As previously reported by BroadwayWorld, Bette Midler has pulled out of the cast of the untitled film centered around Phil Spector. Midler suffered from a herniated disc and left the film on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45PMWALTHAM - Mere cub - or cur? In productions of “The Graduate,’’ a 2000 playscript cross-adapted from the 1967 film classic and the 1963 novel that inspired it, a lot hinges…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39PMBorders - home to many events in its bookstores throughout the country - will close its remaining stores, according to publishes reports.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMIs there a sexier tale than Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights - how she beguiled her royal husband, Shahriyar, with stories of Sinbad and Aladdin and Ali Baba to keep him from cutting off he…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:36PMLENOX - In her fairly faithful rendering of “Romeo and Juliet’’ for Shakespeare & Company, director Daniela Varon makes a number of critical interventions, some of whic…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:36PMThis is shaping up to be a big week for Rock of Ages star Constantine Maroulis. BroadwayWorld has confirmed with a production source that the former American Idol contestant and original 'Dr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:35PMShakespeare in the Park is one of New York City's most beloved summer traditions. New York natives and visitors alike have been enjoying free Shakespeare in Central Park since performances b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14PMIf there is a casting trend to be detected in Chicago these days, it is of the mix-and-match variety, as directors draw on a few out-of-town performers with impressive credits to complement …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:14PMPROVIDENCE - What should we think of this sculpture? It’s an ugly question: Obligations to think anything are exactly what we go to art to escape. Still, works like this have their kno…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:11PMLast week, we asked what was your favorite recording of FOLLIES. The winner was the 1971 Original Broadway Cast Recording, with an overwhelming 48 of the vote. Ranking second amongst fans wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMNothing spells dollar signs at the Broadway box office quite like Nathan Lane on the marquee. His fabulous turns at ‘The Producers,’ ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘A Funny Thing Happened…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:09PMSouthern Rep is now accepting submissions for the second annual Ruby Prize, a national play award for a playwright who is a woman of color. The award includes $10,000 and a ten-day writer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06PMAfter much too long a wait, gay marriage will soon be a reality across the state of New York on July 24. Broadway is making this historic event into a true theatrical production. The day fol…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:03PMThe talented young theatrical couple Mamie Gummer and Benjamin Walker were married on July 16, according to reporter Roger Friedman of showbiz411.com. A Restoration Hardware registry for the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03PM***
A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company led by Founders/Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, launches its milestone 2011-12 Se…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:03PM"I will be a new Queen for a new England," cries Spooks star Miranda Raison as King Hal's spooky spouse Anne Boleyn, with her head tucked underneath her arm; you just wonder, on the evidence…
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According to published reports, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON star, Benjamin Walker, and actress Mamie Gummer, daught of Meryl Streep, wed this past weekend in an intimate ceremomy at the hom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PMThe 1992 Disney animated musical Aladdin makes its full-length stage debut at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw stages…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PMWith virtually zero advertising I very nearly missed the National's latest trendy venture: "Double Feature in the Paintframe". It's lucky I didn't as having caught the first preview of the f…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:46PMThe Westport Country Playhouse will honor two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters during its 80th birthday gala, which will take place Sept. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:36PMYou asked, they answered: Memphis stars Chad Kimball and Montego Glover recently settled down on the sofa in Broadway.com’s video studio for their dual “Ask a Star” feature…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:31PMAccording to Variety, Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda and his free-style rap group Freestyle Love Supreme will be featured on a pilot for Adult Swim. Also starring Utkarsh Ambudkar, the pilot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)" at Second City e.t.c. ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)" at Second City e.t.c. ★&…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:25PMThe Rock of Ages film isn't hitting theaters until June 2012, but thousands of lucky Florida residents got a sneak preview of Tom Cruise as over-the-top rocker Stacee Jaxx while serving …
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Not sure what painting you are gazing at or spotted at the gallery earlier that day? By taking a photo with the Google Goggles™ new mobile application for your smartphone, you can n…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:07PMEven 20 years after Jospeh Papp's death, his legacy of free entertainment for all lives on in Central Park, with Shakespeare in the Park back this season with 'Measure for Measure' and 'All'…
SOURCE: Time at 06:02PMRehearsals began today for the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center's acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES, directed by Eric Schaeffer, with choreography b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PMIf the cast of That 70s Show had a high school reunion, who would have bragging rights and who would have to spend the night consoling himself at the bar? That’s the question I’m…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 06:00PM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' vocalist Karen O will team with playwright and director Adam Rapp on a new opera, which will open the season at St. Ann's Warehouse in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59PMSISTER ACT on Broadway: True Confession #149
