The familiar faces aren’t just on Broadway next season: Off Broadway’s 2013-14 lineup has shaped up to include parts for Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mandy Patinkin, among other recognizable na…
Linked From variety.com at 06:59PMThere’s a drinks trolley downstage right. Good grief — where are we, the 1930s? Yes. But the cunning new play “Bracken Moor,” a cross between a thunderingly old-fashioned family dra…
Linked From variety.com at 06:59PMProducers of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy’s critically praised "electro-pop opera" based on "War and Peace," announced a new rush…
Linked From Playbill at 06:35PMThe marriage in Rantoul and Die is most definitely on the rocks, as Debbie urges her husband Rallis to hit the road. Written by Mark Roberts (a producer of TV's Two and a Half Men),…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:19PMNoel Coward, LondonImagine a dramatic hero who stands no chance of being kissed "unless it was by a blind girl" and of whom it is said, by an adoptive aunt, "you'd see nicer eyes on a goat".…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:09PMThis summer, Steppenwolf ensemble member-and former artistic director--Randall Arney returns to Chicago to stage Greg Pierce's hit play, Slowgirl, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater i…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMHangar Theatre kicked off its 2013 season on June 13th with Neil Simon's irresistible comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which runs through June 29. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cas…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMThe off-Broadway comedy, Buyer amp Cellar, starring Michael Urie 'Ugly Betty', written by Jonathan Tolins, and directed by Stephen Brackett, begins performances tonight at 730pm at the Barro…
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“What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and Morals” was billed as a town hall discussion at the Delacorte Theater.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMIn Sara Farrington’s “Requiem for Black Marie,” it’s Bertolt Brecht’s women who do all the heavy lifting of authorship.
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Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:43PMAs another weather warning was just issued this afternoon, it seems appropriate to post this frightening, majestic video of the kind of cloud Yahweh might have spoken out of - a superc…
Linked From The Hub Review at 05:39PMA limited engagement of John S. Anastasi's I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan will begin performances July 15 at Off-Broadway's Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. Rehearsals began June 1…
Linked From Playbill at 05:35PMComplete casting has been announced for the 5th Avenue Theatre's concert production of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, featuring Jerick Hoffer, whose alter-ego Jinkx Monsoon wa…
Linked From Playbill at 05:35PMThe last time “Angel Street” was produced at Olney Theatre Center, it was 1950. Olney was 12 years old, and the film “Gaslight,” which was inspired by the play and starred Ingrid Ber…
Linked From Washington Post at 05:26PMImagine spending your days as a "clerk" in the mall of shops Barbra Streisand built in the basement of her Malibu mansion. That's the premise of Buyer & Cellar, Jonathan To…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:19PMOn May 11th, 2013, I watched a Direct TV salesman perform a slam poem about human cannonballs. The Empty Space Theatre—a black box on the Arizona State University campus—was decorated wi…
Linked From HowlRound at 05:08PMNearly closed by police and thunderstorms, this dance under the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on the Schuylkill held us in suspense.
Linked From Philly.com at 05:08PMOn existenceby Élaine CharleboisIn Brandon Wicke’s piece Third Person, a banal setting is used to address and explore the experience of existential crisis. While on a camping trip, George…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:02PMShooting the Slapgunby Sarah Deshaies@sarahdeshaiesFor all the guff about Toronto the Good, there's a truth that Montreal comedy fans have to acknowledge, if they haven't already: Hogtown's …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 05:02PMYou have to hand it to Daniel Radcliffe. Whether baring his all in the West End and on Broadway in Equus, or winning the New York Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Music…
Linked From The Independent at 05:01PMNBC's recently cancelled musical drama series SMASH may have come to an early end on the network, but For Your Consideration ballots are being cast and ads are being placed in support of the…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMBroadway fans can own the 2013 Tony Awards Telecast, through iTunes and Amazon.com. Starting now, fans can purchase and watch this year's exciting telecast on their computer, tablet, phone a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMDrama Desk nominee Nancy Anderson Far From Heaven, Wonderful Town, Jannie Jones The Full Monty, Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating The Boy From Oz, Hairspray, Drama Desk nominee Garrett Long …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMThe Muny presents John O'Hurley in the first show of its fantastic 95th Season, Monty Python's Spamalot, directed and choreographed by Denis Jones. The show opened last night, June 17, and y…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMSeussical The Musical, one of Broadway's most joyous musicals, written by the esteemed, Tony Award winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will be presented at the Newtown High Sch…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMPopular stage and screen performer Kristen Bell opens up about her new role as an animated feature film heroine in Disney's hotly anticipated new big screen tuner FROZEN in a new interview, …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMIt's been a few years in the making, and it's still not ready to roll out just yet, but with a few other songwriters I've been putting together O Baby Mine, an album of Shakespeare-insp…
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Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:57PMExploradome deflates after 16 years of dead bodies, Titanic artifacts and boogers.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:57PMAs the Source Festival's short-play showcase "Afterward" makes clear, writing in short form has its challenges. Occasionally, that becomes all too evident in some of these short works, whic…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 04:47PMMaggie Gyllenhaal will return to the stage next spring as a pregnant wife who tries to pedal off her libido in “The Village Bike," producers announced Tuesday.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:47PMA potent charge of relevant provocation propels “revolver” at the Celebration Theatre. In the final production at its longtime venue, L.A.’s flagship gay theater scores a p…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 04:47PMCulture Project's Women Center Stage 2013 Festival will take place July 8-Aug. 3.
