Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical Shoots Blanks: Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical, in the hands of Susan Stroman is crass and over-produced.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:56PMHow do critics size up "Of Mice and Men"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 11:40PMWhat is The Realistic Joneses About? What is it with shows that make no sense this year?
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:38PMDo critics suggest checking out "The Library"?
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 11:31PM The Outer Critics Circle announced their 64 annual nominees for the 2013-14 season. "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" heads the list with 11 Nominations! Followed b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:31PMBefore she wrote the songs for the astonishing “Fun Home” or collaborated with Tony Kushner on the extraordinary “Caroline, Or Change,” Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for “Violet,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16PMDaniel Radcliffe has appeared naked on stage, but he’s never been as emotionally raw or as steady on his feet as he is now portraying Billy in “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSutton Foster stars in the Broadway premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's 1997 musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00PMThe Flea Theater's Bats perform an epic retelling of the greatest story ever told.
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Having seen it again, I can report that it's every bit as lively, as thoroughly hilarious and as consistently heart-tugging here as it was there, if not that much better for the cast members…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:37PMColumbia’s Red Branch Theatre Company is out to test just how spare and lean a musical can get and still hold an audience in a magical spell. The company’s new staging of the off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PMAudra McDonald. Photo:Evgenia EliseevaAudra McDonald is Incarnation of Billie HolidayBy Lauren YargerIs it possible that Audra McDonald (Showboat, Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Su…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 10:20PMFollowing a sold-out London run, the Michael Grandage production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, officially opened on Broadway April 20 at the C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16PMFollowing a sold-out London run, the Michael Grandage production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, officially opened on Broadway April 20 at the C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16PMOpera Australia and John Frost’s production of The King and I opened in Brisbane over the weekend, marking the professional music theatre debut of many up-and-coming performers. Aussi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:06PMLike many critics, I found the Transport Group production of I Remember Mama to be a touching endeavor. I would...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:05PMDaniel Radcliffe stars in Michael Grandage’s splendid production of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMEarly in the exhilarating musical “Violet,” a backwoods young woman totes a tattered suitcase onto a bus.
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This past season has been lackadaisical for new Broadway musicals, with the best of them--arguably After Midnight, Beautiful and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, in alphabetical ord…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45PMProfiles of playwright Martin McDonagh report how, in 1994, the young Anglo-Irish scribe holed up in his childhood home and cranked out the drafts of seven plays in an incredible nine months…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:33PMBefore audience members at the April 20 opening of Broadway’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” could congratulate Daniel Radcliffe on his performance, they had to get a stupid q…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:17PMSutton Foster takes a trip to beautiful in Violet, but the journey matters more than the destination. Adapted from Doris Betts’s short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim,” Jeanine Tesori and B…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:13PMRoundabout Theatre Company's production of Violet, starring Sutton Foster, Colin Donnell,Alexander Gemignani and Joshua Henry, officially opens tonight at the American Airlines Theatre on Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12PMSutton Foster gives her best Broadway performance in Leigh Silverman's superlative production.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:05PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Some musicals are big and brassy, calling out for attention with their razzle-dazzle and sassy sets. Others are more demure, letting their simple beauty shine. How appro…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Students at a South Carolina public university are snapping up tickets to the musical "Fun Home" after state lawmakers approved a proposed cut in school funding over the c…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:50PMTuesday marks William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, and you can bet it will not go unnoticed in Chicago, or the rest of the world. Here are a few different ways to pay homage to the writer…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:48PMFrederick Weller and Tyne Daly . Photo: Joan Marcus.Thank Goodness Not all Sons Have Mothers Like ThisBy Lauren YargerI have been dreaming of seeing more meaty roles for women on Broadway an…
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 08:33PMTwo-time Tony winner and "Bunheads" star Sutton Foster plays the title role in this 1964-set musical about a disfigured North Carolina farm girl's quest for transformation.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMIn 1961 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off took London theatre by storm. The show, starring and directed by Anthony Newley, who also co-wrote the show with Leslie Bricusse, was a landmark ach…
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"The Cripple of Inishmaan” makes an appealing Broadway transfer, with the "Harry Potter" star as the wounded dreamer of the title.
