‘The Other Place” is billed as “a riveting new thriller.” That’s putting it loosely.
The play is less riveting than it is reasonably engaging. It’s not entirely new, either, hav…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMThe new year brings a new show to the DCAC as Idly Bent Theatre Company presents Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party. Director Anne Cecelia Haney’s intentions for this production wer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49PMWhat do you do when you have a star who should be selling like hot cakes selling like lukewarm cakes?
Scream at the people who designed the poster!
I’m told there’s been some shouting ma…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PM‘TIS PITY IT’S A SHORT RUN Cheek by Jowl’s touring production of John Ford’s revenge tragedy, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, landed at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse for a brief run. The tru…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42PMIf you're like me, as the evening settles in for the long haul, the day's news of murders, mayhem and monetary crises can tinge the mood with bit of gloom. When that happens on a Tuesday abo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:09PMIn Sharr White’s curvy and compelling drama, “The Other Place,” Laurie Metcalf plays an addled neuroresearcher — and never leaves the stage.
That’s worth noting, since the…
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I was starting to think that Mary Poppins would never close. I mean, it has been around for 6 years, surviving a lack of Tony Awards, a shocking lack of buzz, and weeks at a time of le…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:50PM Glee's Chris Colfer in Struck by Lightning: Double Screen Debut By Ellis NassourChris ColferChris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel on Fox's smash …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:37PMOur Experts, Editors and hundreds of Users have predicted the film winners of Sunday's Golden Globes, which will air live on NBC. (See our predictons for TV winners here.)
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SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:26PMA medical researcher forges ahead with her own reality to avoid confronting pain in a fast-paced thriller that jumps to Broadway after a 2011 staging downtown
SOURCE: NBC New York at 10:17PMWe heard from several of you that the holidays kept you from completing your director submission. Never fear! The deadline has been extended to this coming Monday, Jan 14 at 7 pm. We look …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03PM. . . as terrifying an indictment of the tenuous nature of reality as it is an enveloping reminder that there is always more and there is always hope. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMIn “The Other Place” Laurie Metcalf plays a pharmaceutical-company scientist who is convinced she has a brain tumor.
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John Lithgow stars in the National Theatre’s “The Magistrate,” which can be seen live Thursday in cinemas through the U.S. and U.K.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:43PMThe name came courtesy of Salvador Dali, granddaddy of the Surrealists. “Dali used the term ‘rhino’ to describe a big event or big party, so when we started the Rhinoceros Theater Fest…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:40PMThe Other Place opens tonight, January 10, 2013, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf 'Roseanne,' November, Danie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13PMNEW YORK (AP) — The first sign that things may not be what they seem in "The Other Place" appears on page 4 of Sharr White's script: The whip-smart scientist at the story's heart has confu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:08PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The first sign that things may not be what they seem in "The Other Place" appears on page 4 of Sharr White's script: The whip-smart scientist at the story's heart has co…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:07PMTwo stories, or rather two chapters of the same story, get juxtaposed in Natasha Greenblatt’s The Peace Maker, at the Next Stage Theatre Festival in Toronto.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00PMAccording to Reuters, a final settlement has still not been reached in the copyright infringement case between the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark and former director Ju…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00PMWild acclaim Off Broadway for Laurie Metcalf's powerful lead performance prompted an uptown transfer for Sharr White's play, making the actress a Tony Award contender.read more
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HEDY WEISS: Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street, Hamburg Ballet and other dance companies will heat up those winter nights.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:56PMSharr White’s penetrating drama “The Other Place” was a highlight of the 2011 winter theatrical season when it played Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Now the MC…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PMI'm a decent Beck fan. "Loser" was my first introduction after a friend saw the video on MTV. Later that same friend drew "Soy un Perdedor" on a piece of paper that I tacked to the door of m…
SOURCE: bricktheater.blogspot.com at 08:26PMLONDON (AP) — The Royal Opera has commissioned Thomas Ades to compose an opera based on the Luis Bunuel film "The Exterminating Angel."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:09PMAs reported by the Daily Mail, Nigel Planer and Myra Sands will play Grandpa Joe and Grandma Georgina in the West End's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, joining leading man Douglas Hodge a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMThey say a mind is a terrible thing to waste, but as Sharr White's The Other Place, now at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, proves it's an even more terrible thing to los…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMIf you’re in the mood to hear some of the top standards of the Great American Songbook, from “Stormy Weather” to “Over the Rainbow,” you might want to bundle up…
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Pianist and longtime friend of the LA Phil Yefim Bronfman discusses his JAN 30, 2013 recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall, during which he’ll deliver the world premiere of LA Phil Condu…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:59PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Broadway's Christopher Fitzgerald has been cast as 'P. T. Barnum' in Cameron Mackintosh's Barnum at Chichester Festival Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PM Pin striped suits, fedoras and tommy guns – Hollywood’s latest addition to its film noir canon is Gangster Squad, featuring a prestigious and mostly macho cast led by Sean Penn as…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:40PMScarlett Johansson had been off sick for a couple of days and the first night she returned to play the smouldering Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof there was Meryl Streep sitting in the front…
