Legendary comedian Billy Crystal stopped by last night's Late Show with David Letterman on CBS and asked Dave about rumors of a recent fist fight between the talk show host and Regis Philbin…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMNew works hub New York Theatre Barn is teaming up with the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop to take a trip down memory lane by presenting an evenin…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMLA SOIREE's gravity-defying and jaw-dropping pole performer Hamish McCann will perform tomorrow Friday December 13 on VH1's Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagan, 10 AM Eastern 9 AM Cent…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMBroadway headliner and recognizable TV and film star Carol Lawrence remarks on her return to the theatre as part of the cast of HANDLE WITH CARE, currently at the Westside Theatre, as well a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe first full song from the original cast recording Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's highly anticipated new West End musical STEPHEN WARD has been unveiled - a spiri…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMMulti-award-winning HOMELAND star and frequent stage actor Damian Lewis has apologized to Broadway, West End and Hollywood legend Sir Ian McKellen for recent disparaging comments referring t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMBroadway headliner and rising screen star Jeremy Jordan reprised his lead role of Jimmy in the musical-within-the-series HIT LIST featured on NBC's recent musical drama series SMASH in a spe…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Andrew Levine, Executive Director honored legendary Broadway and film composer Alan Menken with the Oscar Hammerstein Award…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMLyons and Pakchar are a new contemporary writing duo blending PopRampB for the Theatre. Their debut album LOVE, which explores the good, bad, and awkward roller coasters in human relationshi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMAcademy Award-winning songwriter Richard Sherman remembers writing the classic score for the iconic Disney movie musical MARY POPPINS as well as comments on the real-life history forming the…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMCatch the new episode of Dave's Gone By 448 - Oh, Carol - live, this Saturday, Dec. 14, 9am-noonMT streaming on UNC Radio.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe Daily Mail writes that Anne-Marie Duff, currently starring opposite Ethan Hawke in Macbeth on Broadway, will join Carey Mulligan in the upcoming film SUFFRAGETTE by Abi Morgan. Directed …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe Daily Mail reports that Downton Abbey's Samantha Bond will join Robert Lindsay, Rufus Hound and Katherine Kingsley in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, directed by Tony winner Jerry Mitchell at t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMBLACK ENTERPRISEBE will present its highest recognition of women's achievement when it presents the Legacy Awards at the 2014 Women of Power Summit on February 26, 2014 in Boca Raton, Fla. T…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMRupert Goold, The Almeida Theatre's Artistic Director, directs the World Premiere of American Psycho, a new musical thriller with book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and music and lyrics by Dunca…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMThe five-time Tony Award-winning 'Peter and the Starcatcher' opened on December 4, 2013, at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center. Written by Tony Award-no…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:28PMYou can take the playwright away from the spirits, but you can’t take the spirits away from the playwright.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:05PM[caption id="attachment_1860" align="aligncenter" width="610" caption="Henry IV, Part 1. The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare\'s History Plays"][/caption]Jeremy Irons earned a Screen Actors Guild (…
Linked From PBS at 09:05PMCole Porter has always been associated with the height of Broadway sophistication; in the 1920s and '30s, no one typified the martini-Manhattan aesthetic better than he did.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMSamantha Bond, who plays Lady Rosamund in Downton Abbey, has signed up for her first West End musical, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Linked From Daily Mail at 09:05PM After coming under fire for the lack of minorities in this season’s new cast, “Saturday Night Live” will add an African American woman to the sketch comedy by next month. The lo…
Linked From variety.com at 09:05PMJulia Roberts felt very close - and not just emotionally - to her August: Osage County co-stars when they were on location in Oklahoma, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.
Linked From Daily Mail at 09:05PMTom Rothman has been nominated by President Obama to fill a slot on the National Council on the Arts, which oversees the National Endowment for the Arts. Rothman, chairman of TriStar Prods.,…
Linked From variety.com at 09:05PMThe spirit of giving is alive and well in Burien. After a Tuesday-morning fire rendered the Burien Community Center unusable for the Burien Actors Theatre to continue its “Coney Island Chr…
Linked From blogs.seattletimes.com at 09:05PMSince soullessness is the essence of Patrick Bateman, the anti-hero of Bret Easton Ellis’s notoriously savage fantasia on 80s greed “American Psycho,” you could argue that an all-style…
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Nearly $300,000 of NEA grants go to LA-area stage companies....Miki Shelton is Antaeus Company's new executive director...Valery Ortiz plays a new role in Casa 0101's "In the Heights"...
