FREUD'S LAST SESSION, New York's long-running hit play by Mark St. Germain, is set to open in Los Angeles starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C. S. Lewis under the dire…
Linked From losangeles.broadwayworld.com at 09:59PMSam Gold directs William Inge's Pulitzer-winning 'Picnic' in a New York production that could restore the reputation of the late playwright.NEW YORK — Sixty years ago next month, playw…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:59PM “Ruff ruff!” A cute and fun interactive eBook for little kids, The Adventures of Jack the Wonder Bichon! by Pauline Adamek & Olivia Revell is now available for downloa…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 09:55PMNEW YORK (AP) — A trial date has been set for a federal lawsuit brought by the fired director of the Broadway show "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" after a settlement agreement fell through.
Linked From Boston Globe at 09:38PMIf you're a performer who's also writing a play, here's a valuable lesson: create a good part for yourself. That's what the delightfully daffy Sari Caine has done in The Chess Lesson, her 6…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:38PMAs any new work goes through its evolution to fruition, the playwright and the marketplace can dictate many factors that ultimately impact the final product. A perfect example of this is t…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 09:05PM“C’est du Chinois,” part of the Under the Radar festival, is a no-frills, no-drama production: 80 minutes of energetic language instruction, performed by a (fictional) family from Shan…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMA minor Shakespearean character comes to the fore in Tim Crouch’s “I, Malvolio,” at the Duke on 42nd Street.
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When an upwardly mobile African-American couple wants to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood of 1950's Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to "ghost-buy" a house on their behalf. …
Linked From Off-Off Blogway at 07:41PMGabriel García Márquez's magical realist fable proves to be the perfect vehicle for this bewitching collaboration between Islington's Little Angel Theatre and Cornwall's Kneehigh company.
Linked From The Independent at 07:18PMWe're in uncharted territory, staring at a crystal ball. This glass globe adorns a table at Trinity Buoy Wharf – the Docklands river peninsula devoted to the arts and creative industries w…
Linked From The Independent at 07:18PMFor millions of young children in the 1950s and 1960s, Daphne Oxenford was one of the calm voices heard regularly on BBC Radio’s Listen With Mother, a mixture of stories, songs and nursery…
Linked From The Stage at 07:08PMAn innovator in puppetry and children’s theatre, Violet Philpott experimented with new techniques and materials, albeit on very different lines from Thunderbirds’ Gerry Anderson. After s…
Linked From The Stage at 07:08PMFor those craving a show after the show, 54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, offers its Tuesday night cocktail partysongfe…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:02PMKate Jablonski has received the 2012 Dance Chicago Choreographer of the Year Award, an honor presented under the auspices of Dance Chicago, Emergence Dance Theatre and the Cliff Dwellers Art…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 07:02PMWant to see Patti LuPone take on Fanny Brice? How about Anita from West Side Story? Well, now’s your chance. The two-time Tony winner will bring her critically acclaimed show Coulda, W…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:01PMThe Other Place stars Laurie Metcalf, Daniel Stern and Zoe Perry celebrated the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's drama about a brilliant scientist whose life is falling apart. Wat…
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:01PMAs the sun sets on another jam-packed week on Broadway, we look back at the headlines that made us smile, gasp and question our very existence. Read on to get the scoop on Patti LuPone&rsquo…
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The new Canadian production of London's popular The Wizard of Oz, featuring the classic movie score punctuated with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, opens in Toronto at the Ed …
Linked From Playbill at 06:50PMManhattan Theatre Club celebrated the opening night of Sharr White's drama The Other Place on Thursday, January 10 with a post-
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:36PMTony nominee Danny Burstein (currently of Broadway's Golden Boy) and Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) will inhabit the World War II-landscape of Lanford Wilson's Talley's Folly beginnin…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:36PMOn June 28, 1969, a routine police raid of an underground gay bar became a full scale riot. Ike Holter's new play Hit the Wall tells the story of the protests and demonstrations that became…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:36PMRory O'Malley will "turn it off" for the last time on January 27th at 7PM. The Tony Award nominated actor originated the role of Elder McKinley in the smash hit musical The Book of Mormon on…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:36PMRaucous laughter and awkward silences fill the Public Theater’s Newman Theater during “Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,” a bizarrely compelling show from Australia’s Ba…
Linked From Backstage at 06:10PMRECOMMENDED If you’re familiar with the beloved musical “My Fair Lady,” you’ll need no introduction to the BoHo Theatre and Stage Left Theatre collaboration on Shaw’s ̶…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 06:08PMNBC will offer viewers a sneak peek at the first hour of the two-hour season premiere of the Golden Globe-nominated drama 'Smash' on Monday, January 14 across multiple platforms -- three wee…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with LaVon Fisher-Wilson, who is starring as 'Medda' in Newsies- currently playing at the Nederlander Theatre.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMIn Episode 6, Part 1 of THE GRAHAM SHOW, 'Brotherly Love and the Jerz,' Nathan Lane remembers his introduction to the theater as a boy, his brother 'sensing something' in him, and his decisi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMTo celebrate the launch of The Dickens Legacy at the Gala Evening at London's Vaudeville Theatre, GREAT EXPECTATIONS will be screened live via satellite to more than 150 cinemas across the U…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMTarget's Bull's-eye is coming to the Great White WayTarget's beauty partners Sonia Kashuk and Umberto Savone have teamed up with the upcoming play Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's' to …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMtheatreWashington presents the first-ever webcast of the Helen Hayes Awards Nominations. The road to the 29th Helen Hayes Awards begins when the nominees are announced on Monday, January 28.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMWilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly, directed by Michael Wilson, feature Danny Burstein as 'Matt Friedman' and Sarah Paulson as 'Sally Talley.' Performances begin on February…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMToday, we're featuring Bea Arthur and Hal Linden circa 1981. Arthur's stage roles included Lucy Brown in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Marc Blitzstein's English-language adaptation of Ku…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMCasting is complete for the Broadway premiere of Lucky Guy, a new play by the late Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks. The George C. Wolfe-directed production begins previews on March 1 at t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:00PMWhen Tony-nominated Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells first appeared as Elijah on HBO's hit comedy Girls, his ex-girlfriend Hannah (played by show star/producer/director/writer Le…