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 07:37PMLAURIE METCALF BELONGS IN THE OTHER PLACE In The Other Place, Sharr White’s riveting and affective play, Laurie Metcalf delivers a poignant and masterfully crafted performance as Juliana, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PMAt the January 9 talkback at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, cast members and Diane Paulus covered their thoughts on the show, on their interest in cross-training skills, and on the…
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Films nominated for best picture can have three producers on the ballot - but Les Mis has four including the managers of London-based Working Title Films, which also made Anna Karenina starr…
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:58PMBRANDON SCHRAML, from Kansas City, MO, will make his Secret Theatre debut as Officer Lockstock in URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL. He has performed in 48 of the 50 states through four national tours …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:51PMJON STANCATO has co-created and directed all of Stolen Chair's productions since he co-founded the company in 2002. He has trained at the Grotowski Workcenter, with Anne Bogart & the SIT…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:38PMWe hear all the time from our Resident Playwrights and how the residency has enriched their lives, both personally and professionally. Resident Playwright Amy Freed sent this in just this we…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 06:19PMShe is still best known to many for her three-time Emmy-winning work on the TV series "Roseanne," but Laurie Metcalf is also a celebrated veteran of the stage, and now she is back …
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:18PMHATS OFF TO STEPPENWOLF If the title wasn’t enough of a clue, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat is filled with bad language. But what’s really surprising…
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In the final part of this exclusive peek at Marla Mindelle’s comic short film "The Devil's Bitch," Evelyn (Mindelle) finalizes her deal with the Devil (Matthew Risch) by murdering Wyatt (P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMDuring the opening-night performance of "War Horse" at the Buell Theatre, a very polite, preternaturally calm voice interrupted the pitched battlefield action to say there had been a technic…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:54PMHathaway appeared in the 2002 Encores production of Carnival, and you can check out a photo of her in action below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, January 10, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Audio of the Week: @CATOnBroadway star Scarl…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMA medical professional who makes her living promoting a drug that combats dementia begins struggling with her own splintering mind in Sharr White’s character study The Other Place, starrin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PM Hello dear readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of the Groundlings Improv Comedy troupe’s latest offering, Dungeons and Groundlings, now playing at their th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:48PMIn the one-man show "RFK — A Portrait of Robert Kennedy," Sen. Bobby Kennedy takes a moment to share his pleasure in a train tour he's taking around California during the 1968 Democr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:47PMThe Thrilling Adventure Hour is both an update and an homage to old radio dramas. Created eight years ago by college friends Ben Blacker and Ben Acker, the pseudo radio show features actors …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:45PMNostalgia is such a tricky matter. Just ask the folks at Curious Theatre Company, who are about to plunge into that sentimental ache with the regional premiere of "Maple and Vine," opening S…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:43PMProducers Bill Kenwright, The Really Useful Group, David Mirvish, Troika Entertainment amp Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures present the all-Canadian cast of the North American premiere of Andre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMThe heat is rising on the stage at the American Airlines Theater, where Maggie Grace and Sebastian Stan are creating human fireworks as the romantically twisted leads in Picnic. Get your fir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:39PMBig names, classic plays, family dramas, splashy musicals — the second half of the 2012-’13 Broadway season has something for everyone. Stars from film and television like Tom Hanks,…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:37PMOur critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theate…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:37PMMike Shara and Nicole Underhay(photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)Actors at Playby Christian BainesFor Viennese lothario, Anatol, one woman is much the same as any other, to the point he categorizes…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:36PMAtlantis Productions has announced via Facebook that it will stage Disney's Mary Poppins in the Philippines in 2014. According to ABS-CBN News, among the actresses being considered for the t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMWhy isn’t Harold Arlen as well-known as George Gershwin? It is a question that provokes debate among connoisseurs of what has become known as the Great American Songbook, or the Golden Age…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMTickets went on sale today for this year's Broadway Backwards concert, where, in proper LGBT fashion, leading men sing songs that were written for women and Broadway's leading women sing son…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMThere are more opportunities to see Water By the Spoonful in New York City. Second Stage Theatre announced a two-week extension of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now playing to Feb. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMIt's Not the Movieby Élaine CharleboisFollowing a similar (yet not identical) storyline to the film, Billy Elliot the Musical tells the story of a young boy from a working class family who …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:18PMQuiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water By the Spoonful has received a two-week extension at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. The production, which was origi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:11PMWalker Art Center's annual January series "Out There" marks 25 years of mooning conventionality.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:10PMAlso on stage early in 2013: Jerick Hoffer in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and just for kids, “Dot & Ziggy.”