In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:31PMThe organizer of an Ottawa music festival where the stage collapsed during a sudden storm, scurrying thousands of fans who were watching the band Cheap Trick, called the accident "a freak si…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:30PMSISTER ACT on Broadway: True Confession #148
In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
From:
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In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:28PM
Last Saturday night, the ROCK OF AGES family celebrated their 1,000th New York B-day! The cast and crew rocked out in the lobby of the Helen Hayes Theatre and ended the night with…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 05:27PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, July 18, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more informa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:25PMOldie But Goodie: Lin & Shock Freestyle in London
This was filmed years ago, before a one-night gig FLS did in London. We're crazy jetlagged and the wind is for real. Just a lil off…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:24PMBroadway’s box offices held steady as the summer tourist season continued to heat up, with How to Succeed jumping back into the frontrunners’ list the week after Daniel Radcliffe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theaterWelcome to one of BroadwayWorld's newest features the Broadway Ticket Buying Guide. Insi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMThe cast of Mary Poppins welcomed a special guest to the New Amsterdam Theatre on July 17 as Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry and his family came to visit the magica…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMJerry Ragovoy, a songwriter credited with songs made famous by the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and others, has died at the age of 80....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:07PMA chance meeting a few years ago between Broad Stage director Dale Franzen and David Babani, her counterpart at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory [pronounced men-YAY], has culminated in th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PM… the Forest of Arden … What could be better than circling the fruitful fields of Sylvester Manor’s Community Supported Agriculture farm to arrive at the windmill, sitting on the verda…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:01PMBy Alison Broverman Alice Ripley loves roller coasters. The Tony Award-winning actress is in Toronto for two weeks with the musical Next to Normal, and her only plans (aside from performing …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PM
Tony Award nominee Siân Phillips, the Welsh actress known for playing strong and stylish women of a certain age in Broadway's Marlene and TV's "I, Claudius," will pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMAccording to the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater has just announced casting for its upcoming production of Follies, which will open October 4 on Navy Pier. Starring in the C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMTony Award winner Bernadette Peters will receive the Distinguished Dedication and Service to the American Musical Theater Award at the Westport Country Playhouse's gala, Playing Our Son…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMThe 5th Avenue Theatre began previews for Aladdin, a new stage musical adapted from Disney's 1992 animated feature film on July 7, 2011, in anticipation of a July 21, 2011 opening. Aladdin, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PM"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" had its most profitable eight performances last week since beginning in February.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMNominees for the 37th Annual Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers who deeply explore the human experience, have been announced. The awards will be handed out on Friday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMNominees for the 37th Annual Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers who deeply explore the human experience, have been announced. The awards will be handed out on Friday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMNeil Patrick Harris' staging of The Expert at the Card Table based on a book written in 1902 by "S.W. Erdnase" (a pseudonym), opened Friday at the Edye, the smaller second space at Broad Sta…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:32PMOnce the sultan of sleazy synth pop, Marc Almond's new Edinburgh show Ten Plagues examines the Black Death. Gloomy? 'We're all dropping off the end of a conveyor belt,' he saysThirty years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis, who is currently starring in the national tour of Rock of Ages, will be part of the upcoming film of the Tony-nominated musical, Playbill.com ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:29PMThe Des McAnuff-helmed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, currently running at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, will be c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:21PMInternational star Caroline O'Connor and Broadway's Brent Barrett and Robert Petkoff will be joined by resident actress Susan Moniz and a wide slice of the Chicago diva community for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMBelow are some awesome TED talks. Happy Monday! Excelsior! 4 days until the next Solving for X in Entertainment 5 days until the next Solving for X in Fitness 11 days until T 2 T
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 04:16PMThe Early Show on Saturday Morning got a double dose of classic romance on July 16 when Broadway charmers and Anything Goes stars Colin Donnell and Laura Osnes dropped by to perform their s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:11PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 7172011
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMWelcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week’s episode of True Blood. SPOILERS AHEAD — Before we get started on this week’s inst…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 04:03PM
According to published reports,Tom Cruise will give a concert tonight in Miami in character as Stacee Jaxx to be filmed for the ROCK OF AGES film. Crusie will reportedly be singing Bon Jovi'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMChicago Shakespeare Theater has announced casting for its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, to run October 4-November 6 at the Navy Pier, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMGavin Creel sings "What Do I Need With Love" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky
Gavin Creel and Seth Rudetsky perform "What Do I Need With Love" from Thoroughly Modern Milli…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:50PMThat's how much £9,000 is when converted into US dollars.