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 08:58PMAmerican Psycho, the musical, at the Almeida, LondonIt sounds improbable: a musical thriller about a serial killer. But Sondheim did it in Sweeney Todd. And, although this version of Bret Ea…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:58PMDear readers! This week’s theater review for the LA Weekly is of Peter and the Starcatcher, now playing at The Ahmanson in Downtown LA. Much like the dastardly pirates terrorizi…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 08:55PMEven if you know the plot inside-and-out, this production is still a delightful holiday treat for the season. - even moreso rof anyone who (for whatever reason) has never seen the film. Thi…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 08:54PMAt the start of Rupert Goold's diabolically slick production, Matt Smith rises out of the floor on a vertical sun bed clad in only tight white undies and an eye-patch. It's a startling spect…
Linked From The Independent at 08:54PMHIGHLY RECOMMENDED Needless to say, I was a bit worried when I heard that one of my favorite shows of last year, We Three Liza’s, went through a major overhaul of both book and score. Than…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMThe League of Chicago Theatres proudly announces the election of the Executive Committee Members and the appointment of four new members to The Board of Directors. The Executive Committee i…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMSeanachaí Theatre Company is pleased to kick-off its 2013-14 season with Conor McPherson’s Tony and Olivier Award-nominated drama THE SEAFARER directed by Matt Miller and featuring…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMWriters Theatre presents Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Nicholas Rudall and directed by Kimberly Senior. The production runs January 7 – March 16, 2014 at 325 Tudor C…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMA Christmas Carol – The Concert. Charles Dickens beloved Christmas Carol as you’ve never seen it, or heard it before. Enjoy the timeless story of Ebenezer Scrooge through glorious, m…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMA new crop of local talent joins Goodman Theatre’s artistic team for the 2013/2014 Season. The four Chicago-based writers named to the fourth season of the Playwrights Unit-a year-lo…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PM Hyatt Regency O’Hare, 9300 Bryn Mawr Avenue, invites guests to ring in 2014 at the Own the Night: NYE 2013 onTuesday, December 31. The event features live music from the popular ba…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMIt isn’t every day you can tell a Chicago Bear to “break a leg!” Goodman Theatre’s 7th annual “Make-A-Wish Night” features the superstar former Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 08:37PMCiaran Hinds heads the ensemble as a down-and-out Dubliner fumbling for an emotional connection with a damaged woman in Conor McPherson's latest.The dangerous sparks emitted when a lonely, l…
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Billy Crystal's Tony-winning 700 Sundays is one of the hottest tickets in town! The legendary comedian's fans are traveling from near and far to catch the solo show, which might…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:55PMMinkyu Lee recently revealed on his blog sketches based on a possible animated version of the Broadway phenomenon Wicked. The Wicked concept drawings were originally created by Lee while he …
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 06:54PMLegendary screen and stage performer Julie Andrews is scheduled to return to the U.K. for a tour of speaking engagements entitled An Evening with Julie Andrews. This announcement comes after…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 06:54PMRevolting Children! While these children aren’t revolting at this news by any means, no good thing can last forever. We are far too often reminded of this in the theatre world as some …
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 06:43PMTheatre On Many Levelsby Jim MurchisonThere are a few things that Mi Casa Theatre does that you really don't get to see anywhere else. For one, there is a boldness in their choices as to sta…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 06:23PM(photo by Neil Scotten)The Phædra Project: love stories framed by a pool of water Sarah Deshaies The story of Phædra, the second wife of Theseus, has been explored in countless re-tellings…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 06:23PMBy Matt McGeachy. Taking a similar view as their starting point, creators/performers Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir created a show exploring myriad components of gay heritage, …
Linked From HowlRound at 06:22PMBy Iulia Popovici. But what interested me in that scene, besides the actual incredible fact that in a Romanian city somebody had decided to build, in 2011, a wall between “white people” …
Linked From HowlRound at 06:22PMA guide to theater productions in New York, with a special note of shows in previews or about to open.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:20PMThe actress, who lends her voice to Disney's animated hit "Frozen," and the actor, currently starring in "The Best Man Holiday," have been married for 10 years.Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs ar…
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 06:20PMTHE DEW ON THE GORSE In the 1960s, Beckett and Pinter started a vogue of shabby-old-man-reminiscing plays so influential that as late as 1995, Sebastian Barry went ahead and wrote one too. …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:09PMSix by Sondheim, a documentary directed by Stephen Sondheim's long-time collaborator James Lapine, premieres December 9th on HBO. The film uses six of the musical theater legend's songs ("So…
Linked From Paper Mag at 06:09PMOLD LECHERS GET NO RESPECT Merrily set at Christmastide at the height of the swing era, Barbara Gaines’ sumptuous Navy Pier staging of Shakespeare’s slightest comedy is hilarious, certai…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:09PMWarner Bros. has dated “Pan,” its Peter Pan origin tale, for June 26, 2015. Joe Wright is attached to direct from the Jason Fuchs script but the 3D film has not yet been cast wit…
Linked From variety.com at 06:09PMKurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht find themselves on the Santa Monica Pier for Paul Sand's Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel -- a cabaret that critic Paul Birchall describes as a "tour de force…
Linked From LA Weekly at 06:09PMThe final pieces of Broadway’s spring puzzle are falling into place as one more play, “The Velocity of Autumn,” accelerates into the Booth Theater to start performances there in April.…
Linked From variety.com at 06:09PMOn April 1, previews begin for "The Velocity of Autumn" by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble at Broadway's Booth Theatre, with the knockout cast that won raves this fall duri…
Linked From Cleveland.com at 06:09PMBroadway’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…
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Just in time for the holidays, a charming romantic comedy to warm your heart! Tony nominee Carol Lawrence (West Side Story) plays an Israeli grandmother in Emmy nominee Jason Odell Williams&…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:55PMTheir leading man doesn't wear a stitch of clothing, so it only seems fair for the men of Australia's King Kong to strip down for a 2014 calendar. In the free download, the male memb…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:55PMThe popular Radio 4 sitcom will be adapted for the stage at the Hackney Empire in September followed by a UK tour
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:55PMCompany XIV and The Saint At Large present the New York Premiere of Nutcracker Rouge, conceived, directed and choreographed by Austin McCormick. Featured dancer Davon Rainey and sultry chant…
Linked From Playbill at 05:53PM(Photo: Paul Kolnick. Pictured: Seth Numrich, Danny Burstein and Danny Mastrogiorgio in The Golden Boy. Learn more about the An Ideal Theater salon, and how you can participate, here. For …
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 05:52PMBy HowlRound TV. Join the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and members of the Latina/o Theatre Commons as they share ideas and outcomes from a recent 2013 national convening of the Latina/o artist…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:43PMIn Pamela Carter’s “What We Know,” a woman struggles to understand the meaning of her partner’s death.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMWelcome to the SECOND week of our Best-of-2013 shows, the final weekend of our hit show The Sovereign Statement, and our 2nd week as a 25-year-old!
