Olney Theatre Center has just announced an extended run for its holiday production of The King and I. Keith Loria talks with two of the reasons why audiences have so embraced this musical: P…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s sumptuous and skillful production of Annie resembles that strange holiday gift that you’re not quite sure how to react to. It’s beautifully wrapped and artf…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 11:45AMFilm actor, writer, producer, director and Rocky the musical co-book writer Sylvester Stallone is adding a new credit to his resume: London theater star! He’ll be taking the stage at C…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMJeff Blumenkrantz and Brett Ryback play homage to Agatha Christie, Clue and more in the musical comedy Murder For Two—how much do they really know about murder mysteries? Broadway…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMVanessa Aspillaga chats with Broadway.com about Bruce Norris' darkly funny play Domesticated and what it’s like to work with Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf.
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMHow do you solve a problem like being the third place network? Rodgers and Hammerstein, of course! NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound of Music, starring Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moy…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:45AMThe 52nd Street Project currently presents Apples and Oranges, The Incomparable Plays. Part of its 2013 Fall Playmaking Shows, the production features the Project's ten-year-old particip…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMFurther casting has been announced for the U.K. premiere of the Broadway musical Urinetown, beginning performances Feb. 22, 2014, prior to an official opening March 11 at the St. James Theat…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMNBC's Dec. 5 broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, the $9 million television event starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald and more, was an unprecedented ratings boon f…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMThree-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, who was recently acclaimed for her performance in A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair, a collaboration between Tony-winning composer-lyricist …
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMRodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical The Sound of Music returned to the screen in a new live television adaptation starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald, Laura Be…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMThe New York Theatre Workshop world premiere of What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, helmed by Tony Award-nominated Once choreographer Steven Hoggett and co-conceived by actor-musi…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMTony winner Sir Ian McKellen, who is currently performing in repertory productions of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land on Broadway, appeared on "The Daily Show" Dec. 2.
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMWhat does it take to write, create or star in a Broadway musical? Especially one that is broadcast live on network TV? Hard work, talent, luck—all backed up by a good education. You ha…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMThe New York Theatre Workshop world premiere of What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, helmed by Tony Award-nominated Once choreographer Steven Hoggett and co-conceived by actor-musi…
Linked From Playbill at 11:44AMTen years ago, Burt Bacharach sat through a performance of “The Look of Love,” a revue featuring songs he wrote with lyricist Hal David. He was flanked by two friends,...
Linked From nypost.com at 11:44AMIn The Pride is Back, the hectoring American standup proves that snideness and sarcasm are often the highest forms of witReading on mobile? Click here to view videoTitle: The Pride is BackYe…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:44AMI attended Blogger Night at Lincoln Center Theatre's Macbeth on Tuesday. We were wine and dined by 'wichcraft and swagged with wooden spoons engraved with the production logo and the q…
Linked From Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 11:16AMYou know your show is a phenom when Funny or Die makes fun of it. Check out this awesome vid about Chicago starring a former Taxi star, Marilu Henner – who takes a nice self-deprecat…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:07AMThe dancers celebrate an anniversary with aesthetics that hearken to history the immediate moment.
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This comedic play reveals why the Wise Men made their perilous journey. Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspar give Joshua an education in the shul of real life. Shows run until Dec. 21.
Linked From queenscourier.com at 10:51AMSylvester Stallone, whose credits stretch to almost 90 films as star, writer, producer or director, is to present An Evening with Sylvester Stallone at London's Central Hall Westminster …
Linked From Playbill at 10:44AMArne Gundersen, president of Actors' Equity Foundation, has announced that Tina Benko is the recipient of the annual St. Clair Bayfield Award.
Linked From Playbill at 10:44AMCasting has been announced for The Pasadena Playhouse's upcoming production of Bernard Weinraub's Above the Fold, which will run Jan. 28-Feb. 23, 2014.
