Obeah Opera, starring Nicole Brooks and Macomere Fifi, produced by Theatre Archipelago and B Current Performing Arts, captures the spirit of Black History Month
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:49PMBingo: Scenes of Money and Death is the misleading, joky title of a play about Shakespeare in his ignoble last years, unable to write further, isolated from his beloved London, and hemmed in…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:45PMeremy lin & i played a few games. let me say, so far as xiangqi went, he wasn’t an all star. then again, neither was i.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:37PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, to the Triad Theater Monday, March 5 at 7pm. Celebrity Autobiogr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMThe world keeps spinning, relentlessly in Argentine writer and director Mariano Pensotti's "El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco" (The Past Is a Grotesque Animal).The world keeps spinning, relent…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:29PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photo by Cathryn Lynne
"Death, it happens: a girl's guide to death" was collaboratively written by Bricken Sparacino, Courtenay Harrington-Bailey, Kim Braun, Rebecca Chiap…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:21PMWilliam Shatner, currently starring on Broadway in SHATNERS WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT, recently paid a visit to Cat Greenleafs Brooklyn brownstone and can be seen this weekend on Talk Stoop …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMDue to a last-minute scheduling-conflict with lead actor Norbert Leo Butz, Second Stage Theatres one-week extension of their critically-acclaimed production of How I Learned to Drive has bee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photo by Rachel Kerry
Name: Alexis Roblan
Show: "Daughters of Lot"
Website: http://www.brainmeltconsortium.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I was always i…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:07PMToday, in honor of Sundays Oscar telecast, we are going to take a look at some of the most memorable opening numbers and musical montages from the Academy Awards over the years, with a speci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PMArgentine writer-director Mariano Pensotti's "El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco" (The Past is a Grotesque Animal) opens in Los Angeles at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:07PMAbigail's Party, LondonGet out the cheesy-pineapple things, put on some Demis Roussos and pour a gin and tonic. Beverly, the 70s hostess from hell is back in a revival of Mike Leigh's most f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMGavin Webster, London & Newcastle upon TyneOn the surface, Gavin Webster comes across as a very meat-and-spuds sort of chap. A thickset geordie who's usually found clad in the blokey uniform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMA theatre in North London has become the highest-profile playhouse to give up competing with this summer's Olympic Games, deciding that it would be more lucrative to rent the venue to one of…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
It looks like Los Angeles Opera's production of "Simon Boccanegra" will be the last opportunity in the U.S. to see Plácido Domingo perform the Verdi opera in the foreseeable future. A conc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:57PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photograph of Umberto by Louis J. McCall
Headshot by Cathryn Lynne
Emleigh Wolf has been performing comedy in New York City for several years now, sometimes onstage, somet…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:57PMThe previously announced one-week extension of the Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive has been canceled, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56PMThe high life enjoyed, if that’s the word, by the four characters of Lee MacDougall’s play is a chemical one.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:50PMBy Byrne Harrison
John Grady is an actor and a writer from New York City. He starred off Broadway in Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell and as a member of Blue Man Group. He is a multiple …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:44PMListen to the AudioServing mostly low-income children in New York City, an innovative music education program called Harmony provides free instruments and daily music lessons to children in …
SOURCE: PBS at 06:42PMBy Byrne Harrison
Slash Coleman is New York writer and performer best known for his award-winning PBS special, "The Neon Man and Me." Over the past decade his performance work has been feat…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:37PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photo by David Stallings
Heather Cohn is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble and currently serves as the Producing Director. Directing credits for Flux include Erin Brow…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:28PMRated P For Parenthood is a new musical of vignettes about being a parent from birth to college (watch one of them in the video above). On Tuesday night, I attended a blogger night for the s…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 06:28PMIn one of Broadway’s favorite real-life love stories, Norbert Leo Butz met his now wife Michelle Federer when they both appeared in the original Broadway cast of Wicked. The How I Lear…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:21PMBy Byrne Harrison
Nicole Pandolfo is a writer and actress who lives and works in New York City. Several of her plays have been published and produced throughout New York City and the United…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:19PMBy Byrne Harrison
Tim C. Murphy is an international teacher and performer who currently resides in Kuwait. Born and raised in Ottawa, he has lived, worked and traveled in more than 45 count…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:06PMTony Award nominee Marin Mazzie, who has been battling the flu, will perform at the Feb. 24 performance of Carrie Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, according to a spokesperson for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM
The sun has set on another jam-packed week on the Rialto, and Broadway.com is ready to get schooled by the past seven days. From Broadway stars getting jazzed about a fictional Downton Abbey…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMWith Georges Méliès as its subject, Martin Scorsese's Hugo – up for 11 Oscars – is a film that gives meaning to the cliché 'the magic of the movies'Should you stay up for the Oscars, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM William Shatner, currently starring on Broadway in SHATNER’S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT, recently paid a visit to Cat Greenleaf’s Brooklyn brownstone and can be seen this weekend on �…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:47PMJERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, is soon to open at the Civic Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand, with performances from 10 April, for a strictly limited season…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Cherry Pitz
Show: "Scratch And Pitz Burlesque And Variety Hour"
Websight: http://www.heroicsinhotpants.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I was born w…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:46PMTheodore Mann, co-founder and Artistic Director of Circle in the Square, passed away on February 24. He was 87 years old. Broadway theaters will dim their lights on at 8PM on February 24 in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PMThe best ski resorts never close quietly … from dance farewells to comedians, BBQs and bizarre sports to late powder, we pick the best ways to sign off on the slopesThe Big Snow Festival, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:44PMDonald Schoenbaum, a pioneer in the regional theater movement, has died at his home in Florida, according to The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He was 86.
