Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …
Linked From Playbill at 11:51PMBy Byrne Harrison
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Ed Malin (Writer) is interested in language and history. After interning at The Women's Project in the '90s, Ed has enjoyed the diverse theate…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 11:35PMIn the third episode of NBC’s Broadway-centric drama Smash, entitled “Mr. DiMaggio,” things get personal. Karen (Katharine McPhee) spends a weekend at home in idyllic Iowa,…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:28PMDebonair funny man and host of Birdland's long-running and late-running Monday night series Cast Party [in it's ninth year], returns on Thursday @ 8 P.M. to Town Hall, once again side by sid…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 11:25PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN ROUND 4 OF HOT AND HOTTERAND THIS MONTH'S BROADWAY POLL (LOOK TO YOUR LEFT!)Politics and Broadway shows are hit and miss. Hit: Born Yesterday, 1776. &nb…
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Beginnings and endings are very important in art, as in life. The start of something and its concluding moments are the moments in performances tend to make the greatest impact on us. What h…
Linked From Chloe Veltman at 08:54PMRobert Adelman Hancock and the adorable Megan McGinnis in Daddy Long Legs. Photo: Meghan Moore.This is just a quick note to let you know that by far the most enjoyable show in town right now…
Linked From The Hub Review at 08:45PM The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke Written by William Shakespeare Direc…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 08:41PM Laley: Thank you for meeting with me, Jeff. I was inspired to talk with you after reading Miriam Weisfeld’s article on Connectivity. Exciting ideas, but I’m curious about the …
Linked From HowlRound at 08:39PMThe Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center looks like somebody crammed Universal Studios Hollywood into a computer lab in Pittsburgh. Between gleaming classrooms, the hallways are l…
Linked From HowlRound at 08:39PMThe Weekly Howl: Join HowlRound.com for our weekly Twitter conversation. This week we are exploring “Technology and Theatre – Do they mix”. Check out the article by Miriam …
Linked From HowlRound at 08:20PM"Bad Kid," David Crabb's one-man show at Axis Theater about his goth-gay Texas adolescence, is vivid and amusing storytelling.
Linked From Backstage at 08:12PMHalf-term may be nearly over for many, but there is no shortage of children’s theatre on offer in London at the moment. Long-running family favourites including Shrek the Musical and The L…
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In Case You Missed the Revolution A terrific article by Jason Loewith on “new play theaters”: When a theater invests in the livelihood and artistry of a local writer, it connects…
Linked From direct address at 05:56PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 22012.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMJosh Young, who will be starring in the role of Judas in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar is engaged to be married to his girlfriend of one year, Alia Rose…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMStage and television star Charles Shaugnessy will return to the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives as Shane Donovan in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor played the role c…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:36PM"What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that...
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:25PMThe Daykin sisters do comedy sketches sending up their know-it-all uncle and their parents' divorce. How much of it is true? Brian Logan finds outGiven the comic potential of sibling ri…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:11PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Kill Me" by WildClaw Theatre at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★ ... Most horror s…
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Linked From St. Louis Today at 04:59PMAccording to the New York Times, Al Hirschfeld, who passed away in 2003, will get his own biography in the near future. Ellen Stern, who wrote about the artist in 1987 for GQ, will write th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMNorth Carolina Theatre today announced that Tony Award-winning actress and Raleigh native, Beth Leavel, will star as MLynn in their upcoming production of Steel Magnolias. The play will run …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMToday, the company of ONCE met the press and BroadwayWorld was there to chat with the team
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMEnter the Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES Cocktail Contest You could win two 2 tickets to see ANYTHING GOES on Broadway valid for one 1 performance from March 26, 2012 to Septembe…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMCastillo Theater's revival of the musical "Sally and Tom," about the relationship between slave Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, is emotionless.
Linked From Backstage at 04:34PMBy Byrne Harrison
Rachelle Elie has been developing her unique vision of contemporary society for over fifteen years, beginning at Bishop’s University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 04:28PMBy Byrne Harrison
Bill Stiteler is the co-founder of Theatre Arlo, and the writer/director of “Watching Porn” and “THACO,” the latter of which he adapted into a short film. He co-wr…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 04:28PMWho would have thought that the land of canals and wooden shoes would connect so perfectly with the city known for its bridges and and steel? Yet, for a short time on Saturday night at the B…
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:28PMGuest blogger Daniel Marshall tackles the question of gay representation on the stage.
