Oracle Production's Hamlet is an excellent offering for fans of the Bard. What it lacks in production value it more than makes up for in able talent. I highly recommend that you return to th…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 07:58PMLondon's Laurence Olivier Awards will be presented for the first time at the Royal Opera House in 2012.
Linked From Playbill at 07:51PMThe 36th Olivier Awards with MasterCard, the UK's highest stage honours, will be hosted at London's prestigious Royal Opera House for the first time ever at a star-studded ceremony on Sunday…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMBuress’s subtle strains of absurdity work in the dorm room, but may not make it in the big rooms of stand-up
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 07:29PMHampstead Theatre, LondonWhat happens in a marriage when private beliefs and public duty are at odds? How can you reconcile loving a man caught up through his job in doing something, even ta…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:29PMOn Twitter Watch, Audra McDonald wrote Gonna sing at the celebration of the first gay marriage officiated by Mayor Bloomberg this weekend. So honored and excited
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMClown Car Chronicles is a web journal of a clown troupe as they travel across 6,000 of the USA performing their show in five different cities and living life along the way. My life’s g…
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 07:14PMAs previously tipped, the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, the UK’s equivalent of the Tony Awards, will be held at the Royal Opera House for the first time in their 36-year history.
The star…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:03PMThe 2012 Olivier Awards, which recognizes excellence on the London stage, will be held at the Royal Opera House for the first time ever at a star-studded ceremony on Sunday, April 15, 2012.
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Linked From TheaterMania at 07:01PMIt is big, brash, very, very loud and coming to an arena near you this school summer holidays. Unlike the roundly panned musical exploits of Spider-Man in the US, the Caped Crusader live in …
Linked From The Independent at 07:00PMThe two chief female characters find themselves manhandled like pieces of furniture during the many stylised interludes where servants dart about shifting the scene in Katie Mitchell's strik…
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Howard Barker’s 1983 play “Victory: Choices in Reaction,” having its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater’s Stage 2, features Jan Maxwell in a tour de force performance.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:49PMI'm pretty sure you'll get a chance to see this one in some sort of release or on DVD. You should. It's lovely.
Linked From Frank's Wild Lunch at 06:42PMThe Public Theater’s Tony-winning production of “Hair,” directed by Diane Paulus, has returned to New York this summer for a ten-week run at the St. James Theater. This unusual summer…
Linked From WQXR at 06:29PMEven in its offseason, the popular reality TV show “Jersey Shore” is fodder for the sort of love/hate relationship that spawns tributes, spinoffs, spoofs and skewerings. In the case of …
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:09PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Breaking News Cynthia Nixon to Star in “Wit” on Broadway ARTSBEAT BLOG/NYTIMES.COM – BY PATRICK HEALY Take note, “Sex an…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:08PMI haven't been more bemused since "Xanadu". "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is a relentless wave of outrageous costumes, sets and jokes. The score is a pile up of pop hits from the 60s, 70s…
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When journalist Jenny Allen was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she knew from the beginning that she would write about it. “I felt I couldn’t call myself a writer if I didn’t make use o…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMJulie Ganey felt an unexpected pressure when she began writing “Love Thy Neighbor ... Till It Hurts,” a solo piece that offers observations about her Rogers Park neighborhood, where she …
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMAre critics claiming "Victory: Choices in Reaction"?
Linked From StageGrade at 05:50PMThe U.S. premiere of Howard Barker's Victory: Choices in Reaction, starring Jan Maxwell, opened at Atlantic Stage 2 July 15.
Linked From Playbill at 05:39PMThe Adam Gwon-Julia Jordan musical Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Joe Iconis' Bloodsong of Love and Watt!?, a new musical from Tony-nominated Cry-Baby co-author David Javerbaum and Striking 12 c…
Linked From Playbill at 05:39PMSix leading set designers choose their favourite peerTom Scutt on Es DevlinI assisted Es briefly in 2007. We were delicately splicing up a Braille copy of a Harry Potter novel to clad her de…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:37PMNikki Blonsky, who starred as Tracy Turnblad in the movie version of the musical Hairspray, will host a Hairspray Sing-Along VIP Party, as well as welcome all attendees for a sing-along bene…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:37PMProgramming for the inaugural Pride Series at The Broward Center in Fort Lauderdale has been announced. Works will be presented during the 2011-2012 season.
Works will include the interacti…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:23PMStage veterans Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are featured in the trailer for the new movie Dream House. As previously reported, Jim Sheridan has directed the film, which has a screenplay by…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:18PMCheck out this article I wrote for Chicago, Second to None about family friendly shows in Chicago. Please offer your suggestions in the comments area!
