Smash - Episode 7 - The Workshop - Luan Legacy Recap
In the seventh episode of NBC's Smash, the musical is performed in front of potential investors, and Ivy's confidence is weakene…
Linked From YouTube at 09:56PMThe new musical comedy Nice Work if You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara begins previews on Broadway March 29, 2012 and officially opens on April 24, 2012. Kelli O'Hara…
Linked From YouTube at 09:56PMDance Moms - Season 2 Episode 11 - Melissa Pleads The Fifth - Todrick Hall & Scott Hoying Recap
Dance Moms Season 2, Episode 11 - "Melissa Pleads the 5th"
In this FYI recap,…
Linked From YouTube at 09:56PMNickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2012 - KCA Nominees Performances and Predictions
The 2012 Kids' Choice Awards on Nickelodeon, hosted by Will Smith and with a performance by Katy Per…
Linked From YouTube at 09:56PMI Know You (from A Room with a View)
Kyle Harris performs "I Know You" from A Room with a View (with Ephie Aardema and Karen Ziemba).
The Old Globe presents the World Premiere of…
Linked From YouTube at 09:54PMUlu Grosbard, a Belgian-born American stage director who brought a naturalistic touch, intelligence, a low profile and unending patience to premieres by Frank D. Gilroy, David Mamet and Arth…
Linked From Playbill at 09:54PMGotta Dance: Paloma Garcia-Lee of "Phantom of the Opera"
This week, Broadway.com's Gotta Dance! series showcases Paloma Garcia-Lee, a graceful ballerina in The Phantom of the …
Linked From YouTube at 09:54PMHEDY WEISS: David Hallberg, who performs “Giselle” in Chicago this weekend, commutes between New York and Moscow.
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The Public Theater has announced a one-week extension of Elevator Repair Service's critically-acclaimed, six-hour staging of Gatz, which began its Off-Broadway return engagement March 14.
Linked From Playbill at 06:51PMThe Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock musical about the rise of the religious icon, is soldiering on without its betrayer. Actor Josh Yo…
Linked From Playbill at 06:51PMIn the final analysis, pretty much everyone can identify the man in the stereotype: Round spectacles, neatly trimmed beard, cigar at the ready and a voice with a German accent making probing…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:51PMOPENING BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO. Neil Sedaka’s chart-topping music takes center stage in this nostalgic musical. Directed by Kevin Bellie. Previews March 29-April 6. Opens April 7. Fri-S…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:51PMThe apologetic phone call from Mike Daisey was a painful one, says Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s artistic director, Howard Shalwitz. It came the day before the shattering news was made public, …
Linked From Washington Post at 06:50PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
"Sweeney Todd" is subtitled "A Musical Thriller" -- which perfectly describes Jonathan Kent's electrifying new production.
Linked From Variety at 06:48PMThe 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…
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMThe 25th-anniversary production of “Les Miserables,’’ now playing at the Opera House, qualifies as a truly extraordinary theatrical experience when high-tech wizardry blend…
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMIf you've ever seen choreographer Matthew Bourne's version of "Swan Lake," you already know that his birds aren't the usual delicate, fluttery ballet swans.
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMWhenever an old warhorse of a play like "Death of a Salesman" is trotted out again onto a Broadway stage, its backers are quick to explain its relevance. It's hard to argue this time.
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMLinda Lavin knows what she'll be doing after she takes "The Lyons" to Broadway -- another Broadway show.
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMA performer says he's not slinking away after he was forced to admit that he made up parts of his one-man show that looked at working conditions in Chinese factories where iPads and iPhones …
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMIn a packed rehearsal room a few floors above the massive stage at Radio City Music Hall, 13-year-old Alyssa Casson walked to a spot in front of a panel of judges and paused, preparing to si…
Linked From Boston Globe at 06:47PMLegit News:
Second fan performance set for hit musical
Linked From Variety at 06:42PMLast night, March 20, Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated the musical's landmark one year anniversary at the Palace Theatre. Following the celebratory performance, Priscilla's half mill…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMRodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, is now in rehearsal and will run from March 28 - April 1 at New York City Center. Pipe Dream is bei…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMLeave it to Encores! to attract Broadway’s best talent to their productions of seldom-seen musicals: For Pipe Dream, a 1955 tuner from Rodgers & Hammerstein, the grade-A cast inclu…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:28PMBefore he arrives at Broadway's Music Box Theatre to reprise his starring role in British smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors beginning April 6, James Corden spruced himself up on the pa…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:28PMAs Jesus Christ Superstar readies for it March 22 opening night, understudy Jeremy Kushnier has stepped into the pivotal role of Judas Iscariot for press preview performances on March 20 and…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:28PMIt was smooth sailing for the Broadway cast of Anything Goes on March 21, when Stephanie J. Block and the company celebrated the show's 400th performance at the Stephen Sondheim The…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:28PMAdapted from a graphic novel by the comic artist Juliacks, “Swell” describes a college-age woman coping with the death of her sister.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMWe have been running Strange Interlude this week. Our first run was last Wednesday, a week ago. We ran through it again on Thursday and another time this weekend. I am very happy with the pr…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:11PMLincoln Center has announced the lineup for this year's Lincoln Center Festival, to run in various venues July 5-August 5. There will be a total of 72 performances by artists and ensemb…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:10PMAmerican Blues Theater (ABT) has announced its 2012-2013 season, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
James Still's Illegal Use of Hands will open the year for the company, ru…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:10PMPittsburgh Public Theater is set to present Mark Brown's Around the World in 80 Days, April 12-May 13 at the O'Reilly Theater. Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct.
Based on the stor…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:10PMStage and screen star Patrick Stewart will host the Peabody Awards ceremony, to take place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Monday, May 21.
The Peabody recognizes excellence…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:10PMDirector Michael Arabian, veteran Beckett specialist Alan Mandell and Land of the Tigers' Hugo Armstrong are among those waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum. Armstrong is playing Mande…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 06:02PMIn 1988, a girl with telekinetic powers caused a ruckus at the prom
and on Broadway, when the pop musical Carrie arrived on
Broadway in a high-profile production that lasted only 21
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Linked From Playbill at 06:01PMGo behind-the-scenes with E! News to see the cast and crew of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS as they get ready for the show to begin. JERSEY BOYS o…
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With “The Big Meal,” at Playwrights Horizons, Dan LeFranc has written the kind of play that every critic hopes to encounter whenever a curtain rises. Go.
