Andy writes up his busy week of shows including a jazz opera called Mobro and work from Kyle Abraham, Tere O'Connor, Mini Teater Ljubljana and Martha Clarke.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:57PMOn A Clear Day You Can See Forever will close on January 29, after 29 previews and 57 regular performances. The show opened at the St. James Theatre on December 11 to negative reviews. Havin…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:57PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, December 11, 2011 - Sunday, December 11, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45PM“On A Clear Day You Can See Forever” only a ran a few months when it first opened on Broadway in 1965. It’s never been revived, and for good reason. Now, some misguided peo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:17PMHome Again Home AgainIt's been about 13 hours since I left my place this morning. I spent the day up in San Rafael with AlterTheater. This morning/afternoon we had our monthly AlterLab works…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:08PMHarry Connick Jr. is the biggest star of Broadway’s new production of 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.'
He’s also the biggest problem.
The popular crooner and 'Pa…
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Issues of Authenticity → My friend Marisela Treviño Orta on the other snafu in the news, a Cuban-set Much Ado About Nothing: What does it mean to authentically engage with another culture…
SOURCE: direct address at 10:58PM“Americans are lookin’ for somebody who’s consistent,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity last month. “They’re lookin’ for somebo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:49PMIn 2009, Ireland was shaken by a wide-ranging, devastating report on the decades-long child abuse in Church-run institutions. One of the estimated 30,000 victims was Gerard Mannix Flynn, who…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMIn an age of endless squabbles over nothing, from the debt ceiling to foreign aid, New Yorkers know whats worth fighting over.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:14PMThe inherent issue with *Penelope* lies in Enda Walsh’s script. While his writing is beautiful and poetic, the playwright is so in love with language itself that the dialogue tends to mean…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:05PMA new version of “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” appears to have given everyone who appears in it — including its charismatic star, Harry Connick Jr. — a moaning case of the dee…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMA talented five-member ensemble brings Dylan Thomas' tale to life at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMHarry Connick Jr. and Jessie Mueller shine in this improved revisal of the 1965 Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane musical.
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This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it's almost an hour …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58PMNEW YORK - The musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever has undergone a sex-change operation. When it opened on Broadway in 1965, it was about a woman named Daisy with a distinct hidden 18…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:54PMHarry Connick Jr. and his castmates make magic with the melodious score, but despite an adventurous gender-switch, the problematic 1965 musical remains as over-complicated as ever in this ra…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:51PMLegit Reviews: People are thought to mellow when they get older, but that doesn't seem to apply to 72-year-old Alan Ayckbourn, prolific Brit scribe who has penned a play or more each season …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40PMLegit Reviews: Director Michael Mayer ("Spring Awakening," "American Idiot") has taken it upon himself, with the help of playwright Peter Parnell, to reconceive Alan Jay Lerner and Burton La…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:27PMThe Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has announced their awards for 2011.
Stage stars Chistopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners, while Jessica Chastain was named Best Suppor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:08PMDirector Michael Mayer calls his new version of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" a "reincarnation" instead of a revival.
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A terrific free event at The Drama Book Shop with Teresa Rebeck and cast members reading from her Broadway show
Seminar, now playing at The Golden Theatre to rave reviews.
There will also …
SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 08:58PM The first three parts of this series each pointed at different aspects of the problem of the concentration of funding in the nonprofit arts sector. First, the overview of the situation…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:52PMA FREE night of sketch comedy from the New Sketch Group
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SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 08:52PMThere is a great deal about critics that Americans do not understand. First of all, the difference between what a critic writes for public consumption and what he is in private life. The two…
SOURCE: John Simon at 08:49PMIn "Three Pianos," three young actor-musicians unite in their irreverent passion for the music of Franz Schubert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48PMThat a tale confronting society’s most pernicious evils, giving poverty a human face and desperation a voice, should become a cornerstone of the British festive experience is perhaps unexp…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:43PMOpening Night at Stick Fly on Broadway
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:35PMIt is a swooning moment to hear Harry Connick Jr. sing the title song of a musical now remembered mostly because of that melody, as sung by Barbra Streisand. But Connick sings it only at the…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PMExperience Broadway.com on the iPad! Get live updates of Broadway news, features and interviews as well as celebrity photos, exclusive videos and information and tickets to all the hot shows…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:14PMI’m a musical theater composer. It’s with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely aware of the stigma of the term “music…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:09PMGrammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. stars as Dr. Mark Bruckner in the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PM"Shows this bad are tragedies whenever they occur, but the loss this time is twofold."