Linked From Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:16PMOn July 19, 2011 Memphis The Musical’s Bryan Fenkart and Dan’yelle Williamson performed on Good Day New York! The duo sang a medley composed of different numbers from the show i…
Linked From The Hartman Group at 05:10PMThis week's news in the artsIn 1970, rock critic Lester Bangs wrote a review of the Stooges' album Fun House in which he spent the first 6,000 words musing on the divide between artist and f…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:09PMThe Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) has announced its performing arts programming for the 2011-2012 season.
Among the theater offerings sc…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:09PMCast members from the touring company of Hair, playing a 10-week only Broadway engagement, were on hand to perform and sign CD's July 19 at Borders Columbus Circle.
Linked From Playbill at 05:05PM3D Hamlet: A Lost Generation, which features an ethereal cameo by Alec Baldwin, will begin a public New York workshop July 21 prior to debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.
Linked From Playbill at 05:05PMTHEATER MATT & BEN The script for ‘‘Good Will Hunting’’ falls from the heavens in this enjoyably antic spoof of our local lads by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers, sta…
Linked From Boston Globe at 05:03PMQ. What is the new exhibit’s organizing principle? A. The museum has about 11,000 pieces of jewelry, the oldest dating back to 2400 B.C. The goal is to highlight our own collection, in…
Linked From Boston Globe at 05:03PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 72011.
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St. Ann's Warehouse, the multi-disciplinary theater group and performance space, affirmed this week that it would be leaving its 38 Water St. home in Dumbo after recent court rulings made it…
Linked From WNYC at 04:59PMIn the latest production from St. Louis Shakespeare, Mistresses Ford and Page are up to mischief in Windsor.Sir John Falstaff (Martin Casey) is broke when he visits Windsor, and plans to woo…
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:59PMBrian Richmond’s Blue Bridge Repertory theatre scores big with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Linked From Toronto.com at 04:53PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the eight musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October …
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:51PMBatman Live, a new stage spectacle based on the popular DC Comics character, officially opened at Manchester's MEN Arena on July 20. Anthony Van Laast and James Powell have co-directed …
Linked From TheaterMania at 04:44PMPlaywright Steve Yockey and director Abigail Deser discuss the art of their recent collaboration on the premiere of his Heavier Than..., a play based on the Theseus and the Minotaur myth, op…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 04:44PMThe intimate stage of Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT, is the dock for the usually massive musical Show Boat in a revised revival directed by Rob Ruggiero.
Linked From Playbill at 04:38PMBroadway veteran Lea Michele, is set to attend Comic Con International this weekend in San Diego. As part of the cast of the upcoming animated film Dorothy of OZ, Lea will be appearing at th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMCasting for King of the Ice Cream Mountain (Adults performing for kids) August 7th and August 8th (OPEN CALL NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY) West Valley Playhouse 7242 Owensmouth Ave Canoga Park C…
Linked From Bitter Lemons at 04:23PMThe Office for Fair Access last week released details of the higher education institutions that will be charging the new maximum fees of £9,000 per year from the 2012/2013 academic yea…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 04:19PMJames G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan administration, is the subject of the rock musical "Watt?!?"
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Yesterday, July 19, Sister Act celebrated it's 100th performance on Broadway. Stars Patina Miller and Victoria Clark were on hand for the celebration with the company. Below, BroadwayWorld…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMShe Stoops to Conquer, which will run July 27 - August 7 at Williamstown Theatre Festival will be directed by Nicholas Martin and is set to star Brooks Ashmanskas, Mia Barron, Richard Easton…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:58PM"Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again," an hour-long special featuring the two entertainment legends in conversation onstage before a live audience, is set to air Sept. 9 on H…
Linked From Playbill at 03:39PMCasting is now complete for the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of She Stoops to Conquer, starring Brooks Ashmanskas, Richard Easton, Kristine Nielsen and Paxton Whitehead, which wi…
Linked From Playbill at 03:39PMThis summer and fall, numerous Chicago area movie theaters are screening several Shakespeare works taped directly from Shakespeare’s own Globe Theatre in London.
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 03:37PM2011 Freddie G Theatre Experience Highlights
Following are the eight teachers attending the Broadway Welcomes America's Teachers at the 2nd Annual Freddie G Theatre Experience
John…
Linked From YouTube at 03:35PMMatthew James Thomas, who stars as Peter Parker at certain performances of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, takes Playbill.com readers through his early-day routine prior to and …
Linked From Playbill at 03:27PMKevin Blake will play Stan Laurel and Paul C. Vogt will play Oliver Hardy in Tom McGrath's Laurel and Hardy, to run August 31 - October 2 at the Falcon Theatre. Dimitri Toscas will dir…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:24PMPsycho Clan will present Nightmare: Fairy Tales, the latest installment of its haunted house experience, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, September 29-November 5.
