By: David Sheward In her Playbill bio for The Revisionist, Vanessa Redgrave states she is "immensely exc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:33PMOn Wednesday, April 3rd Oz had a very special visitor, as Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber attended the all Canadian production of his new musical for the first time. Lloyd Webber was in Toronto la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32PMPriscilla, Queen of the Desert, is just an extravagant, downright silly and infectiously entertaining hoot, a gay fantasia – as in Disney’s Fantasia – playing for only one week at the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:29PMFor most Broadway fans, the logo from the original production of Pippin is as iconic as that of Cats and Les Miserables. So it is either surprising or smart, depending upon how you loo…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 11:23PMIt was rock n' roll week on American Idol tonight. This year we have not seen a rocker in the top 10 so this week was sure to be interesting.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14PM“Buyer & Cellar” is a bracingly bright, one-man fantasia about truth, celebrity and the pursuit of utopia.
Factor in a delectable star turn by “Ugly Betty” alum Michael…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM
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BOTTOM LINE: If you see a show where the original cast recording is one of the defining albums of your young adulthood, it can go either …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:51PMFolger Theatre will feature four of the Bard of Avon’s finest plays in its 2013-2014 season, the company announced today. Leading things off will be one of the great Shakespearean tragedie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34PMThe Boston Theater Critics Association BTCA is pleased to announce Broadway icon CHITA RIVERA will be the recipient of the 2013 Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's awards…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23PMMilo O'Shea, the Irish-born character actor who injected every role with a potent combination of puckishness, Gaelic charm and menace, died April 2 in Manhattan. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Helen Hayes' 1947 Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actress for her performance in HAPPY BIRTHDAY just sold at an auction for 37,230. Hayes' award was a silve…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17PM(All data for this post comes from the Illinois Department of Public Health.) The graph above looks at the amount of charity care given by teaching hospitals in Chicago during the 2011 Fisca…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:09PMPlaybill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the dreamers behind Broadway musicals. Here's a look a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09PMAlicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley will headline the national tour of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Diane Paulus staged the streamlined Tony Award-winning Broadway of the Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04PMDavid Harrower’s “Good With People” is running at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn a theatrical season full of boldfaced names taking center stage — Ann Richards, Mike McAlary, Sue Mengers, the Virgin Mary — perhaps it's not altogether surprising to find ourselves i…
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One reason to regret what seems at the moment to be the inevitable — that the second season of Smash, the backstage theater TV series, will be its last. In this duet, Bernadette Peters…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMA dream team has been assembled for the re-imagined Shane Warne The Musical, set to play at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall in June this year. Written by Eddie…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:37PMTurning a man into myth isn’t complicated — it happens easily, even naturally, over time. But finding the man at the root of the the myth can be trickier, and unfolding his page out …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:11PMOutstanding Play Bethany (Women's Project Theater) Cock Detroit (Playwrights Horizons) The Flick (Playwrights Horizons) The Whale (Playwrights Horizons) Outstanding Musical Dogfig…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 09:07PMThe pay stinks. Hollywood is more glamorous (and pays more). And Broadway is 3,000 miles away. So why be a playwright in L.A.?
That's the question posed by our theater issue this year, whic…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 09:04PMNEW YORK (AP) — If Lil Buck, the sensational star of the Memphis street dancing style called "jookin,'" has any bones in his feet — or legs, or arms — there is little evidence of that.
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A creepy, futuristic mystery drama, Jennifer Haley’s The Nether starts off in a grey interrogation room starkly lit by neon lighting, but soon gets very complicated indeed. It transpires t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:56PMMy unexpected hit of MICF (so far) is Nicholas J Johnson’s Today Tonight, Tomorrow the World. It’s about his experience of being invited to appear on channel 7’s 6.30 pm muckhole Tod…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:51PMNEW YORK (AP) — The hero in the new play "Buyer & Cellar" is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: "Just remember, the customer is alway…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:04PMSEEING ISN’T FEELING Blythe Duff and Andrew Scott-Ramsay deliver rich, convincing performances in David Harrower’s worthwhile if not completely satisfying play Good with People. Part of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The hero in the new play "Buyer & Cellar" is offered a key piece of advice before starting his first day of work at a California mall: "Just remember, the customer i…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:03PMJonathan Tolins has had a capital idea for a one-man show. After reading in Barbra Streisand’s 2010 book “My Passion for Design” that her basement is a re-creation of a str…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PM
War Horse, from London’s National Theatre, has left a hum of buzz from London to Broadway to across the US on tour, and now that it’s arrived in Australia it’s easy to see why – it�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:50PMNamed “Critic’s Choice” by the Los Angeles Times, Smoke and Mirrors – a heartfelt comedy-drama with mind-bending magic – extends by popular demand at a new thea…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:47PMBy anyone’s definition, John Carter is one pretty hip guy. As past vocations, he lists merchant seaman, railroadman and writer for hire. His poetry placed him as front man for rock groups …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40PMAn interview with Pacific Northwest Ballet’s music director, who is poised to conduct Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” — one of the most famous ballet scores in history.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:32PMPacked with rich writing, full-blooded acting, taut direction, and even a bit of British politics, “Good With People” proves that a play needn’t sprawl over three hours to …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30PMWendy Beckett's new play, LOVE THERAPY, currently in rehearsals, will open at the DR2 Theatre 101 East 15th Street on Monday, April 29th. Directed by Evan Bergman, LOVE THERAPY is the fourth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMA BUTTERFLY THAT’S STILL IN THE COCOON Katherine Noon’s latest ensemble workshop-developed hydra creation, The Bargain and the Butterfly, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:11PMDancers Over 40 DO40 will present its third song and dance concert entitled DO40 CARES The Story of our Lives to benefit Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS and Dance for PD Parkinson's Disease…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:08PMRuth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, is a cultural icon, the image of the peroxide blonde who spells big trouble. An influence on Diana Dors in the 1956 film Yield to the Nigh…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM
Second Stage Theatre's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical, The Last Five Years, plays through Sunday, May 12 at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre 305 West 43rd street. The highly ant…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMMost bright guys between the ages of 16 and 21 spend their time getting through high school, college or a first job and finding a girlfriend. But Frank Abagnale Jr. enjoyed a whirlwind life …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:53PMNominations for the 28th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, celebrating excellence in Off-Broadway theatre, were announced today. COCK has been nominated for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Directo…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:49PMOutstanding Play Bethany by Laura Marks, produced by Women's Project TheaterCock by Mike Bartlett, produced by Stuart Thompson, Jean Doumanian, Royal Court Theatre, William Berlind, Sc…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 06:48PMThe Off-Broadway League today announced nominations in 14 categories and two additional special awards for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. The Lorte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMWatch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, to the latest in our series on high school dropouts, this time through the words of the bard, William Shakespeare.
