Theater fans in Chicago are in luck - the Bank of America Theatre is releasing more tickets to the popular comedy, "The Book of Mormon," for performances through September 8.
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Linked From Ticket News at 10:56PMChemist and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol talks about theater safety. She's the author of Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All.
Linked From WNYC at 10:56PMGran Via, a beautiful thoroughfare in the heart of Madrid, is known as Spain’s own Broadway – and little wonder: within a few small blocks of each other are a half dozen resplendent old …
Linked From The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 10:56PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Jim Murray, agent to the likes of Tony Bennett, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Lewis and Liza Minnelli, passed away on December 16, 2012. He was 85.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:39PMNEW YORK—Oz has reclaimed the box office crown on Broadway. The Broadway League reported Wednesday that the nine-year-old "Wicked" took in a whopping $2,947,172 over nine performan…
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Find out why the Broadway musical has proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kinds.
Linked From PBS at 08:49PMAfter a fall theater season that was, for the most part, chock full of interesting, challenging and entertaining plays and musicals, Kansas City theater companies are ready to plunge into th…
Linked From The Kansas City Star at 08:49PMAdd Russell Crowe to the chorus voicing opinions about the quality of singing in the new film adaptation of “Les Miserables.”
Linked From New York Daily News at 08:49PMDavid Cecil's The River and the Mountain tells of young businessman dealing with homophobia in the African countryA Ugandan court has dismissed the case against a British theatre producer wh…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:49PMDemand too much, and your audience will run a mile. Give too little, and they switch off. Actor Selina Cadell, currently starring in Alan Bennett's People, reveals the fine art of seducing y…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:49PMPeter and the Starcatcher Stays Alive Off-Broadway: Several shows are closing in January.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 08:49PMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is Catching the Dough: SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark enters the New Year after a landmark and record-breaking 2012, over the course of which the smash-hit Broadwa…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 08:49PMHis passing on Christmas Eve at the age of 89 brought to a close not only a laudable acting career but an era when American men in the theater or movies routinely served in the military and …
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:49PMLa Rivista's New Performer Chris Barrett's Has a Fan in Eric Michael Gillett: Following a successful four-month run at San Martin, Chris Barrett brings his music to La Rivista on Restaurant …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 08:49PMIf you loved the stage musical, if you’re a devoted fan, if you can tell the difference between all the songs then you will probably love the movie version of LES MISERABLES. If you’re…
Linked From Ken Levine at 08:49PM"Peter and the Starcatcher," the family-friendly Broadway play from Disney Theatricals that is an informal prequel to "Peter Pan," has had several theatrical lives. The drama had developmen…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:49PMMy interview with Ben Rimalower about his hit one-man show "Patti Issues," currently playing at The Duplex in NYC, and a quote from my review are featured on Ben's Press Page.
Linked From Call Me Adam at 08:49PMTough guys do dance and sing. With two of Hollywood’s biggest manly men now starring in the same film, there’s a good chance that some of their male fans secretly wish they were …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:49PMCory Stearns will dance with the Royal Ballet and the soloist Isabella Boylston will dance in the Royal Danish Ballet's "Nutcracker."
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:49PMEntertainment Weekly has just posted the upcoming cover for their Jan. 11 'Winter TV Preview' issue, featuring the ladies of SMASH. Check it out below, featuring Megan Hilty, Jennifer Hudson…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:38PMIn profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, the joyous Somewhere Between illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. The deeply moving doc…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMThe Mercury Theater,3745 N. Southport, begins its highly anticipated 2013 season with the exhilarating Broadway musical revue A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING, running from January 16 through March…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMChicago Sinfonietta continues its milestone 25th Anniversary Season with its Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrating the universal lessons of Dr. King with music from the …
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMPride Films and Plays is thrilled to announce the Chicago 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s acclaimed Beautiful Thing, the heartwarming story of two teenaged boys coming to …
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMThe hilarious Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner Justin Makita stopped by our favorite talk show Windy City LIVE and discussed marri…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMBritain’s iconic singer LULU will make her NYC concert debut with a February 16th performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, backed by an All-Star Band, featuring Will Lee, Jimmy Viv…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:24PMIn honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet,hosts an African Dance Master Class with Andrea Vinson. Well-suited for familie…
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Shakespeare’s Globe and Sheffield Theatres have been named as London theatre of the year and regional theatre of the year in The Stage 100 Awards 2013. Now in their third year, The Sta…
Linked From The Stage at 07:40PMAmbassador Theatre Group’s joint chief executives Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have topped The Stage 100 for the fourth year in a row. However, this year for the first time, they …