Linked From Playbill at 10:44AMNBC's Dec. 5 broadcast of The Sound of Music Live!, the $9 million television event starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald and more, was an unprecedented ratings boon f…
Linked From Playbill at 10:44AMThe Huntington’s Disease Society of America - Greater New York Chapter will present the seventh annual Curtain's Up For a Cure: A Broadway Holiday Concert Dec. 9 at NYIT Auditorium…
Linked From Playbill at 10:44AMIn the past two months I’ve seen a lot of plays and musicals, a lot of performances, a lot of actors. But there are three actors who stand out from the crowd. I like to call them “Seelen…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 10:44AMLooking at reviews from the Edinburgh festival this summer, it seems that The Boy With Tape On His Face is just one of a spectacularly quiet rabble of mime shows to have made a splash – ac…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 10:44AMHarry Potter alumni shortlisted for respective theatrical roles in The Cripple of Inishmaan and MojoHarry Potter graduates Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are among the nominees shortlist…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:43AMBristol Old VicThere's plenty to enjoy in this fairytale, including an ingeniously floating mermaid and plenty of panto-style wickednessThe world in which writer Joel Horwood and the directo…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:43AMSet in a fictional bar in the playwright's hometown of South Philadelphia, the play looks deeply into the hearts of two people who are facing lonely futures unless they find the courage to t…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:35AMTheatre Severn, Shrewsbury: If Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on the well-known poisoned spindle, she'll sleep for a century and take the whole court with her into dreamland.
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Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMCurve, Leicester: There's an utter decadence about Paul Kerryson's production, the centrepiece of Curve's fifth birthday celebrations. He has poured all his genius into it and…
Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMJerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: In its tradition of alternative Christmas shows, the Royal Court is hosting an adaptation of Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist's nove…
Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMChapter Arts Centre, Cardiff: Sue is back, and inviting us to join a bunch of strangers in her lounge to celebrate 'the lovely festival' of Christmas. Managing to combine the awkwa…
Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, London: Fairy Bow Bell arrives on the dot at seven o'clock to ring the changes over Stratford's unique take on the story of Dick Whittington. With an …
Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMChickenshed, London: This is a talismanic show for the Chickenshed. Nearly 20 years ago it launched a new era at the Shed's brand new theatre, and a decade ago its performance marked ex…
Linked From The Stage at 10:29AMNo new British comedies or dramas to review this week – the channels are obviously keeping their powder dry in preparation for the Christmas ratings war – but BBC4 saved the day with an …
Linked From The Stage at 10:24AM"Domesticated" seethingly funny. "Sunshine" a bit of a letdown. Reviews also appear in other North Jersey Media Group Newspapers.
Linked From NorthJersey.com at 10:23AMMr. Welch’s New York debut in “Scapin” led to many roles on New York stages, as well as high-profile film work.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:13AMA brief follow-up to this morning’s birthday post on Lynn Fontanne. While there’s very little tv or film record of her or husband Alfred Lunt’s in performance, copious r…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:04AM By Mike Hallinan Welcome, dear readers, to another exploration of the dark Side of Broadway, with a return of the Dark Debates. As we discussed in our last spook-light, the cha…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM These are the tweets of the week, folks. Little blips and blurbs of awesomeness from some of Broadway’s best in 140 characters or less.
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Who doesn’t liek The Gruffalo, the magical children’s story? Well, we’ve got a competition to win tickets to the stage version by Tall Stories at the Lyric Theatre in the W…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 09:43AMCharlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Light Princess lead the nominations for this year’s Whatsonstage awards, announced today. Both shows receive six nominations apiece, with The …
Linked From The Stage at 09:43AMMore than 80,000 theatregoer submissions helped determine the shortlists across 27 WhatsOnStage Awards categories
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:42AMAll the nominees and nominated productions across 27 WhatsOnStage Awards categories, based on over 80,000 theatregoer submissions
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:42AMI love Olney Theatre Center’s production of The King and I and I am thrilled to have a royal schmooze with the King . Here is my interview with Paolo Montalban. Joel: How did you get ca…
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and dance for the weekend and beyond.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMThe genre of vampire romance is not one that I have been inclined to take seriously – at least not in its trashy Twilight phase of cynically exploiting the adolescent female market. But …
Linked From The Independent at 08:44AMYou get the exhilarating impression that there must be as many children on stage as there are in the audience at Emil and the Detectives, this year's Christmas show at the National. And th…
Linked From The Independent at 08:44AMA delighted “ooh” runs round the theatre as scampering, dancing reindeer come on stage, drawing Father Christmas’s sleigh.