Linked From Playbill at 04:35PMThe 1214 Foundation will present Seussical, the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical based on the famed children's books by Dr. Seuss — featuring student performers ages 5-18 &mdas…
Linked From Playbill at 04:35PMMichael Shaw Fisher 's Exorcistic is about a theater company that's mounting a parody of The Exorcist. It's part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, at the Open Fist.
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 04:22PMFollowing his May solo concert, Tony Award winner Steve Kazee will bring his show back to 54 Below this summer for an encore engagement. Joined by his band, The Shiny Liars, the singer…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:18PMLeapin’ lizards! Annie star Lilla Crawford leaped to the top this week’s top five list with her new video blog. Speaking of powerful ladies, Sherie Rene Scott gave a revealing in…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:18PMTony nominee Elizabeth A. Davis talks working with Tony-winning composer Duncan Sheik, and how his music helps transform Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle into a "zany, fu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:18PMThe 4th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival continues. Here are our latest reviews: Luna Noctiluca, making its World Premiere at The Other Space Theater, is a story of two Salomes told in two p…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 04:18PMThe Muny presents John O'Hurley in the first show of its fantastic 95th Season, Monty Python's Spamalot, directed and choreographed by Denis Jones. The show opened last night, June 17, and …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMHarry Connick Jr. is a singer, actor, performer, musician, and writer. Over the course of his extensive career, he has been performed on Broadway both in solo concerts and iconic musicals. C…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMMulti-award-winning film and theatre composer Stephen Schwartz has announced his next new stage project, an original musical centering on the lives of famed European theatrical producers Ema…
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Linked From TheaterMania at 03:47PMIthaca, New York's Hangar Theatre opened its 2013 season on June 13 with a production of the Neil Simon comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers, scheduled to run through June 29. Hangar Associ
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:47PMThe 2013 Tony Awards telecast, which was broadcast June 9 on CBS, is now available by logging onto iTunes, Amazon.com and Blackberry World.
Linked From Playbill at 03:34PMThis month's column looks at award-winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir, "Jack Be Nimble."
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Linked From Playbill at 03:34PMSideways, adapted by Rex Pickett from his novel of the same name, has extended its run at La Jolla Playhouse.
Linked From Playbill at 03:34PMIf you’re never fully dressed without a smile, the cast of Broadway’s Annie is dressed up to the nines! The excited stars of the Tony-nominated and Broadway.com Audience Choice A…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:20PM As Morgan James continues her acclaimed run at 54 Below, Broadway’s nightclub, last night’s notable attendees included legendary record producer, music industry executive an…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 03:20PMJonathan Tolins makes “Buyer and Cellar” a comedy for Streisand fans AND newbies — Having collected so much stuff in such staggering quantities, Barbra Streisand had a shop…
Linked From Theatre Development Fund at 03:18PMYou know summertime in New York has arrived when the Delacorte Theater unwraps itself for Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater presents two free Shakespeare works this season: The Com…
Linked From WQXR at 03:15PM“We all are, to some degree, in a state of being halfway. Between birth and death, sanity and insanity, sober independence and complete, falling down addiction. We are neither moral nor im…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 03:12PM Broadway In Chicago, Emerald City Theatre and First Stage are thrilled to announce their partnership for the holiday classic, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER®. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REI…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 03:12PM“Cirque Shanghai: Dragon’s Thunder” will feature an additional performance on Thursday, July 4, with performances at 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Navy Pier July 4 fireworks cel…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 03:12PMEuripides’ Medea
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Linked From citypaper.com at 03:07PMJust for Laughs offshoot JFL42 is returning to Toronto this fall, and it's bringing some heavy-hitters
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:04PMJohn Cameron Mitchell, who wrote the original musical, said in a statement: "Who better to pass the wig to but the finest entertainer of his generation?"
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Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new book.
Linked From The Independent at 02:59PMThe third annual 'Night of A Thousand Judys' - presented by The Meeting hosted by Justin Sayre - featured Maude MaggartEntertainment Weekly's 'Must List', Tituss Burgess '30 Rock,' Jersey Bo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMAmerica's favorite host, two-time Emmy Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron DANCING WITH THE STARS will return tothe West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to host A CAPITOL FOURTH, star…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMStage and screen crossover superstars Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick star in the feature adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's cult hit two-character musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS and even more …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:59PM(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). When asked to write about Innovation …
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 02:44PMAldeburgh Beach: Celebrations of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth are taking place in 39 countries, such is the widespread appeal of one of our greatest composers. Few will hav…
Linked From The Stage at 02:43PMVillage Underground, London: As part of <a href="http://www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/whats-on/summer-festival-2013/early-opera-company-monteverdi-ballets/">The Spitalfields S…
Linked From The Stage at 02:43PMWatermill Theatre, Bagnor: The story of Laurel and Hardy's rise to fame, told from beyond the grave by the two men themselves, is a poignant and beautifully crafted theatrical tribute.