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“Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie” is an impressionistic mood piece inspired by the writings of Federico García Lorca.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:56PMTell Tale Hearts' director Natasha Holmes talks to Eleanor Turney about developing new children's production The Snow Queen.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMBroadways Jeremy Jordan Bonnie and Clyde, Newsies, Janet Dacal Wonderland, Andrea Burns In The Heights, Kacie Sheik Hair, Carly Rose Sinclair Les Miserables, Suzanne Fiore Ragtime and compos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PM Andrew Hinderaker, a fresh, young playwright is having his moment in the spotlight. Specifically, the spotlight several times a week in the Roundabout Theater Company's New Play …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 04:30PMReid Farrington’s version of “A Christmas Carol” is a technically complicated mash-up in which George C. Scott, Bill Murray and Donald Duck star along with live actors who double as st…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:29PMIf you're a theatre-lover, there's every chance you've seen this man in the aisles. As Guardian critic Michael Billington celebrates 40 years of reviewing, stars of the stage – from Lucy P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMWho knew Mitt “the Mitt” Romney had such a devastating left jab? Who knew the man characterized by wooden understatement even had a left hand? We saw it in slow-motion splendor in that m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:28PMLeftfield Productions presented the annual All-Star Broadway Holiday Concert on Sunday, December 5th, 730PM, at The Irvington Town Hall Theater in Irvington, New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMLegit News: Festival of New Arts slates new musicals -- New musicals about a gay men's chorus in Kansas, a family surviving a great flood and the dogs of Chernobyl will make up Goodspeed Mus…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PM'Follies' Cast Album
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The fans have spoken! The Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece musical, Follies, has debuted at #1 on Billboard's Cast Album Chart.…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 04:11PMWendy Rosenfield reviews Un Viaje: (Walking Fish), a bilingual kids' holiday show with attention deficit disorderliness of Sabado Gigante, but less coherent.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:09PM
Jackman plays it both ways -- macho film star and flamboyant song man -- in his latest Broadway incarnation.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:55PMParfumerie may have been written in the 1930s, but it resonates in our digital age
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMParfumerie may have been written in the 1930s, but it resonates in our digital age
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMYou can catch a presentation by Adam Crane tonight at 7 at Bais
Abraham Congregation, 6910 Delmar Boulevard. t's open to the
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Mr. Crane, vice president for…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:25PMMemphis opened in Toronto this past Wednesday at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Hometown boy Sergio Trujillo came up from the Great White Way to celebrate with Dancap President Aubrey Dan …
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People are thought to mellow when they get older, but that doesn't seem to apply to 72-year-old Alan Ayckbourn, prolific Brit scribe who has penned …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
Director Michael Mayer ("Spring Awakening," "American Idiot") has taken it upon himself, with the help of playwright Peter Parnell, to reconceive Alan J…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMAre critics sweet on "Maple and Vine"?
