On Twitter Watch, Betty Buckley wrote OK, I just have to say this I am sick amp tired of Randy Jackson bashing what they think is Bway singing It's soo ludicrous
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55PMI want to thank The Gallery Players--that hidden gem on 14th Street in Park Slope--for introducing me to A Man of No Importance. This is the first New York revival of this lovely musical, wh…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 09:55PMRe-imagined. Re-invented. Resurrected. Remarkable!OK, so i have never seen the cult movie (shame on me, i know). I also didn't get to see the prior incarnation on Bro…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:46PMThis statuesque knockout, as fresh-faced as the young Elizabeth Taylor, is supposed to be the faded Madame Ranevskaya?This statuesque knockout, as fresh-faced as the young Elizabeth Taylor, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:40PMThe multi-racial revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega, will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18PMOn tonight's episode of AMERICAN IDOL, the crew visits St. Louis. In a crowd of ten thousand, they're out to find the next success story to follow in the footsteps of IDOL alum Carrie Underw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:09PMWhen "Look Back in Anger" exploded onto the tidy London stage of 1956, John Osborne's first play kicked off the "angry young men" era of British theater. Too late for war heroics and overedu…
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Gentle readers, Here is a link to this week’s review of Who’s Hungry, with a handful of performances remaining this weekend at Highways performance space at 18th Street Arts Cent…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:56PMThe murder drama is a staple of television schedules. And for every Miss Marple or Rosemary and Thyme there are many more trickling from the Lynda La Plante vein, whose currency of gore, hor…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:35PMTony Award-winner Victoria Clark will host Backstage at Encores, a Studio 5 at City Centerevent, on Monday, February 6 at 630 pm at City Center. Joining Clark for an informal conversation w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMNBC's "Smash" starts off as a musical with a Marilyn Monroe fixation, but soon leaves the legend behind as its drama of rivalry and ambition takes flight.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:28PM“Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,” a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown “with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.”
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 07:28PMMichael Salinas, as Alexander Gog, transforms from arrogant artist to interactive showman to desperate victim and so much in between. *The Gog/Magog Project* is not a one man show. It’s mo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:27PMStrawberry Theatre Workshop stages Theresea Rebeck's tale of loners in the Yukon at the end of the Gold Rush.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:18PMFans of the ever popular smash hit August: Osage County rejoice. Your film has been given the green light. Though no further casting has been announced, it is confirmed that Meryl Streep and…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 07:17PMLook Back in Anger - Highlights
Sam Gold (Tigers Be Still) directs one of theater's most pivotal works, John Osborne's classic drama about four friends and lovers struggling to find…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:05PMDavid C. Nichols reviews the L.A. premiere of Ty DeMartino's "Finding Fossils," a Road Theatre Company presentation at the Lankershim Arts Center. A theater review for the Los Angeles Times.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM
When Jeffrey Richards says, "I only do things with authors' names in the titles," he is being playful -- sort of.
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I reviewed Josh Costello’s adaptation of Cory Doctorow’s novel for today’s Marin Independent Journal. Head over there to read all…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:36PMIf you have a pressing need to watch several unquestionably hot, dirty-talking, royally screwed-up women in their late twenties get totally wasted (and in one case come close to death) from …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:28PMThe highly anticipated show-biz television series "Smash," about the production of a Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe, kicks off on Monday, and NY1's Frank DiLella has a preview.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:18PMPlaywright alleges libel chill over satire of Stephen Harper.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:11PMThe Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, which has been the home of cabaret favorite Andrea Marcovicci for the past 25 years, will not reopen following its current renovations, according to the N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's production of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" is a new staging of a landmark British drama from the 1950s.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:06PMBeyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMI really love the idea that there is a new cultural plan for the City of Chicago being developed and that I can have a voice in the development of that plan. The last plan was developed in 1…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 06:02PMMargaret Gray reviews the West Coast premiere of Tanya Saracho's "El Nogalar" at the Fountain Theatre. A theater review for the Los Angeles Times.
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There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow And tomorrow’s just a dream away Walking into the darkened New World S…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 05:55PMLearn Chinese with Chinglish Broadway! - Episode 3: Pablo Schreiber
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:54PMOff-Broadway's Primary Stages will produce plays by the late Horton Foote, Daisy Foote and David Ives as part of their 2012-13 season, according to the New York Times.
Pam MacKinnon w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, February 2, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMAlthough Madonna played the coveted title role in the 1996 film adaptation of Evita in the 1996 and appeared on Broadway in the 1988 production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMOff-Broadway's Primary Stages will produce three of late Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote's works, in addition to a new play by his daughter, Daisy Fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMAs BroadwayWorld reported back in 2010, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep have been in talks to star in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play, August Osage Co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMWhy hasn't Jerry Bruckheimer franchised "CSI: Leenane"? Why hasn't Jerry Bruckheimer franchised "CSI: Leenane"?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMGrammy-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and the Talking Band's Jack Wetherall will appear in a revival of Sidney Goldfarb's Hot Lunch Apostles, the 1983 play in which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PMThe Hollywood Fringe Festival accepts applications and moves Fringe Central to the Open Fist...LA Opera news...Conan O'Brien headlines a Geffen fund-raiser...stage photographer and sometime …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Celebrated playwrights including Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner and Edward Albee have joined a fundraiser to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Japan....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:29PMPrimary Stages has announced its 2012-2013 season, according to The New York Times. The company performs at 59E59 Theaters.
Three plays by the late Horton Foote -- Blind Date, The One-Armed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMThe Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel will not reopen for business. The room, which has been dark since January, was supposed to resume operations in May after an extensive renovation of the h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMErika Sheffer’s Russian Transport has taken up residence at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row, and Broadway.com stopped by to talk with the cast and creative team …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMThe NEA recently posted its FY13 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines. As first reported in November, the NEA has confirmed that it will no longer be accepting consortium applications for FY1…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:16PMTwo-time Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Viola Davis play a military psychologist in the film, Ender's Game, according to Variety.
