail betterThere's a story about…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMIt's the done thing on Broadway to shower star names with applause the moment they enter. I can't be the only one to find this tradition ridiculousOn a recent trip to New York, I was depress…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMWrens Hotel, LeedsThe theatre is a good place to nurse a broken heart. Sitting in the dark and hearing stories can help heal the wound. Ellie Harrison takes that idea much further in The Res…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMMusical's latest incarnation on Broadway is a crowd-pleaser in a city that desperately needs some cheering up after SandyI've never been a big fan of Annie the musical. The score is great, I…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMSitcom co-created by Mark Ravenhill is written by co-producer whose credits include Family Guy and Will & GraceSir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi are to star in a new ITV1 comedy as a gay cou…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMSadler's Wells, LondonThe Gates of Hell, a monumental sculpture by Auguste Rodin, was commissioned in 1880. The work depicts a scene from Dante's Inferno, and its form was inspired by the br…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMJerwood Theatre Upstairs/Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London SW1Enron, DC Moore, Clybourne Park, Nina Raine, Posh, Anya Reiss, Love and Information, Polly Stenham, Sucker Punch. …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMNirvana singer's widow scotches Broadway show rumour and vows that she won't give in to commercialisation of his legacyHe is revered as the last true rock god and his band, Nirvana, created …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterThis wild confection of southern belle pettiness, redneck malevolence and racist viciousness takes pretty much every trope of the deep south, laces them with poetic…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMHampstead, LondonWhen Jane was young and desperate to escape her alcoholic mother, she would take refuge with her friend Ray. Ray's family would feed her but always send her back. Now as the…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMVaudeville, LondonHow do you play Anton Chekhov today? After the liberating unorthodoxy of the Young Vic's Three Sisters, we are back to normal with Lindsay Posner's production of Uncle Vany…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMFrom a sparkling satire on lad's-mag culture to Anna Friel's debut opposite Ken Stott in a glossy West End Uncle Vanya
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonShakespeare's great revenge comedy gains immeasurably from being staged in modern dress. But, while other directors have opted for the materiali…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMWith theatre critics swamped by new shows, make-or-break performances are fast becoming obsolete. Does it matter?Is the traditional press night an endangered species? It feels as if that mig…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMNick Payne might only be 28, but he's already dazzled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. As his hit play Constellations transfers to the West End, he talks to Maddy Costa about science…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMThe erstwhile star of Cats returns to watch some young successors in Calder Valley where he took summer acting courses as a young man. Josh Elderfield reportsActor Brian Blessed, who played …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMRoyal Court, LondonLucy Kirkwood's new play is bright, sharp, funny and 80 minutes long. And, while one can never legislate for length, I found myself craving more: I wanted to see Kirkwood,…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMFrom the Woman in Black to killers in thrillers, theatre has plenty of characters that shock – but it takes Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth to well and truly terrify • Spoiler alert: this blo…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMNew Diorama, LondonKieran Lynn recently had a success at the Finborough with An Incident at the Border, and here's one he made earlier, produced by Exeter's thriving Bike Shed theatre. You c…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMWhat's the right way to do Chekhov? With lace tablecloths and endless cups of tea – or a blast of Nirvana? Stars from three new productions, including Anna Friel and Ken Stott, talk to Ste…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMExplore Shakespeare apps aim to give people new ways into Macbeth and Romeo and JulietCambridge University Press and developer Agant have teamed up to launch two iPad apps providing an inter…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMThe Royal Court is attempting to solve its ticket problems for Jez Butterworth's The River by making some only available on the day. Is it a solution?You've heard the buzz, you've read the g…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMActors calls for public debate with RSC to discuss casting concerns in production of so-called Chinese HamletA group of east Asian actors is seeking an apology from the Royal Shakespeare Com…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMThe Manchester Guardian meets Harry Houdini in 1904Harry Houdini - the anniversary of whose death falls, appropriately enough, on Halloween - was known throughout his lifetime as the handcuf…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMSoho, LondonHeard the one about three Irish labourers digging a road? Colin Teevan's latest play is no joke, however, mixing stories of Irish exile with Greek myth. The three men – young, …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMPlaywright's piece laments nation turned into 'captive market' where public life exhibits a 'diminution of magnanimity'Plays by