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, January 11, 2013 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Tune in to see CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF star Scarlett Johansson o…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:51PMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer's Las Vegas-set production of Verdi's Rigoletto will debut Jan. 28 at the Metropolitan Opera. The staging reunites Mayer with his Tony-winni…
Linked From Playbill at 05:40PMTwo-time Tony Award-winning Patti LuPone will return to 54 Below for her fourth engagement in February. This time, audiences at the intimate venue will be treated to the Evita and Gypsy star…
Linked From Playbill at 05:40PMA revival of The Rainmaker at Edgemar Center is the occasion for a three-way chat among director Jack Heller, Robert Standley in the title role, and Tanna Frederick -- who plays Lizzie and r…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 05:40PMToday, she is an Academy Award nominee, but we won't forget her as the ingénue of Carnival! In 2002, Anne Hathaway played what Ben Brantley called the "unworldly heroine ever in a Broadway …
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:35PMMegan Follows (photo credit: John Lauener)Beyond Homerby Beat RiceI first want to state that I never saw the original Nightwood Theatre production of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopaid o…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:28PMReviving the Blastby Christian BainesIt’s hard to imagine the ice water blast of originality that Hedwig and the Angry Inch must have seemed when it debuted in New York in 1998. With a fil…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:28PMKristen Thomson (photo credit: Guntar Kravis / cropped) The Shadows of Middle Ageby Greg BunkerHead check! Crow's Theatre’s Someone Else is a black comedy that has you in fits of laug…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:28PMThe critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? had a few surprise guests backstage earlier this week as the stars m…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:19PMWilliam Peace University's Theatre Department will present Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS from February 13-23, 2013 at the Leggett Theatre. BroadwayWorld is thrilled to welcome one of the…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMListen to Once star Cristin Milioti on NPR's 'Ask Me Another' HERE
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter in the Upstairs Theatre, at the helm of a Pinter play for the first time. The theater…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMThis month we will be looking at how to conquer the emotionally charged scene to make it an enjoyable experience for both the audience and the actors. Read the whole thing here! In This Issu…
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As the Roundabout Theatre Company’s spring season heats up (did you see Sebastian Stan’s abs in Picnic!?), there’s plenty more chemistry coming down the pipeline, including…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:59PMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and her Tony-nominated husband Will Swenson will join Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper to perform at Out for Equality’s inaugural celebration o…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:59PMNew play is based on Dan Gutman's popular series for young readers.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:59PMPlayers feel brassed off at a perceived ‘snobbery’ from Whitehall that has meant a lack of funding for a working class treasure
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 04:53PMThe 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, William Inge's Picnic gets a fresh Broadway revival by Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre. When sexy drifter Hal (Sebastian…
Linked From Playbill at 04:49PMNow appearing on the big screen in "Sopranos" creator David Chase’s new film "Not Fade Away" and set for a two-week engagement at Café Carlyle with Howard McGillin, Rebecca Luker is alway…
Linked From Playbill at 04:49PMGustavia was the kind of show that makes me angry. Angry that it’s so good, so unique, so necessary and yet only here in New York for one performance, so it’s already come and go…
Linked From culturebytes.org at 04:39PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 31, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013, as reported by The Broadway League.
Linked From Playbill at 04:37PMTune in to see Tony Award-winner Scarlett Johansson, who stars as Maggie in Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, on CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday, January 13. Correspondent Anthony …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:25PMDo you know what a Russian pig sounds like? What about a Japanese bee? Find out as we test you on animal kingdom noises, spoil some TV show finales, and walk the streets with a song in our h…
Linked From National Public Radio at 04:21PMWhen you think of it, one aspect of ANNIE has never made any sense. At the end of the show, everyone is having a wonderful time, and not simply because it’s Christmas Day. Miss Hannigan, R…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 04:20PMTony winner, recording artist, TV legend and star of the forthcoming Lena Horne biographical musical Stormy Weather Leslie Uggams has been chosen as the Nightlife Awards’ 2013 Nightlife Le…
Linked From City Guide Magazine at 04:20PMTHAT KINKY KINESCOPE It’s a time trip that denies the original intent—a live taping of a dead T.V. series. The iconic archetype of the boob tube’s “golden age,” I Love Lucy wasn’…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 04:20PMBrixton Club House, LondonFor Boy George and his New Romantic pals, there was only one thing more important than peacocking around London nightclubs: it was delivering the bitchiest putdowns…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:20PMThe Accrington Pals is revived in Manchester, an all-male The Maids cleans up in Glasgow, and Rupert Everett plays Oscar Wilde in London's West EndNorthHurry along to the Royal Exchange in M…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:20PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- NBC is giving viewers a sneak peek at the new season of "Smash."...