£9,000 is the figure that the London drama schools are appearing to raise their annual tuition to, in the wake of the economic cr…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 03:50PMAt the top of Greg Kalleres' new bedroom drama, a wife wakes up in the middle of the night and tells her husband that, all of a sudden, she has lost all the love she ever had for the poor sa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:47PMGavin Creel sings "Something's Coming" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky
Gavin Creel and Seth Rudetsky perform "Something's Coming" during the r family vacations tr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:43PMStand behind the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, today and you get a pretty good feeling of what the Mississippi River must have felt like in the era of Edna Ferbers novel…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 03:40PMChange for all shows: 4.68% Number of shows that increased over previous week: 18 Number of shows that decreased from previous week: 7 Biggest increase: HOW TO SUCCEED ($427,420) Biggest dec…
SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 03:33PMRichard Ouzounian is currently the theatre critic at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper, as well as the Canadian theatre reporter and critic for Variety, “the bible of sh…
SOURCE: On The Fourth Floor at 03:27PMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a special exploratory reading of the 1969 musical comedy The Fig Leaves Are Falling as part of The Archival Project, a UMC initiative aimed at researching…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMChicago Shakespeare Theater has announced casting for its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's "Follies." Hollis Resnik will perform the role of Carlotta (and sing "I'…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMA perfect night under a blood-red moon at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre clearly took Idina Menzel's breath away - but not her signature five-octave voice.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:20PMAs we prepare to launch our full countdown coverage to the 64th annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, Whatsonstage.com is pleased to announce today that we hav…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:20PMCheyenne Jackson will be joined by the New York Pops in an evening of songs from the 1950s and '60s as part of Carnegie Hall's 2011-2012 season. Also planned is a musical tribute to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMBroadway and TV star Matthew Morrison (The Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, South Pacific, "Glee") recently signed to star with Cameron Diaz in the film "What to Expect When You&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMIn the midst of the pre-opening publicity blitz for the smash hit film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, three cast members took a Broadway detour to see Daniel Radcliffe in How t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMFormer NipTuck executive producers and current Glee co-creatorsexecutive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk are returning to FX with a new hour-long drama series pilot, American Horror S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMGavin Creel sings "Love Fell Down" at Club Med with Robbie Roth
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth sing "Love Fell Down" during the r family vacations trip to Club Med Sandpipe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:08PMGavin Creel sings "Summer, Highland Falls" by Billie Joel at Club Med with Robbie Roth
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth sing "Summer, Highland Falls" by Billie Joel during th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:01PMPeople underestimate how difficult comic writing is – and what Victoria Wood does is brilliantVictoria Wood is the domestic chorus of my family life. I've watched her through the 1980s, 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMHave you ever wanted to put a Facebook friend on autopilot?
Make them think you care without the time commitment of leaving a meaningful birthday message or the trouble of reading their rant…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PM
A rose by any other name may be the same, but what about a show at the Edinburgh Fringe? With a record-breaking 2,542 shows at this year’s festival, which runs from 5 to 29 August 2011, h…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:58PMCasting has been announced for Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet, re-imagined by by Michael Gieleta, to run August 4-14 at part of Bard SummerScape. Gieleta will also direct the piece, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMDonald Grody, an actor, playwright, activist, devoted husband, father and grandfather died at his home in Manhattan on July 13, 2011. He was 83.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMLegit Reviews: New musical feels like an unironic throwback to that era's wistful-quirky off-Broadway tuners. Nonetheless it's a crowdpleaser that should be a local hit, as well as a viable …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:49PMThe Media Theatre has announced the selections and preliminary casting for its 2011-2012 Broadway Series.
>Broadway veteran and American Idol finalist Justin Guarini will star as Billy F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMLegit News: Play premieres in one-night-only reading -- Dustin Lance Black's docu-play about the trial challenging California's Proposition 8 will bow in a one-night only reading directed on…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PMComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice both travelled to see the show and came away from their experiences - wildly enthusiastic. Now, Michael Riedel in the New York Post has pic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMA mixed show of aboriginal artists alternately challenges and is subsumed by the dominant culture
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:38PMProduction dramaturg Jenna Clark Embrey sounds off from behind the rehearsal room door with observations, comments and insights into the process of creating The Gershwins' Porgy an…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 02:33PMEmmy Award-winner and comedienne Judy Gold talks about her return to the stage in “The Judy Show - My Life As A Sitcom,” a journey through her life with a little help from classic televi…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:32PM“I like to quote fictional characters,” says Carrie Fisher, after citing Sherlock Holmes on the amount of information it’s possible for one person to hold in his head “because I’m …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:30PMThe Broadway production of Rock of Ages celebrated its 1,000th performance July 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMOn Saturday, July 16, the Broadway cast of ROCK OF AGES, including Rebecca Faulkenberry, Dan Domenech, MiG Ayesa, Mitchell Jarvis, Adam Dannheisser, Cody Scott Lancaster, Michele Mais, Josep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMSex Addict and playwright Tim Fountain has teamed up with author Suzanne Portnoy (The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker) to co-write Looser Women::16943, which premieres at next mont…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:26PMOn Twitter Watch, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote Alright,everybody, let's bum-rush AIMenken with love. I'll start. Alan Menken, thanks for making my childhood AWESOME You are why I writeAIMenken t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMAs news broke that Lea Michele won't return to Glee after the series' third season, Broadway.com asked what career options you'd like to see the Emmy-nominated actress explore ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMAccording to the NYTimes, stage and screen star Frank Langella, will pen his first memoir, which will include his 'encounters with Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier, William Styron, Marilyn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMYeah Yeah Yeahs' vocalist Karen O will team with playwright and director Adam Rapp on a new opera, which will open the season at St. Ann's Warehouse in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMDonald Grody, an actor who served as executive director of Actors' Equity Association from 1973 to 1980, died at his home in Manhattan on July 13. He was 83.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMPartial Comfort Productions has announced casting for Chad Beckim's After, to run September 7-October 1 at The Wild Project. Stephen Brackett will direct