Under the direc…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:24PMIdentical twin brothers, Will and Anthony Nunziata discuss their new cabaret show "An Evening With Will and Anthony Nunziata" at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, their Educational Outreach Prog…
Linked From Adaumbelle’s Quest at 03:17PMPlaywright Franco Mohcetti discusses his show "When Yellow Were the Stars on Earth" which is playing at Manhattan Repertory Theatre as part of their Summerfest 2011 as well as other everyday…
Linked From Adaumbelle’s Quest at 03:17PMJason Patric was so amazing in "After Dark, My Sweet" that I watched the film, left the auditorium, went straight back to the box office and bought another ticket for the next performance.
Linked From Backstage at 03:17PMBroadway stars are celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State—including Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (A Raisin in the Sun, Ragtime).
According to the performe…
Linked From Playbill at 03:16PMSharon D Clarke has some of the best pipes in the business, as London audiences who have seen her in We Will Rock You, Hairspray, Once on This Island and Guys and Dolls can attest. The 46-ye…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:09PMThe story of Batman has been told on stage for the first time at the premiere of an arena show that could tour the world for the next five years.
Linked From BBC at 03:02PMA pair of puppets from the musical "Avenue Q" will be among the couples tying the knot this weekend as the state's new same-sex marriage law takes effect.
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National radio host Robert Aubry Davis will star as Edna Turnblad in the Signature Theatre's production of Hairspray, to run November 21-January 29. Eric Schaeffer will direct.
Based o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:59PMThe 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 July 14. The 10-week only Summer of…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMCharacters vs. PlotTwo playwriting elements enter, one playwriting element leaves! No, not quite Thunderdome.I was thinking about the writing difficulties I've had lately with two plays tha…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 02:57PMCatch Me If You Can, the 2011 Tony Award-nominated musical, will host "Ask Aaron," a post-show talkback and Q&A with the show's star Aaron Tveit, following the July 21 and …
Linked From Playbill at 02:53PMCast members from the Broadway production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical performed at Borders Columbus Circle on Tuesday, July 19. The event was part of a book signing with E…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:45PMRoyal Shakespeare Company actor Richard Katz takes Playbill readers on a backstage tour of the famed company's summer repertory venue at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory. Walking through the b…
Linked From Playbill at 02:38PMAre critics intrigued by "A Strange and Separate People"?
Linked From StageGrade at 02:37PM"Gentlemen's agreement" is an archaic term that is nevertheless perfect for describing the unwritten contract between publications and theater producers known as the "review embargo."
Linked From Backstage at 02:36PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Cynthia Nixon will be returning to Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit."...
Linked From Associated Press at 02:36PMGhost – the Musical, the West End's new stage version of the Academy Award-winning 1990 non-musical film, opened officially at the Piccadilly Theatre July 19.
Linked From Playbill at 02:26PMOn Thursday, July 21, and Thursday, August 4 audience members at the new, Tony Award Nominated Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN will get the chance to chat up the young star Aaron Tveit,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMTony nominee Jeff Calhoun, who will be represented on Broadway later this season with Bonnie & Clyde, will direct the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the new Disney sta…
Linked From Playbill at 02:19PMCatch Me If You Can star Aaron Tveit will participate in on stage post-show talk backs and Q&As following the July 21 and August 4 performances of the Broadway musical, which performs at…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:17PMThe upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Hairspray has found its Miss Baltimore Crabs. Susan Anton will play the role of Velma Von Tussle when the show plays the Los Angeles venue from Augu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:17PMMarc Warren (West End's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice) will star in Cool Hand Luke, a new stage adaptation of Donn Pearce’s 1965 novel of the same name, beginning Sept. 2…
Linked From Playbill at 02:10PMIn an opening night worth crossing the pond for, the musical adaptation of Ghost made its official bow on July 19 at London’s Piccadilly Theatre. Featuring a score by Dave Stewart and …
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Cynthia Nixon will be returning to Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit." Producers said Wednesday that the Tony and Emmy award winner will star in Margaret Edson's play about a …
Linked From Boston Globe at 01:59PMTraces, the acrobatic theatre show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, will perform on the NBC reality series “America’s Got Talent” July 20 at 9 PM ET.
Traces will mak…
Linked From Playbill at 01:58PMWhistler in the Dark Theatre has announced the lineup for its 2011/2012 season, which will run October 27-June 2.