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Linked From The Neo-Futurists at 05:21PMLarry Kaye and HOP Theatricals, and Van Dean and The Broadway Consortium are proud to announce that the new American play The Velocity of Autumn will begin previews Tuesday, April 1, 2014, a…
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:07PMGo behind the scenes with Rich Claffey, the General Manager of Radio City Music Hall and Rockettes Operations, and see why the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is the epicenter of Christmas …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:07PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, December 12, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Happy opening to @pasekandpaul’s A CHR…
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Below, Carlito Olivero and Alex & Sierra perform “Falling Slowly” from ONCE on “The X Factor.” Watch Arthur Darvill, current star of ONCE, performing “The …
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:55PMSomething happens to men in the early winter of their lives. And in “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare, who possessed an uncanny understanding of human behavior, observed the phen…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:54PMObservers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 04:54PMComplete casting has been announced for the American premiere of Roy Williams’ The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner off-Broadway. Directed by Leah C. Gardiner, the new production…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:54PMNew York Theatre Barn has teamed up with the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop to present Your Holiday Assignment is…, an evening of "as…
Linked From Playbill at 04:52PMJessica Rush, who stood by for the role of Louise in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, will co-star with Tony nominee Louise Pitre in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of that Ton…
Linked From Playbill at 04:52PMBelgrade Theatre, Coventry: Oh No It Isn't! is a very funny show. The pace zips along and Nick Walker's wit is sly, ironic and ticklish. His Alan Bennett-paced storyline is subtle.…
Linked From The Stage at 04:51PMCarriageworks Theatre, Leeds: With musicians in the pit led by musical director Rob Wicks, some nifty choreography by Clare Kennedy and a tip-top pantomime comedian in the talented Jez Edwar…
Linked From The Stage at 04:51PMSir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich: By transplanting the Bronte sisters to a rotten borough on the Suffolk coast, Eastern Angles subjects an audience eager for spoof and send-up to a laborious …
Linked From The Stage at 04:51PMThe Assembly Rooms, Derby: Panto has really found its feet at the Assembly Rooms. This is the best of its seasonal offerings so far, a warm, colourful, spectacular show that owes much to the…
Linked From The Stage at 04:51PMThe cast of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, including Tony winner Jefferson Mays, took a break in between the matinee and evening performance on Wednesday to enjoy tea and bi…
Linked From NewYork.com at 04:49PMAnne Barton was one of the most formidable scholars of her generation. She offered revealing new insights into the work of Byron, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, and was equally perceptive about…
Linked From The Stage at 04:46PMto Anjelica Huston.Ms. Huston:I went to the ALOUD event surrounding your new book, A Story Lately Told on Monday at the Wilshire Ebell Theater. I feel like I made a massive fumble in my book…
Linked From Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:38PMon TCM last night. God bless em. I watched this clip with JW about 3 or 4 times before moving on.God bless Fred too, but I get irritated when he moves in front of Cyd for those two seconds. …
Linked From Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:38PMA Tribute to Austin Pendleton is planned on Monday, January 13, 2014, 7 p.m. at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) by Oberon Theatre Ensemble, the company’s Annual Benefit enti…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 04:20PMTwo terrfic new musicals. Reviews appear in other North Jersey Media Group Newspapers.
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Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:53PMThe Girls Camaraderie Project (GCP) will present a Christmas Camaraderie Concert Dec. 16 at Rockwood Music Hall. Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris is among the lineup of performers.
Linked From Playbill at 03:52PMTickets are now on sale for the U.S. premiere of Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh's immersive staging of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring Branagh in the title role, which…
Linked From Playbill at 03:52PMTony Award-winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover has been elected as the new board chair of Off-Broadway's Public Theater.
Linked From Playbill at 03:52PMTony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan reprised his performance as bad-boy songwriter Jimmy Collins (who takes on the role of Jesse in his fictional musical Hit List) from "Smash" at 54 …
Linked From Playbill at 03:52PMComplete casting has been announced for the American premiere of Roy Williams’ The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner off-Broadway. Directed by Leah C. Gardiner, the new production…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:52PMWhoa! Watch A Night with Janis Joplin's NaTasha Yvette Williams and Mary Bridget Davies blow Wendy Williams away with their roof-raising performance of "Spirit in the Dark." Wi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:52PMContributor Scott Redman gives a listen to Awakening, the new live recording by Broadway’s Sierra Boggess. Sierra Boggess, best known for her portrayal of Ariel in Broadway’s …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 03:52PMAnother in our series of Christmas themed posts: Here are Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the Chase & Sanborn Hour from Christmas Eve, 1944. For more on Bergen, see my full article …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 03:51PMBuddy wants to find his father the way all kinds of Christmas stories involve families that reunite.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 03:51PMBy Marcina Zaccaria “Dust to Dust” is a one woman show by Elizabeth Hess that explores the systematic rape of Bosnian women during the war. It was performed...The post …
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:34PMRE-GIFT OF THE MAGI (Opening), 8 pm. 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.…
Linked From m.qgazette.com at 03:26PMAt an age when most performers have retired, Estelle Parsons keeps on going. The 86-year-old actress will return to Broadway in April in the Eric Coble's comedic play "The Velocity of Autumn…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:26PM by Sonia Roberts Strokes are the second leading cause of death worldwide. The heart-wrenching film “Amour” focused on an elderly couple whose love was tested when the wife.…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 03:22PMTwo men. One stage. 700 years to get it right. A dozen characters. A million laughs. And a partridge in a pair tree. Scratch the partridge and the pear tree, who wants fruit and foliage when…
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Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. Metropolitan Room December 10, 2013 Anita Gillette, one of Broadway’s busiest ingénues in the late Fifties and Sixties, return…
Linked From Theater Pizzazz at 02:57PMLet them entertain you...as they ask you for donations. Antaeus and Rogue Machine are employing nudity in their year-end fund-raising campaigns.
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 02:52PMTickets are now available for the forthcoming production of Bertolt Brecht’s A Man's A Man, starring Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond and Gabriel Frazier. The production will begin …
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:52PMFrom NBC's decision to keep airing live musicals (yay!) to word that Rent alums Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs are ending their marriage (boo!), news dominated this week's list of most-…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:52PMMona Rice, who performed with Denishawn and who founded the dance department at the Cushing Academy as well as her own studio in Ashburnham, MA, died in Boston on November 26 at the age of 8…
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:52PMSongs from the hit Bette Midler film "Beaches" will be presented Jan. 5, 2014, at 54 Below in an evening entitled Beaches @ 54: Under the Boardwalk.
