Shrek the Musical is this year’s summer show for young audiences, but to view this as a scaled-down version for kids would be a mistake. It’s a full-blown, gorgeously designed production…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:43PMIn honor of the Muny's sold out run of LES MISERABLES, which plays its final performance tonight in St. Louis, Enjolras Bobby Conte Thorton and always-game Valjean Hugh Panaro recorded their…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36PMJust after a run of leadership drama, Sydney’s Squabbalogic is bringing its own political wheeling and dealing to the table in the form of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the punk rock polit…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:36PMOver 200 friends and family members attended the ceremony, including Ferguson's MODERN FAMILY co-stars Ty Burell, Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet, as well as Zachary Quinto, Jerry O'Connell…
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The website for the movie Pina says, "Pina Bausch [was] a legendary dancer and choreographer. Her unique creations transformed the language …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:36PMLincoln Center Theater has announced casting for its upcoming production of Bruce Norris' Domesticated, which will begin previews Oct. 10 at Off-Broadway's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:23PM“A Killing Game” is, at last, dead-on. Those other-centered folks at Dog & Pony D.C. — the company that wants to put you in the actor’s seat — have brought back their disease-m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:22PMTheatreworks USA’s production of “The Civil War” is a musical that gives personal faces to some of the hundreds of thousands of casualties in America’s bloodiest war. &nbs…
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Four Neggings and the Virtualby Edgar Governo@pseudohistorianOff the beaten path, around a corner and down an alley, is the best show I've seen during the Fringe this year.Theatre company Id…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:45PMNew Dances 2013 contains several standout pieces. “It Rains There in the Reverence” is a showcase of strong balances, exquisite extensions and lovely developpés. The dance that follows,…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:35PMThe Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center, NYMF, Off Off Broadway
By Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: Jewish clichés abound in this funny, campy, and …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 05:28PMProducers Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs and Nick Wechsler announced that they have put a creative team in place to turn the hit stripper film ‘Magic M…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:25PMWonders Rattles Skeletons in America’s Closet A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, the new play by Liz Duffy Adams, gets its water from the well Nathaniel Hawthorne used to g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PM
A senior violinist died last week from injuries sustained after falling into the orchestra pit at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:35PMAnd so, how do we to make art in a world that seems obsessed with surface—a surface that is, technologically, and, ironically, about to disappear? The answer for theater, I believe, lies i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:35PMHey, CEC fans This week's featured composer is Drew Gasparini. And we have a summer treat for you two Gasparinis for the price of one Drew and his sister Kasie perform his song 'Two Littl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMRoger Corman's 1960 low-budget cult classic about a nebbishy flower shop employee named Seymour who raises a carnivorous plant, inspired a long-running off-Broadway production with book and …
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Yesterday evening's photos featured a slew of regional productions, including Weekend Theatre's SPAMALOT, Barter Theatre's LES MISERABLES, Broadway Palm's SHREK, Stratford Festival's TOMMY, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMWallace Shawn stars in a revival of his landmark 1996 play about a bourgeois society of intellectuals who fall victim to a totalitarian regime.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:53PMMost people think of theater as being for the benefit of an audience. But, truth be told, a healthy slice of the art is principally for the benefit of the participants and those who love the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMSt James, LondonTwenty years ago, it wasn't hard to find lunchtime theatre. But while the Play, a Pie and a Pint seasons at Oran Mor in Glasgow have become a real creative force for new writ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMAlan Bennett, well known for his Tony Award-winning play The History Boys takes us back to his unique relationship with Miss Shepherd (a tour-de-force by Sally Anderson) in the 1960s. Her …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMif you're a music lover, and especially fond of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Trio in A Minor," rejoice. You're going to hear it all, plus several other of the Maestro's works, performed by live musi…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:24PMPeter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Hello Dolly @ Goodspeed, The Explorers Club @ MTC, Jennifer Westfeldt, The Pirates of Finance @ NYMF and Marry Harry @ NYMF…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 01:14PMFeatured in this week's event was the cast of FKING UP EVERYTHING Lisa Birnbaum, Dawn Cantwell, Katherine Cozumel, Max Crumm, Jason Gotay, Adam Miller, Douglas Widick performing 'Juliana,' '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMShakespeare's Globe, LondonMost theatre falls into familiar categories. This, however, is a piece that gloriously defies definition. It can best be described as a series of short plays by Sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
