The Kennedy Center’s production of the 2010 Newbery Honor Book winner by Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, is a perfect show for the kids to see. Adapted by…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMThe Wilma Theater transfer of Satchmo at the Waldorf just got a rave review from Toby Zinman of the Philadelphia...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:55PM“The Twenty-Seventh Man” is Nathan Englander’s stage adaptation of his own short story about the fate that befalls a group of Jewish writers in Russia during Stalin’s rule.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:52PMThe Signature Theater’s revival of August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson” brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be.
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Under Ruben Santiago-Hudson's flawless helming, a brilliant cast makes this 1987 play live and breathe and sing for a new generation.
Linked From Variety at 11:31PMThe Den Theatre is thrilled to present a remount of TurnAround Theatre’s original hit production of Brian Friel’s FAITH HEALER, 17 years after the critically acclaimed show played …
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Miami Theater Center’s inaugural adult project, a fresh vision of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, is not a smoothly gelling work of art, let alone entertainment. The flaws are considerable, per…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 09:50PMIsaiah Sheffer's lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 09:50PMThere is so much to love about the movie “Elf.” Fortunately, many of those same charms grace the stage in the returning holiday musical of the same name. (Diehard fans may mourn …
Linked From backstage.com at 09:13PMNEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Buddy the Elf made Broadway audiences believe in an unlikely theatrical adaptation of a Will Ferrell movie — an adaptation without Ferrell — "Elf" the m…
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THEATER REVIEW: 'James Joyce's The Dead' 2-1/2 stars; through Dec. 9 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; 1 hour, 45 minutes; tickets: $45-$65 at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 08:54PMIn “Port Out, Starboard Home” a mystery is among the happenings during a luxury cruise in Sheila Callaghan’s play.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:38PMCusi Cram’s “Radiance” suggests a story rich in compelling conflict. But that story is resistant to being told in theatrical form.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:38PMHenry James would be aghast at the damage done to his delicate family drama.
Linked From Theater News Online at 08:32PMBroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our November 17th SIP round-up Yesterday's evening photos featured shots …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:08PMStrained relations between men and women have tilted at the cores of countless musicals since the form's inception.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMDeep into Elf, the overloaded sugar cookie of a holiday movie adaptation in the midst of its return engagement at the Al Hirschfeld, you can feel a wave of discomfort ripple through the hous…
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Paul Taylor's Esplanade, set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, originally...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:53PM"He that is not with me is against me: it was nonsense. Committed--it was the great contemporary word and the...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:53PMWhen you're young, you take for granted that life is conjectural and its possibilities unlimited. Once you reach middle age,...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:53PMSharper singing, acting mark touring production
Various old "Les Miserables" hands — and there are now many of us who've seen this great musical maybe 25 times over 25 years — …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 07:53PMIf you’re thinking of ordering the usual, the Bier Baron Tavern isn’t the ideal destination these days. What’s flowing instead in this Dupont Circle establishment is the heady lyricism…
Linked From Washington Post at 07:49PMSomething new is happening in the West End. Just up the road from Thriller and down a bit from Les Misérables a billboard the colour of weak tea (positively consumptive compared to the full…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 07:49PMFiction writer Nathan Englander makes an auspicious stage debut with his play “The Twenty-Seventh Man” at the Public Theater. Derived from his short story of the same name and ba…
Linked From backstage.com at 07:13PMAmber Riley GLEE, Joshua Henry, Jared Grimes and Adriane Lenox star in New York City Centers acclaimed production of Duke Ellingtons Cotton Club Parade, returning to City Center through toni…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:07PMThe world premiere of ROCKY premiered today, November 18 in Hamburg under the direction of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Tony nominee Alex Timbers. Check out the photos below
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A timely play by Tony Fiorentino makes its world premiere at the Prop Thtr. Set at a Thanksgiving dinner around the advent of Obamacare, The Feast depicts a family struggling with the ethics…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 06:22PMIt may finally be turkey (lurkey) time, but just because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to do on Broadway! Grab your family and get into the holiday spir…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:18PMCaution – contains spoilers “Where are the robots?”, Kris Kelvin asks his fellow scientist. From my seat in the Courtyard Theatre, I found myself asking the same. The dated set of …
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 06:17PMOn November 15, the company of Scandalous celebrated their opening night with the Gypsy Robe ritual with the company's recipient Carlos L. Encinias. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event a…