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:10PM(photo via Twitter; credit: Maria Vartanova)Beast of Warby Jim MurchisonChristmas is over. It is time to get back to reality. There are few playwrights that expose reality and lift the veil …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:08PMDue to critical acclaim and strong ticket sales, the Second Stage Theatre's production of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-Winning drama Water by the Spoonful, written by Quiara Alegra Hudes and dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMThe Center for the Theater Commons (CTC) will track and document the activities of the recently announced National Playwright Residency Initiative over the next three years. We will work to…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMWilliam Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic returns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar. Academy Awa…
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Podcast With R & B Superstar BRANDY from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. R & B superstar Brandy Norwood discusses her incredible music career, her new album and her mentor Whitney Houston…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:57PMBroadway legend Liza Minnelli will be the first guest on the new live version of Kathy Giffin's Bravo talkshow, 'Kathy'. Tune in tonight at 9PM to watch the Broadway legend in action.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMThe Encores 20th Anniversary season opens on January 30, and Encores alums have been sending in their best wishes. Below, check out a video of Stephen Wallem, Victoria Clark, Mylinda Hull, C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMBethany Jillard and Tom McCamus in Bruce Monk's shot from MTC's Gone With The Wind. Once again Monk, a master, has caught the little details which tell a story. There is the whiff of sex - t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:51PMThe eighth annual edition of Broadway Backwards will be held March 18 at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. Creator Robert Bartley is set to direct and choreograph the evening, which feat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMTommy director Des McAnuff will bring a brand new staging of The Who's rock musical to Ontario’s Stratford Festival, starring Robert Markus as Tommy Walker, Paul Nolan as Cous…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMWalker Art Center has refreshed its "Midnight Party" show with new acquisitions and loans.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:41PMJackman said in a statement 'I hadn't planned to listen live to the announcements, but when I got into the car this morning to go to work, the driver had the nominations streaming as they we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMSecond City alumna and former PopCultured talk-show comic Elvira Kurt is a returning host and writer
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:37PMIke Holter’s Stonewall Riot drama Hit the Wall will receive its New York premiere at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre. Directed by Eric Hoff, Hit the Wall will begi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PM“As an actor, how important is it to know your lines?” That’s the first question Josh Gad asked his TV dad Bill Pullman in a new behind-the-scenes clip from the duo&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMIf you're a budget-conscious theater-goer – which may sound like an oxymoron considering today's average ticket prices -- it's time to hit the ATM. Off Broadway Alliance will be offering $…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMFormer New York Times chief theatre critic Frank Rich is producing a new documentary on Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim for HBO.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMProducers NELLE NUGENT and KENNETH TEATON welcome STEPHEN BYRD and ALIA JONES as producing partners on the Broadway production of THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, starring Academy Award nominee and th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMScarlett Johansson is primarily known as a stage and screen actress. What many people don’t know is that the blonde bombshell, currently lighting up Broadway as Maggie in Cat on a Hot …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:10PMIke Holter's rock-propelled gay rights drama Hit the Wall, which premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Garage Theatre last winter, will debut Off-Broadway Feb. 19 at the Barrow Street T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:09PMManhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of The Other Place, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello starring Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern, Zoe P…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:06PMLa Virgen de Guadalupe was missing from the Christmas theater season, but Latino Theater Company has found a new sponsor for 2013...Two of Celebration Theatre's former artistic directors nam…
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Two-time Tony nominee Penny Fuller has joined the cast of the McCarter Theatre Center's upcoming production of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, which will begin performances at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMThe new issue of Theatre Bay Area is out! And it features the full script of Josh Costello's stage adaptation of Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:52PMIn “Tar Baby,” Desiree Burch, an African-American comic and actress, has a neat solution for when she doesn’t want to do a show about race.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMThe long-expected official annnouncement has arrived: "Hit the Wall," the new drama about the Stonewall Riots penned by the young Chicago playwright Ike Holter is headed to the Barrow Street…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PM“Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,” in which that Hindu deity seeks to redeem the ancient swastika symbol from the Nazis, raises questions about the nature and abuses of power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMJessica Chastain, of Broadway’s The Heiress has received an Oscar Nomination for Actress in a Leading Role for ‘Zero, Dark, Thirty’.
The Heiress stars Academy Award nominee…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:39PMThe Cutting Ball Theater's experimental play festival Risk Is This is coming up this weekend, and I talked to artistic director Rob Melrose about it for the Marin Independent Journal.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:20PMFrom the Broadway openings of The Anarchist and Golden Boy to Gypsy of the Year and Chicago's landmark 6,681st performance, December was a busy month as the theater world ushered out a great…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMWilliam Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnicreturns to Broadway in a striking new production helmed by acclaimed director Sam Gold Roundabout's Look Back in Anger, Seminar. Academy Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMThe Den Theatre today announced a two-week extension of Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer,” now playing through Feb. 3 at the theater’s mainstage, 1333 N. Milwaukee. Seventeen years after …