Nearly half …
SOURCE: PBS at 06:46PM“Motown: The Musical” and “Sense & Sensibility: The Musical” benefit from the dressmaking vision of Emilio Sosa; and a zebra that decorated the wallpaper at a defunct New York restau…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45PMIt’s an Off Broadway awards show, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of stars lined up for it: The roster of actors to score nominations for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards inclu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:40PMThe metronome is getting its moment in the spotlight, and that’s not such a good thing for Happenstance Theater, the company that put it there. In “Vanitas,” the latest original work …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:26PM"The Piano Lesson" and "Murder Ballad" lead the play and musical fields, respectively, in nominations for the 28th annual Off Broadway honors.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:19PMNominations for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, noting excellence in Off-Broadway theatre, were announced on April 3. Signature Theatre's The Piano Lesson earned the most nominations, wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:18PMBroadway and Hollywood crossover superstar Patrick Wilson leads his second of three collaborations with visonary director James Wan on the upcoming horrorthriller THE CONJURING - coming in b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMQ&A BY KEVIN PANG ... As the character Pete Hornberger on NBC's late, lamented ¿30 Rock,¿ Scott Adsit played for seven seasons the relative straight man surrounded by a cast of oddballs an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:13PMTheater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PMMultiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner Ed Asner and Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee Marion Ross Happy Days, Brothers amp Sisters, Gilmore Girls, join an award-winning cast for a limited-time pe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMAuditions for McLean Community Players Production of Damn Yankees Where: McLean Community Center – 1234 Ingleside Ave., in McLean, VA. When: THIS Saturday and Sunday, April 6 &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PMAlicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley are headed to Catfish Row as the title stars of the national tour of Porgy and Bess. Scheduled to kick off this fall, the tour will play cities inclu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMRandall, the irreverent video-narrator who became an overnight internet sensation with his now famous 'The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger' video, has done one of his signature voice-overs on pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:01PM
YouTube creator Teddie Films combines the story of Les Miserables with the popular Will.i.am track 'Scream and Shout' for the parody 'Dream and Shout'. Teddie Films teamed up with The Kloons…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMBroadway and Hollywood crossover star Alan Cumming is bringing his MACBETH mettle to the recording studio with a new solo album of Shakespearean monologues titled THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMThe bittersweet story of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years came alive on April 2, starring Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor as two twentysomethings navigating the waters of their rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMPelvises move as though powered by a nuclear reactor, arms whirl with such speed it's impossible to tell where sleeves end and arms begin, and bare feet slap wood in percussive bursts. This …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:48PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Big Knife, by Clifford Odets, is currently in previews and officially opens on April 16, 2013 at the American Airlines Theatre on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Tune in alert! @MOTOWNMusical performs live on…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMWith a new leadership team of Gregory Doran, Artistic Director, and Catherine Mallyon, Executive Director, at the helm, the Royal Shakespeare Company returns to New York this spring with two…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMSignature Theatre Company's acclaimed revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Manhattan Theatre Club's production of the new musical Murder Ballad lead the list of this year's Lucill…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMOn this week's star-studded episode, we got some face time with Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Ian McKellen, Lily Tomlin and a slew of other celebs. Tune in for news about Helen Mirren, Clint E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMThe title of Tazewell Thompson's latest work, which just had its world premiere at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., seems to promise the exploration of a meaningful friendship between two hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMMOTOWN: THE MUSICAL LIVE ON ABC’s “GOOD MORNING AMERICA” TOMORROW MORNING THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Tony Award® nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Broadway world premiere produc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:33PMThe SISTER ACT 1st National Broadway Tour Cast has come together to make a parody of the epic cult classic Mean Girls. It is almost identical to the original movie trailer but updated and ad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMMarried since 1984, Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman are known primarily for writing and acting gigs they've done separately. But more than 25 years ago, they began writing a play they could p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:31PMThe tiny space of the BoHo Heartland Studio is perfectly claustrophobic, especially with John Zuiker’s set of a grim interrogation room. The deliberately harsh lighting by Diane D. Fairchi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:29PMREVIEW BY NINA METZ ... The 2013 Chicago Improv Festival kicked off earlier this week with Craig Cackowski ¿ a veteran Second City performer seen in recent years on NBC's "Community" ¿ ask…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:28PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½ ... Stephen Antho…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:27PMNominations for the 28th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards have been announced, with Signature's revival of The Piano Lesson leading the group with six nominations. MTC's Murder Ballad sc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:26PMGet a first look at Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford in Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Broadway musical Kinky Boots. From fabulous drag queens to blue-collar f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PMGeorge Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey will present a world premiere production of Garage Band, a new musical, for a limited five-week engagement. Garage Band features a book b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PMThe Memory Show, presented by the Transport Group Theatre Company, will play off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, beginning Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 at 7PM, openin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMCourt Theatre’s 2013-2014 season, with five plays about embattled souls, has just been announced. It will include: — “The Mountaintop” (Sept. 5-Oct. 6): A play by Katori Hall, seen o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:22PMMotown’s Bryan Terrell Clark takes viewers inside “Studio B,” where he’s got a hat for every occasion, a life-saving coffeemaker and his mood-setting Marvin Gaye conn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMThe Zina Goldrich-Marcy Heisler Cinderella-inspired musical Ever After, shepherded by Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall, will receive an upcoming lab presentation i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMBroadway regular Tom Hewitt steps into a new role as part of the provacative new production ANOTHER MEDEA, which plays its final two performances on April 7 and 9, and new clips have been re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMEpisode Thirty-Five: Getting and Giving Feedback It’s necessary. It’s evil. It’s a necessary evil. Oh no not really, but there certainly is an art and a skill to giving and…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSo have I got a job for you? You get paid next to nothing, but if you work hard for many years, refine your craft and get lucky, then you will still probably earn less than a first-year asso…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