Alan Bennett are an event: sold out months ahead and their sub…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMThe media are often accused of using a megaphone – we wanted our coverage to be a conversation. Thanks to your participation, that's exactly what happenedIt's over. The curtain has fallen,…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMThe Orphan of Zhao – the story of a boy who is adopted by the killer of his clan – is one of China's oldest plays. Its adaptor for the RSC explains allI was telling a friend the story of…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMIn this week's roundup: illustrious actors to star in a new sitcom called Vicious Old Queens, and Fey makes her displeasure known at 'grey-faced men' sounding off about rapeThis week's comed…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterHell is relocated to a Mississippi general store in Tennessee Williams' 1957 drama, a play livid with symbolism and awash with poetry. There is something wild and d…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMLike many a printed companion to a play, this column contains spoilers – namely, how dramatists sometimes use programmes to keep audiences in the darkFirst, a warning that this column cont…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMCrucible, SheffieldShelagh Delaney's play, the work of an unknown working-class 18-year-old from Salford, was a big hit in 1958 and became a source of inspiration to a new generati…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMBeware actors! The remarkable old building still has 'kicking boards' to help audiences stamp if they are fed up or bored. Alan Sykes looks roundThe Heritage Lottery Fund has given the Georg…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMWe're used to complaining about unscripted interruptions – but sometimes the external world can affect a play in a good wayBack in the summer, just at the close of DruidMurphy's devastatin…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:09PMIn a way, the ideal cast for “The Heiress,” the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz (now in revival at the Walter Kerr), would have been Henry Fonda and his daughter, Jane. As t…
Linked From The New Yorker Subscription at 02:01PMOn paper, "Les Miserables" seems like the perfect Oscar movie. With its prestigious source material, all-star cast, period setting and epic scope, the film looks poised to garner a…
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Broadway Unplugged set with an All-Star Cast to soar on Monday December 3rd- 8 pm at The Town Hall Producer Scott Siegel announced this morning that tickets will be go on sale today at noon …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMTerese Genneco Drunk With Love: A Tribute To Frances Fay at 54 Below: Frances Faye was known for singing “Gay, gay, gay, is there another way?”
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMJulie Andrews Brings the New Musical Great American Mousical to Goodspeed: One of our stars on the rise Jeremiah James has just landed into Julie Andrews new musical Great American Mousical.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. November 2, 2012 Michael Cerveris, Tony Award winning actor for Sondheim’s Assassins and currently appearing on Broadway in Evita, is moonlighting these nights af…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PM My View – written by Stephen Sorokoff It’s getting very repetitious. How many times and in how many ways can it be said that this couple epitomizes the ultimate in mu…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMOff Broadway is Back: Guide to What is Open: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Performances will resume tonight, 11/3 at 10:00 p.m. with a 7:30 p.m. performance tomorrow, 11/4 at the SoHo Playhous…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMDowntown Theatre is Back with the Delightful The Other Josh Cohen: Super Storm Sandy sidelined the Off-Broadway hit, The Other Josh Cohen now at the SoHo Playhouse which lost power earlier i…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMBroadway is Back and is Offering Discounts: In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many Broadway shows are offering post-hurricane discounts and special offers.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Letter From Tom Viola for Hurricane Relief: One of the most inspiring qualities of our community is its willingness and determination to step up for those a…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PM Today the cult Off-Broadway hit 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche announced that it will be standing with its fellow SoHo Playhouse, Inc. production The Old Man and the Old Moon in giving away fr…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMTheatre Folk Offer Theatre Folks Assistance, See if You Qualify: As people throughout the Tri-State Region continue to suffer the after-effects of Superstorm Sandy, The Actors Fund remains t…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PM Written by Susan Hasho Preceded by a natural disaster called Sandy and arriving at 54 Below on Halloween, Melissa Errico had to create a bridge between reality and her cabaret act fro…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMThe New Kid on Broadway A Christmas Story, The Musical Postphones First Preview Until November 7th Due due to Hurricane Sandy: A Christmas Story, The Musical has announced that, due to Hurri…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PM My View – written by Stephen Sorokoff It was a little scary and not because it happened to be Halloween. Going to see a performer you are not familiar with can be that way. …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMWhen there’s an event as good as this, there can never be too much said. So here’s another writer’s view on one of the most popular musical happenings. Written By –…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMA review of Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of "Antony and Cleopatra," running through Nov. 18, 2012, at Intiman Playhouse at Seattle Center.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 01:56PMA review of the Seattle Repertory Theatre staging of Tennessee Williams' classic "The Glass Menagerie," running through Dec. 2, 2012.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 01:56PMStage director John Langs has been appointed to the new full-time post of associate artistic director at ACT Theatre in Seattle. Langs will join ACT in January 2013.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 01:56PMStarting immediately, Seattle Theater Group will donate $5 from each ticket purchased for the Seattle performances by the Dance Theater of Harlem to the Red Cross, to help East Coast victims…
