Stratford Shakespeare Festival's new production of Jesus Christ Superstar opened at The Avon Theatre on Friday June 3rd. Directed by Des McAnuff, the show tells the story of the last week of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMFlux Theater Ensemble's Ajax in Iraq closes on June 25th, so you still have time to catch this earnest, provocative and visually stunning play. Ajax in Iraq tells the parallel stories of th…
Linked From Scenes in the City at 07:38PM...I offer this new lyric to an old song in the hopes of making certain careless theatergoers think twice: Turn...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:36PM"Q. Do you care about reviews? "A. Of course you care. I don't read them, but you don't really have...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:36PMProduction elements are slight in this tale of Hurricane Katrina, but the writing, direction, and performances succeed in making you tense and emotionally involved as the water rises.
Linked From Backstage at 07:36PMIt's clear that a refreshingly original sensibility is at work in Michael Mitnick's consistently inventive and surprising comedy-drama about love and commitment.
Linked From Backstage at 07:36PMImaginOcean, the off-Broadway hit created and co-produced by Avenue Q star John Tartaglia, will end its run at New World Stages on September 4, 2011. The family-friendly show will then head …
Linked From Broadway.com at 07:25PMPresident Barack Obama comes to New York City Thursday evening to do some fundraising. In addition to appearing at an LBGT gala hosted by actor Neil Patrick Harris, the president will stop b…
Linked From WNYC at 07:23PMAccording tothe Hollywood Reporter, the FOX dancing show 'So You Think You Can Dance' is set to have some high profile judges this season.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:16PM‘Relatively Speaking’ now has some faces to fill out its slate of one-act plays. The cast of the upcoming Broadway comedies is highlighted by the talents of Steve Guttenberg (Police Acad…
Linked From broadway.me at 07:07PMLincoln Center for the Performing Arts is equated with music, opera, theater, jazz, dance, and has been a recurring iconic image used in Hollywood films past and present. On Thursday, July 1…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMA Denver-based theatre is fighting back against ticket resellers who use Web sites that allegedly fool some customers into thinking the sites are affiliated with the venue.
The Denver Center…
Linked From Ticket News at 07:00PMFor the second consecutive week, Broadway box offices reported increased ticket sales with totals reaching $22,679,495 for the week ending June 19. The total is more than $1 million more tha…
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William Nedved’s “Northwest Highway” is a hyperlocal Chicago play. It is set in the Jefferson Park neighborhood where Gift Theatre, the producing company, is located. This far Northwes…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:58PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director, Joey Parnes is proud to announce that acclaimed playwright Kristoffer Diaz will be the first recipient of The G…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMDorsel, Tank and Bubbles, along with the rest of the cast of the Drama Desk Award nominated John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean, will pack up its hit New York production in September and head out o…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMThe company had a hit with last year's Shakespeare Festival, so it rehired the artistic director, former Royal Shakespeare Company chief Adrian Noble, who, in turn, hired back many of the sa…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMTHEATER THE MOUNTAIN SONG Theater is the art of making something out of nothing, and there’s plenty of that magic in this ensemble piece by the PigPen Theatre Company, which incorporat…
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:22PMAs New York stage legislators consider making gay marriage legal, the weekly media-centric New York Observer has issued a list of “The New Power Gays: NYC’s Top 50.” The ro…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:22PMBroadway Bares XXI Masterpiece, the modern-day burlesque spectacular featuring 192 Broadway dancers, made history Sunday by raising a record-breaking 1,103,072 to benefit Broadway CaresEquit…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMThe Off-Broadway production of John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean will end its run at New World Stages on September 4, and begin a national tour at the Jasper Arts Center in Jasper, IN, on O…
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Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan, Erin Davie and Sarah Rice will take part in the June 27 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 05:58PMRobert Eli, Nisi Sturgis and Loren Dunn will join Katharine Houghton for a limited Off-Broadway run of The Pretty Trap, Tennessee Williams' one-act precursor to The Glass Menagerie.
Linked From Playbill at 05:58PMBy Samantha Dupler In 1962, Abe Burrows’ How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying won both the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This year, the current produ…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 05:47PMWhen you’re playing—and singing—the demanding female lead in Broadway’s longest running musical, backstage relaxation is a must. Broadway.com recently dropped by the …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:40PMIn Jason Grote’s “Civilization (All You Can Eat)” at Here, a group of interconnected characters tackle some big questions of modern culture.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Breaking News Casting Announced for ‘Relatively Speaking’ Comedies by Woody Allen, Elaine May and Ethan Coen ArtsBeat Blog/N…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:31PMUniversal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today that Patrick Mulvey will join the cast of t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMFour-time Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza will offer a musical theater master class at the Davenport Studio in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, July 13 from 6:30pm to 10:30pm.