Linked From The Independent at 08:44AMTake a look at the photos from the press room at the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Launch at Cafe de Paris today (6 December 2013)
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:41AMThe actor talks about his stillborn twin brother, life in London during the Blitz and how his elder brother got him his first breakI was born five months after the outbreak of war, and thoug…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:41AMWe now know that theatreland can sustain a musical about a calculating yuppie serial killer. But dare you take this lot on, Mr Lloyd Webber?Vera Drake In theatres, the call for hot water and…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:41AMJudges describe the play about a political scapegoat as 'beautifully crafted and a skilful blend of symbol and realism'Dawn King has won the inaugural Royal National Theatre Foundation (RNTF…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:41AMLast time you posted reflections on the Royal and a defence of Stuttgart Ballet, and reviews of Mark Morris and Michael Clark – what's on your dance radar this week?Below the line last wee…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:41AMMr. Welch, recognizable to many by his unruly mop of brown hair, first performed in New York as Silvestre in a hyperkinetic 1997 production of Molière’s comedy “Scapin,” starring Bill…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:33AMIt’s a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music. So why not a musical about math? Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 08:30AMThere was a lot of controversy last night about the live broadcast. A lot of people loved it. A lot of people hated it. But one thing I can tell you for certain is that millions of people tu…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 08:18AMNatalie Toro - the versatile “Diva Toro” does it all - beautifully: Broadway (A Tale of Two Cities) Cabaret (The Metropolitan Room) and Recordings that capture her clarion belt a…
Linked From Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMIt’s almost a mini-CD as there are only seven tracks – BUT seven is a lucky number and it’s the quality and not the quantity that counts here.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 08:09AMKyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
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Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
Linked From Scheck on the Arts at 08:07AMToday is the birthday of Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983). Fontanne and her husband and acting partner Alfred Lunt are wonderful modern anomalies. They are among the last of the great stage actors …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:03AMIf you’re looking for a “new deal” this Christmas, Main Street Theater Company’s Annie might be just the ticket. Right at “home” on the Franklin Park stage, this is an intimate t…
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What's it all about? It's about dusting off Burt Bacharach's songbook and presenting it to younger audiences with updated arrangements, seven wildly talented musician/singers and a first-rat…
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:51AMThe year’s best Broadway show tune isn’t being belted on the Great White Way. The song is “Let It Go” from the Disney movie “Frozen.”
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:49AMBurt Bacharach is the king of the catchy melody. But turning his gem-jammed catalogue into a worthwhile revue has proven elusive.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:49AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Whew, that was nerve-wracking, right? All those kids and staircases, pillow fights, candles and dancing. But somehow the cast and crew of NBC's three-hour live telecast …
Linked From Associated Press at 07:49AMIt’s a long way back to Mary Martin as Peter Pan, but the notion of a live TV musical — with all the inherent risk that entails — still contains more than a little magic. S…
Linked From variety.com at 07:49AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. television was alive with "The Sound of Music" on Thursday as country singer Carrie Underwood and "True Blood" actor Stephen Moyer starred in a live version of the …
Linked From reuters.us.feedsportal.com at 07:49AMDirected by Robert Carsen, the Metropolitan Opera's first new production of "Falstaff" in decades is set in the 1950s, a far cry from the original version by Verdi.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:46AM"Nerds" the musical is back in town in a 2.0 edition - faster, funnier and available for the holidays without a 2-year contract.
Linked From Philly.com at 07:45AMTry to ignore this show's title, and the kind of frat-house-humor implications that come with it.