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Cella Gallery is pleased to present Femme Fatale, a group exhibition featuring the works of over 35 innovative artists handpicked by curators Nicole Bruckman and Stephanie Chefas. An arche…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 03:58PMIn Lisa Kron’s excellent play IN THE WAKE, now being marvelously presented by the San Diego Rep in their Lyceum Space, everybody is eloquent and everybody suffers.
This is chewy theat…
Linked From SanDiego.com at 03:50PM”Visiting Mr. Green” is a Yiddisher bon-bon, perfect as a recommendation for elderly Jewish relatives interested in a night out.
Really, really elderly. Because things have chang…
Linked From SanDiego.com at 03:50PMFREUD’S LAST SESSION, the play by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 600th performance tonight, February 20th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). FREUD’S LAST SESSION is the wi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMRussell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer and tabloid fixture is coming to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown L.A. Russell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMQuality helps theater drive social change - Colin Dabkowski - The Buffalo News:With the help of other articles written about Apple during the past month and a half, Daisey’s stunning perfo…
Linked From Mike Daisey at 03:50PMSteven Leigh MorrisMorris' chicken, FortinbrasThe Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers.…
Linked From LA Weekly at 03:50PMRussell Brand, stage actor? The British comedian, performer and tabloid fixture will try his hand at a new medium when he stars in a stage play written by Eric Idle that will have a four-per…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 03:50PMAccording to comedy.co.uk, comedian Russell Brand is set to take the starring role in Eric Idle's latest stage musical WHAT ABOUT DICK at LA's Orpheum Theatre.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the s…
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMTony Award winners Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber and Touy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Toni Collette will among the directors involved in the feature film Sydney Unplugged, acc…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:34PMWho would have thought that the land of canals and wooden shoes would connect so perfectly with the city known for its bridges and
Linked From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 03:27PMSouthbank Centre, LondonDennis the Menace is almost an OAP. He first appeared in the Beano in 1951, but for generations of children he – and his partners in crime, Minnie the Minx and Roge…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:09PMBy Byrne Harrison
D’yan Forest (actor/writer/producer), 77 years young, has been lighting up audiences for over seven decades. She started early with piano, then ukulele, moved onto…
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At People’s Light and Theatre Company’s, director David Bradley keeps John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic "Of Mice and Men" stripped to its bare essence, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
Linked From Philly.com at 02:58PMBroadway (and the West End) is strewn with the corpses of bad musicals, some of them (like Rock of Ages or We Will Rock You) still breathing, against all the odds. But sometimes, by the same…
Linked From The Stage at 02:56PMHaydn Gwynne talks about her role as Queen Elizabeth in the Bridge Project’s production of "Richard III" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Sam Mendes and featuring Kevin Spacey…
Linked From WNYC at 02:53PMLast year, when I was on a public bus in Bloomington, Indiana, the bus driver pulled the bus over, grabbed me by the shoulder, and said to cut it out or he’d call the police. In a scen…
Linked From www.tynansanger.com at 02:51PMAccording to the official LYSISTRATA JONES blog, Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn are currently at work on a high school-friendly edition of the Broadway comedy, which will be made avail…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMAs part of Steppenwolf's Garage Rep Series 2012, LiveWire Chicago's *Oohrah!* is bleak, reductionist and simplistic, exploiting stereotypes that “Hurt Locker” at least tried to justify.
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 02:36PMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV. Tony Awar…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:33PMGuests have been announced for the upcoming In Conversation Speaker Series at the Museum at Eldridge Street; The Series is part of an ongoing 125th Anniversary celebration of Jewish life an…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:33PMThe stars of Theatreland descended on the Prince of Wales Theatre last night to hear the results of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards - the only major theatre awards to be decided entirely by…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 02:26PMWe're starting something new here on theaterinthenow.com. We want to hear from you! So let your creativity start flowing with the first uPick, President's Day Edition! Today, we want to know…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 02:26PMPolka Theatre, London: Michael Morpurgo's sensitive portrayals of man's inhumanity to man, and how the fallout affects children, translate well into theatre for young people. In th…
Linked From The Stage at 02:22PMWilliam Shatner’s new one-man show makes for a fun evening of personal reminiscing, video clips and one of his strange musical performances.