He …
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:18PMThis past May marked the 10 year anniversary since Situation Interactive was officially founded. Over the past ten years, I’ve had the great pleasure to work on hundreds of live entertai…
Linked From the Situation at 05:16PMA data-driven analysis that compares the face values of The Book of Mormon tickets to the resale prices on the secondary market.
Linked From seatgeek.com at 05:06PMThe world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children featuring "Outsourced" actor Ben Rappaport, opens June 22 fo…
Linked From Playbill at 05:02PMTickets are now available for Punchdrunk's acclaimed theatrical experience Sleep No More. The British theater company has transformed the McKittrick Hotel in New York City's Chelsea …
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:01PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 62211.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMIt's been an interesting couple of weeks for impassioned feedback on pieces I've written about various arts events in the Bay Area. The variety of approaches and fury-levels prompts me to cr…
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Jesus Christ Superstar | "Pilate's Dream" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Featuring Brent Carver as Pontius Pilate. Jesus Christ Superstar is just one of 12 ma…
Linked From YouTube at 04:56PMJesus Christ Superstar | "Don't Know How to Love Him" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Featuring Chilina Kennedy (Mary Magdalene), Paul Nolan (Jesus) and Josh Yo…
Linked From YouTube at 04:53PMEllen McLaughlin
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I was born in Boston, MA, then spent a few years in California where my father was at Stanford, but grew up mostly in DC, where my father taught at American Unive…
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:52PMIt’s 11:30 in the morning and Debbie Allen is dancing from one end of the rehearsal hall to the other with two young actresses who probably aren’t old enough to remember her as Lydia G…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 04:51PMJesus Christ Superstar | "King Herod's Song" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Featuring Bruce Dow (King Herod) and Paul Nolan (Jesus) with members of the company…
Linked From YouTube at 04:49PMIn a section entitled "Participation" in And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World, Anne Bogart writes:
In our present climate, it is more useful to look for participants rathe…
Linked From Theatre Ideas at 04:40PMNEW YORK — I’ve never cried in a museum before. Museums are for languid strolling while gazing, often, at lovely objects. But the experience inside the sprawling maze of gowns at…
Linked From Boston Globe at 04:26PMThe Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, presented the inaugural Off Broadway Alliance Awards Rece…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMCause Celebrè has announced complete casting for Tennessee Williams' The Pretty Trap, to run August 2-21 at The Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. Antony Marseillis will direct.
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Linked From TheaterMania at 04:17PMWhether writing for print or for the ear, journalist and radio raconteur Jack Hitt has a genial style of storytelling. Whether it's a piece of investigative reporting or a slice-of-life sket…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 04:17PM2011 Tony Award Red Carpet: Rob Ashford
Tony Nominated director/choreographer Rob Ashford talks about adjusting "Brotherhood of Man" from 'How to Suceed in Business Without Re…
Linked From YouTube at 04:16PMWICKED Music: Percussion
This special musical edition of Behind the Emerald Curtain explores the percussion of WICKED. See how the magical sounds of Oz are created by a variety of percussi…
Linked From YouTube at 04:11PMSISTER ACT’s resident heartthrob CHESTER GREGORY joined Alysha Umphress and Brandon Victor Dixon as they headlined Broadway Rhythm and Booze on June 20. The new cabaret series rocked t…
Linked From The Hartman Group at 04:07PMDes McAnuff, two-time Tony winner and current artistic director of the
Stratford Shakespeare Festival, directs Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim
Rice's rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar in…
Linked From Playbill at 04:01PM2011 Tony Award Red Carpet: Frank Abignail Jr.
The real Frank Abignail Jr. -- who's life story inspired Broadway's 'Catch Me If You Can' -- talks about his relationship to t…
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“American Idol” alum Diana DeGarmo currently stars as Miss Doralee Rhodes in the national tour of Dolly Parton’s musical 9 to 5. Here, members of the cast say hello to the …
Linked From Playbill at 03:53PMThe 16th Annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas concludes Saturday, June 25. For more information: http://www.artidea.org.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:52PMTony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone will give New York-area residents an insider's look at Lincoln Center in "Treasures of New York," which will debut on PBS July 14.