SOURCE: NBC New York at 07:54PMLittle Joe Cook, who died last week at 91, somehow turned his one Top-40 rock hit, 1957’s “Peanuts,” into the centerpiece of a never-ending Cantab Lounge gig.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50PMIn June, Bangarra Dance Theatre will take the stage at Sydney Opera House for the world premiere of Patyegarang, as it celebrates 25 years of surviving and thriving. Choreographed by Banga…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:36PMSpecial effects don’t get much more special than in Violet, the Brian Crawley–Jeanine Tesori musical that just opened at the American Airlines in a scintillating Roundabout Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PM There was no applause for Daniel Radcliffe when he first enters “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” the first and first-rate Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s harsh 1996 comedy. …
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Serious theatre is so rare these days, with the plethora of glitz, laser shows and, not to mention, the ubiquitous chandeliers and helicopters ...
But, sometimes there is hope.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56PMDuring Saturday's performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a fan called out to Neil Patrick Harris, saying, 'We Love You Neil' Harris reportedly responded angrily with, 'I'm doing somethin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Violet" at the American Airlines Theatre ... You can't help worrying about "Violet." Not just the smart girl with the scar who is at the heart of the tender and haunting li…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMSirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen got together and played The Newlywed Game. The two have been long-time friends but, even so, they have trouble answering questions about each other. W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre ... Daniel Radcliffe's global celebrity wholly disappears ins…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:17PMLily Padilla talks to Superhero Clubhouse's Jeremy Pickard about The Big Green Theater Festival coming up April 26 & 27 at The Bushwick Starr.
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The Michael Grandage Company production ofThe Cripple of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh, starring Daniel Radcliffe and the critically acclaimed West End cast opens today at the Cort Theatre 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMHow fortunate most people would feel if they had Alexandra's troubles. She is 79, a relative youngster in our increasingly geriatric times. She owns a beautiful brownstone in Park Slope and …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:56PMThe weather outside may be delightful, but folks, Autumn has no velocity. It's a magnificent story with a perfectly cast leading lady that should be told in 35 minutes - tops. Th…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:31PMUnending sadness? Jam-packed with laughs? It must be Irish!
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The items in pawn shops always have a story. Whether they have sentimental value to the original owner or are rich in price, they meant something to someone once. But what about the history …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:46PMHEDY WEISS: Stage Left and Theatre Seven present the world premiere of Joe Zarrow’s “Principal Principle,” a story set in a Chicago public school that nails the issues with an ideal mi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:42PMCall Answered: Facetime interview with the cast of Gay Camp!