The film, to be directed and written by Gavin Ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMThe Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel is no more. I once wrote a tribute to that legendary night spot...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:08PMThe 1981 Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along lasted a total of 68 performances (52 of them previews!), but it’s a production that lives on in memory and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMMatthew Rhys (TV’s Brothers & Sisters) makes a gritty New York stage debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Look Back in Anger, opening February 2 at off-Broadway&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PMCasting is complete for the Goodman Theatre revival of Eugene O’Neill’s epic drama The Iceman Cometh, starring Tony winners Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy. The classic play will r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:00PMCasting is complete for the Goodman Theatre revival of Eugene O’Neill’s epic drama The Iceman Cometh, starring Tony winners Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy. The classic play will r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:00PM
Phone Call #6: David Loehr David and I talk about the origins of #2amt and its impact on his life. And mine, as it turns out. I talk a lot this time. A little embarrassing… Download audio…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:57PMThis time last year, our reporter Jody Vodden interviewed Samantha Barks, who was mid-run as Eponine in the West End production of Les Miserables. We look back now at some snippets from that…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMPop singer Aaron Carter, who currently stars as Matt in the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks, will take time off from the production to mourn the death of his sister, Leslie Carter,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PM(photo credit: Trudie Lee)Burkett's FolkPenny Plain reconfirms Ronnie Burkett's genius, but...by Dave RossRonnie Burkett’s Penny Plain, now running at the Factory Theatre, has received glo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:50PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Damian Arnold, is pleased to announce casting for the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti’s classic farce D…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:49PMDiscover the Arts in Los Angeles, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launched its three-month campaign with a lively press conference, held Tuesday on the steps of Mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:44PMComplete casting has been announced for Playwrights Horizons' New York premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal. Directed by Sam Gold, the off-Broadway production will begin previ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMAmerican Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre will co-produce a resident Chicago production of Jonathan Larson's award-winning Rent, directed by MacArthur Fellow David Cromer, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMThe Nose KnowsCyrano at the Gladstone with a bang-on translation and splendid castby Jim MurchisonCyrano de Bergerac has inspired countless versions of itself. To many actors and directors i…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:38PMThe life and work of opera icon Maria Callas, who was the subject of Terrence McNally's Tony-winning play Master Class, will be explored in a three-part film series, "Callas On Film…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMLast night, Pee-wee Herman was the guest judge on Top Chef. And I don’t mean that “Paul Reubens, the actor who plays Pee-wee Herman” was a guest judge. No. I mean that Paul…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 04:28PMThree short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMSam Gold directs Roundabout Theatre Company's production of John
Osborne's classic 1950s "angry young man" play, Look Back in Anger, the story of an emotionally drifting lower-middle-clas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMCraig SchwartzCTG/Playwrights Horizons "pre-Broadway" run of "Clybourne Park" currently playing at the Mark Taper ForumJaws have been dropping since the New York Post broke the story yest…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:23PMThough Nick Jonas has been in the entertainment industry since he was eight years old, it is this latest project that seems to mark a turning point for him. Starting last week, Jonas t…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 04:21PMMichael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson's musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's sweeping Texas-set novel Giant is receiving a new, streamlined staging at the Dallas Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMJeffrey Ross swings by the Varsity.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:18PMThe troupe makes its Cowles Center debut.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:08PMPlaywrights Horizons announced complete casting for the New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family in one setting — a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMThe Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, which has been the home of cabaret favorite Andrea Marcovicci for the past 25 years, will not reopen following its current renovations, according to the N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMThe new Gershwin-kissed Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It will begin previews March 29 at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMRoundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMOscar nominee Jennifer Tilly will star as Suzanne in Mark Camoletti’s French farce, Don’t Dress for Dinner. Directed by John Tillinger and adapted by Robin Hawdon, the production…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PMCelebrated playwrights including Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner and Edward Albee have joined a fundraiser to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake in Japan.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:00PMCasting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, adapted by Robin Hawdon, to play th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Baby makes for Bierbrauers. Plus a second book for Minneapolis reading club.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:59PMThe Tony Award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan has been absent from the stage since her internationally acclaimed performance in Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County." Writers' Theatre said Thu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:59PMOn tonight's The Rosie Show, Rosie O'Donnell sits down with one of her favorite performers --- Emmy and Tony Award-winning singer and actress, Kristin Chenoweth. In a heart-to-heart, one-on-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, has announced casting for the Broadway premiere of Marc Camolettis classic farce Dont Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMJonathon Young and Dawn Petten in Tear the Curtain!. Photo by David Cooper.PriestleyThe season is nothing if not eclectic - it is the 25th anniversary of Canadian Stage set to roar…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:57PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Marc Camoletti's farce Don't Dress for Dinner, a sequel to Boeing-Boeing, will star Ben Daniels, Melora Hardin, Adam James, Os…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMThe fix is in from the very start for all five of the identity-warped characters in Ayad Akhtar’s play, “Disgraced,” now in its world premiere by the American Theatre Company. The play…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:52PMCanadian Stage, under the artistic and general direction of Matthew Jocelyn, has announced the lineup for the 2012-13 season at the Bluma Appel Theatre, the Berkeley Street Theatre and the H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews the Ruskin Group Theatre Company's revival of Martin McDonagh's "The Lonesome West"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMIn the world of Wit, the placement of a simple semi-colon is debated as profusely as the meaning of life and death, so Broadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robinson heade…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMStage and screen stars John Hurt and Olivia Spencer will co-star with Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, and Kang Ho Song in Bong-Joon Ho's film Snow Piercer , according to The Ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PMNEWSical the Musical, the topical off-Broadway comedy written by Rick Crom, began reporting an updated set of scoops on February 1. Directed by Mark Waldrop, NEWSical the Musical contin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PMApril's Broadway opening of "Clybourne Park" -- the new play that the Arden Theatre Company opened in its own production Wednesday night -- has been cancelled for now.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:33PMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth sits down with Rosie O'Donnell on the Feb. 2 broadcast of "The Rosie Show."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMA broadcast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, the sequel to the megahit musical The Phantom of the Opera, will air in select movie theatres beginning in February. With cin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31PMLyrical dancer and choreographer Marciano Silva dos Santos steps out with a new company.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:30PMTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's landmark musical EVITA opens April 5, 2012 at the Marquis Theatre. Previews begin Monday, March 12, 2012. Joining the previously announced stars of EVITA -…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMWorld-renowned Wisconsin artist Gaylord Schanilec crafts books and wood engravings the old-fashioned way - by hand.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:26PMAmra-Faye Wright will return to Chicago as Velma Kelly from February 2 through April 5 at the Ambassador Theatre. Wright replaces current star Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines.