Linked From Playbill at 03:43PM2011 Tony Award Red Carpet: George C. Wolfe
Director George C. Wolfe talks about the overwhelming response to the Broadway production of 'The Normal Heart' and the fun of going to t…
Linked From YouTube at 03:43PMThe Curb Your Enthusiasm star says British comedy was his touchstone. Now he's about to try out his mix of personal pathos and vulgarity on audiences here. He just hopes they get him'If you …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:43PMThe Junior Board of Rosie's Theater Kids presented A Night at the Vault Benefit Gala at The Vault at Pfaff's on last night, June 21. Honorary Hosts include Project Runway's Christina Siriano…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMLegit News: Kavner, Guttenberg set for 'Speaking' -- Julie Kavner, Steve Guttenberg and Marlo Thomas are among the thesps signed up for "Relatively Speaking," the trio of one-acts that opens…
Linked From Variety at 03:42PMThe producers of Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, are targeting Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre for a Decemb…
Linked From Playbill at 03:28PMLord amp Taylor will host HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING stars Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette and Rose Hemingway outside the store on Fifth Avenue to unveil the musical…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMMichael Wilson Receives Send-Off at Hartford StageEileen Fulton , who portrayed Lisa Miller Grimaldi on TV's "As the World Turns" for almost 50 years, will play Mrs. Higgins in the Connec…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 03:22PMJulie Taymor recently made an appearance at theLA Film Festival, where she chatted about evrything from The Lion King to The Tempest, Titus, and more, according to LA Weekly. On the violence…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMThe MUNY's production of Legally Blonde The Musical opened June 20 and runs through June 26. Marc Bruni and Rusty Mowery are recreating the original Broadway direction and choreography by Je…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMOpera stars Renee Fleming and Joseph Calleja will join Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for LIVE FROM JERUSALEM, which will be broadcast in nearly 500 movie theaters nationw…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:16PMPatrick Mulvey will join the Broadway company of Billy Elliot on July 15 as Tony, the title character's older brother. He takes over the role from Will Chase, who will play his final per…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:06PMProducers Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson have announced that Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMWest End Live, presented by Westminster City Council and the Society of London Theatre in association with MasterCard, is the annual free event that showcases the best of West End theatre an…
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Patrick Mulvey, who was the original Tony in the Chicago production of Billy Elliot the Musical, will step into that role in the Broadway production of the Tony-winning musical beginning Jul…
Linked From Playbill at 02:54PMDay 2 was our first full day of sessions and by the end of the day I was exhausted! I argued with elders that I embraced afterwards. I was happy, hopeful, hopeless, frustrated, and scare…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 02:53PMRenowned English tenor Alfie Boe released his latest musical endeavor on March 1st, titled Bring Him Home in homage to the iconic song from the role that first launched his career. The recor…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMFormer Rent star Frenchie Davis performed Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” on the June 21 episode of “The Voice.” Davis is one of the final eight left in the competiti…
Linked From Playbill at 02:53PMTony Award nominee Sandy Duncan will star in Theatre Aspen's production of Becky's New Car, written by Steven Dietz. Kate Powers will direct the play in the brand new Hurst Theatre…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:53PMPatrick Mulvey will take over the role of Tony in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot, at the Imperial Theatre, beginning with the Friday, July 15 performance. He replaces Will Chase, wh…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:53PMby Patricia BlaufussPublic Relations ManagerJune 22, 2011I began working at Westport Country Playhouse in the summer of 1985, replacing the assistant marketing director. The young assi…
Linked From Westport Country Playhouse at 02:53PMJack Hitt's new solo show, "Making Up the Truth," has been extended at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven.
The show, presented at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II (222 …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 02:52PMThis may be an unconventional use of my blog, but it's come to my attention that a friend has a block of good orchestra seats for this coming Saturday night's performance (June 25 at 8 pm) o…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 02:50PMChaotic comedy abounds in West End’s latest offering, Lend Me a Tenor, The Musical, which opened on June 15 at the Gielgud Theatre, the same stage where the play by Ken Ludwig made its deb…
Linked From Musicals in London at 02:49PMTony Nominees: Making Sister Act
Tony Award nominees Patina Miller, Victoria Clark, Douglas Carter Beane, and Cheri Steinkellner discuss the creation of the hit musical Sister Act.
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Linked From YouTube at 02:46PMThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity playwright Kristoffer Diaz has been named the inaugural recipient of the Public Theater's Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship.
Linked From Playbill at 02:43PMCaroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud and Marlo Thomas will star in Broadway's Relatively Speaking, th…
Linked From Playbill at 02:38PMTrafalgar Studio, LondonWomen are currently making the running in the new writing stakes. Confirmation comes with the transfer from Hampstead Downstairs to the West End of this play from Mor…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:38PMChapter, CardiffClare Bayley's powerful 2007 play, performed in a 40ft shipping container and revived for Refugee Week, is one you are glad to flee when it ends. A deliberately gruelling and…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:38PMGate, LondonFreud isn't so fashionable these days, but you can see what once made his ideas compelling. Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story (which Kubrick filmed as Eyes Wide Shut) is Freud's th…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:38PMThree residents of the weird, wonderful world of Zarkana, the latest epic spectacular from Cirque du Soleil, were enticed away from their home at Radio City Music Hall by a delicious dessert…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:37PMBWW Discounts is offering you the chance to save on tickets when RENT returns to the stage in three weeks Come out and see the new cast at New World Stages
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMUniversal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today that Patrick Mulvey will join the cast of t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMEmmy- and Tony-nominee Sandy Duncan will star in Theatre Aspen's production of Becky's New Car, written by Steven Dietz. Kate Powers will direct the play in the brand new Hurst The…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:37PMWow, that was fast. We just opened the double-bill of Savior & Captain Moonbeam and Lynchpin (featuring the animated short "The Confetti Myth") last night, and Ed Malin's review is already u…
Linked From Jamespeak at 02:37PMSteve Guttenberg and Marlo Thomas will return Broadway in the forthcoming premiere of Relatively Speaking, a triple bill of one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen. The pl…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:32PMThe leading lady of "Phantom" can't get by with out these dressing room essentials.
Linked From YouTube at 02:30PMCaroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud and Marlo Thomas will star in Broadway's Relatively Speaking, th…
Linked From Playbill at 02:29PMThe special 7 PM tribute to all things Judy Garland, featuring Hoffman, Eagan and more, was part of Justin Sayre's ongoing satirical series "The Meeting*," which benefits the A…
Linked From Playbill at 02:29PMZayd Dohrn's Outside People has been added to the Vineyard Theatre's 2011-2012 season, with performances scheduled to begin in December. Evan Cabnet will direct the piece, which w…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:28PMPreliminary casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Relatively Speaking, the previously reportedtrio of comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen. John Turturro i…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:28PMBaby It's Katy Perry - "Firework"
The ladies of BABY IT'S YOU! sing "Firework" by Katy Perry
For more information on Baby It's You, please visit http://baby…
Linked From YouTube at 02:25PMDespite the fuss surrounding Marseille's opera house – Frédéric Mitterrand, arts minister, outraged locals by suggesting the house merge with Avignon – this staging was hardly a victor…
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 02:22PMThis play examines the course of a marriage in a succession of scenes that are less like conversations and more like rounds in a welterweight fight
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 02:22PMThe last time I weighed in on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, it was being griped about in the press daily, and actors were being gravely injured on a regular basis. Glitches in the flying se…
Linked From Show Showdown at 02:21PM2011 Drama Desk Winners Backstage
Drama Desk Award winners Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, John Larroquette, and Joe Mantello share their reactions.
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Linked From YouTube at 02:21PMThe documentary, Treasures of New York: Lincoln Center With Patti LuPone, will air on WNET THIRTEEN on Thursday, July 14 at 8pm and Thursday, July 28 at 7pm on WLIW 21.
The show will featur…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMInfamous Commonwealth Theatre creates a faithful revival of heartfelt a Lanford Wilson classic. Recommended.
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 02:16PMThis season marks the start of Jenny Gersten’s second act at Williamstown Theater Festival, where she got her start.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMThe ensemble cast will feature Steve Guttenberg, Julie Kavner, Marlo Thomas, Caroline Allen, Ari Graynor, Danny Hoch, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud, Lisa Emery and Bill Army.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMBroadway Rhythm and Booze, a new cabaret series created as a platform to "highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community," played Tillman's Bar & Lounge June 20. A…
Linked From Playbill at 02:11PM2011 Drama Desk Red Carpet: Advice to Nominees
Laura Benanti, Norbert Leo Butz, Jonathan Groff, Lily Rabe and more give advice to Drama Desk Award nominees for the big night.
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Linked From YouTube at 02:03PMAs part of The Kitchen's 40th anniversary season, the multi-purpose art space will present the exhibition, The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971-85, which will op…
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The Master of the Queen's Music suggests the funds raised could go to the Musicians' Benevolent Fund
Linked From The Guardian at 01:58PMThe Best Bets for Kids and Family Theatre this Summer againLast week I shared some of my favorite summer offerings for Kids and Families looking for a little relaxation, entertainment and ye…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMThe Landor Theatre summer run of bad luck with received productions continues with the cancellation of another musical, Gyspy, which was due to run from 2 to 27 August 2011, starring Rosemar…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:56PMThe Guthrie Theater has announced initial casting for its three fall productions, which include Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (Sept. 10-Nov. 5 on the Wurtele Thrust Stage), Nobe…
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMShrek the Musical, originally produced on Broadway in 2008 and now on a U.S. national tour, officially opened at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, featuring Nigel Lindsay, Amanda…
Linked From Playbill at 01:53PMLast week, Norbert Leo Butz took a moment during the CATCH ME IF YOU CAN curtain call to thank the company for all of their support and assistance in helping him deliver his Tony-winning per…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMStage and screen star Megan Mullally will make another guest appearance on NBC's sitcom Parks & Recreation during the show's upcoming fourth season, according to TVGuide.com.
