“Kinky Boots” is a brash, if predictable musical that will appeal to fans of composer Cyndi Lauper and book writer Harvey Fierstein
SOURCE: NBC New York at 10:54PMCyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Mitchell walked the red carpet for “Kinky Boots” Thursday at the Hirschfeld Theater. Guests included Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Joan River…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46PMWilfrid Sheed nailed Roger Ebert, intentionally or not, in Max Jamison, in which he spoke in passing of a movie...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:13PMHEDY WEISS: Director Susan Stroman remembers crying when she saw the 2003 movie that inspired the new show starring Norbert Lee Butz and Kate Baldwin.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:12PMHere we are, almost at the end the season, and there are just two shows left to qualify the hottest guys and dolls before we start voting in the finals. First up is the cast all of you…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:10PMThere may be awesomely flexible drag queens, six-inch stiletto heels, and even a hairy man in a t-shirt, but there is absolutely nothing in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots that will sto…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:07PMNever underestimate the power of a good-bad musical, which can make consenting adults yearn to be dancing queens and adolescent witches and, in the case of “Kinky Boots,” drag queens in …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMKathryn Hunter plays an ape who plays a man in “Kafka’s Monkey,” a solo show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center adapted from Kafka’s short story “A Report to the Academy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA factory owner and a drag performer combine efforts in “Kinky Boots,” the new Broadway musical from Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper.
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The contemporary troupes hope to build audiences by working together, starting with two weekends of performances at Millennium Park.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:56PMThe St. Paul multi-arts venue will build a 1,100-seat hall for the SPCO.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 09:54PMMovie-to-stage transitions run the gamut from spectacular to paltry. Catch Me If You Can, the musical, edges toward the former: a stylized, colorful tale of one of America’s best and brigh…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:45PMI’ve had a number of laugh out loud moments at the ideas in Arj Barker’s shows over the years. I’ve enjoyed the “Heavy Metal Heckle”, his turn as a Guru, what speed-freaks did befo…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMAccording to Deadline.com, Jacki Weaver is joining Gena Rowlands and Cheyenne Jackson in 6 Dance Lesons In 6 Weeks, based on Richard Alfieri's Broadway play. Weaver will play Irene, one of M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PMJEREMY BLOOM: In addition to working with new playwrights, new music, and with RADY&BLOOM, Jeremy directs his own original adaptations including PETER/WENDY (DARK) [Walkerspace and …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:09PMIs it a shock to say that “Kinky Boots” just isn’t kinky enough? It could have been. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book, he who began his career as a 300-pound teenage drag queen on the L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PMWould you pay a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play about Mike McAlary? Especially if it wasn't any good? Such are the questions posed by "Lucky Guy," says Terry Teachout. Plus, "Kinky Boot…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:06PM THE GOOD: – BILLY. PORTER. You cannot convince me that he is anything but perfect in this role. He’s living. He’s giving it everything. He’s obviously h…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00PMThe musical about a drag queen and a shoe factory owner has songs by theater newcomer Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, who makes rookie mistakes.NEW YORK — Let the record s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMGrammy winner Cyndi Lauper makes her debut as a musical-theater composer with this stage adaptation of the 2005 Miramax movie about a struggling British shoe factory.read more
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52PMKinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell Director amp Choreographer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46PMThere’s no use putting up a fight with “Kinky Boots.” The Broadway adaptation of the hit 2005 Miramax film about a struggling shoe factory in the north of England and the d…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PMThe Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge and directed by Daniel Sullivan, is currently in previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:21PMThis was a little too good NOT to share — we at the AussieTheatre office laughed (to the point of tears) watching this hilarious spoof trailer of Les Miserables. Hope you enjoy the music…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMBefore we get to the monkey, let’s talk about Kathryn Hunter. Rarely has an actor’s transformation so shocked my senses as this short 55-year-old woman’s impersonation of a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00PM
Mark it in your diaries, theatre goers — the 2013 Helpmann Awards Date has been announced! It was confirmed today by Live Performance Australia (LPA) that the 2013 Helpmann Award Ceremony …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:55PMFor one final weekend, something masterful is taking place at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts. Which is rich, given that one of the themes of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's produ…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:54PMNEW YORK — When it’s good, “Kinky Boots,” the new Broadway musical with the rocking Cyndi Lauper score, is sweetly, vivaciously, irresistibly good. And when it’s not so good — we…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:48PMGentle readers! This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of The Innocence of Father Brown, now playing at Fremont Theatre in South Pasadena. Click here to go to the LA Weekly�…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:33PMNEW YORK (AP) — On Broadway these days, there are your typical witches, princesses and crooners. What we've been missing is something colorful, something brash, safe and yet a little naugh…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:31PMStage and screen star Steve Buscemi has been named as director of a new livestream concert by rock group Vampire Weekend.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMNEW YORK (AP) -- On Broadway these days, there are your typical witches, princesses and crooners. What we've been missing is something colorful, something brash, safe and yet a little na…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:30PMSo, by now you have all seen this piece by Todd London which I think is fantastic and says many things that are true and right and will help the American theatre but there is one area that I…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 07:13PMTo conclude its 45th season, Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes back a pair of acclaimed collaborators Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters, the creators of Eurydice, Three Sisters, and In the Next Ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMRenown young actor Ryan Gosling and internationally recognized director Nicolas Winding Refn previously collaborated on the surprise cult hit DRIVE and now they reteam for the gritty and vio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMIt’s late in the first act of Kinky Boots, the new musical that just opened at the Al Hirschfeld, and all is hopeless....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
OnSite Theatre Company, like the name suggests, specializes in site-specific theatre -- very cool and quite exceptional in the local area. Their latest offering is a world premiere tha…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:49PMTaproot Theatre’s “The Whipping Man” is a war and reconciliation drama graced with gifted actors bringing to life Matthew Lopez’s arresting script, writes theater critic Misha Berso…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:43PMA review of Rachel Axler’s “Smudge,” on stage at Washington Ensemble Theatre through April 22, 2013.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:42PMDear Reader: My humblest apologies for my extended absence from the blogosphere. I've been caught up in teaching, and the semester has really gone into high gear. But one of the things that …
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:41PMAnna Kendrick is unfortunately too busy with commitments to the feature film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS to participate in this year's MTV Movie Awards according t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMLessons With Luis: Why didn’t someone tell me about these guys when they were at the Fringe last year? Never has awkward been so brilliant, and I dare any show to have me grinning so inane…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:30PMThirty years after its L.A. premiere, Lyle Kessler’s darkly humorous and unflinching drama Orphans is having its Broadway premiere with a top-notch cast led by Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMCourt Theatre in Chicago will produce five productions in its 2013-14 season, including the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop, directed by resident …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PMA new Donald Margulies play will end Geffen Playhouse's 2013-14 season of nine shows...The Colony's final show of the season is on, although the company has yet to raise its previously annou…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:22PMThe Al Di Meola and Gonzalo Rubalcaba concert at the Barns of Wolf Trap could have been billed as an evening of piano and guitar. There was no supporting act, there was no backing band, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMThe first poster for the new season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT arriving on Netflix May 26 has finally arrived. The Bluths are back
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMEveryone in “_______ Up Everything,” a rock musical and winsome love story, is a Brooklyn faux-hemian desperately trying to prove anti-establishment bona fides.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMCyndi Lauper makes her debut as a Broadway composer in this musical about love and the shoe trade, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:00PMAustralian actor Matt McFarlane has enjoyed what many would call a ‘dream run’ since graduating from WAAPA’s Music Theatre degree in 2007. From music theatre to television, children’…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PM
Who’s the Boss? favorite Tony Danza is living it up in New York City this week! He’s in town for the April 5 industry reading of Honeymoon in Vegas, the new Broadway-bound musica…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMBobby Cannavale stars in Clifford Odets’s tale of Hollywood in its Golden Age.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 05:55PMOn Monday, April 29th, at New York City's Pierre Hotel, the National Corporate Theatre Fund NCTF will honor Vanessa Williams, American Express and five resident theatres celebrating their 50…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 4, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Watch @MOTOWNMusical on @GMA! • • • Wa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation is holding summer workshops across the country that will give students a chance to hone their musical theater skills in front of casting directors.
Craig Burns…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:45PMNew shows from the playwright Nicky Silver and the the team of John Kander and Greg Pierce are part of the theater’s new season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PM"Kinky Boots" is a new musical which features a score by pop star Cyndi Lauper and a book by Tony-winning Broadway veteran Harvey Fierstein.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:40PMSomething smells funky…and it's heading towards Broadway. An Equity casting notice broke news of plans for another workshop for the new soul-funk musical, Super Fly, based on the 1972 fil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMTheater stints for William Friedkin, William Petersen and Amy Brenneman are on tap for the 2013-14 season at the Geffen Playhouse. Friedkin will direct the L.A. nonprofit’s revival of Haro…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMThe stars came out last night when Lee Roy Reams made his 54 Below debut in 'Song amp Dance Man.' After the show, Reams was joined backstage by friends and colleagues including Leslie Uggam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMThe Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated British musical Blood Brothers, a pop parable about twins separated at birth, will be revived by the Astoria Performing Arts Center in May. Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PMBroadway babies will get the rare chance to see some of the most memorable and dazzling movie musicals of all time up on the big screen - some for the very first time in HD restorations - as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMIn this week’s The Princess Diary, Cinderella’s Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana and Greg Hildreth shine a light on the “real life” of a Broadway star. Also, find out wha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMIn the end, it is not the brilliance of his criticism or the strength of his prose for which we will remember Roger Ebert, but his humanity and his love—for film, for life, and, most of al…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:31PMThe incomparable Barbra Streisand is about to settle back into the director's chair. According to Deadline, the legendary singer and actress is set to helm an upcoming and untitled film foll…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that CHAPLIN star Rob McClure will return to Paper Mill Playhouse this Fall in Jason Robert Brown's Honeymoon in Vegas. The new musical will open September 26 and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMThe Phantom of the Opera stars Hugh Panaro and Samantha Hill took “The Music of the Night” on location to Tony’s DiNapoli on April 3! The actors headed to the Times Square …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:26PMThe 40th Chaplin Gala Awards have announced that president Bill Clinton has agreed to present movie star and musician Barbra Streisand with her award at the April 22 event. Other notables pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PMMel Brooks is one of those rags to riches, only in America stories. But, it's not like Brooks hit the lottery. He worked hard for what he made of himself. Here, Brooks remembers his mother -…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:20PMIn 1963, Mel Brooks and director/animator Ernest Pintoff came up with the animated short film The Critic, a satire of arty, esoteric cinema. Brooks supplied running commentary as the baffled…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:19PMLiliane Montevecchi has been entertaining audiences for over 60 years. Now the French performer, who won a Tony Award for Nine, is taking the stage at 54 Below. Here's a first …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PMThe veteran English circus performer and Sardine reflecs on growing up in the circus and running away to join the theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMSite Specific Theater About Toulouse-LautrecTheater and visual art join forces in a site-specific work at the New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St. on Thursday, April 11 a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:06PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will be honored by Boston-area theatre critics with the 2013 Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award May 13 at the Paramount Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMI’m working on a new play in a different way this month. It’s going to be from the ground up with a class. When we had the first meeting a student raised their hand and asked &…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMI get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
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SOURCE: Vulture at 04:56PMFollowing complications with cancer, the acclaimed and legendary film critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70. The Chicago Sun-Times, where his career began in 1967, confirmed th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThere is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Bro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:44PMLyric Theatre of Oklahoma today announced major casting decisions for its 50thAnniversary Season in 2013, featuring new and returning national talent including Nicholas Rodriguez, Heather Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMFor all Roundabout productions, Education at Roundabout creates an issue of UPSTAGE, designed to enhance students' theatre-going experience. Each edition features interviews with the product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMBarbra Streisand has selected a period romance project as her directing vehicle with Aldamisa International. She has closed a deal to direct love story between photographer Margaret Bourke-W…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:34PMBarbra Streisand is getting back in the director's chair for the first time in nearly 20 years. Streisand’s next gig will be directing and overseeing the screenplay for an untitled…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMStarting in 1960, Carl Reiner teamed with Mel Brooks as a comedy duo on The Steve Allen Show. Their performances on stage and television included Reiner playing the straight man to Brooks' 2…
SOURCE: PBS at 04:33PMFusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin’s Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international c…
SOURCE: culturebytes.org at 04:32PMLos Angeles Opera wheeled into its final three performances of Rossini’s “Cinderella” Wednesday night with a new Cinderella toiling amid her cadre of lovable, helpful rats.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:30PMSuper Fly, the new soul-funk musical based on the 1972 film of the same title, is preparing for another workshop shepherded by Tony Award Bill T. Jones this summer in New York City, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PM Amitai Marmorstein and Celine Stubel (Photo: Barbara Pedrick)The First Cut is the Deepestby Shannon Christy Atomic Vaudeville’s production of Legoland is a rich explo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:23PMThe cast met the press just yesterday and you can check out photos from the special performance preview below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMJeffrey Cirio and Misa Kuranaga, the perfect couple.To turn from Boston Ballet's "All Kylián" program of two weeks ago to the lush embrace of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is to ex…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:18PMTony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Broadway's MOTOWN THE MUSICAL performed live on Good Morning America this morning from the heart of Times Square. Check out the fu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMThe Geffen Playhouse announces nine plays for the 20132014 season three world premieresadaptations, three West Coast premieres and two productions of familiar works from Pulitzer or Nobel Pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMDying to get a ticket to the new hit Motown the Musical? All you’ve got to do is turn on your TV! In a new sneak preview on Good Morning America, the cast of the soulful new tuner (led…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PMProducing theater isn't easy. Solo producing is even harder. But such is the task the redoubtable Hershey Felder has set for himself at the Royal George Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMKERRY REID reviews "Dawn, Quixote" at the Building Stage ★★★½ and "The Night of the Iguana" at The Artistic Home ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Dawn, Quixote" …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMRob McClure is heading to Vegas! McClure will join previously announced star Tony Danza in the world premiere of Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman’s new musical comedy Ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PMStuart Hughes (photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)True West is Strangely Directionlessby Christian BainesSam Shepard’s furious tale of brotherly feuding isn’t the easiest play to pull off. But s…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:07PM
Reviewed by: Russell Goeltenbodt Chicago’s “Broadway in Chicago’s” 2013 musical theater season is proving to be exciting is creating wonderful theater experiences for Chicago aud…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:56PMThe Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles will produce three world premieres, three West Coast premieres, the return of Donald Margulies' Coney Island Christmas and the classic thriller Wait U…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMIt is 2 in the afternoon on a Friday in the south of France, and Pablo Picasso is taking a bath. He uses an oven mitt as a washcloth. He smiles at us. He cheerily pontificates.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:49PMBROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ... Even as the U.S. Supreme Court debates what is marriage, the se…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMOpening next weekend at the Lillian Theatre – previews start tonight – is a play from an exciting New York theater company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. READ ALL ABOUT IT! He…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:41PMA host of Broadway favorites, including Tony Award winners Laura Benanti (Gypsy), Donna Murphy (Into the Woods), James Naughton (Chicago), and Leslie Uggams (On Golden Pond), as well as nomi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMWhat’s in a new pope’s name? The recent election of Pope Francis is prompting a flurry of showbiz opportunities.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:38PMHere are some of the familiar Broadway faces appearing in prime time tonight Thursday, April 4, 2013
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMFilm critic Roger Ebert was not only the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, but one of the only critics known to the general public, thanks to his long-running movie review shows suc…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PMWe love the idea of a play based on a biblical tale and performed in an original Shakespearean actors’ church, and if you do too we have just the competition for you: win a pair of ticket…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:36PMWorks by Enda Walsh and Caridad Svich on tap at Frank Theatre and Mixed Blood.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:31PMWith the 2012-13 Broadway season coming to a close this month (April 25 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 67th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a four-part look at the curr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMA passion for outsider art has guided Tom Hazelmyer, punk rocker turned bar owner turned printmaker.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:29PMA bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars are aligning at Carnegie Hall! Stephanie J. Block, Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Nick Adams, Leslie Uggams, Megan Hilty and more h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director announced that tickets are now available for the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMBROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub 512 West 42nd Street, NYC. As the weathe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMMaltz Jupiter Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse join forces to offer a co-production of the Tony-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. The show begins at Paper Mill April 10 for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMThis summer, New York City Center Encores! will be launching Off-Center, a series of performances that features some of off-Broadway's most seminal musicals, presented by some of Broadway's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMNews of Broadway fave Aaron Tveit and Game of Thrones fun gobbled up four of the 10 slots in this week's list of most-read stories on Broadway.com. In case you missed any of our exclusiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMMichael Healey’s The Drawer Boy will get a run at off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, beginning performances on April 19 and running through June 16. The official opening night is set…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMThe SoHo Playhouse and its artistic director Darren Lee Cole announced April 4 the addition of The Drawer Boy to the theatre’s Off-Broadway lineup.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMOn this date 42 years ago, Stephen Sondheim's Follies premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMThe Humana Festival of New American Plays is a major event in the theater world. More than 400 plays by some of the world's top playwrights have made their world premieres there since Actors…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:00PM
On April 28 at 930pm, Krysta Rodriguez Smash, The Addams Family, Lindsay Mendez Dogfight, 35mm A Musical Exhibition, and Barbara Walsh Company will join bright new composer and lyricist team…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMReeve Carney took a night off from superhero duty to indulge in an evening of drag-tastic fun. The actor/singer, who has starred in Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark since its i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMUnfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Tony Award® nominee Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Broadway’s MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL performed live on “Good Morning America�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:58PMWhen NBC confirmed the news “The Tonight Show” changeover in 2014, Broadway ears perked up. For legit publicists, the cross-country move could be a boon: The opportunity to promote Main …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMIn 1987, SDCF and the Dramatists Guild jointly held a panel discussion exploring the symbiotic and complex relationship between playwright and director. Peter Stone moderates a panel of Play…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMBroadway has a new crowd- pleasing musical: Kinky Boots, a generously entertaining collaboration between Broadway veteran Harvey Fierstein, who wrote the book, and Cyndi Lauper -- yes, …
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 02:46PMAmas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Company will present the Tony Award-winning musical Hello, Dolly!, featuring a cast of young performers from the Amas Teen Academy,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMThe 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 02:42PMOff-Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater dips its toe in LA theatrical waters with a revised production of Daniel Talbott's Slipping, which played at Rattlestick in 2009. Talbott is …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:42PMBroadway stars of today will celebrate three Broadway icons of yesteryear — namely, songwriters Frank Loesser and Jule Styne and actor Danny Kaye — at the April 29 gala performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMNew York City Center is going off-Broadway this summer with the launch of Encores! Off-Center, a new series that will bring together current artists and groundbreaking musicals. This su…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMNew York City Center goes Off-Broadway this summer with the launch of Encores Off-Center, a new series featuring seminal Off-Broadway musicals filtered through the lens of today's most innov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMUkrainian dancer fails to turn up for rehearsals for London ballet version of Midnight Express Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PMUkrainian dancer fails to turn up for rehearsals for London ballet version of Midnight ExpressSergei Polunin, the Ukrainian who shocked the dance world by walking out of the Royal Ballet las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PM(Photo by Alissa Moore. Pictured: Anthem Salgado) The following video was taken at the Audience (R)Evolution Learning Convening from February 20-22 in Philadelphia. Below you may find the …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:15PMEveryone, whether a 'Jekkie' or not, has a special JEKYLL amp HYDE moment. Maybe it's when you first caught the show, rocked out to the cast album, or even that time when you felt particular…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PM Jerry Scott was a mainstay in the cabaret community for over 40 years as a singer/pianist. It is with great sadness to report that he died peacefully at 1:00 a.m. on April 4 at Calvar…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:07PMBroadway’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 02:06PMChicago’s Jenn Dunne tells us about her most important beauty product.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:04PMNew York City Center has announced that Tony Award-nominated composer Jeanine Tesori will serve as artistic director for Encores! Off-Center, a new production series celebrating Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMMatthew Lopez's The Whipping Man sees a wounded Confederate soldier and two of his former slaves scraping together a makeshift Passover seder just a day or two after the Civil War.
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 02:01PMNew York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the Los Angeles premiere of Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, which begins previews April 4 at Elephant Stages' Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Even the blackest storm clouds can have a silver lining of hope and amid the dark tempestuous drama a gleaming beacon of light pierces this tragic story as Iron Crow Theatre Company presents…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMKinky Boots, the new musical that brings together four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy® Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), officially ope…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:53PMCinderella stars Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana welcomed two-Tony winner Cherry Jones and 80s A-lister Rebecca De Mornay to the Broadway Theatre on April 3. Mornay and Jones (visiting …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMEveryday Ways from Works Progress on Vimeo. After meeting Mankwe Ndosi for the first time, we knew that our process for creating this video would be different than the others in the s…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 01:46PMBROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub 512 West 42nd Street, NYC.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMProducers have announced a "$30 Under 30" rush ticket policy for the new one-man Broadway production of Macbeth starring Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, which begins Broadway previ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMThe latest edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips will be presented May 5 at 9 PM at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PM Written by Linda Amiel Burns Sandi Durell and Shari Upbin’s Sharell Productions have been producing and booking Broadway Live! and Hollywood Live! (originally named Timele…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:30PMMidsummer Night's Dream is a long-time favorite of Shakespeare's plays. It has been done by actors, dancers, and musicians alike. Now the Casper College Department of Theatre and Dance has t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMThe National Tour of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, will star original Broadway cast members ALICIA HALL MORAN as Bess and NATHANIEL S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMNEW YORK — Mikhail Baryshnikov is dancing. He is 65. And so, as a friend asked when I told him the news, what is there to see? Well. A great joyous appetite, for starters. The former balle…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:26PMLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's iconic National Theatre rises out of the brackish swamps of Lagos near its islands, a massive concrete and marble structure resembling a military officer's …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PMMarin Theatre Company (MTC) has announced their 2013-2014 season lineup, which will feature six productions in the company's Boyer Theatre. Opening the season is the regional premiere of Pul…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMAlicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been revealed as the stars of the upcoming national tour of “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.” Both actors were involved in the Broadway rev…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:21PMBlue Elephant, London: The original text of You and Me was about a husband and wife ageing together in a relationship of Becketian absurdity.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PMCleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for April 5-11
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:19PMMr. O’Shea was an Irish actor known for his roles in films like “Ulysses,” “Barbarella” and “The Verdict” and plays like “Staircase” and “Mass Appeal.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14PMTLC today announces that it has commissioned the two-hour film LETTERS TO JACKIE REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY, executive produced by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bill Couturi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMSoho theatre, LondonFifty-eight-year-old Eric Argyle is one of the quiet ones. His grave mistake was to try to save time by crossing the road without looking. Now he is dead and the cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMTickets are now available for the forthcoming production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd. The production will begin previews at off-Broadway&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PMBroadway’s hunkiest men will cast off their costumes for Broadway Bares: Solo Strips, a burlesque benefit that will play XL Nightclub on May 5 for one night only. Tony Spinosa will dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PMAt Lantern, it's all done with spitfire delivery that comes at you head-on – even comic scenes with the rascally brawler Pistol (Jake Blouch) are delivered with ferocity. And in the end, t…
SOURCE: NewsWorks at 01:03PMI'm going to go out on a limb and say that over the last nights, Bristol Riverside Theatre's large-scale production (two dozen cast members and a 12-piece orchestra) of "The Pirates of Penza…
SOURCE: NewsWorks at 01:00PMThe complete cast has been announced for Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Previews begin at the off-Broadway theater on May 3. D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PM
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will present a new production of Bertolt Brecht's THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMOctagon, BoltonDavid Thacker has unfinished business with The Glass Menagerie. In 1981, he was due to direct the play with the Hollywood star Gloria Grahame playing the role of Ama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMBROADWAY BARES returns again to its roots as the 2013 BARES season continues with BROADWAY BARES: SOLO STRIPS at 9 pm on Sunday, May 5 at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street, NYC). As the wea…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:52PMMARY T. & LIZZY K. EXTENDS THROUGH MAY 5 AT ARENA STAGE WITH SIX ADDED PERFORMANCES Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due to popular demand, the worl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PMBroadway's long-running hit The Phantom of the Opera was honored April 3 with the unveiling of a portrait that will adorn the Broadway Wall of Fame at Tony's di Napoli Restaurant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMOne State Together in the ArtsJune 24-25, 2013Quad Cities, ILConvened every other year by Arts Alliance Illinois and the Illinois Arts Council Agency, One State Together in the Arts is the o…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:48PMThe latest edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips will be presented May 5 at 9 PM at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMCATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event that blows through Brooklyn every couple of months. CATCH is curated by Jeff Larson, An…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:47PMTwo things we love here at BroadwayWorld Jr. Broadway shows for families and the development of terrific new public schools in New York City. Here's your opportunity to be a part of both. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMLast week in this post we looked at THE STORY OF MY LIFE, the beautiful and highly produceable two person musical about two best friends. I had the opportunity to talk with another pair of f…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:40PMUPDATED: The Classic Stage Company has released complete casting for its upcoming off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle. Joining the previously announced Christophe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMRose theatre, KingstonTen years ago Richard Bean wrote this black comedy about a drug-dealing family living in leafy suburbia for Live Theatre Newcastle. Now it has been relocated to Kingsto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMAudience-building is the name of the game for all arts institutions, from the most established brick-and-mortar operations with multi-million-dollar budgets, to tiny itinerant troupes whose …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:34PMFaye Castelow excels as Ruth Ellis in this atmospheric drama about the last woman to be hanged in Britain, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:32PMTony Award nominees Mary Testa and Elizabeth A. Davis have joined the Classic Stage Company production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd, which w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMSergei Polunin, who shocked the dance world when he quit the Royal Ballet last year, has pulled out of a new show leaving some of those involved fearing for his welfare.
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:29PMThree years before his breakthrough movie, Jim Carrey was a remarkable standup, displaying his originality and his brilliance at making a physical spectacle of himself Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMRiley, NSCD campus, Leeds: Any showcase performance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance is a refreshing and stimulating experience. Always there is the temptation to compare the per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PMArtists Rep will present the West Coast premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's new play, Ten Chimneys, this April. Incoming Artistic Director Dámaso Rodriguez makes his directorial debut at Artists …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PMThe BBC has appointed Louise Rainbow as the new executive producer of Strictly Come Dancing. Rainbow, who was most recently the executive producer of Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, replaces…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMIt’s back to school for Nathan Lane and Norbert Leo Butz! The two Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winners unite on the big screen as the drama teacher and vice principal of a Pennsy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMTHIS MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013 AT 7 PM Shugoll Research Presents: ARTSPEAK With: Jennifer Damiano and Adam Chanler-Berat When: THIS Monday, April 8th, 2013, at 7:00 P.M. Where: Paint Branch HS-1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PMNew, Exeter: Fizzing like champagne this elegant and entertaining production perfectly captures the period's style and formality in Brandon Thomas's well-loved play. Director Amand…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMWith summer not so far away, Miami's City Theatre is gearing up for its annual Summer Shorts festival June 6-30 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and for a rich week of…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:08PMProducer Ken Davenport has announced details for the '30 Under 30' rush ticket program for the upcoming Broadway engagement of MACBETH, starring Tony and Olivier Award winner and two-time Em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMThis week's A.P.T. is the wonderful Mary Dimino. A few years back I had the absolute pleasure of working with Mary on her show Sacred Skinny in the Fringe festival and we have since stayed i…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:03PMBarbra Streisand’s vast underground display of collectibles makes a delicious target for satire in Jonathan Tolins’s “Buyer & Cellar,” a one-man show starring Michael Urie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PMSure, baseball is the main attraction. But there's plenty to do (and eat) while you're at Busch Stadium.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
Faye Castelow as Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis inhabited the seedier parts of London’s glamorous nightclubs. Supposedly groomed into the role of nightclub hostess by the Profumo-pimp Stephen W…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:54AMThe Olivier-nominated West End musical The Bodyguard welcomes 13 year-old Joshua-James Thomas and 12 year-old Michael Matias to the cast as Fletcher, the young son of Tony winner Heathe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMNikolai and the Others, the world-premiere play from Richard Nelson that imagines a weekend shared by Russian artists George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Nikolai Nabokov and more, begins Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMLMNOP, the new musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get a full production this summer at Goodspeed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMTickets are now on sale for Transport Group's The Memory Show, a new musical starring Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox. The off-Broadway two-hander will begin preview performances o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMVineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. will produce the world-premiere of the musical THE LANDING this fall, with music by the Tony Award-winning composer John Kander and book and lyrics by Greg Pie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMMarch came in like a lion, with five big Broadway openings (Ann, Cinderella, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Hands on a Hardbody), countless off-Broadway ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMRattlestick 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 11:37AMAge & Hometown: 31; Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Current Role: Breaking down opposite Tom Hanks as Abner Louima—a Haitian immigrant whose brutal assault by police earned national attenti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMThe 2013 Boston Pops season, May 8-June 15, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, will present a season-long tribute to the world of movie music, along with programs featuring a wide variet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMMarilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below f…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:30AMVeterans of the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Alicia Hall Moran and Nathaniel Stampley have been selected to star in the show's national tour when it kicks off this fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMCyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s Kinky Boots stomps onto Broadway on April 4, packing plenty of laughs, heart and the showstopping drag troupe The Angels. The new musical stars Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMAustralian musical star Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut as Liza Minnelli in Liza (on an E), running at the Vaudeville Theatre from May 14 through May 18.
The show will “d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMToday in 1971, Follies opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 522 performances. Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMWicked welcomed its five millionth theatregoer to the West End's Apollo Victoria Theatre over the Easter bank holiday weekend. Stewart Lyons, together with his partner Cristina Kan…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:08AMYesterday, April 3, Tony's di Napoli Restaurant Times Square presented the addition of a new portrait to their Broadway Wall of Fame, honoring the stars and cast of the legendary Broadway mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare in 90 Minutes is one thing, while the Complete Works of William Shakespeare in one weekend is entirely another. But that is exactly what Company’s…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:03AMTen years ago I had an idea for a show. I knew what the concept would be. And I knew who the characters would be. And that’s about it. I put about 20 actors in a room and met onc…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Paper Mill Playhouse will present Thoroughly Modern Millie, winner of the 2002 Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Musical. This effervescent musical romp will feature Ashley Kate Adams Miss …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMStephen Sondheim and James Goldman's landmark musical Follies premiered on Broadway April 4, 1971, at the Winter Garden Theatre, with a cast including Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith, John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater's Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long present the world premiere of Buyer amp Cellar, written by Jonathan Tolins, directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMOne day closer and the clock continues to tick down towards our first public performance! Tech is in full swing, and the show is really starting to come together. Of course after several…
SOURCE: The Associate Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMAlison Fraser stars in the Off-Broadway production of Wendy Beckett's new play, Love Therapy, which will begin previews at the DR2 Theatre April 20 prior to an official opening April 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMPhilly Shakespeare's production blends comedy with darker themes in this exuberant, joyous production.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:43AMHello and welcome again to Vaudephone, your one stop shopping for all the best contemporary variety acts! Today we feature the terrific Noah Diamond, a show biz Renaissance man: vaudeville …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AMThe Vineyard Theatre announced that it will present the world premieres of Nicky Silver's new play, Too Much Sun, and the new John Kander and Greg Pierce musical, The Landing, as part of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMTim and Charlie's Farewell Tour, an evening celebrating the composer and lyricist team Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, will be presented April 28 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMToday is the birthday of Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955). A colleague of Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker at Vanity Fair, he was one of the founding members of the informal club of wits kn…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:28AMSinger Sarah Brightman, who created the role of Christine in the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, will release her 11th studio album, "Dreamchaser," Apr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) is officially critically acclaimed. On Monday, May 13, the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) will present the liv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMToday we are talking to the originator of Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES onstage and a preeminent Phantom and the first to actually play the role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA who has clearly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMBroadway is about to get a whole lot kinkier Kinky Boots, from four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein book, Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics, Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMDavid Byrne, the frontman of Talking Heads, creates a disco evocation of the world of Imelda Marcos for a Public Theater stage in “Here Lies Love.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMSt. Louis native Chris Redd is part of the fun.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) launched their 2013 Creative Development Series last week announcing the involvement of some of Queensland’s shining stars of the stage. Celebrated actress…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:57AMDon't miss the all-new, all-American musical that just drove onto Broadway, HANDS ON A HARDBODY. Inspired by true events, and infused with a 'fresh roots-rock vibe' The New York Times, this …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMCarvajal plays Nicola, the fiancee of Charlie (American Idiot's Stark Sands), who's torn between an exciting new life in London with Nicola and one in Northampton, where he has the chance to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50AMToday is the birthday of McKinley Morganfield (1913-1983). Performing and recording as Muddy Waters, Morganfield was perhaps the most influential Chicago bluesman of all time, largely throug…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AMThe Boston Pops 2013 Season, under the baton of conductor Keith Lockhart, will feature performances from several Broadway favorites as well as a tribute to the late Tony and Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMOff-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre will present the world premieres of Nicky Silver's new play, Too Much Sun, and the new John Kander-Greg Pierce musical, The Landing, as part of its 2013-2014 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:35AM"Ann" boasts an amazing performance by Holland Taylor. "Wall" well meaning but unsatisfying.