Linked From Associated Press at 04:20PMOur 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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Linked From Gold Derby at 04:20PM'House' made him familiar to TV audiences, but he's always been a man of the theater. He's at the Old Globe now, savoring the words in 'Pygmalion.'As 2013 begins, Robert Sean Leonard is the …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Some of Hollywood's big-name mobsters are helping save small-town theaters....
Linked From Associated Press at 04:20PMThe Royal Opera in London has asked four composers to write works responding to philosophical questions.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:20PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:18PMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:18PMHotels beef up their buffet offerings with top notch ingredients and even all you can drink Bloody Marys. After all, it's still Las Vegas.
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:07PMAnne of Green Gables star is a cross between Anne and Xena the Warrior Princess, so she’s perfect as Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:07PMComedian and TV star Ron James can tell more than a few good stories about travel in Canada.
Linked From Toronto Star at 04:07PMIn December last year we announced a new joint initiative with The Theatre Centre called Civil Debates: an opportunity for two speakers from opposite sides of an argument to debate their per…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 04:06PMHow Do I Make This A Performance? Most freakin’ hilarious site I have seen in ages. Rarely am I super jealous of sheer comic genius, this is one of those moments. I smell a festival!
Linked From culturebytes.org at 04:06PMJanuary is the unofficial month of experimental downtown theater, what with the Under the Radar and Coil festivals in full swing. But they are not the only game in town. The Wild Project is …
Linked From Backstage at 04:06PMAfter 44 years, “The Fig Leaves Are Falling” returns to New York Even when Broadway musicals go unrecorded and unrevived, the original reviews live on. So while it may be almost …
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 04:05PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK CINDERELLA preps for Broadway, Blythe Danner joins NICE WORK, FLASHDANCE launches its national tour, and so much more
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMIn a burst of Lion King pride, a group of gentlemen gathered at a Tim Hortons and sang their hearts out to a familiar showtune. Check out their rendition of 'Can You Feel the Love Tonight.'
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMTony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will make his Met debut with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, in a staging that moves the opera's tragic events from a decadent 16th-century I…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMSometimes you get what you DON’T have to pay for, and it’s priceless. A perfect case in point: “Ten,” the second (and sure to be annual) anthology program of short pieces that serves…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PMOPENING THE ALIENS. A Red Orchid Theatre presents Annie Baker’s story of a couple of slackers who philosophize of life as life passes by, and the young barista who happens into their lives…
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Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher, Alex Hanna, and Aaron Clifton Moten will head to the movies in Annie Baker’s new off-Broadway play The Flick. Directed by Sam Gold, the production will be…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:58PMBroadway favorite and Smash sweetheart Megan Hilty took to Twitter on January 11 to reveal details about her upcoming solo album.
“Just confirmed that my album title will be It Happ…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:58PMKapow! It's my first review for KQED's Arts Blog! And it's a good one.
Linked From The Idiolect at 03:57PMThis week's guest blog comes from Adrienne Smith of Cheazza which you'll hear all about in a few seconds. In this post, she lets you in the on the process of building an app as an entreprene…
Linked From One Producer in the City at 03:51PMJulian Rachlin is a Romantic violinist in the best sense: he has technique to burn, but isn’t overly showy. His tone is pure, his intonation impeccable, and in his playing the melodic line…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 03:48PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway premiere of late writer Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, starring Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, which will begin previews March 1 at the Br…
Linked From Playbill at 03:36PMAlex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten will star in The Flick, Annie Baker's new Off-Broadway play that reunites her with director Sam Gold. Playwrights Horizon…
Linked From Playbill at 03:36PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
Linked From Playbill at 03:36PMNBCUniversal held its Press Tour Jan. 6 and 7 at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Cast members from shows such as "Smash," "1600 Penn," "Do No Harm" an…
Linked From Playbill at 03:36PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Sharr White's The Other Place starring Laurie Metcalf, Zoe Perry, Daniel Stern and John Schiappa.
Linked From Playbill at 03:36PMClick Here to listen to ONCE star Cristin Milioti on NPR’s “Ask Me Another.”
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:26PMJenn Joy on Maria Hassabi's "Show" - playing this week at American Realness.