Visually hot and musically adept, the show that Philadelphia Theatre Company unveiled Wednes…
Linked From Philly.com at 07:45AMOur staff picks the best things to do this week, with a look at what's ahead in the weeks to come.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 07:41AMIndustry figures have welcomed the government’s proposed commercial theatre tax relief, praising in particular the impact it would be expected to have on new work and regional touring. Cha…
Linked From The Stage at 07:41AMThis Sunday, December 8th at 7:30 PM Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) singer Sandy Bainum is presenting a one-night-only to benefit Adventure Theatre MTC’s recovery from the government shut…
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Alec Baldwin hasn't foresworn television after his recent debacle with his late night show on MSNBC. The actor will return to host Turner Classic Movies' PRIVATE SCREENINGS on January 6, 201…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMVariety reports that Broadway's Alice Ripley Next to Normal will star opposite Robert Clohessy in the upcoming indie film SUGAR
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, December 5, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMOn Monday, December 16, 2013, the Museum of the City of New York will host Spotlight on Broadway New York's Theater Design and Architecture, a special evening exploring the design and archit…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMTheatre Under The Stars TUTS presents the new holiday classic, Elf The Musical, running tonight, Dec. 6 - 22 at Hobby Center's Sarofim Hall.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMTonight's the night The hills sang across the country tonight when NBC aired its live television special of The Sound of Music. Check out all the performances from the special live productio…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMRuth Wilson Saving Mr Banks, Anna Christie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Luther, The Lone Ranger will star in the London premiere of The El. Train three one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill The Web,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMIain Glen Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey will star with Richard McCabe in Ivan Turgenev's FORTUNE'S FOOL at the Old Vic, beginning tonight, December 6.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMToday we are highlighting a few of the many memorable moments on last night's unprecedented live TV broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starring Carrie Underwood - Carrie's simply tremendous st…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:40AMWe’re selling tickets for every show in our Spring season for just a quid. On a market stall. Have you ever been to the Albany on a Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday morning? If you have, y…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 04:40AM[Contains spoilers] The Hans Christensen Anderson version of The Little Mermaid is pretty unpleasant – our heroine feels like she’s walking on broken glass every time she steps on he…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 04:40AMThe 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Launch Party, when the full shortlists are announced and voting opened, takes place today (6 December 2013) at London's Cafe de Paris. Tune in from mid-day f…
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With the 2012 – 2013 musical theatre season now largely behind us, and with the majority of shows announced for 2014, here is AussieTheatre’s guide to the shows that will close o…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 12:51AM By: David ShewardIt seemed like a perfect match: the edgy, off-center humor and compassion of songwriter William Finn and director-book autho…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 12:29AMYale Repertory Theatre's production of Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, adapted by Gavin Richards from a translation by Gillian Hanna, officially opens Dec. 6 following p…
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMDaniel Maté and Friends, featuring the work of songwriter Daniel Maté in an evening of "eclectic, insightful and thoroughly contagious theatre songs," is held Dec. 6 …
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMAward-winning playwright Terrence McNally chats with Playbill.com about his new works, And Away We Go and Mothers and Sons, as well as the changes he has seen during his life in the theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMThe debut solo recording from Phantom of the Opera's Sierra Boggess, which is titled "Awakening: Live At 54 BELOW," is released digitally Dec. 6 prior to a CD release Dec. 10 o…
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMAround The World, a play written by Orson Welles and Cole Porter based on Jules Verne's "Around The World in 80 Days," begins performances at New York City's Mint Theater D…
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMThe world premiere of the new musical Because of Winn Dixie officially opens at Arkansas Repertory Theatre Dec. 6 following previews that began Dec. 4.
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMTony Award nominee Mark Jacoby, who originated the role of overworked dad Walter Hobbs in the Broadway production of Elf, repeats his work in the Theatre Under the Stars production of the ho…
Linked From Playbill at 12:17AMRage in the Mirrorby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonIt's a funny thing the way people express themselves. When you're pushed you can react quite irrationally. I was watching a man chase a b…
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