Both reviews appear in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 09:31AMFrom April 5th to May 12th, Compass Rose Theater ushers in the spring with a fully professional production of Lee Blessing’s glorious and life-affirming play, Eleemosynary. On a stage fil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMOff-Broadway's award-winning Vineyard Theatre has announced two of its mainstage productions for the 2013-14 season: the world premiere of the new John Kander and Greg Pierce musical The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMTraverse, Edinburgh: Powerful and spellbinding, Rob Drummond's new play for the Traverse looks and feels exactly as it should - a beautifully defined retro-TV quiz show land. It is a sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMAustralian musical star and impersonator Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut next month, channelling the iconic Liza Minnelli in Liza (on an E), which will run for six performances on…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AMDigital Theatre, sponsor of the Whatsonstage.com Awards, has announced its latest production released for download: last summer's acclaimed West End revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Jo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AMClifford Odets' The Big Knife is the story of Charlie Castle (Bobby Cannavale), a dynamic stage actor who has become a Hollywood star at the expense of his art, his values and his marriage. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AMSynetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble Storms Into Spring With The Taming of the Shrew Synetic 2012 comedy hit is back! The Synetic Teen Ensemble will remount Synetic’s “Sile…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMMost college seniors are confused about their life path, but not Jacob Porter. He's been mentored by legendary Broadway producer/director Hal Prince and record producer Kurt Deutsch, and int…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTonight marks the official Broadway opening of the fabulously dragified musical Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Featuring a score by Grammy Award-winning pop star Cyndi Lauper and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMNew York theater institutions don't come much feistier or more dynamic than Elaine Stritch. The tart-tongued, 88-year-old force of nature -- whose stage career includes memorable collaborati…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Hey, guys! We're back with another contest to win free tickets-- this time, it's to see The Memory Show, a musical by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler that will be playing at The Duke on 42nd fro…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:52AMAustralian musical theatre star Trevor Ashley will make his West End debut in Liza (on an E), in which he, of course, impersonates Liza Minnelli. The show will begin a six-performance run Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AMUsually, acting and performing are escapes for Betsy Wolfe, but with "The Last Five Years" she is experiencing something new.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:44AMOriginally posted on 18 February 2011.
Though he wrote more extensively about it in his English Drama Since 1940, David Ian Rabey first suggested a “New Expressionism” as one of…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AMQueuing for theatre tickets, or day seats for sold-out shows, doesn't have to be a chore. Some people actually enjoy itI'd rather stab myself in the eye than queue outside a shop for the Box…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMThe latest play from Tony winner Richard Nelson, Nikolai and the Others, begins performances at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on April 4. The off-Broadway pre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:17AMThe crowd-pleasing new Broadway musical Kinky Boots, starring Billy Porter and Stark Sands, officially opens at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4. Kinky Boots features music and lyrics by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:16AMSt. Louis Browns exhibit features 200 photographs, jerseys and artifacts
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:15AMBroadhurst Theatre, Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A first-rate production of a love letter to journalism.
Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a highly likeable production. The late …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:09AMColm Toibin describes how he tried to recognize the humanity as well as the exalted status of Jesus’ mother in his play “The Testament of Mary.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
The 2013 theater award season began with the announcement on April 3 of the nominees for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Off-Broadway. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Redgrave rece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57AMSoho Theatre will present a new season of political productions this summer that will include a stage adaptation of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s novella Address Unknown, which was originall…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMJames Ward, who has died in Nanyuki Cottage Hospital in Kenya, was for 35 years an actor and director at the Donovan Maule Theatre in Nairobi and later at the Phoenix Theatre. When that, too…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMNew Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: While staff and cast at the North Staffordshire theatre in-the-round prepare for their next homegrown production, the New Vic has struck gold with this timeles…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMThe Robinsons - the clan at the heart of Richard Bean's latest, intermittently uproarious new play - are to drug-dealing, money-laundering and protection-racketeering in Petersham what the v…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:29AMLinbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: David Bruce's family opera is based on Philip Pullman's fairy tale novel via Glyn Maxwell's libretto. One of the co-commissioners of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMartyn Rose has been made the new chairman of English National Opera. He will take up his new position from May 1, when Ffion Hague and Glyn Barker, who currently share the role, will step...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMHalfway through “Detroit,” Lisa D’Amour’s funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named Sharon explains that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16AMThe main character of “The Whale” is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11AMMonks from China’s Shaolin Temple stand perched on tall wooden boxes. Swaying from side to side, they rock the crates until they fall, leaping free at the last moment. Famous for their war…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:08AMRose, Kingston-upon-Thames: A domestic comedy about a family of murdering drug dealers might seem like a tall order but the resourceful Richard Bean is nothing if not ambitious.