Linked From The Seattle Times at 01:56PMTheatre Puget Sound handed out the annual Gregory Awards for theater excellence at ACT Theatre on Monday night.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 01:56PMA group of prominent cultural personalities have signed an open letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asking the city to send more relief to the Rockaways, a part of Queens that wa…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMKatie Holmes made her return to Broadway in "Dead Accounts" as the dark comedy began previews Monday night after a delay caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMThe 35-year-old musical about a rags-to-riches orphan is stripped of years of glamour. The approach brings it in line with today's economic concerns. Anyone who's seen "Annie" — and th…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMWith power restored to much of downtown New York over the weekend, many theaters south of Midtown were finally able to open their doors for business following several days of literal darknes…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMNow that Sandy has ceased storming the Eastern Seaboard, “Chicago” has resumed storming the Broadway record book.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMFor voters who think the presidential candidates' agendas for the arts are worth considering along with what they propose for the economy, healthcare, taxes and all the rest, Americans for t…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada -- one of the premiere repertory theater companies in the world -- is undergoing a name change by removing the "Shakespeare" from its title. The …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PM"The Heiress," Ruth and Augustus Goetz's oft-revived 1947 stage adaptation of "Washington Square," Henry James' novel of 1850s New York, is back again -- Thursday was opening night for the l…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMKatie Holmes will have to wait two more days before she begins preview performances of the new Teresa Rebeck play "Dead Accounts." The Broadway production has pushed back the start of previe…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMSome major Broadway productions and downtown New York cultural venues remained closed Wednesday as the East Coast continues to get back on its feet following Sandy. Power outages have forced…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMAs the weakening super storm moves west, the lights are blazing again on the Great White Way after several days of closures and perhaps $5 million in lost revenue.NEW YORK – Sandy dimm…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMPeople need to compete and sometimes go to great lengths to do it. A new play imagines a game developer who's in deep.A conversation with Michael Golamco, whose new play "Build" is currently…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMOn Broadway, the name “Sandy” normally calls to mind an adorable canine star – the heroine's sidekick in the musical “Annie,” whose current revival directed by …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMLast week, the Metropolitan Opera presented Thomas Ades’ “The Tempest,” in a new production that used the opera house as a metaphor for the island in the storm. This week, …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMThe new Broadway revival of "The Heiress," with Jessica Chastain and "Downton Abbey" star Dan Stevens, has the bad luck of opening the same week as Hurricane Sandy's big debut. But despite a…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMNeil Patrick Harris will direct a new magic-themed show at the Geffen Playhouse that is set to open on Nov. 27. "Nothing to Hide," featuring magicians Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães,…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:54PMCharcoal drawing by Christopher CanoleOlympic great Jim Thorpe inspires this year's Short Play Festival at the Autry.It's not easy being a Native American athlete. Just ask Dennis Tibbetts. …
Linked From LA Weekly at 01:51PMDavid James © 2012 DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.Tony Kushner (far left chair) on the set of Lincoln with director Ste…
Linked From LA Weekly at 01:51PMThe cast of Loving Silent Tears on stage at the Shrine Auditorium
Kelly Packard "is well known for her acting work on Baywatch," the emcee in a tux told everyone within earshot Saturday aft…
Linked From LA Weekly at 01:51PMJohn FlynnMatthew Elkins (top) and Eric Odom in A Bright New BoiseSamuel D. Hunter's new play at Rogue Machine, A Bright New Boise, takes a probing look at religious zealotry and is this wee…
Linked From LA Weekly at 01:51PMDespite some flaws in the script and pacing issues -- a few scenes needed a swig of Red Bull -- Samuel D. Hunter's 2011 Obie-winning play resonates now more than ever, and the Dobama Theatre…