Linked From Playbill at 02:51PMTony Award winners Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) and Michael Cerveris (Assassins) are among the performers who will take part in The 6th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular this month at…
Linked From Playbill at 02:51PMBroadway Bares: Winter Burlesque will kick off the 24th season of Broadway Bares, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with two performances Jan. 26, 2014, at XL Nigh…
Linked From Playbill at 02:51PMRobert Petkoff, who last appeared on Broadway in Anything Goes, will portray U.S. Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Jr., in the Broadway engagement of All The Way, the new drama th…
Linked From Playbill at 02:51PMTwo Minneapolis gallery shows surprise the eye with novel critters and colorful illusions.
Linked From StarTribune at 02:51PMColor us stoked: There’s going to be an off-Broadway musical of the ’80s movie “Heathers” in the spring. The highly quotable cult flick, which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slat…
Linked From nypost.com at 02:50PMMilwaukee Repertory Theater continues its 2013/14 Season with a celebrated production of Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow, a new play with music. The recipient of rave reviews in Londo…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 02:36PMLA SOIRÉE’s gravity-defying and jaw-dropping pole performer Hamish McCann will perform tomorrow Friday December 13 on “VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagan,” 10 AM Eastern…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:28PMPreston Copley, formerly of Disney Theatrical Group, where he served directly under President Thomas Schumacher on the gamut of the commercial producer's Global productions, has joined Jean …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe Board of Trustees of The Public Theater just announced that Arielle Tepper Madover has been elected as The Public's new Board Chair. Madover, who joined the board in 2009, has been an a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMDon't Quit Your Night Job recently returned to New York City at its new home, 54 Below. Joining creators Steve Rosen, Sarah Saltzberg and Dan Lipton were Derrick Baskin Memphis, Jen Cody The…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMLarry Kaye and HOP Theatricals, and Van Dean and The Broadway Consortium just announced that the new American play THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN will begin previews Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Broad…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMProducers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo announce that the Bronx Bombers box office will open tomorrow, Friday, December 13 at 1000AM at Circle in the Square Theatre West 50th Street between …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMNominees for the 71st AnnuAl Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning from the Beverly Hilton Hotel inBeverly Hills, CA. AZIZ ANSARI, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wildeand Miss Golden Globe So…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMPop star Ariana Grande and her label have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song, 'The Way,' according to ABC News. Watch the report below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMGCP Presents CHRISTMAS CAMARADERIE CONCERT begins at 7 PM at Rockwood Music Hall, located in Manhattan's Lower East Side 196 Allen St. , with a reception to follow.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, has announced complete casting today for its upcoming new production of Bert…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway spectacular that defied odds and expectations to conquer New York, is moving to Las Vegas, the entertainment …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe calendar may say January, but the show on stage will be as hot as summer when Broadway Bares Winter Burlesque kicks off the 24th season of Broadway Bares bwaybares with two sizzling perf…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMOberon Theatre Ensemble will present 'TOAST, BOAST, OR ROAST - A Tribute to Austin Pendleton' - the company's annual benefit on Monday, January 13 at The Players Club 16 Gramercy Park South …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe Drama League Executive Director Gabriel Shanks Artistic Director Roger T. Danforth has announced full casting for the 30th Annual DirectorFest, a festival of one-act plays staged by the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMThe big screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY was among the biggest snubs of this year's Golden Globe nominations, announced earlier today
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMGLEE star Lea Michele appeared on today's ELLEN and performed 'Cannonball' from her upcoming solo debut CD, 'Louder' Watch the performance below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMLynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer will present Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming world premiere of Outside Mullingar, the new play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMWriting on her blog on December 6th, journalist Francoise von Trapp, the daughter of Maria von Trapp's stepson Rupert, remarked on NBC's recent broadcast of THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMProducers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Louise Gund just announced that Robert Petkoff will play the role of Senator Hubert Humphrey in the Broadway bound production of ALL THE WAY by …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMHal Leonard will release a pianovocal selections book for Motown The Musical at the end of this month, it was announced today.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMWorkshops and classes in schools are the most common form of arts education programming, with nearly half of all programming targeting ages 12-18. These findings reflect the over 100 theatre…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMA NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN, the new Broadway musical, performed live on THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW on Tuesday, December 10. Mary Bridget Davies, critically acclaimed for her portrayal of Janis, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMPark Avenue Armory announced today its 2014 season, an unprecedented mix of presentations and commissions ranging from Kenneth Branagh's highly-anticipated New York stage debut in an immersi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMLast year, there was a lapse in a tradition, I'd grown really fond of. A "12 CDs of Christmas" column. I'm so happy to bring it back this year. Below you'll find a dozen discs - all relea…
Linked From AmericanTheaterWeb at 02:14PMA NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN, the new Broadway musical, performed live on “THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW” on Tuesday, December 10. Mary Bridget Davies, critically acclaimed for her portrayal of J…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:11PM"A Swinging Birdland Christmas," Liz Callaway's "Merry and Bright" and "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:07PMThe Sun Came Out For Martin Charnin at The ASCAP Awards: Tony Award-winning lyricist and director Martin Charnin was presented with The ASCAP Foundation's first-ever George M. Cohan Award at…
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Linked From Ticket News at 02:07PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella will take their dark comedy "The Velocity of Autumn" to Broadway....
Linked From Associated Press at 02:07PMJames Barbour Makes Your Holiday Soar with a God Given Voice!: In hearing Barbour's thrilling sound all I could think of was, this is how Broadway should sound.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 02:07PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - When actress Rebecca Hall first read "Machinal," the 1920s play in which she will make her Broadway debut early next year, her reaction was so strong she felt her throat…
Linked From reuters.us.feedsportal.com at 02:07PMBirds do it, bees do it, even Broadway's Rachel York does it in her new cabaret show, "Let's Fall in Love." Plus, three distinctly different takes on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:07PM"Rain and mud and blood and sword play" the armory's president promised for its new season. (And don't forget the flood of water.)