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!Mary Poppins musical co-star Ryan Hilliard comes to the Montreal stage after a storied journeyman career co-starring on stage and screen with the likes of …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:59PMNot to horn in on Parabasis territory, but having never been a comic/graphic novel person in my youth, and now having a sister who is amongst other things a comic writer and illustrator, I d…
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Mary Zimmerman's latest adaptation finds her inventive stagecraft as alluring as ever, and by the end, this Buddhist fable achieves its own poetic gravi…
Linked From Variety at 05:49PMOne of the most wondrous things about growing up in a showbiz family is that from a very early age you find yourself attending concerts. If you’re even luckier, those concerts encompass a …
Linked From themartinreport.wordpress.com at 05:44PMBrian Brooks Moving Company takes its name seriously. It could also be known as Nonstop or Really Busy, but Moving gets the idea across. By the end of Saturday’s program, when Brooks and a…
Linked From Washington Post at 05:43PMREVIEWED BY RUSSELL GOELTENBODT: Before the beginning of the millennium the music industry has been filled with computerized enhancements. American Idol-esque vocal acrobatics, and techno mu…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 05:29PMTruly brilliant, innovative theater is also deeply humbling, and thus I doubt that I will be able to adequately describe Ivo van Hove's Roman Tragedies, which was performed over the course o…
Linked From Show Showdown at 05:24PM“The Piano Lesson” is a theatrical whirlwind with the power to blast away barriers between the past and the present, the living and the dead, and reveal the darkest secrets and b…
Linked From backstage.com at 05:13PMSomething profound happened on the first Tuesday in November, something I’m still trying to digest fully. To my mind the election results represent a victory of love over hate, of human di…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:08PMMark Rylance and Stephen Fry stand at opposite ends of the acting spectrum. The former is a protean genius who can lose himself unrecognisably in his roles. The latter performs subtle clever…
Linked From The Independent at 05:06PMELF returns to Broadway this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre 302 West 45th Street. Performances began on Friday, November 9, 2012. The production plays a limited engagement of 9 …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMRECOMMENDED The holidays are for many the most miserable time of the year, in contrast with their expressed wonderfulness. As family gathers together, so too do our painful memories and sham…
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Can you imagine making your Broadway debut in a cast full of Broadway veterans, including the legendary Chita Rivera? Well, this week's Face of the Future, Spencer Plachy, did just thi…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 02:42PMImagine a story of a man’s life. Now imagine that it is told by his daughter. Now imagine that that daughter is hilarious. Got it? Great. That is where we begin this journey. So keep tha…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMDutch director Ivo van Hove throws down a gauntlet with “Roman Tragedies,” his epic, vaguely mind-blowing five-and-a-half-hour cycle of “Coriolanus,” “Julius Ca…
Linked From backstage.com at 02:14PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting an astounding production of Mary Zimmerman's sensorial feast, The White Snake, through December 23rd.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:08PMDirector Greg MacKellan has assembled some wonderful singer/actors to perform the appealing songs of Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner in this beautiful production.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:08PMAurora Theatre, under the strong direction of Barbara Oliver has put together a program of four of Wilder's greatest shorter works for Wilder Times: Infancy (1962), Childhood (1962), The Hap…
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For the stage adaptation, bookwriters Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner (with an assist from Douglas Carter Beane) have moved the action back to the 1970s, allowing the original songs…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:42PM“Stones in His Pockets,” by Marie Jones, at Hudson Stage, depicts villagers hoping their bleak lives will benefit from a film.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:41PMOff-Broadway’s sellout sensation SILENCE! THE MUSICAL will celebrate its 400th performance today, November 18th at the new Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square, 669 Eighth Avenue (…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMThe audience applauded David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver but not the other four cast members when they first entered the stage at the performance I saw of Christopher Durang’s new pla…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:21PMIf you have two hours to spare this beautiful Sunday afternoon, and want to enjoy a world-class venue in a beautiful performing arts space, hurry to reserve your family seats at the Hylton P…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMSignature Theatre Company's revival of August Wilson’s 1990 play The Piano Lesson opens November 18 at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Directed by Ruben Sant…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:16PMNathan Englander’s new play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, officially opens off-Broadway at the Public Theater’s Martinson Theater on November 18. The drama is currently set to run thr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:16PMRock bio musical Forever Dusty opens November 18 at off-Broadway's New World Stages. The musical follows Kristen Holly Smith as music icon Dusty Springfield.