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Linked From The Stage at 02:43PMThe beloved literary classic, Anne of Green Gables, comes to life in this hilarious and inspiring new musical for the whole family. Anne Shirley is mistakenly adopted by siblings Marill and …
Linked From nymf.org at 02:39PMProducers announced June 17 that the iconic John Cameron Mitchell-Stephen Trask rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch would receive its Broadway debut in 2014 starring Emmy Award nominee Ne…
Linked From Playbill at 02:33PMCast members from the music-filled Broadway musical Motown will be featured on the Independence Day celebration "A Capitol Fourth," which airs on PBS stations around the country Ju…
Linked From Playbill at 02:33PMAnnie Golden and Philip Hoffman are among the cast of the musical comedy Marry Harry, which will begin performances July 19, as part of the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), at …
Linked From Playbill at 02:33PMTony Award nominees Josh Gad and Santino Fontana will be part of the Disney 3D animated feature "Frozen," which is due in theatres this fall, according to The Wrap.
Linked From Playbill at 02:33PMOkay – here is a confession – I don’t read anything about a show before I go see it. It probably stems from being raised Catholic and not liking it when the priests told me what God d…
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Linked From Trav S.D. at 02:29PMFresh off his celebrated repeat performance as host of the Tony Awards, it is revealed that Neil Patrick Harris will star in the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation of “Hedwig and the Ang…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 02:29PM“You’ll have plenty of time to hold her tomorrow. You’ll have the whole rest of your life.” So says brand-new daddy and eager-to-sleep husband Peter (Gabriel Franken) to his excited …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 02:23PMem>Every aspect of "Yeezus" has been shaped to alienate Kanye West’s fanbase – from the lack of cover art to the undernourished track list of ten songs.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 02:22PMThe 21st century echoes parts of “The Henrietta,” an 1887 production now at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMDon't want to hear the final school bell ring at Crunchem Hall in Matilda? No problem! Audiences will be able to catch Tony nominees Bertie Carvel, Lauren Ward, Tony winner Gabriel Ebert…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:16PMCasting is complete for Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi, the new musical about the life and music of Shlomo Carlebach. Amber Iman (Rent, A Civil War Christmas) will play Nina Simon…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:16PMIf religious conservatives can say they hear the voice of God, then Jane Lynch felt free to actually be “the voice of God” at the TrevorLive gala June 17 at the Chelsea Piers in Gotham.
Linked From variety.com at 02:06PMStage and screen actor Francesca Annis talks about the cult of celebrity, going nude for Roman Polanski and the pressure of playing a famous beautyWhat first drew you to acting?It happened b…
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"I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole – and yet – and yet – it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!" Oh, it is. It really is. Throughout this series of articles …
Linked From The Independent at 01:57PM"Most people don't associate those in business with knowing anything about the arts," John Studzinski declares, raisinghis voice above the hubbub of creative types sharing a drink with phila…
Linked From The Independent at 01:57PMNBC News today announced that it has greenlit an exclusive, hour-long documentary chronicling Valerie Harper's battle with a rare, terminal cancer.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMEmmy Award-winning NYC based entertainment firm RWS and Associates Entertainment, Inc. has been tapped by Holland America Line as part of a renewed commitment to revolutionize the way live s…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMLast night, June 17, stars of Broadway, TV and Film in celebrated the 100th anniversary of Actors' Equity Association AEA, the oldest performing arts union representing 49,000 professional s…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMShowbiz411 reports exclusively 'Les Mis' star Aaron Tveit has been cast in an upcoming short film from Georgina Chapman.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMAccording to posts on their Facebook pages, Broadway couple Nikki Renee Daniels and Jeff Kready welcomed a baby girl, Lena Renee Kready, into the world at 658 this morning. 'Mother and daugh…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMThe acclaimed revival of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking musical smash CHICAGO welcomes Drama Desk nominee Alexander Gemignani tonight, June 18, in the role of 'that silver-tongued …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMCity Theatre in Miami, Florida hosts CityWrights 2013 —A Conference for Playwrights—which will be livestreaming on HowlRound TV Thursday, June 20 to Saturday, June 22. To participate in …
Linked From HowlRound at 01:56PMJulianna Margulies and Paul Rudd star in this benefit reading directed by playwright Neil LaBute, who is celebrating a decade of collaboration and new work with MCC Theater. Proceeds from th…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:46PMJane Lynch, Lilla Crawford, and cast members from the 2012 Broadway revival of the classic musical Annie celebrated the show's newly released cast recording with a CD signing at Barnes
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:46PMBryan Terrell Clark — who plays Marvin Gaye — takes camera in hand and leads Playbill on a backstage tour of the Broadway hit Motown: The Musical. In Part One of this three-part video se…
Linked From Playbill at 01:39PMState Gives $3 Million Grant for $7.8 Million Project; Largest In Center's History
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:38PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run July 8-28, has announced additional concerts, educational workshops and a "Musicals on Television" screening series in …
Linked From Playbill at 01:32PMToday is the birthday of the great Broadway playwright Philip Barry (1896-1949). Everyone knows his most famous creation The Philadelphia Story (1939), so I thought I’d share a few n…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 01:29PMLast night a small but enthusiastic group of WhatsOnStage theatregoers made their way to the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand for one of the final performances of The West End Men. A concert…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:17PMThe long-running, Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago welcomes Broadway favorite Alexander Gemignani to the razzling and dazzling company beginning June 18 at the Ambassador Theatre.