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I have been reading a lot of predictions and resolutions and such for the new year and while Polly Carl’s piece on Howl Round was excellent I am struck by how little imagination many of us…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:56PMReading about the British Government's poetry recitation initiative for school children, Poetry By Heart, in The Guardian over the past few days brings to mind another recent attem…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:54PMTony Award nominee Rory O'Malley, who originated the role of tap-dancing missionary Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, announced via Twitter that he will depart the Tony-winning music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMMCC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director presents Matt Lauria NBC's 'Friday Night Lights' amp 'Parenthood', ZOSIA MAMET H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMAs a new year on Broadway gets into full swing, fans turned to Broadway.com for scoop on what to expect in the spring season, plus theater-related TV news, pop culture tidbits and more. In c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMOriginal cast member and Tony nominee Rory O’Malley has announced that he will be departing the smash hit musical The Book of Mormon on January 27. A replacement for O’Malley, wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:43PMDirector Thomas Bigley has fulfilled an essential task in his modern-day mounting of “King Lear,” presented by the Porters of Hellsgate at the Studio Stage. Every “Lear&r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMThe Den Theatre's hit production of Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" announced Thursday that it will extend for two additional weeks through Feb. 3. Many performances of the three-character dram…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:40PMMatt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit will be part of MCC Theater's New York premiere of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, which will debut Jan. 31, 2013, at the Lucille Lor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMFox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly confirmed at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour that the network is currently negotiating a fifth season of the hit musical se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMTickets go on sale today, January 10, for the eighth annual edition of BROADWAY BACKWARDS, a one-night-only musical performance produced by Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS and benefiting Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMWhen I was in eighth grade, our class produced a little mimeographed yearbook, of which I was the editor. The yearbook contained individual student profiles, essays about class trips, a clas…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:20PMTickets go on sale today, January 10, for the eighth annual edition of BROADWAY BACKWARDS, a one-night-only musical performance produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and benefiting B…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:18PMREVIEW: The Australian-born jukebox musical launches its national tour right here in Minneapolis.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:13PMGirls star Zosia Mamet, Friday Night Lights’ Matt Lauria and the rest of the ensemble cast of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really took time out from rehearsal on January 10 to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:09PMHope and change sure don’t come easy. Just ask circa 1706 Daniel Parke who served as British Governor of the Leeward Islands. Parke, a Virginian, was assigned this duty by Queen Anne…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:08PMThe eighth annual Broadway Backwards concert — featuring male singers performing songs traditionally sung by women, and women singing tunes written for men — will be presented Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMVotes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated This was our BIGGEST year yet After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to…
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Classes are back and so is BroadwayWorld's Student Center Whether you're involved with your school's productions backstage or onstage, we have some exciting opportunities for you to promote …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMOn February 27, 1986, SDCF held a conversation on Effective Playwriting with Stephen Porter and Howard Rossen moderated by Stephen Fife, on effective playwriting. In illustrating their poin…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:53PMDes McAnuff's new Stratford Festival staging of the rock musical Tommy, which he helped create for its Broadway life, will star Robert Markus as the gifted title character, Paul Nolan as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be part of It's De-Lovely, a special Valentine's Day-themed evening of music to benefit San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMThe Public Theater celebrated the first night of its ninth annual Under the Radar Festival on Wednesday, January 9 with a post-performance shindig at their Lafayette St
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:33PMTony Award nominee Emily Skinner is no stranger to the Washington, DC area. In addition to appearing in full productions in the area (Dirty Blonde and The Witches of Eastwick at Signature Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMBased on the best-selling book "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L. James, 50 Shades! The Musical is bound to entertain. The performance features 11 original songs from the musical group Baby Wan…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:29PMHere is your chance to solve a 78-year-old murder. Artist and author Cynthia von Buhler (born Cynthia Carrozza) has recreated the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of her Italia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMThe theme of displacement was inadequately explored in a piece that invoked its choreographer’s Yupik heritage, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:15PMA critic kept his promise not to see theater for several weeks at the end of the year, but favorite stage performers crept into his life thanks to their roles on film and television.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:13PMThis topical drama captures the dilemmas and contradictions of Egyptian emigrants in America with compelling force, writes Laura Cappelle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:12PMMaking Dickie Happy, a play written by Times theatre critic Jeremy Kingston about Noel Coward and Agatha Christie, will return to London this spring. The show will run at the Tristan Bates T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMElizabeth Keckley, the former slave who became dressmaker and confidante to Mary Lincoln, is having a busy season in pop culture, portrayed onstage, on screen and on the page.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09PMTamara Rojo was a serene Aurora in English National Ballet’s honourable, eloquent staging, writes Clement Crisp
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The West End is about to become a whole lot more glamorous, darling. Joan Collins, best known for her role as Dynasty diva Alexis Carrington, will bring her one-woman-show, One Night With J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMThis year's Japan Society’s Dance Showcase (January 11 & 12) features a diverse and compelling line-up including Taipei-based choreographer Chieh-hua Hsieh and his company Anarchy Da…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:54PMRory O'Malley has announced on his Facebook page today that he will be exiting the Tony-award winning musical. According to the post, his last performance will be on Sunday, January 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMA tribute show of sorts to two of Broadway's most prolific composers, John Kander and Fred Ebb, is the foundation for The World Goes 'Round
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:52PMWhether you are attending solo for Professional Development to enrich your soul or bringing kids to “strut their stuff’, the JUNIOR THEATER FESTIVAL in Atlanta, GA 2013 promises …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:49PMThe only thing bigger than the eponymous top news story in this work by Sebastian Michael is the LA-sized meteor that is due to hit earth next Thursday. It’s now Friday, and from a TV …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMOvercash and Change, a concert featuring the work of songwriter Drew Overcash, will be offered Feb. 11 at Joe's Pub in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThe Lion King composer and six-time Grammy winner Sir Elton John has reportedly welcomed a new cub into his tribe. John and his partner David Furnish had their second child with the same sur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMAfter it opened in New York in 1987, the Broadway production of "Les Miserables" garnered eight Tony Awards, including best new musical. Twenty-five years later, the movie version of the be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:39PMMarking its twentieth production, Kooza by Cirque Du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall brings together two of the company’s foundation blocks: the arts of clowning and acrobatics. In a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:36PMThe Place, LondonIf it's new year, it's time for Resolution!, the Place's platform for new works by novice choreographers. Artists ranging from Wayne McGregor to Tino Sehgal took their first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMDid you miss Ich, Kurbisgeist at The Chocolate Factory? Curious about what Annie-B, Paul and their ever-evolving band of collaborators are up to? Then make it over to Dixon Place on Friday,…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 12:31PMMatt Lauria (Friday Night Lights), Zosia Mamet (Girls), and the cast of MCC Theater's upcoming off-Broadway production of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really met the press on T