Linked From Backstage at 05:57PMThis concert revival of “Li’l Abner” highlights the wit of the Panama-Frank book and Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and the appeal of Gene de Paul’s swinging score.
Linked From Backstage at 05:57PMMuch like "Legally Blonde", "Matilda" is a musical I know and love and this will be more of a reiteration than a review. If you haven't seen it already, what on earth have you been doing?A f…
Linked From The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:52PMThe Off-Broadway production of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated drama Tribes, which opened to critical raves March 4 at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended its run through Sept. …
Linked From Playbill at 05:51PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis is the latest Broadway talent to join MCC Theater's March 26 Miscast gala at The Hammerstein Ballroom.
Linked From Playbill at 05:51PMThe Tony Award winning musical ‘Book of Mormon’ returns to Chicago for an extensive run from December 11, 2012 to March 3, 2013 at the Bank of America Theatre. After its huge Broadway tu…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 05:47PM‘Memphis’, the Tony Award winner for Best Musical in 2010, travels up north to Detroit in April 2013, playing for two straight weeks at the Fisher Theatre, from the 9th to the 21st. Pump…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 05:47PM‘Catch Me If You Can’ blazes its way to Detroit for a two-week stopover at the Fisher Theatre from May 7 to 19, 2013. This musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s 2002 critically accl…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 05:47PMLegit News:
Lincoln Center Festival sets slate
Linked From Variety at 05:44PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMNOW.HERE.THIS., which last year received a Developmental Lab Production at The Vineyard - is currently in previews, prior to an official press opening of March 28 at the Vineyard Theatre. Br…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMThe national tour of Green Day's American Idiot just opened in Los Angeles on March 14 at the Ahmanson Theatre. Original Broadway cast member Van Hughes stars as Johnny, a role in which he c…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMSteve Kazee and Cristin Milioti spends their evenings in an onstage Irish pub as the stars of Once, the Dublin-set musical romance that just opened on Broadway. So life was imitating art for…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:27PMThe March 26 and April 4 sing-along movie screenings of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond, have been postponed. Ac…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:27PMNina Raine’s Tribes has extended at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre. Starring Mare Winningham and Russell Harvard, Tribes was originally scheduled to run through June 2…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:27PMDespite being nominated for nine Tony Awards, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream has not been performed in New York since its 1955 premiere. This rarely seen tuner, based on John S…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:27PMTony Vincent may best be known on The Great White Way for his roles in American Idiot, Rent and Jesus Christ Superstar, but the stage vet is now bringing his killer vocals to the masses as a…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:27PMHello dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for If We Are Women, written by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass in 1993, now playing at The Lonny Chapma…
Linked From Arts Beat LA at 05:11PMNina Raine's Tribes, playing at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended. The production, directed by David Cromer, will now play through September 2.
The play centers on a deaf man bo…
Linked From TheaterMania at 05:10PMOn March 9, 2012 a group of “prickly, opinionated writers on the arts” gathered for lunch at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, United Kingdom. These giants of artistic criticism…
Linked From Music Theatre International at 05:02PMCircle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim W…
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The Lincoln Center Festival will also offer a production of "Uncle Vanya" with Cate Blanchett, and will celebrate the music of Curtis Mayfield.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMThe title of the long-lived company — American Blues Theater (ABT) — says it all. This is an ensemble that works directly in the American grain, as its lineup for the 2012-2013 season un…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:51PMTalk about long commutes. For the past year, David Hallberg, the princely-looking principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre — who will partner Natalia Osipova in the company’s producti…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:51PMThe backdrop for “The Price,” Arthur Miller’s provocative, ever-timely play that is now receiving a first-rate production by Raven Theatre, is an attic apartment in a once grand, soon-…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 04:51PMJoseph Medeiros and Ashley Blanchet will star in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors, which will put down poisonous roots April 20.
Linked From Playbill at 04:50PMChicago's Victory Gardens Theater, under the artistic direction of Chay Yew and executive direction of Jan Kallish, has announced the lineup for its 2012-13 season, which includes the wo…
Linked From Playbill at 04:50PMThe NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions will present a workshop production of the new musical Pool Boy…
Linked From Playbill at 04:50PMActor Michael Tucker was on hand at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble March 19 to discuss his latest book and debut novel, "After Annie." Co-founder and Artistic Director of S…
Linked From Playbill at 04:50PMAimee Rose Ranger and Alejandro Simoes ponder their twin fates. Photo: Chris McKenzieIn the past I've described Whistler in the Dark as the one company in town devoted to theatre for t…
Linked From The Hub Review at 04:50PMMalgorzata Nowacka’s new work is a raw depiction of a psychological meltdown
Linked From The Globe and Mail at 04:48PMAmerican Blues Theatre has announced an intruiguing new season.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 04:36PMFor 13 years, TimesTalks events have been evoking intelligent and entertaining conversations among some of the world's most engaging speakers. Yesterday's talk featured the cast of AMC's bre…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that NCM Fathom Events has postponed the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat events on Monday, March 26 and Wednesday, April 4. Donny Osmond has been …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMAndrew Chappelle, Mr. Mamma Mia, was crowned as winner of the sold out, sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant held Monday evening at Symphony Space. The event raised 75,000 to benefit the Ali…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMTapping into their roots from the "land of poets," Somali-American youths are embracing the art and finding their voice.
Linked From StarTribune at 04:34PMScreenings of the sing-along film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, set for Monday, March 26 and Wednesday, April 4, have been …
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The Times Square Theater, the last of the dormant legit theatres between Seventh and Eighth Avenues on West 42nd Street in the Broadway theatre district, will be renovated to house a starry,…
Linked From Playbill at 03:49PMFollowing the news that monologist Mike Daisey fabricated details in the acclaimed The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Time Out New York theatre critic Adam Feldman will host a panel discus…
Linked From Playbill at 03:49PMThe New York City Center Encores! production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream,, starring Leslie Uggams, Will Chase and Laura Osnes, will play March 28-April 1.