Linked From The Stage at 07:40PMSecond Stage Theatre presents the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Quiara Alegra Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum. The company features LIZA COLN-ZAYAS Se…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMFans of the musical everywhere are leaving movie theatres pleased, including the ones featured in the viral video below. Check out what they had to say about the film below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMAs Sir Robin carols merrily to King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, 'In any great adventure, if you don't want to lose...you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews.' Broadwa…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMTHE OTHER PLACE, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, is now in previews at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. THE OTHER PLACE will open Thursday, Jan…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMThe world premiere of Michael Puzzo's Spirits of Exit Eleven, the dark comedy set at a New Jersey strip club, will begin performances Jan. 10, prior to an official opening Jan. 17, at Th…
Linked From Playbill at 07:33PM"Hey kids, let's put on a show." But it's never that simple. Membership companies have to balance the members' wishes, the company's goals, the artistic directors' authority, public producti…
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By Mark A. Newman
Full disclosure: I’m already a fan of this young Broadway stalwart and have been since I first saw him in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures in 2004. …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 06:57PMIf you kept track of theatrical news in 2012, you may have heard of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” There’s been much controversy surrounding renowned storyteller Mike Daise…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMHis resume boasts: successful L.A. lawyer, New York police department detective, Texas congressman, high-level pimp, president of the United States and Alderaan senator. Ok, so it’s a fict…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMWilliam Shatner’s on the phone, and here’s one of the first things he says: “I just put down the phone with Ben Folds.” I’m a “Star Trek” fan but it’s not, you know, a lifest…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMOPENING ALLOTMENT ANNIE. InFusion Theatre presents the world premiere of Mark Mason’s World War II story, which follows a dashing Air Force pilot and a timid and beautiful bartender who st…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMFunny how unfolding events become clearer in retrospect. More than anyone, it seems to me, police procedural television auteur Jack Webb is father of the “partners” trope, which…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 06:52PM'Wicked' leads a boffo week of holiday B.O.
Linked From Variety at 06:48PMCheck out the recently released commercial for the show below and meet the cast with videos of them from past productions and roles
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMIp Man The Musical, the world's first Chinese concept-based musical with martial art elements, is strategically designed to target both the overseas and China Mainland markets, aiming to per…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMThe once and future Broadway producers of Rebecca, The Musical have been granted an extension of the rights to stage the show in New York City, lead producer Ben Sprecher told Playbill.com o…
Linked From Playbill at 06:32PMNow that you’ve rocked in the New Year, join the Professional Bull Riders at the Monster Energy Invitational tour as the cowboys with good grips invade Manhattan for wild ‘n wooly action.
Linked From City Guide Magazine at 06:30PMThe musical pulls in almost $2.95 million for nine performances, and ends 2012 as the highest grossing Broadway show for the ninth consecutive year.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMTake $20 off the ticket price to Apples from the Desert at Theater J, Saturday, January 5 at 3pm Sarah Marshall, Michael Tolaydo and Jennifer Mendenhall (Photo: Scott Suchman) Jennifer Men…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:12PMSlow and sensual, like the melodic accompaniment for reeds swaying in a gentle breeze, the soulful, jazzy strains of the music from trumpeter and composer Ibrahim Maalouf has an irresistible…
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Glengarry Glen Ross begins its final 19 performances this week starting on Friday, January 4, 2013. There will also be a special performance this Sunday evening performance this Sunday, Janu…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:59PMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play its 100th performance on Friday January 4th at 7:00 pm. T…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:59PMBen Sprecher won't let Manderley burn. The beleaguered producer is still hoping to bring the even more beleaguered Rebecca the Musical to Broadway, according to a report in The New York Tim…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:55PMAmong several productions that broke records in their respective theaters, "Wicked" reset the Broadway high for a weekly gross with $2,947,172, while "The Lion King," "The Book of Mormon" an…
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 05:40PMThe 19-year-old Ben Platt steals the show as the sidekick Elder Cunningham in Chicago's show
As the youngest of the Mormon elders in "The Book of Mormon," Arnold Cunningham is a case study …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 05:39PMWho besides Mad Cat Theatre Company would take a talking cat, who persistently pees on the rug, and a professional pickup artist instructing wannabees how to pretend to be genuine – and me…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 05:39PMAfter taking barely a breather, the South Florida theater season resumes with a tsunami of shows, at least 26 professional productions alone through the first weekend in February. Here’s t…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 05:39PMThere’s no winter chill on Broadway in 2013! We've got the scoop on five shows that should be on your radar this month, including three starry new Broadway productions, the 25th an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMIt was definitely a happy new year for Wicked and many other Broadway shows. The long-running musical once again broke the record for highest-grossing week in Broadway history, taking in jus…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young, Tony nominees Howard McGillin and Rebecca Luker and Amanda McBroom are the latest stars to book appearances at Cafe Carlyle, the popular nightclub in