HAVANA (AP) — Seven young members of the National Ballet of Cuba defected last month while on a performing tour in Mexico, an island dance official said Wednesday.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:53PMHelena Carroll, an Irish stage, television and film actress died at her home in Los Angeles on March 30. She was 84. Carroll was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She moved to the Unit…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:53PMTony Award-wnning LES MISERABLES onstage and onscreen star Frances Ruffelle will be coming to NYC for a special show at 54 Below on May 22.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMAs the spring season gets into full swing, great theater is happening all across the USA! We’ve sifted through dozens of offerings away from NYC and found great shows in all corners of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:52PMOn April 6, Their Most Imperial and Sovereign Majesties, Emperor XXI Ritz Kraka and Empress XXVI Witti Repartee, will present The Night of a Thousand Gowns- a dazzling display of regal glamo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMHere are the articles which have appeared about shows touring the Fringe circuit in 2013. If you would like to write about your own show, please contact us.Features (general interest, listed…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:41PMStark Sands and Billy Porter star in Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's new musical Kinky Boots. When Charlie Price (Sands) is forced to step in and save his family's shoe factory in North…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMDissertations will surely be written about how, in the three decades since "La Cage aux Folles," drag-queen musicals became their own feel-good genre on Broadway.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:38PMDue to overwhelming demand, 54 Below has added two new dates to the upcoming 54 Below debut of LES MISERABLES Breakout star and Broadway marquee name Aaron Tveit.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMAaron Tveit fans have been going bonkers since news broke that the Graceland hunk would take the stage at 54 Below for four dates in May. Since that announcement, Tveit has added two mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMJust got word from producer Danielle Rudess that the Metropolitan High School Theater Awards will return to Peekskill’s Paramount Center for the Arts on June 3. It’s an outcome t…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:25PMAround the World in 80 Days, a comedic play by Mark Brown based on the Jules Verne novel, will begin previews at The New Theater at 45th Street May 9. The cast greeted the press with an Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PMThe Dancing Ladby Jay Catterson@ScienceOfSmutAt long last, Billy Elliot: The Musical triumphantly arrives in Vancouver nearly five years after opening on Broadway. Based on the hit film of t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:25PMStage and screen stasr Milo O'Shea passed away yesterday, April after a short ilness, according to published reports. He was 86 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMPaloma Nuñez (photo by Rodrigo Moreno)The Gringos and Meby Beat RiceChile Con Carne is a solo acted show fuelled by Paloma Nuñez who plays the role of young Manuelita. It is the 70’s, an…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:13PMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Check out photos of Hunter Foster in the B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMHearing "Let's do the time warp again" might inspire more thoughts of Rocky Horror Picture Show than a burlesque performance, but <em>Speakeasy Moderne</em>, currently …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:04PMHearing "Let's do the time warp again" might inspire more thoughts of Rocky Horror Picture Show than a burlesque performance, but Speakeasy Moderne, currently in performances at St…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:04PMA SHOWCASE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS When watching Artistic New Directions’ presentation of An Eclectic Evening of Shorts: Boxers and Briefs VI, a collection of six ten-minute plays, plus three…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02PMTopanga, Calif. – April 3, 2013 – Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a lively summer season of theater, music and performance under the stars and liv…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:00PM
There is a lot of hyperventilating over the state of theater criticism lately.Just a few weeks ago, we had one of the old lions, retired New Yorker Critic John Lahr, assailing the younger ge…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:55PMEric John Meyer’s play “The Sister” finds its characters caught in abusive cycles that can turn oppressive to the audience as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe rush ticket policy has been announced for John Logan‘s new play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring Bette Midler that begins previews Apri…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:47PMAaron Tveit fans, mark your calendars! USA Network has set a premiere date for Tveit’s new action-drama series Graceland, which will make its network debut on June 6, according to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PMTo buy, or not to buy, that is not even a question! Tony and Emmy Award winner Alan Cumming's new album The Head that Wears a Crown: Speeches for Royal Men is now available for digital d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMAs part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:42PMActor Sam Waterston (King Lear), Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, novelist Téa Obreht, and New York Magazine book critic Kathryn Schulz are set to participate in The Public Theater's Sonn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMPatrick Fitzwater and Matthew Korinko, the founders and co-artistic directors of Slow Burn Theatre, have taken a slow and steady approach to growing their company since launching it in early…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:32PMThere are few tales more timeless than Mary Poppins. Disney cemented the umbrella flying nanny into the national consciousness with the 1964 film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Th…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:28PMGhostlight Records will release the Original Cast Recording of the acclaimed epic musical GIANT online and in stores on May21, 2013. GIANT had its New York Premiere at The Public Theater las…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25PM(Photo by Sarah Krulwich (NY Times). Pictured: Sleep No More) Twenty years ago — good god, yes, twenty years ago — I played the legendary computer game Myst for the first time. I…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:24PMThose legendary salesmen of the American theater — Willy Loman of “Death of a Salesman,” Ricky Roma and Shelly Levene of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Harold Hill of “The Music Man” �…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:23PMRecent off-Broadway hit Giant is releasing a cast album on May 21. The album will feature the show's stars, Brian d'Arcy James, Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert, and more showing off their giant…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMIn an email interview, Norbert Leo Butz talked about musicals: Q. What was the best “story” your own father ever told you? A: There were 11 of us kids. He didn’t tell stories. He maint…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:22PMHere are some of the familiar Broadway faces appearing in prime time tonight Wednesday, March 27, 2013
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMIn an email interview Kate Baldwin talked about taking the “Big Fish” bait: Q. Were either of your parents in sales of any kind? A: My parents weren’t, but my grandfather was. He sold …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:20PMOne of Shakespeare’s most deeply psychological plays is given a riveting, utterly original reimagining by the National Theatre of Scotland. Tony Award–winning Scottish star of stage, fil…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:19PMThe original cast recording from the epic Texan musical Giant, which made its New York premiere at the Public Theater last fall, will gallop online and into stores on May 21.