Linked From Playbill at 03:49PMRodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, will run March 28 - April 1 at City Center, with Will Chase, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Stephen Wa…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMGatz, the marathon theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has extended its return engagement at the Public Theater through May 13. Directed by John Collins …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:26PMAnthony Rapp was one of many familiar faces who turned up to support Adam Pascal at Memphis’ 1,000th Broadway performance. After the curtain came down, Broadway.com asked Rapp what he …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:26PMIt’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:26PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis will appear at MCC’s Miscast 2012 gala. MCC’s annual gala features actors performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast. T…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:26PMMy Fort Lauderdale-based theatre company, Thinking Cap Theatre, is currently midway through a four week run of the Florida premiere of Cleansed by Sarah Kane. During post-show conversation…
Linked From Drama, Daily at 03:25PMThe Kaiser Chiefs, said to be among the country's favourite live performers, are back on the road again with a characteristically boisterous set and with a four week, sold-out, UK tour just …
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMMy recollection of the TV series Robin's Nest is that the character played by David Kelly (obits, March 15) was named Enda, not Arnold.
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMWest London lighting and visuals rental company, Colour Sound Experiment, has significantly expanded its warehouse facility by handily acquiring the building right next door and, having now …
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMColchester-based Illuminate Design has helped one of Britain's flagship dance theatre companies move to a new creation and rehearsal space in Ashford, Kent.
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMMost commercial theatre producers conceive, develop and capitalise each show they work on afresh, starting from a blank slate. They may, of course, have favoured elements in place — a dire…
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMFunktion One has announced the launch of its new website, having undergone a complete redesign with an improved graphical interface including an extensive photo gallery and other new feature…
Linked From The Stage at 03:23PMAndrew Chappelle, also known as Mr. Mamma Mia!, took home the prize at this year’s Broadway Beauty Pageant. The event raised an unprecedented $75,000 for the Ali Forney Center, which provi…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 03:19PMThree shocks have hit the Canadian theatre recently. There was the closure of the Vancouver Playhouse; the announcement that the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize will be awarded for the last time;…
Linked From National Post (Canada) at 03:18PMOk, it's been entirely too long since my last post. Though silent, I've seen the following:
Wit, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club at Friedman Theatre, January 17, 2012 - Cynthia Nixon…
Linked From Third Row, Mezzanine at 03:13PMOn Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections be…
Linked From PBS at 03:10PMEmbedVideo(2962, 482, 304);On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report e…
Linked From PBS at 03:10PMA former government official reminisces about performing in an Oscar Wilde play. That starts him waxing rhapsodic about his encounters with Nikolai Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara, fath…
Linked From NJ.com at 03:10PMPeter Filichia gives us the scoop on what's happening in the Garden State
Linked From NJ.com at 03:10PMThe Public Theater has extended Elevator Repair Service's Gatz through May 13. The production is directed by John Collins.
In the show, piece, every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMThe latest installment of Broadway Rhythm and Booze will take place at 9: 45pm on Monday, March 26 at Flute Bar (40 E. 20th Street).
The show will feature Uzo Aduba, who is currently appea…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMJames Godwin will perform his semi-autobiographical show Lunatic Cunning at Dixon Place, April 6-21.
In the piece, the puppetry and performance art pioneer blends experiences from his own…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMSinger and actress Cyndi Lauper will star in WE's new reality series, Cyndi, according to Deadline.com. The show is set to launch this summer and will have a 12-epsiode run.
The series…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMThe Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre will present the world premiere of Stephen Sachs' Cyrano, April 20-June 10 at The Fountain Theatre. Simon Levy will direct the production..
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Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMRed Fern Theatre Company has announced casting for Sharyn Rothstein's March, to run April 12-29 at The Theater at the 14th Street Y. Kel Haney will direct the production.
The play cen…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:08PMWhat better thing to do while on vacation than play with software between trips to the beach and downing MaiTais. The software in question is Studio Artist and it is a lot of fun. I spent so…
Linked From lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 03:06PM
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my! Every arts organization in the country seems to be looking for the key to attracting multi-generational audiences to their performances. I would like to…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMHow do you turn Biblical text into stage imagery? Des McAnuff explains it all for you, as the former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director brings his Stratford Shakespeare Festival revival of…
Linked From LA STAGE Times at 02:59PMName: Gayle RankinHometown: Glasgow, Scotland Education: The Juilliard School Select Credits: The Illusion (Elicia /Lyse/Clarina, The Signature Theatre); The Seagull (Nina, Brian Mertes' Lak…
Linked From TheaterInTheNow at 02:59PM"Call Me Adam" chats with television, film, and Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat about his upcoming concert at Queens Theatre on March 24, his new album "Consider It Swung," "The Dukes of Hazzar…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 02:58PMTwo River Theatre Company is in the midst of an extraordinary season in which it is not only providing exceptional work for its own audience, but is also nurturing and developing new works w…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMHow does somebody who wants to write about the arts get an audience? In the old days you found a small local publication to write for while you learned your craft, and graduated to bigger pu…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:55PMScenes from Waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum
Two of the most distinguished interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work are together for the first time in Waiting for Godot only at th…
Linked From YouTube at 02:53PMTeresa McCormick Ertel interviews Chris Roberts, head of Stevenson University’s Theater Department, about their growing program and tackling the powerful drama, Miss Evers’ Boys. Te…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Seminar) and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas (The Stendhal Syndrome, Race) will announce the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circl…
Linked From Playbill at 02:49PMThe 2009 Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages returned to Los Angeles for a limited engagement at the Pantages Theatre March 20-25.