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The Nest workshop is a free, intensive weekly workshop, working to expand and strengthen a writers voice and aesthetic muscles. Federico García Lorca once said, “A play is a poem standi…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:57PM“The Nutcracker and I” at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick is a musical that strips the ballet from the holiday classic and replaces it with farce.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:50PMThe Yale Repertory Theater’s production of Molière’s classic comedy blends random snippets of pop culture with classic slapstick routines, forming a gleeful whirligig of song and shtick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMJohn Hurt doesn’t worry about being typecast as forlorn. Making a contribution in a book by a famed photographer. Spooked by dead characters at a party.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMCharles Isherwood of the Times is back in the news, with a particularly clueless review of Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly, which has reached Broadway after taking several regional theatres by sto…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:37PMAt theartsdesk we cover the major theatre openings in the West End, the London fringe and beyond. This page is designed to help you find your way around the bewildering choice of plays, from…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:13PMBROADWAY VIDEO OF THE WEEK:I'm not sure how I missed this YouTube Channel, but I did. And now I've found it. The BroadwayChannel has a YouTube channel! This version feature…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PM10-Minute Play of the Month: JANUARY 2012 The theme for January 2012 is "Civil Rights." Although this is in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK Day is January 16) your play can b…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PM
Joe Penhall’s play about a family leaves holes invisible to the naked eye, which allow us to peer into it from a variety of angles
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:45AMThis play about a complicated family would be the ideal accompaniment to a weekend, but theatre affords less licence to linger over the extraneous
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:45AMSchoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A perfectly suitable night at the theatre; well crafted and enjoyable enough, though it probably won't blow you away (bad pu…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:33AMIn a season of well-worn holiday traditions, nothing brings a more welcome blast of fresh good will than the image of Baby Jesus being lovingly serenaded by powerful gospel music and surroun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMThe Oberserver (UK) 12/11/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:21AMIf we were playing Will It Recoup this Fall, here's a show I would have put my money on. Samuel Jackson, Angela Bassett . . . and the biggest star . . . Martin Luther King! The Mountaintop o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Bobby Steggert Ragtime, A Ministers Wife, Yank, Wesley Taylor The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, Smash, and Nicole Lewis Hair, Rent will herald in the holiday season at THE KELLEN AND JOE CHRI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMA uniquely authentic stage adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" is treading the boards at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:08AMThe revamped revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Tony nominee Harry Connick Jr., Broadway vet David Turner and newcomer Jessie Mueller, officially opens on December 11 at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMOnce it hits its stride, the world premiere musical comedy "The Nutcracker and I" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (music), Gerard Alessandrini (lyrics) and Peter Brash (book) becomes a gorgeous …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07AMSky Atlantic HD has acquired of the exclusive UK TV rights to SMASH, the hotly anticipated new musical drama from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMAn Assault on the "war on terror," Christopher Durang's leaden farce is, Toby Zinman found, a perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:02AMThere Will Be Words: New Play Workshop Vagabond Theatre Group’s There Will Be Words is a new play reading series aimed at introducing original works to Boston audiences. Following the read…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMThe popular Australian actresses discusses her Broadway debut in Other Desert Cities.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
An assault on the “war on terror,” Toby Zinman found this Christopher Durang farce the perfect demonstration of how short the shelf life of political humor is
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:56AMIt's a story that emphasizes the melancholy many experience during the holiday season, and Mr. Sater's book starts well in the get-acquainted scenes but deteriorates as melancholy overwhelms…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMThe cast features Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick as Dr. MaddenDr. Fine, NEXT TO NORMAL original Broadway cast member Tim Young as Gabe, Kevin Vortmann A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC as Dan, Laurie Vel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMPowerhouse Broadway veteran Tovah Feldshuh stars in Gypsy at Bristol Riverside Theatre as part of its 25th Anniversary Season through January 15. With music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMNEW YORK -- Harry Connick Jr. is stinking up Broadway and he knows it. The singer, actor and musician has just cracked open a plastic container with his lunch and the powerful scent of salmo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:31AMLoneliness is hard to put on stage. There is something about the feeling of unwanted urban solitude which is so repetitive and, let’s face it, boring, that writing a play about it risks se…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:19AMGrammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. stars as Dr. Mark Bruckner in the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07AM