Linked From Cleveland.com at 01:50PM54 Below is ending 2012 with a bang! The popular Midtown nightclub announced additional performers for November (including Tony winner Levi Kreis, Rent’s Anthony Rapp & more), as w…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:49PMAs Hurricane Sandy made its way through New York, all Broadway shows were forced to cancel at least one performance, and with various transportation systems shut down in the city and surroun…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:49PMAtlantic Theater Company is gearing up for its second mainstage play of the season, the world premiere of Melissa James Gibson’s What Rhymes With America. Directed by Gibson’s fr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:49PMIt's been nearly 25 years since John Malkovich scorched up the big screen in Dangerous Liasons, and the the actor is still fond of the steamy story. Malkovich will direct a French-langua…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:49PMOh, what a beautiful morning it's going to be in Chicago! Broadway vets John Cudia and Ashley Brown will star as Curly and Laurey, respectively, in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:49PMThe material included programs and posters and a number of sets designed by Isamu Noguchi, one of Graham's most important collaborators.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMA video from Disney Parks imagines what might happen if the Dark Lord of the Sith paid a visit to the self-styled Happiest Place on Earth.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMThe uneven new revival of "The Heiress," starring Jessica Chastain, will at least serve to introduce those unfamiliar with the play to its manifold excellences.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 01:46PMJ.R. Sullivan, the artistic director of the Pearl Theatre Company, saw the Steppenwolf Theater's revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," directed by Pam MacKinnon, expecting to be surp…
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 01:46PMWalt Disney agreed to acquire Lucasfilm in a stock and cash deal valued at $4.05 billion, a move that adds the "Star Wars" franchise to the media giant's portfolio and puts Mickey Mouse and …
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 01:46PMJoin us this Thursday for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 19:00 GMT / 2pm EST / 1pm CST / 12pm MST / 11am PST—an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary per…
Linked From HowlRound at 01:45PMTeri Shields, who launched daughter Brooke's on-camera career when she was a baby and managed the young star into her 20s, sometimes with controversy, has died. She was 79....
Linked From Associated Press at 01:37PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Superstorm Sandy, which darkened Broadway while smashing into the eastern U.S. last week, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with shows losing more…
Linked From Associated Press at 01:37PMToday, that young man turns 35 and since the show, has built quite an impressive stage career with off-Broadway credits that include this year’s SILENCE! The Musical, A Letter from Ethel K…
Linked From greginhollywood.com at 01:35PM"How to Be a New Yorker", an Off-Broadway comedy that shows audiences everything they ever needed to know about what it takes to be a real New Yorker, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Tim…
Linked From news.yahoo.com at 01:35PMProducers Carole Black and Pat Mitchell present EMOTIONAL CREATURE, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, following the recent successful five month run of Closer Than Ever, continues the celebration with a one-night only perfor…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMNovember 05, 2012 - How to Be a New Yorker:
"How to Be a New Yorker", an Off-Broadway comedy that shows audiences everything they ever needed to know about what it takes to be a real New Yo…
Linked From www.nasdaq.com at 01:31PMOn Monday, November 5, the Playwrights Horizons production of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale opened at the company's Peter J Sharp Theater.The play, which is directed by Davis McCal
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:29PMThe New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, the harrowing character study of the roots of dysfunction in the life of a morbidly-obese 600-pound man, ope…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of Théâtre de l'Atelier's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by stage and screen star John Malkovich and…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Man of La Mancha, which officially opened Oct. 20, has been given an additional week of performances …
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMFollowing the recent five-month run of Closer Than Ever, The York Theatre Company will continue its celebration of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire with a one-night only performance of th…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMDastardly deeds! Shady Characters! Personal Attacks! Secrets! Lies! Mayhem! An unpredictable ending determined by democratic vote! The U.S. presidential election and The Mystery of Edwin Dro…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMNEW YORK—Superstorm Sandy, which darkened Broadway while smashing into New York City last week, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with shows losing more than $6 …
Linked From Denver Post at 01:28PMI snapped the poster pictured on the left this morning when I was in a stall in the ladies bathrooms at the Stanford gymnasium. It was hanging on the inside of the stall door and I suspect e…
Linked From Chloe Veltman at 01:28PMComedy actor Matt Lucas and legendary club promoter Philip Salon were the guests of honour at a special charity gala performance of Taboo at Brixton Club House last week.The event, on 30 Oct…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:28PMNot going to tell you to vote, or who to vote for: if you're anywhere on the internet, you'll already have heard that roughly once per second every second you've been online.