Boasting mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMDETROIT COMES TO BERKELEY The Berkeley Playhouse production of Guys and Dolls is just the thing for a theater lover, a fan of this timeless musical, or a family to kick back and enjoy. The s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13PMMidlife Something rings true. The pain is real and buried deep. Nick Cardiff’s story could be tightened and secondary characters fleshed out, but still, it's a true depiction of life lost…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:01PM
As an undergraduate theater major in the early 1970s, I heard music everywhere. It seemed to pour out of every office and workspace around the department. And in the LP era, if you wanted mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMAsk anyone who is the grande dame of the singing and acting world and the likely answer would be Barbra Streisand. While her pipes have always been better known than her acting chops, Streis…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:49PMIt’s finally here! Broadway.com’s March Musical Madness has reached its championship round, and the two shows in contention for the All-Time Best Broadway Musical just might surp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMShia LaBeouf has been very candid about his firing from Orphans, and he even stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman to speak openly about his exit from the Broadway show. Though the c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:44PMBy the time Dolly (Nancy Opel) sings the lyrics "I hear that choo-choo callin' me on, on board that happiness express" in the penultimate number of Ford's Theatre Society and Signature Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMThe first national tour of “Wicked” will be getting a small makeover later this month as Alison Luff and John Davidson join the cast. Luff will take over as Elphaba on April 30, when the…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:40PMFrom 10-11 p.m. ET last night, NBC's musical drama SMASH 0.93 in 18-49, 3.1 million viewers overall delivered its highest total-viewer figure in six weeks. However the show scored a .9 preli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMRandall, the irreverent video-narrator who became an overnight internet sensation with his now famous “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger” video, has done one of his signature voice-overs o…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:32PMGirth and vulnerability were constants in the career of Griffiths who died last week in England, aged 65, personally mourned, it would seem, by everybody who either saw his work or was invol…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:32PMThe audience at the opening night of Elaine Stritch’s farewell show at the Café Carlyle included Tom Hanks, Liza Minnelli and Tony Bennett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:23PMThe British television special "Andrew Lloyd Webber: 40 Musical Years" was broadcast on ITV1 on March 31. Here are highlights from the program, including performances from&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMThe cast album of the Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical Giant, based on Edna Ferber's Texas-set novel, will be released in a two-disc packaging May 21 by Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMI’ve discussed live theatre tax credits on this blog on a number of occasions. Recently, I specifically posted about Boston becoming a city where this credit may go into effect if a re…
SOURCE: The Road 101 at 02:17PMAlex Timbers, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim give a spotlight to Imelda Marcos — the "only world leader who comes with her own soundtrack"— in the musical Here Lies Love a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMGeorge Street Playhouse will present the world premiere of the new musical Garage Band Sept. 24-Oct. 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMSHIPSHAPE Imagine a boat named “Utopia” launched in the 1830s, floating towards Moscow. As the boat sails onward, it becomes heavier, taking on cargo, passengers, and the weight of the f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:07PM
Today's first neat press release has landed in my inbox, SPIDER-MAN and its online ad agency Situation Interactive have teamed up with a company called ePrize to allow ticket buyers to reser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMToday's first neat press release has landed in my inbox, SPIDER-MAN and its online ad agency Situation Interactive have teamed up with a company called ePrize to allow ticket buyers to reser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMMichele Ragusa, who has been seen on Broadway in Young Frankenstein, Titanic and Ragtime, will play Lilli/Kate in a staged concert version of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate April 27 with th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMLove was in the air at Second Stage Theatre on April 2, when Jason Robert Brown’s beloved musical The Last Five Years celebrated its opening night. The off-Broadway revival, starr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMIn “Saga,” Wakka Wakka explores Iceland’s economic collapse “Why did the elephant leave the circus? Because he was tired of working for peanuts! Wakka wakka wakka!…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:48PMPurchase special 50 tickets in the Orchestra Terrace and Dress Circle levels-a savings of up to 29 per tickets Offer good while availabilitylasts, so act now before it's too late
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMInstallations sit at the border between art and theatre. I usually concentrate on writing about the latter, but I find the self-consciously theatrical stage-set installations of Ilya Kabakov…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 01:45PMThe Print Room, LondonI was wrong about Brian Friel's play. Seeing it for the first time at the Almeida in 1994, I took it to be an arid replay of Friel's Faith Healer: again two men and a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMTraverse, EdinburghFirst, we were outraged by the apparent crimes of Jimmy Savile. Then we felt betrayed: had the innocence of 1970s light entertainment been a sham? Behind the showbiz sheen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMThe world premiere production of the new musical TUCK EVERLASTING will play at Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre 106 Boylston Street from July 28-August 18, 2013.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMCourt Theatre in Hyde Park has announced its 2013-2014 season (also its fifty-ninth), which notably features the Chicago premiere of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner “Water By The Spoonful&#…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:40PMIn Red Line Time, dancers will perform for underground audiences on Frioday and Saturday, as the Red Line makes its rounds from downtown's Union Station to North Hollywood and back. Goethe I…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:40PMThe upcoming year-long "Sonnet Project" has announced that actors Michael Urie (Buyer
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMNijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky's most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMLyric Stage of Irving, TX, will produce the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart classic Too Many Girls, featuring such standards as "You're Nearer" and "I Didn't Know What…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMCourt Theatre, the longstanding Equity company in residence at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, will stage the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Broadway play about Martin Luther King…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:19PMHannibal Lecter, currently the subject of Off-Broadway's killer parody SILENCE! The Musical, is returning to the screen in the new NBC series "Hannibal," premiering this Thursday, April 4th.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMHere's a special treat for lovers of Andrew Lloyd Webber! The unrivaled composer of smash hit musicals like The Phantom of The Opera, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats was the subje…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMWell, here’s some news Sue Slyvester would have a field day with: Heather Morris, best known as Brittany S. Pierce on the FOX series Glee, and her longtime boyfriend, Taylor Hubbell, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMWell, here’s some news Sue Sylvester would have a field day with: Heather Morris, best known as Brittany S. Pierce on the FOX series Glee, and her longtime boyfriend, Taylor Hubbell, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMStill Alice – Lookingglass Theatre in the Water Tower Water Works at 821 N. Michigan Ave, is offering exclusive $15 industry tickets for Wednesday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m only. Use code IN…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:12PM~ THIS SUNDAY ONLY ~ Comic Books, Music and Booze! Zoinks! Captured Aural Phantasy Theater (CAPT) presents its Saturday Morning Cartoons Live Show at the historic El Cid for One Night Only �…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:10PMLater this month, TCG will publish Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl’s Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Woolf’s Orlando, a pairing of adaptations: Anton Chekhov’s classic…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:07PMMike McAlary, the newspaper columnist who is now the subject of a Broadway play, was a flawed journalist who once falsely accused a rape victim of perpetrating a hoax.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMThe latest news over in Smash land is, well, exactly the same as it always is. NBC’s troubled Broadway soap fell in the ratings yet again after the April 2 episode “The Parents.&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMThe latest news over in Smash land is, well, exactly the same as it always is. NBC’s troubled Broadway soap fell in the ratings yet again after the April 2 episode “The Parents.&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMTHEATER TALK celebrates the 30th anniversary of Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre - home to notable productions including Pulitzer Prize winners Three Tall Women by Edward Albee and How I Lear…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference has announced plans to showcase and workshop new musicals by theater artists Nathan Christensen and Scott Murphy, Michae…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PM
