If you want a history lesson that sings and dances, then you must see the musical reverie 1776 - now playing at Ford’s Theater. As a colonial reenactor, long-time friend of Mount Vernon an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMDo you remember when your parents told you that life is full of disappointment? Well apparently, that was a lesson never taught in the Loman household. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Willy …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMForget Venus in Fur; the real power play walking the boards this year is Red Bull's revival of Jean Genet's savage 1947 drama, The Maids. Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange (Ana Reeder) …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:44PMPhoto/Carol RoseggForget Venus in Fur; the real power play is to be found in Red Bull's revival of Jean Genet's savage 1947 drama, The Maids. Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:42PMLet's get this out of the way at the top. Philip Seymour Hoffman is too young and soft to be the standard-issue iconic Willy Loman chiseled on the Mount Rushmore of American drama. Andrew Ga…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 10:36PMWilly Loman, as a character, has achieved a status something like Hamlet's - if you can play the patriarch of what is now a great American classic, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, then …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:35PMNEW YORK — One must pay attention to a man even as inattentive as the loutishly bewildered Willy Loman, whom Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays so effectively in director Mike Nichols’s ste…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35PMEven those who can only stumble through “The Star-Spangled Banner” are bound to find plenty of tuneful enjoyment in Ford’s Theatre’s dandy new revival of “1776,” a musical that d…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:35PMMessina March Madness: Three Plays by the Award-Winning Author: Shortened Attention Span is proud to present "The Tenement Plays", an evening of one acts by playwright Charles Messina at the…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:25PMYou can practically inhale the aroma of the gladioluses flooding the bedroom where the Red Bull Theater’s production of Jean Genet’s psychodrama “The Maids” is set.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMScott Siegel's Broadway Ballyhoo Stars Elizabeth Stanley, Kevin Earley and More: Tonight, Thursday, March 15th at 11 PM at Feinstein's (Park & 61st St.) Elizabeth Stanley (Merrily We R…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:15PMIt's another week and that means another elimination on American Idol, but tonight's is a little different - the second elimination of this week means that they're down to the top ten, and t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14PMBRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn announces an open call for the BRIC House Fireworks Residency Program, a residency and commissioning program for collaborative teams of artists interested…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:12PMIn “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the director Mike Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11PMDaily Mail reports that the cast of Cameron Mackintosh and Tom Hooper's film version of the musical Les Miserables now includes Bertie Carvel Matilda, Daniel Evans Sunday in the Park with Ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06PMThe air of nostalgia hangs heavy at the Ethel Barrymore, where Mike Nichols’s revival of Death of a Salesman just opened.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMDavid C. Nichols reviews Claire Chafee's "Why We Have A Body," a Rainbow Theatre Company co-presentation with and at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica. A theater review for the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMPhillip Seymour Hoffman gives an award-worthy performance as Willy Loman in Mike Nichols' magnificent revival of Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMRed Bull Theater revives Jean Genet's thrilling masterpiece of power and subversion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
David Cromer, whose revival of “Sweet Bird of Youth” fell apart on Broadway, will direct the Tennessee Williams classic for the Goodman instead.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:48PMIf you saw the harrowing play or film version of Rabbit Hole, you’ll never forget its story of a mother trying to come to grips with the death of her child.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:42PMClosing of Vancouver Playhouse, drop in Stratford Festival attendance have lessons for Toronto companies like Canadian Stage.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:41PM"American Idiot," the Broadway show adapted from Green Day's recording of the same title, opens at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:39PMCourt Theatre’s 2012-2013 season will feature plays by August Wilson, David Hare and David Auburn, a pair of satirical comedies by Moliere, and a holiday season revival of a musical favori…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:36PMJust Dance - SNL Jonah Hill, Madonna Girl Gone Wild, Step Up Revolution, Florence + The Machine
Jonah Hill hosts SNL for the second time, and gets down with "Liza Minelli" (Kriste…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:26PMA revival of Arthur Miller's classic "Death Of A Salesman" debuted on Broadway Thursday night, with Philip Seymour Hoffman taking on the role of Willy Loman in a production helmed …
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:21PM"Becky Shaw" is the kind of play that reminds us why we go to theater in the first place: to see people who are just like us, only much more interesting. They've got our issues — relat…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:16PMOn the Scene: Evita
Just moments after taking their first bow on Broadway, the three stars of Evita joined director Michael Grandage for a press conference fit for the first lady of Argenti…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:14PMTheater personality and PR vet Irene Gandy is the only theatrical press agent who can upstage her actors on opening night. She's been celebrated by multiple organizations for her work on Bro…
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:09PMPace Sings Carner amp Gregor, a showcase of the work of Sam Carner amp Derek Gregor by Pace University students, will be presented at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on March 19 at 7pm. Carner a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMOracle Theatre does a fine job of staging Jean Genet's *The Maids*. The three actors on stage - Rich Logan, John Arthur Lewis and Sasha Grishkov - together seem suspended in individual real…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:00PM
I’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “OOPS! Did you give me an eating disorder?” I’m talking to you, Priscilla Queen…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 05:59PMOnce, the new Broadway musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, is bringing a bittersweet brand of love story to the Jacobs Theatre. Read on to get the story behind the story of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMThere's a hot new trend that artfully intertwines theater and dining, and its curtain is rising in Chicago
Most Chicago actors do not bring their own Bunsen burners to the rehearsal room. B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PMThe fifth annual Sheridan Morley Prize was recently awarded to Stephen Sondheim for his book, Look, I Made a Hat during a ceremony held on March 8th at London’s exclusive Garrick Club.…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:49PM"Call Me Adam" chats with current ABC "Suburgatory" star Alan Tudyk about starring in the Off-Broadway production of Orlando Pabotoy's "That Beautiful Laugh" at La Mama in NYC as well as oth…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 05:48PMActors Willem Dafoe and Donna Murphy, along with screenwriter/novelist Barry Gifford were among the attendees for the opening night of the Off-Broadway play, Teresa's Ecstasy, at the Ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
The touring "American Idiot" kicks ass in every sense.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PMKwame Kwei-Armah is the relatively new Artistic Director at Center Stage in Baltimore. He’s a playwright and an actor. We talk about the challenges of being a playwright and an Artistic Di…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:39PMStage, screen and television star Sarah Jessica Parker was among the attendees at The Ali Forney Center's "Friendraiser" event at Soho's Housing Works Book Store on Wedne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMHer name might not be Rose this time around, but Bernadette Peters’ performance of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” is just as sweet on the March 19 episode of Smash. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:35PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, March 15, 2012 Breaking News David Stathairn to join ‘The Heiress’ on Broadway Associated Press – New York The Broadway production of …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:32PMOn Twitter Watch, wicked wrote Saw this on Tumblr. How nice that KChenoweth replied to a fan's tweet. Have you seen this idinamenzel chenzel
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMI Hate My Teenage Daughter, starring two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly has been canceled, according to Entertainment Weekly. The last episode of the comedy series about t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMAn updated list of participants for the 10th Annual TV Land Awards has been announced. The prizes will be presented, as previously reported, in a ceremony to be hosted by Kelly Ripa and hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMLeap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a flim-flam preacher who blows into a small town, begins previews at the St. James Theatre April 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMRecently, noted DREAMGIRLS composer Henry Krieger was generous enough to take a comprehensive look back at his many accomplishments onstage and onscreen with me, turning back the pages of ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMMarin Theatre Company has announced plans for its upcoming 2012-2013 season.