"Call Me Adam" went downtown to NYC's legendary Duplex Cabaret Theatre to chat with the cast of Gay Camp, the hilarious hit Frin…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 04:39PMCLASSICAL MUSIC Charles Ives Even though Charles Ives died more than a half-century ago, the idiosyncratic, distinctly American music of the modernist composer can still be enigmatic and elu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:34PMBest brush up on your Bible stories and make sure you are well rested before heading out to the Flea Theater and director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s breathtaking and boldly conceived productio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:31PMIn “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” Martin McDonagh’s sublime tragi-comedy about life on Ireland’s desolate Aran Islands, there are two old biddies who desperately dote on…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:30PMDaniel Radcliffe stars in Martin McDonagh's corrosive comedy, set in a tiny Aran Island community in 1934, abuzz with news of a film crew descending on neighboring Inishmore.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:30PMInternational pop superstar and notable THE VOICE judge Christina Aguilera will essay one of the most iconic musical theatre roles of all time byway of her casting in a new Broadway-themed f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMCan you ever believe your ears? In the Michael Grandage Company production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, which just opened at the Cort following a London run last year, the answer would seem …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMIn honor of VIOLET's opening on Broadway tonight, BroadwayWorld is highlighting Tony Award-winning actress Sutton Foster's body of work
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Name: Sarah M. WhiteHometown: Cincinnati, OHEducation: BFA in Musical Theatre from Ball State University (Magna Cum Laude)Who do you play in The Mysteries?: an AngelTell us about The Mysteri…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:48AMThe Michael Grandage Company production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, by Martin McDonagh, starring Daniel Radcliffe and the critically acclaimed West End cast opens today at the Cort Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMRoundabout Theatre Company's production of Violet, starring Sutton Foster, Colin Donnell, Alexander Gemignani and Joshua Henry, officially opens tonight at the American Airlines Theatre on B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMJohn Hubley was a dominant force in bringing animation out of the studio system and onto the drawing boards of individual artists . His life story is also an entryway into the social histor…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:00AMDiana Damrau is sensational as Violetta at The Royal Opera
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By Kelly Miller. There is a community and artistic engagement revolution happening at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California right now. And it’s being led by our playwrights. Jos�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:55AMHarry Potter no longer, Daniel Radcliffe spends considerable time devoted to the stage. His latest Broadway role is in the Cripple of Inishmaan, a dark comedy about an isolated Irish communi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36AMHarry Potter no longer, Daniel Radcliffe spends considerable time devoted to the stage. His latest Broadway role is in the Cripple of Inishmaan, a dark comedy about an isolated Irish communi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36AMThere have been a ton of random times when a Broadway Baby has become a Broadway Bunny for a role. The range goes from Harvey Fierstein to Bette Midler and a ton of others. What better w…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 10:34AMThe Tower
Off Off Broadway, Standard Toykraft, AntiMatter Collective
Reviewed by Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A strange and psychedelic retelling of the events of the Donner Party.
In a Taro…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:23AMJennifer K. Hugus of The Los Angeles Beat has an interesting “reviewing” style, sort of a “first person eye witness account” of the show she’s seen. Sometimes s…
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SOURCE: NewYork.com at 10:00AMIn the video below, the writers of MURDER FOR TWO play one of the songs they so totally, absolutely wrote from the new Broadway hit, Violet Check it out below
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Today is the anniversary of the release date of one of the funniest comedies of all time, the silent Laurel and Hardy short Big Business (1929). In Big Business the pair are a couple …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AM Today is the anniversary of the release date of Harold Lloyd’s hilarious 1924 classic Girl Shy. In my opinion, Girl Shy has one of the best climaxes of any Hollywood m…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:34AMToday is the birthday of motion picture pioneer Sigmund Lubin (Siegmund Lubszynski, 1851-1923). originally an optometrist, he invented his own version of the movie camera/ projector apparatu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:29AMArts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!?!” Spring Fling Friday, April 4! Improv troupe rounds out its out-of-control successful 3-show season with a Spring Themed Improv Show featuring …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AM Today is the birthday of Sidney Lanfield (1898-1972). Lanfield was a jazz musician and comedian in vaudeville before being hired as a gag writer for silent comedies by the Fox Film Corpor…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:04AMWhat I love most about this review is that although Rose clearly was not thrilled with this show, her review actually makes me want to go and see it. TASTE Rose Desena – The Los Angele…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 09:00AMWelcome to BWW's exclusive talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH Richard Ridge. Follow Richard as he visits the theater's best and brightest in their dressing rooms, on their stages and favorite hang ou…
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After making us squeal with delight earlier this month by singing 'Seasons of Love', the cast of IFTHEN has blown our minds again, this time with Idina Menzel singing 'Take Me or Leave Me' w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMThe Marriage of Figaro is the finest production of any play that I have seen in New Jersey this entire season.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44AM By: Sandi Durell In Red Bull Theater Company’s current revival of The Mystery of Irma Vep, at the Lucille Lortel Theare, ridiculousness rules in..…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:33AM Today marks the 100 anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy Twenty Minutes of Love. This one is notable for being the first movie Charlie had a hand in directing. A…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AMDid Shakespeare write fearless black comedy Arden of Faversham?