Linked From Culturebot at 03:25PMActress Laurie Metcalf’s latest display of toughness comes in Sharr White’s challenging, ultimately heart-catching drama, writes Brendan Lemon
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 03:04PMHollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson, now starring in the Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, tells CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD that she hates the nickname ScarJo whic…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMVotes 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…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMIn the exclusive video below, Testa a Fisher chat about the tribute concert and give a special preview of 'Mr. and Mrs. Fitch.' Click below to check it out
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This week’s Between Shows is two-time Tony Winner Norbert Leo Butz’s new album Memory and Mayhem, which was recorded during Butz’s 54 Below stint in August. The album inc…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:58PMLaurie Metcalf leads the cast of the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's new drama The Other Place, featuring Zoe Perry and Daniel Stern. Find out if Word of Mouth panelists Brad, Fernand…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:57PMSherie Rene Scott’s Piece of Meat is crossing the Atlantic. The Tony nominee will bring her solo concert to the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome for three nights only from Februar…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:57PMJulia Murney (Wicked), Caissie Levy (Ghost), Jason Danieley (Next to Normal) and Etai Ben Shlomo (Wicked) will participate in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Song…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:57PMIn the Broadway premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf gives a riveting performance as Juliana Smithton, a brilliant neurologist whose life becomes unbalan…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:57PMWritten by five playwrights and with a plot that spans four continents and 300 years, ‘Feast’ is an ambitious production about Yoruba culture, writes Griselda Murray Brown
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 02:57PMIn the arts-criticism course that I teach at the Boston Conservatory, one of the DVDs that I've had my students watch almost every semester is Pippin. This isn't because I necessarily like t…
Linked From Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:48PM2013 is getting into full swing with a lot of openings Here are some of the shows you can see in and around the Hub this weekend: Opening A variety of Boston's best actresses …
Linked From Art Hennessey at 02:47PMWhen watching "Pygmalion," it's never easy to get "My Fair Lady" our of your head. Alan Jay Lerner took his lyrical ideas right from the George Bernard Shaw verbiage in most instances, which…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 02:41PMJohn Ford's notorious incest tragedy of the 17th century is given a contemporary-minded staging at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 02:37PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott, last seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, will bring her cabaret show, Piece of Meat, to the London Hippodrome for …
Linked From Playbill at 02:35PMI consider myself lucky that not a week goes by where I don’t see at least one, if not several, musicals. I see everything from community theater to Broadway. As is to be expected, the qua…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 02:27PMHannah Moscovitch's combat drama is a magnificent, complex look at a platoon's psyche
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 02:20PMIt’s 2013, and against all odds, Canadian theatre is thriving across the country. So what to see and where?
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 02:20PMPicnic, William Inge‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town folk yearning for what’s beyond, returns to Broadway starting December 14 in a Roundabout Theatre Company produc…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:16PMPicnic, William Inge‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of small-town folk yearning for what’s beyond, returns to Broadway officially opens Sunday, January 13, 2013. Picnic is a Roun…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:16PM“I know your name.” “You do?” “Yeah.” “What is it?” “Guess.” In that charming and creepy flirtation we bear some witness to the seductive, eerie, and viol…
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Riverside Theatre's Simply Amazing Season continues with the Broadway smash musical hit, Funny Girl. Nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Musical Best Lead Actor and Actress and Be…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - Which animated movie musical should Disney bring to Broadway next
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMThe Orange County School of the Arts OCSA, a nationally recognized arts school that provides bright and talented students with a creative and challenging educational environment, is pleased …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMBased in New York, ventriloquist Charles Young played many of the important venues of the late 18th century: Tony Pastor’s, Bunnell’s New American Museum, Harrigan & HartR…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 01:56PMTony-winning original Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young returns to the hit musical as Frankie Valli on January 11 at the August Wilson Theatre.
Since winning the…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:55PMWhen Tony-nominated Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells first appeared as Elijah on HBO's hit comedy Girls, his ex-girlfriend Hannah (played by show star/producer/director/writer Le…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:55PMYou can convince yourself that no idea is big enough, or ambitious enough to satisfy you. You can convince yourself that you must get published by that big NYC publishing house to have "made…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 01:51PM You’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. We’ve all see in. Some genius decided to write out the entire movie/musical of Les Miserables in emojis on their iPhone. Who doesn̵…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 01:42PMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' 1955 drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker, began previews Dec. 18 at the Richard Rod…
Linked From Playbill at 01:34PMTwo very different one-woman plays were announced for Broadway this week.
Linked From Playbill at 01:34PMNoah Racey and Laura Griffith will co-star in the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Meredith Willson's Tony Award-winning musical The Music Man, which will parade into Seattle beginning F…
Linked From Playbill at 01:34PMThe Amoralists' Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Lyle Kessler's Collision at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre beginning Jan. 10 for a run through Feb. 17.
