The latest series of themed performances at the international 59E59 features two Scottish plays, directed by the playwrights, that deal with loss via character's reactions to historic (or ne…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:54PMSome days you can feel like a hero just getting out of bed in the morning.
That’s the message of Gotham Chamber Opera’s delightful production of “Il Sogno di Scipione,” which opened …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:37PMStephen King has killed off all sorts of characters in his 49 or so novels.
Now that he’s working in the theater, he might have a go at killing off his director
County,” a musical King�…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PMTonight, I saw a legend live on stage, the one and only Judy Garland when I attended the new Broadway show "End of the Rainbow" starring Tracie Bennett, Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey, and Ja…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:12PMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has been stunningly reimagined by director Michael Grandage in the show's first Broadway revival since it originally closed on Broadway in 1983.
Evit…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:07PMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has been stunningly reimagined by director Michael Grandage in the show's first Broadway revival since it originally closed on Broadway in 1983.
Evi…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 11:07PMDueling monologues don’t usually add up to my favorite kind of play. But David Harrower’s vividly detailed and deeply affecting drama of estranged siblings, “A Slow Air,” has made me…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThey say it’s the dark tales that start out on stormy nights and this story is no exception. Centerstage’s production of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Manis a chilling tale of just…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMMessy stuff, morality. And José Rivera’s untidy allegory of life and death, “Massacre (Sing to Your Children),” comes awash in blood, bile, tears, other body fluids, blinding lights a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, Richard Harkin says of his brother, Sharky, “It’s a well-known fact in this whole area that my brother has that rare gift which is, unfortunately, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PM"Once" at Jacobs Theatre, March 8, 14 and 28, 2012
(Photos: Joan Marcus)
It's been a couple of years since I've seen a show multiple times. The last was Lincoln Center's sweepi…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 11:00PM
The opening of “Massacre (Sing to Your Children)” is the single scariest minute of the year.
It would spoil the surprise to describe the scene in detail, so let’s just say it involves …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMRobert Lepage's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle for the Metropolitan Opera has come a long way since he unveiled his "Machine" with "Das Rheingold" going on two years ago. It's now a widel…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:40PMThe Daily Mail UK reports that Miranda Raison will star in Donmar Theatre's Physicists. The actress will play a physicist's wife and nurse in the stage version of Friedrich Durrenmatts Cold …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33PMTonight on American Idol, the judges used their one save of the season and we witnessed the return of two alumni - Jennifer Hudson, with special guest Ne-Yo, and last year's James Durbin. Wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28PMThe Daily Mail UK reports that David Bedella will star as drag queen Arnold Beckoffin in Harvey Fiersteins new three-act play Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14PMWe’re not sure if you’ve noticed, but director Derek Wills is basically the hottest person on Smash. Sure, he’s got a questionable attitude. And he takes advantage of his position in…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:08PMIn “You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce,” four performers portray their own parents in a collage of reminiscences about their marriages, all past history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Civilians' latest documentary theater piece addresses its subject matter in an engaging and humorous fashion.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMJose Rivera's play about the nature of oppression is surprisingly mundane.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
THE IMPORTANCE OF A BIG BROTHER When you hear of Billy Elliot being a phenomenal world-wide success, it is almost shocking that the popular musical (music by Elton John, book and lyrics by L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:54PM"In Paris," a theatrical adaptation of a story by Ivan Bunin starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, has its U.S. premiere at the Broad Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45PMUNFETTERED AND ALIVE In Paris, Dmitry Krymov’s adaptation of an Ivan Bunin story, traces in words, music, and movement a few moments in the lives of two Russian émigrés (Anna Sinyaki…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:37PMThe crowd went wild on April 11 as the worlds of the NBA and Broadway collided on opening night of Magic/Bird! Playing out the story of the on-court rivalry and off-court friendship bet…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:34PMHBO has bowed out of "Ruined," a planned screen adaptation of the acclaimed play by Lynn Nottage. The drama, set in a brothel in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, had been a project…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:07PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Man With the Pointed Toes' at Glendale Centre Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:06PMSouth Coast Repertory’s Jitney will hail a ride across town to the Pasadena Playhouse after Costa Mesa…Deborah Cox will join the new Jekyll & Hyde, which will go from La Mirada to a …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PM*Jersey Boys* never shies from showing the price behind the chart busters. And when we hear the boyish Joseph Leo Bwarie's take on Frankie Valli's irrepressible and incandescent “Can’t …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:00PM
Sniffling and dozing, flirting and rebuffing, pontificating and pouting — such are the moods and states found in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," onstage at the Denver
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:57PMThe acclaimed new American play PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Drama Desk Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Alex …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:40PMThe New York Premiere of
pool (no water)
By Mark Ravenhill (Playwright of Shopping and F*cking)
May 9–26, 2012 9th Space, 150 First Avenue NYC
****… “80 dynamic minutes that…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 07:39PMThe National Endowment for the Arts has named a new director for arts education,choosing an experienced cultural advocate from Los Angeles. Ayanna Hudson will assume the new position startin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMToday, Will Swenson shared a song he wrote several years ago celebrating the beauty of Mormon cursing with the company o THE BOOK OF MORMON via Twitter. Enjoy the song, Dang, Fetch, Oh My He…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33PMPRICELESS: William Shatner and his wife Liz were treated to a special tour of the "Cavalia" horse stables today while they were preparing for Shatner's one-man retrospective tonight at the P…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:17PMWhen Madani Younis became the new artistic director of the Bush, some questioned his commitment to new writing, while others asked what he would bring to this small but high-profile venue. W…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMAcolytes of Charles Dickens were a little miffed when the Cultural Olympics committee announced that the chosen poster boy for British culture was to be William Shakespeare – a calculated …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIn less than two weeks, Britain's theatres, galleries and museums will undergo a dramatic transformation. They will be turned into dedicated stages to celebrate the works of a certain 16th-c…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMTamara Rojo is to make the grand jeté fromleading lady to artistic director with the announcement that the Spanish ballerina has been appointed to turn around the fortunes of the under pres…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMTheatregoers heading to the West End are being hit with "rip-off" charges when they book tickets for big shows online, it has been revealed. Extra fees of up to £12.25 extra are being added…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 12, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inform…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:59PMHEDY WEISS: The curators of the sensational “Jersey Boys” franchise not only have kept it superbly maintained but have sharpened and polished the production with the perfect four leading…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:53PMAfter a successful 2011 Off-Broadway run at the New York Theatre Workshop,
Peter and the Starcatcher takes flight at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson
Theatre under the direction of Alex Timbers …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMThere really were moments during the Houston Hobby Center’s opening night of COME FLY AWAY that we audience members felt we were being lifted heavenward. There was heavenly song with the c…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 05:38PMThe Doyle and Debbie Show will close May 27 at The Royal George Cabaret after a seven month run.