Schoenbaum began his career as an actor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, February 24, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information VENUS IN FUR star Nina Arianda on MISBEHAVIN’, meeting …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMChicago actor Lance Baker has taken up performance artist Mike Daisey’s challenge. Daisey is the author-actor whose monologue, “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” is now a major…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:38PMNina Arianda first turned heads in her Tony-nominated performance as ditzy showgirl Billie Dawn in the Broadway revival of Born Yesterday and is now playing Vanda, a mysterious aspiring actr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMBroadway veteran Bill Pullman will play the President of the United States and father to The Book of Mormon’s Josh Gad in the new NBC pilot 1600 Penn, according to EW.com. As prev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMLove Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, could still make its way to Broadway, the composer told Reuters. “I think it …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMDan Daily, Kim Martin-Cotten and Andrew May will seek out A Moon for the Misbegotten beginning March 6 Off-Broadway for the Pearl Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMSinger-actress will reprise her role as Muzzy.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:15PMNEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits Watts and Willowbrook to check on arts projects there funded by his agency. What does he think of Watts Towers? 'Wow.'NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman visits …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:09PMHere’s our photo of the week from our friends at Playbill Online. It’s the cast of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR performing at the secret performance at The Crypt at The Church of the…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:08PMThe Broadway community mourns the loss of Theodore Mann, who passed away today. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory tonight, February 24th, at exactly …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMTheatre Movement Bazaar has previously treated Chekhov's plays as components within its highly choreographed productions,. But now it's tackling a Chekhov short story, Ward 6, in partnership…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThe moment Barack Obama locked up the Democratic nomination during the 2008 presidential campaign, British playwright Roy Williams — long acclaimed in the U.K. for his streetwise dramas of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:00PMIn 1936, Martha Graham received a letter from the Third Reich, inviting her to participate in the Summer Olympics in Berlin. In response, the dancer and choreographer scribbled on the page: …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:00PMWith all the success Quebec filmmakers are having adapting French-Canadian plays, why isnt the same trend happening in English Canada?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
Tony Award-winning producer and director Theodore Mann died on Friday, February 24 at age 87. All Broadway marquees will be dimmed at 8pm in his honor.
In 1951, Mann co-founded Circle in Sq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:59PMIn Gino DiIorio's Reparation the history and status of race relations in the United States is presented in order to promulgate a heartfelt and harshly critical view of our country and those …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:53PMWhat a pleasure it is to be able to recommend without reservation the Centenary Stage Company's hilarious and expert production of "The Ladies Man."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:53PMThe revamped Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
much-buzzed-about Phantom of the Opera sequel will
premiere in U.S. movie theatres Feb. 28, with an encore screening on
March 7…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThe marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed Feb. 24 at 8 PM for one minute in memory of award-winning producer-director Theodore Mann, who died Feb. 24 following a brief ill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThe popular revival of Porgy and Bess will get a two-disc cast recording from PS Classics. The cast led by Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, and David Alan Grier will record the classic Gersh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMThe Opera Orchestra of New York's concert performance of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" scheduled for March 7 at Avery Fisher Hall because of a "loss of funding."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PMTheodore Mann, who, as the co-founder of Circle in the Square Theatre, was one of the foremost figures in the birth of the Off-Broadway theatre movement, died Feb. 24 following a brief illne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will launch its third annual "Lend Us Your Ears" play reading series on Monday, March 12 at 7pm with David Blixt's new play Eve of Ides. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PMWhen Jamie Masada opened the now-famous comedy club Laugh Factory in Los Angeles in 1979, the first comic to appear was Richard Pryor. The oft-told story goes that when Masada tried to pay P…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PMHenry V: Battle Flags | Behind the Scenes | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Properties assistant Shirley Lee works under a mountain of fabric as she assembles the giant French and English fl…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:32PMAndrea Marcovicci will offer workshop presentations of her new show, Smile, at The Gardenia in West Hollywood, March 15-17.
Shelly Markham will serve as musical director and accompanist. He…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PMThe Players Club will host a conversation with Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell, who will recount a life upon the stage, Feb. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMMichael Esper will join the previously reported Steven Pasquale in the NBC pilot, Do No Harm, according to Deadline.com.
The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (Pas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMLance Baker will offer a one-night-only performance of Mike Daisey's monologue, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs on Monday, March 5 at 8pm at A Red Orchid Theatre. The event wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMThe biggest night in Hollywood is coming up this weekend, and nine well-deserved movies are up for 'Best Picture' on Oscar Suday. Tune in on February 26 at 7pm on ABC to find out which film …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMPeter Aspden observes how contemporary art's reliance on the funny resonates comedy's increased relevance today
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:03PMPeter Aspden observes how contemporary art’s reliance on the funny resonates comedy’s increased relevance today
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:03PMDeclan Donnellan manages the topic of incest brilliantly, giving the whole piece a modern, gothic spin, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:01PMDeclan Donnellan manages the topic of incest brilliantly, giving the whole piece a modern, gothic spin, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:01PMElsa Rovayo fuses rock and flamenco singing and intersperses her performance with bursts of frenzied dancing, writes Julia Sutherland
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:01PMElsa Rovayo fuses rock and flamenco singing and intersperses her performance with bursts of frenzied dancing, writes Julia Sutherland
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:01PMArthur Miller is another playwright who, had he been alive today, would have enthusiastically joined the three British playwrights lamenting the decrease in risk-taking in British subsidised…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMActors from three St. Louis troupes — Mustard Seed, Upstream and Imaginary Theatre Co. — will present scenes from plays that deal with race at "Conversations…Racism," a discussion …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:00PM
Zoe from Sesame Street stopped by the Broadway Dance Center on Thursday, February 23 to take a dance class with 15 children from a Rockville Centre dance studio. The character is in town per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMTony Yazbeck will return to Chicago as Billy Flynn beginning March 5 at the Ambassador Theatre. He is replacing Marco Zunino, who plays his final performance March 4.