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMThe Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway January 26th, 1988 and won the Best Musical Tony that same year, as well as five other Tonys, including Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a M…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:19PMHeather Henderson has been named the new managing director of Abdingdon Theatre Company. She replaces Samuel J. Bellinger, who has left the theater to take a position at Second Stage Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMMichael Dwyer contributes this essay on Juggalos and fan culture in the context of Neal Medlyn's "Wicked Clown Love" at American Realness 2013.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:18PMBody-based artists explore notions of other-ness in a pair of showcases curated by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:17PMActors Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise break from PIPPIN to discuss their work in it, their characters, and the changes in theme from the original to Diane Paulus' circus-themed curren…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMThe film that theatre fans have been watching out for, LES MISERABLES received 7 Oscar nominations this morning, including one for Anne Hathaway as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The act…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMWhile new year resolutions are still being posted on Twitter and its kindred cyber-spirits, I find myself thinking less about resurrecting that dusty exercise bike/coat rack and more about t…
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:06PMMCC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director presents Matt Lauria NBC's 'Friday Night Lights' amp 'Parenthood', ZOSIA MAMET H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMIt was announced today that, due to popular demand, Barry Manilow’s hometown concert event, Manilow on Broadway, has added two additional weeks of performances and will now play through Sa…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:03PMAcademy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost and television's The View) will appear as a presenter at Garden of Laughs, a stand-up comedy event presented by Chase to benefit the Gard…
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The Chicago Sinfonietta recognizes two Chicago-based companies, one for-profit and one non-profit, with its second annual Chairperson’s Award for Diversity and Inclusion, honoring their…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:56AMJoin the team behind Broadway’s eagerly anticipated Matilda The Musical as they take you through the show’s journey from Statford-upon-Avon to London’s West End to Broadway. Writers Ti…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:54AMDerek Jack Davenport is one of Broadway's most brilliant director-choreographers not to mention one of its most seductive and arrogant figures. Season One of SMASH tested Derek's award-winni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMNeed to catch up on 2013's Best Original Song nominees Check them all out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMJosh Gad’s political sitcom 1600 Penn premieres on January 10 on NBC, and lucky for Gad, his press tour included a trip to—where else?—the nation’s capital! Gad and c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:45AMA new, 90-minute production of Hamlet starring Jonathan Broadbent in the title role will run at the historic Rose Theatre, Bankside next month. The venue, which is situated round the corner …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:43AMThe Public Theater's 2013 Under the Radar Festival, a festival of innovative theatre, began a two-week engagement Jan. 9 downtown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMOff-Broadway's Obie Award-winning The Play Company launches the U.S. premiere of Working On a Special Day, a stage version of the Oscar-nominated Ettore Scola film about Hitler's vis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMTaylor Trensch’s body tells a gay kid’s story in “Bare: The Musical” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:37AMGreat news! I am hosting (and playing a number) in this unique event tomorrow night at the Brick Theater! Preparing for this event has been a hugely rewarding experience. In case you haven&#…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:33AMStraight-talking US comedian who's as funny attacking opponents of gay marriage as she is bawling out a 'racist' dolphin Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMEmmy winner Leslie Jordan is set to return to the West End with his new solo show Fruit Fly, the follow up to his successful 2011 one-man show, My Trip Down The Pink Carpet. Fruit …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMThe film that theatre fans have been watching out for, LES MISERABLES received 7 nominations including Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Picture, Costume Design, Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMLaurie Metcalf has been sitting onstage in a white upholstered chair for a while before the start of "The Other Place." She wears a sleek business suit with a snappy little skirt, and we can…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:26AMEmmy-winning television star Carson Kressley joins the cast of off Broadway's NEWSical The Musical for four weeks only. NEWSical The Musical is the forever changing, completely un-sanitized …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMEmmy winner Carson Kressley will join the cast of Off-Broadway’s NEWSical The Musical for four weeks only, Feb. 6-March 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMThe young Faction Theatre Company made a powerful impact last year with a three-play rep season at the New Diorama. It included an exceptionally persuasive version of Schiller's Mary Stuart …
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Current Role: Alan Seymour, a rich suitor who pines for the beautiful Madge (Maggie Grace) in Roundabout Theatre Company’s sexy revival of Picnic.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMThe old foul-mouthed gang is back together! Tony nominee Yul Vazquez will reunite with his The Motherf**ker With the Hat Broadway castmates for the show’s Los Angeles premiere. As prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net, continues its expansion into other areas of entertainment with our latest feature -The Regional Opera Company of the Week This week's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMIt's The Tony Awards for movie people! The 85th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, with Broadway and off-Broadway well-represented by standout solo performances o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMThe Amoralists' world-premiere of Lyle Kessler's college-set black comedy Collision begins performances Jan. 10 Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AM“Watching Jessica Chastain’s transformation in The Heiress is so moving it will thrill you for hours afterward. You’ll feel privileged to be there watching a talent of this magnitude i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:04AMOscar winner Olympia Dukakis, Louise Lasser, Louis Zorich, Jessica Stone and Michael Citriniti will star in an invitation-only reading of Rich Orloff’s Advanced Chemistry, a collection…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMWhile the making of a musical from an idea is a tricky, tricky thing, I often find that most unsuccessful musicals go wrong much earlier than the actual execution. It’s the idea that o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe Black Rep brings together alumni of its training and educational programs in "The Piano Lesson."