Wright returns …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMStage and screen star Michael Sheen has been cast as famed human sexuality researcher William Masters in Showtime's drama pilot Masters of Sex, according to Deadline.com
The pilot is w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMActors Theatre of Louisville will present the premieres of three ten-minute plays as part of the 36th Humana Festival of New American Plays, which will take place February 26-April 15. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMWriter and director Robert Zemeckis is in talks to bring his iconic 1985 film Back To The Future to Broadway, according to Deadline.com. Zemeckis is in early discussion with co-writer Bob Ga…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMJohn Malkovich put his idiosyncratic stamp on the role Vicomte de Valmont in the 1988 movie "Dangerous Liaisons," playing the nefarious aristocrat with a combination of alluring wit and rept…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:12PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series will present The Niko Songbook on Monday, March 12 at 7pm. The concert will be directed by John Simpkins.
The evening's program will feature o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMYou can’t have a musical without the music, and when it comes to Smash, consider Christian Borle the music man incarnate. On NBC’s highly anticipated musical drama, the Legally B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:08PMAs BroadwayWorld previously announced, Gerald Goehring, Michael F. Mitri and Dorothy Berloni are developing BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE, a new Broadway musical based on the popular 2000 novel by K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMThis play will thrill you in ways that as an adult you probably thought were no longer possible, awakening the childish wonder of magic that still exists in us, and if done right, can amaze …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:04PMChristy Hall wrote a play inspired by the letters that a woman wrote to her husband during World War II. A former member of Actors Co-op now based in New York, Hall re-unites with the Co-op …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PM
Canadian Stage today announced the details of the 2012.2013 season celebrating the 25th anniversary of the company.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMAugust Wilson's JITNEY - Preview Trailer
Directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jitney runs at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ from January 29-February 19, 2012. www.trt…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMDallas Theater Center presents Giant at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the ATampT Performing Arts Center through Feb. 19. Tony Award-nominated Michael Greif will direct this new musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMGuy Davis will bring his solo show, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues, to the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 16-26. The production will be dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PMThe table is set for an exploration of prejudice and bigotry in Lisa Loomer's play "Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner," running through Feb. 19 at the Space Theatre inside the Denve…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:49PMGore Vidal's THE BEST MAN began rehearsals on Monday, January 30th, with the first preview performance set for Tuesday, March 6th, in anticipation of an April 1st, 2012 opening at the Gerald…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMAmra-Faye Wright will once again play Velma Kelly in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, beginning tonight, February 2.
It has also been announced that Marco Zuni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMCall it "Glee" for grown-ups if you must. But this behind-the-scenes look at casting and launching a broadway musical has more gravitas, excellent acting and an insider's knowledge of the co…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:44PMWith rehearsals now underway for the new Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary seven-time Tony Award-winning musical, EVITA, the Marquis Theatre Box Office 1535…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMCould the hit sci-fi trilogy time travel to Broadway? That's the word coming from Robert Zemeckis camp. If it happened, it would be a massive budget spectacle. I mean, c'mon. A time travelin…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:42PMThe New York Classical Theatre will offer a free presentation of Playing Moliere, three one-act intertwining Molière comedies, February 21-March 11 at the Winter Garden in the Wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMKevin Spacey, currently starring in The Bridge Project’s Richard III at BAM, will be a guest on “Theater Talk” on Friday February 3 at 1 AM on Channel 13 in New York. “Theater Ta…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:38PMOscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis, who directed the 1985 feature film "Back to the Future," is currently in talks with "Future" film collaborators Bob Gale and Alan …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMPlaywrights Horizons just announced complete casting for the New York premiere of THE BIG MEAL, a new play by Dan LeFranc Sixty Miles to Silver Lake at P73Soho Rep, In the Labyrinth at Soho …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMThe new musical Giant may take place in the Lone Star State, but the Texas epic revolves around two lovers, Bick and Leslie, and their sprawling romance. Co-produced by the Public Theatre an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMThis week, TheaterMania reports on Christie Brinkley returning to Chicago, Constantine Maroulis in Broadway bound Jekyll & Hyde, Lily Rabe in As You Like it at Shakespeare in The Park, N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMTonight, February 2, 2012, Broadway's hit revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO welcomes back worldwide stage sensation and audience favorite Am…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMFull casting has been announced for Goodman Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane, to be presented April 21-June 10…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMMaking its first appearance in the United States, NCM Fathom and Omniverse Vision present Andrew Lloyd Webbers Love Never Dies, the long awaited continuation to The Phantom of the Opera, in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMWe’ve all had those moments of sudden self awareness in life when we realise we are acting out a genuine cliché. Whether it’s coming home from a bad day at work and melodramatically thr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PMGetty Villa has announced the productions which will be part of its annual Villa Theater Lab Series, set to run February 17-19 and March 23-25.