the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMOnce the holiday gift-giving was done, theater fans got down to business online, catching up on Broadway.com’s exclusive video features! Below are the most-watched videos on the site f…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMTickets are now available for the food-centric new off-Broadway show Foodplay. Conceived and directed by Barbara Bosch, this one-of-a-kind culinary arts experience will run at Theatre R…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMStrip clubs! Pizza parlors! Halloween! Tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of Michael Puzzo's Spirits of Exit Eleven, a new off-Broadway comedy running January 10 th…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMQuiara Alegria Hudes’ moving play Water by the Spoonful has taken up residence at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre, and we’ve got a first look at the Pulitzer Prize-winn…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:36PMThe 92Y is giving away three sets of PREMIUM TICKETS to Lyrics amp Lyricists' W.S. GILBERT amp THE BROADWAY HE INSPIRED concert on Jan 12, 13 and 14 Click below to enter
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMEntering its 10th Anniversary year, the hit Broadway musical Wicked has set a new Broadway record for the highest one-week gross with a box office take of 2,947,172, for the week ending Dece…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMAccording to a new update from the New York Times, REBECCA's lead producer, Ben Sprecher, is hopeful that the show might make it to Broadway in the coming 2013 season. He told the Times that…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMWhat do musical theatre girls want in 2013 Find out below with Alex Ellis, Sean Patrick Doyle, and Anna Ty Bergman
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMMandy Gonzalez has joined the cast of Rockwell Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, which will receive staged readings in New Yor…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMOn Monday, January 7th, 2013 join us at 600 pm for Toshi's Time Machine as Anthony Lee Medina amp Emily Thomas present Broadway Rocks The Living Room at Toshi's Living Room and Penthouse in …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMGLENGARRY GLEN ROSS begins its final 19 performances this week starting on Friday, January 4, 2013. There will also be a special performance this Sunday evening performance this Sunday, Janu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMIt's time for the newest episode of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this week's episode, Randy chats with Anderson Cooper about the biggest events of th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMFormer Broadway actress Evelyn Ward, first wife of Jack Cassidy and mother of David Cassidy, passed away on December 23, 2012, from Alzheimer's. She was 89.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMPatti LuPone, Norbert Leo Butz, Valerie Harper and Rebecca Luker are among the artists who will appear at New York City Barnes and Noble stores in the coming months.
Linked From Playbill at 05:32PMTom Hanks, Shia LaBoeuf, and Cyndi Lauper are all making their Broadway debuts, and Scarlett Johansson returns, during Spring 2013, a season that promises at least two big hits, both of wh…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:32PM“Think about your life, Pippin…” sings the enigmatic Lead Player to “Pippin“, Charlemagne’s son in Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson’s musical masterpiece of the same name…
Linked From Buck-ing Trends at 05:11PMThis piece continues a partnership between HowlRound and the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW). For many years, LPTW has been publishing an annual magazine, Women in Theatre (W…
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The five-time Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher has announced that they will be moving to the Off-Broadway New World Stages once they officially close on Broadway on January …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:57PMBetsy Hogg will join the five-time Tony Award-winning play Peter and the Starcatcher. She will be replacing Celia Keenan-Bolger, who orginated the role of Molly. Betsy Hogg will play the r…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:57PMMolière's Cadby David C. JonesBlackbird theatre has a well-earned reputation for presenting classic plays often in re-invigorated stagings. They are never indulgent, they are sometimes just…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 04:57PMThe iconic Café Carlyle has announced its spring cabaret season, which will kick off in January with Tony Award nominees Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera) and Rebecca Luker (Mary P…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:54PMCharacters who typically take the sidelines (read: chorus) in musicals take center stage in Working, which just finished its run at 59E59 Theaters. The six-actor cast portrayed 36 ordinary A…
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:54PMLincoln Center's LCT3 has announced that Marsha Stephanie Blake, Eisa Davis, Dashiell Eaves, Frank Harts, Robert Hogan, Jenny O'Hara, Carra Patterson, Amanda Quaid, and Victor Williams will …
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:54PMMark Evans and Christopher John O’Neill have joined the cast of the first national tour of “The Book of Mormon.” The actors take over the two lead roles, with Evans playing Elder Price…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 04:48PMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 30, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $1,558,922 11,840 97.69% $131.67 ANNIE …
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 04:39PMLea Salonga, who starred in the original stage production as 'Eponine' and the 2006 revival as 'Fantine' wrote the following review on the new film for Inquirer. Check it out below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMWelcome 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 04:34PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 12302012.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMComing up this week, 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMAbingdon Theatre Company - which has produced more than 78 new American plays in its 20-year history - continues its 2012-2013 Season with the world premiere of BODEGA BAY by Elisabeth Karli…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMLaura Osnes, Joel Grey and Alicia Silverstone were on hand for a recent performance of Off-Broadway's Bare. They greeted the cast after the show.