Leadership U[niversity] Program The Leadership U program was designed by TCG and is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The overall intent of this program is to strengthen the field b…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 07:59AMToday is Stubby Kaye’s birthday (see also my post on him here). In honor of the day we present this 1965 clip from his children’s show Shenanigans: To find out more about the h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:39AMToday is the birthday of Eddie Dowling (see full bio here). In honor of the day, we present the trailer for his 1929 film Rainbow Man: To find out more about the history of vaudeville, co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:37AMSliding Billy Watson (a.k.a William Shapiro, 1880-1940) was so called because of his sliding, skidding entrance onto the stage from the wings. The burlesque comic’s career started arou…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMDirector Michael Mayer's reconception of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's problematic 1965 musical comedy is a depressing misfire, starring a distinctly ill-at-ease Harry Connick Jr.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
A clash of cultures in 16th-century Puerto Rico serves as the background for this musical about the tragic love of a Spanish girl and a Taino man that features a strong score.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:20AMA fun Summer of Love nostalgia fest and a labored metatheatrical present-day whimsy constitute Michael Weller's one-acts, which are sometimes amusing but always lightweight.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:13AMThe newly imagined Broadway production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER starring Grammy and Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. opens tonight at The St James The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMThe Actors Fund announced today that the Special Benefit Performance of ANYTHING GOES, winner of three Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, has been rescheduled for Sunday, December 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM
The 2011 Denver Post Ovation Award winners honoring the best in Colorado theater will be announced on Dec. 25. How will our winners compare with your favorites? Click here to take our survey…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:59AMA complete list of all Denver Post Ovation Award winners from 2001-10
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58AMPrepare Ye/Day By Day/Light of the World - GODSPELL - The View (2011-Dec-01)
The cast of the 2011 Broadway revival of Godspell perform a medley including Prepare Ye (Wallace Smith), Day by …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:28AMJewish Women's Repertory Company caters to the Orthodox Jewish community in L.A., so its musicals are put on by women for women only.One microphone wasn't working. The makeup lady hadn't arr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMAfter 40 years, 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Godspell' continue to attract devout fans.Before "Godspell" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" first hit off-Broadway and Broadway, respectively, 40 y…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMChoreographer Bill T. Jones, who won a Tony Award for 'Fela!,' discusses his influences, West African dance and diverse theater audiences.Bill T. Jones won his second Tony Award for choreogr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
A host of Broadway performers will be special guests at the first annual CAROLING WITH THE QUEENZ, a benefit for Novo Novus Productions, the new media company whose projects include Drama Qu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThis week's column discusses the cast album of the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, plus a special recording from the archives of the late Hu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA big absentee from the MECCAs - Patsy Gallant in Lies My Father Told Me(photo: Andrée Lanthier)And the winner is…The Abominable Showman assesses the upcoming Montreal English Critics Cir…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMA “kids in the attic’’ spirit is the driving force behind “The Snow Queen,’’ a stage adaptation of the 1845 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that runs t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the 1965 Broadway musical remembered as a richly tuneful vehicle for Barbara Harris, but maligned for its confused plotting, extraneous characters —…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Chicago premiere of Enda Walsh's Penelope, the absurdist-flavored take on the tale of the Trojan War wife who waits for her soldier husband and is courted by unsuitable suitors, open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn celebration of Playbill’s new site, Playbill Vault, we offer a month-long theatrical treasure hunt! Playbill Vault offers an interactive treasure trove for theatre fans, students, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLuke Mannikus, who plays Benji in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, performed in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Here, the young Broadway actor took the camera behind-the-sc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMamie Gummer and Josh Hamilton take part in "Hamlet at Home," a presentation of the New Group's Dark Nights reading series, Dec. 11 at the Acorn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre reinvents Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales" with a concert presentation officially opening Dec. 11, following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new series features brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, we s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDaniel Reichard, one of the original stars of Broadway's Jersey Boys, presents his annual holiday-themed concerts Dec. 11-12 at the Triad Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Actors Fund benefit performance of the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes is presented Dec. 11 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, continues Dec. 11 at 2:30 PM and Dec. 12 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMarvin Hamlisch, Point Park's distinguished master artist in residence, will provide personal insight into his work and creative process in his workshop "The Works and Imagination of Marvin …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM