At Hofstra University, an interdisciplinary conference including dance performances, lectures and art exhibitions puts a spotlight on war.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:50PMOriginally published in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 76.You may have noticed by now that many of Wallace's stories don't exactly end. After watc…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:46PMBroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 492011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30PM"Tomorrow Morning" presented by The York Theatre Company at Theatre at St. Peter's, April 2, 2011
In a slimmed down one-act version, following its US premiere in Chicago, Tomorrow…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 11:27PMJust about the time early in “Company” when Martha Plimpton karate chops Stephen Colbert to the ground – long before Neil Patrick Harris strips off his shirt and beds Christina Hendric…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:02PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tenor Juan Diego Florez has really delivered: a host of high Cs to a worldwide audience of millions - and minutes earlier, his own baby boy in New York City....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:55PMCheek by Jowl's Scottish play at BAM. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:23PMLegit Reviews: In "The Escort" Jand Anderson tackles her diciest theme yet, the American way of sex.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:07PMRoyal Court; Bermondsey Square hotel; Young Vic; New Diorama, all LondonFasten your seat-belts, as we are about to experience turbulence. Simon Stephens's new play, Wastwater, uses air trave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe writer and director talks about the revival of his 1979 play Ecstasy, arts cuts and why he doesn't tweetWhen Ecstasy was first written and performed, Margaret Thatcher was just coming in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe actor created a theatre in Jenin but was killed for his idealsHe had feared for his life in the past, but Juliano Mer-Khamis foresaw no danger when he carried his one-year-old son, Jay, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMRobin Howard Dance theatre, LondonThe Place prize is dance's equivalent of the Turner or Man Booker prizes. Awarded annually, and sponsored by the business news organisation Bloomberg, it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe Israeli-Palestinian director and Freedom Theatre founder, who was murdered in the West Bank city of Jenin last week, talks about the importance of drama as a means of coping with Israeli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, DRIVING MISS DAISY will end its extended Broadway premiere engagement April 9 at the John Golden Theatre with its three original stars Tony Award w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:23PMArcadia is an amazing play. The language is, in places, sublime; the ideas totally scintillating. Many consider it to be Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. And yet, the production now playing at …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:20PMAnyone who watches the television shopping networks is familiar with QVC's Rick Domeier. The self-proclaimed Captain Midnight is usually on in the late night hours and has more energy than a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMThe New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's COMPANY, which will end its run at Avery Fisher Hall on April 9, will be filmed this weekend for movie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PMThe Brick Theater, Inc. in association withSneaky Snake ProductionsandCaptain Sharky's Historical Gender Equality Reactualization Burlesque Society
presents
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A continuing Nerd Burl…
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Sidney Lumet, who directed modern American film classics such as 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict, died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan, according to the New York Ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMCanadian stage star dares to go naked in Calendar Girls just before her 60th birthday.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:29PMTAKING JUKEBOX MUSICALS TO TASK Grab those love beads and tie-dye shirts, smoke a bowl, and head down to Long Beach to hear kick-ass songs from the 60s and 70s delivered with professional gu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:28PMThe New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which concludes its run at Avery Fisher Hall on April 9, is being filmed for movie …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PM
Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet has died in New York City at age 86, according to published reports.
Lumet was a child actor, and appeared as a youth in numberous Broadway productions, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMBeginning Friday, Larry Coen will play the role of the Magician in Wheelock Family Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.’’ He comes to the role fresh from his tu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMTo the screeching of car horns and police sirens, a pair of rival gangs collide in an urban jungle of tenements, back alleys, and construction sites. Two hours later, after a dizzying displa…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThere will be dance, electronic music, and art exhibitions across the city. But the organizers of the Boston Cyberarts Festival expect families will be particularly drawn to the Egyptian sce…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMThis week Rob reviews two CDs in the Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon series: A Horse With Wings and Bric-A-Brac
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AM“The Book of Mormon” offers insight on stage into the experiences of believers taking their faith to foreign lands.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:15AMNEW YORK (AP) — Classical guitarist Rolando Valdes-Blain has died in New York City after a life spent performing to audiences from Broadway to the White House.