The series will kick off with Critical Mass P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMAmra-Faye Wright returns to the cast of the Tony-winning, long-running revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago Feb. 2 in the role of merry murderess Velma Kelly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMSILENCE! The Musical, filmed a provocative TV commercial last Thursday, January 26th onstage at P.S. 122. Featuring cannibalism, cross-dressing and various excised body parts, the new commer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMFull cast and creative team have been announced for Playwrights Horizons' production of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, to run March 1-April 8 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMTheaterMania News Minute - February 2, 2012
This week, TheaterMania reports on Christie Brinkley returning to Chicago, Constantine Maroulis in Broadway bound Jekyll & Hyde, Lily Rabe in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:17PMSo, Hollywood is increasingly involved in the news of the theater recently.Yesterday, word came that mega-producer Scott Rudin was suddenly pulling the plug on his financing of the Broadway …
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:13PMThere's a little overlap in our singers and musicians, in material by composer-lyricist-pianist-arranger-orchestrator-(co-)producer Michael Patrick Walker and then similarly multi-tasking Ge…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:12PMWhen I said I was going to cover The Stranger in its entirety, I knew (as did you all) that what I really meant is that I was going to have to deal with "Scenes From An Italian Restaura…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:10PMTony Winning actress Idina Menzel has hinted that she may be considering a return to the Great White Way. In a promotional statement for her upcoming PBS special entitled, 'Idina Live Barefo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMNCM Fathom and Omniverse Vision will present Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Love Never Dies at select U.S. movie theaters on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. local time; followed by an en…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMGoodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls announced full casting for the Chicago revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh starring the previously announced Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMLa Jolla Playhouse presents American Night The Ballad of Juan Jos, written by Richard Montoya Zorro in Hell for Culture Clash, developed by Culture Clash and Jo Bonney The Seven, Adoration o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMMeyer Sound Laboratories in Berkeley makes audio equipment, especially high-end speaker systems. The company has been doing this since 1979 and its clients include Cirque du Soleil and Celin…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:06PMMolière's The Imaginary Invalid will be presented as part of the ninth annual Bard SummerScape festival. The production, directed by Erica Schmidt, will open July 13 at the R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMIn this exclusive film documentary outtake, Lily Tomlin remembers
waiting by the stage door for Carol Channing to appear. With a flashy
fashion sense that matched her on-stage persona,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
[kLEA] Blackhurst has the chops to carry off this difficult role of a difficult woman but she doesn't overpower the show or the story and it seems unlikely most audiences will come to the Dr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:57PMRamin Karimloo has had a very busy few years, portraying the role of The Phantom in both the UK productions of Love Never Dies and the 25th Anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera. Now he's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMDaniel Radcliffe, star of the upcoming film 'Woman in Black' will make a guest appearance on today's daytime chatfest ELLEN. The actor talks to Ellen about meeting his girlfriend on the set …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will participate in a reading and Q&A session at The Drama Book Shop on Wednesday, February 8 at 5:30pm.
The event is being held in conjunc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMArtistic Director Robert Falls just announced the cast for his major revival of Eugene ONeills The Iceman Cometh at Goodman Theatre running April 21 June 10, 2012 in the Goodmans Albert The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PM"WOMAN in Black" stars Daniel Radcliffe as a Victorian solicitor whose visit to a rural village unleashes a vengeful spirit.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:41PMA contest. A community. A call to action. For 50 years, World Theatre Day has been celebrating the power of theatre to strengthen cultural exchange and mutual understanding across borders.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:30PMBECKY SHAW WON’T LET YOU FORGET HER – THAT’S A PROMISE AND A THREAT I’m pleased to report that Becky Shaw is not easy to sit through. Five well-chiseled characters (that you pray you…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:27PMCheck out the exclusive interview with Adam Pascal on becoming ‘Huey’ in the Tony Award-Winning best musical MEMPHIS!
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:26PMJohn Malkovich has directed an unconventional stage production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," currently running in Paris. The actor starred in the 1988 movie adaptation of the play.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:23PMThe Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing firms, will hold another in its series of seminars focused on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMThe tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMSelections fron Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures will be performed as part of the March 11 benefit Shinsai: Theatres for Japan at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMSmash choreographer Josh Bergasse takes Just Dance behind the scenes before the series premieres.
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMTonight is the official opening of Roundabout Theatre Company’s new production of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout Associate Artist Sam Gold. The cast features A…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:09PMAs first reported on Deadline.com, Robert Zemeckis is currently in early talks with his co-author Bob Gale as well as composer Alan Silvestri to look into the possiblity of bring the 1985 cl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMTony winner Idina Menzel, who originated the roles of Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked and Maureen in the iconic musical Rent, is eyeing a return to Broadway. In a statement promoting …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMWhen I saw the early 1990′s revival of Hello Dolly!, I was excited but decidedly nervous. How in the world could it’s original leading lady, now in her 70′s, possibly handl…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:06PMBard SummerScape has announced its 2012 season, to be presented in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard College's bucolic Hudson River campus, J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMSecond Stage Theatres current season will continue with a new production of Paula Vogels Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned To Drive, directed by Kate Whoriskey and starring Norbert …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMAlthough rehearsals have just begun for the upcoming starry Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's presidential drama The Best Man, five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony winn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMChoreographer Ronald K. Brown's Espiritu Vivo will receive its Boston remiere in a program from Ballet Hispanico at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, March 9-11.