Broadway’s Best Shows is hunting down the best Broadway-related snaps you created for our newest series: Broadway Photo of the Day! Living in a world in which our daily lives are flood…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:59PMJames Dacre, whose credits include Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, has been appointed the new artistic director of the Royal & Derngate theatres in Northampto…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:58PMThe new American musical Hands on a Hardbody just celebrated opening night on March 21, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Inspired by true events and based on the a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PM"Les Misérables" film star Aaron Tveit's New York City cabaret debut at 54 Below has sold-out in record time. The latest block of tickets, which went on sale to e-mail s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMFrom 10-11 p.m. ET last night, NBC's musical drama SMASH 0.93 in 18-49, 3.1 million viewers overall delivered its highest total-viewer figure in six weeks since February 19, pending updates.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMWhat’s big enough to get Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein down in the New York City subway? The brand new ads for their hot new show Kinky Boots! Starri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMNEW YORK (AP) — Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical brand o…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PMIrish actor Milo O'Shea, a veteran of ten Broadway shows and a two-time Tony Award nominee, has died at the age of 86 in New York City following a short illness. The Dublin-born O'Shea rece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:52PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway legend Elaine Stritch kicked off a final series of concerts to bid farewell to New York, but refused to be maudlin about it, instead displaying her typical bran…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:51PMThe Public Theater’s Public Forum series will continue with Sonnets for the City, a one-night-only event that will explore the magic of William Shakespeare’s sonnets on April 26 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMThe Banff World Media Festival BANFF is proud to announce that celebrated screen and stage actress Christine Baranski will be presented the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the annu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMTony Award-winning actress Elaine Stritch, a celebrated icon of the stage and New York City itself, performs her final engagement at the Café Carlyle beginning April 2. The octogenari…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMDanny Burstein and Sarah Paulson By David Sheward
A common thread among America's greatest playwrights is a compassionate view of our dreamers and outcasts. Tennessee Williams, William I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:43PMTickets are now on sale for the world premiere of Steven Levenson’s The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The show begins performanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMDavid Letterman invited his new next-door neighbors over for some fun on April 2. The cast of Cinderella, whose Broadway theater is mere steps away from Letterman’s studio, dropped by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMEnglish song-and-dance man Gavin Lee, 41, has spent much of the past decade playing Bert in Mary Poppins on both sides of the Atlantic, nabbing Olivier and Tony nods along the way. Now, he&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMIt was announced today that Academy Award nominated actor Sam Shepard will be joining the cast of Discovery Channel's first-ever, scripted mini-series KLONDIKE wt. Shepard will be playing th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMORPHANS began performances on March 19 and open on April 7 2013 at the Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street, marking the first Broadway staging of the play. Emmy winner and Tony Award and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMThe Off-Broadway hit FREUD'S LAST SESSION is coming to Sydney this August starring Henri Szeps and Douglas Hansell.
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:24PMPresented by the Mikhailovsky, this Soviet-era ballet is brought marvellously to life by Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, Clement Crisp writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:19PMThis double bill of short plays by Alan Bennett explores the writer’s past – and the nature and meaning of memory, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:19PMBased on the writings of Frantz Fanon, this 1972 play by Caryl Churchill is very much of its earnest time, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:17PMCindy Kleine’s gripping documentary about her husband, the theater director André Gregory, feels almost like a sequel to “My Dinner With André.”
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 12:17PMAs part of the Wadsworth Atheneum 's First Thursday party, the Hartford-base d HartBeat Ensemble will present a new 15 minute piece about the Harlem Renaissance -- “The Cotton Clu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:16PMPulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard has joined the cast of the Discovery Channel’s first scripted miniseries Klondike, reports Deadline.com.
The show follows six strangers as they str…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PM"The Head That Wears a Crown," a new album of Shakespeare's speeches from Tony Award-winning Macbeth star Alan Cumming, is now available from GPR Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMShow must go on? Resurrection? Or simply the luck of the Irish? In the latest of his line of renowned one-man plays, Simon Callow was due to take to the stage as the Messiah himself tonight …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:09PMJonathan Miller’s production of Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son is to transfer to London’s St. James Theatre in June. The production has been touring with Northern Broadsides since …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMDirector Kathy Scambiatterra clearly has a keen understanding of the play and its characters. And with John Mossman setting its center boil, this Iguana has heat to spare. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:05PMWhile I was the theater critic for The Denver Post , I never quite understood the malicious glee so many seemed to be taking in the irreversible downward slide of the corporate newspaper ind…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM
Celebrated film and stage star Elaine Stritch opened her final show at the famed Cafe Carlyle Tuesday night after recently announcing she's retiring and moving back home to Michigan.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:57AMRatings of the second season of NBC's "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, declined following the April 2 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMMike Daisey is a rare kind of artist, one who can forsake all theatrical bells and whistles and still captivate an audience via sheer charisma and wry wit. In the Woolly Mammoth premiere o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AM FOLGER THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2013/14 SEASON FILLED WITH SHAKESPEARE PLAYS Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET Helen-Hayes Award winner Aaron Posner directs the most famous story of “star-cros…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:36AMI'LL EAT YOU LAST, the new one-woman play which marks Bette Midler's return to Broadway, announces its rush ticket policy A limited number of 35 rush tickets including facility fee will be a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMOriginal Tony-winning Hairspray star Marissa Jaret Winokur will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox — hosted by Seth Rudetsky — April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLet's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMNEW DRAMATISTS, Tony Honor recipient and the nation's premiere playwright development workshop, has announced that they will honor entertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Chairman of the Boa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMSecond Stage Theatre's new production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, with Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe as a couple who falls in and out of love…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMTony Award-winning Avenue Q's fantasies are coming true. Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty's lovable, racy musical is returning to London for its fringe premiere at Highgate's Upstair…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AM An untimely match made in heaven. The passing of Nora Ephron in 2012 from leukemia shocked Hollywood. The author and screenwriter was known for her prolific work as a screenwriter, au…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:21AMTony Award nominee Sam Waterston will join Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro for Sonnets for the City, an upcoming Public Forum event April 26 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMOriginally published on NewYork.com View this story online In Matilda The Musical, Gabriel Ebert and Lesli Margherita play Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, the neglectful, TV-obsessed parents of every…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:16AMPoet, Playwright...Novelist?"You should write a novel." That's what my coworker said to me last week out of the blue while we were taking a bit of a break."That play of yours that won all th…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:16AMBelow, check out a promo for the next episode of NBC's SMASH titled 'The Surprise Party.' With guest star Liza Minnelli in tow, Tom Christian Borle plans a surprise for Ivy Megan Hilty in an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AM(Photo by Alissa Moore. Pictured: Rich Mintz) The following video was taken at the Audience (R)Evolution Learning Convening from February 20-22 in Philadelphia. Rich Mintz Executive Vice Pre…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:14AMPalm Beach Dramaworks has announced their 14th season, set to kick off on October 11th. The 2013-2014 season begins with Nobel Prize-winning playwright John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men on Oc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMDeclan Bennett is currently appearing as Guy in John Tiffany's production of multi Tony Award- winning screen-to-stage musical Once, which receives its West End premiere at the Pho…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:08AMChoreographer Twyla Tharp, whose work spans ballet, modern dance, jazz and Broadway, is to receive a lifetime achievement honor during this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Tharp is scheduled t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMTickets to the American Theatre Wing's 67th Annual Tony Awards will go on sale at TonyAwards.com on Tuesday, April 30.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMAIDS Project Los Angeles has announced the star-studded selection of artists who will be performing at the 29th Annual S.T.A.G.E. Gala on April 6. The event will take place at The Saban Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMAn actress of great grace and charm, Daphne Anderson played a central role in musical comedies and intimate revue in the 1940s and 1950s. Having taken dancing classes, she made her professio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMREVIEW: The underdog triumph doesn't feel honest in this musical version of the 1983 movie.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:00AMI’ve written about the next generation of theatergoers a couple of times and how different they’ll be from the ones we have now based on a few things: They were born with a compu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's Catherine Fowles talks about the new stage adaptation of the classic children’s book and why this off-Broadway fairy tale is bringing fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMThe second season of "Smash," the Emmy Award-winning musical drama about the creation and inner workings of a Broadway musical, kicked off Feb. 5 on NBC. Here are highlights from t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMLast night, the creators of the musical, Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper unveiled the Kinky Boots 'Everybody Say Yeah' ad campaign inside the Times Square Subway Station. Check it out bel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMDozens of stars hit the red carpet to celebrate opening night for Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks. We chatted with the cast of this New York drama as they sang th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMIn her signature white shirt, black vest, and tights, 88-year-old Broadway legend Elaine Stritch opened her final engagement at New York's Café Carlyle — Elaine Stritch at the Carly
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMNominations for the 28th annual edition of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced Wednesday.
Signature Theater's revival of August Wilson's 1990 Pulitzer-winning play "The…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:52AMJohn Anthony Lopez is King Arthur and Peter Turo is his trusty squire Patsy, coconuts at the ready, in rehearsal for the Westchester premiere of “Spamalot” at Yorktown Stage. The…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:52AMThe Memory Show, presented by the Transport Group Theatre Company, will play off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, beginning Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 at 7PM, openin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMTony Award winner Elaine Stritch offered stories and songs on April 2, the start of a weeklong engagement — her farewell to showbiz — at the Cafe Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMA slew of stars came out last night to the Cafe Carlyle to bid farewell to the legendary Elaine Stritch, who began her last New York run. Her new show, Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle Movin' O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMThe unlikely topic for a musical, the story of Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, Jodie Foster’s 1991 chilling movie, the parody has found a devoted audience. Opening in 2005 somewhere i…
SOURCE: queenscourier.com at 10:47AMAs the days continue to tick away, we are getting closer and closer to the first preview, while the days are getting longer and longer. Today began with another ad meeting where the curren…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMMatthew Dunster's production of Before the Party opened at the Almeida Theatre last week (28 March 2013, previews from 21 March).Based on a short story written by W Somerset Maugham, th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:45AMI’LL EAT YOU LAST, the new one-woman play which marks Bette Midler’s return to Broadway, announces its rush ticket policy: A limited number of $35 rush tickets (including facility fee) …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:43AMFormer In the Heights cast members Courtney Reed and Luis Salgado are among the artists who celebratde the life of late Mexican-American artist Selena Quintanilla-Pérez April 1 in&nbs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMPeter Morgan's The Audience could be Broadway-bound, according to the Daily Mail. Helen Mirren, who returns to the role of Queen Elizabeth II following her Oscar-winning performance in Morga…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:39AM By: David ShewardOriginally conceived as half of a double-bill of one-act musicals, Stephen Sondheim's Passion seemed more of a brief chamber opera r…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:34AMThe popular production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz has been extended through June 2nd at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore. DCMetroTheaterArts’ Amanda Gunther, in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMThe recent Northern Broadsides touring production of Githa Sowerby's classic play Rutherford & Son is to get a London run, beginning performances at the St. James Theatre June 4 prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThis week's post is all about the idea of following up. Take a look at these tips for ways to make sure people get back to you. Excelsior! December 06, 2011 Back up your follow up The other …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThe Tony-honored playwright development workshop New Dramatists will honor entertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Chairman of the Board Seth Gelblum with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM“BUT for many years I was in love with journalism. I loved the city room. I loved the pack. I loved smoking and drinking scotch and playing dollar poker. I didn’t know much about…