Read the ful…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMHoudini’s Wikipedia page provides more excitement about his showmanship than this play.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:05AMFinborough, London: The way we treat our elderly is an increasingly pressing question so the Finborough Theatre's revival of Stewart Conn's I Didn't Always Live Here is a pert…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMIt’s hard not to feel a little bit grubby after watching Amanda Whittington’s play about the last woman in England to be hanged: we are invited into her life in such a way as to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star magician Steve Cohen about his hit show "Chamber Magic" which plays every Friday and Saturday at the Waldorf Astoria in New York C…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
Playing a 5,000-year-old poet decrying humanity’s addiction to rage and violence, clothing his warning in a modern retelling of Homer’s epic tale of the Trojan War, this is not your gran…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:41AMRodney Ackland’s Before The Party, a play about a family painfully attempting to maintain their veneer of upper-middle class respectability, was a real hit when it debuted at St. Martin’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMThe first memory which might be stirred by this complicated but ultimately gripping psychothriller about truth and perspective from rising star Rob Drummond is a faded one of evenings watchi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:12AMFor awhile there one of the biggest areas of discussion was about whether arts organizations should be like airlines an adopt dynamic pricing that responded to the demand for the show. I hav…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:09AM
Kinky Boots, the quirky independent British film, has been turned into a splashy Broadway musical with a score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper. Reporter Jeff Lunden takes look.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:17AMKinky Boots, the quirky independent British film, has been turned into a splashy Broadway musical with a score by pop icon Cyndi Lauper. Reporter Jeff Lunden takes look.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:17AMWe adopted a consistent methodology for buying tickets, to compare prices on as close to a like-for-like basis as possible. For the purposes of defining West End theatre, we considered all t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMJonathan Brown, secretary of the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers: “This year’s survey by The Stage appears to show much lower booking fees but I think this will be as a result of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe average extra booking fees being charged on West End theatre tickets have nearly halved in the last year. Additional fees charged after the initial price quoted to customers has fallen f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTickets for the best seats in the West End have risen to more than £80, with the price of the cheapest falling by nearly £1 to an average of £21.07. These are the findings of...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM
Only heaven and producer Whoopi Goldberg know why Sister Act - the 1992 film featuring Goldberg as Deloris Van Cartier, a soul singer who spies a murder committed by her gangster boyfriend a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:32AMCommedia dell’Arte, the 16th century Italian theatrical form, is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only did it give us sketch comedy and Punch and Judy shows, it gave us Carlo Goldoni’s S…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:30AMLeft Field Productions, Neil Berg, Adam Friedson and MSC OPAS at Texas AampM University welcome veteran Broadway actor Marc Kudisch to direct the world premiere project that will close the 4…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLincoln Center Theater previously announced that Betsy Aidem, Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, Anthony Cochrane, Lauren Culpepper, Alvin Epstein, Kathryn Erbe, John Glover, Jennifer B. Grace, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe new comedic musical WILSHIRE, with music and lyrics from singersongwriter Drew Brody and a book by Bobby Goldman 'The Curvy Widow', will receive a New York reading today, April 4th at 3p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNorthampton’s Royal and Derngate has announced James Dacre as its new artistic director. Dacre previously directed the world premiere of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, which beat Jerusale…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AM"The theatre owes us, the workers, nothing. It owes its audience stories and truth, and now we give it careerism...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
In David Harrower’s intense 2007 drama “Blackbird,” Alison Pill played a grown woman seeking out the man (Jeff Daniels) she slept with back when she was 12 to his 40.The past also catc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMWhen shows are inspired by stars, they tend to be either fawning tributes or studies in self-destruction. With Judy Garland alone, just think of Rufus Wainwright’s enamored cover of her Ca…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AM‘it’s not like a cabaret,” gushed Elaine Stritch. “It’s like all my friends in New York got together!” And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her C…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMWhat's not to like about this Rodrigo Moreno photo of Paloma Nuñez for Chile Con Carne? We like the way the photo is split between mad colours on one side and the blonde wig on th…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMThree new one-act plays by acclaimed playwrights Neil LaBute (Reasons to Be Pretty), John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) and Winter Miller (In Darfur) will be presented at the Planet Connections Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBilly Porter stars as an indefatigable drag performer whose broken heel helps mend a broken wing for a foundering shoe-maker, played by Stark Sands, in the new Cyndi Lauper-scored Broadway m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAdam Jacobs stars as the masked legend Zorro in the Alliance Theatre production of the Gipsy Kings-scored Zorro: A New Musical, which has been revised since its 2008 London premiere. The Atl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristiane Noll, most recently seen on Broadway in Chaplin, returns to 54 Below April 4, singing her solo show Gifts, which was seen at the Manhattan nightspot in October 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Rob Ashford, recently represented on Broadway with the revival of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, directs industry readings of the new musical comedy Wilshire April 4-5 at Chelsea …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Riverside Theatre production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer plays the Waxlax Stage in Vero Beach, FL, April 4-14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBergen County resident and playwright Stephen Kaplan is the winner of the ninth annual New Jersey Playwrights Contest for his play Exquisite Potential, which starts performances April 4 unde…
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