WHO: Cedar Lake POSITION: Company Manager DESCRIPTION: Cedar Lake is a 16-member dance company, based in Chelsea. Company performs one New York season and tours 15+ weeks per year. Company …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:55AMAnother week is about to begin on the Great White Way, and Broadway.com has done the digging to fill up your calendar with don't-miss events! Up ahead, we’ve got two outrageous off…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMMiller Wright was a mainstay in the entertainment industry as a publicist, his media relations and management firm representing Pulitzer Prize winning writers, Academy Award winning actors,…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:15AMToday in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThe reputation of The Second City improv troupe precedes them. Their list of famous alumni across film, television and stage likely could fill the entire word count of this review, so when t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:00AM
God, I hope Wildwood Summer Theatre gets the recognition they deserve for this production of A Chorus Line! ’God I hope they get it!’ “WST is the only fully independent youth-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMName: Noah BermanHometown: Newton, MAWho do you play in Serious Money: TK, Brian, EnsembleTell us about Serious Money: Serious Money is a biting satire about the deregulation of the internat…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:28AMSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Ask Susan Graham how she reacted when Santa Fe Opera first offered her the title role in Offenbach's "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:21AMTrack: Give it a chance
Album: The Exile, the musical - out-takes Here is a bonus track for the fans. It's an out-take from the Exile concept album recordings. It is the second to last son…
SOURCE: exilemusical.blogspot.com at 10:09AM We’re getting down to the end! A lot of stuff happened this week, so let’s jump right into discussion, shall we? Don’t forget, we’re only discussing thr…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMWalking into the Woolly Mammoth theater Thursday night I received a warm welcome from the cast of A Killing Game. The excitement in the air was tangible as audience members began reading t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:00AMFeatured in this week's event was the cast of SISTAS THE MUSICAL Badia Farha performing 'Tyrone,' 'I Am Not My Hair,' and 'I Will Survaive.' Check out highlights below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM
Matthew Murray takes a look at Marry Harry and Boys Will Be Boys at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52AMThe exceptionally well cast and staged revival of Shaw's most popular play is closing next week. If you don't want to miss having a genuinely " loverly" time, get thee to the main stage of t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:49AMIt’s a pity Witold Lutoslawski’s music isn’t turning up on more orchestral programs in the U.S. this season and next – Benjamin Britten seems to be the centennial birthday boy of cho…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:43AMMore than 100,000 people have no earthly need for what follows, and you know who you are: You’re this year’s happy horde of audience members in DC’s most vibrant, creative, and unconve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28AMSilent theatre may seem like an outlandish concept – how can one tell a story or relate to an audience without words? However, 2011’s surprise movie hit The Artist proved that the very b…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 09:00AM
Today is the birthday of Jesse Donald Knotts (1924-2006). Our big revelation is contained in the photo above. A West Virginia farm boy, Don Knotts began his performing career as a ventriloqu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:50AMToday is the birthday of the legendary Harry Relph, a.k.a. “Little Tich” (1867-1928), star of English music hall and pantomime, and a much loved guest artist in American vaudevil…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:37AMI’ve been traveling throughout the month of July and will spend the next week or two catching up with “The Feminist Spectator.” Much to discuss, including: The Emmy Award n…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 08:19AMFor those who call video games anti-social or who think that only a minority of people, “nerds” play them they are in for a shock when going to a performance of Video Games Live: Bonus R…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
JOE LAURIE, JR. “THE PINT-SIZED COMEDIAN” Remembered today as “the Homer of Vaudeville” because of two important books he wrote on the subject, Laurie is much more important to poste…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AMThe good people at Wild Rumpus Productions should thank the deities of all the varied pantheons they found Manu Kumasi, star of solo comedy Sanka, Ya Dead Mon?. With off-the-chart presence a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMToday is the birthday of the prototypical American stage Irishman, Chancellor “Chauncey” Olcott (1858-1932). Starting out in minstrel shows, he had moved up to Broadway by the tu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:30AMIt has been confirmed that the actress, Briony McRoberts, has been found dead on a tube line near her home in London. She was 56. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. For ten …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMIt is very rare that a theatre piece is able to overcome negative first reactions, but amazingly, Mirabilia is one such show. Presented as the inaugural production of Eclectic Mayhem Product…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AMThere have been many tributes to the comedian, writer and director, Mel Smith, who has died at the age of 60. Rowan Atkinson, who worked with him on the television sketch show, Not the Nine.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMTravel should take you places—so says the tagline of a major hotel chain (and the Brooklyn-based indie band The Kickdrums). In his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, Boston-bas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMEveryone knows that international disputes and jingoistic land grabs are made easier to handle with a pulsating soundtrack. Giving deserved pub and decibels to a quite unappreciated world co…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:00AM
Sunday
Wilde, not Bard The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival performs Oscar Wilde's antic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at 2 p.m. Sunday at DeSales University's Schubert Theater, 27…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:34AMA post-bankruptcy Prince Music Theater is coming into view with a 2013-14 season revealing it as a presenting, rather than producing, entity.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:34AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival NYMF present The Music Box, An Evening of Lady Composers. Recent Tony-nominee Keala Settle Hands on a Hardbody is set to appear and Karen Azenberg Artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Off-Broadway production of Murder Ballad will close today, July 21 at the Union Square Theatre 100 East 17th Street. The show will have played 17 preview performances and 70 regular perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTen Chimneys Foundation announces its 2013 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Master Class with Academy Award nominee, six time Golden Globe winner, and five time Emmy Award winner Alan Alda serving a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAshley Kate Adams La Cage Aux Folles, with aka Studio Productions, will present a one night only NYMF Special Event Concert, Dawn Cantwell WHERE IS SHE NOW Dawn Cantwell amp FRIENDS, tonight…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMEli Zoller and O Pioneer Band will play Joe's Pub today, July 21st at 930 p.m., featuring George Salazar SPRING AWAKENING, Andrew Pandaleon THE CITY CLUB, Victoria Huston-Elem ADDAMS FAMILY,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJonathan Larson Award-winning composer Sam Davis makes his 54 Below debut with a concert of new songs celebrating the release of the original cast album of his hit Off-Broadway musical comed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMary Comerford talks to renowned actor and writer William Gaminara about his new play which is premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17AMBilly, The Monster and Me is so successful the producers ought to be put in charge of sorting out the economy. The play succeeds in entertaining – actually entrancing – the most difficul…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMMy Space has a hell of an opening. Lee (George Oluyinka) bursts onto the stage literally bouncing off the walls in a breathless display of parkour. Sophie Tolan, Lauren Ogden and Kamaran Dar…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMIn the aftermath of a traumatic experience Tess (Alice Brockway who wrote the play) sinks into depression. Well-intentioned friends Evey (Lowri Vivian) and Jay (John Mulleady) ignore her wis…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMWhat could be finer than a perfect summer's evening in the centre of Bristol: blue skies, Mediterranean warmth, a few seagulls cawing overhead and the Bristol Old Vic's latest outdoor show, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AMSqually Showers is the epitome of surreal. Set in the context of a 1980's television studio, the contrastingly futuristic silver and white set of headless mannequins, and shimmering sequins …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:00AM
Raquel Duffy and Damien Atkins; photo by Cylla von TiedemannCELESTIAL PLAYWRITINGWhy over 20 years on, Angels still has wings.by Christian BainesAngels in America seems to have become the go…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, July 20, 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMWith the creative team of the 2014 re-imagined revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables in the midst of auditions, we wondered: Who should play the iconic role of Fant…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column examines the new cast recording of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMurder Ballad, the new musical by Julia Jordon and Juliana Nash, which stars John Ellison Conlee, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Will Swenson and Caissie Levy, plays its final performances at the Unio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSam Davis makes his 54 Below debut July 21 at 7 PM with a concert celebrating the release of the original cast album of his Off-Broadway musical comedy Bunnicula.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLindsay Mendez, who stars as Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked, and music director and jazz pianist Marco Paguia celebrate their debut jazz vocal album, "This Time," July 21 at 6 PM…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSeven weeks after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated"Hello, Dolly!" opened on Broadway and gave America something to sing and cheer about.
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