Linked From Playbill at 02:49PMProducers of the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon have announced plans to offer a second free fan performance for the June 6 matinee at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 02:49PMWhat’s so special about Oklahoma!? Seventy years ago when Oklahoma! premiered on the New York stage, it singlehandedly changed musical theater forever. Well, I say “singlehandedly,” bu…
Linked From Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:49PMAdelphi, London: There could not be two more different musicals than Singin' in the Rain and Sweeney Todd but the current West End productions of these shows leave no doubt that Chiches…
Linked From The Stage at 02:41PMUnion Theatre, London: Written in 1966, Roger Milner's screwball comedy How's The World Treating You? makes an amiable comeback at the Union Theatre. It's an odd play but none…
Linked From The Stage at 02:41PMBelgrade Theatre, Coventry: With the greatly anticipated London Olympics being the highlight of this coming summer, Stars in the Morning Sky exposes the darker secrets of such high profile e…
Linked From The Stage at 02:41PMHull Truck, Hull: There's something raw and frightening about London Classic Theatre's production.
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Linked From The Stage at 02:41PMYork Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casti…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMRodgers and Hammersteins Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, is now in rehearsal and will run from March 28 April 1 at New York City Center. Pipe Dream is being…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that it would extend GATZ, the critically lauded theatrical adaptation ofF. Scott Fitz…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, actress Amanda Holden is set to host 'Superstar,' the new reality show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber will search for the character of Jesus in the JESUS …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMThe National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS begins previews on April 6 and the official opening is April 18, 2012 at the Music Box Theatre 239 West 4…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway on March 24. In celebration of the shows first year on Broadway, the …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMOn the March 26th episode of the new NBC musical drama series SMASH entitled 'The Coup', the team deals with the aftermath of the workshop. Ivy Megan Hilty remains in the dark about her fate…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMRosie O’Donnell is wasting no time finding her next job now that her OWN Network talk show has been canned. I'm told the comedian is getting ready to return to Broadway, playing the iconic…
Linked From Huffington Post at 02:33PM(Generation Without Borders is an essay series created by TCG for the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day. Will Kiley’s essay is one of three winning student essays that will be pub…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 02:29PM"The Book of Mormon" will offer a free performance on June 6, with tickets distributed via a lottery system. Entries are accepted at the box office of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:28PMGatz, the marathon theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has extended its return engagement at the Public Theatre through May 13. Directed by John Collins …
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:25PMCass Morgan will headline the concert staging of the musical adaptation of Harold and Maude at the York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival series. The mus…
Linked From Broadway.com at 02:25PMAfter standing vacant for 20-odd years, the historic Times Square Theatre at 217 W. 42nd St. will soon become Broadway 4D — a permanent musical attraction managed by a trio of accomplished…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 02:24PMThe Promethean Theatre presents the play The Unseen by Craig Wright. Sadly, this is the final production the Promethean Theatre will present as it will cease operations at the close of this …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMIndeed, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are becoming legends in the strictest definition of the word-increasingly fewer people are living who could have seen them perform live and, as they cho…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMAt this point, we might as well rename Arts Desk the Daily Daisey.
Today's bit of Mike Daisey news: In a statement today, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company says it still plans to stage a summer…
Linked From Washington City Paper at 02:23PMThe chemistry between Chizever and Diana Rose Becker as Eliza is indeed fiery. Their disagreements are bigger and hotter than normally played on stage, but it works so well one wonders why i…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMODD CASTING CHOICE NEARLY SINKS SHOW There is a perplexing and ultimately infuriating casting choice in the Old Globe’s production of Anna Christie that nearly sinks Eugene O’Neill’s 1…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:23PMBroadway ticket sales continued their increase through the week ending March 18 with sales of $22 million, some of which may have been attributed to the opening of three productions.
Sales …
Linked From Ticket News at 02:23PMNEW YORK (AP) -- One of the hardest tickets to get on Broadway could be yours for free - as long as you've got some luck....
Linked From Associated Press at 02:23PMThe playwright with 40 years' experience at the cutting edge of British theatre will be online to answer your questions ahead of his Guardian Open Weekend event on Sunday 25 MarchSir David H…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:23PMSavion Glover’s California tour, which brings him to the Valley Performing Arts Center on Saturday, is called “Bare Soundz” and will involve two other dancers as well as elements of fl…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:23PMNEW YORK (AP) -- In a packed rehearsal room a few floors above the massive stage at Radio City Music Hall, 13-year-old Alyssa Casson walked to a spot in front of a panel of judges and pa…
Linked From Associated Press at 02:23PM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Jon Fleming about his stage debut in Clifford Streit's "HIM" the play at the Soho Playhouse in NYC, starring in Here's "Dante's Cove," his recurrin…
Linked From Call Me Adam at 02:23PMIn the interests of fairness, and because of the number of views my previous remarks on the controversy have generated here and here, I post below a complete recording of the remarks that Mi…
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 02:09PMOn Tuesday, March 20, the Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical celebrated a year on Broadway at the Palace Theatre.
Australian bakery Pie Face unveiled the new …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMThe Revere Hotel will open on April 18, and will have a film and live entertainment venue called Theatre 1. No specific bookings have been announced.
The hotel will occupy the space which f…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMThe Public Theater has extended Elevator Repair Service's Gatz through May 16. The production is directed by John Collins.
In the show, piece, every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMMasterworks Broadway has released Tracie Bennett Sings Judy: Songs from the Broadway Production of End of the Rainbow and Other Garland Classics. The recording is now available for both pur…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMVal Kilmer has announced new performance dates for his one man play, Citizen Twain --
which he wrote, directed and stars in -- at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The s…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced two selections for its 2012-2013 season: Red Dog Howls by Alexander Dinelaris, and Belleville by Amy Herzog.
In Red Dog Howls, a box of old letters …
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PMThe Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway with a free fan performance on Wednesday, June…
Linked From TheaterMania at 02:07PM
This masterful production seizes on Sondheim’s rich, pungent musical with glee, relishing its excesses yet still savouring its delicacy, writes Sarah Hemming
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 01:50PMThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20 at the Palace Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 01:48PMConor Lovett will repeat his work in the U.S. premiere of Middletown playwright Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, which will begin Off-Broadway May …
Linked From Playbill at 01:48PMSeattle's 5th Avenue Theatre will commemorate the centennial of the maiden voyage of the Titanic with a staged concert of the Tony Award-winning 1997 musical about the doomed luxury line…
Linked From Playbill at 01:48PMThe current revival of “The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess” will launch a national tour beginning in the fall of 2013, according to Playbill. “Porgy and Bess” first appeared on Broadway…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 01:43PMThe touring stage show “Batman Live” first premiered last Summer in the U.K., and now producers have announced a North American tour for later this year. Billed a “crime-fighting arena…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 01:43PMLast night we attended Godspell’s Tuesday Talkback featuring the show’s star and prettiest cast member Hunter Parrish. After a rousing performance Hunter came on stage to chat with Julie…
Linked From The Craptacular at 01:37PMConor Lovett will headline off-Broadway's Title and Deed, a play written specifically for the actor by Will Eno. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, performances begin May 8 at the Ali…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:24PMWith her new musical Ghost in early previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater Caissie Levy is a hard-working leading lady these days, but she got up early on March 20 to talk Broadway shop with …
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:24PMThe New York Post reports that The Jonas Brothers are preparing a reality show of their own. The famous family—Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas—have a development deal with E! Television and ha…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 01:17PMSunday evening, Arlington’s Signature Theatre revealed the world premiere of Brother Russia, a new rock musical by the creative team of John Dempsey and Dana Rowe. Chock full of interestin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:07PMArs Nova will present a free reading of The Noise by Rachel Bonds as part of its OUT LOUD play-reading series, March 26 at 7pm. Director-in-residence Portia Krieger will direct.
In The Noi…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:06PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre will hold a public discussion in which they invite patrons to express their opinions on the controversy surrounding the misrepresentations of the truth within Mike Dai…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:06PMYork Theatre Company, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casting for the next two musicals in the sprin…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:06PMThe Coterie will present composer John Bucchino live in concert in An Intimate Evening with John Bucchino & Friends on March 30 at 8:30pm.
This intimate event will feature a lineup o…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:06PMSignature Theatre in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland will present Conor Lovett in Will Eno's new play Title and Deed, May 8-June 3 in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre…
Linked From TheaterMania at 01:06PMMr. Grosbard’s work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though his career stretched across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects.
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Peter Hinton, who is about to depart as artistic director of the National Arts Centre English Theatre wing, announced his final season with the company and, as expected, it is highlighted by…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:55PMWhatsonstage.com has once again been ranked as a Top 10 website winner – and we’re climbing the ranks!
The Experian Hitwise UK Top 10 Awards celebrate the most successful UK web…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 12:51PMHAL IN THE HOUSE: Restaurateur Bart Saracino got a call early Saturday morning asking if he could keep his Bartolino’s Osteria open for a few more hours for a special guest.
Linked From St. Louis Today at 12:50PMThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20 at the Palace Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:48PMCasting has been announced for the Musicals in Mufti presentations of Roadside and Harold and Maude, staged as part of the The Tom Jones Festival at the York Theatre Company's Off-Broadw…
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Linked From JK's TheatreScene at 12:44PMMusicals Tonight continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next edition of At This Performance to be held on Monday, March 26th at The Li…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PM'Peter and the Starcatcher', a new play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice Jersey Boys, directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees Nicholas Nickleby and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers Bloody Bl…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMOn Saturday, March 17 took to the stage with the 60-piece Wilmington Symphony Orchestra at the Kenan Auditorium in Wilmington, NC. Joining her was her band including Bucky Pizzarelli guitar,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMOn Wednesday, April 4, Shane D. Hudson will lead the A-ha! Leadership Webinar, The Future of Engagement: Social Media and Your Audience. This webinar is free for Member Theatres and will fea…
Linked From Theatre Communications Group at 12:29PMFat Camp, the Outstanding Musical winner at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, is set for off-Broadway’s American Theatre of Actors.Directed by Casey Hushion, Fat Ca…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:24PMUlu Grosbard, a Tony-nominated director who was equally accomplished in theater and film, passed away in Manhattan some time around March 19. He was 83 years old.
Grosbard was born in Ant…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:24PMA year-long run on Broadway is something to celebrate, and the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert happily marked that milestone on March 20 at the Palace Theatre. Broadway.com got a rare …
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:24PMHornsea Floral Hall in Yorkshire may be saved from demolition, if proposals for the local council to hand over the freehold of the building to community groups can be agreed in the next six …
Linked From The Stage at 12:21PM- For Washington Improv Theater, the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is the biggest event of the year. With 58 teams vying for the comedy crown this year — that’s a record-setti…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMLegit News:
Musical to get commercial run this spring
Linked From Variety at 12:06PMCasting has been announced for the new Off-Broadway musical, Fat Camp, to play the American Theatre of Actors beginning April 12. Casey Hushion will direct, with choreography by Kelly Devine…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMThis tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson at Feinstein's at Loews Regency doesn't do justice to its subject matter.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe Juilliard School has announced the artists who will receive honorary doctoral degrees at its 107th Commencement Ceremony, May 25 at 11am in Alice Tully Hall. Degree recipient Athol Fuga…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMGoodman Theatre and Teatro Vista have announced casting for Cándido Tirado's Fish Men, to run April 7 - May 6 in the Goodman's Owen Theatre. Edward Torres will direct t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMVictory Gardens Theater has announced its 2012-2013 season.
The company's first production will be Bill Cain's Equivocation (September 14 - October 14). Sean Graney will direct t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMCafe Carlyle will present Desperate Housewives' Emily Bergl in the premiere of her new cabaret show NY I Love You, May 1-12.
NY I Love You is an evening of song and stories that explor…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project will present a new play about the late Italian actress Anna Magnani, Mamma Roma, written and performed by Anne DeSalvo, from April 3 to 14 at Ch…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMMusicals Tonight! continues its ongoing tribute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies with its next edition of At This Performance… to be held on Monday, March 26 at T…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMTony Award winner Laura Benanti will headline The Goodman Theatre's Le Cabaret Rouge gala, to be held on May 11 at The Fairmont Hotel.