Created by Bruce Arntson and starring Bruce Arntson, Jenny Littleton, and Matt Carlton, The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMStandup storytelling career on rise in wake of MuchMusic and Mr. D.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:27PMIn the Tony-nominated musical Legally Blonde, heroine Elle Woods leaves sunny California to get "serious" about her law studies at Harvard University. The story of the pink-clad, c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMMargaret Gray reviews Elizabeth Sarnoff's "Slow Dance in Midtown" at the Whitefire Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:19PMToday I talk with DC-based playwright Heather McDonald. I have read, seen, and even directed Heather’s beautiful plays for more than twenty years. You can hear how she weaves a story�…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:13PMThe Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has announced the productions to be featured in its 2012 Summer Repertory season, to begin June 2.
Plays will include Measure for Measure by William Shake…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMI am going to Arts Advocacy Day in Washington next week. I wrote about it after I got back last year. I was really happy I went – we get to sit down with congresspeople and/or their staf…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:09PMMike Nussbaum, the indefatigable, 88-year-old dean of Chicago actors, is to take over the huge role of Sigmund Freud in "Freud's Last Session."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:08PMJulie Reiber will celebrate the release of her debut solo album, Love Travels, with a concert a Rockwood Music Hall to be offered on Wednesday, April 25. The recording will be available for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMMy Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM
Vineyard Flowers, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:59PMMarina Nemats extraordinary memoir has been adapted for the stage by Maja Ardal
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:57PMOne Year Lease Theater Company is set to present the New York premiere of Mark Ravenhill's pool (no water), May 9-26 at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122. Ianthe Demos will direct.
pool…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMSteven Sater (librettist/lyricist of Spring Awakening) sits down with original cast members Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard to discuss why this musical is still so relevant.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:54PMRenée Fleming talks opera ahead of her April 20 concert at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:49PMLike Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird, the characters they play in the new basketball drama Magic/Bird, Kevin Daniels and Tug Coker formed a real-life friendship while …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMATTN: Producers, Directors, Playwrights! Gorilla Tango’s Skokie Theatre is having an OPEN HOUSE on Saturday, April 28 from 3pm - 5pm (7924 Lincoln Ave. Skokie, IL 60077). Want to come chec…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:38PMI wasn't going to review "The Book of Mormon" again, this is now the third time I've seen it and one out and out rave from me was plenty whilst the first cast remained. That said, when I ven…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:37PMWith speculation surrounding the possible recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Playbill.com offers a look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals and plays that were revived this s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMBernadette Peters surprised Broadway legend Joel Grey on his 80th birthday with a cake backstage at Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City yesterday, April 11, 2012. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMBernadette Peters surprised Broadway legend Joel Grey on his 80th birthday with a cake backstage at Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City yesterday, April 11, 2012. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMJapanese prints at the MIA.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:27PMSeveral singers with strong St. Louis (and Opera Theatre of St. Louis) ties are among the winners of the Richard Tucker Foundation’s 2012 competition.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:27PMTheater for the New City will present Charles Busch's new comedy JUDITH OF BETHULIA. The play, starring Busch, and directed by Carl Andress The Divine Sister Die, Mommie, Die will play a lim…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PMAre critics casting their vote for "The Best Man"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:20PMThe Cultch (aka: Vancouver East Cultural Centre) has announced its 39th season, programmed by executive director Heather Redfern. The lineup includes productions and companies from Vanc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:20PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Eric Simonson's play Magic/Bird.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PM"Envision: Artopia" is in its 10th season.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:14PMThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2012 fellowships today. They went to a diverse group of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists in the foundation’s 88th annual co…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:11PMThe Tories are discouraging high earners from giving their money away, tarring philanthropy with the brush of tax avoidanceThe fallout from last month's budget has included much that is surr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10PMCaden Manson and Jemma Nelson talk about the company's newest work, which returns to Abrons after a brief run in January at American Realness 2012
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:08PMSoprano Renée Fleming was on the Lopate Show to talk about her new album of French songs, "Poemes." She also admitted her love of sugar. What have you read or seen in the past year that mo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:07PMMAGICBIRD opened on Broadway last night, April 11 and BroadwayWorld was at the post-show celebration to chat with the company Click below to hear from the cast and director Thomas Kail
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PM
When Carnegie Hall presents THE SOUND OF MUSIC in Concert on April 24th, the three singers who are runner-ups at the Festival in the story’s climax will be played by Nicholas Hammond, Heat…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 03:57PMTwin Cities sculptor Amy Toscani puts a Midwest spin on mixed media.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:56PMAlfie Boe's self-titled solo CD will be available for purchase and digital download on June 5. The release, from Decca, will coincide with the PBS special Alife Live, which will also b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMCat Brindisi grew up in a theater family. Now she's ready to make her way in "Spring Awakening."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:53PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) I remember Teresa from television and films, and a reading she did at the Tenement Theatre years ago. In many…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:52PMDean Mora takes us through the beats of his musical direction of the Colony’s revival of Dames at Sea. He also talks about his passion to play popular American music from earlier era wit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:50PM"No one who believes in the greatness of certain plays would go to any one of our houses to enjoy them. They exist as thundering productions in the mind only. We know they might be done (Ki…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:46PMManhattan Theatre Club will present their annual Spring Gala on Monday, April 30 at Cipriani 42nd Street 110 East 42nd Street. At this years gala, MTC is pleased to honor Time Warner Cable f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMThe Midwest is often accused of parochialism — and Chicago theater assumed to be preoccupied with dysfunctional American families. But there has been the distinct flavor of Africa in t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMNINA METZ reviews "Johnny Theatre" at Chemically Imbalanced Theater ★★★ and "God vs. Hall & Oates" by Drinking & Writing ★★