Linked From Playbill at 04:32PMWalnut Street Theatre's 2013-14 mainstage season in Philadelphia will include new productions of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, plus Arsenic and Old Lace, Other Desert Ci…
Linked From Playbill at 04:32PMAs 2013 kicks off and our first-ever fundraising campaign winds down (2 days to go!), Frank Hentskcher offers a few words on why you should support Culturebot.
Linked From Culturebot at 04:32PMBen Sprecher said the show's notoriety has made him more optimistic about raising the remaining money needed to stage it in New York.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:21PMOur Video of the Week is ANNIE star Lilla Crawford’s performance of “Disneyland” from Smile at One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch, which aired as part of …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:14PMKeith Nobbs, Jeremy Strong By Patrick ChristianoPlaywrights Horizons' world premiere production of Amy Herzog's insightful new play, The Great God Pan, chronicles a man's coming to terms…
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In Kristen Kosmas’s new play, the actor Christopher Walken (who appears in name only) meets with an unfortunate accident involving a ladder, setting off a chain of events.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PMListen to playwright Rick Elice tell the story of how PETER AND THE STARCATCHER came to Broadway.
Peter and the Starcatcher Story
In this innovative and imaginative new play, based on The N…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:56PM“The Book of Mormon” has been extended through Sept. 8 at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe. Tickets, $45- 200, for the new block of shows, June 4-Sept. 8, will go on sale at 10 …
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 03:52PMLoney Haskell (1870-1933) made his greatest fame as a big time monologist and master of ceremonies at Hammerstein’s Victoria. His given name was Lorne Levy; Loney is a corruption of hi…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 03:51PMThough “Peter and the Starcatcher” will end its Broadway run later this month, its producers have announced that it will transfer Off Broadway to New World Stages. When the Broadway prod…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 03:47PMEarlier this week, the New York Philharmonic was joined by Marvin Hamlisch's friends and collaborators, including Joshua Bell, Ral Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Maria Friedman, Josh Groban, Me…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMAccording to published reports, singer Patti Page Passed away yesterday in Encinitas, California. She was 85 years old.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMThe Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel has announced the first performers for the 2013 spring season at the legendary Caf Carlyle. In the upcoming season, the Caf Carlyle will host Howard McGillen an…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMWalnut Street Theatre, America's oldest theatre and the State Theatre of Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce its landmark 205th season of live entertainment and its 31st season as a not-for…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMIt's time to ring in the new year with an abundance of exciting productions from Minneapolis to New Orleans and beyond! This week's Countrywide Guide highlights a Broadway diva&rsquo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:34PMOur markets, our democracy, our science, our traditions of free speech, and our art all depend more heavily on a Public Domain of freely available material than they do on the informational …
Linked From The New York Public Library at 03:32PMMark Evans and Christopher John O'Neill have taken over the roles of Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, respectively, in the first national tour of the Tony-winning musical The Book of Mo…
Linked From Playbill at 03:30PMSpend a day at the newly-revised Off-Broadway production of Bare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school. Cast member Alex Wyse (Lysistrata Jones) takes reade…
Linked From Playbill at 03:30PMONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record of Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The show earned $1,447,598 for the week ending Sunday, Dec…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:30PMText: “We were barely there. Our feelings could not be hurt because they lay elsewhere, off-campus, aurora borealis. I drew pictures of it on my binder, a smudge in a heart. A smudg…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 03:30PMSomeone’s Mom Has Other Identities By ERIC GRODE Published: December 27, 2012 FOR someone who pretty much worships Laurie Metcalf, Joe Mantello isn’t making her life easy in “The Other…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:12PMBEST OF 2012 – The New York Times, The New Yorker & Time Out New York Signature Theatre is pleased to announce a final one-week extension for THE PIANO LESSON by August Wilson, which h…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:12PMAs I do every year, I look at what I did during the previous year. This was a very busy year, but I am pretty happy with the accomplishments below. If you haven't tried this, I really recomm…
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Noemi and Katriel Schory, two major movers and shakers in the Israeli film industry, will receive the Washington Jewish Film Festival's Visionary Award on Monday, Jan. 7.