The play centers on a wrongfu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PM"A lot can happen in a New York blackout. Stars are seen. Time stops. Dreams are realized, smashed or revived. Marriages, too. And lives. Songs are sung, tales intertwine and - in the case o…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:04PMLegit News: Broadway move not yet certain for tuner -- It's looking increasingly likely that we can add "Jesus Christ Superstar" to the list of Des McAnuff-helmed productions that launched a…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will return to Fox's "Glee" next season, reprising her role as Rachel Berry's mother for a multi-episode arc, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMBilly Elliot the Musical is currently in San Francisco at the Orpheum Theatre 1192 Market Street at 8th. This multi-award winning smash hit musical concludes the 2010- 2011 Best of Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM
The Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical returned to Broadway on July 5 at the St. James Theatre and officially opened on Wednesday, July 13. The 10-week …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMSchool may be out, but a theatre fan never stops learning! Today, as I was listening to "On the Verge" from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, I was reminded of just how much I…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:58PMCurrently On RepeatI'm a big fan of April Smith and the Great Music Show and I'm currently hooked on her song California.Enjoy!
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:56PMLegit Reviews: In "The Expert at the Card Table," feats with a deck of cards are wrapped around a haunting dual biography of historical colleagues, whose stories reveal as much about a magic…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PMParis Remillard never expected to take center stage as Claude Bukowski in a Broadway opening night performance of Hair. As a Tribe member since the Tony-winning revival’s original Cent…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PM***
Now in its eighth year, the Eclectic Company Theatre in NoHo is once again staging Hurricane Season, their new works festival and playwrights’ competition that showcases the short-l…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:49PM“All’s Well That Ends Well” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, is a flawed play. Helena (a terrific and award winning Annie Parisse), wants and adores Bertram (a fla…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:40PMMedal of Honor recipient Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry took his family to see the Broadway production of Mary Poppins July 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMThe show: "Lips Together, Teeth Apart"The place: Westport Country PlayhouseWhat is it?: Terrence McNally's 1991 play set in Fire Island in the early days of the AIDS crisis.Oh, a play filled…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:36PMHit production of Jesus Christ Superstar going to California’s LaJolla Playhouse
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:36PMThe second of four panel discussions held in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) residency at The Park Avenue Armory focused on “Directing Shakespeare." David Farr, the RS…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:35PMMemphis has announced via the production's official Twitter account that the filmed version of the Tony-winning show, which had a limited run in select movie theaters this spring. As announ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33PMCouresty of The Theater Project The cast of Penny Penniworth featuring Rick Delaney (left), Jenelle Sosa (bottom center), Terri Sturtevant (top), and Harry Patrick Christian (down right) in …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:32PM"Finding Neverland," a planned stage musical based on the popular 2004 movie, has been officially grounded.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:31PMDes McAnuff's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim RIce's hit musical Jesus Chris Superstar, which is currently on view at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, will play the L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMGregory Mosher on ATW's Working in the Theatre - Directors 2011
Director Gregory Mosher appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Directors 2011&qu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:29PMMichael Halberstam on ATW's Working in the Theatre - Directors 2011
Director Michael Halberstam appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Directors…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:29PMSheldon Epps on ATW's Working in the Theatre - Directors 2011
Director Sheldon Epps appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Directors 2011" …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:29PMJo Bonney on ATW's Working in the Theatre - Directors 2011
Director Jo Bonney appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Directors 2011" talks …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:29PMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is writing a memoir, Dropped Names, which will be released next year by Harper Collins, according to The New York Times.
The book will include st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMThe John W. Engeman Theater is proud to announce the cast and creative team for Hairspray, the first show of their 5th Season. Previews begin on Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 800 p.m., officiall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMTony Award winners Faith Prince and John Lloyd Young, cabaret stars Shawn Ryan and Wesla Whitfield, and company members from the touring production of Billy Elliot will perform in a special …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMWith Annie returning to Broadway in 2012, Broadway Artists Alliance of New York City will present the second of several Annie-themed master classes. They are thrilled to announce that Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMPriscilla Queen Of The Desert’s Oscar and Tony Award® winning costume designer Lizzy Gardiner is featured in Women’s Wear Daily with a special look backstage at the Tony winning hit Bro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:23PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November. It repla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's popular Des McAnuff-directed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will move to La Jolla Playhouse in southern California, starting in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMClick here to save today on tickets to this divine musical comedy
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMIrish American Writers & Artists Inc. will present Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre with the Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award at The Manhattan Club Oct. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMAmerica’s got talent — and a few Aussie cupcakes, too. Last Wednesday, amidst the judging results for the NBC reality competition show, a few cast members from the Broadway musical “Pr…
SOURCE: Women's Wear Daily at 01:16PMEmmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris will be a guest judge on the July 20 edition of FOX's hit series So You Think Can You Dance.