MTC will kick off the season with a co-production with the Encore Theatre Company of Annie Baker's Circle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMRichard Fleeshman, Colin Ingram, Caissie Levy, Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart, and Matthew Warchus give a sneak peek of Broadway's Ghost the Musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMOn Monday night 80 of you came out to talk about what we would like to see as a part of the cultural plan. I was absolutely thrilled to see so many people there. Julie Burros from the Depart…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:06PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Pat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMReviews of "Torso," by Keri Healey, and "Emerald City," by S.P. Miskowski.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:02PMPace University will present theater veterans Ali Ewoldt and Adam Kantor in Pace Musical Theatre Sings: The Music of Carner & Gregor, on March 19 at 7pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Performers have been announced for Broadway Sings Adele, a concert featuring covers of some of the pop superstar's greatest hits, to be held at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday, April 30 at 7…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMMore details on LA Theatre Works' move to KPFK...Latino Theater keeps planning for an LATC spring despite an eviction notice from the city of LA...Steven Fales brings his Mormon Boy trilogy …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:56PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camoletti's classic farce Don't Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Pat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMYou’ll see it in the faces of the uninitiated—people who are too young or too old, or people who just didn’t get the film, or have never seen it. Mention the word Newsies to th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:46PMA sinus infection has temporarily sidelined Tony Award winner Audra McDonald from the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess since March 11, representatives for the actress co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMOpening Night of Culture Clash's American Night
Culture Clash is back with a "loopy, goofy odyssey through American history." - Union-Tribune San Diego
Time is running shor…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:44PMWell, well, hello, oldie!
This is the time of year when the region’s subscription theaters lay down their cards, revealing what they’ve got in their hands for the new season, which begin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:41PMHockadoo times a thousand! On March 14, Adam Pascal, Montego Glover, Derrick Baskin and the cast of Memphis celebrated a rockin' milestone: 1,000 performances on the Great White Way. Aft…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:39PM"Journey to America," the upcoming documentary film by Antonio Cuna and Justine Chan, follows members of the Broadway education organization StudentsLive: A Global Theatre Arts Edu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMA one-night-only staged reading of 8, the powerful play about the federal district court trial contesting the Proposition 8 voter ban in 2008 on same sex marriages in California, will have i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMIt was only a matter of time, I suppose. In case you've missed it, the familiar ethical issues surrounding blogging have just raised their collectively ugly head again - only this time…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:14PMNext week on SMASH, Everything comes to a head as Eileen Anjelica Huston, Derek Jack Davenport and the team present Marilyn The Musical to would-be investors. Ivy Megan Hilty is under pressu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMBeginning tonight at 8 PM, Inclusive Theatre Companies of ArtStream, Inc, are presenting two original one-act musicals: Star Corps IV: The Search for Mind Zap and Oh My, An Invasion! �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PMFlying Foot Forum and Joe Chvala mark 20 years with a show featuring returning artists and music of the New Standards.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:02PM"Greeks win one day, Trojans win the next, like a game of tug-of-war, and nothing to show for it but exhaustion, poverty, and loneliness," says the storyteller, the lone Poet recounting the …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:00PMWalker's Worldby Jim MurchisonI got a message that the Algonquin College needed some feedback on a little matter that was going down at the Studio theatre. The source was solid. She's the ki…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:00PMIn Barcelona to finalize her divorce and research an article on the mystical experiences of St. Teresa of Avila, Carlotta, a New York writer, is rocked by her own surprising awakenings.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:00PM
Sebastian Stan has been tapped to star opposite Sigourney Weaver Avatar, Carla Gugino Broadway's Road to Mecca, Watchmen, American Gangster, Entourage, James Wolk Lonestar, Happy Endings and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMTony Award winner Bernadette Peters will present "Smash" producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with a special honor during the New York GLAAD Media Awards March 24 at the Marriott M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMPop star and Broadway veteran Joey Fatone attended the Wednesday, March 14 performance of Absinthe at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Afterwards, he met with the cast and posed for photos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star and New Jersey native Nick Jonas recently told Broadway.com that he aspired to play fellow pop star Frankie Valli in Broadway’s Je…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PMAfter a grand sweep through Ireland last May, I have become a huge fan of their hospitality… and especially of their food and drink. I visited the Jameson Distillery (a bit of a jolt t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMThe Gay amp Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender LGBT media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today announced it will honor …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMTony Award winner Billy Crudup will star in Blood Ties, a crime thriller set in the 1970s, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, to be directed and co-written by Guillaume Canet, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMTracy Morgan, appearing at the Sony Centre March 23 in the Canadian International Comedy Fest, says he’s the Bruce Lee of comedy.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:33PMJoshua Bergasse, choreographer of NBC's musical drama SMASH, has found an outlet for the sort of work inspired by the old MGM musicals he grew up watching. Those old shows used dance as part…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMOn Monday, March 19 at 7pm, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR will present a conversation with several cast and artistic team members of A Streetcar Named Desire, openi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMThe North American tour of Green Day's American Idiot opened its Los Angeles engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday, March 14.