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Linked From TheaterMania at 01:52PMDaniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette, and Rose Hemingway, who star in the Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will help unveil Lord and Taylor's windo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:52PMThe San Francisco Chronicle's fictional serial "Tales of the City" about social life in the city spawned a series of popular novels, a television show, and now a new stage musical based on t…
Linked From WQXR at 01:48PMThe hit Gift Theatre production of William Nedved's "Northwest Highway" has been extended. The show, staged in and concerned with the Chicago neighborhood of Jefferson Park, now plays throug…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 01:48PMAtlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway not- for-profit theater, whose mission is “to produce great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble.” The company w…
Linked From iBlogBroadway at 01:45PMBaby It's Rihanna - "Only Girl"
The ladies of BABY IT'S YOU! sing "Only Girl" by Rihanna
For more information on BABY IT'S YOU!, please visit http://babyits…
Linked From YouTube at 01:44PMTony winner Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit, Kerry Butler and Tom Wopat will perform numbers from Catch Me If You Can and sign copies of the original cast recording on June 28 at the Eeast 86t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:37PMTo celebrate the World Premiere of Zarkana, the major new acrobatic spectacle from Cirque du Soleil at Radio City Music Hall, Serendipity 3 has created the unique and over-the-top Zarkana Su…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMThe Guthrie Theater has announced partial casting for its three Fall 2011 productions.
British theater, television and film actor Daniel Gerroll will star as Benedick opposite the previousl…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:37PMOn June 28th there will be an in-Store Performance for Catch Me If You Can' Original Broadway Cast Recording, via Ghostlight Records
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMLincoln Center Theater has announced an extension and future off-Broadway transfer for Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles, a production of the the company's LCT3 development program. Directed…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:27PMHarold Prince is a verifiable institution on Broadway. The accolades bestowed upon him are sizable to say the least — winner of 21 Tony Awards, more than anyone else, a National Medal …
Linked From broadway.me at 01:26PMJeff Key is a brave and creative man. Not only is he a Vet. He is a poet about his experience not only in Iraq but everywhere in his life. And this flies in the face of his looks. He i…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 01:22PMI have always felt that our anthologies are the perfect gift for the graduate. If they have just finished high school and are entering college with an interest in theatre, our books gi…
Linked From NYTE Small Press at 01:18PMThe Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels will co-produce the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Outside People. Evan Cabnet will direct the production, which will begin performances at the Vine…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:17PMAaron Tveit, Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Wopat and Kerry Butler of Catch Me If You Can, will celebrate the release of the show's cast recording of the show with a three-song performance, foll…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:11PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming tour of Sister Act, which will feature Coronation Street’s Denise Black as Mother Superior, Brookside's Michael Starke as Monsignor O’…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:05PMThe LCT3 production of Amy Herzog's world-premiere play 4000 Miles, which opened to strong critical notices June 20, will extend its current run through July 9 at the Duke on 42nd Street…
Linked From Playbill at 01:03PMFor those who haven't seen the film or the musical verion of LEGALLY BLOND, the plot revolves around a rich Malibu Barbie, who comes complete with an ever-present pink ensemble, named Elle W…
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Lincoln Center Theater has extended Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles. The production, directed by Daniel Aukin, will now run through July 9 at The Duke on 42nd Street.
In addition, the theater…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:57PMBetty Buckley sang "Meadowlark." Penny Fuller performed "Infinite Joy." Elizabeth Ashley, well, was Elizabeth Ashley. And Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffrey Roberson) gave just the right sass ca…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:57PMThe Butterflies Are Back What was going on my with stomach? It couldn't be hunger because I ate before rehearsal. A stomach cramp? Ohhhhhh....it was nervous butterflies. I remember those. I…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 12:56PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that it will extend the run of LCT3's critically acclaime…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMThe theater community's gypsies gathered together for the annual Broadway Bares benefit Sunday night. NY1's Frank DiLella caught up with one of them - Broadway vet Rachelle Rak.
Linked From NY1 at 12:51PMThe leaders of Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels announced that they will co-produce the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Beijing-set comedy Outside People, directed by Evan Cabnet, at The…
Linked From Playbill at 12:49PMThis July, PlayhouseSquare returns to collaborating with acclaimed New York based producing agency The Dodgers an association that has spanned nearly 30 years - starting with country poprock…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMScreenvision, the leading innovator in cinema advertising, announced additional, extended dates for its limited presentation of the New York Philharmonic's critically acclaimed, all-star rev…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMTony Award winners Jim Dale and Lillias White will perform solo evenings of song during the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2011 Cabaret and Performance Conference.
Linked From Playbill at 12:43PMPlaywright Kristoffer Diaz has been named as the first recipient of The Public Theater's Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship.
During the one-year fellowship, The Public will serve as an ar…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:42PMZayd Dohrn's Outside People has been added to the Vineyard Theatre's 2011-2012 season. Evan Cabnet will direct the piece, which will be a co-production with Naked Angels.
Outside…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:38PMNot tired of the gennius Tiger Woman who kept Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in previews for seven months? Missed Law & Order's killer take-off&nbs…
Linked From Curtainup Blog Annex at 12:38PMIt’s not every day you meet a bodybuilding criminal from France who desperately wants to get into your pants. I was 22 and studying abroad in Europe, desperate to have an adventure, and …
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 12:33PMOn this week's episode of NBC's new reality singing competition, 'The Voice,' ex-'American Idol' contestant and Broadway veteran Frenchie Davis got the chance to perform at the Semi-Finals. …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMGivenik.com recently launched the Givenik Ambassadors program. Through the website as part of the program, cast members of hit shows are able to discuss the causes and charities they support…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMStage and screen star Sally Struthers is set to direct and star in 3D Theatricals' Always Patsy Cline. The production will open July 15 and run through July 31. Struthers will play Louise Se…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMReeve Carney is not only the star of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, but he is also a star in the eyes of the Partnership for the Homeless and is reaching out for supp…
Linked From Playbill at 12:33PMRay Abruzzo is set to head up the cast of D. Tucker Smith's Quake at the Open Fist Theatre, July 13-August 27. The production will be directed by Smith with Anjali Bhimani.
Quake is t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:32PMThe Walk of Fame Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced the new group of entertainment professionals who have been selected to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fa…
Linked From Playbill at 12:29PMStage and screen star Paige Davis joined participants from the Volunteers of America -- Greater New York and the Girl Scouts to kick off the Operation Backpack campaign, which begins June 27…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:28PMWhether it's helicopters rumbling overhead or actors losing their inhibitions, open-air performances offer the thrilling – and entirely theatrical – sense that anything can happenLike fo…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:23PMThese days most higher education institutions are wise to
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Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:21PMStoryteller Jon Spelman will perform the one-man show Tales of the Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, July 2 and 3 at 10:30am and 11:30am.
This 30-minute program, appropriate for ages six and …
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:18PMBroadway vet, Glee star and recording artist Matthew Morrison is headed to the big screen in a film adaptation of What to Expect When You’re Expecting directed by Kirk Jones, according…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:11PMCatch Me If You Can songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman will join Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit for a special performance and signing of the original Broadway cas…
Linked From Playbill at 12:09PMBilly Elliot Tony Award winner Gregory Jbara will host the 3rd annual National High School Musical Theater Awards - "The Jimmy Awards" - June 27 at 7:30 PM at the Minskoff Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:09PMThe Legendary Broadway star, actresssinger Betty Buckley will offer a special four day Song Interpretation, Scene and Monologue Workshop beginning July 25. The Tony winner will assist aspiri…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMThe cast of the fall world premiere of The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, a fractured adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," was announced by Off-Broad…
Linked From Playbill at 12:04PMWARNING! SOME PICTURES ARE NOT WORK SAFE!Congratulations to producer/creator Jerry Mitchell, director Josh Rhodes and everyone involved onstage and behind the scenes at Broad…
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Billy Elliot Tony Award winner Gregory Jbara will host the 3rd annual National High School Musical Theater Awards - "The Jimmy Awards" - June 27 at 7:30 PM at the Minskoff Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 11:59AMTony Award winner Gregory Jbara will host the third annual National High School Musical Theater Awards, to be presented at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, June 27 at 7:30pm.
Presenters will…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:58AMThe theater community's gypsies gathered together for the annual Broadway Bares benefit Sunday night. NY1's Frank DiLella caught up with one of them - Broadway vet Rachelle Rak.
Linked From NY1 at 11:57AMI am a former clown with Cirque Du Soleil and am embarking on my first solo touring show, which is directed by Sebastien Stella, choreographer of Water For Elephants and Judy Moody. READ M…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 11:52AMTony Award winner and Olivier Award nominee Betty Buckley will offer a four-day Song Interpretation, Scene and Monologue Workshop in Manhattan beginning July 25.
Linked From Playbill at 11:49AMOn the June 21 episode of The Voice, Broadway vet Frenchie Davis brought the house down with Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’ in her bid to become a finalist on the NBC singing co…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:48AMDisney's Aladdin is readying to soar into Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre on July 7, and while fans can expect to hear the classic tunes from the animated Disney movie, the production w…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:48AMNineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “th…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:48AMTony Award-winner Gregory Jbara will host the 3rd annual National High School Musical Theater Awards - The Jimmy Awards - on Monday, June 27th at 730pm at the Minskoff Theatre 200 W 45th St.…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMAccording to Deadline.com, Broadway veteran Jason Patric is set to star in FX's new pilot, 'Powers.' The series is based on a graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMThe New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which as previously reported will be shown in select movie theaters beginning June …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:47AMScott Foley will join the cast of HBO's True Blood during the series' fourth season, according to a report on TVLine.com.
Foley currently plays Henry Burton on ABC's Grey&a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:47AMThe New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which as previously reported will be shown in select movie theaters beginning June …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:38AMOn Tuesday, June 21, the first annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit Off Broadway productions, were presented at Sardi's.
NEWSical the Musical: Fu…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:32AMFat Camp, the musical by Randy Blair, Timothy Michael Drucker and Matthew roi Berger, will receive a developmental production at Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare under the eye of the Tony-win…
Linked From Playbill at 11:29AMCast members from CATCH ME IF YOU CAN including Aaron Tveit, Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Wopat, and Kerry Butler will make an appearance at the Upper East Side Barnes amp Noble for a performance a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMThe Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has announced the 2012 Walk of Fame honorees.