Linked From Playbill at 01:34PMA £16 million theatre has opened in south-west Wales, which is said to be the first purpose-built venue in the region. The Ffwrnes theatre in the town centre of Llanelli comprises a main au…
Linked From The Stage at 01:34PMThe forthcoming West End production of Great Expectations is to be broadcast live to cinemas around the UK on February 7, which was Charles Dickens’ birthday. It will be shown live from th…
Linked From The Stage at 01:34PMEveryone in London's dramaturgical circles seemed to like Jemma Kennedy's The Grand Irrationality, but only in Los Angeles did she find a producer and director (Lynn and John Pleshette) who …
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 01:34PMThe Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 11, 2013 A London Farce Beaming to a Theater Near You By PIA CATTON Actor John Lithgow has been headlining the National Theatre’s latest farce, “…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:10PMTHE HEIRESS congratulates Jessica Chastain on her Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in Zero, Dark, Thirty. THE HEIRESS stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain as Catherine Sloper…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:10PMGraham Rogers catches up with Sir John Tomlinson and discusses his many performances in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, career longevity and his role as The Minotaur
Linked From The Stage at 01:08PMBenjamin Walker Heats Up Broadway in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ By Suzy Evans Benjamin Walker stands towering in his dressing room on the fourth floor of the Richard Rodgers Theatre…
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The Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMPerformances of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Scarlett Johansson as Maggie, Ciarn Hinds as Big Daddy, Benjamin Walker as Brick and Debra Monk as Big Mama, directed by Ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMThis week's featured program is The Department of Theatre and Dance at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas Read on to learn about their theater and dance programs and their upcoming producti…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will reunite with Tony-nominated composer Michael John LaChiusa (Marie Christine, The Wild Party) on April 15 as part of 92YTribeca’s Lyrics & …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMCasting is complete for off-Broadway’s Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery, which will play the DR2 Kids Theatre. Featuring a book by Tony nominee Charles Bush, music by S…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMTony winner Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker are bringing the sweltering Mississippi Delta to life in Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and we’ve got a first look …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMAfter taking his final bow as flashy Felicia in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Nick Adams is hitting the road in 2013, starring as Link Larkin in a concert version of Hairspray alongside Bet…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:54PMDisney's The Lion King has reported record box office figures for the eight year running.The musical, adapted from the 1994 film and directed by Julie Taymor, defied a predicted downturn in …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:54PMThis weekend sees the sixth annual London 50-hour Improvathon being staged at the historic Hoxton Hall in Shoreditch. Kicking off at 7pm on Friday (11 January) and running until 9pm on Sunda…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:54PMPaula Plum faces the infinite in 33 Variations.Sigh! The Vanya on 42nd Street Effect has struck again!What's that effect, you may ask? Well actually, that's just my shorthand for the p…
Linked From The Hub Review at 12:44PMAcclaimed 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 12:34PMThe producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have resumed litigation with director Julie Taymor after failing to reach a final settlement in her copyright infringement …
Linked From Playbill at 12:34PMDiana DiMarzio, who starred as the Beggar Woman in John Doyle's Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd opposite Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, re-created her perfor…
Linked From Playbill at 12:34PMSteppenwolf's production has star power of its own in Jimmy Smits, who's doing Chris Rock's role of the duplicitous AA sponsor of parolee and recovering addict/alcoholic Ralph D.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:29PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees…
Linked From Associated Press at 12:29PMOne hundred and fifty-two years ago, Charles Dickens began the publication of "Great Expectations." And now another great storyteller, David Lindsay-Abaire, takes up the opposite theme in a …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:29PMThe 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…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 12:17PMThe Book of Mormon‘s Rory O’Malley (Elder McKinley) announced via Facebook that he will be leaving the Broadway production. For the role of Elder McKinley, O’Malley has be…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:15PM3-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf leads fellow cast members Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry, and John Schiappa in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of The Other Place, a new …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:15PMTake a look behind the scenes at LCT’s Golden Boy. Golden Boy is currently playing at the Belasco Theatre.
Golden Boy Story
Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy charts the swift rise of …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:15PMPeter Gallagher leads alums back to Byram Hills (Peter Gallagher as Arthur Campbell in “Covert Affairs.” Photo by Steve Wilkie/USA Network.) Before Peter Gallagher made a name fo…
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This week's topics THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, Congrats to Hugh, Anne and LES MIZ, Erin Davie to Replace Betsy Wolfe as 'Rosa Bud', Bway songs about an enemy, Favorite Songs About Broadway
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMJohn Stamos Glee, Full House will guest star on the new NBC comedy THE NEW NORMAL. The episode entitled 'Gaydar' will air January 22nd at 930 pmET.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMVotes 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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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy Aw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMNominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced yesterday morning by the show's host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. The Heiress star Jessica Chastain was honored with a Bes…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMA Co-Production between Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre, Next to Normal is opening tomorrow, January 10, in San Jose, CA. The show features the talents of Joe Cassidy,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy Aw…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards were doled out on January 10, and a number of Broadway individuals were honored. Newly-dubbed Oscar nominees …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:53AMNigel Planer, Clive Carter, Jasna Ivir and more will join previously announced Tony winner Douglas Hodge in the world premiere musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Direct…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:53AMTwo-time Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald will take on the title role in the new Chichester Festival Theatre revival of Barnum, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. The musical featu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:53AMAdrian Lester will star as the title Moor in the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary production of Shakespeare's Othello, according to The Daily Mail. Joining Lester will be n…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:53AMCasting has been announced for the new London production of Rodney Ackland’s Before the Party. Ackland’s 1949 play about an upper middle class family adjusting to life after…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:53AMAdam Usden's Steve And Then It Ended, billed as "an intimate, darkly comic look at one family’s last TV dinner", premieres at Theatre503 from 8-19 January 2013.
Here, producer Flavia…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:53AM We got a lot of input from you all over the last week about who you think would’ve been a better fit for Javert in the Les Miserables movie than Russell Crowe. A lot of Broadway…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 11:47AMTheater J’s first play of the new year will be performed away from company’s venue on 16th Street. Boged (Traitor): An Enemy of the People, produced in conjunction with George Washin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMREVIEW: In the Out There opener, the Rude Mechs gently cast a withering eye on some of theater's most sacred cows.