"Johnny Theatre"
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMThere is a type of laughter unique to audience members of vicious comedy acts or theatrical experiences involving involuntary audience participation. It is recognizable for its mixture of re…
SOURCE: Women's Wear Daily at 03:44PMThe Kitchen Sisters – a.k.a. National Public Radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva -- tell extraordinary stories about ordinary people.Thousands of listeners have tuned in over the …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:44PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
"Hairspray": From Mama Rose to Mama Turnblad: Drury Lane follows its hit production of "Gypsy" with this beloved paean to racial integrati…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMWe predict that One Man, Two Guvnors will be the Broadway hit of the spring/summer season. This forecast may be based on the show's tremendous success in London and our personal opinion afte…
SOURCE: www.interviewmagazine.com at 03:43PMPaul Gross will head the cast of John Guare's world premiere play, Are You There, McPhee?, to be presented at McCarter Theatre Center, May 4-June 3, with an opening set for May 11.
In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PMBroadway Hunger Games: Battle Round 2!
Game Maker Scott Alan is back to give us the next battle pairings!
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SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:40PMMark Linehan and Phil Talyer connect in Floyd Collins. Photos: Sharman Altshuler.I went to Floyd Collins - the latest from Moonbox Productions, at the BCA through this weekend - somewhat ske…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:39PMCanadian actor Paul Gross, seen in the recent Broadway revival of Private Lives, will head the cast of the McCarter Theatre Center's world premiere of John Guare's Are You There, McP…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMPaul Nolan, who stars in the title role in Broadway's Jesus Christ Superstar, will sing "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch at the Yankees home opener on Fri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMGay Men's Chorus of LA and the It Gets Better Project have announced a partnership in collaboration with Speak Theater Arts and plans to develop an original national touring show called…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:28PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's new production of the showbiz fable 42nd Street begins preview performances in Ontario on April 12. Chicago and Broadway director Gary Griffin (The C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMElena Roger, Max von Essen and the cast of the Broadway revival EVITA gave a spectacular performance of “Buenos Aires” this morning on Good Morning America!
Ricky Martin, Micha…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:24PM"Good Morning America" welcomed the stars of the Broadway revival of Evita April 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMTom Hooper’s anticipated big-screen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Les Miserables is currently filming in Europe, and on-set photos are quickly finding their way to the interne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:21PMThe world premiere of David Auburn’s The Columnist is set for front-page glory, as Manhattan Theatre Club’s star-studded production heads toward its April 25 opening night on the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:08PMEric TuckerIsaiah TanenbaumMatthew Paul OlmosStephen BrackettJennifer LaneJuan VillaKimberly Faith HickmanAndrea LepcioJo CattellRachel Hip-FloresCharlotte MillerNancy SirianniMichael Smith …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:07PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Joel Grey partied into the night while celebrating his 80th birthday....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:05PMAnn Miller tapped her way from MGM movie musicals to Broadway throughout her lengthy career as an entertainer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM
Stage version of Budd Schulberg's film script a real eye-opener in 2012.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 02:54PMNina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, the stars of Broadway's Venus in Fur, will host Manhattan Theatre Club's annual Spring Gala, to be held at Cipriani 42nd Street (110 East 42nd Street) …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMThe Santa Monica Theatre Guild will host a production of Psycho Beach Party, at the Morgan Wixson Theatre. Performances will run April 28-May 20. William Wilday will direct.
Psycho Beach Pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMOn April 11, Anything Goes star Joel Grey turned 80 years old—and this Tony winner knows how to party! Grey’s friends threw a bash at the McKittrick Hotel (home of off-Broadway&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMNews Round-up: Jennifer Holliday Hits the Studio for Lysistrata Jones and more
This week TheaterMania reports on a record-breaking gross at The Lion King, Jennifer Holliday on the Lysistrat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:44PMGateway Playhouse is set to present Cats starring Broadway's Jacob Brent and Ken Page, May 16-June 2. Brent will also direct and choreograph the production.
With music by Andrew Lloyd…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"Good People" is good stuff, a keenly observed rumination on how far decency can get you and how much depends on sheer luck as you try to grab a piece o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:41PMManhattan Theatre Club will present their annual Spring Gala on Monday, April 30 at Cipriani 42nd Street (110 East 42nd Street). At this year’s gala, MTC is pleased to honor Time Warner Ca…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:40PMPromotional photos have been released for the performers in the one-night-only benefit Broadway Bares: Solo Strips, to be presented at XL Nightclub (512 West 42nd Street, NYC) on Sunday, May…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMTony Award and Emmy Award winner and current star of ABC’s GCB Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Jim Parson will co-host the announcement of the 2012 Tony nominatio…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:38PMTaffety Punk is a DC-based theater ensemble committed to igniting “a public passion for theater by making the classical and the contemporary exciting, meaningful, and affordable.R…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:35PMThis week TheaterMania reports on a record-breaking gross at The Lion King, Jennifer Holliday on the Lysistrata Jones album, Jonathan Groff in Red, Brent Barrett in Peter Pan, Godspell on to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMJulia Murney (Wicked) and Paul Anthony Stewart (The People in the Picture) will join previously announced star David Hyde Pierce in The Landing, a new musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PMPurchase a LGBT Night ticket to SILENCE! The Musical on Thursday, April 19th for $35 when you use code LGBT and receive admission to a special post show LGBT Night reception. Directly follow…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMMAGICBIRD opened on Broadway Tuesday night, April 10. BroadwayWorld was on hand throughout the evening and brings you photo coverage of the starry theatre arrivals below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMIt was nothin’ but net as basketball drama Magic/Bird, starring Kevin Daniels as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird, opened on the Great White Way. Directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:21PMOscar winner and Broadway veteran Woody Allen's newest film To Rome With Love will open the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 14.