Among the artists to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansso…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:27AMEmmy Award-winning actress Sally Struthers is set to direct and star in 3D Theatricals' production of Always Patsy Cline, beginning July 15 at California's Historic Plummer Auditoriu…
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMThe New York Philharmonic's concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which arrived in movie theatres nationwide June 15, has extended its limited engageme…
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMThere's a lot of Shakespeare coming our way this summer--more than the usual Central Park fare, what with Lincoln Center importing the Royal Shakes for a four-show rep next month.But a quick…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 11:18AMOn Tuesday, June 21, the first annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit Off Broadway productions, were presented at Sardi's.
NEWSical the Musical: Fu…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:17AMGlee creator Ryan Murphy believes in his characters so much, he’s dreaming of a Funny Girl revival that would give top billing to Lea Michele’s fictional alter ego. “I keep…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:08AMShow Time | GAME Records and Lyrics | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
With lyrics so you can sing along to "Show Time", or even create your own! Free ringtone: http://www.stratfo…
Linked From YouTube at 11:05AMLegally Blonde The Musical kicked off the summer 2011 season June 20 at the St. Louis Muny, the nation's oldest and largest outdoor theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 11:01AMGlee creator Ryan Murphy believes in his characters so much, he’s dreaming of a Funny Girl revival that would give top billing to Lea Michele’s fictional alter ego. “I keep…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:00AM
Producers Whoopi Goldberg and Stage Entertainment have announced full details and casting for the first ever UK amp Ireland tour of the hit musical comedy SISTER ACT, which will open at the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMTHE LEGEND OF JULIE TAYMOR, or The Musical That Killed Everybody will get its world premiere this August as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMThe House Theatre of Chicago has announced its 2011-12 season of original work. Here's the line-up: "Cyrano." A new take on the man with the big beak, adapted and directed by Matt Hawkins an…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 10:45AMFirstly: that I should have my head examined. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In April, I met, as I do, bi-monthly, with my amazing small business support group, SCTC. This wonderful …
Linked From Rebecca Coleman at 10:38AMWashington, D.C.— Storyteller Jon Spelman takes to the Ford’s Theatre stage July 2 and 3, 2011, for a reprise of his popular one-man show Tales of the Lincoln. Explore the varied legends…
Linked From fords.org at 10:35AMRoyal Court Theatre has announced the works that will be presented as part of Rough Cuts, a regular mini season of short plays, experimental readings and works-in-progress, to run August 9-2…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:27AMThe New York Observer has published its list of "The New Power Gays: NYC's Top 50."
The theater professionals appearing on the list are director-choreographer Rob Ashford, p…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:27AMJohn Guare talks about his two Broadway plays of the past season: considering how the world has caught up with and changed audience responses to "The House of Blue Leaves" and which portion …
Linked From American Theatre Wing at 10:25AMStage and screen star Jason Patric will star in FX's drama pilot Powers, according to Deadline.com.
The pilot is based upon Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming's comic bo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:23AMIt's important to remember what things actually cost, even if you're not paying some (or all) of those costs. During my early days I would keep two budgets for artistic events. One that refl…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 10:20AMIn Seattle, Washington, 5th Avenue Theatre is preparing for the premiere of Disney's Aladdin, directed by Mormon's Casey Nicholaw. In the clip below, Brian Gonzalez, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Ad…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMCasting has been announced for the upcoming production of D. Tucker Smith's Quake at the Open Fist Theatre in Hollywood.
Linked From Playbill at 10:09AMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced selections for this summer's Cabaret and Performance Conference, with public performances to run August 3-13.
Featured solo perform…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:07AM- John Feffer is a funny guy who is engaged in the somber business of writing and lecturing on foreign policy. But three years ago, he tried something new and stepped onto a Fringe stage wit…
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Tony Award nominee Michele Lee stars in the East Coast premiere of Summer of Love, which begins performances June 22 at The Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine.