Linked From StarTribune at 11:43AMThe 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…
Linked From Playbill at 11:33AMThe 2008 revival of Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne's iconic musical Gypsy took its final bow on Broadway Jan. 11, 2009. Here, we take a look at various divas who took o…
Linked From Playbill at 11:33AMDR2 Kids Theatre continues its partnership with Theatreworks USA to present Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Musical Mystery beginning Feb. 9 at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 11:33AMFive-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will reunite with Marie Christine writer Michael John LaChiusa for an April 15 presentation of Lyrics & Lyricists Downtown at the 92YTribe…
Linked From Playbill at 11:33AMBroadway's Motown: The Musical, about the life and career of music mogul Berry Gordy, will begin previews March 11, 2013, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 11:33AMA friend of mine, and to protect the innocent, let’s call that friend . . . uh . . . me . . . was recently offered a chance to invest $50k into a Broadway musical. A high unit price, but…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:33AMThe West End production of Disney’s The Lion King grossed more than £38 million in 2012 marking the eighth consecutive year that it has broken its box office record, according to its prod…
Linked From The Stage at 11:33AMNEW YORK (AP) — It's a virtual law, maybe even a commandment, of all literature classes: Write what you know. Don't forget to write what you know. Playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes agrees …
Linked From Boston Globe at 11:31AMThere's a battle over Broadway in Orlando. The leaders of the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts say they're going to bypass the city's long-time Broadway show presenter, the Fl…
Linked From www.wmfe.org at 11:29AMThere’s plenty of home entertainment to be had: the just-released DVD of Woody Allen’s latest; the tale of one of America’s greatest family feuds; orginal cast CD of Chaplin; and a dou…
Linked From City Guide Magazine at 11:22AMTHEATER IS SUPPOSED to surprise. But there was no way I was prepared for what happened last Sunday afternoon when I arrived at the Players Club of Swarthmore for a matinee performance of pla…
Linked From Philly.com at 11:22AM By Karen Feld Perhaps best known for her TV role as Alice Hyatt and her Broadway performances in “Broadway Bound” and “The Lyons,” Linda Lavin’s career has com…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 11:22AMIn the UK, we work the longest hours in Europe – but curtain-up times are stuck in the past. Would starting shows earlier or later make life easier for today's theatre audiences?As the cl…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:22AMRehearsals begin on Monday, January 14 in New York City for LUCKY GUY, starring two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, in the final work by three-time Academy …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:20AMJohn Lloyd Young joins Broadway’s Jersey Boys tonight, January 11, 2013. Young, who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the role of Frankie Valli will resume the role in a…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:14AMIf you haven’t yet read Dafina’s post on Uniting the 1,200 Conferences, please do so first, as she lays out the basics of our 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dall…
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Carol Channing, Rex Harrison, Tallulah Bankhead, Laurence Olivier, Mae West, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward: These are among the legends who have graced the stage of the National T…
Linked From Washington Post at 10:58AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMThe Other Place, the new play starring Laurie Metcalf, opened last night, January 10 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. The Other Place stars Laurie…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMDetails are set for the next Lyrics amp Lyricists Downtown, the LampL series at 92YTribeca. On Monday, April 15, this one-night-only event features a conversation with Tony Award-nominated l…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMWith sold out audiences in Chicago screaming for more, and a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4-star review, the original parody 50 SHADES THE MUSICAL is coming for the first …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMSouth Florida Theater has a full slate of special events this weekend in addition to the openings of Zoetic Theatre’s All New People, Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Singin’ In The Rain, Cirqu…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 10:55AMWe've teamed up with our Whatsonstage.com Awards Official Hotel Partner, Radisson Blu Edwardian to offer a luxury hotel package for the THIRTEENTH ANNUAL Whatsonstage.com Awards, which takes…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:52AMOne of my favorite movies is playing on TCM tonight at 8 p.m., E.S.T. As a child, it held many mysteries for me. First, that title, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was so long it s…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:52AMThis 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 Me…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:52AMTheater Review Who Do You Think You Are, Anyway? ‘The Other Place’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater By CHARLES ISHERWOOD Published: January 10, 2013 As you watch “The Other Place,” a sl…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:52AMLena Dunham's acclaimed comedy Girls returns to HBO on January 13, and we can’t help but feel like those edgy Brooklyn girls could use a bit of Midtown Manhattan in their live…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:52AMThe complete cast has been announced for John Logan’s new play Peter and Alice, starring previously announced leads Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw (who performed together in the recent blo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:52AMJohn Stamos, whose Broadway credits include Bye Bye Birdie, Nine and How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, will guest star on the Jan. 22 episode of NBC's "The New Norma…
Linked From Playbill at 10:32AMFour-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh will make her 54 Below debut next month with a show entitled On, Off, & Now Under Broadway.
Linked From Playbill at 10:32AMTrainers preach a new gospel of self-empowerment, even in the most collaborative of art forms
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 10:16AMMarci Kraft: A show Created & Directed by Marilyn Maye My View written by Stephen Sorokoff Any discussion about a person’s educational background invariably focuses on…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 10:13AMA 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
Linked From NBC New York at 10:12AMLaurie Metcalf reprises her powerhouse performance in Sharr White's play on Broadway
Linked From CurtainUp at 10:12AM‘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…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 10:12AMBased 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…
Linked From Ticket News at 10:12AMLAURIE 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, …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 10:12AMHATS 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…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 10:12AMCindy Williams, 65, spent the 1970s in the thick of Hollywood creativity, acting for directors George Lucas ("American Graffiti") and Francis Ford Coppola ("The Conversation") and starring o…
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 10:12AMTrue story: In college, I took a class on the 17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza and we examined his signature work "Ethics."