Benanti won the Tony for Gypsy, and was Tony-no…
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:05PMStephen Wallem's Pipe Dream vlog: Day 2
In today's installment, Stephen Wallem offers a few hints about what's in store for Pipe Dream audiences: pigeon pie, an octopus, and Sno…
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Television magician and mind control expert Derren Brown brings his latest live stage show Svengali back to the West End this summer, playing a 27-performance run at Novello Theatre from 17 …
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:50AMIt’s 50 years since A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess’ seminal dystopian novel, was published.
To mark the occasion, Volcano Theatre Company are bringing their stage productio…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 11:50AMFat Camp, the new coming-of-age musical about a group of misfits at a summer camp for overweight teens, will play an Off-Broadway commercial run beginning April 12 at the American Theatre of…
Linked From Playbill at 11:46AMFour of Chicago’s most gifted and innovative Off Loop directors (Sean Graney, Seth Bockley, Dexter Bullard and Joanie Schultz), along with artistic director Chay Yew, will stage the five p…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 11:46AMVictory Gardens Theater has announced its 2012-13 season, the first under new artistic director Chay Yew and featuring several directors making their debuts at this long-standing Chicago com…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 11:33AMSISTER ACT has played Broadway, the West End, Hamburg, Vienna, and now Stuttgart, featuring the talents of Zodwa Selele a Deloris Van Cartier. Check out a sneak peek below
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMComedian, talk show host, producer and star Rosie O'Donnell has made no secret of her desire to play 'Miss Hannigan' in the upcoming Broadway revival of ANNIE. Now, an insider has told the H…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMToday in 2002, Oklahoma opened at the Gershwin Theatre, where it ran for 388 performances. Oklahoma is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe Juilliard School holds its 107th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 11 AM in Alice Tully Hall Broadway at 65th Street, NYC. Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi will read s…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMRock of Ages' star, Joey Calveri, will perform on Thursday, March 22nd at Broadway Sessions. The evening will also feature performances from the cast of Non-Equity, The Musical and recordin…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMRiverside Center Dinner Theater presents Cabaret - a darkly decadent Tony award-winning musical with a fabulous score by John Kander and Fred Ebb – about the quiet rise of the Third…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMWe’re back with more tickets to give away! Are you excited? I am. I absolutely love giving tickets away, it’s one of my favorite parts about being BroadwaySpotted. But enough abo…
Linked From BroadwaySpotted at 11:30AMTony nominee and Seminar star Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas will announce nominations for the 62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards on April 23 at the Friars Club. The Outer Critics Circle …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:24AMWith a Broadway resume that includes Elphaba in Wicked and Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley in The Pirate Queen, it’s no wonder Stephanie J. Block laughingly declares, “Peopl…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe Times Square Theatre, which has been vacant for over 20 years in New York’s famous theater district, will be renovated to house a four-dimensional Broadway extravaganza, according …
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:24AMToday is the birthday of English music hall “coster singer” Albert Chevalier. (See his full bio here). Here he is performing the touching “My Old Dutch”. (Dutch is sh…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 11:17AMIt’s Flo Ziegfeld’s birthday. For my full run-down on him, please go here. In honor of the day, we share this AMAZING clip. It’s a 1929 filmed version of Ziegfeld’s M…
Linked From Trav S.D. at 11:17AMTune in to see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR lyricist Tim Rice on TheaterTalk this Friday, March 23. Tim talks with hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about the return of his JESUS CHRIST SUP…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:12AMSpring has arrived and so has the first play of our reading series! As you know (or maybe you don't, if you're a new subscriber), we get a lot of submissions here at the office, so three tim…
Linked From The Producer's Perspective at 11:11AMI didn’t think the National’s production of One Man Two Guvnors could be bettered. I am delighted to say I was wrong: the new incarnation at the Haymarket surpasses the comic h…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 11:10AMThe Blank Theatre has announced casting for its world premiere production of Michael John LaChiusa's Sukie & Sue: Their Story, to run April 21-June 3 at the 2nd Stage Theatre. Kirs…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:04AMI Love Lucy Live On Stage will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, running September 12 - November 11, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune. The show, as previously re…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:04AMMcCarter Theatre Center has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
Opening the season will be a McCarter commission, Christopher Durang's new Chekhov-inspired play Vanya and Sonia a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:04AMGerman director and composer Heiner Goebells has won the International Ibsen Award, according to published reports. He will receive the honor at a ceremony to be held at the International I…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:04AMBroadway 4D Theaters, LLC has entered into a long term lease with The New 42nd Street, Inc for the Times Square Theater, located on 42nd Street, and will undertake a full renovation of the t…
Linked From TheaterMania at 11:04AMBroadway’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which opens tomorrow night (Thursday, March 22) at the Neil Simon Theatre, is in the news. ASSOCIATED PRESS Tim Rice By Mark Kennedy This spring, Tim Ric…
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Gotta Dance: Poloma Garcia Lee
This week, Broadway.com's Gotta Dance! series showcases Paloma Garcia-Lee, a graceful ballerina in The Phantom of the Opera ensemble. Garcia-Lee, who made…
Linked From YouTube at 10:45AMSir Patrick Stewart, Peabody Award-winning star of stage and screen, Shakespeare plays and science-fiction blockbusters, will be the host of the 71st Annual George Foster Peabody Awards cere…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMBroadway 4D Theaters, LLC today announced it has entered into a long term lease for the Times Square Theater with The New 42nd Street, Inc., the nonprofit cultural organization responsible f…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMI wasnt sure what to expect as I rounded 48th street towards the Walter Kerr. This time was different from every other trip I had taken here. This time I was going to be privy to the inner w…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMCasting is complete and rehearsals have begun for The Blank Theatres world premiere production of Sukie amp Sue Their Story by Michael John LaChiusa, directed by Kirsten Sanderson. Developed…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMGreetings from the edge of the world. Buy tickets to MTC's world premiere REGRETS and save over 40
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMOn Monday, March 19, The Town Hall hosted THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1950, as part of the 12th season of The Town Halls acclaimed Broadway By The Year series, created, written and hosted by Sc…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMLast night, March 20, Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated the musicals landmark one year anniversary at the Palace Theatre before the show with the stars cutting the Priscilla Pink Pie …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMThe new basketball drama Magic/Bird, starring Kevin Daniels as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird, official bounces onto Broadway on March 21. Penned by Lombardi …
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:23AMThis week, Broadway.com’s Gotta Dance! series showcases Paloma Garcia-Lee, a graceful ballerina in The Phantom of the Opera ensemble. Garcia-Lee, who made her Broadway debut in the And…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:23AMTax breaks for TV drama production are to be introduced, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced during his budget speech today.
Linked From The Stage at 10:20AMStage adaptation of Giulia Melucci MemoirHartford's TheaterWorks presents the world premiere of "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti," a stage adaptation based on the best-selling memoir b…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:10AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For March, …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 10:05AMCast members from the hit AMC series Mad Men previewed the upcoming fifth season of the drama with a Times Talks discussion at the TimesCenter, held Tuesday, March 20.
The discussion, which…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMStage and screen actress Jessica Biel will join Tony Award winner Scarlett Johannson and Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren in the film Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho,…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMMore stage actors have signed up for this season's television pilots, according to Deadline.com.
Former Jersey Boysstar Erich Bergen will co-star with Amber Stevens and Craig Horner in…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMCutting Ball Theater is set to present the world premiere of Annie Elias' documentary theater piece Tenderloin, April 27-May 27. Elias will direct.
Tenderloin brings Cutting Ball&apos…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMLily Tomlin and her longtime partner, Jane Wagner, were honored with the 345th star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on Friday, March 16. Among the many well-wishers on hand to congratulate…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMMcCarter Theatre Center has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
Opening the season will be a McCarter commission, Christopher Durang's new Chekhov-inspired play Vanya and Sonia a…
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Ulu Grosbard has died at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center earlier this week, according to The New York Times. He was 83.
Grosbard received Tony nominations for his …
Linked From TheaterMania at 10:03AMStage Dooring. This is a serious point of contention for many people, performers and audience members alike. There are fans that appear at the stage door after every performance they see reg…
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Jonathan Kent's Chichester Festival Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd opened last night (20 March, previews from 10 March 2012) at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. The sho…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 09:48AM“I Love Lucy Live On Stage,” a new musical stage show adapted from the long-running, beloved television program, will have its Midwest premiere in Chicago, Sept. 12-Nov. 11 at the Broadw…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 09:45AMThe West-End production of SWEENEY TODD, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, opened last night, March 20, at the Adelphi Theatre, following its sell-out success at the Chichester Fest…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMToday, March 21, Broadway favorite Rosie O'Donnell celebrates her birthday, and we at BroadwayWorld want to send a big 'thank you' to a woman who has continuously supported the Broadway comm…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMBroadway in Chicago said Thursday that "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" will be staged this fall at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, playing from Sept 12 through Nov. 11.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 09:31AMLookingglass Theatre ensemble member David Schwimmer will direct a new Chicago-set play by Keith Huff ("A Steady Rain") as part of the 2012-13 season at the Lookingglass Theatre.
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 09:31AMEquity has received an official apology from the Home Office after one of the union's members was told he was not able to serve as a passport counter-signatory because "acting is not a prope…
Linked From The Stage at 09:19AMOpera Holland Park is vying to become an independent company after more than 15 years of being run by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Linked From The Stage at 09:19AMThey meet on a Dublin street, he a street musician about to abandon his guitar, she a Czech pianist without a piano. In “Once” the Broadway musical, as in “Once” the small hit film, …
Linked From The Faster Times at 09:12AMThe new issue of The Eugene O’Neill Review, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, has just been released; it contains my review of the Neo-Futurists’ 2001 product…
Linked From Superfluities Redux at 09:03AMAward-winning actors Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas will announce the Outer Critics Circle Award nominations at The Friars Club on Monday, April 23 at 11am.
In addition, Jerry Stiller and Ann…
Linked From TheaterMania at 09:02AMInfinity Theatre Company Monday, March 26 in Washington, DC. Equity Principals auditions for Sisters of Swing and Dames at Sea for Infinity Theatre Company’s summer productions. Rehears…
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Linked From Halcyon Theatre at 08:55AMBroadway turns it down a notch (or two or three) for the low-key stage musical adaptation of the 2006 indie film hit Once. A pair of fresh faces (Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti) play Guy an…
Linked From Stage Rush at 08:54AMOne option for preserving the performing arts is often mentioned is a greater use of multi-media either in a performance or as a medium to transmit the performance. However, reading an artic…
Linked From Butts In The Seats at 08:49AMSteve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in 'Once.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Before reckoning with the new, exceedingly lovely, and disappointingly thin Broadway musical Once, which opened Sund…
Linked From The New York Observer at 08:47AMAfrican cinema is one of those areas of the movie map that tends to elude most American cinephiles/film nerds; if you’ve seen an African-made feature in the past year, it was probably Cong…
Linked From citypaper.com at 08:47AMThe Brothers Size
Directed by Derek Goldman
At Everyman Theatre through April 15
Writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, who wrote The Brothers Size when he was 26, has been decorated with …
Linked From citypaper.com at 08:47AMArthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is back on Broadway. Esteemed movie and theater director Mike Nichols directs the revival, which features retro sets and music, and young actors playing…
Linked From WQXR at 08:46AM“Death be not proud,” Cynthia Nixon pleads on West 47th Street in the stunning production of Wit at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Well, Nixon clearly has not been informed that Death i…
Linked From TheTheatreSource at 08:46AMThey say role play is a great form of therapy. But in French playwright Jean Genet’s 1947 play, The Maids, this concept is taken to a whole new sadomasochistic level. Two maids, who al…
Linked From Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:44AMMojitos all around! You are cordially invited to our Twitter Happy Hour tomorrow from 4 p.m. to 5 in the Twitterverse. We’ll be chatting about “Hunger Games” and “Ame…
Linked From San Jose Mercury News at 08:43AMThe world premiere of the ’80s flashback “Diner” musical and the Broadway revival of the tap-happy “Anything Goes” are among the highlights of the 2012-13 SHN s…
Linked From San Jose Mercury News at 08:43AMFrom his Amazon riff “21 Dog Years” to his Apple expose “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey has always had his finger on the pulse of dotcom cu…
Linked From San Jose Mercury News at 08:43AMShortly before last weekend's controversy involving Mike Daisey and This American Life, Daisey had released the text of his show The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs online under a Creati…
Linked From Art Hennessey at 08:42AM
Lauren Feldman
Hometown: Miami, FL
Current Town: Brooklyn, NY
Q: What are you working on now?