The work, featuring music b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Wheaton High School Silver Spring, MD Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher January 26, 2012 A strong work ethic is not something I think a…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:59PMThe Goodman Theatre has cast all the roles in "The Iceman Cometh," the Chicago theater's flagship spring production, starring Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59PMMike Daisey proves theater can help change the world, and Jeremy Barker owes him a drink
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:51PMSony Records has released Playlist: The Very Best of Melissa Manchester.
The 14-track CD includes such songs as "Come In from the Rain," "Don't Cry Out Loud," "…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMTony Award-winning Broadway producer Scott Rudin shed light on the circumstances that led him to abandon his plan to produce Bruce Norris' play Clybourne Park on Broadway this spring.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMLast week, ITV1 and Andrew Lloyd Webber announced 'Superstar,' described as a brand new show that will give the British public the chance to choose the countrys next major rock star. The sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMTony Award winner Michael Mayer, who directed the pilot of the NBC musical drama "Smash," has signed on to direct another NBC pilot, "Do Not Harm," according to Deadline.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMby Michael Wheeler After years of slashing and bashing the Canadian arts community, the Harper Government has finally decided to embrace live theatre through an exciting new partnership just…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:42PMThe Drama Book Shop has announced that Paula Vogel, the pulitzer prize-winning playwright of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE will appear on Wedneday, February 8 5.30 - 730 pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PM The Tony Award® winning production of Bette Midler’s hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT will welcome new principals Adam LeFevre as “Bob” and Julie Reiber as “Marion” to…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:38PMEisa Davis will present a concert, Flowers Are Sleeping, at 7:30pm on Thursday, March 1 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space.
The evening will include songs from her most r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "The Hunchback Variations Opera" by Theater Oobleck ★★½ and "Are You There, Judy? It's Me, Cancer" in Donny's Skybox ★★½
NINA METZ reviews "The Hu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:35PMSo many shows have opened in Chicago over the last three weeks, it's tough to keep them all straight. And he who hesitates can be lost. So let me use the space this week to sort out what you…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34PMThe Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theatres, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, will present the seminar Producing from the Ground Up Feb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMLast week, the BBC held its inaugural Audio Drama awards, and managed to entice some top performers to attend and present the prizes. Among them were June Whitfield, Niamh Cusack, Richard Wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMTalons are out on Broadway, if reports are to be believed. According to the New York Post, Scott Rudin, who was due to produce Clybourne Park in the city, has pulled the plug on it after som…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMDaniel Radcliffe, last seen on Broadway as ambitious office-climber J. Pierrepont Finch in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, recently visited "The Tonight…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMLeigh Silverman will direct No Place to Go, written by Ethan Lipton with music composed by Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra, at Joe's Pub, March 14-April 8.
The work was commissioned las…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMGrammy Award-winning artist Sir Paul McCartney will be honored as this year's MusiCares Person of the Year at the organization's 2012 gala, which will be held Feb. 10 at the Los Ange…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMAge & Hometown: 25; Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Current Role: Serving teenage angst and bringing down the house as the young know-it-all Tamika in the off-Broadway musical Sistas.
Ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMAge & Hometown: 25; Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Current Role: Serving teenage angst and bringing down the house as the young know-it-all Tamika in the off-Broadway musical Sistas.
Ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's much-awaited sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera" is called "Love Never Dies," but the musical defied its title: after a short life in London, it died. Now he hopes it …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:20PMBeverly Hills 90210 will come to Toronto M5E 1B4 as part of the 2012-2013 Canadian Stage season.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:19PMThurs, Feb 2, 2012 – MetroStage has told DCTS that due to the illness of a cast member, tonight’s preview of Josephine Tonight as well as the Saturday matinee on February 4th h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMIn an interview published in today's Billboard.com, entertainer William Shatner discussed details of his upcoming Broadway show SHATNER'S WORLD. In the interview, Shatner shared that a music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre has announced casting for two plays in its spring season. Twelfth Night will perform March 23-May 20, and Titus Andronicus will play April 11-May 19.
A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMThe NY-based company brought new works by Hofesh Shechter, Alexander Ekman and Crystal Pite on its first visit to France
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:14PMJulie Reiber and Adam Lefevre will join the cast of Broadway’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert on February 6 at the Palace Theatre. Reiber assumes the role of Marion, Tick&rsqu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMThe review of the musical Big Society (The Stage, January 26, page 18) mentions, among the cast recreating the bill of a music hall, a "duff magician". It's sad (but interesting) that so man…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Adele Nadine Traub shares pivotal moments in her theatre career and why the arts…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMChristina Bianco, Michael West, John Walton West, Christine Pedi: Photo: Barry GordinRick Crom’s lively constantly evolving satirical revue of pop culture and politics opened last night at…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:07PMThe Tony Award winning production of Bette Midlers hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT will welcome new principals Adam LeFevre as Bob and Julie Reiber as Marion to the Palace Theatre …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMMy reaction on reading your article Back from the Brink (The Stage, January 26, pages 6-7) was to wonder whether staging (among other things) three musicals and a Terence Rattigan revival at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMIt is brilliant that you've written such a great article about Equity's recent survey (The Stage, January 26, page 1). This survey came about because of the work of Equity's Lesbian, Gay, Bi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMGame of Thrones and The Tudors star Natalie Dormer will play the title role in the Young Vic's production of After Miss Julie opposite Kieran Bew (Reasons to be Pretty, The Kno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMAdam LeFevre and Julie Reiber will join the Broadway cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical, at the Palace Theatre, beginning on Monday, February 6. They will be playing the role…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMVOTE ON THE NEW MONTHLY POLL and HOT/HOTTER TO YOUR LEFT!I'm really surprised it has taken this long, but Broadway is finally catching up with the computer age. As productions seek to …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMLes Miserables - one of the most successful musicals of all time - is now going to be made into a film. Last year theatre productions made over £25 million. I wonder how much Les Miser…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Jimmy Porter, the pissed-off young man in John Osborne's seminal 1956 drama "Look Back In Anger," shocked British auds and dealt a death blow to the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM
The future of the upcoming Broadway production of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is in question now that lead producer Scott Rudin has departed the project after a disagreement w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AMI still can't quite believe it, but very soon it will no longer be a criminal offence to entertain a roomful of people without having to obtain a licence from the authorities. The Live Music…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMTwo-time Tony winner Patti LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) will work with a select group of talented students on an upcoming episode of HBO’s Masterclass. The episode will feature excerpts from …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMActor part of Canadian Stage’s 25th anniversary theatre season
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:50AMThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert will welcome Adam LeFevre and Julie Reiber to the Palace Theatre beginning Feb. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMAskMen just revealed its 11th annual Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2012, and the list once again features Broadway veteran Lea Michele. Since last years poll she has climbed the ranks from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMI saw this post on Facebook and asked Ron Darling (the person who posted it on Facebook) if I could share it with everyone. He said yes. You can click on the picture to see it bigger. If you…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:41AM“CQ/CX” mines the metaphors in Jayson Blair’s story In his incendiary interview with The New York Observer, Jayson Blair is quoted as saying: “So Jayson Blair the hum…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:40AMYoung assessor Jo Eliot reveals why The Offies are such an important collection of awards for young theatremakers everywhere.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:37AMPAULA VOGEL: An evening with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE
Paula Vogel’s acclaimed play is returning to New York City for the first time since its premi…
SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 11:37AMTony Award nominee Dana Ivey will headline The Acting Company 's benefit staged reading of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer at 7 pm on Monday, February 13 at the Mainstage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:35AMFour-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh has joined the cast of Michael McDonald’s NBC drama pilot Beautiful People, according to Deadline.com. The cast also features Frances Conroy,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMIn the thrilling “Michael” episode of Glee, fans of the late Michael Jackson were treated to nine of the late King of Pop’s greatest songs including “Bad,” &ldq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:29AMIn a new prologue written by David Grimm for Susanna Centlivre’s The Gaming Table, Tonya Beckman Ross promises verbal virtuosity and laughs. It is a promise that is kept in spades by Fol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMAfter helming the pilot for NBC's upcoming Broadway-centric series Smash, Tony-winning director Michael Mayer has been tapped to direct another pilot for the network titled Do No Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMUnstoppable showbiz icon Elaine Stritch, the Tony-winning leading lady with a singular voice and demeanor who has become synonymous with Stephen Sondheim's "The Ladies Who Lunch,&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMCurrently Re-reading Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda It was a tear. Forming at the corner of my right eye. Too big to blink away. And only in my right eye. My left eye, though moist, …
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:23AMAn unprecedented effort will take place on Sunday, March 11 when New York Citys leading theatre companies, including Atlantic Theater Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMNew York company Elevator Repair Service will bring their eight-hour staging of The Great Gatsby, Gatz, to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre as part of the London International Festival of …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:22AMPlaywrights Philip Kan Gotanda, Richard Greenberg, Suzan-Lori-Parks, Naomi Iizuka and Doug Wright will contribute original work for the benefit, Shinsai: Theater For Japan, to be presented a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMFour-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh and David Conrad ("Ghost Whisperer") have joined the cast of the upcoming NBC pilot "Beautiful People," according to Deadline.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThe revival of John Osborne’s scorching drama Look Back in Anger opens February 2 at off-Broadway’s Laura Pels Theatre. Directed by Sam Gold, the Roundabout Theatre Company produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMGatz, the epic theatrical retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, will bow in London presented by LIFT, London International Festival of Theatre. The production will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMThe North Side venue Stage 773 said Thursday that it has created a new comedy festival, "The Women's Funny Festival," set to launch in June at the former Theatre Building Chicago, located at…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:13AMIn Steppenwolf’s intimate Upstairs Theatre, Director Austin Pendleton has shaped a narrative comprised of fiercely independent and creative characters who feel compelled to record the carn…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:12AMEUROPE/WINTER TOUR 2012: A Celebration in Cologne
On February 1 — the eve of the first concert in the EUROPE / WINTER 2012 tour — Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:10AMAs reported on TVGuide.com, 'American Pie' actor Chris Klein will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of TNT's comedy series FRANKLIN amp BASH.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMTonight, February 2, is the official opening of Roundabout Theatre Companys new production of John Osbornes Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout Associate Artist Sam Gold. The cast fea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMAdele Nadine Traub, Resident Stage Manager, Manager of Artistic Operations and Founding Company Member of the Actors' Shakespeare Project, Boston.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:04AMWilly Russell’s Olivier Award-winning play Educating Rita is coming to London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, starring Claire Sweeney as Rita and Matthew Kelly as Dr. Frank Bryant. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMThe cast of Off-Broadway's Silence! The Musical, currently performing at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122, shot a new commercial on January 26 that will begin airing on major networks la…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:01AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for February 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMIt's time to date it up! One of our most successful events last year was our Collaborator Speed Date. If you weren’t a reader back then, a CSD is when we gather partnerless composers, libr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Welcome to BroadwayWorld's first-ever talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH Richard Ridge. Follow Richard as he visits the theater's best and brightest in their dressing rooms, on their stages and favor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMAccording to Deadlinecom, actor Christopher Meloni has signed on to play Leo Durocher in Brian Helgeland's upcoming 42 film. Centering on Jackie Robinson, the film will feature Meloni as t'h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMUkrainian principal dancer has been stripped of his work permit following his shock resignation from the Royal Ballet Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSirius XM Radio has announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater for the first time at a special concert event, only for Sirius…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMI have a post up over at the Coyote Commission Project Blog.You should read it.Here.