I tried very hard but understood very little, …
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 10:12AMScarlett 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…
Linked From Daily Mail at 10:12AMFilms 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…
Linked From Daily Mail at 10:12AMWritten by Susan Hasho Masterminded by Phil Geoffrey Bond with Joshua Stephen Kartes as musical director/pianist, January 9th was my first Sondheim Unplugged. Who knew? Who knew that …
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 10:12AMCheek by Jowl's touring production of John Ford's " 'Tis Pity" stirs up the theatricality to a dizzying degree, but remains compulsively, if scandalously, watchable.Before Quentin Tarantino,…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:12AMAfter 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…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:12AMDirector 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…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:12AMOur 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…
Linked From LA Weekly at 10:12AMIt's been a good week for "Les Miserables," which was nominated this morning for the Academy Award for best picture.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:12AMThere are some 260 quick changes during "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," some 15 seconds long, others 45 seconds long. "There are quick changes happening onstage, there are qu…
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The stars came out for the 18th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards which took place yesterday, January 10th in Los Angeles, CA. Among the winners were Ben Affleck for Best Director. His film…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMProducers Bob Boyett and The National Theatre of Great Britain present the Denver engagement of the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play, War Horse. The company, comprised of more than 30 perfo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMAmerican Cinema Editors ACE today announced nominations for the 63rd Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMBallet Hispanico will join other entertainers to headline 'In Performance at the Kennedy Center,' an event honoring the presidential inauguration and Latino arts and culture, on Sunday, Janu…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMIt's Friday and that means another look back at the top regional stories of this past week Click below to see the most-read interviews, features, and special coverage items for the week of J…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #422: Pine Top Smith (for more on him and his signature tune Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie go here). Here’s a more somber tune, the old blu…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:51AMThe central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion i…
Linked From Scheck on the Arts at 09:51AMAlso on stage early in 2013: Jerick Hoffer in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and just for kids, “Dot & Ziggy.”
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:44AM"The Book of Mormon," the blockbuster musical comedy by the creators of "South Park," has arrived at Seattle's Paramount Theatre and lives up to its reputation for raunch and hilarity.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:44AMIn 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…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:43AM“Spirits of Exit Eleven.” Through Feb. 2 at the Lion Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St.
Pepperoni and pasties, anyone?
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:43AMIf 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…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:43AMColiseum, LondonWhen, in 1950, Alicia Markova founded what would become English National Ballet, she not only ran the company, but was also its lead ballerina. So there's nothing new in Tama…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMUnicorn, LondonMark Twain's historical novel is no longer a staple of modern childhood. But his lively fantasy about two lookalike boys – Prince Edward, son and heir of an ailing Henry VII…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMIn an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show Xan Brooks and Catherine Shoard aim their muskets at Tom Hooper's adaptation of the hugely popular musical, while Peter Bradshaw mans the ba…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMFrom John Osborne to Howard Brenton, many fine playwrights have suffered periods of neglect – but, as Peter Nichols's resurgence shows, dramatic fortunes can rise as well as fallIt's notor…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMXan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review Les Misérables, Gangster Squad, What Richard Did and Jiro Dreams of SushiXan BrooksPeter BradshawCatherine ShoardHenry BarnesElliot Sm…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMOld 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMThe 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMTom 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMTheatre 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:42AMSome members of the Les Mis cast and crew are going to go undeservedly unrecognized at the Oscars simply because their categories don't exist. By Jaye Hunt, hopefully the future president of…
Linked From Crazytown at 09:41AMJohn Lithgow stars in the National Theatre’s “The Magistrate,” which can be seen live Thursday in cinemas through the U.S. and U.K.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:41AMThe classic Tennessee Williams play, being revived again on Broadway, has sparked controversy over the years as directors and the playwright himself tweaked parts of it.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:41AMMost theater aficionados can recall with delight their first theater experience—and on Jan. 24, Broadway’s Palace Theatre will be filled with more than 2,500 New York City public…
Linked From Backstage at 09:40AM"Ace of Spades" is pure fun to play, but I'm not sure smashing two games together qualifies as innovation.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 09:40AMNEW 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…
Linked From Associated Press at 09:39AMFull casting has been announced for a new production of Rodney Ackland's Before the Party that begins performances at London's Almeida Theatre March 21, prior to an official opening …
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMThe full cast has been announced for the world premiere of John Logan's Peter and Alice, beginning performances March 9 prior to an official opening March 25.
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMBroadway's Christopher Fitzgerald is to play the title role in a new U.K. production of Barnum, Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble's 1980 Broadway musical based on the life…
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMAfter Trilogy, A Departure for Pulitzer RecipientJust a few things that didnt make it to the main stiory of the "Water by the Spoonful" opening in New York earlier this week.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 09:20AMHamlet will be performed at the Rose Theatre, Bankside for the first time since 1594.
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Whatsonstage.com Award winner Meera Syal is among the newly announced cast of If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep at the Royal Court.Anders Lustgarten's play, which looks at th…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:50AMToday is the birthday of Elfie Fay (1879-1927). She was the daughter of Hugh Fay of the Irish comedy act of Barry and Fay. When he died, Elfie replaced him in the vaudeville act briefly form…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:50AMBetween Christmas and New Year's Day, critics are seldom if ever invited to see shows. Managements don't want to give away tickets that would otherwise be sold. After all, Christmas Week has…
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:39AMUnion Theatre, London: The Shakespeare Apocrypha - which are all about attribution, not authorship - include relatively well known titles like Sir John Oldcastle, or the Yorkshire Tragedy; b…
Linked From The Stage at 08:17AMKing's Head, London: Ancient Greece meets malignant Gothic in Jamie Birkett's mesmeric performance as Martha in Camus' rarely performed play.