Linked From Washington Jewish Week at 02:58PMMore than 80 Israeli folk dance enthusiasts came together on Dec. 22 to honor longtime folk dance leader Ben Hole with a surprise party that was six months in the making.
Linked From Washington Jewish Week at 02:58PMA Tom Waits song was the inspiration for Paul North's The Gambler's Daughter, opening Friday at the Eclectic. He chose a small Nevada burg, as opposed to Las Vegas, as the setting. READ MORE
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 02:54PMEvery show ends sometime (unless you're Phantom), so before the cast takes their final bow, there are a few things we want to know. When two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz takes th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:53PMI last saw Nick Payne when he was working full-time at the National Theatre bookshop. Fast-forward four years and he has just become the youngest ever winner of the Evening Standard's best p…
Linked From The Independent at 02:52PMBroadway favorite Caissie Levy will soon release her debut solo album, titled 'With You' whoch will be available soon, and on the album, Levy sings a Broadway classic- 'Without You' from Ren…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham UTR Festival Director, Mark Russell will begin performances for the 2013 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL on…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMMOTOWN THE MUSICAL founder Berry Gordy as well as the show's cast, and creative team discuss the highly anticipated musical, coming to Broadway this spring. 'I turned my story into a Broadwa…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMAs we wave goodbye to 2012, a year filled with cheerleaders, paperboys, porn stars and Patti, Broadway.com is ringing in the new year by asking your favorite Broadway stars to share the high…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:33PMRebel Wilson and Matt Lucas have been spending a lot of time together since they met while filming Bridesmaids—not only are they real-life roommates, but they’re gearing up for t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:33PMThe entirety of the New Year's Eve concert, One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch, is now available for online viewing.
Linked From Playbill at 02:31PMHappy New Year and greetings from The Broadway Blog! We hope your holiday season was packed with show tunes. The curtain rises on some exciting changes as our founding editor, Tom Mizer, gra…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 02:31PMNova Y. Payton is Effie White, the most turbulent of the Dreamgirls, in Signature Theatre's revival of Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger's 1981 musical, playing through Jan. 13 at t…
Linked From Playbill at 02:29PMIt’s impossible to say precisely what will happen in Philadelphia theater in 2013; after all, one of the art form’s greatest virtues is its unpredictability. No matter how many times a p…
Linked From Philadelphia Weekly at 02:27PMOne show I accidentally neglected for my top ten list was Fun Home.* This amazing musical version of Alison Bechdel's brilliant graphic memoir, by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, was one of th…
Linked From Show Showdown at 02:13PMOver on Salon, Laura Miller interviews literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn, who has just published Waiting for the Barbarians, a collection of his criticisms.The short interview ranges through…
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Kirsten Wyatt of Broadway’s A Christmas Story, The Musical takes you on a backstage tour of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre!
Production History
A Christmas Story, the Musical! launched a fi…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:54PMLegendary Motown: The Musical founder Berry Gordy and the cast, and creative team give a little taste to get you geared up for the show!