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 11:15AMMichael Tilson Thomas shared the roots of his musicianship and theatrical instincts in “The Thomashefskys,” performed with the New York Philharmonic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:14AMTruth be told, the audience was an equally eclectic bunch. There were the typical Sondheim fans: Elaine Stritch, who appeared in the musical's original company, and designer Michael Kors. Th…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:13AMThe stars turned out in force last night for the first performance of New York Philharmonic’s four-nights-only production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. There was Alec Baldwin, calling o…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:12AMAndrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues is based on the dubious premise that marital infidelity is the end of the world. And from where I was sitting, I got a stiff neck, to boot.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:11AMSebastian Barry is the finest Irish playwright of his generation, and in The Pride of Parnell Street he recreates the Dublin of the 1990s with the most economical of means: two characters, o…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:10AMIn The 39 Steps, as in most Walnut Street Theatre productions, art never strays too far from public taste— for which let us be grateful.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:10AMPhotos have been released from the 100th episode of 30 Rock, the television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AM Every weekend I'm going to post some of the youtube clips that I come
across that I especially love -- those that give me goosebumps, touch
my heart or make me laugh.Here's a clip of…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:00AMWho is going to see Robin Williams? I have no idea. Ok, that's not true. I know who won, I just don't know their real name. This contest was just open to email subscribers and the winner is …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The New Directions, along with the addition of “Glee”’s two favorite Warblers, Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss), get ready for the highly anticipated summer co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AMThat's right - only 4 more days to secure a spot in our April Neo-Intensive... TKO Solo: Writing and Performing a High Impact Monologue.Created and taught by ensemble members Bilal Dardai an…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 08:24AMAccording to Leo Tolstoy, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Andrew Bovell's play Speaking in Tongues seems determined to prove virtually the opp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 9 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: 26-year-old musical resurges on West End, road -- Now in its 26th year, the original London production of "Les Miserables" is the world's longest runner -- and currently carries …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Mormon,' 'Succeed' draw attention -- The spring-break boom dwindled in Week 45 (March 28-April 3), but additions to the Broadway slate and the spiraling momentum of a couple of …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Mega-producer backs his first new tuner in a decade -- In 2001, following the lukewarm reception that greeted his musical version of "The Witches of Eastwick," Cameron Mackintosh…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMOnly Young Jean Lee's perverse imagination could turn a song called "I'm Gonna Die" into a rousing sing-along anthem—and get away with it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
One week after Charlie Sheen's My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option tour launched in a disastrous Motor City debut, the show rolled into Radio City Music Hall Friday night
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:57AMThis week’s sermon is chiefly about false analogy, one of the major ills that plague (not plagues—the subject is plural, ills) our once reasonably healthy English.Is anything more parlou…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:37AMMeet Sheldon Epps, artistic director of California's Pasadena Playhouse and co-director of Broadway's Baby It's You!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn a week that brings us "Next to Normal," the bar for dramatic family dysfunction is already set high. But Amy Hartman's "Mercy & the Firefly" clears that bar with ease, scaling heights…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMChris Rock and Bobby Cannvale sit down for a very candid (and sometimes off-topic) chat about their new show with the bleeping awesome name.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSally Wingert and Kristine Nielsen are the doting-but-deadly Brewster sisters in Joseph Kesselring's classic comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, which begins previews April 9 at the Guthrie The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMColin Quinn Long Story Short, the former "SNL" cast member's solo comedy about the rise and fall of the world's greatest empires, makes its television debut April 9 on HBO …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhite Noise, the new rock musical about a controversial band with a taste for white-supremacy content, opens April 9 in Chicago following previews from April 1. The world-premiere staging is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMarcy McGuigan succeeds Alison Fraser in the roles of Sister Walburga and Mrs. Macduffie in Charles Busch's The Divine Sister April 9 at the SoHo Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Midtown Men, the singing group formed by former Jersey Boys stars Tony winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony nominee J. Robert Spencer, make their New York Ci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA rock band with a white-supremacy message is at the center of a new musical directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo and produced by Whoopi Goldberg.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, ends its extended Broadway premiere engagement April 9 at the John Golden Theatre with its three original stars: Tony Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Blank Theatre Company’s final production of its 20th anniversary season, the West Coast premiere of Jon Marans' The Temperamentals, begins previews April 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1926 Actor-manager Henry Miller, 66, dies today in New York. He acted opposite many of the leading ladies of the time, including Helena Modjeska. As a leading man with the Empire Stock Compa…
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