Yazbeck…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMCasting has been announced for the world premiere of First Date, a new musical about a couple on a blind date, which will debut in a co-production between the 5th Avenue Theatre and Seattle&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMBrent Barrett, Jenn Harris and the entire cast of Silence! The Musical celebrated that show's original cast recording Feb. 23 at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMHe was managing director of the theater for 17 years.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:28PMBrandt Johnson's Just Sex, which played a sold-out run at Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival earlier this season, will return to Theater for the New City for a limited Off-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMMatthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara are only a month away from headlining Nice Work if You Can Get It at the Imperial Theatre, and we’ve got an exclusive video with the creative t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMTony Yazbeck will return to the role of Billy Flynn in the long-running Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb's Chicago beginning March 5 at the Ambassador Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMTony Yazbeck will return to the role of Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of Chicago, beginning with the Monday, March 5 performance at the Ambassador Theatre. He replaces Marco Zunino,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMMost of the time the press releases I receive can also be located somewhere online, but some of the smaller theaters that send info to American Theatre aren't quite at that level of informat…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:22PMOn Monday, March 5, 2012, the acclaimed revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO will welcome back Tony Yazbeck to the role of that silver-tongued prince of the courtoom, Billy Flyn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMThe bestselling children's book "Matilda" by Roald Dahl is now a smash hit musical in London's West End and sources say audiences can expect to see a Broadway run next season.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:18PMWho’s that lady? You mean the blonde bombshell with the dress cut to there currently bringing the house down at the Laurie Beechman Theatre? That lovely lady is the one and only Tawny …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMLondon theatre's drive to raise £7m to build a new Jacobean stage is boosted by anonymous donorShakespeare's Globe has been given £1.5m by an anonymous donor to help its efforts to build a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:17PMTony Award nominee Josh Gad will be joined by Brittany Snow in the comedy pilot 1600 Penn, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series, which Gad will executive produce with former Pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMIf you’ve been following my blog since 2007, you know how I love my Oscars – in the same way that the Manning brothers love Superbowl rings, Paula Deen loves lard, Elton John lov…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 03:15PMHustling was the name of the game on February 21 at We Love Soaps' 3rd Annual Indie Soap Awards at New World Stages ! Broadway vet Sebastian LaCause snapped up the Best Actor in a Drama …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMAcademy Awards 2012 - Cirque du Soleil Performance and Oscar Predictions from Joseph Birdsong
The 84th Academy Awards are Sunday, February 26th, on ABC! Billy Crystal will host, and Cirqu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:09PMLove Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, will arrive in movie theatres on February 28, and according to Andrew Lloyd Webber, all hope might not be lost for bringing the new m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMMichael Esper, who can currently be seen in the Playwrights Horizons production of Assistance, has joined the cast of the upcoming NBC pilot "Do Not Harm," according to Deadline.co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMThere have been quite a few musicals over the years that just kind of break your heart. Usually, these shows sound great on their cast recordings and make you wonder how, despite such terrif…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 03:03PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Feb. 13-19, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMIf Geoffrey Nauffts’ funny and multi-layered play, Next Fall, were a sermon its text would be taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; a…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PM
The actor co-writes and stars in a bold interpretation of Homer — You could argue that any performance is a translation—a transference of words on a page to the living dimensions…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:56PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will star in the previously announced musical adaptation of the 2002 film Far From Heaven at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directed by Mi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMGhost the Musical, beginning previews March 15th with the opening date set for April 23rd, is directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus God of Carnage, The Norman Conquests, Boeing-Boein…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMAbbey Lewis finds out more about Fourth Monkey's new rep season and unique training programme for young performers.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:51PMDirected by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson, End of the Rainbow will begin performances on Monday, March 19, 2012 at the Belasco Theatre, with an opening night now set for Monday, April…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMDianne Wiest and John Cusack in the film version of Bullets Over Broadway Producers Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson are proud to announce that the world premiere production of BULLETS O…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:48PMAccording to TVLine.com, actress Brittany Snow will be joining the cast of the upcoming NBC comedy 1600 PENN. Book of Mormon's Josh Gad will star and produce the project.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMSan Jose Repertory Theatre will present Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, March 22-April 15. Rick Lombardo will direct.
In God of Carnage, two sets of parents try to deal with the afterm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMMichael Esper will join the cast of the NBC medical drama pilot Do No Harm as Dr. Alex Jordan, according to Deadline.com. Written by David Schulner, the drama also stars previously announced…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PMThis week - it's all about the newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of CARRIE, which will officially open on March 1, 2012 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off-Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMA work by Roy Lichtenstein is going on the auction block in New York City. The presale estimate is up to $40 million.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:38PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Idina Menzel's new PBS concert special, Idina Menzel Live Barefoot at the Symphony, will air beginning March 3. In the video below, Menzel chats with Ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE will open April 22, with previews beginning April 3 for the revival at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMLast November we wrote about a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association Meeting and why, as independent theatre artists, it was important for you to attend. On Monday, February 27th, the CA…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:33PMTerry Burrell offers a girlish, often defiant Ethel Waters in the one-woman "Ethel!" at Walnut Street Theatre's third-stage Independence Studio. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro review…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:32PMDiana Leblanc steered a legendary version of Eugene ONeills tragic family drama at Stratford, and while her new production is often wrenching, it does sometimes suffer by compari…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMThe American Repertory Theater will hold a memorial service May 14 for veteran Boston theatre director David Wheeler, who died Jan. 3 at the age of 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMSPARKLE will be released in theaters on August 24th by Sony Pictures, starring Jordin Sparks, Derek Luke, Mike Epps, Carmen ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Omari Hardwick, Cee-Lo Green, and the now lat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMThe stars of Jersey Boys were officially welcomed to their new home at Paris Las Vegas on Thursday, February 23.
The musical, which will begin performances at the venue on March 6, tells th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMThe second North American tour of Wicked has announced that Paul Kreppel will assume the role of The Wizard, beginning March 7 in Norfolk, VA.
Wicked, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PM
THE ACTIVE THEATER PRESENTS
THE NEW YORK REVIVAL OF
THE VIOLET HOUR
BY RICHARD GREENBERG
OPENING MONDAY, MARCH 12TH
AT THE WORKSHOP THEATER
PREVIEWS BEGIN FRIDAY, MARCH 9T…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 02:16PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Opera Orchestra of New York has canceled its March 7 concert performance of Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" with Placido Domingo after a funder withdrew a $250,000 pledge…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:15PMToronto Dance Theatre’s Four at the Winch Quebec features choreography by Estelle Clareton, Lina Cruz, Deborah Dunn and Jean-Sebastien Lourdais.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:14PMAccording to the New York Times, Playwrights Horizons will present FAR FROM HEAVEN, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg Take M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMAs first reported on Deadline.com, actor Michael Esper has joined the cast of the upcoming NBCUniversal medical drama DO NO HARM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMJekylle & Hyde star Linda Eder is set to return to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency with her solo show Songbirds. The concert will play the popular nightspot March 13 through 17.