A: - Revising my play THE EGG-LAYERS, on the heels…
Linked From ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:41AMThe SHN 2012-2013 Season Joining Previously Announced THE BOOK OF MORMON: DINERTHE LION KINGANYTHING GOESWICKED SAN FRANCISCO (March 20, 2012) … SHN is pleased to announce the complete fiv…
Linked From The Broadway Critic Blog at 08:38AMby: Dan Mason (@djdan1079) Round 1 of musical madness is in the books. While 11 lower seeds were victorious, only 5 of those could be considered big upsets. Perhaps the most shocking resul…
Linked From The Broadway Critic Blog at 08:38AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s Anything Goes will sail on without leading lady Sutton Foster after departing the production last week to film a new television series. However, now in the…
Linked From Luner on Theatre at 08:35AMAustralian theatre producer John Frost today announced he had joined forces with the producer of the award winning Australian film RED DOG, Nelson Woss, to explore developing the Red Dog sto…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to report that Multi A…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMThe West-End production of SWEENEY TODD, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, opened last night, March 20, at the Adelphi Theatre, following its sell-out success at the Chichester Fest…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMHere’s a recurring conversation that I’ve had with several of my incredible musical theater composer colleagues. See if it sounds familiar… Me: Congrats! Your show’s been selecte…
Linked From Make Musicals at 08:24AMFrom the screen to the stage, the 2006 indie film "Once" has made it to Broadway via a production at The New York Theatre Workshop last fall.
Linked From NY1 at 08:21AMOne of the best things you can do at any event is solve problems and that is why tonight is such an exciting one for me. As was announced on Thursday, tonight there will be numerous F.O.D.'s…
Linked From One Producer in the City at 08:21AM'Porgy & Bess' Broadway Poster
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Linked From About.com - Theater at 08:15AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses his work on AMC's Mad Men, wanting to be on Smash, and returning to Broadway.
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‘Once” She Done Him Right By: Isa Goldberg/Chief Theater Critic“Old Martin” meets broken down Hoover. That in a nutshell, is the…
Linked From theaterlife.com at 07:47AMThe cast and crew of Sweeney Todd, led by Michael Ball as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Imelda Staunton as Mrs Lovett, were joined by guests including Tom Jones, Rosemarie Ford, Rober…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:46AMThe Classic movie is now a stage play - with a world premier in Sydney! An Officer and a Gentleman opens at Sydney's Lyric Theatre Sydney on the 10th May Preview from the Theatre Show.
Linked From YouTube at 07:46AMI've got an essay in the program for the Ahmanson Theatre's West Coast premiere of American Idiot, a show I quite like. A sample:Blame it on Rodgers and Hammerstein...The match between rock …
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:46AMGodspell on Project Runway: All Stars
Stephen Schwartz, Danny Goldstein, and Uzo Aduba meet with the cast of Project Runway: All Stars to fill them in on the Godspell Costume Challenge.
Bu…
Linked From YouTube at 07:46AMWestport Country Playhouse Presents Into the Woods
May 1 - 26, 2012
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Mark Lamos
A co-production with Baltimore's CEN…
Linked From YouTube at 07:44AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:29AMITV's director of drama Laura Mackie won the judges award at the Royal Television Society's awards last night (March 20), in recognition of her success in backing a succession of hits, led b…
Linked From The Stage at 07:18AMA double bill from the pen of Martin Crimp is currently gracing the stage of The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond: Play House and Definitely the Bahamas, directed by Crimp himself - the fir…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMTo adapt a quote from a London Symphony Orchestra tube poster I saw the other day: “The greatest [dancers] in the world, in my own city”. This sums up for me one of the greatest pl…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMJULIUS CAESAR IN AFRICA Modern theater companies traditionally place Shakespeare into all kinds of settings, eras and cultures in search of new or updated relevance. While the choices for ma…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:05AMIMPRISONED BY ART Most literary intellectuals have as much business writing about life behind bars as incarcerated felons have teaching text analysis. In the last few months, Los Angeles h…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:05AMThankfully, Gov. Corbett has called for arts funding to stay level in his proposed budget for next year. Regrettably, however, the Republican-controlled legislature seeks to cut funding for …
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Director, Artistic Director, Writer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? First, my colleagues. Not only the amazingly talented collaborators – actors, writers, choreog…
Linked From The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:57AMIn the opening moments of Crisis in the Credit System, a bitingly funny, deliberately flummoxing miniseries of sorts by the young Canadian, London-based artist Melanie Gilligan, a kindly you…
Linked From Toronto.com at 12:51AMTony Award nominee Sharon McNight (Starmites) hosts the fourth annual RRAZZiversary, a gala celebration and benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, March 21 at San Francisco&#…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMDating Depression and Dirtbags: A Love Story, a solo show written by and starring Elza Zagreda, begins performances March 21 at Stage Left Studios in Manhattan.
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMHim, which played the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre in December 2011, officially opens in its return engagement March 21 at the Soho Playhouse.
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMThe New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family — over the course of many mealtimes, both joyous and contentious &mdash…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, begins previews at Broadway's Longacre Theatr…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMThe Chicago premiere of Mark St. Germain's two-character drama Freud's Last Session, about a meeting of opposite forces C.S. Lewis and Dr. Sigmund Freud, features the play's orig…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMThe hunt for actors good enough — and tall enough — to play basketball icons in Magic/Bird led to Kevin Daniels as Magic Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird. They're making t…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMAcademy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") is Pozzo in Mark T…
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMKathleen Turner reprises her Broadway role of a no-nonsense nun in High for a San Francisco engagement of Matthew Lombardo's drama starting March 21 at the SHN Curran Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 12:37AMThe Tin Pan Alley musical Hello! My Baby, featuring book and lyrics by Emmy-winning "Cheers" writer and Tony-nominated Sister Act co-librettist Cheri Steinkellner, begins performan…
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