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Colfer makes, is making his star feature film debut as actor and writer, supported by all-star ensemble, including Allison Janney, Polly Bergen, Christina Hendricks, and Dermot Mulroney.
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:59AMEmmy-winning TV personality Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) will join the cast of off-Broadway’s NEWSical the Musical for a special four-week engagement. Kressley will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMMusical Monday Theatre Lab presents a workshop of the new musical The Passion of Ed Wood Jan. 10 at 6 PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater within the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMKyle DeSantis, President of Drury Lane, 100 Drury Lane, announced today that the facility is undergoing an extensive renovation, with Phase 1 to be completed by March, 2013 and Phase 2 to be…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:55AMLeslie Jordan, who previously brought his one-man show Leslie Jordan - My Trip Down the Pink Carpet to the West End's Apollo Theatre, is returning to London with his follow-up show Fruit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM Today is the birthday of the great be bop jazz drummer Max Roach (1924-2007). I always get real peeved when I hear people who don’t know what they’re talking about say tha…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AMTVGuide.com reports that 'Book of Mormon' star Andrew Rannells will be giving up his role on the HBO comedy series GIRLS midway through the current season. In an interview with The Huffingto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMFour-time Emmy winner Michael Learned will play Daisy Werthan and Lance Nichols, star of the HBO series "Treme," will be her chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, in the Alhambra Theatre's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMTheatre and ticketing website bought by New York-based Theatremania.com after year of ownership by Time Out GroupTheatre news and ticketing website Whatsonstage.com has been bought by the Ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMBroadway.com's resident artist Justin "Squigs" Robertson recently ventured to Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre to sketch Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry and Jo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #421: Grock (for more on the international clown star and his vaudeville connection go here). You can see him in action here in this 1931 clip: To…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:17AMIt's been a good week for "Les Miserables," which was nominated this morning for the Academy Award for best picture.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMNominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Jan. 10. Tony-winning songwriters Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil were nominated for the new song written for "Les Mis&e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMSarah Platt is managing director of Kinura, Whatsonstage.com's official webcast partner. She has specialised in streaming projects for over ten years and produced hundreds of global live web…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:12AMTIME Magazine's 1 Musical of 2012 FORBIDDEN BROADWAY ALIVE AND KICKING continues its successful and critically-acclaimed run at the 47th Street Theatre. Don't miss Broadway's hottest shows o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMA new version of Chess, the West End and Broadway musical featuring music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and lyrics by Tim Rice, is to receive its world stage premiere at London&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #103: Ray Bolger (for more on him and his vaudeville beginnings go here). Modern movie fans love him for having played the Scarecrow, but he was…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AMTom Hooper's film is a colossal effort – after 158 minutes, you really have experienced something. It's just not clear whatLike a diabolically potent combination of Lionel Bart and Leni Ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMYesterday it was reported that Disney may be preparing to bring “Aladdin” to Broadway, but that’s not the only production the company may stage in New York. The New York Post reports t…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMLooks like fans are loving Glee’s New York-based plotline centering on Broadway vet Lea Michele and Chris Colfer: The co-stars took home 2013 People’s Choice Awards for Favorite …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMThis week's A.P.T. goes out to Jessica Porter of Porter Contemporary. Jessica is a fellow entrepreneur and runs a wonderful gallery. She is also an amazing connector and one of those people …
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Casting has been announced for a by-invitation-only reading of Rich Orloff's Advanced Chemistry, which will be presented Jan. 14 at the National Arts Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMOld Vic Tunnels, LondonFiona Shaw's solo performances of The Waste Land 15 years ago (reprised in 2010) were an extraordinary, spine-tingling experience. As she raised the ghosts of TS Eliot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMTwo men's idyllic life in Sag Harbor hits some snags in Tony nominee 's Harbor, which after its premiere at Westport Country Playhouse last year, will play New York's Primary Stages this sum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMThe Broadway League announced that Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, co-hosts of Emmy Award-winning talk show 'LIVE with Kelly and Michael,' will serve as the 2013 KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY Nati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:57AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham UTR Festival Director, Mark Russell began performances for the 2013 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL last ni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMToday is the birthday of matinee idol Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966). He started his career acting with Baltimore stock companies. Inspired by Sandow the Strong man, as a young man he built…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:51AMThe 2013 People's Choice Awards, hosted by Kaley Cuoco, were presented Jan. 9 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live. "Glee" series regulars Chris Colfer and Lea Michele took…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AM"Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures" is