I will, howeve…
Linked From CultureFuture at 01:27PMSouth London’s Theatre503 has announced Jeremy Woodhouse as its first executive director. Woodhouse has been promoted from his role as general manager of the 60-seat venue above Battersea…
Linked From The Stage at 01:25PMThe Finborough Theatre has won the 2012 Empty Space… Peter Brook award for the second time. Theatre critic Fiona Mountford, who sat on the judging panel, said the venue had yet again been …
Linked From The Stage at 01:25PMFears have been raised over plans to merge the management of the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds with that of a local concert hall, a move it is claimed will increase the theatre’s financial…
Linked From The Stage at 01:25PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) What do you love about theatre in the U.S. for yourself and in general? I like that in NYC you can see small …
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 01:20PMNEW YORK (AP) — Superstorm Sandy, which darkened Broadway while smashing into the eastern U.S. last week, predictably ravaged the box offices around Times Square, with shows losing more th…
Linked From Boston Globe at 01:16PMJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, celebrates its 7th Anniversary on Broadway today, Tuesday, November 6.
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:11PMHow many vowel sounds can you squeeze out of the word “taxi” or “saucy”? A lot, if you’re Rana Kay playing Eliza Doolittle, the dirty-cheeked flower girl transformed into a society…
Linked From Washington Post at 01:10PMIn precocious playwright J.C. Lee's Pookie Goes Grenading, a 14-year-old girl grabs weapons-grade explosives and a few devious friends and heads off into the red night, on a journey to a pla…
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The Oscar-bait historical drama Lincoln hits movie theaters on November 16, but the film's writer Tony Kushner and director Steven Spielberg aren't celebrating yet—instead they…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:47PMThe stars of the smash musical Jersey Boys were in the charitable spirit as they stopped by Good Monring America on November 5. Jarrod Spector, Drew Gehling, Ma…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:47PMBroadway dancer Tim Federle will channel his musical theater memories into a new stage-themed coming-of-age novel Better Nate Than Ever, which will be available in stores on February 5, 2013…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:47PMFilming has begun for Sunshine on Leith, a new movie musical featuring the music of the Scottish duo The Proclaimers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is inspired by t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:47PMRob McClure, Jenn Colella, Erin Mackey, Christiane Noll and the cast of Chaplin brought the glamour of 1920s Hollywood to MSR Studios on November 5, when the stars recorded their original ca…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:47PMAn adventurous visiting Russian production of Chekhov’s play trumps its star-studded British counterpart, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:35PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1142012.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThis ingeniously crafted 1851 comedy is performed with an unerring sense of rhythm, writes Laura Cappelle
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:30PMCraig Wright's Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner, opened on October 4, 2012 at Broadway's Cor…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMAbingdon Theatre Company which has produced more than 77 new American plays in its 20-year history is pleased to announced that its 20th Anniversary Gala and dinner, canceled due to Hurric…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMSon of a Gun, a contemporary folk rock musical previously developed with the O’Neill Theater Center, Joe’s Pub and The Drama League, officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 6 at 7 PM …
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMAll data provided by The Broadway League
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Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMClassic Stage Company has shifted its opening night of Ivanov again, now settling on Nov. 11, following schedule issues resulting from Hurricane Sandy and conflicts with other productions.
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMIn celebration of Annie's return to Broadway – now in previews at the Palace Theatre – the Playbill Vault takes a look back at the musical's original run.