Linked From Theater News Online at 02:22PMUnion, London, February 15-March 10: After opening at the Savoy Theatre in 1881, Patience became a huge success for Gilbert and Sullivan, eventually running even longer than their previous h…
Linked From The Stage at 02:22PMGrange Arts Centre, Oldham: As the sun began to sink on the 1970s, Robin Herford was touring with Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, Taking Steps. One of the venues was the Grange, which by …
Linked From The Stage at 02:22PMWales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Berlioz's last opera is an adaptation of Shakespeare's playful comedy Much Ado About Nothing and, sung in English, is perhaps one of the more acce…
Linked From The Stage at 02:22PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Royal Lyceum associate artist John Dove takes up where he left off after his cycle of Arthur Miller plays with a solid production of Of Mice and Men. As a di…
Linked From The Stage at 02:22PMEmma (Katie Atkinson), an assistant in a laboratory dedicated to the preservation of dying languages, is trying to learn Esperanto. She is having heavy weather of it. Finally she blurts out …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:22PMThe battle between producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and former director of the production Julie Taymor has been settled and Taymor should be flying high. Producers have agreed to p…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 02:13PMUnion theatre, LondonThis is the third all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan that Sasha Regan has directed at this tiny Southwark theatre. But, while the result is as "blithe and gay" as …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:08PM
Tom Rooney, Laura Condlin and Sofia Tomic shine in Play, one of several Samuel Beckett works in Queen of Puddings’ Beckett: Feck It!
Linked From Toronto.com at 01:51PMONCE, an acclaimed new musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, will begin previews on Tuesday, February 28 and open Sunday, March 18 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Today, th…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMHollywood and Broadway award-winners Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, and Lee Roy Reams are to star in Doin' It For Love, a Broadway-style tribute to the standards and the stories behind t…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMElizabeth Reaser gives an excellent performance in this memory play about a paedophile uncle and his niece, writes Brendan Lemon
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 01:30PMHow Mike Daisey has changed America Mike Daisey brought his provocative, withering attack on the state of regional theater, How Theater Failed America, to Woolly Mammoth in 2009. Why are suc…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:21PMLegit Reviews||Los Angeles:
The script needs work, but Crispin Whittell's stylish production makes for a not unsatisfying evening.
Linked From Variety at 01:19PMDespite its provocative title, this musical reveals itself less as a tangle of beliefs and more of a full-throated celebration of marriage equality.
Linked From StarTribune at 01:18PMREVIEW: A compelling, well-acted new play turns on touchy issues of racial identity.
Linked From StarTribune at 01:18PMAccording to Patrick Healy of the New York Times, the musical adaptation of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ has been delayed. The world premiere was supposed to take place in June, but has been p…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:12PMAlli Mauzey and Andy Kelso soon will join the cast of the first North American touring version of “Wicked.” Mauzey will be playing the role of Glinda, which she has previously played on …
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This worthy play falls squarely into the genre of “independent woman squashed by the patriarchy” dramas, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:55PMThis production of Athol Fugard’s 1961 play is less satisfying than the new theatre complex that hosts it, writes Brendan Lemon
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:49PMThe acclaimed City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along ended its limited engagement at the fa…
Linked From Playbill at 12:44PMLook below to see what Broadway shows are playing on each night this week. Want to know what Broadway shows have Sunday evening performances Which Broadway shows have Wednesday matinees Just…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMWest End star Linzi Hateley is involved in the upcoming Les Miserables movie.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMThe Northern Ireland Assembly has given a one-year reprieve to the Laganside Arts Grant with a one-off cash injection of £250,000 less than a week after announcing it was to close in M…
Linked From The Stage at 12:14PMLegit News:
Heather Headley to take Whitney Houston role
Linked From Variety at 12:09PMMatt Mithun of the Somerset Amphitheater is taking over the event after founder Ira Heilicher died last summer.
Linked From StarTribune at 12:07PMThe inspirational voice coach Elizabeth Pursey has died aged 89. Elizabeth had a long teaching association with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. From the late 1970s, she also worked on man…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:06PMThe North American touring version of “Riverdance” has been continuously on tour since 1996, and has sometimes had two companies touring simultaneously. But now the tour is in its final …
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NBC has announced that select songs from tonights third episode of NBCs new critically acclaimed musical drama series SMASH Mondays, 10-11 p.m. ET, will be available today from NBCUniversal …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMSir Paul McCartney, along with his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Beatrice, attended a Broadway matinee performance of Mary Poppins on Saturday, February 18.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMBroadwayWorld reported earlier this month that E Online revealed that Spring Awakening's original Wendla, GLEE star Lea Michele, is being courted for her old role in the upcoming film versio…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMToday in 1957, The Taming of the Shrew openend at the Phoenix Theatre, where it ran for 23 performances. A comedy by William Shakespeare, the play is believed to have been written between 15…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMOriginal cast members Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope both recently departed the West End production of THE WIZARD OF OZ, and have been replaced by Over the Rainbow finalist Sopie Evans a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMFYI, due to the President's Day holiday in the United States today, Monday February 20, 2012 this week's grosses will be released on Tuesday February 21, 2012.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMThe Merchant of Venice is rightfully considered one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” with its dark overtones of anti-Semitism and a feud between a Jew standing obstinately with the …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMAs the big behemoths in the music biz try to figure out what the &#$@ they are going to do with their turned-upside-down business model, some young tech-savvy upstarts are coming with id…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:05AMThe Donmar finds a new answer to the perennial mobile problem, and are theatres getting more middle of the road?Switching audiences on to switch it offWe all know how annoying it is when som…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:05AMVoice and trumpet combine with Irish-born playwright’s absurdist dialogue to illuminate the human condition
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REVIEW: Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai conjures references to Chinese, Western and minimalist approaches to modern dance.
Linked From StarTribune at 10:43AMFollowing sell-out success at Chichester Festival Theatre, Jonathan Kent's acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd transfers to London's West End for a limited season from 10 March 2012. Widely…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMIf ever an actor was born to take the stage, it is Hamish Linklater. Son of revered Shakespeare teacher Kristin Linklater, he grew up on Edith Wharton's estate in the Berkshires and perf…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:19AMFive of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage …
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:19AMThe play that inspired the movie finally receives its first staging in this extravagantly cast production, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 10:07AMTony and Grammy award-winner Heather Headley will star in a musical version of Whitney Houston's 1992 film, which opens at London's Adelphi theatre in NovemberA musical version of The Bodygu…
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Today on Backstage with Richard Ridge, we bring you Richard in conversation with international songbird Lea Salonga, best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMMAGICBIRD, a new play from the team that brought you LOMBARDI on Broadway, will play the Longacre Theater beginning Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in anticipation of an April 11, 2012 opening nig…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMThe famed mentalist once again astonishes with his new show.
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:27AMOscar winner and noted playwright Woody Allen has won the Writers Guild of America award for original screenplay for his film Midnight in Paris.
Other films and television series honoured b…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:27AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Blythe Danner and Tony Award nominee Brian O'Byrne have been cast in the ABC drama pilot Gilded Lillys, according to Deadline.com.
The series is set in…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:27AM Today is the birthday of Hollywood film director Roland West. Born Roland Van Zimmer this day in 1885, he was part of a family of actors from Cleveland, OH. He began acting in vaudeville …
Linked From Trav S.D. at 09:19AMMichael Brazier has been appointed to succeed Holly Kendrick as director of the National Student Drama Festival.
Linked From The Stage at 09:13AMWayne Eagling is to leave his role as artistic director of English National Ballet at the end of this summer.
Linked From The Stage at 09:13AMNot that these are presidentially themed...Bad reviews as a potty-training tool? That's one way to put them behind you.Smash superfan sez: Don't watch it tonight.Looking for some good news a…
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Perhaps most remarkably, BSO conductor Stéphane Denève managed to create an atmosphere in which the Symphony Hall audience, which at this time of year sometimes sounds like it’s made up …
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMI was chosen to be apart of a group of Twitter members that were invited to live-tweet during the Broadway production Godspell. As a fan of the show itself and this production, I went into …
Linked From youngmrproducer.blogspot.com at 08:46AMJonathan Church’s well received production of from Chichester comes into London’s famous musical theatre.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:46AMFREUD’S LAST SESSION will play a special President’s Day Weekend schedule at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). There will be an added performance Sunday evening, February 19th at …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMTony Award-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell thinks politicians and actors have a lot in common. "It's kind of one in the same. It's showmanship, you know, it's trying to convince people o…
Linked From MSNBC at 08:46AMHAROLD ARLEN and Irving Berlin wrote poignant, powerful songs - "Stormy Weather" and "Supper Time" - just for Ethel Waters to emote in Cotton Club and Broadway revues. Th…
Linked From Philly.com at 08:46AMJosie Rourke kicks of her residency at the Donmar Warehouse with a cracking production of George Farquhar's oft neglected masterpiece.
Linked From CurtainUp at 08:46AM1.
Eugene O’Neill
The Wooster Group presents his tales of sailors under the main mast, “Early Plays,” through March 11. (St. Ann…
Linked From New York Daily News at 08:46AMIt’s a showtune showdown this spring. The
stage is set for a battle for musical-theater domination between two top-tier composers.
In one corner: Alan Menken, 62, from N…
Linked From New York Daily News at 08:46AMMontserrat Mendez is awriter. His first full-length play, Thoroughly Stupid Things,premiered at Manhattan Theatre Source in 2008 and was later called “a comicmasterwork” by Ba…
Linked From Visible Soul at 08:46AMA Q&A with Logan Denninghoff, who plays Gaston in the touring stage production of "Beauty and the Beast" that's coming to Seattle Feb. 21-26.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 08:43AMThe two men look as though they’d crawled out from under a rock into a landscape of broken glass and shit. Their little shack, in the South African town of Port Elizabeth, is less a ho…
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Linked From The New Yorker Subscription at 08:43AMThe Wicked Stage: The Full McNulty:But it's the best, most forceful articulation of a theme McNulty's touched before (and his predecessor tackled from a slightly different angle), and more i…
Linked From Mike Daisey at 08:43AMThe city of Everett's new art center, open since April of last year, offers workshops, demonstrations, a gallery and affordable housing for artists.
Linked From The Seattle Times at 08:43AMNEW YORK - When Julian Erskine last saw the American touring company of "Riverdance," he had to smile.
He was...
Linked From Boston Herald at 08:43AMCritic's Notebook: Fiscal concerns are stealing the spotlight at regional theaters, resulting in facile productions and less risk.Critic's Notebook: Fiscal concerns are stealing the spotligh…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:43AMThe Goodspeed Opera house in East Haddam, Connecticut recently opening the "Artists Village," with 17 homes and 65 fully furnished bedrooms.
Linked From Backstage at 08:43AMMolly Ranson in "Carrie." Sing a song of pig’s blood? Not so fast. “Carrie” — the story of a tortured teenager who channels her rage through telekinesis after classmates do…
Linked From NJ.com at 08:43AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with rising performer Zachary Infante about starring in "GAP: Songs For A New World," at NYU (music by Jason Robert Brown) through February 25 as well as othe…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 08:43AMMissed out on last night's Whatsonstage.com awards Check out our photo coverage from the red carpet and the press room
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMTickets for the Broadway production of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER go on sale today. Peter and the Starcatcher, which is co-directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMTheaterMania reports on eight worthy prodcutions, including Absent Friends, Collaborators, The Comedy of Errors, and The Recruiting Officer.