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Linked From The Stage at 08:17AMGrosvenor Pulford Hotel, Chester: Arriving in the nick of time after a massive motorway snarl-up is not the ideal way to kick-off showcase coverage duties, but compere Gary T Davies settled …
Linked From The Stage at 08:17AMGrosvenor Pulford Hotel, Chester: Bookers reconvened in the comfortable and functional surroundings of the Grosvenor and it was singer Sharon Wallace who kicked things off. A Queen medley wa…
Linked From The Stage at 08:17AMGrosvenor Pulford Hotel, Chester: As the ever jovial and industrious compere Gary T Davies welcomed bookers in song with a version of Billy Joel's My Life, the scene was set for what pr…
Linked From The Stage at 08:17AM“I'd expected a welcome like the Prodigal Son's,” confesses Jan, the man who – in Camus' 1944 play Cross Purpose – returns home after twenty years of making his fortune abroad. But t…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:51AMJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, is pleased to announce the return of John Lloyd Young who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performan…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:51AM Today is the birthday of James Carl “Ham Tree” Harrington (1889-1956). Born in South Carolina, he ran off an joined a carnival in his adolesence, working in black vaudeville an…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 07:50AMToday is the birthday of John Steel (1895-1971), best known for having introduced Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919. He’…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 07:50AMPart One: Meet the cast of Bravo@KAT’s The Music Man Jr. Introducing our Marians: Josie Weinberg & Tobi Baisburd. Hi! My name is Josie Weinberg, I’m twelve years-old, and I …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48AMEveryman Theatre is pleased to announce a week-long celebration for The Grand Opening of its new theatre at 315 West Fayette Street, in Baltimore, MD. The Grand Opening Week will take place …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36AMOwen Teale has been cast in a new production at the Royal Court called A Time to Reap. Also appearing in the play will be Sinead Matthews and Max Bennett. A Time to Reap, which...
Linked From The Stage at 07:29AMAdapted by Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais from the Alan Furst novel, Spies of Warsaw is a two-part drama set in the espionage-riddled, pre-war Polish capital. David Tennant stars as French …
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Linked From New York Magazine at 01:43AMDirector Christopher Ashley understands what makes Memphis shine, and that’s the singing and dancing. He keeps the show moving amid David Gallo’s smartly designed set of subterranean clu…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 01:34AMI'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…
Linked From bricktheater.blogspot.com at 01:13AMWhat 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…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 01:11AM‘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…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 01:11AMMarlon Wayans on How to Scream (Like a Woman)
The always hilarious Marlon Wayans drops by the Studio, and, just like his movies, nothing is off-limits! The 'A Haunted House' co-writer and st…
Linked From Young Hollywood at 01:00AMAnna Torv on the "Fringe" Series Finale
Talented Aussie beauty Anna Torv drops by the Studio, fresh from taping the very last episode of Fox's sci-fi hit series, "Fringe"! She tells us all a…
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“The Other Place,” Sharr White’s brainy drama that opened last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, begins before the house lights go dim with Laurie Metcalf sitting center stage. …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 12:44AMCanton Theatrical will present two staged presentations of PLOP, the all-new boy band musical about the meteoric rise of the super groups and pop princesses of the 1990s. Set against the bac…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:43AMThe Alley Theatre's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, produced in association with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C., will feature Bowman Wrig…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:43AM1899 "I would rather play Ibsen than eat and that's often what it amounts to," said Eva Le Gallienne, born in London today. Her determination and drive will lead her to a st…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMJeff Talbott's racially charged dark comedy The Submission, about a playwright who gambles his own identity in order to score the break of a lifetime, receives its Texas premiere Jan. 11…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMJohn Lloyd Young, who won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for creating the role of Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys, plays another limited return engagement in that Tony-…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMBowman Wright and Joaquina Kalukango co-star in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which begins performances Jan. 11 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMHairspray: In Concert! makes its premiere Jan. 11-13 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra followed by an engagement with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Jan. 24-27. Principal Pops Condu…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMThe original parody 50 Shades! The Musical, which has been seen in Chicago and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, makes its New York premiere Jan. 11-12 at the Gramercy Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMCanton Theatrical presents two industry staged readings of Plop, the new boy-band musical about the rapid rise of the super groups of the 1990s that features a score by Bare composer Damon I…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMMark St. Germain's two-character play Freud's Last Session begins a Los Angeles run Jan. 11 with its starriest cast yet — two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMWomen's Project Theater's world premiere of Laura Marks' dark comedy Bethany, starring America Ferrera, Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucreti…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMThe Pioneer Theatre Company presents Philip Barry's romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story beginning Jan. 11 at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City.
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMSpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, MA, presents the New England premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities beginning Jan. 11, prior to an official opening Jan. 13, in the Virginia…
Linked From Playbill at 12:26AMSleep, My EnemyMike Birbiglia transforms his solo into a gemby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI am an unabashed fan of everything Mike Birbilia does. I even think his Twitter feed is brilliant.I was i…
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