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMCountry singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus made his Broadway debut in the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago Nov. 5 at the Ambassador Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMJohn Cudia, Ashley Brown, David Adam Moore, Jenn Gambatese and Curtis Holbrook will star in the Lyric Opera of Chicago staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's American classic Oklahoma!, wh…
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMCast members from the ill-fated Broadway musical Rebecca will perform Keep The Home Fires Burning: A Very Manderley Holiday, a concert of holiday songs to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Figh…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:28PMThe Ladies Room, and indeed the theatre lobby, was very, very quiet as we exited a recent performance of The Whale. Not because it was a bad production, but because we were all thinking of …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 12:28PMTony winner James Lapine directs the 35th anniversary revival of the musical comedy Annie. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," the musical tells the story of the spun…
Linked From Playbill at 12:28PMIf there was any doubt Liam Scarlett was put on this earth to make movement, the London premiere of his second main stage work Viscera has effectively elevated the 25-year-old Royal Ballet w…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:27PMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 04, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $142,175 2,756 61.14% $51.59 ANNIE $638,7…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 12:23PMThe title of the show is probably the one thing that sells a show the most, once it gets your attention. Maybe the logo is a striking color, or there is a famous actor's name in huge l…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:20PMDifferent Way To Buy TicketsLong Wharf Theatre in New Haven launches "Passport," a new patron initiative.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:18PMToday is the birthday of Mike Nichols (b. Michael Igor Peschkowski, 1931). I wrote a little about Nichols and May in my new book Chain of Fools. They represent a sort of bend in the road in …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:13PMMelissa Etheridge rocked the The Music Center at Strathmore last night for over two and a half hours. Her fans packed the venue leaving very few empty seats. Etheridge showed her musical tal…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMTourists (and natives) can now learn everything they ever wanted to know about the Big Apple, while enjoying a New York lunch at Sofia’s Downstairs. The show, directed by Robert Ross Parke…
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Linked From StageGrade at 11:45AMThe Public Theater’s world premiere production of Richard Nelson's Sorry, the third play in his Apple Family series, opens off-Broadway on November 6. The opening date is no c…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway concert engagement Manilow on Broadway, featuring music legend Barry Manilow. The concert series begins performances January 18, 2013 at the St. Jame…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMAngela Lansbury may be 87-years-old, but she is showing no signs of slowing down as she eyes a return to Broadway in the upcoming revival of “The Chalk Garden.” The five-time Tony winner…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 11:42AMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s stage adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz” will embark on a North American tour next tall. The lead role of Dorothy will be played by Danielle Wade, as she was named …
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 11:42AMOf all the meetings I take, the one I take most often is with someone looking for a job. They could be looking for something other than what they are doing now, looking for something that wi…
Linked From One Producer in the City at 11:35AMLast night, Broadway's acclaimed record-breaking revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO welcomed singer, songwriter, actor and multi-platinum recording artist Billy Ray Cyrus in h…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMLast night, Broadway's acclaimed record-breaking revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO welcomed singer, songwriter, actor and multi-platinum recording artist Billy Ray Cyrus in h…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe Playwrights Horizons' production of The Whale, the New York premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter A Bright New Boise, opened last night, November 5 at 7PM at Playw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMOn November 5, host Christopher Meloni welcomed celebrities, Broadway greats, philanthropy influencers and the New York elite to celebrate Make Believe on Broadway. The evening showcased Bro…
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMDisneys landmark musical event, The Lion King, celebrates 15 years on Broadway Tuesday, November 13th at the Minskoff Theatre 200 West 45th Street, New York City. Virtually the entire creati…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will ring out the old and ring in the new on New Year's Eve with her acclaimed nightclub act Far Away Places, which will play two performances Dec…
Linked From Playbill at 11:26AMJersey Boys, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, celebrates its seventh anniversary on Broadway Nov. 6, 2012. To mark the occasion, Playbill.com takes a look back at Jer…
Linked From Playbill at 11:26AMThe 13th annual Only Make Believe Gala, which benefits the organization of the same name that brings the magic of theatre to children in hospitals and care facilities, was presented Nov. 5 a…
Linked From Playbill at 11:26AMGeorge Street Playhouse has announced casting for its second production of its season, The Best of Enemies, which will play the New Jersey venue Nov. 27-Dec. 23 with an official opening Nov.…
Linked From Playbill at 11:26AMCheyenne Jackson and Laura Osnes will be among the stars of the 9th annual Broadway Unplugged concert, which will be held Monday December 3 at 8pm at Town Hall. Additional performers will …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:26AMOnly Make Believe, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and performing interactive theater for children in hospitals and care facilities, held its annual
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:26AMThe company of Broadway's Chaplin laid down tracks for the musical's cast recording on Monday, November 5 at MSR Studios. The album, which preserves Christopher Curtis' original score for th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:26AMDisney's Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King, now at the Minskoff Theatre, will celebrate its 15th year on Broadway by presenting "Inside The Lion King," a free pop-up exhibit adjacent …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:26AMSchedule has classics 'West Side Story' and 'South Pacific' and new titles 'Shrek' and 'Spamalot.'
Linked From St. Louis Today at 11:20AMHEDY WEISS: During Eclipse Theatre’s impressively well-acted production of the Eugene O’Neill epic, there are many moments during the course of its nearly four-hour running time that you…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 11:20AM. . . I voted. and I hope you did too. I love the theater. Even though it frustrates me sometimes. And unfortunately some of the issues that frustrate me are things that I can’t ch…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:06AMChicago is having a renewed love affair with the work of Eugene O’Neill lately, as several local companies have featured O’Neill’s plays in recent seasons. Eclipse Theatre …
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