Linked From Playbill at 09:56AMA reading of Pushing Daisy, part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, will be presented June 23 at 2 PM at the Gene Frankel Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 09:56AMWith "money" reviews from the New York Times and other publications in its gym bag, Off-Broadway's Lysistrata Jones — the pop-comic musical rewrite of Aristophanes' a…
Linked From Playbill at 09:42AMMore than 20 world class shows took to the stage in Trafalgar Square this past weekend for the seventh West End LIVE. The annual free entertainment festival wass presented by Westminster Cit…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMAs a bona-fide, pink-union-card-emblazoned, goldstar gay, you’d think I would be rushing breathlessly to About Face Theatre’s world premiere of Philip Dawkins’ The Homosexuals. Well,…
Linked From From the Ledge at 09:37AMThe cast of the first U.K. touring production of the Tony-nominated Sister Act will be led by Denise Black (best known for TV's Coronation Street) as Mother Superior, Michael Starke (TV&…
Linked From Playbill at 09:33AMEverybody's been talking about the animatronic pig which cost a reported 100,000 for Cameron Mackintosh's new musical comedy BETTY BLUE EYES, based on the Handmade Film A PRIVATE FUNCTION by…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMPlaywright David Davalos and journalist Retta Blaney are the recipients of 2011 "The Lights are Bright on Broadway" Awards, which are presented annually by Masterwork Productions, …
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:32AMThe Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody! will make its world premiere this August as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
Linked From Playbill at 09:26AMVia Playbill, here are the Broadway box office stats for the week following the Tonys (June 13-19) for all shows either awarded, nominated, or seen on the broadcast. (With comparisons to pre…
Linked From The Playgoer at 09:21AM59E59 Theatres, CollaborationTown, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: Smart storytelling to tell a sad story.
When you hear about a natural disaster, you're usually privy…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 09:08AMThree Broadway dressers share their secrets to finding success and happiness in their jobs.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:03AMPrincipal casting has been announced for a U.K. tour of the musical Sister Act, which will launch with an engagement at the Manchester Opera House running September 29 - October 15.
Other t…
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Casting has been announced for the latest installment of Sondheim Unplugged, to take place at the West Bank Cafe's Laurie Beechman Theatre, on Monday, June 27 at 7pm.
Phil Geoffrey Bo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:57AMBack in the days when one company didn’t own ten stations in the same market there was such a thing as “competition”. Especially in the ‘60s and ‘70s there were usually two rock …
Linked From Ken Levine at 08:54AMTennessee Williams was my first great love in the theater. I discovered him when I was 13 and looking for a monologue to perform for my audition to the High School of Performing Arts. I did …
Linked From Broadway & Me at 08:52AMToday I bake, tomorrow I sew, And then off to Annapolis we will go What for? To see the delightful production of Rumple Who? That’s what for! Bay Theatre has brought this cute family…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMFreedom Theatre promises to carry on after the murder of Israeli-Palestinian director as students perform in JeninA pioneering community theatre that aimed to replace violence with drama in …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:52AMIn an unnamed office, on a rainy morning, a man arrives for work, only to find that his computer won't turn on. After calling technical support, he starts rifling through his files and a cop…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:50AMSpaceship Alexandria, an original feature presented in The Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival, is a library spaceship rock show set at the edge of the universe. The Comic Book Festival is a…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:50AMTony Award-winner Jim Dale (and the iconic voice of the Harry Potter audiobook series), Penny Fuller, Tony Award-winner, Lillias White and composer/singer Amanda McBroom will give in solo pe…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 08:35AMMichael Riedel reports in today's New York Post that the Off-Broadway hit musical LYSISTRATA JONES, which closes on Friday at the Judson Memorial Church is hoping to move to Broadway with a …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMBy Isaac Butler Today and tomorrow, I will be up in the Catskills, working as a resident artist with the Exchange's Core Company, a group of college students and recent grads who have gather…
Linked From Parabasis at 08:15AManyone avail for a nonAEA production of Rent this summer?
Linked From lezbehonest at 08:14AMBroadwayWorld.com has learned that the new musical BONNIE AND CLYDE will open on Broadway this December at the Schoenfeld Theatre currently home to The Motherfker With the Hat. The producti…
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The debate about intellectual property rights rattled around my head while I was visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art and later the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was somewhat surprised to…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:43AMPoint Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company will kick off its 2011-12 season with "A Chorus Line," the iconic show about Broadway with music by Marvin Hamlisch. The Pittsburgh Pops …
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:40AM1920 Opening night of the starry Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, featuring performances by Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields and Moran & Mack; and music by Irving Berlin, H…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMJessica Hecht and Sam Rockwell share a sweltering summer in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, staged by in-demand director David Cromer (Our Town, The House of Blue Leaves, B…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMThe world premiere of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents, a play about the gap between parents and children, opens June 22 following previews from June 7 in Second Stage Theatre&…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMAdirondack Theatre Festival's 17th summer of professional theatre in Glens Falls, NY, begins June 22 with Laura Schellhardt's The K of D, an urban legend, directed by Matthew Earnest.
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMShells, the one-woman show about a financial analyst by day who blossoms as a cabaret artist by night, appears June 22 in Los Angeles, following dates in New York City.
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AM5th Floor Productions presents a limited engagement of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins beginning June 22 at the Hudson Guild Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhatta…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMGuided by director Stephen Wadsworth, Tyne Daly is the latest Maria Callas to teach a Master Class, now on Broadway.
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMThe Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, the life-story musical about the jazz and blues singer from the 1920s and 1930s, finds a New York City home (again) in a production…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06AMLee Blessing's Going to St. Ives, in which "questions of life and death are settled over pots of tea," begins June 22 at BSC Stage 2, Barrington Stage Company's intimate se…
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