The festival, which runs through June 24, will screen …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMMore photos from the film set of Tom Hooper's LES MISRABLES have surfaced on Tumblr, featuring Eddie Redmayne Marius and Aaron Tveit Enjorlas
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMJohn Hill and Cole Escola will be part of Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well... Writing, an evening of short plays, April 20-21 at the Ars Nova.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMAWAKENING TO THE FACT THAT IT’S A POORLY-WRITTEN MUSICAL I feel sorry for the cast and crew of Over the Moon Productions (OTM). The hard-working Broadway-caliber talent in Spring Awake…
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~A last minute opening in Neo-Futurism 1: Master Class with Founder Greg Allen is yours for the taking! Classes began Wednesday April 11th, and continue through May 30th, Wednesday evenings …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:59PMJim Taylor takes A Closer Look at the production at New World Stages.
SOURCE: CBS 2 TV at 01:58PMVideo Interview with Lauren Helpern, Set Designer of 4000 MILES
Video Interview with Lauren Helpern, Set Designer of 4000 MILES. Now playing at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:55PM"Doyle and Debbie," the country-music spoof at the Royal George Theatre Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted St., is closing on May 27.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PMRazor & Tie has shared a track from Dee Snider's forthcoming Dee Does Broadway album for streaming on TheaterMania. On the track, Snider is joined by two-time Tony Award winner Pat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMAccording to an audition listing, Walter Bobbie is set to direct Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab Production of THE LANDING previously titled Andra -- a collection of three related one-a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMSitting in the theater where he's about to showcase his latest work, Mikhail Baryshnikov confesses that even after decades on stage, he still gets nervous before every curtain call.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:50PMIn anticipation of Broadway's sexiest night of the year, ten men from Broadway Bares will offer a one-night-only edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips May 6 at XL Nightclub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMArs Nova has announced complete casting for Killers On the Loose: The Songs of Leschen and Sauter to be presented on Monday, April 16 at 8pm as the latest installment of their Uncharted init…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMIn anticipation of Broadway's sexiest night of the year, ten men from Broadway Bares will offer a one-night-only edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips May 6 at XL Nightclub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMPace University will host An Evening with the Legendary Zoe Caldwell, as part of its Master Series, April 23 at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
The pairing of roots rocker John Mellencamp and horror scribe Stephen King for a Southern Gothic musical may sound irresistible. But it takes more than …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:42PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
An otherwise incoherent drama written in a contrarian style that's a cross between literary Magic Realism and a zombie movie.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:38PMWant to hear Evita stars Ricky Martin and Elena Roger take on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s brilliant score in the hit revival? You're in luck! On April 12, Mar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMUnless you're living under a rock, Les Miserables filming is underway. Pictures have been leaked of our leading men, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, in addition to some set pictures. But tod…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:29PMTheatre 68 will open its spring/summer 2012 season with Stephen Adly Gurgis' Our Lady of 121st Street, to run May 10-June 10.
Joe Palese directs the play, about a group of old acquaint…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMAmong the challenges facing the Broadway transfer of Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” the actors had to confront their own reactions to the play’s charged dialogue about race.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMMarina Nemat's story natural for stage, but Theatre Passe Muraille production falls short
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:09PMSignature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, will feature Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as arti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMFulfilling the dream of playwright Tennessee Williams himself (and
using script
revisions made when the author originally conceived of the desegregated
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Thea Sharrock's production of The Sunshine Boys begins previews at the Savoy Theatre from 27 April with press night on 17 May. The Sunshine Boys, which is booking for a strictly limited run …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMShadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has written to her government counterpart Jeremy Hunt asking him to "stand up for the arts" and to reconsider the cap on tax relief for charitable don…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMThe Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia will cease operations on June 30, according to a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The service organization for theaters in the area has been…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMThe Studio Theatre inWashington, D.C. and the Huntington Theatre in Boston have announced that they both will be staging "The Invisible Man" during the 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:54PMNew bio-drama Magic/Bird opened Wednesday, April 11 at The Longacre Theatre and it’s no slam-dunk. While the show is described as sufficiently informative, it provides little revelatory hi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:49PMWill Tom Hanks make his Broadway debut in a Nora Ephron play? "The piece, 'Stories About McAlary,' centers on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning [New York] Post columnist Mike M…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:48PMTake a trip back to the 1970's with two vintage commericals from musical theatre favorites SWEENEY TODD and CHICAGO Check out the original TV spots below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMWill Pomerantz, director of The Blue Flower at Prospect Theater Company and Second Stage, will direct Prospect's upcoming production of Cole Porter's 1933 musical Nymph Errant. Perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMRachel York will join Megan Hilty in the Encores production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, opening May 9 at New York City Center. York will play the brunette, Dorothy Shaw, best friend of Lore…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThey’re best known for their MVP-quality play in the National Basketball League, but Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson are currently gracing the Broadway stage—as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PMWatch the latest episode #2 of CafeMom Studios “On Broadway: With Kids – Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA!” – the exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal win…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:37PMThe lovely people over at Seminar have offered me a chance to share my experiences at the show with all of you, or, to be more specific, two winners of the following contest. Now I have…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:37PMBernadette Peters joined the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes onstage at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre April 11, celebrating the 80th birthday of legendary actor Joel Grey.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMThe Arlington-based Signature Theatre has announced casting for the Washington, D.C.-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, to be presented May 6-July 1. Matthew Gardiner will direct and chore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMANYTHING GOES, which received the 2011 Tony Award for a winning revival, will start its national tour on October 2 after a four-week rehearsal period in Cleveland. The Cole Porter 1934 music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Gordon Davidson shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the arts ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMBefore there was the Apollo in Harlem, there was the Howard Theatre in the nation's capital.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:22PMThe cast of EVITA, including Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris and Elena Roger performed 'Buenos Aires' and 'High Flying Adored' on this morning's 'Good Morning America'. Directed by Tony and O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMBernadette Peters surprised Joel Grey on his 80th birthday with a cake backstage at Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City on April 11, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMThe Vineyard Theatre's Developmental Lab of The Landing, the new triptych musical by composer John Kander, with book and lyrics by Greg Pierce, will be directed by Walter Bobbie. Julia M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMThey call it the Master Clash, and it is not a battle of boxing greats. Rather, it’s a free, one night only event — April 18 at 7 p.m. — that will showcase the work of seven fledgling …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:16PMNever mind the fact that he’s juggling a role on the second season of Boss on the Starz network and a forthcoming starring role opposite Alfred Molina in the L.A. premiere of Red: Jona…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMLast night (11 April 2012) over 150 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers made their way to the Theatre Royal Haymarket where Richard Bean's Whatsonstage.com Award winning show One Man, Two Guvnors …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:14PMTen of the hottest men from Broadway Bares will get a head start on a season of sexiness with a special, one-night-only edition of BROADWAY BARES SOLO STRIPS, a benefit event to be held at 9…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMPhotographs have today (12 April 2012) been released showing Hollywood star Danny DeVito and West End stalwart Richard Griffiths in rehearsal for Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys which …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:09PMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury will be honored during the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards, April 19 on the historic Ellis Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe cast of EVITA, including Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris and Elena Roger performed 'Buenos Aires' and 'High Flying Adored' on this morning's 'Good Morning America'. Directed by Tony and O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMPlans seem to be progressing nicely on the casting front for the forthcoming revival of Rufus Norris' award-winning production of Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. Word is that pop star Will Y…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:04PMRachel York will play brunette bombshell Dorothy Shaw, the best friend of Smash star Megan Hilty’s Lorelei Lee in the Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Directed by John …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMPriscilla Queen Of The Desert star, Tony Award® nominee Will Swenson and fiancé Audra McDonald welcome New York Post writer Christopher Kompanek into their Inwood home to discuss how they …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:01PMThe Smash-hit Comedy SEMINAR Is Now StarringJEFF GOLDBLUM and YOU CAN WIN TICKETS TO SEE IT ON BROADWAY!See JEFF GOLDBLUM (Pillow Man, Jurassic Park, Independence Day) star in…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PM
Written by Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa (THE ADDAMS FAMILY, THE WILD PARTY) and award-winning book-writer and lyricist Brian Crawley (VIOLET), A LITTLE PRINCESS is …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:59AMThe Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation and Chris Isaacson Presents, continues their season in Upright Cabarets American Icon Series with RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT on Saturday, May 5, 2012 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe Letter, my first operatic collaboration with Paul Moravec, will be receiving its New York premiere in February of 2013....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:56AMYou should hang out in front of the theatre and see the fathers and sons standing in front of the photos of Magic and Bird. “Those are the real ones,’ the fathers say gazing not only at…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:55AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Any show that can win laughs from an actor with bamboo-and-rags puppets encouraging a grinning audience to sing "Leprosy isn't funny, leprosy isn't funny …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53AMFive-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will receive the B.C. Forbes Peopling of America Award, to be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 19 in the historic Great Hall on Ellis I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:52AMFrom Ricky Martin on Broadway to Ashlee Simpson and Melissa Etheridge, many pop stars struggle in the theatre. Maybe it's time they steered clearRicky Martin has jaunty hair, shockingly whit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMFrom Ricky Martin on Broadway to Ashlee Simpson and Melissa Etheridge, many pop stars struggle in the theatre. Maybe it's time they steered clear Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMTen of Broadway’s hottest dancers will headline a one-night-only benefit performance of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips on May 6 at XL Nightclub. The show will be produced by and benefits …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AMCass Morgan, Donna Lynn Champlin, Matt Dengler and more star in Harold and Maude, staged as part of the The Tom Jones Festival at the York Theatre Company's Off-Broadway home.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMTony Award winner Matthew Broderick, Mark Consuelos and Mario Lopez are among the upcoming guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa for the morning talk show "Live! With Kelly."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMThe stars of ABC's "GCB" and CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" will co-host the nominations announcement live from Lincoln Center on May 1.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:42AMAfter an excruciatingly long seven-week hiatus, Glee returned to TV with a touching spring premiere. Broadway.com asked readers to choose which heartwarming moment was their favorite. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMWhy his new play Judith of Bethulia is more than just camp — There’s something Andy Hardy-ish about Charles Busch’s stage comedies. Granted, the prolific playwright/performer is us…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:39AMToday in 2001, the first Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing opened at the Plymouth Theatre now the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. Bells Are Ringing is a music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMOn Wednesday, April 11, the Broadway production of Eric Simonson's Magic/Bird opened at the Longacre Theatre with Thomas Kail at the helm.