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Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMDaniel Pearle’s drama A Kid Like Jake, about the quest of NYC parents to place their precocious four-year-old in private school, officially opened at Lincoln Center Theater’s Cla…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMSchool is in session for Jonah Platt (The Office), Payson Lewis (The Sing-Off) and Lindsay Pearce (Glee), who will lead the new Los Angeles production of Bare. Written by Damon Intrabartolo …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMHappy birthday, Actors’ Equity Association! The oldest performing arts union in the country celebrated its magnificent 100th birthday in May, and actors from across the entertainment i…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMLooks like Norbert Leo Butz will go girl-crazy at 54 Below well into the summer. The two-time Tony winner has extended his latest show Girls, Girls, Girls, adding four new dates in July. But…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMJosh Gad, Santino Fontana (Cinderella) and Alan Tudyk (Spamalot) are the latest Broadway talents to be announced for the ensemble of Disney’s upcoming animated movie Frozen, which alre…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:15PMTricycle, LondonIn his last play, The Faith Machine, which opened at the Royal Court in 2011, Alexi Kaye Campbell dealt with the conflict between religious idealism and the free market. Now …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:03PMWhat Samantha Cameron might have thought of the West End hit play The AudienceWell of course Mr Cobber is a genius & there is nothing Maria does not know about the arts but I do not think we…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:03PMFinborough, LondonIt's hard to believe that it is 30 years since Doug Lucie's scathing portrait of a self-absorbed, style-conscious generation first appeared. I've never forgotten Mike Bradw…
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Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership ofJulianne Boyd Artistic Director and TriStan Wilson Managing Director, presents the Bern…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMThree-time Tony winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir 'Jack Be Nimble The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director' will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on June 18, 2013.…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMWalt Disney Animation Studios WDAS has tapped a trio of talented actors to join the voice cast in 'Frozen.' Josh Gad 'The Internship,' 'Love amp Other Drugs,' Broadway's 'The Book of Mormon'…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the concerts, educational workshops, and a screening series that will complete the programming for its 10th annual festival, which will be…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:45PMThe national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through Chicago for two weeks next April at the Bank of America …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:44PMThe last time Bill Maher headlined at the Chicago Theatre, he had Ann Coulter along for, forgive me, balance. That, it felt, was a rivalry born in mutual expediency, a mock political debate …
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:44PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howlin' Wolf)" at Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★
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Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:44PMThe holiday attraction at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place will be a show with origins at First Stage, an Equity children's theater in Milwaukee.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:44PMWriters Theatre in Glecoe has announced some of its seasonal casting for 2013-14.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 12:44PMTweetAs we continue with our week dedicated to the best broadway songs for Father’s Day about Dads, we thought of including one from a show where there is a Dad, but a Dad who has a ne…
Linked From Broadway Reviewed at 12:43PMThe classic tale of kindness to animals and animal kindnesses trots, crawls and flies onto the stage in DOCTOR DOLITTLE JR. All of the characters we’ve come to love through the stories…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 12:42PMTickets to the upcoming Broadway productions of Harold Pinter’s No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which will play in repertory starring Ian McKellen, Pat…
Linked From Playbill at 12:32PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) will present The Brontes — from Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre and vaudeville company Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue — beg…
Linked From Playbill at 12:32PMAmber Iman will star as Nina Simone in the Broadway debut of Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, which will begin previews July 17 at Circle i…
Linked From Playbill at 12:32PMStephanie J. Block, a 2013 Tony nominee for her performance in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will go it solo at Birdland next month.
Linked From Playbill at 12:32PMTony Award winner Karen Ziemba, Christiane Noll, Carol Woods and Jason Graae will salue late composer Marvin Hamlisch in They're Playing His Songs at the Cape Playhouse this summer.
Linked From Playbill at 12:32PMToday is the birthday of Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965). The Philadelphia native took singing and dancing lessons as a child, sang in church and performed with a juvenile vaudeville act prod…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 12:28PMWell, maybe this isn’t the last time. Maybe this isn’t the last tour. Maybe they’ll be around for a few more years at least. And why the hell not? The Stones have still got it, and …
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 12:20PMThe Today Show got a heaping helping of glitter, glam and heart on the morning of June 18 as the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots strutted into Rockefeller Center. In the video below, the la…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:14PMUnconstitutional, a new comedy written by and starring popular comedian and SNL vet Colin Quinn, will extend and transfer to off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre for a three-week run begin…
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The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, will present the 3rd annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMThoughts on Tracy Letts' Tony Award acceptance speech.
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMAs previously reported, Glorystruck productions will present the Los Angeles return of the Damon Intrabartolo-Jon Hartmere pop opera at the Hayworth Theatre in Downtown LA, September 5, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMTickets to the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter's NO MAN'S LAND and Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, starring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudupand Shuler Hensley direc…
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMBucks County Playhouse BCP presents the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMLast night, June 17, stars of Broadway, TV and Film in celebrated the 100th anniversary of Actors' Equity Association AEA, the oldest performing arts union representing 49,000 professional …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:56AM“Monty Python's Spamalot” managed its Muny debut in style, a knockabout comedy with the perfect attitude for a performance that nearly didn't happen.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 11:53AMBenoit-Swan Pouffer, the acclaimed former artistic director of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, is set to choreograph the upcoming Broadway musical Soul Doctor, which will play the Circle in …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMOn June 27, Los Angeles' Independent Shakespeare Company is heading to the Old Zoo at Griffith Park for another season of free Shakespeare. The largest free Shakespeare festival ever to come…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AMJulianna Margulies and Paul Rudd star in this benefit reading directed by playwright Neil LaBute, who is celebrating a decade of collaboration and new work with playwright-in-residence Neil …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:44AM(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). [The following essay is an edited ver…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 11:43AMHe was the artist singled out by Lincoln Center to kick off LCT3, a new venture to nurture emerging playwrights, and delivered a Drama Desk and Outer Critics-nominated work, the one-man hip-…
Linked From The Journal News at 11:37AMKef theatrical productions will present Kef Kids Cabaret, an evening of songs featuring some of Broadway, TV and film's biggest little stars, July 1 at The Cutting Room.