The musical, which follows a group of working-cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMAcademy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn Dr. Austin Sloper will join Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain Catherine Sloper in the Tony Award-winning play The Heiress. W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMMusical Chairs - Official Movie Trailer 2012 (HD)
Watch the official trailer for Musical Chairs, an upcoming film about ballroom dancing with wheelchairs! Starring Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:10PMThe national tour of Green Day's American Idiot opened in Los Angeles last night, March 14, at the Ahmanson Theatre. Performances continue through April 22, 2012. Check out photos from the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMPalm Beach Dramaworks has announced the productions set for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will launch with Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about unlikely sweethearts …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM
Last week's arrival of the rocking "American Idiot" was a reminder that modern Broadway musicals are wanting to get edgier and more relevant to attract younger audiences. You know, the kind…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:56PMOn Wednesday, March 28th, Givenik.com will partner with the new Broadway show Ghost The Musical for a special post-performance reception for audience and cast members at The Paramount Hotel.…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:53PMBlair Underwood Talks Streetcar named Desire
Blair Underwood talks with TheaterMania.com about the new Broadway production of Streetcar Named Desire.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:51PMAcceptance speeches made by Tony Award Lifetime Achievement winners are not available on DVD or online.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:51PMIt’s raining men in a drenched round-up of the week’s theater headlines: The superstar combo of director Mike Nichols, Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:49PMTony Award winner Bernadette Peters will guest star as Leigh Conroy, the mother of Megan Hilty's character Ivy, on the March 19 episode of NBC's "Smash."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMWith the news Long Wharf Theatre is foregoing a new facility for at least another 10 years or so in favor of making its present building -- albeit a leased one-- more appealing for audie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:43PMStage and screen star Sebastian Stan will join Carla Gugino, Sigourney Weaver and James Wolk in USA's six-hour drama series Political Animals, according to Deadline.com.
The show will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMThe Broadway production of "The Heiress" has found its father figure -- David Strathairn. Producers announced Thursday that the Emmy Award winner will star in the play opposite Jessica Chast…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:40PMMarch 27th is World Theatre Day, but TCG is celebrating the values of WTD throughout the month of March. Leading up to the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day, TCG is launching Fulbright S…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:39PMUpdated information has been announced for the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, to be held on Saturday, March 24 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, on April 21 in Los Angeles at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMMary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Showcase
Pianist Amy Rowe, selected for the second class of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Workshop, performs on the Mil…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:36PMOpen the gates and Seize the Day! The day has finally arrived which many have waited for now for either the past few months or the past 2 decades. The hit Disney movie musical Newsies, brou…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:35PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway production of "The Heiress" has found its father figure - David Strathairn....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:30PMToday we bring you Broadway and BroadwayWorld fave Kristin Chenoweth, who has been entertaining audiences for nearly sixteen years in such blockbusters as Wicked, You're A Good Man Charlie B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMAge & Hometown: 33; Rouleau, Saskatchewan, Canada
Current role: Starring in the greatest story ever told in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Wide Open Spaces: Paul Nolan grew up in a f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMThe Broadway League has developed another application for theater lovers based on its comprehensive Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) website.
The free app, available for all iOS devices (iP…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:24PMNew York Theatre Workshop NYTW has announced that the New York premiere of An Iliad, by Denis OHare and Lisa Peterson, based on Homers Iliad translated by Robert Fagles, directed by Ms. Pete…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMA revived 1939 Martha Graham curiosity was meant to be funny – but prompted only the occasional smile, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:19PMThis week TheaterMania reports on Steve Martin composing music for the Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It, Darren Criss and BIll Irwin at the A.C.T. Gala, Nick Jonas return…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMThe national tour of Green Day's American Idiot opened at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre March 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMThe New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's solo-actor play An Iliad, based on Homer's "Iliad" translated by Robert Fagles, will get an extra week at New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMFriends in Russia, Ilia Volok and Eugene Lazarev are now involved in an adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman in West Hollywood. Volok is performing the solo show under Lazarev's direction…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:13PMThe Emmy-winning actor will play Chastain's emotionally distant father in the stage adaptation by Ruth and Augustus Goetz of the Henry James novel, "Washington Square."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:11PMThe Tony-winning musical Memphis celebrated its 1000th Performance on Broadway March 14. Guests including Anthony Rapp, Telly Leung and Wilson Cruz joined the cast for a post-show reception …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMWhat do you get when you combine a married couple, two torrid love affairs, a chef and two women named Suzy? Marc Camoletti’s classic French sex farce, Don’t Dress For Dinner. On…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMStar of TV, film and Broadway, Kristin Chenoweth will be at the Boston Opera House for one night only on June 8, 2012 Exclusive presale is now on thru Friday at 10AM
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMActress Elizabeth Wilson will be given the Jerome Lawrence Award at a Gala Dinner performance during the 31st Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, April 20 at Independence Community College…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMAcademy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner David Strathairn (Dr. Austin Sloper) will join Academy Award® nominee Jessica Chastain (Catherine Sloper) in the Tony Award®-winning play Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:05PMAcclaimed Italian performer Maria Cassi makes American debut in MY LIFE WITH MEN… AND OTHER ANIMALS Performances begin today at the 45th Street Theatre, playing through Sunday, March 18 on…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:01PMDavid Strathairn is set to play Dr. Austin Sloper opposite Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain in the previously announced revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s The Heiress. Directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMHATE THE MUSICAL, BUT LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE PRODUCTION Whether you love or hate the musical version of The Color Purple, no one, and I mean no one, can or will deny that this is one of the fi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PMStage and screen star David Strathairn will join the previously reported Jessica Chastain in the Broadway revival of The Heiress. Moisés Kaufman will direct the production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMLeaving a life of crime behind, Jeremy Jordan, of Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde, dusts off his newsboy cap for the Broadway bow of Disney's Newsies in the role of street-smart paperb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
The Pearl Theatre Company, which announced it would relocate to the 42nd Street theatre complex formerly occupied by the Signature Theatre Company, will stage a world-premiere play by Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMThe Pearl Theatre Company, which announced it would relocate to the 42nd Street theatre complex formerly occupied by the Signature Theatre Company, will stage a world-premiere play by Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMIn how many categories is it possible for a show to be nominated for this year's Olivier Awards? Answer: 10. The producers of Matilda the Musical will be smiling from ear to ear after the no…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:55PMPearl Theatre Company has announced its 2012-2013 season, which as previously announced, will be the company's first at its new permanent home in the venue on 42nd Street recently vacat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMDavid Strathairn, the Academy Award nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck," will play the imposing Dr. Sloper, father of the title character in Broadway's new production of Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMOrlando Shakespeare Theater has announced the productions set for its 2012-2013 season, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
The season will begin with Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMSome of Broadway's best young talent will sing dazzling new arrangements of songs from Adele's two albums, 19 and 21. The concert will feature over 15 cover songs to celebrate the pop supers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
A group portrait of lives veering between dismay and hope, "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl" is a neglected 1953 drama by African-Caribbean writer Errol John.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMA starry lineup has been announced for Forget-Me-Not, the Alzheimer's Association's New York City Chapter gala which will take place on June 4 at the Pierre. Four-time Tony nominee V…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMCasting has been announced for Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain, which will open April 14 at the West End's Garrick Theatre. As previously reported, Neal Foster will direct.