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (October 27-November 19) will be a co-produ…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:51PMChristopher Gattelli will choreograph the new Disney stage musical, Newsies, to run September 15-October 16, with an opening on September 25, at the Paper Mill Playhouse. As previously annou…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:51PMTony nominee Jeff Calhoun, who will be represented on Broadway later this season with Bonnie & Clyde, will direct the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the new Disney sta…
Linked From Playbill at 01:48PMWelcome to Part 2 in the Sneak Peek Inside a Musical Theatre Festival series. If you’re just tuning in, I’m producing Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals and am blog…
Linked From Make Musicals at 01:47PMNewhaven, SussexStreet theatre brings communities together, and no more so than in down-at-heel Newhaven, once the gateway to Europe. That heritage – and the town's future – were celebra…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:45PMGrosvenor Park, ChesterNow in its second year, Chester's Grosvenor Park company has rapidly established itself as an attractive, northern alternative to the Globe and Regent's Park. Of cours…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:45PMGivenik.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 01:45PMPipeline Productions and Samuel French's Off-Off Broadway FestivalpresentBUBBLE & SQUEAKBefore I sat down to write this review, I got quite heartening news that Bubble & Squeak had a…
Linked From CultureFuture at 01:44PMChip Zien will host Broadway in the Berkshires, an Aug. 15 benefit for Shakespeare & Company's educational programs, which will feature Rachel de Benedet and Peter Mazurowski.
Linked From Playbill at 01:40PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre has announced that national radio host Robert Aubry Davis WETA's Around Town and SiriusXM Radio will be making his stage debut, playing the iconic ro…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMPaper Mill Playhouse has just announced the full creative team behind its season opener, the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies. Featuring music by eight-time Academy Award-winn…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMLeading authority on jazz dance and co-founder of the Jiving Lindy HoppersTerry Monaghan, who has died aged 67 from a brain tumour, was the co-founder of the award-winning dance co…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:31PMGhost the Musical opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on Tuesday, July 19. Matthew Warchus has directed the production.
Opening night guests included Jerry Zucker, who directed the f…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:30PMSusan Anton will play Velma von Tussle in Hairspray, to run August 5-7. Jerry Mitchell will direct and choreograph the production, which will have musical direction by Lon Hoyt.
Anton has …
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:30PMIn September, the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre kicks off its new season with the world premiere of Rita Moreno Life Without Makeup, a captivating new show created specifical…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMRain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway will play its final performance at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on July 31, 2011, well ahead of the previously announced closing date of September 4…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:30PMIn stewarding the choreography of Jerome Robbins, West Side Story’s dance director balances preservation and relevance.
Linked From timeoutchicago.com at 01:28PMGloden Globe Award nominee Susan Anton will recall her days as Miss Baltimore Crabs in the Hollywood Bowl production of Hairspray, starring Tony Award-winning Broadway originals Harvey Fiers…
Linked From Playbill at 01:26PMTheater Wit, a small Equity company on Chicago's North Side, has anounced its 2012 season. There are no shows this fall.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 01:24PMSusan Anton is announced to join the cast of HAIRSPRAY at the Hollywood Bowl as Velma Von Tussle. The production reunites the original Broadway stars Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winok…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMLet Me Down Easy," at the Broad Stage through July 31, is Anna Deveare Smith's exploration of the nation's healthcare crisis.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:23PMDiversity is part of the mix in Queens, a borough where 47 percent of the population is foreign-born, according to U.S. Census data, and where an oven-warmed Colombian pandebono is easier to…
Linked From WNYC at 01:18PMBroadway favorite Neil Patrick Harris is set to join the panel of judges on tonight's episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' when the top 10 get to dance along with this season's all-stars.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMSteel Burkhardt Big freaking surprise here, right? The Mick loves him, we know this. But this summer (of love) he’s back on Broadway in Hair, and, dare we say it… giving his Broadway pre…
Linked From The Craptacular at 01:16PMAn absolute must-read:I recently talked with Carole Swann, an actor currently recovering from a violent accident, which resulted in a broken humerus bone, incurred while rehearsing a play. W…
Linked From CultureFuture at 01:16PM( Learn more about the What If…? Project and what comes next) What if the unions allowed regional theatres to use their archival recordings in their on-site theatre classes? First of al…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 01:10PMProspect Theater Company has announced casting for the two pieces that it will present in repertory as part of its Summer Musical Lab, to run July 27-31 in the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:09PMLast Night, Tuesday 19 July, Ghost the Musical opened in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre where guests included McFly, JLS, Kimberly Walsh, Rochelle Wiseman, Joe McElderry, Lord and La…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMCabrillo Musc Theatre occupies a venue that Cabrillo artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld describes as the largest theatrical house between Los Angeles and San Francisco -- the 1,800-seat Kavl…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 01:09PMNeither "Ghost," a musical based on the 1990 movie, nor a re-imagining of "A Woman Killed With Kindness," on stage in London, offer much for audiences to latch on to and take with them.