Motown: The Musical Story
Motown: The Musical is th…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:54PMBroadway’s Best Shows is thrilled to announce a brand new series: ‘Stage Manager’s Report,’ an exclusive series that takes you backstage at Broadway Shows. We’…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:54PMSongwriters (The Great American Mousical) will bring The Marcy
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:52PMNEW YORK—Broadway's boy who wouldn't grow up is not going away quite yet. Producers of the play "Peter and the Starcatcher" said Wednesday that the production will have a new life …
Linked From Denver Post at 01:52PMYears before Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance turned ballroom dancing into must-see TV, one sizzling show was setting stages ablaze around the globe. Once again the hit B…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:35PMKeenan-Bolger, who performed with the show from its 2009 debut at La Jolla Playhouse and earned a 2012 Tony nomination for her performance, departed the show on December 30. See the curtain …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in its 2nd smash year on Broadway, and has been seen by more than 1 million audience members from around the world. It features music and lyrics by 22-tim…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMLater this month on Thursday, January 24, Broadway's Palace Theatre will be visited by thousands of NYC public school students as the Great White Way's leading arts education not-for-profit …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMHappy New Year My very first blog for Broadway World. So excited to start the new year connected to the community this way. Many thanks to Christina Manusco for hooking me up.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will play its 100th performance on Friday January 4th at 700 pm. The production, w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMEisa Davis (TV's Smash, Passing Strange) will appear in the ensemble cast of Kirsten Greenidge’s new play Luck of the Irish. The LCT3 production will play Lincoln Center Theater&rs…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:31PMThe 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened to critical raves Oct. 13, 2012, will get an additional month of performances, now pla…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMMarsha Stephanie Blake, Eisa Davis, Dashiell Eaves and Robert Hogan will appear in the LCT3 premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Luck of the Irish, about the changing face of a Boston neighbo…
Linked From Playbill at 01:28PMPromise me (and yourself) that this year you will: 1. Make more art - If you produce two plays a year, this year produce two plays and six workshops. If you write one book a year, this year …
Linked From Mission Paradox at 01:22PMJaclyn Backhaus Hometown: Phoenix, AZ Current Town: Brooklyn, NY Q: Tell me about SET IN THE LIVING ROOM OF A SMALL TOWN AMERICAN PLAY. A: I am a member of Theater Reconstructio…
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:22PMPeople began posting 10 best lists so early that I
don’t know how they even managed to see—let alone rate—all the shows that
opened in November and December (click here for a han…
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Find out what EDWARD ALBEE’S WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? is really about…in a snap.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Story
On the campus of a small…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:52PMIt's unusual for me to plug a local restaurant on the Hub Review, but Kitchen, at 560 Tremont (right across from the BCA theatres) is an unusual case in several respects.Wait, let me back up…
Linked From The Hub Review at 12:45PMThe action in this revival of Georges Feydeau’s farce moves like a well-oiled machine, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe earliest dream I remember was a nightmare. I was around three, in real life and in the dream. It was Christmas and I was in the den of the home where I grew up with my grandparents.…
Linked From bricktheater.blogspot.com at 12:42PMHappy Birthday, Rene Elise Goldsberry Goldsberry played Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King and was nominated for a Drama League Award for 'Distinguished Performance' and won a …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in its 2nd smash year on Broadway, and has been seen by more than 1 million audience members from around the world. It features music and lyrics by 22-tim…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMThe acclaimed revival of August Wilson’s family drama The Piano Lesson has extended for a fourth time at off-Broadway’s Irene Diamond Stage and will now run through January 20. S…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:30PMAmerica, meet your new elders! West End star Mark Evans and newcomer Christopher John O’Neill have joined the cast of The Book of Mormon’s first national tour as Elder Price and …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:30PMWhen it comes to intense characters who aren’t afraid to do verbal battle with the guys (or gals) on stage, Elizabeth Marvel is every director’s dream. Marvel offers a magic mix …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:30PMWriters' Theatre will present Sweet Charity, featuring a book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, beginning Jan. 22 prior to an official opening Jan. 31 in G…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMAfter hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart, "Les Misèrables: Highlights From the Motion Picture Soundtrack" has also earned top placement among the best-selling …
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is extending the run of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson one final time, now to Jan. 20. It had previously been extended three times, to…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMFollowing "American Idol" runner-up and former Wicked star Adam Lambert's criticisms of the Les Misérables film adaptation, Russell Crowe, the film's Javert, took to…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMAnneliese van der Pol stars in the Arizona Theatre Company production of the Paul Gordon musical Jane Austen's Emma, which began performances Dec. 31 in Phoenix, AZ.
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMSuperfans of the Tony Winning play Peter and the Starcatcher rejoice! Originally set to close on January 20th on Broadway, the play will find new life Off-Broadway at New World Stages. Thoug…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 12:29PMKristen Kosmas on "There There" at the Chocolate Factory/COIL Festival
Linked From Culturebot at 12:29PMNEW YORK (AP) — Broadway's boy who wouldn't grow up is not going away quite yet.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:24PMStandout exhibitions starting up in January include a show that celebrates Islamic Art at Harvard’s Sackler Museum.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:06PMThe Weekly Howl is an open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us this Thursday, January 3rd for t…
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Tickets for Truman Capote‘s Breakfast At Tiffany’s will go on sale to the general public beginning December 24. The production, a new stage adaption of Capote’s classic nov…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:52AMLyle Kessler’s Orphans, which will begin performances on March 19 and open on April 7 2013 at the Schoenfeld Theatre, will have tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Decem…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:52AMJeeves Takes a Bow - First Folio Theatre at Mayslake Hall, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W 31st St, Oak Brook, is offering $10 industry tickets on Weds. evenings at 8 PM on Jan. 30th, Feb. 6…
Linked From Collective Leverage at 11:50AMCity Lit Theater has available rental space for a prime-time run in their 99-seat theater beginning May 20 or later. Please contact Brian at bpastor@citylit.org or by phone at 773-293-3682. …
Linked From Collective Leverage at 11:50AMMomix, the Washington-based dance-theater company, will premiere its latest, “Alchemia” Saturday, Jan 12 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 13 at 2 p,m, at the Warner Theatre in Torri…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 11:48AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for January 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMDirector Diane Paulus' bold new staging of the beloved 1970s pop musical 'Pippin' incorporates daring circus acrobatics with the original Bob Fosse choreography in order to push the theatric…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMIn an interview published in today's Entertainment Weekly, Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson revealed that she considers her upcoming guest spot on NBC's SMASH as training for h…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMWarren Carlyle (Chaplin), John Rando (A Christmas Story) and Gary Griffin (The Color Purple) will each direct one of the previously announced musicals of Encores! 20th anniversary seaso…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:31AMIf you follow me on Twitter then you know I’m about ready to fly for 22 plus hours to make my first ever visit Down Under. My Off-Broadway show, My First Time, is being produced in S…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:31AMFrom White Plains, a new play conceived and directed by Michael Perlman, will transfer to the Pershing Square Signature Center beginning February 8. The production, which originally premiere…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:31AMThe West End stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire will close at London's Gielgud Theatre on January 5. Directed by Edward Hall, the production was originally set to close on February 2.&…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:31AMSekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …
Linked From Playbill at 11:27AMOlivier winner David Bedella will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Jan. 3.
Linked From Playbill at 11:27AMThe original Broadway production of the beloved Great Depression-era musical Annie closed on Broadway Jan. 2, 1983, after 2,377 performances. Playbill.com looks back at the original Broadway…
Linked From Playbill at 11:27AMRock band Green Day, whose Grammy Award-winning album "American Idiot" inspired the Broadway musical of the same name, will resume the club tour that was postponed in 2012 due…
Linked From Playbill at 11:27AMJulian Ovenden, who appeared in the world premiere of the new musical Finding Neverland last fall, will star in the Théâtre du Châtelet production of Stephen Sondheim and …
Linked From Playbill at 11:27AMAs Jane Krakowski so eloquently sang in GRAND HOTEL, “I Want To Go To Hollywood!” She could, in fact, be speaking not just for herself but for many of today’s musical theater hits. See…
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Following in the footsteps of musicals Avenue Q and Million Dollar Quartet, the five-time Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher will transfer to off-Broadway's …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:49AMAudiences still hoping to head to Neverland are in luck! Peter and the Starcatcher will transfer to off-Broadway's New World Stages following its acclaimed Broadway run at the Brook…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:29AMMandy Gonzalez (In the Heights, Wicked) has joined the cast of the upcoming staged readings of Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell’s covers for the Satu…
Linked From Playbill at 10:25AMBroadway Behaving Badly, described as "the Most Offensive Night of Music Theatre" with tunes by rising songwriters, will be offered Jan. 7 at Joe's Pub in New York City.
Linked From Playbill at 10:25AMThe winter season at the famed Café Carlyle, located within the Carlyle Hotel on East 76th Street, has been announced.
Linked From Playbill at 10:25AMThe Tony Award-winning hit The Book of Mormon enjoyed a lucrative holiday season: All three North American productions of the musical broke box-office records for the week ending Dec. 30.
Linked From Playbill at 10:25AMONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST! TIME MAGAZINE * USA TODAY “FABULOUS and smartly cast from top to bottom. ANNIE IS DELIGHTFUL!” Terry Teachout, WALL STREET JOURNAL The acclaimed new productio…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:25AMWe’re now bringing you Wardrobe Wednesdays! Want to know how to dress like your favorite Broadway character (without looking like you just stepped off stage–no mic tape, please!)? That…
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The teenage rock musical "Bare" returns to the off-Broadway scene after a New York premiere back in 2004.