Forever Dusty follow…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PM“Are there any good ones left?” Carbon Dating is a guilty pleasure of a play, caught somewhere between Bridget Jones and Take Me Out. Newly-established theatre company OutFox productio…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 01:14PMI’m going home… …briefly. Returning to the city that spawned me this weekend to bask in the affection of my doting family and the adoration of the Prodigal returned. Well,…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 01:14PMI was talking to someone the other day about stock splits. And, if I am getting this right, you can split a stock that is say, worth $10, into four that are each worth $2.50. So you have f…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:04PMToday we are talking to one of Broadways brightest new marquee names all about her Tony Award-winning work in the recent revival of WEST SIDE STORY, as well as originating roles in Lin-Manue…
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It’s time for the cast’s last week in Chicago! It’s so sad to say goodbye. But the good news is, this means they’re coming our way, New York! We finally get to…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 12:49PMA lot of people in the midst of the troubles of life ask, “Why me?” Chicagoland native Jen Bosworth has a more interesting question, and it’s the title of her one-woman (and back-up mu…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 12:17PMWith today’s depressing headlines - High Unemployment, Homelessness, Hurricanes and War - it’s a gosh darn shame that tickets to the oh so optimistic, tuneful and mostly delightf…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 12:12PMIn the very first scene of this very long production we meet Bick (Brian D’Arcy James) and Leslie (Kate Baldwin). It is a serious moment in their 27-year marriage. Leslie is upstage look…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 12:03PMHappy Birthday Daphne Rubin-Vega Rubin Vega is a two-time Tony and Drama Desk nominee and recipient of the Theater World, Obie, Blockbuster awards and was recently nominated for an Independe…
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You don’t have to be a Chekhovophile to enjoy Christopher Durang’s riff on everything Anton Chekhov ever wrote, but it helps. This master parodist and satirist has been away from…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMI can find but a handful of references of ballerina Swan Wood. In 1909 she performed a solo dance at the Orpheum in Los Angeles; she was featured in The Passing Show of 1913; and in 1915 she…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:40AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #390: Imogene Coca (for more on her life and career go here). She actually figures into my new book Chain of Fools, by virtue of the pantomime bit…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:40AMA man at the Cort Theatre in New York vomited over the balcony during a Broadway play.
Wednesday's (November 14) performance of Grace, which stars Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, was disru…
Linked From www.digitalspy.com at 10:26AMGiant was one of the shows we were most looking forward to seeing during our extended stay in New York City, and it also ended up being one of our biggest letdowns.
Linked From perezhilton.com at 10:24AMCathy Rigby, seemingly forever young, is flying again as Peter Pan.
The onetime Olympic gymnast who became famous for hawking feminine hygiene products on TV reinvented herself as an actor …
Linked From San Francisco Chronicle at 10:23AMRacial, religious and other types of stereotyping are commonplace in the theater, and usually stir little public reaction.
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Shalita Grant, left, plays the sassy hous…
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 10:22AMThe worlds of baseball and Broadway will soon collide, as producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo today announced the commission of a theatre project inspired by the New York Yankees, to be …
Linked From yankees.lhblogs.com at 10:22AMThe musical theater writing team — they like to go by “Pasek and Paul,” in the vein of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb — debut on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre this w…
Linked From NJ.com at 10:21AMOn Glee, Chris Colfer's "Kurt Hummel" and Amber Riley's "Mercedes Jones" are BFFs. Off-screen, the pair are besties too.Nothing could stop the Golden Globe winner from cheering on his TV co-…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:21AMAfter a record number of nominations in 30 regions worldwide, and careful proofing by our local editors, we are VERY excited to announce that voting has begun for this year's BWW Regional Aw…
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Harry Venning talks about Sky Arts' latest offering Nation's Best Am Dram and reports that amateur theatre is flourishing across the country
Linked From The Stage at 09:53AMNEW YORK (AP) — "La Clemenza di Tito," written just months before Mozart's death in 1791, is a curiosity among his operas, a throwback to an archaic style he had moved beyond. But what a g…
Linked From Boston Globe at 09:51AMA.O. Duncan was one of the first practitioners of ventriloquism on the vaudeville stage, dating perhaps to the age of “variety” in the 1870s. References to him from the newspape…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:38AMOne of P.T. Barnum’s sideshow performers, circa 1880s. To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Fa…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:38AM'Making God Laugh' tries to be absurd and genuine and fails at both.