Opening night guests included sports legends …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMTen of the hottest men from Broadway Bares will get a head start on a season of sexiness with a special, one-night-only edition of BROADWAY BARES: SOLO STRIPS, a benefit event to be held at …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:34AM"A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad's used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life."
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:32AM“His work is as austere as the age of austerity,” says Aleks Sierz, author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp, whose new interview with the playwright appeared at The Arts Desk on 10…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 11:31AMAustralia media giant Fremantle Media will be presenting a new reality, I Will Survive, show offering Broadway hopefuls the chance to train with the PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT company at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMThe long-running Off-Broadway thriller Perfect Crime, which first opened in 1987, will celebrate its 25th anniversary April 18 at the Snapple Theater Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMComplete casting has been announced for the Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, to run May 9 - 13 at New York City Center. John Rando will direct the production, which will have…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMThe Collegiate Chorale presented Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, featuring a host of Broadway artists on April 10 at Carnegie Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has just announced that I am being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012 to...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20AMCasting is now complete for the City Center Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMGreen Day is currently in the studio recording three albums a trilogy entitled Uno, Dos, and Tr that will be released by Reprise Records on Tuesday, September 25th 2012 Tuesday, November 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMD-trix Presents Dance Showdown - Episode 2
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:18AMCesar Abreu, Guto Bittencourt, Josh Buscher, Sam Cahn, Adam Fleming, Nick Kenkel, Grasan Kingsberry, Andy Mills, Brandon Rubendall, and Robb Sherman will perform in Broadway Bares: Solo Stri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMLouise Pitre and Judy Blazer talk about Mame at Goodspeed Musicals
Louise Pitre, Judy Blazer, and Ray Roderick preview the Goodspeed Musicals production of Jerry Herman's classic tuner.…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMA pair of stage and screen stars do the honors for 2012, at an event sponsored by IBM.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 11:09AMABDC Flo Rida - Season 7 Week 2 - Mos Wanted Crew, Elektrolytes, Collizion Crew, RNG, Funkdation
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), season 7 week 2, features songs by Flo Rida! Behind t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:02AMYou can feel it . . . hit the middle of April, and everyone who is involved in a new show walks around with a thought bubble over their head, “When do the nominations come out again?…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM"Magic/Bird," the new play by Eric Simonson that opened this week on Broadway, tells the story of the rivalry and off-court relationship between two of basketball's greatest players -- Larry…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMoscow's Vakhtangov Theatre will bring its modern interpretation of Uncle Vanya to London's Noel Coward Theatre beginning performances Nov. 5 for a run through Nov. 10 only.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's highly theatrical drama about the college-to-Olympics rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, opened at B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
The new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire stars Blair Underwood, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris-and music by musician and composer Terenc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:58AMA Journey into Fuerza Bruta
TheaterMania's Man on the Street, Chris Carlone, meets cast members of the show and takes you on the journey of his evening at Fuerza Bruta
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMNoël and Company, the new Manhattan company that celebrates the plays of Noël Coward, his contemporaries and descendants, will present The Vortex, a rarely-seen sex-and-drugs famil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMThe stars of the Broadway revival of Evita -- Ricky Martin as Che, Elena Roger as Eva, and Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón -- appeared alongside other members of the cast on ABC&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMThe stars of ABC's "GCB" and CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" will co-host the nominations announcement live from Lincoln Center on May 1.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:57AMKim Crosby will play the Baker's Wife in the Springfield Little Theatre's INTO THE WOODS, which plays May 13-29 in Springfield, MO.Crosby created the role of Cinderella in the 1987 INTO THE …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMObie Award-winning director David Cromer will helm and appear in his acclaimed production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town as part of the Huntington Theatre Company's 2012-13 season, wh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMPenguin Rep Theatre and Morton Wolkowitz will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Tom Dudzick's Miracle On South Division Street beginning April 25, prior to an official opening May 13,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AM"I am going to be famous.”
If you ask my boyfriend, he’ll tell you that’s the first thing I ever said to him.
As if he walked up to me and said “Can I buy you a drink?” and I said …
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:53AMThe Toronto Symphony Orchestra treated a full Roy Thomson Hall to a satisfying and memorable evening of high vocal and orchestral drama on Wednesday night.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:53AMCorey Mach, Marilyn Maye, and Karl Warden will join the previously reported Steven Brinberg as Simply Barbra in 70 Girl, 70!, a birthday celebration concert on Monday, April 23 at 7pm at Bir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMMAGICBIRD opened on Broadway Tuesday night, April 10. BroadwayWorld was there to catch the stars, including Larry Bird, Tug Coker, Kevin Daniels, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and more, in action a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMGordon Davidson is the Founding Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center and subsequently became Artistic Director of the Ahmanson Theatre a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:36AMMichael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita will receive a cast recording from Masterworks Broadway. Evita stars Elena Roger, Ricky Martin an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:35AMEmmy winner Edie Falco will host a free concert May 7 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, which is currently the home of the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMErin Creighton and John Sessler in Street Tempo Theatre’s “Little Shop of Horrors.” Photo credit: Linda Gartz You think you’ve seen Little Shop, right? You’ve p…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:33AMHuntington Theatre Company has announced plans for its upcoming 2012-2013 season.
Kicking off the season will be David Lindsay-Abaire's play about how twists of fate determine our path…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMIt's always great when you get to work with a talented director, but it's even cooler when that talented director also becomes a talented entrepreneur with an awesome new business. That's wh…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMDOMA Theatre Company is set to present Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, May 11-June 3 at The MET Theatre. Marco Gomez directs.