Linked From NY1 at 09:43AMPat Lovett, the Edinburgh-based theatre agent who started Lovett Logan Associates – formerly Pat Lovett Associates – died on Christmas Eve. Pat Lovett started working as an agent in 1981…
Linked From The Stage at 09:30AMActors Ewan McGregor and Adrian Lester have been recognised in the 2013 New Year honours list alongside other arts figures such as director of the Cultural Olympiad Ruth Mackenzie and choreo…
Linked From The Stage at 09:30AMAwake, by Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley, based on shooting death of Amon Beckles in 2005
Linked From Toronto Star at 09:30AMPriscilla Queen of the Desert, making its national tour debut in Minneapolis, tells the uplifting story of a trio of friends on the road trip of a lifetime. In the middle of the Australian o…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMJack Viertel, Artistic Director of New York City Center's Encores series, today announced the directors and choreographers of the Encores 20th Anniversary season, opening on January 30, 2013…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMIn a surprise response, LES MIS star Russell Crowe tweeted his support for Lambert's rather harsh observations on the film.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28AMJack Viertel, artistic director of New York City Center’s Encores! series, has announced the directors and choreographers of the Encores! 20th Anniversary season, which kicks off Jan. …
Linked From Playbill at 09:25AMDirector and filmmaker Jay Taylor speaks to Teresa McCormick Ertel about his latest project, Massé - a feature length contemporary film noir described as “Old Hollywood meets the moder…
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THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, has broken the house records in three different cities for the week ending December 30, 2012. On Broadway, THE B…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 08:56AMI’ve always hated reality television. I make no excuses about this fact. Don’t try to convert me. It won’t end well. No, I won’t come to your screening of Real Housewives. When my c…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AM Today is the birthday of Lucia Zarate (1864-1890), one of the tiniest people ever recorded since civilization started keeping track of such things. Born in San Carlos, Mexico, her gro…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:44AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:44AMThe cast of Dear World began rehearsals over the Christmas break
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMNew York special: Philip Fisher talks to the Village Voice’s Michael Feingold about trends in theatre on and off-Broadway. "English plays are so often over-rated by English critics, which …
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Theatre Royal, Windsor: The Theatre Royal's annual pantomime is always a hugely popular affair and while the formula is eminently traditional, the local references and idiosyncratic asi…
Linked From The Stage at 07:40AMCannock, Prince of Wales (December 24-31), The Muni, Colne, (January 5-20): Some pantos excel in their song and dance while others revel more in comedy. This one, however, is strong in all a…
Linked From The Stage at 07:40AMHull Truck Theatre: There's a carnival atmosphere to Hull Truck's Christmas production. Featuring a cast of actor/musicians - playing instruments including guitars, keyboard and a …
Linked From The Stage at 07:40AMTheatre Royal, St Helens: This panto offers good, raucous, uncomplicated, but not necessarily clean, fun.
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Linked From The Stage at 07:40AMTabard, London: There once was an ugly duckling with feathers all stubby and brown until George Stiles and Anthony Drewe fashioned this endearing musical around his birth, upbringing and tra…
Linked From The Stage at 07:40AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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We love Kneehigh, and we love Little Angel Theatre, which is why we’re super excited to offer AYT readers the chance to see their collaboration A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings with…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMAmong this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further afield, are Fuerzabruta at the Roundhouse, Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, Somersaults at the Finborough Theatre, and m…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMFarce in the round should be impossible, but Sam Walters' skilful and carefully paced production of one of Georges Feydeau's greatest mix-ups proves the opposite: a seasonal treat of invisib…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMI've been reading Kate Bassett's biography of Jonathan Miller over Christmas, and very enjoyable it is, too. Curmudgeons everywhere will appreciate the suggestion of Miller's daughter, also …
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WINNERSCharPR Prize, 2012The Charlebois Post is in a unique position in the Canadian cultural landscape. First, we are small, so there are only about five of us who have direct con…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:41AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMTony Award winner Donna McKechnie presents a brand-new show beginning Jan. 2 at the intimate Manhattan nightspot 54 Below.
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMIrish Repertory Theatre's fall 2012 production of Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City — the 1974 play about political unrest in Ireland — begins a three…
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMThroughout the year, Playbill Video is on hand to capture the most exciting moments in theatre. We look back at a few of the standouts from 2012.
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMAmerican Theater Company will present the world premiere of the revised columbinus, including material devised from recent interviews with survivors of the Columbine High School shootings, f…
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMOregon Shakespeare Festival has added Ayad Akhtar, Kirsten Greenidge, Stephen Karam, Lisa Loomer and Karen Zacarías to its list of commissioned writers in the American Revolutions: Th…
Linked From Playbill at 12:16AMThe Stephen Schwartz-scored musical fable Pippin, about manhood, identity, love and conflict, gets a fresh and acrobatic approach by Hair and Porgy and Bess director Diane Paulus. American R…
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