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:30AMEverything has come up all aces for the Paper Mill Playhouse and its fresh as a daisy new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26AMTobacco Factory, BristolAndrew Hilton's unaffected revival of the Tom Stoppard play brings out the human side to counterbalance its many dancing ideasTwenty-one years young, Tom Stoppard's d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMUNEXPECTED STAGE COMPANY LAUNCHES MILESTONE SEASON WITH IMPROV FEST ON MAY 3rd 5th season to feature Kooman and Dimond’s touching musical Dani Girl and Marc Goldsmith’s award-winning co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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A brand new stage musical based on the super-successful long-running Japanese anime series SAILOR MOON is set to premiere later this year in Tokyo according to a new post on the official sit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMFollowing the success of the last auction, Tony Award-winning Broadway superstar Alice Ripley has kicked off yet another online auction featuring a wide range of intriguing musical theatre m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMJeanine Tesori's soulful musical about a girl with a facial scar makes it to the main stem.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMThe Harry Potter star reprises his performance in Michael Grandage's West End production of the dark comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMA group of young adults prepares to perform a play about their lives. The remarkable, stirring and sometimes disturbing narrative is their collective story. John Mulholland spends 12 weeks w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThe show stopping Gangster Tap “Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do” is headed by the real star of the show Nick Cordero as Cheech
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Thirty Years and Beyond Greeks and RomansWe're not always in a theatre, we're not always outside, it really depends on what the story demands.by Lisa McKeown@lisammckeownAdrian Proszowski ha…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMWhen tickets weren’t available for the show I was planning to see, I took a punt on former rapper Doc Brown in Of Mic and Men on the strength of his 2014 MICF gala spot. For a show promis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMOld Globe Theatre's artistic director Barry Edelstein talks with Playbill.com about presenting works by William Shakespeare and bringing them to the West Coast's Old Globe.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly recap of its coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights in case they were missed the first time around.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKristin Chenoweth, a Tony Award winner for her performance in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, recently announced on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" that she will be ret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhere the principals of the Broadway musical Violet pursued their college studies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column discusses the cast recordings of A Gentleman's Guide, Les Misérables, Murder for Two, Privates on Parade and Billy Porter's solo CD "Billy's Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Violet, starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, officially opens at the American Airlines Theatre April 20 followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Flea Theater's world-premiere production of The Mysteries, a radical retelling of the Bible written by 48 playwrights, including David Henry Hwang and Billy Porter, officially opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a sold-out London run, the Michael Grandage production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, officially opens on Broadway April 20 at the Co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"In My Dreams," a new Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, makes its premiere April 20 at 9 PM ET on ABC; check local listings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWell whaddya know? The weather is actually resembles something close to spring! So bask in the sunshine and see what New York City has to offer before the next blizzard arrives. There is ple…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMLet Sutton Foster sing! The Roundabout production of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet opens officially on April 20, directed by Leigh Silverman.
To celebrate, Broadway.com …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMMartin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan officially opens at the Cort Theatre on April 20, with Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Daniel Radcliffe front and center.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMFor nearly 40 years, Meryl Streep has been making her mark on stage, screen and television, becoming a familiar presence in our entertainment lives. But how much do you really know about the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Saturday, April 19, 2014.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMActress Talks About Where She Got Her Start On The Eve Before Receiving Monte Cristo Award Before her three Oscars and 18 nominations, before her Emmys, medals, honorary degrees and lifetime…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM"While open to exploration, the choreographer is aware of the essence of her style, an approach deeply informed by martial arts and the classical Chinese dance of her early upbringing..." A.…
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 12:00AM" 'Where are the black swans?' You know, that question. Diversity in ballet? Dance Theatre is important. Even now in 2014, Dance Theatre is largely the only predominately African-Ame…
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