Linked From Playbill at 11:32AMStage and screen actors Payson Lewis (NBC's "The Sing Off", "Victorious"), Jonah Platt ("The Office") and Lindsay Pearce ("Glee", "The G…
Linked From Playbill at 11:32AMAcademy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal ("Crazy Heart") will star in Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike as part of MCC Theater's 2013-14 season, which will also include th…
Linked From Playbill at 11:32AMThe 2013-14 season at GableStage will feature My Name is Asher Lev, a new staging of Antony & Cleopatra and the recent Tony Award winner Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Linked From Playbill at 11:32AMThe Lyric Hammersmith will present an eight-month season of ‘secret’ repertory work at its venue from this autumn while it continues its £16.5 million capital project, which includes a …
Linked From The Stage at 11:27AMLondon venues such as the Barbican, Sadler’s Wells and Shakespeare’s Globe are among 200 cultural organisations that will take part in the first UK-wide arts festival for families. Regio…
Linked From The Stage at 11:27AMManhattan Theatre Club’s American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s CHOIR BOY, the new play featuring gospel music directed by Trip Cullman begins previews tonight at 7:30 PM in prepar…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:25AM- As One Night with Janis Joplin opens its return summer engagement Friday, June 21st at Arena Stage, we were treated to an interview with Janis’ brother and sister – Forty-thr…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMTickets to the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter’s NO MAN’S LAND and Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT, starring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensle…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:15AM"This was a hard speech to write. Hard, because it has to contain arrogance and humility. Arrogance because there is definitely something provocative and cocky in the gesture we are making, …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:15AMHartford Courant 06/14/13
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:13AMThe American premiere of Manhattan Theatre Club's gospel-infused show Choir Boy, directed by Trip Cullman and written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, begins previews on June 18 as part of The …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:13AMMichael Urie is back on the stage! The former Ugly Betty star opens the second engagement of his acclaimed one-man show Buyer & Cellar, written by Jonathan Tolins. The comedy ended its e…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:13AMProducing partners and (real-life spouses) Tom and Michael D’Angora are the masterminds behind the audience favorites NEWSical The Musical, A Broadway Diva Christmas, Icons and Naked B…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:13AMOscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart, The Dark Knight) is joining MCC Theater’s previously announced 2013-2014 season. Gyllenhaal will lead Sam Gold’s production of Penel…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:13AMWHO: Labyrinth Theater Company POSITION: Communications Manager DESCRIPTION: LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY, the award-winning Off-Broadway ensemble, seeks a creative and passionate Communicatio…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:13AMThe survey results are in, and here’s your report card on this year’s Tony Awards telecast. 98. 66% of Producer’s Perspective readers watched the Awards On a scale of 1 to …
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:02AMMarking the London theatre's refurbishment, the Lyric's new season will feature 10 secret, different plays in a new seasonThe Lyric Hammersmith has formed an in-house repertory company of 20…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:02AMHeard the one about the all-male Islamist TV show? Plus: Flight of the Conchords take to the road and Simon Pegg has awkward encounter with a Chinese alienThis week's comedy newsThe debate a…
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SILENCE! THE MUSICAL will end its triumphant two-year run Sunday, July 7th at the Elektra Theatre. The production will have played a total of 529 performances and eight previews. The show’…
Linked From The AndyGram at 10:59AMOn this morning's TODAY SHOW on NBC, actor Billy Porter talked about his best actor Tony win and joined his fellow Kinky Boots castmates for a performance of the finale number of the show, w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMWhile some shows will proceed as normal for the upcoming holiday weekend, others are working on adjusted schedules. Catch up on which are doing what below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAmy Adams, who stars as Lois Lane in the new Superman thriller MAN OF STEEL, graces the cover of this month's Allure Magazine. Below, check out the images shot by photographer Norman Jean Ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMPremiered at London's Royal Court in 2011, the play won Penelope Skinner the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award. read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 10:54AMActors' Equity Association celebrated its 100th birthday with a black-tie gala at the Midtown Hilton Hotel on Monday, June 17. Founded May 26, 1913, the union represents nearly 17,000 profes…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:43AMAcademy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) is following up her recent off-Broadway appearances in productions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (2009) and Three Sisters (2011) at Classic S…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:43AMOn Monday, like heaven releasing manna down to the Earth, the Internet dropped into our unworthy laps two extraordinary videos dare we say, bite-size cinematic masterpieces that we have only…
Linked From Washington Post at 10:35AMThe latest concert special from singer Sarah Brightman, who created the role of Christine in the London and Broadway productions of The Phantom of the Opera, will air on PBS stations around …
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMKendra Kassebaum (Leap of Faith, Assassins, Wicked, Rent) has joined the cast of the June 27 industry readings of Scott Alan and Christy Hall's original musical Home, which will be direc…
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMCarla Gugino and Peter Grosz star in the LCT3 production of Daniel Pearle's Laurents/Hatcher Award-winning play A Kid Like Jake, about a young boy with a passion for Cinderella and playi…
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced casting for this year's National Playwrights Conference. The line-up includes veterans as well as newcomers to The O'Neill.