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PMProducers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Louise Gund are pleased to announce that Robert Petkoff will play the role of Senator Hubert Humphrey in the Broadway bound production of A…
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The complete cast has been announced for Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's A Man. Previews begin at the off-Broadway theater on January 10, 2014.…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:52PMBroadway Bares is kicking the new year off with just its birthday suit on! Broadway Bares: Winter Burlesque starts off the 24th season of Broadway Bares with two performances on January 26, …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:52PMThe star-studded production of All the Way has found its Hubert Humphrey! Broadway alum Robert Petkoff will play the 38th U.S. Vice President in the new drama by Robert Schenkkan. The actor …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:52PMThe weather outside may be frightful, but Matt Conner’s peppy, rich piano playing and his group of eclectic friends makes certain that you knew nothing of it. In an hour-long cabaret-style…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMRape Aid: Friends Don't Let Friends Rape, a collection of works addressing sexual violence, will be presented Dec. 17 at 7 PM at the New Ohio Theater.
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMComplete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht's A Man's A Man, which will begin previews Jan. 10, 2014, prior to an offici…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMThe Atlantic Theater Company has announced complete casting for the American premiere of Roy Williams' The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which will begin previews Jan. 8, 2014,…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMTony Award nominees Hunter Foster (Hands on a Hardbody) and Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie) were among the artists performing in the Nov. 21 return of Don't Quit Your…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMBless This House: A Holiday-ish Benefit Celebration, which raises funds for repairs for the historic Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, was presented Dec. 9 at 7 PM at the Upper West Side ch…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMGoodman Theatre has announced the newest members of its 2013-14 season of the Playwrights Unit.
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMFrancoise von Trapp, the daughter Maria von Trapp's stepson Rupert, has shared her thoughts on the NBC live telecast of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music, wh…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMWorkshops and classes in schools are the most common form of arts education programming, with nearly half of all programming targeting ages 12-18. These findings reflect the over 100 theatre…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 01:49PMFrom “The Glass Menagerie” to “Matilda,” Ben Brantley exults in an embarrassment of riches that poured forth this year on and off Broadway.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:21PMNew plays by Amy Herzog and Annie Baker — as well as usual classics and unusual genres — are among a year’s most pleasurable productions.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:21PMHelena Bonham Carter, Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor have been nominated for Golden Globe awards, in a year that sees the BBC receive nods in 10 categories. This gives the Corporation more …
Linked From The Stage at 01:21PMITV has commissioned a four-part drama based around a missing persons unit. Chasing Shadows is written and created by Rob Williams, who also adapted Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks books for IT…
Linked From The Stage at 01:21PMRE-GIFT OF THE MAGI, a new play by Janet Hopf, is set to officially open tonight (Thursday) at 8pm at The Chain Theatre. Under the direction of Greg Cicchino, the cast of RE-GIFT OF THE MAGI…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMAs we announced earlier this year, Praxis Theatre is guest-curating Harbourfront Centre’s 2014 HATCH season of new performance experiments. As curators, we were particularly interested…
Linked From praxistheatre.com at 01:05PMJennifer Holliday sprung to stardom in the 1980s for her Tony Award-winning performance in Dreamgirls, and went onto a recording career after Broadway. But her life wasn't always glamorous: …
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Tony winner Martin Short will guest star on "Working the Engels," according to TVLine.com.
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMFollowing its run at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Eric Coble's family drama The Velocity of Autumn, starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and two-time Tony Award winner S…
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMThe Museum of the City of New York will host Spotlight on Broadway: New York's Theater Design and Architecture Dec. 16 at 6:30 PM.
Linked From Playbill at 12:51PMFormidable talent hearkens back to era when pianists were showmen.
Linked From The Washington Times at 12:51PMThe Glass Menagerie star Zachary Quinto may be one of Broadway’s hottest leading men right now, but the star says he only found his sense of style and confidence when he…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMHustling, the popular and provocative web series by Sebastian La Cause (Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show) about a male escort who undergoes a life overhaul, is preparing to unveil its third an…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMAge & Hometown: 26; Toronto, Canada
Current Role: The alluring but often agitated Gerry Goffin, Carole King’s first husband and songwriting partner for a decade of chart-topping…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMBusiness magnate Steve Wynn, who played a pivotal role in reinvigorating and expanding Las Vegas' iconic Strip, is reportedly in talks to host the transfer of Broadway's Spider-Man, …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMWe've already addicted to Glee star Lea Michele's pop single “Cannonball.” In fact, we have it on a loop right now! The song was released earlier this week, and we&#…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMBackstreet’s back, all right! Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell knows a thing or two about crooning and harmonies, and on December 11 he stopped by Broadway's After Midnight for got a …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:50PMLowry, SalfordThis updated classic shoots in all directions but lands a fair number of arrows on targetWho is Robin Hood? The mythic invention of English balladeers? A cartoon fox? An air te…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:50PMThought to be lost for ever, short films co-written by Mordecai Richler to have first screening in almost 50 yearsTwo long-lost short films starring Peter Sellers will be shown in public for…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:50PMSoho theatre, LondonWhen Law lays off the apologetic anxiety, he can deliver delightful nonsense in his characteristically eccentric styleThe closing set piece in his new show finds Canadian…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:50PMThe Miami-Dade County Commission faces a decision Tuesday that could make or break the resurrection of the historic Coconut Grove Playhouse as deadlines close in. With discussions still unde…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 12:50PMFilm producers face a delicate balancing act between adding their input and not treading on the creative toes of the director, the writer and the actors. It seems Harvey Weinstein has a new …
Linked From The Independent at 12:47PMWhat happens when a human, raised by elves, discovers he actually isn’t an elf and heads out to magical land called New York City to find his real father? You find yourself with one of…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 12:42PMWhen an audience gets hit with a sustained case of the giggles, how can you adequately describe what’s causing it on stage? Because in “The Pajama Men: Just the Two of Each of Us” at W…
Linked From Washington Post at 12:25PMEnglish National Opera has become the latest arts organisation to launch a scheme to live screen its productions into cinemas. ENO Screen will see the English-language opera company working …
Linked From The Stage at 12:21PMSide Show tells the true story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who followed a journey from the streets to stardom. The current La Jolla Playhouse production reimagines the Henry …
Linked From Playbill at 12:19PMStuck inside with nothing to do? Then go to MD Theatre Guide’s new Games section. These online games are custom made for the MD Theatre Guide and feature a theatre theme. The g…
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:15PMSheldon Best Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce complete casting for the American premiere production of award-wi…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:11PMDue to overwhelming demand, the producers of Off-Broadway's hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER today put a new block of seats on sale through April 26th. Written and performed by Margaret Cop…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ESTELLE PARSONS AND TWO-TIME TONY AWARD® WINNER STEPHEN SPINELLA STAR IN THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN A NEW AMERICAN PLAY BY ERIC COBLE TO OPEN AT BROADWAY’S BOOTH THEA…
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 2014 Golden Globe Awards Dec. 12 in Beverly Hills, CA. The 71st annual awards ceremony will be hosted by Tina Fey and A…
Linked From Playbill at 11:50AMSkylar Astin, who was in the original Broadway cast of Spring Awakening and starred in the film "Pitch Perfect," will guest star on the Fox musical series "Glee."