…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMThe company of the second North American tour of the hit Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked will welcome Paul Kreppel as The Wizard beginning March 7 in Norfolk, VA, at Chrysler …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite some savage reviews when Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to "Phantom of the Opera" opened in London, the British composer believes that "Love Never Dies" will still…
SOURCE: Reuters at 01:59PMNow it can be told -- the story of an incident from veteran raconteur Burke Byrnes' youth in the '50s that he felt he couldn't tell in public as long as his father was alive. His father di…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:58PMWorking In The Theatre preview (Featured Performers)
The point at which they knew they wanted to act was one of the first things discussed in our conversation with David Alan Grier, Judith …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:58PMTony Award winners Michael Mayer and Bartlett Sher will direct productions during the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season, which will include seven new productions and 21 revivals. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMThe 84th Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday, February 26, and we want to see your picks. Take our survey and see how your selections match up with the winners after the show. As a bonus…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:54PMMixed Blood Theatre is set to present a new bilingual production of Minnecanos by Joe Minjares, March 15-24 at the Parkway Theater. Direction and Spanish translations will be by Ra&uacu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMUpdated casting has been announced for the previously reported Broadway Remembers Whitney concert, to be held at Joe's Pub on Monday, February 27 at 9:30pm.
The event will feature perf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMFeinstein's at Loews Regency will continue its WinterSpring 2012 season with the return of Linda Eder in her new show Songbirds, which pays tribute to the great ladies of music including Len…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMNancy Palk, Joseph Ziegler, Evan Buliung and Gregory Prest star in Soulpepper's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Diana Leblanc.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:49PMThe Jackie Robinson Foundation JRF has announced the presenters of the 2012 ROBIE Awards for its Annual Awards Dinner on Monday, March 5 at 630p.m. at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. This …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMTracie Bennett will embody one of the most iconic and tragic American stars, Judy Garland, in the new Broadway play End of the Rainbow. Peter Quilter’s chilling look at the final month…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMJan Ravens hosted Almeida Up Close, the Almeida Theatre's fundraising gala at One Mayfair, on February 23.
Performers included Daniel Evans, Josie Lawrence, Jenny Jules, Jonathan Pryce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMThe most original piece of theater I have seen in quite some time . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 01:41PMThe company of the second North American tour of WICKED welcomes Paul Kreppel as The Wizard on Wednesday, March 7 in Norfolk, VA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMYoung Vic, LondonWhen Angus Jackson's fine production of Edward Bond's bony masterpiece was first seen in Chichester two years ago, a respected colleague attacked the author for his assumpti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMA special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, which benefited The Actors Fund, played The Town Hall in Manhattan Feb. 23 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, featuring Tony Award nominees Christian Borle and Celia Keenan-Bolger, which will begin Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, featuring Tony Award nominees Christian Borle and Celia Keenan-Bolger, which will begin Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMCulture Clash is back with American Night
The nation's premiere Chicano-Latino performance troupe, Culture Clash is like a mambo-infused Marx Brothers and this latest extravaganza is a …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:17PMAccording to InTouch, Britney Spears wants a recurring role on NBC's SMASH. A friend of Britney's revealed that Shes met with producers, and theyre looking for the appropriate role for her.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMPS Classics will record a two-disc, new Broadway Cast Album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on March 12 & 13.
Currently running at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, the Broadway prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMManhattan Theatre Club Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director Barry Grove, Executive Producer Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Producer today announced the lineup for this springs Ernst C. Stiefel 77 Rea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMBroadway Remembers Whitney, a benefit concert honoring one of the greatest icons and voices of our generation, will take place on Monday, February 27th at Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette Street betw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMNick Jonas joined Kathie Lee and Hoda on the Today Show yesterday to talk about his upcoming appearance on the new series Smash as well as his role as J. Pierrepont Finch in How To Succeed I…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:00PMThe American surrealists take-no-prisoners style of humour is outrageously tactless but brilliantly so
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00PM
The scientific achievements of Galileo Galilei speak for themselves, and the artistic achievements of off-Broadway’s Galileo, which opened February 24 at Classic Stage Company, are jus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMBroadway's own big awards show may not be until June, but that doesn't mean stars of the Great White Way won't be tuning into the Academy Awards on February 26 to see who takes h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMAs previously reported, Tony Award winner Betty Buckley took to Twitter to respond to "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson when he dismissed a contestant for sounding "too Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PMClassic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, opened Feb. 23 following previews fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMCheck out our behind the scenes interview with show's ensemble cast members Jess LeProtto, Evan Kasprzak, Thayne Jasperson and Ryan Steele!