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Linked From NJ.com at 01:02PMHeading for the summer doldrums, there were only 25 productions on the Great White Way last week, four of which are plays. Despite the decreasing amount of shows, one less than previous week…
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Linked From YouTube at 12:57PMClassic Stage Company was able to slightly alter the schedule for an upcoming summer rental to allow for the one additional week of the popular, highly theatrical docudrama Unnatural Acts, a…
Linked From Playbill at 12:53PMMamie Gummer and Benjamin Walker were married in a ceremony in Connecticut on Saturday, July 16, according to a report on People.com. The couple had announced their engagement last October.…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:46PMWilliamstown Theatre Festival has announced full cast and creative team information for its production of She Stoops to Conquer, to play the Main Stage, July 27-August 7. Nicholas Martin wil…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:46PMAnthony Rapp, Scott Adist, Jon McCormick, Nicola Murphy, Spencer Aste, Jeffrey Omura, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker and Sam Underwood are set to star in '3D Hamlet A Lost Generation.' T…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMLegit News: Meadow to direct MTC production -- Cynthia Nixon will topline a Broadway production of "Wit" this winter as part of the Rialto lineup from Gotham nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club.
Linked From Variety at 12:38PMThough questionably stretched to fit into two full acts, for most of the journey the ensemble's charm supplies just enough mileage to make "Around the World" a worthy trip.
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 12:30PMClassic Stage Company and Plastic Theatre have extended their production Unnatural Acts through July 31. The work is conceived and directed by Tony Speciale.
The play is inspired by real-l…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:24PMStage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will be a guest judge on the July 20 broadcast of Fox's reality competition, "So You Think Can You Dance."
Linked From Playbill at 12:21PMJeff Award winner Andrea Prestinario will be Eliza Doolittle to Chicago Shakespeare Theater veteran Nathan M. Hosner as Henry Higgins in the new Chicago-area production of My Fair Lady this …
Linked From Playbill at 12:21PMToronto Summer Music this year is dedicated to Beethoven and the Romantics, a broad theme that handily encompasses most of the music that pianists in particular love to play. How, then, to a…
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 12:20PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon will return to MTC to star in the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play WIT by Marg…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:17PMManhattan Theater Club announced on Wednesday that Cynthia Nixon, who won an Emmy as the uptight lawyer Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series, will play Professor Vivian Bearing in the first Broa…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:14PMTony-winning Broadway veteran Ben Vereen, who received his first Tony Award nomination for playing biblical traitor Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, will return to the rock opera as Pilate i…
Linked From Playbill at 12:13PMThe Office for Fair Access last week released details of the
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Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:13PMThe Fire Island Dance Festival 17, an outdoor celebration of dance, was held at Fire Island Pines on July 15-17. The event raised $340,445 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadw…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:10PMThe sequins of Sister Act seemed to have a little extra sparkle on July 19, when the high-spirited, disco-riffic musical celebrated its 100th performance! In honor of the milestone, the show…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:10PMIdentical twin brothers Will and Anthony Nunziata returned to Feinstein's at Loews Regency July 19.
Linked From Playbill at 12:06PMManhattan Theatre Club will give Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit its Broadway premiere in January 2012, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon as a poetry pro…
Linked From Playbill at 12:06PMCynthia Meryl brings her extraordinary New Jersey Youth Theatre to NJPAC in Newark
Linked From NJ.com at 12:06PMPlays in London this summer have startling moments in which they connect with us in ways that feel almost embarrassingly intimate.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMCynthia Nixon will star as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, which will begin previews on January 5 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Thea…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:03PMManhattan Theatre Club has just announced that Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon will return to MTC to star in the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play WIT by Margaret…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThank you, all of you, who take the time to write in your thoughts and questions. And I'll answer one that I get all of the time: Do I actually read your comments and emails? Wel…
Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:02PMKarina Fernicola Ikezoe in the lead role of Salome; photo courtesy of Black MoonMost of the big dailies' websites allow commenting on their reviews, and most theater reviews receive few comm…
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Leading up to our 2011 National Conference, we hosted a number of thoughtful essays imagining the future of theatre,These posts ranged from What If Disaster Relief Included An Arts Component…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 11:59AMTony and Emmy winner Cynthia Nixon will return to the Broadway stage to play poetry professor Vivian Bearing in Wit, Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Manhattan Theatre Clu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:58AMComedian Lisa Lampanelli, who is collaborating with one-man show guru Alan Zweibel on a new solo evening, hopes to make her Broadway debut during the 2013 season.
Linked From Playbill at 11:47AMHere’s a note from Don Hopkinson, musical director of Ragtime in Concert: Still seeking a young male actor to portray Little Boy in Ragtime in Concert. Age 9- 12, vocalizing to a mid-s…
Linked From Orlando Theater at 11:46AMJust finished reading Wendy Lesser's luminous book about Shostakovich's string quartets, Music for Silenced Voices. I recommend this to anyone who wants a starting point into the composer's …
Linked From Chloe Veltman at 11:43AMCatch a sneak peek of FOLLIES, now on Broadway!
The LEGENDARY CLASSIC RETURNS to the street where DREAMS ARE BORN.