Linked From Playbill at 11:50AMTony Award-winning actress Idina Menzel, who plays a woman rebuilding her life in the upcoming Broadway musical If/Then, has separated from her longtime husband Taye Diggs, Playbill.com has …
Linked From Playbill at 11:50AMWhat do you get when you combine two existential dramas and two knights? No Man’s Land and Waiting For Godot on Broadway, starring stage-and-screen buddies Ian McKellen and Patrick Ste…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:49AMBroadway openings come to those who wait! After calling off their 2013 spring run last season, Eric Coble’s The Velocity of Autumn will now begin performances April 1, 2014 at Broadway…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:49AMThe National Theatre's Christmas show is an adaptation of Erich Käster's much-loved 1929 children's novel. Rachel Cooke remembers a book that helped her through a tricky time when she …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:49AMJulie Walters says that Educating Rita has transformed many women's lives. But can a play really make you walk out on your husband?There's plenty of debate about whether theatre can change t…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:49AMThe great French director, who died recently, took some persuading to do a play in London – and was seriously ill when he did. But the experience was life-changing, recalls the Young Vic's…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:49AMAnother in our series of Christmas themed posts… This one came onto my radar about a week ago and it seemed truly fitting for this blog, not just because we like odd, psychotronic, low…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 11:48AM(Ed. Note: The following blog salon series will focus on how theatre artists are responding to Trayvon Martin’s death, the trial and verdict, and the subsequent cultural response to those …
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 11:47AMThe Velocity of Autum is off to Broadway’s The Booth Theatre! “A bracing, honest and deliciously funny performance played with wonderful gritand wit by the great actress Est…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMDC’s legendary home of Jazz for 85 years est. 1926 THIS WEEKEND BENNY GOLSON three nights! Dec. 13-15 Bohemian Caverns is proud to once again present NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson. Gols…
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:30AMThe two-character play, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, will begin performances at the Booth Theater on April 1.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:25AMThe Glasgow Citizens and Untitled Projects are offering a two-year residency to a mid-career director, to study and stage large-scale classic plays. The paid position will be mentored by art…
Linked From The Stage at 11:19AMA cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical Stephen Ward will be released on December 30. The album, featuring cast members Alexander Hanson and Charlotte Spencer, features 19 so…
Linked From The Stage at 11:19AMReview submitted by Lillian Constance of George Mason High School. Writers Block. The worst fate a writer can face or at least the second worst after overbearing mothers. This past weekend, …
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:10AMBolstered by the well-received performances of its stars, Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, Arena Stage’s production of “The Velocity of Autumn” is moving to Broadway. The comedy-d…
Linked From Washington Post at 11:05AMSo, right after my blog about NBC’s Sound of Music went live, in which I predicted NBC would broadcast another Broadway musical in 2014, the network announced that it would do just t…
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Civic Theatre, Darlington: Comedy routines honed over the years by Chuckle Brothers Barry and Paul Elliott are seamlessly woven into the story of Aladdin and prove as funny as ever as they p…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMSwan Theatre, High Wycombe: Qdos - staging some 24 pantomimes this festive season - prides itself on some of the best pantos in the country and this production does not fail to meet the grad…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMSherman Cymru, Cardiff: What would it be like to wake up 1,000 years from now? Robert Alan Evans twists Sleeping Beauty to the dark side of fairytales. Best friends Dawn and Eve are bound by…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMThe Arches, Glasgow: The Arches' Christmas show for children always avoids the anarchic tricks of pantomime, but this Night Before Christmas picks up on the redemptive charm of A Christ…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMPrinces Hall Theatre, Aldershot: Robert Hopkins celebrates 20 years of producing and starring in pantomimes at this theatre, joined for the tenth time by the irrepressible Donovan Christian …
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMBrentwood Theatre, Essex: Taking over the reins from director Ray Howes, Joseph Walsh adds to the theatre's reputation as a festive family favourite - Brentwood's 12th consecutive …
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMLondon Coliseum: English National Ballet's annual Christmas Nutcracker is a popular seasonal tradition, with some 10 productions of the ballet since the company was formed in 1950. The …
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMLyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Evolution's seventh co-production with Sheffield Theatres is big in every sense. Director Paul Hendy uses the Lyceum stage to its fullest depth, with Helga Wo…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMThe Old Red Lion, London: Gregory Skulnick has done that rarest of things - produced a funny new farce. The Upstanding Member is sharply written, deftly performed and genuinely droll; what a…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMThe Egg, Theatre Royal Bath: The Moomin children's stories of Tove Jansson, with their extraordinary array of bizarre creatures, are much loved far beyond her Finnish homeland, with eve…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMMacrobert, Stirling: Specially adapted for the zero to three age group for Macrobert, Fleur Darkin's Innocence is a fully interactive and immersive dance experience for a young audience…
Linked From The Stage at 10:50AMThe Duck House, playing at the Vaudevillle theatre, is an outrageous new comedy set in a world of dodgy receipts, dodgier deceit, and pure Parliamentary panic. Join the cast for a post-show …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:49AMNominations have been announced for the 2014 Golden Globe Awards, and August: Osage County failed to get a nod for Best Picture. The film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony- and Pulitzer Pr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:48AMChristian Durso is a playwright, screenwriter, and classically trained actor. His plays have been performed in Los Angeles and New York and have enjoyed workshops and readings at The R…
Linked From Visible Soul at 10:45AMCHRISTMAS IN VIENNA American composer and pianist Burnett Thompson performs his own compilation, “Christmas in Vienna: Reflections on the Imperial City” at the Embassy of Austria. Mr. Th…
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:41AMTony Award-winning puppet designers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones and puppeteer Jessica Krueger talk about the magic of "War Horse" on the occasion of the Detroit stop of the North American …
Linked From www.detroitnews.com at 10:19AMThe Goodman Theatre announced the members of its 2013-14 Playwrights Unit, a year-long new play development program, on Wednesday afternoon.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:16AMIndividual tickets for "Motown The Musical," the nationally touring jukebox show boasting the popular catalogue of Motown Records hits, will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:16AMA show called "Blackout" opens Friday night in Chicago. You likely can't go, unless you get really lucky on Craigslist. This is a very hard show to catch. It has shown up sporadically over t…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:16AMThe League of Chicago Theatres, a trade organization representing over 200 theaters, announced on Wednesday the addition of four new Board members and the election of the Executive Committee…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:16AMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ ...…
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This satirical piece about the MPs' expenses scandal raises a few titters but lacks the brutal logic of first-rate farceI yield to no one in my love of farce, but this new one by Colin Swash…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:48AMTony Award winner Chita Rivera will be profiled on the Dec. 15 broadcast of "CBS Sunday Morning," which airs in the New York metropolitan area on CBS-TV at 9 AM ET; check local lis…
Linked From Playbill at 09:47AMThe Piece Project and VS. Theatre Company present readings of Terri Minsky's Amazing Frogs and Toads Dec. 12 and 19 at 8 PM at VS. Theatre Company in Los Angeles.
Linked From Playbill at 09:47AMGregory Jacobs-Roseman: Hungover for the Holidays with Leslie Kritzer will be presented Dec. 18 at 54 Below.
Linked From Playbill at 09:47AMEmmy winner Bruce Vilanch, who made his Broadway debut in Hairspray, will host the 2014 Nightlife Awards — honoring the best in New York cabaret, comedy and jazz — Jan. 27, 2014,…
Linked From Playbill at 09:47AMDON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN ROUND 7 OF "HOT OR NOT": THE BEAUTIFUL EDITION!CLICK THE SHOW ICON TO YOUR RIGHT, TAKE THE POLL, AND CLICK "DONE" TO MAKE IT COUNT! POLL CLOSES AT NOO…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 09:46AMMore than any other ballet, The Nutcracker is uniquely personal to each audience member. The Joffrey Ballet’s always-stellar production is an ideal place to celebrate old traditions, and t…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 09:46AMNational Endowment for the Arts Spooky Action receives Challenge America Fast-Track Grant to support the production of Kwaidan The Grant will help bring guest artist Izumi Ashizawa to Washi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29AMFrank Lawler and Daniel Flint’s pun-laden “Holiday of Errors (or Much Ado About Stockings)” borrows liberally from the works of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in a nontraditio…
Linked From The Seattle Times at 09:18AMAn actor owed more than £5,000 for a tour he appeared in is still fighting to recoup money owed to him, despite the fact a tribunal ordered the show’s producers to pay up six months...
Linked From The Stage at 09:17AMI’m not a fan of BBC1 series The Voice – for a number of reasons. One of these, as I’ve written about before, is the fact that former judge Danny O’Donoghue often criticised contesta…
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A HIT-AND-MISS HOLIDAY HYBRID IS AT LEAST MORE HO HO THAN HO HUM Silliness and charm reign supreme in The Actors’ Gang’s original Christmas show, The Queen Family’s Very Special Ho…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:49AMAlso in Tattle: Second City camp headed to Newark, Weinsteins sue over Hobbit, Madonna heads to kabbalahdate.com.
Linked From Philly.com at 07:49AMJames Franco and Simon de Pury Play on Broadway in Isaac Julien's Playtime: Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:49AMTheatrical dialect coaches believe that in an actor's creation of a character, the talk has to precede the walk - or, if you're a Jersey boy, the "tawk" precedes the "wawk&quo…
Linked From Philly.com at 07:49AMAs a follow up to today's post, thanks to reader Darms for turning me on to this: The Alamo Drafthouse and their uncensored version of a NO CELL PHONE reminder. Brilliant.
Linked From Ken Levine at 07:49AM'The Life and Death of Marina Abramović,' a 160-minute play directed by Robert Wilson opens Friday at the Park Avenue Armory.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:49AMSTOWE, Vt. (AP) -- Even if it's good for business, NBC's revival of "The Sound of Music" wasn't one of the von Trapps' favorite things....
Linked From Associated Press at 07:49AMHis Majesty's/Lemon Tree, AberdeenThere's life and bonhomie in the performances – particularly a big-lunged Elaine C Smith as the Fairy Godmother – but this Cinderella is too thinly trea…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:46AMThe Bush Theatre is offering two complimentary glasses of prosecco when you buy a pair of tickets for Tom Wells' heart-warming comedy Jumpers for GoalpostsIn Tom Wells' Jumpers for Goalposts…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:46AMWondering what to give your theater lover this holiday season – besides season tickets, of course. Our media reviewer Brad Hathaway listens to, reads and sees nearly everything, and he mak…
Linked From Florida Theater On Stage at 07:45AM Looking up and staring while walking around in Times Square sounds like the classic stance of a gawking tourist, but should you happen to be at the northeast corner of Forty-Si…
Linked From Howard Sherman at 07:40AMThe Annapolis Shakespeare Company opens their 2013-2014 season with a crowd favorite, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is my first Annapolis Shakespeare Company pr…
Linked From Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:30AMWest End performer Louise Dearman is to start up a new events entertainment company. Dearman will run the company, called Backslap, with her partner Andrew Eastel and choreographer Ian Str…
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59E59 Theatres Theatre, Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: This wonderful production wraps you in a cozy warm blanket of jazz history, humor, and live music that you'll lo…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 06:51AMJo Brand's funniest line of the pantomime season is not one she's delivering in Aladdin at the New Wimbledon Theatre but one she gave to an interviewer in the Daily Telegraph
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:46AMBritons Benedict Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor star alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in the film of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, released in the UK on 17 January
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:46AMPantomime season is well and truly upon us but amidst the mince pies and mulled wine lurks a challenge for the creatives behind today’s festive theatrical treats. How can they make the…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 06:44AMIn this condensed version of The Sound of Music Live, Captain von Trapp introduces his children, including Dooneese, to their new governess Maria.