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:41AMAbi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMHappy Birthday Marissa Jaret Winokur She is best known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, and won the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AM By Isa Goldberg/Chief Theater CriticCynthia Nixon“Cancer is the only thing I ever wanted.” Jason (Greg Keller) announces confidently. That is the conversational banter professor Bearin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMAccording to btryback.wordpress.com, The Coterie will present a concert event entitled RED CARPET MEMORIESA CELEBRATION OF ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED SONGS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMInnovatively staged in an upstairs room at the Bush’s new library home, this double-bill of plays from Mediah Ahmed and Neil Daley provides a glimpse of two writing talents to watch, e…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:27AMEddie Antar
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Current Town: New York, NY
Q: Tell me about The Navigator.
A: The Navigator is about a man that suddenly gets a gift. He begins to …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:26AMLegit News:
Broadway revival to open April 22
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMAccording to starobserver.com, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert will be premiering his new video for his first single 'Better Than I Know Myself'. The song is off of his second album 'Tr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMGame of Thrones and The Tudors star Natalie Dormer will play the title role in the Young Vic’s forthcoming revival of Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie.
The production, which ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:15AMUpdated casting has been announced for Red Bull Theater's presentation of Lorenzaccio, part of the company's Revelation Readings series, which will be performed at Theatre at St. C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMThe Phantom of the Opera in Japan
http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com
Hi-definition footage from the Japanese Shiki Theatre production of The Phantom of the Opera, currently showing in Tok…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:12AMSally Kellerman will return to Upstairs At Vitello's Jazz & Supper Club with Something Cool, February 8 at 8 pm.
Kellerman will preview two new songs in her show, which is curren…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMTV bosses have not ruled out casting a woman in the lead role of Jesus Christ Superstar after launching a search for a new musical star.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:07AMTony Award winners Scarlett Johansson and Denzel Washington will be honored in Germany on Saturday, February 4 with the Golden Camera Awards for Best International Actress and Actor, respec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMValentine’s Day is all about romance, so Broadway.com decided to collect romantic stories (and ideas for celebrating the national day of love) from some of the most passionate people w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMHits of the 1980s propel a story of efforts to save a seedy Los
Angeles nightclub.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM"Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour" is described as a
one-of-a-kind celebration of the singer, as only a flashy,
signature outfit such as Cirque du Soleil can provide.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
An initial list of presenters for the 84th Academy Awards, which will be hosted by Billy Crystal, has been announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMStage and screen star Christopher Meloni will play Brooklyn Dodgers' manager in Brian Hegeland's film 42, according to Deadline.com.
The film, which focuses on the racial integra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMThe cast and crew of NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edition celebrated the show's opening night with a post-performance party at the West Bank Cafe Wednesday, February 1.
Cast …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Earl “Snakehips” Tucker (1905-1937), was billed as “The Human Boa Constrictor” and “The Gelatinous Da…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:49AMComplete casting has been announced for a new film version of William Shakepeare's Romeo & Juliet, to be directed by Carlo Carlei and adapted by Oscar winner Julian Fellowes, accord…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMHollywood's The Coterie will present Red Carpet Memories: A Celebration of Academy Award-Nominated Songs for six performances only Feb. 10-19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMRated P for Parenthood, the new Off-Broadway musical revue about joys and quirks of having kids, begins preview performances Feb. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMToday is the birthday of Benny Rubin. When I wrote No Applause and wrote his bio (here) all I knew about him came from books (but that was quite a bit — he was quite a legendary charac…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:38AMJacques Brel Returns will offer a special Valentine's Day performance Feb. 14 at 9 PM as well as a subsequent performance Feb. 22 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:32AMAcademy Award winner and Broadway veteran Meryl Streep will be among the presenters at the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, to be held on Saturday, February 25 in Los Angeles and aired…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMTony and Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, who is currently starring in The Bridge Project’s Richard III at BAM, will be a guest on "Theater Talk" Feb. 3 at 1 AM ET on Channel 13 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMA video installation at New York Live Arts by Maya Ciarrochi opens tonight. Life size portraits of many who have been connected to DTW/New York Live Arts are in it, including Maura. It's up …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:24AMThe Menier Chocolate Factor will once again present its revival of Willy Russell's Educating Rita, which will play the theater April 25-May 12, prior to embarking on a UK national tour.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMLondon's Menier Chocolate Factory will revive Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita beginning performances April 25 for a three-week run through May 12, prior to embarking on a natio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMBefore I retire to matters extra-theatrical and non-dramatic, a little unfinished business to be completed. I note the new publication of The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Play…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:07AMI recently came across this crowdfunded arts project, headed by Simon Murdoch from indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, aiming to raise enough money to fund his musical feature film God Hel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AM
Philadelphia Theatre Company's "The Scottsboro Boys" is a major theatrical achievement ... [Luna Stage's] "Bachelorette" is a dark comedy that's actually really funny ... Walnut's production…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54AMTony® Winning Director John Rando helms “The Suicide” featuring Jackie Hoffman Bick Goss and Frank Evans, Producing Artistic Directors of Musical Mondays Theate…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:54AMThe New York-based Elevator Repair Service will bring Gatz, the eight-hour stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AMFrances Ruffelle, currently starring at London's Menier Chocolate Factory as Fastrada in Pippin (running through Feb. 25), will reprise her solo show, Beneath the Dress, at the same…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AMAccording to Deadline.com, actors Frances Conroy, Tovah Feldshuh and Patrick Heusinger have been cast in an upcoming pilot for the NBC network entitled BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMJamie Lloyd’s production of She Stoops to Conquer opened at the National Theatre this week (31 January, previews from 24 January 2012).