Linked From Philly.com at 09:18AMRobyn Goodman, Amanda Lipitz and Scott R. Delman, producers of the new Broadway comedy The Performers by David West Read, announced earlier this week that the production would conclude its B…
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Linked From Variety at 08:51AMRhonda Vincent currently has the top album on Billboard’s Bluegrass Charts. She is known as the Queen of Bluegrass and after winning more awards than any other bluegrass artists it is easy…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Manhattan Theatre Club's critically acclaimed revival of Henrik Ibsens AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, closes today, November 18, at …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMTonight, November 18th, A Time To Shine KidzTeen Cabaret will be celebrating the Youth of Broadway on the Main Stage at The Broadway Comedy Club 318 West 53rd Street at 530PM.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMOn the heels of its record-breaking 2012 Summer Season, Williamstown Theatre Festival will pay tribute to Abe Burrows, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author and director, at its 2…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMAccording to the Daily Mail, Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville, Call The Midwife's Miranda Hart, and stage and film stars Julie Walters and Patrick Stewart will take part in a fundraising perf…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMChad Kimball, Saycon Sengbloh, Jason Gotay and Sami Gayle will perform songs featuring music by composer Jeff Thomson with lyrics by Jeremy Desmon and Jordan Mann at The Duplex, tonight, Nov…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMdick clark productions dcp has announced the presenters for The 40th Anniversary American Music Awards. The roster includes 50 Cent, Ashley Benson, Backstreet Boys, Brandy, Colbie Caillat, C…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets amp Clubs has announced a new annual show to be held each fall, called MAC presents THEY WRITE THE SONGS. The inaugural show will be held today, Novembe…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMManhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, in an adaptation by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, ends its limited engagement on schedule Nov. 18 at …
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AM1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMForever Dusty, a new musical by Kirsten Holly Smith and Jonathan Vankin about the life of late singer Dusty Springfield, officially opens at Off-Broadway's New World Stages Nov. 18 follo…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMLas Vegas' The Orleans Hotel and Casino presents An Evening with Jerry Lewis – Live from Las Vegas! Nov. 18 at 8 PM at The Orleans Showroom.
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMThe multiple Tony Award-winning musical The Lion King, which celebrated 15 years on Broadway Nov. 13, offers a special performance to benefit The Actors Fund Nov. 18 at 6:30 PM at the Minsko…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMDirector Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, legacy and ghosts, open…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMFeinstein's at Loews Regency continues its 2012 fall season with the New York solo debut of nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune in Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales, which plays Nov. 1…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMTony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber inhabit Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals, which officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 18 after previe…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMThis month we watch the 1956 telecast of Harold Arlen's Bloomer Girl; the Blu-ray release of the 1986 film version the stage musical Little Shop of Horrors; and holiday box sets celebrat…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMTony Award winner Matthew Broderick hosts the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nov. 18 benefit, honoring late writer-director Abe Burrows, at the Edison Ballroom. David Hyde Pierce, Steve…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMThe Twenty-Seventh Man, the world-premiere stage production adapted from author Nathan Englander's short story of the same title, officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 18 at the Public Thea…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMTommy Tune is getting his act together, shrinking it to cabaret size and singing and dancing in Manhattan again. We get the lowdown on Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales, plus an update about his ho…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMDavid West Read's The Performers, the new Broadway comedy that officially opened Nov. 14, plays its final performance Nov. 18 at the Longacre Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMDrew Sarich, the American actor who has had a busy career performing musicals in Europe, plays iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky the Musical, opening in its world premiere Nov…
Linked From Playbill at 12:46AMA Raging Granny (photo credit: Joshua Sherurcij)An Artist PerformsUnforgettable moments in the performing artsOver the last few months we have been asking artists and contributors to share w…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:46AMNot with a Bang but with a "Should"by Cameryn MooreThis is how my tour ends, these last four weeks, not with a bang or a whimper, just a “jeezus fuck, really?” Because the tail end of my…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:46AMHow are critics appraising "Golden Child"?
Linked From StageGrade at 12:35AMAre critics feeling protective of "The Good Mother"?
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