indispensable reading for word-and-image freaks and a treat for fans of virtuoso scholarship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AMWhat the hell are you going to Blog about Natalie What is so important in your life since your last Blog a few days ago, that you can write that's interesting enough for the world to read I'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMNorbert Leo Butz, the two-time Tony-winning actor recently seen on Broadway in Dead Accounts, will take part in an invitation-only staged reading of Jason Odell Williams' Significant Oth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMAfter scoring a Tony nomination as The Book of Mormon’s lovable doofus Elder Cunnigham, Josh Gad is refocusing his career in the political arena...on TV, at least. Gad stars as Skip, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:29AMThese are the ones that make me want to press "repeat play" repeatedly and think will hold up and I'll hold closer over the coming years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AMCongrats to this year’s Academy Award nominees. Winners will be announced on February 24th at 7 PM on ABC. Best Actor In A Leading Role: Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26AM Herman Ootics, the Clown: History, Culture, and Clowning A Lecture by David Carlyon Thursday, January 10 6 pm BGC, 38 West 86th Street The whimsical reference to hermeneutics in this …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:14AMVotes are cast, polls are closed, and results have been tabulated This was our BIGGEST year yet After a record number of voters in over 30 regions worldwide, BroadwayWorld is VERY excited to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMInterview: Kate Bassett, the Independent on Sunday theatre critic and the author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller "In Two Minds" (Ob…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:02AMInterview: Kate Bassett, the Independent on Sunday theatre critic and the author of a new, authorised and definitive biography of the director and polymath Jonathan Miller "In Two Minds" (Ob…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:02AM THEATRE LAB SPRING SESSION OFFERS CLASSES FEATURING PRODUCTIONS OF LES MIZ, and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY This spring, Theatre Lab students will have the opportunity to take on roles in full-fl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMThe latest film version of “Les Miserables” racked up a slew of Oscar and BAFTA nominations this week. For the Academy Awards, “Les Mis” was nominated for Best Picture and earned sev…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMYoung Playwrights’ Theater to Honor World-Renowned Playwright Paula Vogel with the 2013 Giving Voice Award Gala Evening of Food, Drinks, Live Music and Silent Auction to Honor Vogel On Sat…
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The IHT’s London theater critic takes a look at what’s in store this season: Kristin Scott Thomas, Rufus Sewell, Helen Mirren, “Othello” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
SOURCE: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com at 08:52AMLincoln leads with 12 Oscar nominations, including best adapted screenplay by Tony Kushner (playwright of “Angels in America”). Les Miserables, the movie of the stage musical, sn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM"The Sopranos" creator is the latest filmmaker to tackle the 1960s. He provides an antidote to the rose-tinted lenses of nostalgia, a grounded portrayal that evokes the truth of the period r…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMBrixton Club House, London: Set in the early 1980s, Taboo uses the colourful, hedonistic world of London's underground club scene to tell the story of Billy, a young photographer ready …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMNominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Jan. 10 by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:45AMNominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMThe year is 1981. My parents have a subscription to the Broadway series in Cleveland, Ohio. The first show we see? “Annie,” of course. For the next three months I can be found si…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:43AMAs I hitch up my pants and swing into the critical saddle again, I’m musing about what kind of value my own reviews and essays might offer that may not be found anywhere else (aside fr…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:39AMForget storming the barricades, those singing French revolutionaries are heading to the Oscars! The movie adaptation of Les Misérables scored eight Academy Award nominations on Januar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:35AMBirmingham Stage Company missing mention, raising 'private cash', memories of the Phoenix and long running plays in the West End.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMAlverthorpe WMC, Wakefield: Sean Glenn has been touring pantomimes to largely working men's club audiences in Yorkshire and the East Midlands for many years. He gives opportunities to f…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMAsolo Repertory Theater scores a bullseye with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take it With You, brilliantly directed by Peter Amster.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14AMKate Elionor (ca. 1875-1924) started out in the 1890s in a comical two act with her sister May, who fed her jokes. Joe Laurie Jr. described this act as being similar to the Russell Brothers.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:09AMAt this point in Ethan Hawke’s life directing an Off Broadway play in New York with like-minded actors seems like the highest and best use of his skills.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMWelcome to the new year, guys! We made it to 2013-- and while the future is still unknown, it's hard to ignore a new year ready for us to barrel on through. While I'll be one of the first to…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AM
Lorna Luft will reprise her solo autobiographical show, Songs My Mother Taught Me, at London's Crazy Coqs cabaret room at the new Brasserie Zedel restaurant, off Piccadilly, beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AMToday is the birthday of Betty Lou Williams (1930-1953). Born to a poor Georgia farming family she was born with a parasytic twin growing out of her side. She began to be exhibited in New Y…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:45AMAmerican comic Leslie Jordan will return to the London stage later this year with his new show Fruit Fly.