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMColin Quinn Unconstitutional, a new comedy written by and starring Colin Quinn, will open at the Cherry Lane Theatre July 4, according to Deadline.com.
Linked From Playbill at 10:31AMSouthwark Playhouse is to stage the world premiere of a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker called Our Ajax. The play, based on Sophocles’ Ajax, forms part of the theatre’s autumn season …
Linked From The Stage at 10:26AMToday is the birthday of the great Mae Busch (1891-1946). It’s ironic that today she is best known for playing shrewish and unattractive wives in Laurel and Hardy movies; at the height…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 10:26AM“Find an ending, please.” No, this is not what was asked of the audience on Saturday night at Shear Madness, one of those (otherwise quite conventional) plays at which the ending…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMThere's a delicious sense of déjà-vu – if you inhabited urban bedsitter-land around 1970 – about the new touring production of Eric Chappell's Rising Damp directed by one of the stars …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 10:14AMA monkey and a crocodile. Together. In the same playground. In the UK. Surely not. Joe Raynor investigates… Stranger things have happened in the name of theatre, but you would be forgi…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 10:11AM Book of Mormon Tony Winner Nikki M. James set to debut at 54 Below By: Sandi Durell
You can't forget her fabulous role in the Tony Award winning ground-breaker "Book …
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Elden Street Players for Young Audiences presents Carter Bunch’s Snow White and Rose Red, a stage adaptation of the classic story’s roots – before a bold and daring sister was trad…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMBrad Pitt brought traffic to a standstill in New York City's Times Square at yesterday's red carpet premiere of his new film WORLD WAR Z. Also in attendance, rocker Adam Lambert and Tony nom…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMInspired by the wonderment and beauty of space, Dreamchaser is a reflection of Brightman's lifelong dream to travel into space. SARAH BRIGHTMAN DREAMCHASER IN CONCERT is part of special prog…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMLincoln Center TheaterLCT3's 2012-2013 season continued last night, June 17 with the opening of A KID LIKE JAKE, a new play by Daniel Pearle, directed by Evan Cabnet, and featuring Caroline …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMAccording ot the New York Times, stage and screen star Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to lead THE VILLAGE BIKE at MCC Theatre as a part of its 2013-14 seaon. Gyllenhaal will play 'a pregnant young…
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMLincoln Center Theater's LCT3 world premiere production of Daniel Pearle's A Kid Like Jake celebrated its opening night at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday, June 17. Evan Cabnet directs the …
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:43AMThe Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has announced another round of funding to support projects that provide young people with opportunities to engage in the arts. New recipients include the R…
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMMichael Grandage's new West End production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, opens June 18 at the West End's Noel Coward…
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMLondon's Gate Theatre will present a season of three award-winning plays from the U.S. under the umbrella title These American Lives, comprising George Brant's Grounded, Ethan Lipton…
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMLondon's Southwark Playhouse will offer the U.K. premiere of Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North, beginning performances Sept. 11 prior to an official opening Sept. 13, for a ru…
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMLondon's Lyric Theatre has announced its new season that will run from Sept. 6 under the umbrella title Secret Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 09:31AMOriginally posted in 2011. There was a long time there when the name “Paul McCartney” (born today in 1942) was to me like fingernails on a chalkboard. In my youth (and largely …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:25AMAfter his ill-fated “Orphans” closed early and he was then snubbed by the Tonys, the former “30 Rock” star seemingly was barred from a VIP bathroom at Nathan Lane’s Tony-winning sh…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 09:22AMUNDER THE SPELL OF MATILDA Just as author Roald Dahl’s child-heroine “Matilda” is a magical mix of unexpected brilliance, youthful exuberance and solid common sense — so is the R…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:22AMPHALLUS IN BLUNDERLAND Who has been accused of being a Sexual Reprobate? Satirist? Socialist? Philosopher? The precursor to Freudian psychology and existentialism? Woman-hating pornographer?…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:22AMLike many with theatrical aspirations, Matthew Wolf started as a waiter in the Big Apple - an ambitious twentysomething aiming for a shot at the big stage.