Originally conceived to showcase the work of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMIn the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through a sometimes grueling "exit interview" about their time at the company. Although that concept doesn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMIn the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through a sometimes grueling "exit interview" about their time at the company. Although that concept doesn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMWhat a romp over at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre! Penned as the sequel to Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti has extended the comical farce of his original story a…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:22AMAaron Lazar has wowed Broadway audiences in supporting roles in musicals ranging from A Little Night Music to The Light in the Piazza to Les Miserables. Now Lazar is set to take center stage…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:16AMOscar and Tony-winning actress Frances McDormand will be interviewed by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl at the New York Public Library for the Performing Art…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMThe spotlight falls on the mysterious figure of the dramaturg, TheatreIdeas defends Mike Daisey, while bloggers battle it out over a free fringe rivalryThis week, blogger Scott Walters attem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMAdditional tour dates have been announced for two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, who was most recently seen on Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival of Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMJust announced is word that the 2012 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement will be co-hosted by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons on T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMMoscow's Vakhtangov Theatre will present Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, November 5-10. Rimas Tuminas has directed the production, which fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMLast night, April 11, MAGICBIRD opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, with special appearances by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird themselves. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the opening ni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMIt's not so much the price of theatre tickets that puts potential audiences off, argues Alistair Smith, it's the lack of transparency over booking fees
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMEddie Marsan and Rob Brydon are to star in a new BBC2 drama about the birth of the Paralympic games, written by Solider Soldier creator Lucy Gannon.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMStephen Fry and Douglas Henshall are to star in an ITV adaptation of Ian Rankin's book Doors Open.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMMASTERWORKS BROADWAY has just announced the signing of the New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita. The album will be recorded in April in anticipation of a June 19th 2012 release and is now av…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMGrammy Award winners Green Day, whose songs were the basis for the musical American Idiot, will release a trilogy of albums, according to The New York Times.
The CDs, entitled "Uno!&qu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMINTERVIEW: MADANI YOUNIS On the eve of the opening of his inaugural production of Lee Mattinson's Chalet Lines at the Bush Theatre, the venue's new Artistic Director and Chief Executive talk…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:01AMAaron Lavigne is part of the ensemble of RENT off Broadway which is currently playing at New World Stages. He also understudies Roger in the show, but he used to understudy Mark on the tour.…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMDancer's piece "Square None," partially funded by a St. Louis supporter, will get its world premiere with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
Masterworks Broadway will record the cast album for the new Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita, playing at the Marquis Theatre, this month. The album is set f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMStage and screen star Edie Falco will host a free-of-charge concert to celebrate the release of Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project, to be held at The Stephen Sondheim Theater on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AMHero Theatre will present a benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare’s King Lear May 21 at 7:30 PM at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMI spent the last week or so out of town. While I was gone, I follow the same set of vacation rules I give my team. No responding to email. No calling to check in. People are only allowed to.…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:44AMWatch the cast of Disney's NEWSIES perform King of New York on Broadway here on BroadwayWorld.com The video features an enormous amount of tap dancing and singing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMAudiences are being faced with additional booking charges costing up to £12.25 when buying tickets for West End shows online, The Stage can reveal.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMMasterworks Broadway will release the "New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita" June 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMTickets for the best seats in the West End now cost more than £70, with the cheapest priced at just under £22 on average including fees.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jim Parsons will announce the nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards at 8:30am on Tuesday, May 1.
As previously reported,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMKristin Chenoweth, the Tony Award-winning star of ABC-TV’s GCB and Emmy winner Jim Parsons (Broadway-bound in a revival of Harvey) will co-host the announcement of the 2012 Tony nomina…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:25AMAcademy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis will play the title role in HERO Theatre's benefit staged reading of William Shakespeare's King Lear, to be presented at the Harold and Miriam …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMI am so happy to begin a series of short interviews with this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees with five of my favorite local actors – Catherine Flye, Mitchell Hébert, Jennif…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMI dial into a mid-evening conference call. “I’m sorry, your entry is not valid. Please, enter the valid digits followed by the pound sign.”. I double check the number, punch the bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMOn Monday night's upcoming episode of SMASH entitled 'The Movie Star', Bombshell is turned upside-down by the arrival of movie star Rebecca Duvall special guest star Uma Thurman.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThere will probably be more written about the RMS Titanic this month than in the past 100 years. This blog entry is my contribution to the literature of the steamship and its connectio…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:15AMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy winner Jim Parsons will announce the nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards May 1 at 8:30 AM ET at The New York Public Library for the Performing Art…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMComedy Central commissioning editor Pete Thornton is to return to the BBC as a creative head of the Corporation's comedy department.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMHis restaurant seats ten. He serves no appetizers, no side dishes, no desserts. He consistently earns three Michelin stars, a rating that implies that the dining experience alone is worth a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMThe Phantom of the Opera: Or, Beware the Punjab Lasso by Sarah Caldwell Prologue It is 1911. We open on “Hoarders: Live from the Paris Opera House.” The scene is a mere setup for the tr…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMThe "Project Runway" designer's costumes help tell the story in Santa Fe Ballet's "Square None."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:00AMThe legendary singer's often dazzling show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency features nearly a dozen songs new to her repertoire.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