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:53PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, stage veterans Scott Foley and Becki Newton are set to co-star in the Fox comedy pilot, THE GOODWIN GAMES.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMGarrick, London: Barmy Britain is the usual Horrible Histories blend of historical facts (you could be hanged for 160 different crimes in the 17th century and a total of 50,000 people were …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMMauckingbird Theatre Company has announced casting for Jon Marans' The Tempermentals, to play April 11-29 at the Skybox at The Adrienne Theatre. Mauckingbird artistic director Peter Re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will star as a suburban housewife whose life unravels in the new musical Far From Heaven, which will receive a developmental staging this summe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMThese days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message board…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced the lineup for its Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series, which will commence on Monday, March 12 and continue on consecutive Mondays through A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMThe 84th annual Academy Awards are on February 26, and while it’s always a treat to see who walks away with a golden statue, this year’s awards are especially exciting because se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMDorian Bergen, Agapi Stassinopoulos: Photo: Barry GordinSaturday, February 25, 2012 ACA Galleries in association with The NY Open Center hosted an inspiring talk with author Agapi Stassinopo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:38PMCasting director Richard Evans offers invaluable advice on how to maximise your impact and success before, during and after participating in a showcase
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMStephanie Rothenberg will temporarily step into the role of Rosemary in the Tony-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying beginning Feb. 28, according to the act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMAll the excitement of the Broadway stage was broadcast into viewers' homes last night, as Broadway Week continued on LATE NIGHT WITH Jimmy Fallon 1235 a.m. ET on NBC. Last night, Fallon feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMMillie Williams Bell, who died on January 2, 2012, in Skegness, Lincolnshire, at the age of 97 was a veteran circus star and notable bareback rider in the great travelling circuses of the wo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMStephanie Rothenberg will temporarily step into the role of Rosemary in the Tony-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying beginning Feb. 28, according to the act…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMThere’s a hefty list of Broadway plays this season and the Tony Awards are going to be a tight race. Acclaimed black comedy “The Lyons” is intent of making that race even difficult. Pr…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:32PMThe Opera Orchestra of New York has canceled the previously reported March 7 opera-in-concert presentation of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, which was to have starred Placido Domingo in the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMWoody Allen is in the process of adapting his 1994 movie "Bullets over Broadway" for the musical stage, aiming for a New York opening in 2013.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PMBroadway learned of an unexpected, late edition to the Broadway spring-season play sweepstakes this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMAs Nicolas Kent bids farewell to the Tricycle Theatre after 28 years at the helm, he tells Aleks Sierz about his proudest achievements and his plans for the future.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PMAs I watched Steven Epp and Christopher Bayes' stage adaptation of Moliere's A Doctor in Spite of Himself at Berkeley Repertory Theatre last night, tedious memories of sitting through countl…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:26PMAlthough she acted in theatre for years and never imagined herself as a television actress, Sharon Small talks to Matthew Hemley about finally getting comfortable in front of the camera lens
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that Sara Jean Ford THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA will step into the shoes of Smitty in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. Ford will be replacing Mary …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMLinbury, LondonPlatforms for emerging artists are often required to jettison coherence in favour of choreographic diversity. The stylistic lurches between pieces can leave you a little seasi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMTony Award-winning directors Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) will direct classics in the 2012-13 season of the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMWhen first you enter the theatre and see Adrianne Lobel’s set that is spare and dynamic, and beautifully lit by Justin Townsend, your first thought is, “I hope the play is as good as the…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:07PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S BROADWAY POLLAND IN THIS WEEK'S ROUND OF "HOT AND HOTTER." LOOK TO YOUR LEFT FOR ACCESS TO BOTH!OUT Magazine has come up with its list of t…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMThe people who have taken my Solving for X class. Below is a list of five people who took Solving for X and the amazing work they have done since. I wanted to highlight their accomplishments…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:00PMRebecca HaithcoatSheri SandersInside the Lyric Theatre on La Brea, the compact Sheri Sanders is curled in a chair, squinting her eyes and smiling almost apologetically at the nervous …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMNew Vancouver production held together by director Jonathan Christensons aesthetic vision
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PM
Kristin Chenoweth, on the February 23 airing of the LATE SHOW, revealed her allergy to formaldehyde - the chemical that preserves cadavers - and subsequently, the lips on my eyelids as she s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMTheater veterans Scott Foley and Becki Newton will co-star in the Fox comedy pilot, The Goodwin Games, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Created by Carter Bays, Craig Thomas and Chris Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMWe can look forward to a spring release for the cast recording of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. PS Classics has announced that they will record a two-disc album of the New Broadway Cast R…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:54AMA popular improvised comedy showcases the pain and humor of dating.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:54AMWelcome to THE FRIDAY SIX QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMTony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer Leslie Uggams will reprise her Broadway role of Muzzy in the 2012 Muny premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie, which will play the St. Louis venu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMHappy Friday! I just wanted to share some information about a program I'm sure many of you are familiar with, Audience Rewards. Audience Rewards is the Official Rewards Program of Broadway. …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:50AMThe DVD of the second season of the PBS series Michael Feinstein's American Songbook is available as of today at ShopPBS.org.
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook chronicles Fein…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:36AMSara Jean Ford is set to replace Mary Faber as Smitty in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Ford will assume the role on February 28. Additionally, Ros…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMOn Monday, February 6, the good and the great of the wonderful world of fringe gathered at the Leicester Square Theatre for the Fringe Report Awards. Sadly, John Park, founder of the Fringe …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMIn responding to Beyond the Barricade (Stage Talk, February 16, page 9), I refer readers to my letter West is Wrong (Stage talk, January 26, page 8). As with Samuel West, the writer fails to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMI was heartened to see in Susan Elkin's education blog on 15 February that, through Deutsche Bank's sponsorship of the Globe's Education Department, 20,000 school pupils across the whole of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMMany residents of Stratford upon Avon feel that the Courtyard Theatre, (known as the Rusty Shed) should now be dismantled because they see it as nothing more than an embarrassing eyesore.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMPerhaps if David J Savage used a dictionary of British English, as opposed to the American Webster's, he would find a more accurately descriptive definition of "fulsome" as overdone, cloying…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMTimes are changing. Sutton Foster is officially getting a television series. Since her show "Bunheads" has been picked up, Foster will be departing the ocean liner at the Stephen Sondheim Th…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:29AMWhat are we missing out on by not having more female voices and perspectives on our stages? As we make our way to the culminating event in Forum Theatre’s current Female Voices Festiva…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:28AMThe Vision 20 years ago, in January of 1992, Broadway was a different place Times Square and the environs were dangerous and down at the heels, the World Wide Web had just launched, and the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMBoradway favorite Kritin Chenoweth will make an appearance on 'Good Morning America' on February 29. Tune in to ABC at 7am to check out her interview.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMSutton Foster and the cast of Anything Goes brought the salty ocean breezes of the S.S. American to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on February 23. The dancing crew of the hit Cole Porter reviv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMThis week, “Theater Talk” welcomes award-winning bookwriter and his SILENCE! THE MUSICAL stars, David Garrison and Jenn Harris. Along with hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, they fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMConcerns reported in The Stage about the inadequate prominence of named performers on TV credits (Stage Talk, February 16 and 23, page 8), together with suggested reforms of the structures o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMBroadway Week continues on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and William Shatner made the trek from the Music Box Theatre to chat about his one-man show, Shatner’s World: We Just Live …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMACT - A Contemporary Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre have announced casting for their co-production of Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary, and Michael Weiner's First Date, to run March 10…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AMBAMCinematek will present a special screening of Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, adapted from the play by Terrence Rattigan, on March 15 as part of a retrospective of the film direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow will collaborate on a song to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. The number will be performed at a concert celebrating the monarch&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMOk, guys, I got a twitters page. I went to my in-law's last night, and she described to me exactly what twitter was, and I decided that I finally understand exactly how it works. https://twi…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:15AMThe award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS recently re-opened at the Paris Las Vegas hotel after concluding its run at the Palazzo Las Vegas at the end of 2011. BroadwayWorld brings you the boys'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMTony Award winner Andrew Lloyd Webber and singer-songwriter Gary Barlow announced that they are collaborating to compose a special song for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMThe Book of Mormon’s leading missionaries Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during the show's Broadway Week to preach the good word to the a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AMAllen is adapting his 1994 movie for the stage, Matilda wins the public vote at the Whatsonstage awards, and Chortle's female-unfriendly comedy awards shortlist is no laughing matterScreen t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM(Christine Toy Johnson, Pun Bandhu and Angel Desai at the roundtable. Photo: Bruce Alan Johnson) Where are all the Asians? That seemed to be the question at hand last Monday, Feb. 13, during…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:05AMFull casting has been announced for the Broadway premiere of Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher, to begin previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on March 28 in anticipation of an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMHoward Kissel was a familiar face on the New York theater scene for well over thirty years. Best remembered as...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AMToday in 1955, Silk Stockings opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 478 performances. Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMAccording to their website, Atlantic Productuctions will present the Asian premiere of Disney's Aladdin. The show will open at Manila's Meralco Theatre in November 2012. Casting has not yet …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMOne month ago, almost to the day, several hundred passionate people converged on New World Stages for the first ever TEDxBroadway conference. It was a very exciting day, with great speakers …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2242012.