Linked From Philly.com at 09:22AMA SHOW OF GREAT IMPORTANCE An anomaly of the Hollywood Fringe Festival has arrived. A gem which alone justifies the Fringe’s existence. A nascent troupe named Good People Theater Company i…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:22AMTerrence McNally has a long history with Philadelphia-area audiences, premiering several of his plays here (he opened four at Philadelphia Theatre Company). For his newest, Mothers and Sons,…
Linked From Philly.com at 09:22AMWhy the Tonys are the best family television ever. by Lauren Silverman Durban, writer There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere who’s sitting there living for Tony performances Singin’ an…
Linked From Crazytown at 09:22AMTalk about shows that appeal to niche audiences! Daniel Pearle’s new play, “A Kid Like Jake,” should captivate yuppie parents from upscale urban neighborhoods who are ob…
Linked From variety.com at 09:22AM Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. Café Carlyle – June 13, 2013 Tales from the Jazz Age: An F. Scott Fitzgerald Songbook, a very special new theatrical revue, was conceived and co-cr…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 09:22AMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. 54 Below June 15, 2013 Bryan Batt has two home towns, The Big Apple (NYC) and The Big Easy (New Orleans.) On a rare break from shooting several movies, Batt appea…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 09:22AMCinderella on Broadway Releases New CD: On June 13th Barnes and Noble became a fairy tale kingdom as the stars from Broadway’s Tony-nominated musical Cinderella celebrated the release of t…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 09:22AMIn terms of donations, arts and culture was Americans’ fastest-growing charitable cause in 2012, rising an estimated 7.8% to $14.44 billion, according to a leading annual research repo…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:22AMThe Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has awarded more than $127,000 to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:22AMA few days ago I found myself sat in a Finsbury Park pub talking to a man who dismantled bombs for a living, who had completed two tours in Afghanistan fighting the unending war against Impr…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 09:18AMPeter Peters is a Washington creature. By day, he lives on a steady diet of sound bites and policy briefs. At night, he dreams of Senate confirmations and missions accomplished. In The Pundi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMIf you thought every single musical you knew I had already been turned into a movie adaptation over the past year, think again. After musicals such as Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia and most recent…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 09:15AMBirmingham Hippodrome 2013 is yielding a veritable embarrassment of riches for Wagner-lovers, but WNO's staging of the late Jonathan Harvey's meditative Wagner Dream has to be one of the mo…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:13AM'Shield' is a reference to a (poignantly explored) historical legend about an Aboriginal Bark Shield brought from Australia to England by Captain Cook in 1770. As the layers of history which…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:13AMThe things you can control. Everyone experiences failure in some form or fashion. The problem is that most times, when that moment arrives, we look at all of the things that we can't control…
Linked From One Producer in the City at 09:11AMThe Broadway Blog’s editor Matthew Wexler is hopeful that the sun will come out tomorrow now that Jane Lynch has joined the cast of Annie. Looks like it’s partly cloudy… A…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 09:10AMYou’re invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the global, peer-produced, open-source HowlRound TV project. …
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Mr. Sahlins was the last survivor of the three founders of Second City, the Chicago nightclub that nurtured generations of comedians.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:54AMMs. Stuart had a recurring role on the soap opera “The Edge of Night” and starred in two nonfiction books by the writer Helene Hanff.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:54AMFollowing a critically acclaimed run at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater this past fall, One Night with Janis Joplin returns for a summer run. Leading the production is Ma…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMProducers of the upcoming Broadway musical Soul Doctor, about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and his unlikely friendship with Nina Simone, announced today that Benoit-Swan Pouf…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMBucks County Playhouse BCP presents the world premiere of Mothers and Sons, a new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally. Last seen at Bucks County in Love Letters …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMTHE KEEGAN THEATRE ANNOUNCES AMBITIOUS SEVEN-SHOW SEASON Theater Will Go Dark in Spring 2014 as Renovations Begin The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce its 2013-2014 season, which has be…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31AMMatthew-Lee Erlbach
Hometown: Chicago (Rogers Park to be exact)Current Town: NYCQ: Tell me about your upcoming shows.A: Two shows, so very opposite:My play HANDBOOK FOR AN …
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:25AMOriginally posted in 2011. Born on this day in 1896, Blanche Sweet was raised in a vaudeville and theatrical family, making her onstage debut at age 4. In 1909, she began working for Biog…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:24AMToday is the birthday of Sandy Allen (1955-2008). From 1976 until her death she was the tallest woman in the world, at 7′ 7″, due to a pituitary condition. Never with sideshows p…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 08:24AMOxford Playhouse Complicite returned to the Oxford Playhouse this week for the first time in over a decade, with their first family orientated production – an adaptation of Zizou Corder's…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:12AMInternationally acclaimed theatre company Ilotopie is set to perform on the waters of the historic Manchester Ship Canal. According to press material, "A car appears to float effortlessly o…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:12AMThe new season at the Gate theatre is named 'These American Lives' and features three plays from the US about the world of work. The season opens with Grounded (28 August –21 September), …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:12AMAnytime you look on the popular website Craigslist you are barraged by job listings and people looking for companionship. Every once in a while you come across a listing that is really ridic…
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Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:53AMJude Law will be performing live on stage with actors Luke Treadaway and Niamh Cusack as part of A Curious Night at the Theatre, a unique charity gala at the Apollo Theatre on 1 July 2013. J…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:53AMDaniel Radcliffe has spoken about his struggle with perfecting an Irish accent for his new role as a disabled boy in Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan.
Linked From The Independent at 07:53AMIan Talbot is to direct the world premiere of a new play at the Charing Cross Theatre called Afraid of the Dark, which is billed as a “new brand of theatrical terror that paralyses the...