The Kennedy Center's lavish and landmark new staging of James Goldman …
Linked From YouTube at 11:40AMTovah Feldshuh will premiere her new one-woman show Aging Is Optional with a single performance at Cape May Stage's Robert Shackleton Playhouse on August 8 at 8pm.
Feldshuh earned To…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:37AM3D Hamlet: A Lost Generation, a multimedia distillation of Shakespeare's play, will be presented by Fundamental Theater Project at The Irish Arts Center, July 21-24.The production will …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:37AMAvenue Q producers have announced that Rod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets from the Tony Award-winning musical, are engaged and will tie the knot July 24—the first day same-sex couples can…
Linked From Playbill at 11:37AMWedding bells will ring over at off-Broadway's Avenue Q on July 24. To celebrate the first day same-sex couples can legally marry in New York, the show's puppet characters Rod and Ri…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:37AMNew York State's new Gay Marriage law will change countless lives in the NYC theatre community for the better.
But perhaps none more so than these two troopers:
AVENUE Q's same-sex puppets …
Linked From The Playgoer at 11:37AMRod and Ricky, the same-sex puppets from the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, are engaged to be married and will tie the knot on Sunday, July 24, 2011 -- the first day same-sex couples c…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMAccording to published reports, Broadway veteran Bradley Cooper will star in the upcoming film, Paradise Lost, directed by Alex Proyas. Cooper will play Lucifer in this film adaptation of Jo…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMTony Award nominees Patina Miller and Victoria Clark and the cast of Sister Act celebrated 100 performances at the Broadway Theatre the evening of July 19.
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMComplete casting has been announced for the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of the musical Footloose, based on the 1984 film of the same name.
Linked From Playbill at 11:19AMPERFORMANCES BEGIN JULY 26
PRIMARY STAGES
PRESENTS
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF
"OLIVE AND THE BITTER HERBS"
A NEW COMEDY
BY CHARLES BUSCH
DIRECTED BY MARK BROKAW
FEATURING DAN…
Linked From Corine's Corner at 11:18AMThe John W. Engeman Theater at Northport will present the musical A Wonderful Life, November 25-January 15. The show will replace the previously announced production of The Music Man. Castin…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:17AMThe New York City engagement of The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical, at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, has extended its run, and will now close on October 30. …
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:17AMMary Tyler Moore will host Ed Sullivan's Comedy Legends, a tribute to The Ed Sullivan Show, to be broadcast by PBS beginning on August 6.
The retrospective will feature poignant new re…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:10AMEthan Coen and Neil Pepe Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2011-2012 season productions, featuring world pre…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:09AMMost of the cast of The Good Doctor.The fringe scene is enduring a blow right now: the Independent Drama Society, which has offered consistently high-quality productions over the past t…
Linked From The Hub Review at 11:08AMThe other day, Mary posted this question on my Facebook page: So, Mary, this one’s for you. I did a bunch of highly unscientific research, namely, I put Mary’s question out to my…
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New York's Public Theater Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Joey Parnes have announced that cast members from the critically acclaimed first national tour of HAIR The American Tribal Love-…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMBenjamin Walker and Amanda Seyfried will star in an A-list staged reading of William Inge’s Bus Stop in August, according to the New York Post. Directed by Scott Ellis and produced by …
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:59AMOn Tuesday, July 19, the Broadway production of Sister Act the Musical celebrated their 100th performance at the Broadway Theatre
Jerry Zaks directed the musical, based on the hit film of t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:51AM2011 Tony Award nominee Rory O’Malley, who currently stars in The Book of Mormon, is also a co-founder of Broadway Impact, which celebrates and educates others on equality. Here, O&#…
Linked From Playbill at 10:51AMThe cast of the current Broadway run of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, performing at the St. James Theatre, will host a "Be-In" performance to benefit Broadway Impact…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:44AMOn Monday, July 25, 2011, ASTEP, a nonprofit organization that uses the arts as a tool to foster creativity, teach life skills, and awaken young people's imaginations around the world, prese…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMHarry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, has set the new record for the best opening weekend in movie history after earning 168.6 million, according to published reports. In the video be…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMA stage adaptation of the horror novel and film The Exorcist is in development from producer Ben Sprecher, according to The New York Post. “It’ll try out at L.A.’s Geffen P…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:37AMArena Stage's in-the-round production of Oklahoma!, the sold-out revival that inaugurated Arena's new multimillion dollar Mead Center for American Theater last fall, is back for seco…
Linked From Playbill at 10:32AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland begins an open-ended run at The SoHo Playhouse July 30.
Linked From Playbill at 10:26AMMegan Hilty will be in attendance at Comic Con International this weekend in San Diego. As part of the cast of the upcoming animated film Dorothy of OZ, Megan will be appearing at the panel …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMMichael Reidel reports in the New York Post this morning that Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker will be back in the New York theater loop when he leads a reading of Bus Stop …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMTime is one of the most vital, but unappreciated, marketing factors. Great ideas fall apart because they were not given the time they needed to full develop. So, once you have set your goals…
Linked From Mission Paradox at 10:23AMJon Marans' provocative but labored new play looks at the largely unexplored intersection of sexuality and Orthodox Judaism.