The two-hour, live-performance show, to be hosted by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMI'm not really much of an opera queen. When, among my gay male friends of the eighties, the talk turned to opera seria versus the "reform" operas of the mid-eighteenth century, say, or opera…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:15PMWhen it comes to the Big White Way, there's nothing that razzles and dazzles better than the classics, including the long-time favorite, "Anything Goes."
SOURCE: CBS at 01:15PMThat bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around. “Oklahoma!,” the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:14PMWill start a month-and-a-half run at La Jolla Playhouse in November; move spurs more talk the production is Broadway-bound
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:13PMWill start a month-and-a-half run at La Jolla Playhouse in November; move spurs more talk the production is Broadway-bound
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:13PMUnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. will present a special reading of a revised version of the 1969 musical comedy, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, on Friday, July 29 at 3pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMActor, playwright, and from Actors Equity Executive Director Donald Grody has died. He was 83.
Grody's Broadway credits include Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, Happy Hunting, Kisme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMShakespeare's Globe, LondonHoward Brenton's play begins as it means to swagger on: in teasingly intelligent style. Miranda Raison's Anne walks on to the stage with her own decapitated head i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMTerrence McNally Play Directed by Mark LamosThe show: "Lips Together, Teeth Apart"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:01PMLa Jolla Playhouse cancels 'Finding Neverland' musical
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM
Oprah Winfrey stopped by THE BOOK OF MORMON for the July 16th evening performance accompanied by best friend and radio host Gayle King. The media mogul was seen leaving the Eugene O'Neill Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMBlank Productions in association with The Present Company will present Blank, a darkly comic story of adoption and identity, beginning Aug. 12 at Manhattan Theatre Source as part of the 15th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMAmerican Horror Story, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's drama, has been picked up by FX as a series, with a run scheduled to begin in October, according to Deadline.com.
Dylan McDermott,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:55PMTony winner Joe Mantello will direct the one-night-only world premiere of 8, chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 and presented b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMOn Saturday, July 16th, Colin Donnell and Laura Osnes performed It's De-lovely on CBS' The Early Show on channel 2 in New York. Colin Donnell also performed a special arrangement of I Get A …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMBroadway's Annie Golden has joined the cast of The Common Swallow, David Caudle's play about a woman who returns to her childhood home, which will premiere Sept. 27 in Provincetown, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMLaura Michelle Kelly will return to the Broadway production of Mary Poppins as the title character on July 19 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Ashley Brown played her final performance on July …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMFrank Langella, who has memorably played Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon" (and of course Count Dracula in "Dracula"), will write of his up-close-and-personal encounters with Elizabeth Taylor, …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PMHave you ever wondered, reading "King Lear," what could possibly be worse than having one's eyes gouged out?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PMComplete casting for the upcoming Broadway revival of Follies, starring two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, has been announ. In addition to Peters, previously announced stars Jan Maxwell…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:35PMLaura Osnes and Colin Donnell, who star as Hope Harcourt and Billy Crocker, respectively, in the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes, recently visited CBS-TV’s "The Early S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMTwo posts making the circuit today.Both of them are about being a playwright in the Big Apple.On HotReview, Barbara Hammond talks about the sacrifices one makes to keep at the stage writing …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 12:31PMJohn Leguizamo will launch the tour of his one-man show, Ghetto Klown, at Los Angeles' Ricardo Montalban Theater this fall, according to Variety. Directed by Fisher Stevens, the producti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PMThe BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will begin another season in September, when a first-year group of aspiring composers, lyricists and librettists gather to hone their craft. BMI…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMGavin Creel sings "Hot Ohio" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth sing "Hot Ohio" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky. Seth recorded his "Seth Spea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:20PMJacquelyn Piro Donovan and Matthew Gumley star in Lionel Bart's Oliver!, the second of the seven musicals that comprise the famed Music Circus summer season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMJacquelyn Piro Donovan and Matthew Gumley star in Lionel Bart's Oliver!, the second of the seven musicals that comprise the famed Music Circus summer season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMStars Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee welcomed Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry and his family backstage after a performance of Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sunday, July 17.
In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMBrooklyn Innovative Theatre Experience (BITE) has announced casting for Kris Chung's Prom Night of the Living Dead to run August 18-September 4 at The Players Theatre.
Chung is also d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMGavin Creel sings "Here Comes the Sun" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth sing "Here Comes the Sun" at Club Med with Seth Rudetsky. Seth recorded…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:08PMYou remember the plot. You love the characters. You know the song. It's no less than the stage adaptation of one of the most celebrated and beloved films of all time. 1920s Hollywood is the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMThe Theatre Swan Song: Maria Callas haunts the stage in “Master Class.” By Hilton Als The New Yorker — July 25, 2011 I’m not really much of an opera queen. When, among my gay mal…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:01PMRehearsals begin today and full casting is confirmed for the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center's acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES, directed by Eric …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
A week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMBroadway Premiere of ‘8’ Lifts Veil on Prop. 8 Trial to Show the World Why Equality Must Prevail The American Foundation for Equal Rights & Broadway Impact Present One Night Only Exc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:56AMThe new Disney animated feature WINNIE THE POOH was just released in theaters nationwide last week, and composer for the film and BOOK OF MORMON creator Robert Lopez recently chatted with Ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMColin Donnell and Laura Osnes, who co-star in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Anything Goes at Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre, appeared on CBS' The E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMStage and screen star Giancarlo Esposito has joined the new ABC drama series Once Upon a Time in the recurring roles of Sidney/The Magic Mirror, according to Deadline.com
The series focuses…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMOn Saturday, Colin Donnell and Laura Osnes performed “It’s De-lovely” on CBS’ “The Early Show.” Click here to watch!
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:48AMFeatured in The New York Times, New York Post and Playbill.com. The New York Times, Arts & Leisure http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/theater/julian-ovenden-in-roundabouts-death-takes-a-h…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:41AMFrom a four-storey-high dance show to intimate tales inside a camper van ... theatre got down with the gigs at this year's Suffolk music bashWhile the nation tuned in to watch Tom Pellereau …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMIf you've got a product that already has market interest, another way to boost that interest is to create supporting products that might appeal to either a new demographic, or more important…
SOURCE: the Situation at 11:33AMElaine Del Valle seems like a sincere, friendly person who is very funny when she lapses into Spanglish and talks about her family. She has navigated the terrain from Brownsville to an apar…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:33AMWith set comprising half a galleon in the street outside the theatre, Sally Cookson's production has a cheeky swagger that befits a tale of buccaneers
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:32AMRichard Fleeshman broke his foot whilst preparing for his role in Ghost the Musical, the actor has exclusively told Whatsonstage.com. Speaking to Joseph Pike, Fleeshman revealed he was on cr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:30AMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dafina McMillan July 18, 2011 …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:29AMCasting is complete for the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center production of Follies, starring Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein. Previews begin Aug. 7 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dafina McMillan July 18, 2011 �…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:23AMThe purported scoundrels in the British phone-hacking scandal give the edge in amorality to the power-brokers, secret-hoarders and blackmailers portrayed in "Luise Miller," Friedrich Schille…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:23AMCasting is now complete for the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center production of Follies, starring Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein, which will begin previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMA new play about the battle over same-sex marriage in California by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" is slated for a one-night-only reading on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:20AMBaker & Tarpaga Dance Project apparently has a penchant for oxymorons. Witness a recent work called "Disorder Inside Order" and their newest piece, "Beautiful Struggle." Kelly-Strayhorn …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:19AMNEW YORK (AP) -- A new play about the battle over same-sex marriage in California by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Milk" is slated for a one-night-only reading on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:18AMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dafina McMillan July 18, 2011 …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:14AMThe award-winning York Theatre Company's production of Oh, Coward!, part of its Summer 2011 Musicals in Mufti Series, played July 15-17. An opening night reception was held following the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMOlivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, The West End's original MARY POPPINS, returns to the Broadway company on Tuesday, July 19 8pm at the New Amsterdam Theatre. She re-joins Tony Award…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies at the Marquis Theatre, beginning previews August 7, with an opening on Sept…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMTelecharge.com recently sent out an email to its customers with a subject similar to the subject of this blog. Why? Because this summer, a bunch of shows are shaking up their schedules. Baby…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Rehearsals begin today and full casting is confirmed for the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center’s acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s FOLLIES, directed by E…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:54AMDaniel Radcliffe, also known as teen wizard Harry Potter, has recently been splitting his time between New York and the West End ̬ performing on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMCrazy days we live in:Credit cards mean less bills (the Mint didn't make any $10 bills last year!) and Coinstar means less coins.Many of our favorite hip-hop albums couldn't have happened in…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:30AMAnd not well for St. Ann's. The court ruled that St. Ann can't use the Tobacco Warehouse to build a new home. Back to the drawing board for them. This might mean them leaving DUMBO.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:28AMYesterday, July 17, Sergeant Leroy Petry, recent recipient of the Medal of Honor - the highest military honor awarded in the United States - took in a production of Mary Poppins at the New A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMCheck to see what Broadway shows are playing on each night this week. Want to know what Broadway shows have Sunday evening performances Which Broadway shows have Wednesday matinees Just want…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMGoogie Withers, a sly, stylish British star who was best liked by her public when she was behaving wickedly, died July 15 in Sydney, Australia, where she had lived for many years. She was 94.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMAcademy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and Tony Award-winning director Joe Mantello are collaborating on a one-night-only Broadway staging of 8, a new drama c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMDirectors Jo Bonney, Sheldon Epps, Michael Halberstam and Gregory Mosher talk about how they got started in the business; choosing their projects; their process when starting a new show; how…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:18AMOlivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly will return to the title role in the Broadway production of Mary Poppinsplaying at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Tuesday, July 19.
Kelly won the O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMScreen-to-stage blockbuster Ghost The Musical opens at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre tomorrow night (19 July 2011, previews from 22 June). The show stars Richard Fleeshman as murdered Ne…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:11AMSo you've decided what your strategic marketing goals should be. Now let's talk about the money. First, please revisit this post on setting financial objectives. It talks about some of the e…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:04AMDanielle Arci, William Thomas Evans, Felicia Finley and more star in the John W. Engeman theatre production of Hairspray, which opened July 9 for a run through August 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMKevin Spacey gives an indelible performance in the title role of Sam Mendes' brilliant production of Shakespeare's play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
I gave an interview last week with a Burnaby publication, and one of the questions they asked was “how can you track/prove that your social media is producing results and converting in…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 09:53AMActress Googie Withers has died at age 94.
Withers' stage credits include The Complaisant Love, which played on Broadway during the 1961-1962 season, and Exit the King, The School for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMFrom time to time, some degree of a moratorium on the plays of Shakespeare is considered. After seeing Much Ado About Nothing at Boomerang (a solid production that reminded me of what a prof…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 09:46AMA contest between 10 jobbing standups is more MasterChef than The X Factor bringing as much awkwardness as laughterIt was only a matter of time before standup got its own The X Factor. So we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:38AMGreg Cook, of the awesome blog New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, and I have been chatting recently about the recent developments at the Rose Art Museum. We thought we'd share those …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:37AMCole Porter 2 days running-- Who could ask for anything more? This past Saturday went to the opening of A.R. Gurney's ever popular doggie romance, Sylvia at&nbs…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:18AMWomen are under-represented in theatre – not for lack of interest, but because the industry is failing to provide long-term supportWe already know how the cuts in arts funding are going to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMTimothy John Smith, Francisco Solorzano, and Therese Plaehn will star in Gloucester Stage Company's world premiere of Richard Vetere's Last Day, July 21-August 7. Eric C. Engel wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMA considerable part of the leading German intelligentsia, including Adorno, have taken up residence in the “Grand Hotel Abyss” which I described in connection with my critique of…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:05AMHenrik Ibsen's rarely staged play about two families' dark secrets shines thanks to the work of a fine company.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I’ve presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don’t miss the American Va…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:58AMHere’s an audition notice from Breakthrough Theatre: The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park will hold auditions for the Reginald Rose drama Twelve Angry Men on: Saturday, July 30, fro…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:50AMHere’s a look at the board for the upcoming year at the Fringe: Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, the oldest Fringe Festival in the United States, announced its officers a…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:42AMBay Street Theatre held its Rock the Dock! Summer Gala Benefit on Saturday, July 16 on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.
Chris Bauer, Blythe Danner, and Richard Kind hosted the event which ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:40AMThe sub-headline for this post should be "Between Follies". That's because Jan Maxwell helms this heady, intelligent, no-small-undertaking of a play - in-between her Follies DC run and…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:23AMYou know those people who arrive early and leave late because they just don’t want to miss a single thing? You know, the ones who grab every opportunity that tries to get past them. The on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:17AMGoogie Withers, a regular on British stage and screen, famed for her appearances in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and ITV's Within These Walls, has died. She passed away at her home i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:14AMSimon Greiff will direct Lee Wyatt-Buchan, Aldie Chalmers, and Sandy Chalmers' Stand Tall - A Rock Musical, to run October 12-November 12 at the Landor Theatre.