Linked From The Stage at 07:25AMWhat a great day for songwriters! Not only Louis Alter and Con Conrad, but also Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen, 1913-1993). Cahn came along a little too late for vaudeville, but he did attend cons…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 07:22AMToday is the birthday of Con Conrad (Conrad Dober, 1891-1938). A New York native, he started out playing piano in a Harlem movie house as a teenager, and gradually worked his way up to playi…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 07:22AMIntroducing the first of our weekly visits to Slings and Arrows, where the travails of doing theatre makes great television. Hope you can watch along with us. Your host, John Dellaporta …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AMMichael Frayn's comedy classic Noises Off recently enjoyed a spirited and lively revival at the Old Vic, followed by a swift transfer to the West End. The cast might have changed but this to…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:10AMJude Law will join The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time stars Luke Treadaway and Niamh Cusack as part of A Curious Night at the Theatre, a unique charity gala at the Apollo Thea…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:10AM1. Exciting Top New Talent
Grassroots works hard to source the top, new, young British talent, who will be future stars. Producer Siobhan Daly personally reads every application, usually aro…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:10AMAnd not just sex: elation, camaraderie, play and, of course, mindlessness, frustration and blind rage. The herds explored in BONEdanse’s “bully.punk.riot.” are unquestionably aggressiv…
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After the death of my disabled son Nihal, I spent nine years writing a poem and stage show that pays tribute to his courage and strengthThe nuclear grey, Christmas Eve morning in 2001, …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:59AMToday is the birthday of songwriter Louis Alter (1902-1980). Alter started out as a silent film accompanist at the age of 13. In time he worked his way up from nickelodeons to accompanying h…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 06:22AM– Guest writer Jessica North Macie, co-writer of How to Have it All: The Musical, is a local actor, playwright English teacher at National Cathedral School, and full-time mommy to Lail…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:13AMA musical theater collection needn’t – indeed shouldn’t – be confined to those timeless hits familiar to all theater aficionados. There are so many fabulous scores that never…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:13AM– Guest writer Alan Harris: An obsession with how people cope with change in extreme circumstances has led to this leading Welsh playwright making his Capital Fringe debut this year.…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:13AMBreakout sessions at conferences can be panels of experts, with a short Q&A afterwards. The StageSource Theater Conference: Reframing Success is going to have a different structure for t…
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By: Isa GoldbergLouise CamutoVilla Maria - a classic American mansion in the style of The Breakers, its waterfront vistas, sweeping lawns and beautiful stone work …
Linked From theaterlife.com at 02:50AM By: David ShewardKelli O’Hara, Isaiah JohnsonFor a few decades now, the biggest musical theater trend is transferring hit movies to the stage. It u…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 02:50AM By: David ShewardDavid Pittu, Omar SangareThe concept of 3 Kinds of Exile sounds intriguing, on paper anyway. Quirky and insightful playwright John Gua…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 02:50AM“You’re the one who chose Alan Alda’s entrance music, aren’t you?”
So said many people to me after I’d hosted The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards on June 3. Whenever a presente…
Linked From Masterworks Broadway at 02:45AMInside Broadway honored Tony Award nominees Laura Osnes (Cinderella) and Condola Rashad (The Trip to the Bountiful) and Buyer and Cellar and "Ugly Betty" star Michael Urie at the B…
Linked From Playbill at 02:26AMCarla Gugino and Peter Grosz star in the LCT3 production of Daniel Pearle's Laurents/Hatcher Award-winning play A Kid Like Jake, about a young boy with a passion for Cinderella and playi…
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Three-time Tony winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir 'Jack Be Nimble The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director' will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux today, June 18, 2…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:47AMManhattan Theatre Club presents the American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, the new play featuring gospel music directed by Trip Cullman at MTC's The Studio at Stage II - Har…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:47AMFringe FuryIt's the best of times, it's the worst of timesby Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisPlease...patience with me this week but I have a buttload of pissed-offedness that has to expres…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:47AMWhen Jacques Brel died in 1978 at the age of 49 he left behind a body of work whose influence extends far beyond any barriers of genre, culture or age. Still, The Adelaide Cabaret Festival…
Linked From AussieTheatre at 12:45AMLast week, Jonny Orsini chatted about winning the prestegious Dorothy Loudon Award, given each season to an actor making his or her Broadway debut. (Click HERE for Part I of this interview.)…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:40AMAri Brand plays the title character in Aaron Posner's new adaptation of the classic Chaim Potok novel My Name is Asher Lev, currently playing at Westside Theatre. The play, set in post-war B…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:36AMThe acclaimed troupe Theater Breaking Through Barriers offers something you won’t find anywhere else: Its works revolve around disability — which is only appropriate, since some of its m…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMGreg and Alex are a happily married Manhattan couple with a 4-year-old son. Jake is smart, creative — and he loves pretending to be a princess.
“We’ve got seven different Cinderella D…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:31AMMusical theatre favorite Jessica Grové, currently starring as Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid at Paper Mill Playhouse, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random fa…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMPaper Mill Playhouse offers a brand new production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid running through June 30. Just one year after winning Paper Mill's Rising Star Award, Morgan Kirner…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AM"I'm constantly scared," admitted Shalita Grant. "I mean, all the time. I walk down the street and I'm like, 'That scaffolding is gonna decapitate me.'"
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis, who was recently seen in the Broadway revival of Jekyll & Hyde, and Rock of Ages' Kate Rockwell star in a private industry reading of the Air…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMMichael Urie stars as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement in Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, which returns Off-Broadway and b…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMManhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, a play with gospel music, begins performances June 18 prior to an official opening July 2.
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMHamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson play identical twins in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Comedy of Errors, which officially opens June 18 after pr…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMJonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in Barbra Streisand's basement, transfers to the Barrow Street …
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) will present staged concerts of Song Moments, featuring the music and lyrics of 2013 Kleban Award-winning writer Daniel Maté, July 15 at T…
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMThe national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which launched in Minneapolis earlier this winter, begins an 10-week Las Vegas run June 18 at the Venetian Hotel.
Linked From Playbill at 12:25AMDirector Crispin Taylor has once again managed to inspire and elicit the best from his cast of WAAPA’s (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) musical theatre students, in this yea…
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