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:17AMStage and screen star Ben Stiller, who waspreviously announced to star in 20th Century Fox's remake of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,' will also direct the project, according to Variety.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMTo commemorate the tenth anniversary of Steve Barton's passing on July 21st, 2011, Stage Door Records have collaborated with his wife Denny Berry-Barton to develop an online memorial tribute…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMMarc Warren (Hustle, Mad Dogs) will play the title role in a new stage adaptation of Cool Hand Luke, which will have its world premiere at London’s Aldwych Theatre. The play, written b…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:09AMINTERVIEW: PENELOPE SKINNER The playwright talks to Aleks Sierz about her new Royal Court play, The Village Bike, which explores the sex lives of a couple who have just moved into the countr…
Linked From Theatre Voice at 10:04AMLooking for a place to dine before or after your show Check in weekly as we highlight some of our favorite spots. You can also head on over to the BroadwayWorld Restaurant Guide for a full…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMPlaybill.com has learned casting for the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt musical I Do! I Do!, the sixth of the seven musicals that comprise the famed Music Circus summer season at the Wells Fargo P…
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Casting has been announced casting for David Davalos' Wittenberg, to run August 24-October 1 at The Gate Theatre. Christopher Haydon will direct the production.
The comedy is set at W…
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:58AMSeven years ago, I left Seattle for New York - I abandoned the garage theaters and local arts scene and friends and colleagues - because I was a coward. I'd already tried to sell out once, b…
Linked From The Stranger at 08:53AMKurt Egyiawan, a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, has won the 2011 Spotlight Prize. Kirsty Oswald, a graduate of Rose Bruford College was awarded the was awarded t…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:33AMIf aliens came to visit Earth, would we be proud of our world? James Levy’s joyful sci-fi rock opera puts humanity under the microscope as we observe first contact between a fading rock st…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMBy August Schulenburg(What is Flux Sunday?)Our second Flux after the end of Ajax in Iraq was a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of day. We took on a ton of pages from Perse, reaching the climax of …
Linked From Flux Theatre Ensemble at 08:30AMBeth Marshall Presents is still looking for a young man to play the lead role of Buddy in The Diviners: Specific needs of the role: Male. (age range 14-21) MUST have look/feel of a younger h…
Linked From Orlando Theater at 08:27AMPreviously unheard showtunes composed by author Anthony Burgess are said to recall West Side StorySongs from a musical adaptation of A Clockwork Orange are to be performed for the first time…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:25AMLast Night, Tuesday 19 July, Ghost the Musical opened in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre where guests included McFly, JLS, Kimberly Walsh, Rochelle Wiseman, Joe McElderry, Lord and La…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:25AMThe new strain of Pilobolus collaboration has tended to operate analogically – to depend on questions such as: what is the robot equivalent of acrobatic dance?
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 08:16AMBouncy, bubbly, and bright. Smart, sophisticated, and sweet. These words describe to a T the latest offering of the New Jersey Repertory Company, The Judy Holliday Story. Not coincidentally,…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:10AMThe Author's Note in the program for Joshua R. Pangborn's new play Don Gio, premiering at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, remarks that he's at a loss for words when asked to desc…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:10AMSix Pakistani-American women come together to air their mental and emotional laundry in Dirty Paki Lingerie, Aizzah Fatima's one-woman show currently showing at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Com…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:10AMThe play, written in 1983, takes place during the English Restoration, when Charles II returned from exile to overthrow Oliver Cromwell's Republic, which Cromwell founded through the de-crow…
Linked From The New York Theatre Experience at 08:10AMThere is no pie in A Piece of Pi. I feel it’s necessary to point this out, because after all, there are clowns. So one might expect some pie-throwing with a show title like that. Or so…
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Some of the people in the audience were as attention-worthy as those onstage the night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Master Class, the revival of Terrence McNally’s love letter to t…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 07:58AM"Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera" is a lot like the scandal it's named for: a little lurid, a little tough to swallow...