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The producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, a new play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice Jersey Boys, have announced that performances through April 29th are 99 orchestra and front mezzanine …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMThere on the night but didn't see a programme seller? Or did you miss the show and want a little something from the night. Here's a chance to get a copy of the souvenir programme from our ve…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:59AMAndrew Rannells, Josh Gad, Sutton Foster, David Alan Grier and other theatre folk have taken part in Broadway Week on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMCheck out what’s happening in the #NEWPLAY World: Newplay.us is a site driven by the #NEWPLAY Community on Twitter. Everyday people from all around post opportunities and news in the #NEW…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:55AMThe New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players will present Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience on Sunday, March 11 at 5pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
The story focuses on Pat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMKristin Chenoweth sure is a trooper. On a recent media blitz in advance of her new show GCB’s March 4 premiere, the bubbly Tony winner stopped by Late Show with David Letterman, d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMIn Leeds one evening in the late 1960s, I went to the City Varieties. Frank Carson (obituary, 24 February) was compering a show called Stars and Strips, valiantly warming up a first house of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMMTV has decided not to pick up the new animated comedy Good Vibes, starring The Book of Mormon’s Josh Gad, for a second season, according to Deadline.com. MTV honchos “felt that …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMIn an exclusive interview with TVGuide.com, Diana DeGarmo and boyfriend Ace Young have revealed that they will be bringing their music to an episode of the CBS daytime drama THE YOUNG AND TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMThe German composer and director will perform a musical response to Joseph Conrad's 1890 journal at A Room for London from 6pm–6.45pm on Sunday 26 February 2012. Watch the live stream here…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AMBroadway veteran Jenn Gambatese will appear in Predictable Heart: The Music of Justin Rugg at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre on Thursday, March 1 at 9:30pm.
The show, presented by Pantochino P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:43AMThe desire to soar inspires a new collection of dances.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:41AMBrent Barrett, Jenn Harris and the entire cast of SILENCE The Musical took to the stage at the Upper East Side Barnes amp Noble yesterday, February 23rd at 5 PM to perform selections from th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMCountry star Reba McEntire and Tony Award winner Lily Tomlin will star in the ABC half-hour pilot "Malibu Country," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMImagination Stage has released an ebook version of their currently running hip-hop musical P. Nokio, according to DC Theatre Scene.
Written by Psalmayene, adapted for the page by A.M. Bilye…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMOn Monday, April 30, The New York Pops marks its 29th birthday with a grand gala evening titled Journey On honoring Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMWhy do they keep crossing the border? Slide projections of hate-graffiti flash by on a back wall screen: “We Are Against Immigrants,” “Get out, Nicaraguans,” “I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMSchool #12: University of Chicago Charter School, Woodlawn Campus Chicago, IL Reported by: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher February 3, 2012 This …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:26AMTalk show host Stephen Colbert showed off his singing skills on Thursday's episode of "The Colbert Report" as he teamed with tenor Plácido Domingo for a rendition of one of the most familia…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:24AMMusical theatre legend Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed today that he is thinking about basing his next musical project on the Profumo affair, which went down almost 50 years ago.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMVoice casting has been announced for Turbo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. David Soren will direct the project, which he has co-written with Robert Siegel and Darren Lemke.
The film …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMCast members from Silence! The Musical celebrated the release of the production's Original Cast Recording with a concert and album signing at the 86th Street Barnes and Noble on Thursda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow are working together to compose a song to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMThe Tony-winning performer explains why she's angry about the way the show's judges denigrate certain voices as "too Broadway."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMFive 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 roles…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:10AMToday is the birthday of The Great Lafayette (Siegmund Neuberger, 1872-1911) one of vaudeville’s few literal martyrs. He moved to the U.S. from his native Munich at age 19 and began…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:10AMGet ready, Phantom of the Opera fans: The super-lavish Australian production of Love Never Dies will debut at movie theaters across America on February 28 and March 7 in screenings sponsored…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMBroadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth is currently in Kanas City for a special concert performance, and while she was in town she chatted with the Kansas City Star about the future of Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMFind some room on the proverbial couch because we’ve got some casting news to report: Ready to make your Broadway debut? The sashaying folks at Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Ticke…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:06AMManhattan Theatre Clubs Broadway production of WIT will be featured this weekend on Theater Talk, airing late tonight at 130 AM on WNETChannel 13, and CBS2 News Sunday, airing Sunday at appr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMMary Louise Parker and James Woods have been cast in the independent film Jamesy Boy, according to The Hollywood Reporter Trevor White will direct the project, which is using a script he co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMMoon on a Rainbow Shawl - interview
Port of Spain, Trinidad 1947.