The show resets the b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Fiasco staging to play Barrow Street -- Fiasco Theater's production of "Cymbeline" has scored its third life, with the small-cast staging set for a run at Off Broadway's Barrow S…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Play launches tour at Montalban Theater -- John Leguizamo's solo show "Ghetto Klown" has skedded the first stop of its national tour in L.A., where the production will play the R…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMelody Hollis will make her cabaret debut with Melodyland at Vitellos nightclub in Studio City on August 10 at 8pm. Bruce Kimmel has conceived and will direct the show, which will have musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Along with old school tv variety shows and children’s television, one of the main links between the vaudeville era and our own was the rock and roll novelty hit, combining extravaga…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:38AMXoregos Performing Company has announced casting for Sophocles' Antigone, which will be presented free-of-charge in parks and libraries July 23 - August 13 in Manhattan, Queens, Brookly…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:38AMThose unfamiliar with the premise of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience can imagine a smaller scale “High School Musical” production that takes place in England during the Victorian age. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AMA.R. Gurney's popular doggie romance at Berkshire Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AMOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 16 July 1956When the Berliner Ensemble visits London this autumn, British playgoers will be able to see the most controversial theatre in E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMCalled to my attention by its writer/producer, Anna Fishbeyn, Sex in Mommyville has been transformed from a solo show that opened in 2010 at the Flea Theatre in NYC to a multi-character play…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 07:06AMAs a Fringe reviewer, it is always nice to read something in a program that acknowledges the challenges of creating the play in question. In the words of Charlie Fink, producer of Who’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AM
INTERVIEW: ANNE BEAN and GARY STEVENS The curators of ArtsAdmin's Wake and Archipelago, a six-week programme of performances and installations taking place concurrently at two galleries in S…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:55AMWell, the circus angel must have been whispering in my ear yesterday. It had been a matter of settled law that I’d be checking out Circus Vidbel at Coney Island this summer. I had vagu…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:50AMEarly in her career, Shirley Alston Reeves got a piece of advice no singer wants to hear. The advice: Don't go out there thinking you've got some fabulous voice.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:49AMThe thing that is so key about Hip Hop is that no matter what one professes to know about it, there is always something new to take away. This is what turns that professor into the student…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMJoyce E. Henry, 83, professor emerita of theater, English, and communication studies at Ursinus College, died of cancer Monday, July 11, at her home in Collegeville.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:21AMIn the director’s notes, director/writer/performer Michael Oliver quotes Archibald MacLeish: “A poem should not mean/but be.” I would add, “Or be performed”. Embodying Poe falls so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:10AM5AM. The alarm goes of in its familiar “Sonar” beeping and I hit snooze twice. Down to the office. I weigh myself (same time every morning), make a pot of coffee. Out on the back porch f…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AM
The new season at the Old Vic opens wirh John Crowley's new production of J M Synge's rich Irish comedy THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD starring Niamh Cusack, Ruth Negga and Robert Sheehan.…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:58AMThe sixth edition of Latitude Festival was held this weekend (14 to 17 July 2011) with a sell-out crowd of 35,000 descending on Henham Park Estate near Southwold in Suffolk.
This year's fes…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:57AMWith Ghost The Musical now opening in London, following its debut in Manchester, I thought it would be fun to have a look at the magic of stage special effects. We all have those moments in …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:53AMWith Ghost The Musical now opening in London, following its debut in Manchester, I thought it would be fun to have a look at the magic of stage special effects. We all have those moments in …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:21AMThe sixth edition of Latitude Festival was held this weekend (14 to 17 July 2011) with a sell-out crowd of 35,000 descending on Henham Park Estate near Southwold in Suffolk.
This year's fes…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:18AMIn the case of this small, charmingly wrought theater piece in which the mysteries of certain card tricks are revealed, knowledge only increases our wonder.In the case of this small, charmin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:09AM
Teaser Trailer "Where's Waldo?: The Musical"
Coming August 2011
The Online Musical Presents:
'Where's Waldo?: The Musical'
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:53AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, July 17, 2011 - Sunday, July 17, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMThe opening debut for the New Haarlem Arts Theater leaves a lot to be desired and a lot to be admired. Ambitiously choosing a three-hour play, James Baldwin’s rarely staged “Blue…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:38AMLegit Reviews: The slight, evanescent plot wafts past the audience without landing any perceptible punches.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23AMWE Theater, in association with Iron Jaw Company presentation of Cindy Lou Johnson’s play "Brilliant Traces," is so implausible that you sit watching it wondering why. The plot is th…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:23AMMy 2011 Playwriting Work Plan: Second Quarter Check In Better late than never, right? Well, at any rate here is my second quarter check in where I'll take a look at the writing goal…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:09AMThe Park Avenue Armory will announce Monday that tickets for the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will go on sale Aug. 15.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:02AMThe Delaware River Theatre Collective presents One Night Only, a benefit featuring Broadway performers Adam Halpin (Glory Days, Rent) and Rodney Hicks (The Scottsboro Boys, Jesus Christ Supe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSingin' in the Rain, based on the MGM film of the same name, begins performances July 18 at the St. Louis Muny, the nation's oldest and largest outdoor theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe third annual Broadway Meows concert for the Humane Society of New York will be presented at Don't Tell Mama July 18 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Project Shaw series continues July 18 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Fanny's First Play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDeath and Hannibal Lecter. Julian Ovenden and Brent Barrett's characters in their respective Off-Broadway shows are making quite a killing this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1928 Following the birth of "talkie" films, Variety prints an article focusing on the amount of legit theatre talent that is being sought for this new medium. Among those stage act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOut Of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman & Dimond, featuring the songs of Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond, will be presented at Birdland July 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVariety is too weak a word for Lisa Howard's recent roles. The actor best known for originating the role of Rona Lisa Peretti in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway will…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