Written…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMDustin Lance Black's 8, about the federal court trial contesting the Proposition 8 voter ban in 2008 on same-sex marriage in California, will have its New Jersey premiere March 24 at Mon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMKathleen Chalfant, John Cunningham(photo: Carol Rosegg)It's hard to know how to respond to Tina Howe's 1984 Pulitzer-Prize-nominated play Painting Churches in 2012. It's not the play's fault…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:43PMBootlegging, playboys, Long Island mansions? It’s all in a day’s work for Tony winner Matthew Broderick and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara, the new stars of the forth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMAcademy Award winner and Broadway veteran Christopher Walken attended a recent preview performance of Kenyetta Lethridge's Innocent Flesh at the Actors Temple Theatre. The play opens to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMSinger, songwriter and activist Gavin Creel HAIR Thoroughly Modern Millie will step back onto theJoe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street stage for one-night-only, to celebrate the release of his bran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMOnce upon a time the great Stephen Sondheim tried his pen at fairytales. Cinderella is on the run from the prince, Jack’s beanstalk adventures leave him cow-less, and Little Red Riding Hoo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMIt's clear to me that SXSW was never meant to be a trade show packed with tech goons on iPads hawking impenetrable and useless products that allow human beings to do things like rate their c…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:33PMWe are preempted on Thirteen by the PBS Spring Pledge Drive. We will return to the station Friday, March 23rd. Meanwhile, you can watch us online or on our other member stations in New York:…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:32PMon CUNY TV: Sat., March 17th at 8:30 PM Sun., March 18th at 12:30 PM and Mon., March 19th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Critic and columnist John Heilpern (Vanity Fair) discusses th…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:31PMon Thirteen: Fri., March 23rd at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., March 24th at 8:30 PM Sun., March 25th at 12:30 PM and Mon., March 26th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our favorite knight, …
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:30PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
While "Death of a Salesman" remains the definitive fathers-and-sons drama, its social themes are universal and painfully timely, especially in this powe…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMThe 25th-anniversary production of “Les Miserables,’’ now playing at the Opera House, qualifies as a truly extraordinary theatrical experience when high-tech wizardry blend…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:26PMSilence! The Musical (***1/2) – Blessed vulgarity! I don't think I've seen a lampoon this irreverent, filthy, or incorrigibly nasty since the early movies of Mel Brooks when he was exubera…
SOURCE: clclt.com at 01:22PMArthur Miller’s drama Death of a Salesman is back. This thrilling revival, helmed by Mike Nichols, examines the American dream and how far one man will go to provide for his famil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:16PMA PARADE IS COMING TO TOWN In the NY Times, Christopher Isherwood stated that while the authors of Parade deserve credit for their fidelity to history and their ambition to probe a painful c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:15PMNewsies, the new American musical, begins performances tonight, Thursday, March 15, at Broadways Nederlander Theatre 208 W 41st St for a limited run. Kicking off their limited run, the Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMNice Work If You Can Get It - Broadway Musical Preview
The new musical comedy Nice Work if You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara begins previews on Broadway March 2…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:11PMThe cast of the Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It —
directed and choreographed by Tony winner Kathleen Marshall — shared a
handful of George and Ira Gershwin songs for t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMZawe Ashton and Alex Beckett will join the previously reported Alison Steadman in Michael Frayn's Here, to run April 19 - May 12 at Rose Theatre, Kingston. Lisa Spirling will direct th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMBROADWAY ROX, a new concert event, recently played Queens Theatre 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Produced by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, BROADWAY RO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMIt’s a bold move to bring back one of the biggest flops in Broadway history, but MCC has defied the odds with the newly revised Carrie currently playing an extended off-Broadway run. T…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 01:03PMWith the 2011-12 Broadway season coming to a close next month (April 26 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 66th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a three-part look at the cur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMTony Award winner John Lithgow stars as Joseph Alsop — the powerful American newspaper columnist who wrote from the 1930s to the 1970s, but is almost completely forgotten today — in Puli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
"Jesus Christ Superstar" Takes to the Pulpit for an Exclusive Fan Concert
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Broadway's "Jesus Christ Superstar" cast members, …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:56PMA host of young Broadway talent will interpret the songs of multiple Grammy winner Adele April 30 at 7:30 PM at Le Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMA Sneak Peak at Howard McGillin, Nancy Anderson and Chryssie Whitehead in "Damn Yankees"
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Howard McGillin, Chryssie Whitehead, Patti Coheno…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:54PMVideo Exclusive: "Broadway Backwards 7" Reverses Roles, Gives Voice to LGBT Experience
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Billed as "not just another night on Broadway,…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:50PMHockadoo The 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical MEMPHIS just celebrated 1,000 performances on Broadway on Wednesday, March 14th at the 2pm matinee performance. BroadwayWorld brings you pho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMNine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune will be presented with the 30th Anniversary Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award during the May 21 Boston theatre awards ceremony at the Paramount …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMNew Broadway "Streetcar" Takes Route Through a Multi-Racial New Orleans
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Director Emily Mann (Broadway's "Having Our Say," &q…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:47PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Tina Howe shares pivotal moments in her theatre career and why the arts matter t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMThe nominations have been announced for the 2012 Olivier Awards, with Matilda the Musical getting nods in all its eligible categories and comedies One Man, Two Guvnors and The Ladykillers re…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:41PMOld Jews Telling Jokes (In a Deli)
http://www.oldjewstellingjokesonstage.com
Meet Daniel Okrent and Peter Gethers, the creators of the new Off Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES.
Get rea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:40PMTony nominee Gavin Creel (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie) will return to Joe's Pub March 19 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM to celebrate the debut of his brand-new solo album, "Get Out."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel's sold-out concert at Joe's Pub will be livestreamed. Creel performs at the venue at 7pm and 9:30pm, with the latter concert available to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMFurther casting has been announced for the West End's forthcoming new production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMTo judge by the title of this show you might thing there would be a touch of real live ecstasy tucked away somewhere in this tale. Well there is, but it is located mainly in the 16th centur…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:29PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Matilda The Musical” leads the 2012 Olivier Award nominees, which were announced on Thursday.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:29PMFull casting has been announced for Sean Foley's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw, which will begin previews May 4 in advance of a May 16 opening at the Vaudeville The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMThe film version of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' Killer Joe, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch, will keep its NC-17 rating, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMWhen the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus SFGMC decided on this season's theme, Sensational, it was simply fitting that they contacted Stephen Schwartz to collaborate with them for a performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMCast members from Broadway's Newsies will perform the songs "Seize the Day" and "Santa Fe" on the Thursday, March 22 episode of ABC's Good Morning America. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMName: Eric KingreaHometown: Baton Rouge, LouisianaEducation: College of CharlestonFavorite Credits: Dime Heroes is my first full-length, post-collegiate production and thus my favorite.Why t…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:16PMThe guidelines for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Artist Residency Program are now available online in the Arts Program section at www.ddcf.org. Residencies are designed to support art…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:14PMFor Women’s History Month, Travelanche is hosting several posts by several guest bloggers about various female vaudevillians and other performing artists. This is the second in our ser…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:13PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Damian Arnold, will present the Broadway premiere of Marc Camolettis classic farce Dont Dress For Dinner, starring Ben Daniels as Robert, Melor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMStage and screen actress Marie Osmond will host a talk show for the Hallmark Channel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Marie!" is slated to air in late 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMDancers Over 40 DO40 presented its second-ever song and dance concert entitled DO40 CARES Its Not Where You Start to benefit Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS, Project AchieveColumbia Univers…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMWill Pomerantz, Bengonya PlazaThe world premiere of Teresa’s Ecstasy by Begonya Plaza opened Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village on Wednesday March 12, 2012. Direct…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:08PMThe crowning achievement of the art of musical theater is the ability to use song, dance and comedy to entertain, while conveying a moving and important message. Women’s History Month …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PMSaturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1, 11 am – 2 pmThis exceptional opportunity to train with Teatr ZAR, the resident company of the Grotowski Institute, is a deep investigation of sound …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:06PMFor experimental theatre troupe The Wooster Group, maintaining an up-to-date and relevant online presence is crucial. Artistic director Elizabeth LeCompte talks to Honour Bayes about keeping…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMActor Rob James-Collier talks to Matthew Hemley about playing the good guy in new ITV drama Love Life and what it's like working on Downton Abbey with Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMToday in 1987, Starlight Express opened at the Gershwin Theatre, where it ran for 761 performances. Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber music, Richard Stilgoe lyrics a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMScreenwriter, playwright and novelist Delia Ephron, who co-wrote Love, Loss, and What I Wore with her sister Nora, will appear at Barnes & Noble’s Upper East Side location April 5 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMCapathia Jenkins looks to her ancestors to create her character Medda, a burlesque theater owner, in Disney’s “Newsies.”
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
On last night's episode of ABC's hit comedy series MODERN FAMILY entitled 'Send Out the Clowns, Tony Award-Winner Ellen Barkin The Big Easy, Ocean's Thirteen and Bobby Cannavale Will amp Gra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe new Gershwin-kissed Broadway musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, co-starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, will begin previews March 29 at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMAcademy Award nominee Amy Irving will be part of the Red Bull Theater's reading of Jean Genet's The Balcony March 19 at the Theater at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMTommy Tune will receive the 30th Anniversary Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award, the Boston Theater Critics Association announced on Thursday, March 15.
The nine-time Tony Award-winne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMThe Lowry in Salford has won in six categories at the Manchester Theatre Awards 2011.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AMHBO has announced that it will end production of its series Luck, according to Variety.
The announcement comes after a third horse on the set has been injured and died. Two horses were als…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMIt’s week five. We just keep marching through the play like Sherman to Atlanta. All the way to Georgia! Every day we fill in more of the picture. Each scene now has a real shape. I feel fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AMNow in its eighth year, DirectorsLabChicago offers environments in which emerging and established stage directors from all over the world are able to consider, challenge, and engage in both …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:41AMTony Award winner David Hyde Pierce will receive the Lifetime Leadership Award at Forget-Me-Not, the Alzheimer's Association's New York City Chapter gala, June 4 at The Pierre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMProduction Resource Group, which serves clients in the theatre, television, concert touring, corporate and special event markets, has announced the opening of a new office in London's Covent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMFrom now through April 1st, the Paul Taylor Dance Company is performing at Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater. Now that doesn’t sound so extraordinary, does it? But this is the first …
SOURCE: TDF at 11:33AMAC Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd will be using this week's ProLight + Sound trade show (March 21-24) at the Frankfurt Messe exhibition centre to feature a selection of its establish…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AM"Curtain up, light the lights!" The words - Stephen Sondheim's - are showbiz folklore and the show, Gypsy - the musical lover's musical - is about as iconic as they come, a breathless …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:32AMDo you have your tickets to Theo Ubique’s The Light in the Piazza? No? Well, you should, because it’s remarkable. In fact, Chris Jones gave it an out-and-out rave and said that K…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 11:31AMThe cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress for Dinner met the press Thursday, March 15 at American Airlines Theatre. The production wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMTwo-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick and three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara star in NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMAcclaimed screenwriter, playwright and novelist Delia Ephron will appear at Barnes amp Nobles Upper East Side location 150 East 86th Street, at Lexington Avenue on Thursday, April 5th at 700…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe Flea Theater plans to present a reading of Hamish Linklater’s The Vandal, starring Golden Globe winners Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman and Outer Critics Circle nominee Noah Robbins.…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:27AMStage version of Roald Dahl classic receives 10 nominations, including collective nod for all four actors playing title roleAll four of the girls who share the lead role in Matilda the Music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMThe National Theatre todau announced special encore National Theatre Live broadcasts of their acclaimed hit amp 3-time Olivier Award nominated production of Frankenstein, a new play by Nick …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMI feel like my world has been in free fall since last Friday. You see, last Friday, The Vancouver Playhouse announced that it was closing up shop. Done. Kaput. Just like that–the secon…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:16AMTheatreplan, the London-based theatre consultancy, has welcomed the news that the Lyric in Belfast - one of its more recently completed projects - has now scooped the accolade of the 2012 Ci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMNext week on SMASH, Everything comes to a head as Eileen Anjelica Huston, Derek Jack Davenport and the team present Marilyn The Musical to would-be investors. Ivy Megan Hilty is under pressu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMThe Boston Theater Critics Association today announced that legendary song and dance man Tommy Tune will be the recipient of The 30th Anniversary Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMTim McInnerny, Samantha Bond and Georgia Moffett will join Omid Djalili in Joe Orton's 1967 comedy What the Butler Saw, which opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on 16 May 2012 (previews from 4 …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:09AMStephanie J. Block is back on Broadway beginning March 15, when she takes over the role of nightclub singer-turned-evangelist Reno Sweeney in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes. Block…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:08AMDelia Ephron, co-author of the play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, will appear at a book signing of her new novel The Lion is In, April 5 at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble's Upper East Side l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMTony Award-winning scenic designer David Rockwell's plans for an expanded 2,000-square-foot lounge at the Public Theater has been approved, according to a report in New York Magazine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMHamish Linklater is in final negotiations to play the lead in the Fox drama pilot The Asset, according to Deadline.com. The Josh Friedman project, which will be directed by Neil Burger, also…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMLegit News:
Rob Ashford to helm musical from producer Tim Burton
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AMDes McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMLooking Glass by underwater photographer Elena Kalis.
Part of the series Alice in WaterLand. Check out the entire awesome series here
Find out more about Kalis and see more of her works her…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM
Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi and the Pink Robots, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMFamed Hollywood acting coach Eric Morris will celebrate 50 years of the Eric Morris System with a weekend celebration in New York City, to be held April 27-29 in the Times Square area.
Morr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMTarget Margin Theater and The Bushwick Starr have announced casting for the second half of 0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab, their annual series. The Lab, curated by Target Margin Theater mana…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMProminent players from the world of musical theatre have come together to record a unique collection of original musical theatre and cabaret songs, all composed by Danny Davies, with additio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMTwenty years after hitting movie theaters, Newsies arrives on Broadway with Disney's new stage adaptation of the cult classic. Starring Jeremy Jordan as Jack Kelly, the new musical …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMThe DVD release of last year’s Three Musketeers movie and research for my Adah Isaacs Menken play have recently placed Dumas pere foursquare on my radar. The former development represe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AMAsk William Shatner a simple question like, oh, "How are you?" and he comes back with, "I am reeking of vitality," a phrase that seems to sum him up pretty well, all things considered.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:46AMKERRY REID reviews "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" by Redtwist Theatre ★★★ and "Las Hermanas Padilla" by Chicago Fusion Theatre ★★½
"The Laramie Projec…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:46AMKERRY REID on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
KERRY REID on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:46AMEdinburgh International Festival artistic director Jonathan Mills has announced that he is to stand down from the post in 2014, when he will have been in post for eight years.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMTony Award nominee Sharon McNight (Starmites) will host the fourth annual RRAZZiversary, a gala celebration and benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, March 21 at San Francis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMBy Isaac Butler A short essay by yours truly on intellectual property and theatre is up at HowlRound. You can point your browsers this-a-way to take a gander. The essay is more a laying out …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:39AMThe National Theatre of Great Britain is set to present special encore National Theatre Live broadcasts of Nick Dear's new play based on the book by Mary Shelley Frankenstein, in select…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMSadler's Wells will present Flahooley and Aladdin as part of Ian Marshall Fisher's Lost Musicals series. Flahooley will play May 13-June 3, and Aladdin will play August 19-Septemb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMTina Howe's best known plays include BIRTH AND AFTER BIRTH, MUSEUM, THE ART OF DINING, PAINTING CHURCHES, COASTAL DISTURBANCES, PRIDE'S CROSSING and new translations of Eugène Ioneso's THE …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:36AMAmy Irving will headline the cast of Red Bull Theater's reading of Jean Genet's The Balcony, to be presented at Theatre at St. Clement's on Monday March 19, at 7:30pm. David H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMJonathan Beyer and Steven Condy in The Barber of Seville. Photos: Eric AntoniouPeople are always asking me, "What should I see right now?" And I'm always happy to answer: what you shou…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:31AMVal Kilmer will present his one man play, Citizen Twain, in a limited run at The Historic Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery over just two weekends this March. The production will r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMThis week's A.P.T. is dedicated to Doug Shapiro and the F.O.D.'s I'll let Doug tell you more below. A while back, I decided to reach out to the people I identified as connectors and we creat…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMDirector Marcia Milgrom Dodge and actress Vicki Lewis face that old psychology experiment: Imagine there’s an elephant in the room. Now ignore the elephant in the room. In their case, the …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:28AMThe return of "Gatz" to New York provides a chance to examine other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25AMA host of Broadway stars will participate in Original Cast 3, the 28th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event-S.T.A.G.E., to be presented at the Saban Theatre Beverly Hills, on Satu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMSupernatural musical Ghost comes to life on Broadway as previews begin at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 15. London Ghost headliners Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman reprise their…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMMike Nichols' starry revival of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s 1949 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning, play opens on Broadway March 15. The production, starring Oscar winner Ph…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMMike Nichols' starry revival of Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s 1949 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opens on Broadway March 15. The production, starring Oscar winner Ph…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMThe journey continues for Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles as the acclaimed drama begins performances March 15 at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. Directed by Daniel Aukin, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:15AMGHOST Begins Tonight on Broadway - Save over 40 on Tickets
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMIt’s grossly unfair to expect an actor to impersonate an icon who remains vivid in the audience’s memory, but watching the most recent incarnation of Rupert Holmes’ biographical Say Go…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:09AMThe Off-Broadway production of Avenue Q celebrated its 1,000th performance at New World Stages on Wednesday, March 14.
Audience members at the performance received commemorative buttons to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMEvery Thursday we have a new interview with someone on Broadway for you to enjoy. This particular video is the next installment in our swing/understudy series. James the Intern spent the aft…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMCraig SchwartzRene Millan and Stepahnie Beatriz in Richard Montoya's "American Night," now playing at the Kirk Douglas TheatreRichard Montoya's American Night opened Sunday night at th…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:00AMWe asked more than two dozen heavy hitters in the New York theater world a simple question: Who are the most powerful people on Broadway?
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AMIn Part 1 of this interview, Derek Klena, one of the young stars of the off-Broadway revival of Carrie talked about his experiences as an athlete and performer, and particularly his exp…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AMThe actor finds an easy connection with "this tough old bird who tells the truth about who we are."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
NBC has released a promotional video featuring Bernadette Peters discussing her upcoming guest appearance on Smash. Peters will appear on the show on Monday, March 19, playing mother to Ivy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMNominees have been announced for the 2012 Olivier Awards, which will be held at London’s Royal Opera House on April 15, hosted by Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. Broadway-bound music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMThis weekend, Baltimore Theatre Project (‘BTP’) presents Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living by Miwa Matreyek, a live performance with projected animation. This…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMThe 28th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.) will present Original Cast 3, a musical celebration showcasing artists from theatre, television and cabaret performing s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMThere’s a lot to be said for a dance show, even a rather choreographically shallow one, that actually moves out in all directions.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:38AMFilm actor Val Kilmer will present his one man play, Citizen Twain, which he wrote, directed and stars in, for a limited two-weekend run at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemeter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMMatilda the Musical has dominated the nominations for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards, picking up nods in ten categories.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMAfter years of development, Clyde n Bonnie A Folktale will premiere tonight in suburban Atlanta at Aurora Theatre on March 15, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMRoger Allam and Nancy Carroll, 2011's Best Actor and Best Actress, announced this year's nominees at the Mayfair Hotel this afternoon.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThe 2012 Olivier Award nominations have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held, as previously announced, on April 15 in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, will continue March 26 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMThe Broadway production of Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN opens officially tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMDuring the March 14 broadcast of "American Idol," it was announced that Top 12 finalist Jermaine Jones from Pine Hill, NJ, was disqualified from the competition "for veracity …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMNEWSIES, opens for previews tonight at Broadways Nederlander Theatre 208 W 41st St for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMRubyYo! at The Ceyx Series, February 6, 2012
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 09:00AM
The Brooklyn Museum is screening an amazing documentary tonight. You should definitely see it if there are any seats left. I had a chance to look at a screener a couple of weeks ago and it r…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:59AMYesterday, I said that Show Folk this month was “getting epic;” you thought it was just a lame Homer joke. Truth is, we’re doubling up on great interviews with another lead…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:54AMIt takes time — years — to develop a style, whether prose, verse, or dramatic, and ultimately it’s a question of assimilation, not imitation. Young writers imitate: They tr…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:51AMEXCLUSIVE: Hamish Linkalter is in final negotiations to play the male lead opposite Ali Larter in Fox’s drama pilot The Asset. The project, written and executive produced by Josh Friedman …
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:41AMToday is the opening day of Cinefest, the vintage film festival put on by the Syracuse Cinephile Society. I know it’s far away, New Yorkers, but when you see the dense program of rare …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:40AMGHOST THE MUSICAL is opening for previews tonight at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The show is a huge hit in London, and the producers have promised an even more spectacular evening for Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38AMGavin and Stacey star James Corden is up against Jude Law for a prestigious theatrical award.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:37AMWhen some artists affect to say the unsayable, the result is simply unspeakble. Likewise, when they make a show of thinking the unthinkable, the consequences are just flatly unoconscionabl…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AM“Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…” so sang the gallant Knights of the Round Table, once upon a time. This little slice of historical lunacy is par for the course in Monty Pyth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMLegit News:
Actor joins Chastain in revival
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AMThe nominations for the 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards saw the RSC's production of Matilda the Musical, which has already announced its intention to open on Broadway in 2013, lead the way …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AMBook by 20 March and recieve a 20% discount to see UNCLE VANYA at The Print Room. Valid through telephone bookings only.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:17AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe veteran actor discusses the Mark Taper Forum's production of Waiting for Godot and the Oscar-winning film The Artist.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMJesse Berger’s intimate and ingenious staging of Jean Genet’s “The Maids” for Red Bull Theater offers voyeuristic thrills but fails to horrify or touch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
There’s no better place for a story about identity than the theater. No other art form depends so much on our suspension of disbelief, and our willingness to accept that any person – giv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AM Reviewed by Linda Amiel Burns – 3/14/12. Charles West is currently the standby for El Gallo in the NY production of The Fantasticks and has appeared on Broadway in The Sc…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:58AMCaptivating ‘Summer in Sanctuary’ shows best efforts don’t yield instant gratification
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AMMezzo-soprano Rita Gorr was a formidable presence on the Covent Garden stage of the Royal Opera House for more than a decade, making her debut as Amneris in Verdi's Aida in the house in 1959…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMThe nominations have been announced for the 2012 Olivier Awards, with feel-good hits Matilda the Musical, One Man, Two Guvnors and The Ladykillers among the productions leading the field.
T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:34AMDes O'Connor's 80th birthday will be marked by ITV with a special one-off programme about the entertainer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMDuring a television career that lasted nearly 50 years, Peter Halliday is best remembered for a seven-part science fiction serial screened in 1961, A for Andromeda.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMAlthough he was an actor at first, Richard Carpenter found his metier as a writer, responsible most notably for the cult children's serial, Catweazle (1970-71), on London Weekend Television.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMThe BBC has unveiled plans to make its content available on a download-to-own basis.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMThe nominations have been announced for the 2012 Olivier Awards, with Matilda the Musical getting nods in all its eligible categories and comedies One Man, Two Guvnors and The Ladykillers re…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:14AMCottesloe, National, London: This beautiful play set in post-war Trinidad won Errol John the newly-inaugurated Observer award for an undiscovered playwright in 1957. It was produced the foll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMDirector Mike Nichols makes a serious casting error in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” constricting Philip Seymour Hoffman’s thoughtful Willy Loman.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
After starting his career impersonating George Formby, the ukulele-playing comic, Ken Goodwin made his name on The Comedians (1971-1986), the Granada TV series made up of short clips of stan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMTall and pigeon-chested, with twinkling eyes, a patrician nose, and arms that could swing like a windmill in a gale, David Kelly was one of Ireland's most recognisable and successful stage a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMSky head of entertainment Phil Edgar Jones has appointed Deborah Sargeant as a commissioning editor in his team.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMMany of us will be familiar with sayings such as “patience is a virtue” and “look before you leap”. On numerous occasions we at Filskit have been told we are far too …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMThe Royal Ballet is currently in the middle of a three-month run of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, preparing for the upcoming revival of Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland and kn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMThe full list of nominees for the 2012 Olivier Awards will be announced at noon today (15 March 2012) with an event at the May Fair Hotel presented by 2011 Olivier Awards Best Actress winner…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:29AMIn Daphnis and Chloë , the dancers of Birmingham Royal Ballet wind in chain dances to Ravel’s shimmering score. As they twist and sway, there’s a sensuous ripple to their shoulders, as …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:17AMThe 2011 Manchester Theatre Awards have been announced and reflect the diversity of the performances that entertain audiences across the region.
The Octagon Theatre, Bolton, has won four o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:09AMOne of Duke Ellington’s highest compliments to a performer was “beyond category.” Patti Austin fits that description to a tee. And she’ll prove it over and over Friday night when she…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMAfter years of development, Clyde n Bonnie A Folktale is set to premiere in suburban Atlanta at Aurora Theatre on March 15, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company announced tonight that Stephanie J. Block will return as Reno Sweeney to the 2011 Tony Award winning musical comedy Anything Goes on March 15, 2012, replacing Sutt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMThe drama of the moment on Broadway is a stunning revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," directed with extraordinary immediacy by Mike Nichols and showcasing two exceptional perfo…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 06:00AMToday is the seventh anniversary of this blog.2,285 blog posts, thoughts, essays, stories and reactions.Approximately 40,000 page views per month (with 15,000 of them unique visitors) for a …
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Clocking in at a hefty two hours forty-five minutes, *Pinocchio* needs to be edited -- judiciously. By the final scene I was yearning to win my freedom from the prison of the Neo-Futurarium.…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:20AMThe featured playwright of Muddy Waters Theatre this season is Tracy Letts. Yay! Buckle up, right? Okay, let me just get this out of the way -- I remember the numerous walk…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:20AMFrom 2004: Middle age has its cold consolations, one of which is the knowledge that you're not nearly as important...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn this series, Broadway’s Best Shows uses selections from the official study guide to bring you a closer look at what has made this work such a success since the day it first premiere…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMMary Zimmerman, the Chicago playwright and director, embraces big, brave stories with gusto. No doubt that at least partly accounts for her popularity; she doesn't confine herself to "realis…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMTony Sheldon and Will Swenson are set to star in the previously announced pre-Broadway run of Priscilla Queen of the Desert at Toronto’s Prince of Wales Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00AMPriscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical, written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott and directed by Simon Phillips, will open on Broadway on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at the Palace Theatre (1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording of the global hit stage production of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL, produced by Priscilla\'s orchestrator, arranger and musical supervisor S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMStephanie J. Block returns to the 2011 Tony Award winning musical comedy Anything Goes as the iconic Reno Sweeney tonight.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Riverdance" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★
Perfectly timed for St. Patrick's Day, "Riverdance," the spectacular display of Irish folk dance, speckled with th…
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A few years ago, my pal Gil over at BroadwayAbridged, told me that November was National Novel Writing Month. He pointed me to this website that sponsors a challenge/contest to writers to be…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 12:51AM‘Teresa’s Ecstasy,” by the wonderfully named Spanish American playwright and actress Begonya Plaza, tries to combine the spiritual with the earthly in its story of a woman’s quest fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMIt’s hard work keeping a legendary choreographer’s spirit alive. Martha Graham’s company has taken a daring, postmodern approach — only half the dances on Tuesday’s opening night o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMGentle readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for the musical version of Alice Walker’s sensational saga The Color Purple, now playing at Celebration Theater in…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:04AMComposer New York, New York USA I get my inspiration from words, feelings, other music. My favorite movie is The Young Philadelphians. The production that changed my life happened when as a …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMEmily Cooper's magnificent promo art for Noel Coward'sbackstage comedy, Present Laughter, at the Shaw Festival this summer.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert star in 4000 Miles, Amy Herzog's poignant play about the unique friendship between a young man and his widowed grandmother, which b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Red Bull Theater revival of Jean Genet's The Maids, starring Ana Reeder, Jeanine Serralles and Tony Award nominee J. Smith-Cameron, officially opens Off-Broadway March 15 at the Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGhost The Musical, the supernatural romance based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film, begins Broadway previews March 15 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opening March 15 following previews from March…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHunter Foster and Rick Crom's satiric musical treatment of the criminal lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow has a cast — and a new title — for a new Atlanta-area producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Disney musical Newsies begins previews on Broadway March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre following an acclaimed engagement at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse last fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American tragedy Death of a Salesman, with Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Stage musical to premiere in the fall
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMBoomerang Theatre Company is known for presenting quality Shakespeare to the Indie Theatre community. Their current production of the Bard's romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing is fast,…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMSaint Theresa, a sixteenth century nun, seems to cause a lot of controversy. Are her "ecstasies" a communion with God or merely the result of a drug-induced hallucination? This becomes a c…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAs spring blossoms forth, and the hopeful promise of Opening Day looms just ahead, the timing of happy, hearty, wholesome Damn Yankees could not be any better. The Paper Mill program says…
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