SOURCE: wowOwow at 10:24AMThe rush ticket policy has been announced for John Logan's new play I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, the one-woman play starring Bette Midler that begins previews April 5 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMEaster 2013 marks the triumphant return to the Young Vic of the production of Ibsen’s realist masterpiece that so pleased the critics in 2012 and earned its leading lady two Best Actre…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:23AMThis critically acclaimed series has blossomed from an idea to what Show Business Weekly deems, 'an invaluable and entertaining jewel in the cabaret crown of New York' Authorcritic Scott Sie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMToday, we feature actor, writer, director, choreographer and part-time clown Kevin McKillip who also wrote and performs in his one-man show 'Will Rogers An American Original.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMIn response to ticket demand, "Les Misérables" film star Aaron Tveit has added two additional performances to his engagement at 54 Below in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMDoug Ramsey, the noted jazz critic, blogger, and sometime novelist, announced on Monday that discounted copies of Poodie James, his...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:01AM“The Martin Luther King of Maryland” Walter P. Carter was a central figure in ending segregation in Baltimore, Maryland. As chairman of C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality), he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMI’m sure many people can relate to that scary moment when you look into your past yearbooks and see what you looked like 5, 10 or maybe 15 years ago! Well, we decided it would be entertain…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMAfter an online fundraising campaign, the New York Shakespeare Exchange is filming 154 actors reciting Shakespeare’s sonnets at locations around New York City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM
In today's New York Post, Mtley Cre's Nikki Sixx spoke about his upcoming Broadway musical THE HEROIN DIARIES. Teased the rock star, It's not gonna be 'Mamma Mia' The show is based on Sixx's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:58AMAvenue Q, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty's 2003 Tony Award-winning musical, is returning to London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMEnjoy Spring Savings on Rodgers Hammerstein's CINDERELLA - Broadway's loveliest night Save up to 35 on tickets - buy today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMDan Gordon's The Boat Factory, which will be seen at New York's 59E59th Street Theatre June 4-30 as part of the annual Brits Off Broadway Festival, will return to the U.K. afterwards…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMTaunton Deane Borough Council will make a bid to secure the leasehold on the Brewhouse Theatre to safeguard its future as a pubic arts venue. The Somerset venue went into administration last…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMThe Sabai Pavilion, Derby : There are some rough edges to be smoothed around Glamorous Amorous, the new The Lady Boys of Bangkok tour. It delivers on sheer sizzle and flamboyance, with hundr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMMore than a dozen years ago, when playwright Amy Herzog graduated from college, she took a cross-country bike trip, from New Haven to San Francisco. Then she moved to New York, where she liv…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:49AMTony Award nominees Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, currently appearing in the Broadway production of Richard Greenberg's new drama The Assembled Parties, will cohost the Village Voice's 58…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMThere are many stunning moments of Jewish and Christian confluence to hear in Thomas Beveridge's "Yizkor Requiem," his hour-long piece for chorus and orchestra that builds bridges between tw…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:47AMTroy Diana, the writer and director of Off-Broadway’s Tales from the Tunnel, will offer a one-night only, free developmental reading of his latest play, Jersey Driver, April 15 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMMike Daisey’s colorful reputation precedes him. He has spent many years becoming one of America’s most unusual, outspoken, and admired solo performers (he would say, more accurately, a �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMThe buzzing in my ears is dying down. Finally. My two lovely aunts have just left from inspecting my Ferry House room (very much like larger student digs – though a lot quieter). They made…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMThe Print Room maintains its reputation for compelling and considered work with a polished revival of Brian Friel’s 1994 play, Molly Sweeney – a moving deliberation on the meaning of si…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:38AMSecond Stage Theatre celebrated the opening night of Jason Robert Brown's revival of his cult-classic musical, The Last Five Years, with a post-performance
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMEpisode 6 of Compulsive Love is here! Watch it and previous episodes on Koldcast or Blip or Daily Motion or Boomtrain or Youtube or&nb…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:37AMJonathan Miller's critically acclaimed revival Githa Sowerby's 1912 play Rutherford and Son will receive its London premiere this summer at the new St James' Theatre, where it will have a li…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:36AM"Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy," which was previously broadcast on PBS stations around the country, will debut on DVD with bonus features May 7 from Athena.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMWhilst I may never have heard the name Charles Castronovo before last night, the Italian-American tenor is famous in the world of opera, and so it is a real coup for the intimate King’s He…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25AMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center previously announced that Academy Award winner and Tony Award recipient Barbra Streisand — the first American woman artist to receive credit as write…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMFairy tales ain’t what they used to be. Books like “Confessions
of an Ugly Stepsister” and “Glass Slippers & Jeweled Masques” have brought
an edgier, and even erotic, vibe to t…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:22AMIn the heart of Leicester Square, go underground to the not-so-conventional Leicester Square Theatre. Make your way into the living room set, which also feels like a traditional pub, find yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:19AMMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former Major League Baseball catcher Mike Piazza will be taking center stage with the Miami City Ballet.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:19AMA slew of stars came out last night to the Cafe Carlyle to bid farewell to the legendary Elaine Stritch, who began her last New York run. Her new show, Elaine Stritch at the Carlyle Movin' O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:16AMWorkShop Theatre, MTWorks, Off Off Broadway
By Haytham Elhawary
BOTTOM LINE: An entertaining representation of Oscar Wilde’s novel, which does a decent job of bringing to life a ch…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:06AMReviewers have not been easy on Douglas Carter Beane's new book for the currently running Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. The most common complaint: that Beane m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
Shakespeare Theatre Company Presents: Classic Conversations to Host Audra McDonald and Christopher Plummer Just announced: Audra McDonald and Christopher Plummer will appear in the next …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53AMAnita Loos, the charming and talented screenplay writer and novelist, was having a sort of mid life crisis in her career and in her personal life in 1946. Ms. Loos was 58 years old at the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AMHull Truck Theatre has appointed Mark Babych as its new artistic director. The appointment marks the first artistic director Hull Truck has had in two years, after Gareth Tudor Price was mad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMPlaywright Richard Greenberg, whom I profile in Playbill this month, has three plays opening nearly simultaneously in New York: Breakfast At Tiffany’s opened March 20 at the Cort Theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMNEW YORK (AP) — Hard to believe now, but Bobby Cannavale at one point felt invisible in the casting room.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:44AMNEW YORK—Hard to believe now, but Bobby Cannavale at one point felt invisible in the casting room.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMThe cast of CINDERELLA, now at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway at 53rd St. crossed the street to the Ed Sullivan Theater last night to perform a medley of numbers from the hit musical on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMThis double bill of Alan Bennett bio-plays has transferred to the Duchess Theatre (meaning the National now has four productions running concurrently in the West End), affording an opportuni…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:23AMThe Print Room, London: This less well-known piece by Ireland's preeminent living playwright combines a medical case study with a morality tale.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMIt’s ironic that Philip Larkin’s first novel, Jill, written at 21, features a bumbling young protagonist in a series of embarrassments, when he later declared the work itself a juvenil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AM"Once people hear this music they do indeed come back for it - it is pleasing on so many levels: it soars, it soothes, it excites, it transports."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AMWest End musical Wicked has recorded its five millionth audience member since opening in 2006. The milestone was reached at the matinee performance on Saturday, March 30. Michael McCabe, UK …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMMaggie Semple is stepping down as chair of the Board of Directors at the National Youth Music Theatre after more than 10 years.