The comedy of manners, written by Oliver Goldsm…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:26AMI recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:23AMOne of Broadway’s greatest flops, “Carrie” is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM
This revival of a short-lived 1974 revue derived from the absurdist oeuvre of Eugene Ionesco provides a few giggles but lacks the danger of the author's best works.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMJohn Osborne's 1956 play, with its famous angry-young-man protagonist, is unquestionably a landmark work, having upended the dominance of genteel English drawing-room drama. That doesn't n…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMJohn Osborne's 1956 play, with its famous angry-young-man protagonist, is unquestionably a landmark work, having upended the dominance of genteel English drawing-room drama. That doesn't n…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMFamiliar hands to be at the tiller : Kahn, Muse, Posner, McSweeney, Lord and Taichman A brand new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:27AMVoting in the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards has now closed, with over 70,000 people taking part this year, smashing last year's record of 46,000.
The results of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:12AMDavid Steinberg on why stand-up comedians aren't necessarily stable and why Canadian comics are so funny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
At last Friday’s Stage New Year party, The National Theatre was presented with its Stage 100 Award for Producer of the Year, recognising its ever-expanding produceorial role beyond its hom…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:57AMMikaela Feely-Lehmann has her acting school to thank for her first professional job, her Equity card, and her agent.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:50AMUnstinting writing anchors Profiles Theatre production that goes beyond tiaras, sashes
On a typical weekend night, numerous trolleys traverse the bar-strewn streets of Sweet Home Chicago fi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:44AMAfter seeing Radcliffe play The Boy Who Lived for eight films, audiences are used to watching him suffer onscreen. But "The Woman in Black" marks a notable leap for the actor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:43AMHave you ever wanted to spend a few hours with a Pulitzer Prize winner? Come on, you know you have. Well, now the Drama Book Shop is giving you a chance to make your dreams come true.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:38AMWell, as it turns out, it actually takes a little bit of "Trying" to "Succeed" on Broadway and land in a long-running musical. I have been blessed with this experience three times in my ca…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:35AMAccording to the study, there are more than 150 sound stages in the outer boroughs. The studios are in Astoria, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Maspeth, and other areas near Newtow…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:30AMName: Vanessa Renae Marroquin Where are you from originally? Oh, just the best place in Texas to eat incredible Mexican Food, and it’s only 20 minutes north of the border! McAllen, Texas…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:21AMI'm not sure Rain, the touring Beatles revue that has also made its home on Broadway since 2010, meets the standard for theater. A knockoff of a knockoff (all four cast members are Beatleman…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:04AMHere’s a look at Pascal’s take on the Tony Award-winning musical’s final two songs: “Memphis Lives in Me” and “Steal Your Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMEarlier this morning, the cast of Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN held a Press Conference featuring two time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, Tony and Emmy Award winner John Larroquette, …
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AM
There is a special Death of a Salesman event being hosted at The Greene Space this Thursday, February 2, at 7PM. Cast members Philip Seymour Hoffman, Linda Emond and Andrew Garfield will re…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:42AMMarin Mazzie, Stafford Arima and the cast and crew of MCC Theater's production of Carrie preview the musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34AMThough they haven’t played since October 2009 and the symphony filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in December 2010, the Honolulu Symphony musicians saw a new opportunity to perform togeth…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:26AMArsinée Khanjian (photo credit: Bruce Zinger)It may be possible to have a marriage without cruelty...by Atom Egoyan(republished by permission of Canadian Stage, Photo of Atom Egoyan by Bruc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMDramatist New York, New York USA For the past six years, the source of my inspiration has come from my research on Edmonia Lewis (1845-1911) who is the first woman of African-American and Na…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMMeet thirtysomethings Sam Gold, Alex Timbers and Thomas Kail, the respective directors of Broadway's Seminar, Peter and the Starcatcher and Magic/Bird.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRonnie Burkett's Penny Plain(Photo credit: Trudie Lee)Factory Theatre, Toronto
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMI rarely suffer from writer's block, but I've been stymied for weeks and weeks by the opening of the fifth...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThis week I'm posting five films made by Charles and Ray Eames. Today's installment, The Information Machine, was made in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done." William Shakespeare, Richard II...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMInsiders say he’s already heavily favoured to take the biggest job in Canadian theatre even though the Stratford Festival hasn’t yet started its short-list interviews
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00AMKeith Baker, Madi DiStefano, Jack Koenig and Anette Michelle Sanders appear in Bristol Riverside Theatre's world premiere of A Raw Space, the new play by Jon Marans, the author of The Te…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJohn Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam Gold in an arresting physical production that conjures the squalor and straitened circumstances of a working class life, opens Feb. 2 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhat’s The Matter With Henry?, featuring music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen (The Opposite of Sex) with a book and lyrics by Dan Elish (13), is presented Feb. 2-3 in invitation-only s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe John W. Engeman Theater's production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys begins previews Feb. 2 prior to an official opening Feb. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhite Fence Productions presents Holy Child, a dark comedy by Joe Lauinger, which officially opens Feb. 2 at Off-Off Broadway’s Roy Arias Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company's production of Ionescopade, a rarely performed "musical vaudeville" inspired by works of absurdist master playwright Eugene Ionesco, officially opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJen Childs is coming to Pittsburgh to face her fears for all to see. Don't be fooled by the silly costumes and the improv veteran's knack for finding the funny in her subject. She takes danc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMMargaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit owes a few genes of narrative structure to epic mythology as extenuated by Joseph Campbell. As with The Odyssey, road movies, and every…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMBilled as show that was built from interviews with soldiers, Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din is infinitely more than I expected. If this show is perhaps more than it should be ultimately,…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM 