Linked From Boston Herald at 07:52AMDramatic pauses, a clueless Greek chorus of MPs, a surprise interval ... there's nothing quite like the latest Murdoch production at Portcullis HouseRarely has a new work had such massive ad…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:37AMThe first time Kristen Schaal performed in Edinburgh, she became famous in New York. Go figure, as they say over there. The stateside acclaim wasn’t for her 2007 Fringe show, however, thou…
Linked From Herald Scotland at 07:32AMImitation not sincerest form of flattery as Lady Gaga claims ignorance of singer's mermaid-in-wheelchair routineWhen Lady Gaga dressed up as a mermaid in a wheelchair, it wasn't mermaids who…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:23AMAvenue Q asked the question, “What Do You Do With A B.A. In English?” Historian Anthony Cohen asks the audience a similar question, “What do you do with a history degree?&…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:16AMGhost the Musical opened last night (19 July 2011, previews from 24 June) with Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy starring alongside Andrew Langtree and Sharon D Clark in the screen-to-stage…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:10AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on July 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Ghost the Musical opened last night (19 July 2011, previews from 24 June) with Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy starring alongside Andrew Langtree and Sharon D Clark in the screen-to-stage…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:54AMLyttelton, LondonWhen the curtain rises on Katie Mitchell's revival of Thomas Heywood's 1603 drama of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, it looks as if we might be in for one of th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:53AMScreen-to-stage musical Ghost the Musical opened at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre last night (19 July, previews from 24 June 2011) starring Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman and Sharon …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:10AM...that every relationship comes with its bag of weasels.(attributed to a friend of Joe's and paraphrased)...that among the worst parts of Navy Pier is that tourists walk around the place li…
Linked From Don Hall at 06:08AMCinema has gone 3D. The big blockbusters such as Transformers and Harry Potter use 3D visuals to surprise, shock and excite their audience. Smaller budget films such as TT3D and art history …
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 06:02AMIn this show at the Garrick in London, BBC's Dan and Jeff take the audience through all the highlights in the seven Harry Potter books in just 70 minutes. Extra members can buy tickets for …
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The three award-winning American playwrights, along with four British colleagues and well-known historian Simon Schama, are the writers " collaborating with director Rupert Goold on Decade, …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:58AM"Their lineage extends to the Restoration, when acting troupes took over empty dining rooms above pubs to perform plays of lewd material that went well with a pint. Later the Victorian-era m…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:50AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #67: Salty Towers, Thunderbird Theatre Company, July 10.
By Sam Hurwitt
There are plenty of companies that I follow because I feel I should keep informed …
Linked From The Idiolect at 12:49AMJoey McKneely, dance director for the show's recent Broadway revival: "West Side Story cannot be done without [Jerone Robbins's] original choreography: It's part of the structure ... So this…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:44AMPeter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Schubert's "Mein," from Die schöne Müllerin: (This is the latest in a weekly series...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:37AMLove triangles are al ways complicated. But the one in "A Strange and Separate People" is more convoluted than most.
In this new play by Jon Marans ("The Temperamentals," "Old Wicked Song…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMPaula Wagner, a Holly wood big wig who ran Tom Cruise's production company for years, is headed to Broadway. She's got the rights to William Inge's "Bus Stop" and is putting up a staged read…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMOur friends at the Non Profit Law Blog linked to a presentation intended to be a guide about compensated time for non-profits. The reason the presenter, Veneable LLP, this is so important is…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 12:15AMWhile we are still searching for a few folks to fill out our cast, today our General Manager and Casting Director started making offers to a few of the actors that we definitely know we want…
Linked From Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 12:15AMBarrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab presents the world premiere of Mormons, Mothers and Monsters, a quirky new musical with book and lyrics by Sam Salmond and music by Will Ar…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AM1961 Stop The World - I Want To Get Off opens tonight at the Queen's Theatre on London's West End. The musical, which follows the life of one man from birth to death, will run 485 p…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMHenrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe as Nora and Josh Hamilton as Torvald, begins performances July 20 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMNew York Stage and Film and Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater production of Rob Handel's A Maze, directed by Tony Award nominee Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park With George), begin…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMThe Callaway sisters — Liz and Ann Hampton — will perform songs from and sign their new PS Classics live recording of Boom!, documenting their Birdland concert of baby-boom gener…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMThe Tony-winning musical Avenue Q welcomes Veronica J. Kuehn to its cast at New World Stages July 20.
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMStage and screen star Peter Scolari ("Newhart," Out Of This World, Hairspray) heads the cast of the Ogunquit Playhouse's production of the classic musical The Music Man, which …
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMJim Stanek, of Broadway's Lestat and 1996's Forum, and Jason Michael Snow, of The Book of Mormon, complete the cast of adult actors playing misfit kids in a July 25 Manhattan benefit…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMThe Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical, presented by Matt Murphy, has extended its New York City limited engagement and will now run through Oct. 30 at the Manhattan Movem…
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMDear John Mayer, a new musical by Broadway's Shoshana Bean and Eydie Faye, premieres July 20 as part of Los Angeles' Open Fist Theatre Company's First Look Festival.
Linked From Playbill at 12:10AMGhost the Musical opened Tuesday evening, July 19 at the Piccadilly Theatre in London’s West End to both underwhelmed critics and exhilarated fans. The original musical directed by…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 12:10AM"I think greatness happens accidentally--that sometimes one can write a little tiny piece for children or for brass band or...
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