Jordan, whose one-man show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet ran at the Apollo Theatre, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:20AMLionel Bart's Quasimodo is to finally receive its world premiere at London's King's Head, 50 years after it was written. Robert Chevara will direct the production, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:18AMThere's a hauntingly beautiful moment in this short play by Iain Finlay Macleod when the music changes from run-of-the-mill rock to the soundtrack of a Gaelic song, performed (I think) by th…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:14AMGay Soper (Pippin, Lend Me a Tenor) will take over from Sheila Reid as Helena for the latter part of the forthcoming national tour of Nichola McAuliffe's new play Maurice's Jubilee. So…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Cirque du Soleil's latest residency at the Royal Albert Hall, titled Kooza, opened to press this week (8 January 2013).The show, which premiered in April 2007, is billed as "a return to the …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:47AMThe full cast has been announced for the new U.K. tour of Cole Porter's High Society, beginning performances Jan. 24 at Venue Cymru, Llandudno.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43AMFilm and theater are entirely different mediums, and comparing Les Mis’s current incarnations is difficult—and perhaps unfair. That said, with the possible exception of Hugh Jackman’s …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:39AMEnglish National Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty is the best in Britain. Kenneth MacMillan’s production shows off the ravishing dances, with gorgeous costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis and a vivid…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:39AMNew Diorama Theatre, London: The first of three plays in The Faction's 2013 rep season, Fiesco is an unfamiliar piece which presents the ever topical theme of usurping tyrants. This acc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMCal McCrystal is an award-winning clown and comedy director who has worked with the likes of The Mighty Boosh, Spymonkey and Cirque du Soleil.
Among recent projects he directed the physical…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:37AMA concert revival of Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's 1991 Broadway musical The Secret Garden will be staged at the King's Head, beginning performances Feb. 10 prior to an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33AMRoyal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet's new-ish director Kevin O'Hare has provided the perfect Christmas mix. While The Nutcracker provides family-friendly attractions, this …
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My mother has been doing some hardcore genealogy research for years now. There was a trip to Ireland a few years back, last Christmas we were in FDR’s Presidential Library, this Christ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:44AMNEW YORK - Maggie Grace had a scary moment during a recent matinee of Picnic, which is in previews and opens Sunday on Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:31AMShawn Ashmore's 1 Degree of Kevin Bacon
Shawn Ashmore pays a visit to the Studio to chat about his creepy new TV series for Fox, "The Following", which puts him within a much-coveted one-deg…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMRob Lowe's Brat Pack Memories
The always handsome and charming Rob Lowe pays a visit to the Studio to chat about his dueling television projects, the hilarious "Parks and Recreation" and the…
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I am not a racist.
And yet there I was, sitting in the audience at “Tar Baby” — comedian Desiree Burch’s provocatively titled new show about race — wearing a sticker calling me one…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMBuff, blond Billy Magnussen says he has the best job in town: “They’re paying me to make out with Sigourney Weaver and pinch David Hyde Pierce’s nipples!”
He does both in “Vanya a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, plays Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place opens tonight, January 10. The Other Pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMSan Jose Rep welcomes a cast of undeniable talent to the stage for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal, directed by David Ira Goldstein and co-produced with the Arizona Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMHartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts, today announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of Breat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMUnsungMusicalsCo. UMC has announced casting for its upcoming production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling beginning performances tonight, January 10, 2013 at the Connelly Theatre. Natalie Veneti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMSharr White's The Other Place, starring Laurie Metcalf, opens January 10 at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by Tony winner Joe Mantello, the Manhattan Theatre Cl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07AMThe musical revue The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen opens January 10 at off-Broadway's St. Luke’s Theatre. Directed by Gene Castle, The Wonderful Wizard …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06AMRoundabout Theatre Company has just announced that Erin Davie will join the critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' Tony Award winning musical comedy The Mystery of Ed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02AM"Perfect strangers" no longer! Broadway veteran Erin Davie (Grey Gardens) will join Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood as the virginial …
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMI finished writing the first draft of Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington on Wednesday afternoon. Much painstaking revision remains...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise." Shakespeare, King Lear...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMKecia Lewis-Evans, Jubilant Sykes and Tom Frey star in the world premiere of Daniel Beaty's play-with-music, Breath & Imagination, which debuts Jan. 10 at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, starring Kendra Kassebaum, Joe Cassidy and Jonathan Shew, begins performances Jan. 10 at the San Jose Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe troupers of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, one of the best-reviewed musicals of the 2012-13 Broadway season, and now extended to March 10, will welcome Erin Davie to the fold beginning Feb.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSome of the best-known American songs from theatre, pop and movies are being heard Off-Broadway in the New York City premiere of The Wonderful Wizard of Song: The Music of Harold Arlen, a ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStaged readings of Rockwell: Life on a Palette, a new musical based on Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post, are presented Jan. 10-11 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Riverside Theatre's production of the classic musical Funny Girl plays the Stark Stage in Vero Beach, FL, Jan. 10-27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a medical researcher whose health, homelife and workplace are shaken, featuring Laurie Metcalf, reprising he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNatalie Venetia Belcon, Jonathan Rayson, Matt Walton and Morgan Weed star in UnsungMusicalsCo.'s production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling. Performances begin Jan. 10, prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Michael Puzzo's Spirits of Exit Eleven, the dark comedy set at a New Jersey strip club, begins performances Jan. 10, prior to an official opening Jan. 17, at The Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmy Herzog's praised new play The Great God Pan ends its extended run at Playwrights Horizons Jan. 13, but her Belleville is in the wings at New York Theatre Workshop's home downtown…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1820 Birthday of Louisa Lane Drew, matriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasty that would eventually include John Drew, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and today'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe year 2013 marks the centennial of Danny Kaye’s birth, and Danny’s daughter Dena Kaye talks about the legendary entertainer’s career and Turner Classic Movies special 24-hour mara…
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