Set as returning troops from the Second World War fill the town with their raucous celebrations, Errol John's Moon on …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:00AMWoody Allen will adapt his 1994 film “Bullets Over Broadway” for the stage, and the production likely will appear on Broadway in 2013. Allen co-wrote the original script with Douglas McG…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AMThe Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will be honored at The New York Pops gala, entitled Journey On, Monday, April 30. The event wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMThe annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMWhat some good news? Here it is: 1. For the first time in modern history, an individual artist can put their art directly into the hands of an audience. The author, the painter, the musician…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:55AMOn hand to celebrate Broadway with Fallon were 'Book of Mormon's Tony-nominated actors Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad as well as William Shatner, currently starring in Shatner's World We Just …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMManhattan Theatre Club’s acclaimed Broadway production of WIT will be featured this weekend on “Theater Talk” (airing late tonight at 1:30 AM on WNET/Channel 13) and “CBS2 News Sunda…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 09:54AMAaron Landsman
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Current Town: Towns actually. I live part time in Urbana, IL, while my wife Johanna Meyer is in grad school, and part time in Brooklyn,…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:53AMAtlantis Productions, through a special licensing arrangement with Music Theatre International, will stage the Asian premiere of Disney's Aladdin. Performances will begin in November at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMRecession Art Shows will present a special one-night-only benefit performance event, The Chorus Boy Chronicles, March 7 at 8 PM at RAC|Recession Art at CULTUREfix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMThe curtain is going up on the Public Theater's world premiere of The Total Bent, a new musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange) which begins performances on February 24. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:35AMThere are one-person shows galore in Manchester, a new Streetcar on the loose in Liverpool, and two chances to see playwright Dennis Kelly at different ends of the countryNorthThe Fuel seaso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMWhen creating a modern version of a well loved classic such as Romeo and Juliet, theatre companies can easily show themselves up by trying too hard to be “down with the kids”. Lu…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:30AMOn Thursday, February 23, the Classic Stage Company production of Galileo opened its limited run, which has been extended to February 18.
Opening night guests included Jack Cummings III, An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMSky Arts has announced the writers and initial casting for Playhouse Presents, a new series of comedies and dramas, according to published reports. The initiative is an extension of the cha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMJudges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler revealed their remaining choices for the semifinalists for the current season of "American Idol" on the Feb. 23 broadcast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMThe 2010 Chichester Festival revival of Edward Bond’s 1973 play Bingo transferred last night (23 February 2012, previews from 16 February) to the Young Vic.
Directed by Angus Jackson, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:12AMAt the Brick Theater, that is! Why it’s just the Brick’s latest zany-themed indie theatre festival comin’ your way in a couple of months, that’s all! To find out how …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:11AMTown Hall played host to the second annual presentation of The Best of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, on Thursday, February 23.
The nearly three-hour concert featured performances by Janis S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMRepublican firebrand Newt Gingrich is known for his dramatic flourishes, whether the Contract with America from 1994 or his more recent proposal to colonize the Moon. During this primary s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMThis week the all-male troupe are in Perth, where unscripted food poisoning in the middle of Henry V calls for some wild improvisation – and an emergency run to A&EHere in Perth, Australia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMGet priority access to BILLY ELLIOT in Boston Buy tickets today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04AMThe Brick, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: Lawson’s skill as both a comedian and a storyteller makes his tales of searching for sexually arousing material in bot…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:03AM“Galileo,” a play by Bertolt Brecht that has rarely been seen in the United States, opened this week Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company and starred Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:00AMKristin Chenoweth was neither the first nor the last actress to thank her parents for driving her to all those dance classes when she collected her 1999 Tony Award.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 09:00AM
Lily Tomlin will join the previously announced Reba McEntire in ABC's half-hour pilot Malibu Country, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The show centers on a woman (McEntire) who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMA meditation on the art of Mark Rothko, ranging from memories of a mystical encounter with his art to thoughts on the recent SpeakEasy Stage production of "Red," which is based on life of th…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMGreenwich Playhouse, London: As the Galleon Theatre Company vacates Greenwich Playhouse after 17 years as the resident company at the venue it established, it chooses The Duchess of Malfi as…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMI am usually indifferent to the annual Oscar charades: I find the presentation grating and I’ve generally not seen any of the films, and that really doesn’t leave much to sink on…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:50AMLast night, Fallon featured Roundabout Theatre Company's 2011 Tony Award winning musical Anything Goes. Sutton Foster took the Late Night stage to sing a rousing selection from this saucy pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:50AMDavid Eldridge's new play In Basildon opened at the Royal Court this week (22 February 2012, previews from 16 February).
Directed by artistic director Dominic Cooke, the play follows the fin…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:31AMWith their announcement today, Imagination Stage has taken a creative leap from the stage to the page. P. Nokio, the popular hip-hop musical playing at Imagination Stage, is now available …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AMYour correspondent likes to think he has a heart that can be touched. The list of Disney movies at which I’ve cried, now that I tally it up, is long indeed, and I was moved to tears in a c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:26AMps classics today announced that they will be presenting the New Broadway Cast Recording of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, to be released May 8. The recording will take place on March 12 and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow today announced that they are working together to compose a special song to celebrate The Queens Diamond Jubilee, which will feature artists and contribut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMTabard, London: Theatre companies are always being encouraged to find corporate partners. The National Theatre has Travelex and the Royal Opera House has Deloitte among others. But it's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMJoshua Henry opened his solo concert at the Triad Theater on February 20 singing the words “I’m livin’ my life like it’s golden.” The chorus to Jill Scott’s hit certainly describ…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 08:04AMThe famed Chicago theater director discusses his new work, The Strange and Terrible True Tale of Pinocchio (the Wooden Boy) As Told By Frankenstein's Monster (the Wretched Creature).
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Arts Council England is to incorporate eco-friendly clauses into its funding agreements with national portfolio organisations, making it the first arts funding body in the world to have envi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMIn Frigid New York's "Little Lady," movement artist Sandrine Lafond conjures a creature that is too strange to like but too expertly rendered to dismiss.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:47AMDavid Stallings' "The Stranger to Kindess," part of Frigid New York, employs too many clichés in its depiction of the loneliness of the urban jungle.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:44AMIn Ed Malin's quirky and earthy "Judge, Yuri & Executioner," part of Frigid New York, Mac Rogers plays a suicidal masochist taking stock of his life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:41AMTheatre Arlo's "Man Saved by Condiments!" in Frigid New York marks the NYC playwriting debut of Mary Jo Pehl of "Mystery Science Theater 3000."
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:39AMRoyal Albert Hall, London: It's easy to be wary of Raymond Gubbay's 'in the round' operas at the Royal Albert Hall. The singers are miked (as is the orchestra), each show…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMYoung Vic, London: "I'm stupefied by the suffering I've seen," cries Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare, returning to one of his favourite roles in a six-week run at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMFour New Yorkers bounce in and out of bed in Elephant Run District's "Rabbit Island," Chris Harcum's raucous comedy in the Frigid New York festival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:26AMNow This is a PSA I Can Applaud Be from RingSide Creative on Vimeo.I'm personally in favor of PSA's that avoid the easy road of using shame to make a point.****Eric Cantor is Excellent …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMWashington Savoyards announces auditions for the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical revue A Grand Night for Singing. Directed by Kurt Boehm. This is an open call, Non-Equity. All performers …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:11AMAlthough it doesn't officially open to press until tonight, the new West End production of Hay Fever starring Lindsay Duncan as the irrepressible Judith Bliss held its gala opening last nigh…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:06AMI once received a very nice card from an actor who said that my trashing of his performance had made him laugh out loud.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:01AM
Stephanie J. Block will assume the role of Reno Sweeney in Broadway's Anything Goes on March 15. She replaces Sutton Foster, who will play her final performance on March 11.
Block pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53AMStephanie J. Block will assume the role of Reno Sweeney in Broadway's Anything Goes on March 15. She replaces Sutton Foster, who will play her final performance on March 11.
Block pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53AMIncoming West Yorkshire Playhouse artistic director James Brining has said that he wants to make "world class local" work at the venue, reflecting the theatre's home in Leeds but with potent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMBryn Mawr College will host a workshop by a gay performance artist whose program was canceled by Villanova University this week, officials said Thursday.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:46AMAre critics at sea with O'Neill's "Early Plays"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 05:46AMSlater, five other actors, and director Madi Distefano will be pulling an all-nighter beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at Plays & Players Theatre in Center City. There, they will stage 24 performa…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:43AMJustin Timberlake and fiancée Jessica Biel were spotted taking in the Broadway show “The Road to Mecca” Wednesday night. They cheered pal Carla Gugino — who starred in “New Year’s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:32AMSeeking burlesque performers and actors/variety performers who can do burlesque! 4&9 Productions is seeking 3 female or female-presenting principal burlesque performers for our 2012 Ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:29AMIlona in She Loves Me certainly got a great deal out of her trip to the library. But she has nothing on Ben West. The 29-year-old wunderkind who started Unsung Musicals Company can often be …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:20AMPolished performances rule the stage and the circus ring, but human fraility is just as gripping – and more moving – to watchTake a look at this video from Cirque du Soleil's Alegria.It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:19AMBroadway's Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, comes to THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM
Joshua Henry, "Say" by John Mayer
Joshua Henry sings "Say" by John Mayer at his solo concert at The Triad. February 20, 2012.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:50AMUK Shakespearean company Propeller is an odd beast. Under the artistic direction of Edward Hall, its mission is to refresh Shakespeare using physical theatre. With this goes an attempt to re…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 12:24AMFive Reasons Why We're Stopping The Friday FiveYour worst nightmare has come true. The gates of hell have swung open and flaming horrors scream through your mind, devouring your happiness, y…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMDirector / Dramaturg New York, New York USA I grew up in England. My primary school Head Mistress insisted I have Speech and Drama lessons, when she heard me speaking English with a Spanish-…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIndian dance often is revered for its ornate costumes, highly stylized steps and routines steeped in rich religious references.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AMMy drama column in today's Wall Street Journal is devoted in its entirety to Classic Stage Company's revival of Galileo....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMFor many years now, the Oscars have really strived for national and international diversity. And if you wanted diversity at the movies in 2011, you got it in spaces. The noms speak loudly fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM"Small-town people manage to endure the inexorable proximity of their lives only by deceiving themselves into thinking that nobody knows...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMDavid Leveaux, Gabe McKinley and the cast of the world premiere of CQ/CX, inspired by the plagiarism and fiction scandal that rocked the New York Times, talk about the fact, fiction and face…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe company of the first North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked welcomes Alli Mauzey as Glinda and Andy Kelso as Fiyero beginning Feb. 24 in Tempe, AZ.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe live film of the Tony Award-winning rock musical Memphis, featuring the original Broadway cast led by Tony Award nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover, airs Feb. 24 on PBS' "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPassing Strange collaborators Stew and Heidi Rodewald return to the Public Theater with their latest music theatre piece The Total Bent, which begins performances Feb. 24 Off-Broadway as par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 84th Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and Playbill.com is taking a look back at some special musical moments from ceremonies past.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPS Classics will record a two-disc cast album of the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Norm Lewis and Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, in mid-March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMentalist Marc Salem is back in New York City after a long time away; his new show Mind Over Manhattan runs just three more Saturdays at the Society for Ethical Culture near Lincoln Center. …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMMoe Rosen—Canadian comic, award-winning author of "Noam Chomsky is an Asshole," and transplant to New York—is here on a mission. He would like to explain (but only once, so the whole aud…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMMan Saved By Condiments by Mary Jo Pehl is based on the true story of a Midwestern man, Steve (Tim Uren), whose car goes off the road, leaving him with a broken hip and forced to wait for re…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe Traveling Musicians produced by 3 Sticks Theater Company follows the reunion tour of the band Rooster, Donkey, Cat and Dog. As the title suggests this show is loosely based on the Grimm'…
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