Semple took the position as chair in 2002, and helped lea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMThe actors in “Orphans” put hurtful e-mails behind them, sort of, and move on without Shia LaBeouf into previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference has lined up a trio of new tuner projects for development during the conference’s 2013 summer session, corralling …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, a new musical by the songwriting team of Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, has been selected for development at the Eugene O'Neil Theater Cente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AMBack by popular demand, Dave (@NineDaves) and I have teamed up to bring you our take on what’s keepin’ it real and what’s faking it each week on SMASH. Follow the 'caps here or on…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:00AM
Frank Thornton’s ability to turn stiff-backed pomposity to exquisite comic effect gave him an enviable profile in two long-running television comedies that kept him in public view for half…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMToday is the birthday of Washington Irving (1783-1859). By most reasonable measures he is America’s premier literary man and it is only natural that New York City produced him. Why n…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:28AM By Joel Benjamin March 30th, 2013 Eva Kantor’s The Way I Am was impressive only when she was singing. She assembled a thought-provoking program and her sweetly expre…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:23AMWhatever it is, we end up feeling for Cathy and Jamie, it won't be for their lack of musical and dramatic commitment to Brown's ambitious score.. . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AMIt's not yet official, but it sure sounds good.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:04AMDuchess, London: A double bill of Alan Bennett reflections couldn't have been more at home at the National Theatre. But what about this transfer to the commercial bear pit of the West E…
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Can you say of a face that it is “bunched” with artless merriment in the way that a fist can be said to be bunched in anger or frustration? You'd swear that that perception was permiss…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:55AMThe Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel: By coincidence, A Chorus Line is back in London at the same time that Donna McKechnie, who created the role of Cassie in the original 1975 production at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMLaurencia, which continues the Mikhailovsky Ballet’s London season, is a curious hybrid. The Spanish dances, castanets and local colour suggest the exotic ballets of the 19th century, with…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:42AMArcola, London: It's impossible not to admire the chutzpah of a company who follow up an adaption of the German expressionist film, the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, with a stage version of H…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMStuart Graham, Dorothy Duffy & Ruairi Conaghan
Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney explores the world of a woman, blind since childhood, who undergoes an operation to restore her sight. On the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:32AMLondon Coliseum: The Mikhailovsky Ballet continues its packed London visit with its 2010 revival of the Soviet-era Laurencia. Little seen in the West, it tells the Spanish tale of the spirit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMA BEAUTIFUL SPRING TREAT! Best seats for just £25 Get £10 off top price seats (usually £35) if you book before 15 April.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:21AMActor Milo O’Shea has died in New York after a short illness at the age of 86. Early success on stage in his native Dublin followed him to the UK where he made a notable...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMPeter Morgan's The Audience could be heading across the pond to Broadway, according to the Daily Mail.
Helen Mirren, who returns to the role of Queen Elizabeth II following her Oscar-winning…
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Dubliner known for roles in Ulysses, Me Mammy, Barbarella and West Wing
SOURCE: The Irish Times at 05:57AMActor Alex Jennings stopped the curtain call applause at the Duchess Theatre last night to recall his old friend and colleague Richard Griffiths and ask the audience to applaud him. Deliveri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMOverall vibe: Punk rock. Kicking down the Fourth Wall with the unsettling anarchy of the Sex Pistols, the company of actors storm the Lantern Theater House as house manager Ryan Pollock impl…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:52AMTom Hanks says his Broadway debut, the opening night of “Lucky Guy,” was a bittersweet moment tinged with sadness at the loss of his longtime close friend, writer Nora Ephron.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:48AMPost-1945 Britain produced millions of babyboomers like me who are still alive and kicking, but not many plays that have survived into the modern repertoire. Rodney Ackland's play first saw …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:24AMThe lastest episode of our podcast where we discuss a new piece of theatre over a slice of cheesecake. By Kimberly Lew (Playwright/Blogger) with Erin Salvi Though it's not a "new" work of th…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:03AMWhat does that even mean? By Michael Kras (Actor/Playwright/Director) My earliest exposure to acting theory came from the pages of David Mamet's treatise True and False: Heresy and Common Se…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:02AMWhat Fosca has to say about marriage equality By Sam Perwin (Performer) I’m a Sondheim kind of guy, not only does he basically write for my voice (thanks, Steve!), but I’ve always had a …
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Hunter Ryan Herdlicka Wows at 54 Below as Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Attend: Hunter Ryan Herdlicka Wows at 54 Below as Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Attend.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:59AMRichard Griffiths was an actor from the old school. And by that I mean he liked a little nip before going onstage.
I met him a couple of times at Angus McIndoe’s, a bar across the street f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMIf you judge a show’s popularity by how many productions it’s had, then “The Last Five Years” is a “Wicked”-size blockbuster.
In the 11 years since its brief off-Broadway run, t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMAaron Tveit Sells Out at 54 Below as Amanda Seyfried Tweets: Amanda Seyfried, the Les Miserables actress tweeted about co-star Aaron Tveit saying "He just announced that he will be playing f…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:09AMFrom Chemo to Camp - a Journey[With this interview, The Charlebois Post is launching its 2013 coverage of Fringe productions across the country. If you are interested in being included in th…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMThe lines between theatre and dance are getting more blurred and there is no more proof needed than this superb promotional video created by JD Dance and Tracey Norman for their upcoming epi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, April 2, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTony and Olivier Award nominee Euan Morton, Hayden Tee and Maureen McVerry star in the TheatreWorks world-premiere production of Being Earnest, the new musical by Tony Award nominee Paul Gor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Kara Manning's Sleeping Rough, directed by Tony Award nominee Sam Buntrock, begins Off-Broadway performances April 3, prior to an official opening April 11, at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe company of the second North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked welcomes Jennifer DiNoia as Elphaba, Hayley Podschun as Glinda and David Nathan Perlow as Fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTheir Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight the choices of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the world premiere of Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor working for a mega-superstar, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Douglas Sills, Paul Anthony Stewart and Christina Bennett Lind star in the Long Wharf Theatre world-premiere production of William Mastrosimone's Kennedy-inspired…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHands on a Hardbody is the decidedly catchy title of a musical with a particular catch in its plot: A group of people are in a contest to win a new truck. The competition is simple enough. …
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMTwenty years ago, the first art review I ever wrote for the college paper was about a show at a cafe.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMSlipping
Written By Daniel Talbott, directed by Steven J. Satta
Through April 13 at Baltimore Theatre Project
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMTimothy Horjus: Solo Exhibition
At the Creative Alliance at the Patterson through April 13
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMNew Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville
At the walters art museum through June 2
The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote “The Painter of Modern Life,” his h…
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