Linked From YouTube at 06:29AMA £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July. The…
Linked From The Stage at 06:14AMOn Dec. 17, Michael Feinstein is slated to introduce teen vocalist Julia Goodwin as part of his two-week limited engagement at Birdland Jazz Club. Goodwin is the winner of the 2013 Great Ame…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMToday we are talking to a notable playwright, screenwriter and director all about his newest venture - the searing and absorbing two-character film SOME VELVET MORNING, starring Stanley Tucc…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, December 11, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMToday, December 12th, GLEE star Lea Michele will appear on ELLEN. The actress will not only talk with Ellen, but also perform 'Cannonball' from her upcoming solo debut CD, 'Louder'
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMRobert Wilson's The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic will have its U.S. premiere and its only New York performances in Park Avenue Armory's soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall, tonight, Decem…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMLaughing Dog Media has announced Broadway star and vocal powerhouse JAMES BARBOUR'S Special Guest Artists at his Sixth Annual Holiday Concert. STEPHEN WALLEM will join Mr. Barbour on stage S…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AML.A. Theatre Works follows up its September recording of Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty with the West Coast premiere of his fresh, quirky sequel -- REASONS TO BE HAPPY -- featuring the s…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMBARBIE LIVE, the musical, follows the story of Barbie Chelsea Rae Bernier and her best friend Teresa Kristina Miller who are both starring in their new Hollywood movie. But when Teresa beco…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMGlen Hansard, composer of Broadway's Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, ONCE will perform on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' between 1130PM-1230AM and 'Live on Letterman' at 9P…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:13AMCharm City has never been so charming as it was on Saturday, November 30, 2013 at the Third Annual Baltimore Beauty Pageant. Hosts – the gorgeous Mr. Gorgeous and little (and also gorg…
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This fairytale re-imagining from director Phelim McDermott will steal your heart
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:45AMCheck out production images from the hotly anticipated musical adaptation of American Psycho, which premieres at the Almeida Theatre tonight (12 December 2013)
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:45AMJulie Donaldson’s The Gruffalo, with spectacular illustrations by Axel Scheffler, is a book which has kept children entertained for over a decade. So successful is this five minute chi…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 05:43AMDamian Lewis has told of his “huge embarrassment” at offending Sir Ian McKellen after saying he did not want to become a “fruity actor” known for playing wizards.
Linked From The Independent at 05:41AMEnglish National Ballet dance The Nutcracker with energy and understanding, brightening up Wayne Eagling’s uneven production. From Micaela Infante’s child Clara to Daria Klimentová’s …
Linked From The Independent at 05:41AMIt's 11 o'clock in the morning and row upon row of well-sculpted men are pirouetting in a small room to the tinny notes coming from an upright piano. One, dark, with perfectly chiselled feat…
Linked From The Independent at 05:41AMAbout half of Equity members undertook unpaid work in the past 12 months, with a similar proportion earning less than £5,000 over the year. According to the results of a union survey of mem…
Linked From The Stage at 05:13AMFor fifteen years Y Touring Theatre Company has been producing and touring plays which present and explore complex science-based issues. The company is supported in this work by Wellcome Tru…
Linked From The Stage at 05:10AMFrench writer and philosopher Benny Levy was best known as Jean-Paul Sartre’s private secretary. Now, Levy is being posthumously honored for his own achievements.
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The world premiere of The Miss Longview Texas Drag Pageant begins performances Dec. 12 at the John DeSotelle Studio #301 in the Times Square Arts Building.
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMThe world premiere of La Divina Caricatura, Lee Breuer's mixed-media pop opera with puppets, officially opens at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre Dec. 12, following preview performanc…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMThe Donmar Warehouse production of The Night Alive makes its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, officially opening Dec. 12 at the Linda Gross Theater, following previews…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMJazz vocalist Stevie Holland stars in the Off-Broadway premiere of the one-person musical Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter, which officially opens Dec. 12 following previews that be…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMTony and Grammy Award winner Heather Headley joins Andrea Bocelli at Brooklyn's Barclays Center Dec. 11 at 8 PM.
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMAmerican Psycho, the world-premiere musical by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik and playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, off…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMThe U.S. premiere of Robert Wilson's The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, featuring the renowned multidiscipline artist alongside Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, begins perfo…
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMEuan Morton, a Tony nominee for his performance in Taboo, makes his debut at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below Dec. 12.
Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMPlaybill.com chats with Gary William Friedman and Stevie Holland, the creator and performer of Love, Linda, a new musical about Linda Porter, who are also husband and wife.
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Linked From Playbill at 12:20AMThe American premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of Tony nominee Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive opens December 12 off-Broadway. Directed by the playwright, the sho…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:17AMWC Fields is quoted as saying, "Never work with children and animals" so poor Sterling Jarvis, here as Daddy Warbucks in YPT's Annie, featured with Jenny Weisz as the title character. But we…
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Linked From Theatre People Australia at 12:02AMIn “Black Wizard/Blue Wizard,” a musical and a battle, two forces vie for the chance to defeat the Great Mediocrity.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMHakuna Matata! (It means no worries…) After an extensive audition process and an intense rehearsal period, the cast, crew and production team of Disney’s The Lion King are prepar…
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