Linked From TheaterMania at 08:27AMLast week, I got this email from Jo Ledingham, the theatre critic at The Vancouver Courier: As a freelance theatre critic, I reviewed more than a hundred local theatre productions on the pag…
Linked From Rebecca Coleman at 08:16AMI get a lot of traffic on this site due to a couple posts that Dennis Baker links to in his 2008 post "Rutgers MFA Acting Program". Today, there was a comment I'd like to give more circulati…
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Linked From Footlights at 08:13AMFresh off their Top of the Fringe win at the 2011 Hollywood Fringe, Four Clowns toured the nation with their original show in the Summer of 2011. And now that it’s all said and done th…
Linked From Footlights at 08:13AMAward-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE) will present the 2nd annual Company Creation Festival (CCF), playing in Silver Lake at the Son of Semele Theater through March 4, …
Linked From Footlights at 08:13AM Everyone’s favorite web-slinger is ready to join TU! Launching its 5th year, Theatre Unleashed is proud to present the WEST COAST PREMIERE of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Co…
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Regular readers will know that Ms TN has spent the past few years vainly attempting to find a balanced life. Every year I vow to see less theatre; every year my vow crumbles spectacularly, l…
Linked From Theatre Notes at 07:52AMOn February 13, I celebrated Salentine's Day at Joe's Pub, so named for the musical being performed that night, Salamander Leviathan by Krista Knight and Barry Brinegar. The show debuted at …
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 07:46AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMMitchell Jarvis, who has starred in ROCK OF AGES since it opened on Broadway in 2009 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Texas, returns from his leave of absence to the show tonight, on February…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:36AMTravelling Light Trailer
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Linked From YouTube at 07:27AMMatilda the Musical led the winners' list at the Whatsonstage Awards last night, picking up four gongs including newcomer of the year for composer Tim Minchin.
Linked From The Stage at 07:12AMStandups like Peter Kay and John Bishop pride themselves on being everyman comedians. So does it matter if they're raking in squillions every year?It's often said that football has never bee…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:01AM
Unlike other comedians, Riches’s material is not primarily observational humour; there is only the briefest smattering of crude sexual innuendos or vulgar swearing, and the one liners are …
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMDon't get me wrong. There are plenty of dangers in the world. Human beings manage to survive weather, predators, and the ill-fated consequences of their own myopic stupidity by the skin of…
Linked From Don Hall at 06:35AMFlamenco singer-dancer La Shica performs a traditional Sevillanas, moving with courtly seriousness. Then she and her band add a bassline, teasing rhythms and shapes. She turns to the audienc…
Linked From The Independent at 06:35AMGHOST THE MUSICAL, now entering its second year in the West End, will be releasing over 250,000 new tickets for sale next month, on March 28, taking bookings at the Piccadilly Theatre to Apr…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:35AMTowards the end of his show Poet in New York, flamenco star Rafael Amargo tenderly leads each of his musicians off stage, one by one. You might think this was an early curtain call, a chance…
Linked From The Independent at 06:35AMSunday is not a day I usually spend in the West End, but of course the Whatsonstage.com Awards Concert filled the area with stars yesterday and most of them headed straight to the Delfont Ro…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:17AMThe winners of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards
- the only major UK theatre awards to be voted for entirely by the
theatregoing public - were announced last night (19 February
2012) durin…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:17AMMatt Rees has won this year's Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award given out at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival.
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Los Angeles Times 02/19/12
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:59AM"Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the latest show tune to be revealed from Marilyn the Musical — the show-within-a-show in the NBC series "Smash" — is available for downl…
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AM"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," which airs weeknights at 12:35 AM ET on NBC, kicks off its "Broadway Week" Feb. 20.
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AMTony Award nominee Joshua Henry, who currently stars as Jake in the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, offers a solo concert entitled Soul Weakness Feb. 20 at The Triad T…
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AMThe Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office opens Feb. 20 for the Broadway transfer of Peter and the Starcatcher, the prequel to the tale of Peter Pan, which will take flight before audiences beg…
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AMComposer-lyricist Scott Alan offers tunes from his songbook Feb. 20 at Los Angeles' Show At Barre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AMWith the spring arrival of two revivals of his past classics Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar Phantom composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will have three musicals on Broadway at the same tim…
Linked From Playbill at 12:33AMWilliam Shatner, the Emmy-winning actor best known for his work on TV's "Star Trek" and "Boston Legal," recently sat down on "Good Morning America" to talk …
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Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMWarona Steshwaelo and Mike Payette in New Canadian Kid(photo: Ashley Belmer)Veteran Canadian WriterUpstage host Eric Sukhu spoke with playwright Dennis Foon about his play New Canadian…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:21AMThis week the community theatre group Eastside Players are premiering a new work (we just like saying that phrase...makes us hum). Rapture, by Joanna Murray-Smith, tells of a group of friend…
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