It’s no secret that Philadelphia’s theater scene has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 15 years. Every season, new companies spring up, led by visionary artistic directors who fill…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 08:57AMon Thirteen: Fri., April 13th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., April 14th at 8:30 PM Sun., April 15th at 12:30 PM and Mon., April 16th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Reporter Patrick Hea…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 08:52AMon Thirteen: Fri., April 20th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., April 21st at 8:30 PM Sun., April 22nd at 12:30 PM and Mon., April 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our guest is the reve…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 08:51AMRussian theatre company Vakhtangov is to stage its production of Uncle Vanya in the West End this autumn.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return the 1972 film to cinematic glory....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:41AMThe boy who wouldn’t grow up is about to make you feel like a kid again, as Peter Pan returns to Broadway April 15 in the acclaimed prequel adventure Peter and the Starcatcher. And no…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:32AM- Joshua Morgan is an actor and Co-Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company, which received the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. - No Rules produces in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMLegit News:
Theater vet will expand agency's legit wing
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10AMToday is the birthday of David Letterman (b. 1947). How odd to think that he has been sitting behind that desk even longer than Carson had ruled The Tonight Show . My perspective on the g…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:06AMA Spider-Man musical must not have seemed like the nosedive off a skyscraper it turned out to be back on that first day, when Broadway producers gave Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark the green …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMUncle Vanya, which revived as the first production in Chichester's 50th anniversary season opened last week (5 April 2012, previews from 30 March), half a century after Laurence Olivier dire…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:06AMMiddle-aged
brother and sister Hilda and Martin move onto the Bluebell Hill
Development bubbling with excitement: the house is perfect, the
view is charming and the neighbours are sure to be…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 12 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMChristian Borle, an actor in NBC’s “Smash,” is also keeping a foot in the theater, playing a pirate in “Peter and the Starcatcher,” opening Sunday on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe acclaimed actor talks about his role in Brett C. Leonard's new play and returning to Showtime's Nurse Jackie.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
David Cromer Stars, Directs Celebrated "Our Town"Christopher Shinn 's political drama, "Now or Later," will have its U.S. premiere at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company this fall. Mich…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMIf you’re going to write a play about two legendary sports figures it would help if more than one of them was interesting. Such is the dilemma of Eric Simonson’s second attempt t…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:54AMFilskit Theatre is 25 – no, not the company, the ladies themselves. Now a lady never usually reveals her age but we thought this a relevant topic (and we’re no ladies!). The most jun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:45AMThe Caldwell Theatre Company, the region’s second oldest professional theater still in operation, has cancelled its last show of the season and is considering every possible scenario for i…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:40AMTraverse, Edinburgh: There is a purity of purpose about Andy Manley's enchanting piece of theatre for Catherine Wheels. Aimed at 2-4 year olds - with perfect attention to all the detail…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMMoscow-based company Vakhtangov Theatre will bring Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya to the Noël Coward this November, the second transfer in what producers hope could be a regular Russian th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:27AMBristol Old Vic Studio: These two short plays are being staged in the Bristol Old Vic Studio ahead of this September's phased re-opening of the entire Theatre Royal complex. They are am…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMThere’s a warm validation of our sensibilities in seeing a classic part of our culture fabric done right, really right.This second national tour of South Pacific at the Broward Center enve…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AMAt Café Carlyle, Clint Holmes acts out songs by Paul Simon and Cole Porter with the sweaty intensity of a man flirting with an emotional breakdown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09AMForgotten who's up for best actress? Wondering what on earth Russell Grant's doing in the West End? Here's our interactive guide to the nominations for Britain's biggest theatre awards
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMI'm sitting on the Red Line, my ear buds in place, jamming out to The Detroit Cobras, in my own bubble of existence. The woman next to me is reading an ebook on her Kindle. The woman in fro…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AM"Call Me Adam" chats with the legendary Janis Ian, nine-time Grammy Award nominee best known for such hits as "At Seventeen," "Society's Child," "Stars," and "Jesse." Here we discuss her upc…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
Joel Grey is celebrating his 80th birthday in style. First, his cast mates wheeled out a birthday cake after curtain call for the Broadway musical "Anything Goes." Then stage and screen lege…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:59AMOn the first day of her first year at summer camp back in 2005, Shayna Simon, then 5 years old, bravely said goodbye to her mom and began her adventure at the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Co…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:44AMWelcome to our newest column, That’s Gross!, a weekly analysis of one aspect of the Broadway Grosses. As always, the numbers below are provided by the The Broadway League. This week, w…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:20AMWilliam Kentridge spoke of the value of using a mirror to re-learn what he already knew how to do; the clear implication was that we are daily surrounded by mirror-images that we do not see …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06AMPlaywright/Dramaturg Brooklyn, New York USA What production changed my life? When I was 6 or 7, my parents took me to see a touring company at John Carroll, the local Jesuit university. I’…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMOpera Atelier plans culture-clash tale with ornate — and accurate — details, opening April 14.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMA superbly emotion-drenched photo from COC's The Tales of Hoffman; taken by master Michael Cooper and featuring (in the foreground) Russell Thomas with Keri Alkerma and John Relyea(Read our …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMBlackbird playwright David Harrower stages the U.S. premiere of his new drama A Slow Air as part of 59E59 Theater's Scotland Week celebration. The production opens April 12 at 59E59 Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera's Massacre (Sing to Your Children) officially opens Off-Broadway April 12 after previews that began Ap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristianne Tisdale, Patrick Ryan Sullivan, Darien Crago and Tim Falter star in the Engeman Theater production of the classic Broadway musical 42nd Street, which begins performances April 12…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFat Camp, the new coming-of-age musical set at a summer camp for overweight teens, begins performances Off-Broadway April 12 at the American Theatre of Actors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York Paley Center for Media presents a preview screening of the new CBS police drama "NYC 22," followed by a discussion with members of the cast and creative team, April 12…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSit down, have a pint, and hear the tale of a Girl and a Guy — Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová — who made beautiful music together, won an Oscar and moved to Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1905 The colossal Hippodrome Theatre opens on Broadway today. The inaugural production is the colorful extravaganza A Yankee Circus on Mars. It will run 176 performances.
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Boston theater announced 2012-13 season
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Baker adaptation of Chekhov nabs cast
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMLove can blossom in unexpected places. Such is one of the themes in Prisoner of Love, a new play by Jay Prasad. The play unfolds around Julian, a recently paroled convict who is returning …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThere are ghosts swirling around the Marquis Theatre, where Michael Grandage's swiftly paced, deadly serious production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita opened on April 5, and I'm…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe plodding pace, greatest-hits superficiality, and hagiographic tone of “Magic/Bird’’ feels jarringly dated, especially at a time when ESPN’s “30 for 30’…
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