The Other Place opens the MTC’s 2013 season and is sure to be a subscriber favourite. Twitter told me there were people in tears at last night’s opening and I’m believing Twitter, even…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:44PMFrom the comically defined opening to the sadness of the final scene, the hallmark of Richard Eyre's revival of "Quartermaine's Terms" is the detail he teases out of his actors.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:40PMBroadway director Michael Mayer ("Spring Awakening," "American Idiot") takes on his first opera with the Met's new "Rigoletto," which he relocates from 16th-century Mantua to Rat Pack-era La…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:36PMIt took nearly three decades and countless therapy sessions, but I finally thought I was over the post-traumatic stress of having suffered through the original 1983 Broadway production of �…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMTwo shows tied for the Tony for Best Musical in 1960. The one that City Center’s beloved Encores! series is reviving this week is definitely not “The Sound of Music.” Instead, we’re …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:33PMActor will reprise 'Macbeth' for spring run
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22PMJanuary 30, 2013: The world premiere of THE MAN UNDER, an urban love story filled with late arrivals and missed connections, by Paul Bomba and directed by Benjamin Kamine opened at 59E59 The…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17PMLisa Barri “has emerged as one of the most charismatic actresses to surface in years”. She has performed all over New York, and in many regional theaters. Most recently, she performed in…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:05PMMarika Aubrey’s brand new feature series launches today on AussieTheatre. How We Do What We Do is a new-format artist profile, featured monthly on AussieTheatre! I sat down to chat with th…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, January 31, 2013.
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The Los Angeles Premiere of Slipping will begin on Saturday, April 6, and run through Sunday, May 5, 2013, as Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's first LA production. The show will play Elepha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43PMIn the matter of “Rebecca: The Broadway Scandal,” we learned this week that it was the press agent — Marc Thibodeau — who sent the poison-pen e-mail to an “angel investor” about …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:22PMAny resemblance to the Daley dynasty of Chicago is no doubt entirely intentional in “Successors,” Jon Steinhagen’s laugh-out-loud satire (and comedy of bad manners) about politics, fam…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:22PMChristopher Durang's brief play, Mrs. Sorken, was plucked from a collection of one-act parodies featured in his self-titled, Durang/Durang, and it kicks off the show, serving as nice i…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:04PMHamish Linklater has spent so much time over the past few years dazzling us on stage and the small screen, it's hard to fathom when he even found time to write The Vandal , now receiving it …
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The hardest shows to review are often the ones that stand head and shoulder above the rest. I mean what do I say about Finucane & Smith’s Caravan Burlesque? It’s high energy, clever …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:59PMMad Cow Theatre's excellent revival of Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" is a case study in how to stage punch-line humor.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:55PMActors' Equity, currently renting in Hollywood, buys in NoHo...24th Street Theatre receives $110,000 Irvine grant for community productions...Danielle Cintron talks about Weird on Top...Will…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:40PMAccording to Deadline.com, Broadway's Nina Arianda has joined Megan Griffiths' comedy Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette and produced by Joanne Woodward.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PMDeath. “We all have it in common, like sports or the weather,” the Woman says in Hamish Linklater’s hauntingly exquisite play The Vandal. Death is the common thread for the three chara…
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Auditions continued tonight when the judges rolled into Oklahoma City. The city started off on a good note with its first contestant.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59PMNEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes on a cold, foggy night, waiting for a bus outdoors, things just seem spookier than normal.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:34PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★ ... Tiffany Topol has about everything yo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMDirect from acclaimed, sold-out engagements at the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center Festival, Tony and Olivier Award winner 'Cabaret' and two-time Emmy nominee 'The Good W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:25PMIn order to have a real chance of captivating audiences when "Jekyll & Hyde" arrives on Broadway in late April, this revamp of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Broadway musical needs to…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:20PMCome, you spirits! Shakespeare fans can brace themselves for a thrilling new take on the Bard when Tony winner Alan Cumming returns to Broadway in the title role (and every other character) …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:08PMA revival of a revival typically faces the “copy of a copy” problem; after all, maintaining robust detail across generations of imitations is not easy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMOscar winner Jennifer Hudson is set to lend her voice to the Sandy Hook Student Chorus this Sunday at the Super Bowl, it was announced today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMTony and Olivier Award winner Alan Cumming will bring his one-man adaptation of Macbeth, staged by Tony-winning Once director John Tiffany, to Broadway this spring, according to the New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01PMWith the addition of Alan Cumming in "Macbeth," there are now four plays opening on Broadway this spring that are essentially solo performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMHey, all! I know there's been a lot of radio silence on the blog lately; unfortunately, some of my other writing projects have been taking up a lot of my time and I haven't had a chance to r…
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Ben Vereen, one of America's most versatile, talented and beloved entertainers, will take the stage with MenAlive, The Orange County Gay Men's Chorus, at Academy Affair 2013, on Saturday, Fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMTo celebrate its 20th anniversary, Encores! is bringing back its very first concert offering, “Fiorello!,” the 1959 Broadway musical hit based on the life of New York Mayor Fiore…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:49PMI don’t know about you, but as a music graduate and self-confessed muso, I can’t help but notice the sheer number of jukebox musicals on at the moment. Just pick up a newspaper and look …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48PMAn ambitious mingling of the cerebral and the physically demanding is underway at the Denver Center's performance-in-the-round Space Theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:42PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Heather Headley, star of The Bodyguard at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, will sing two songs from Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at The Night of 1,000…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:39PM'I am coming into an exciting time,' said Mr. Krane in a telephone interview from New York City. 'My show, 'The Road to Qatar,' is being presented in London next month and then I am doing a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:20PMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:20PMIt seems that acting is but one of Hamish Linklater’s talents. His play “The Vandal” is getting its world premiere downtown at the intrepid Flea Theater, and Linklater&rsqu…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00PMBenedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller were the last to do it when they alternated as Frankenstein and the monster at the National. Now Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams continue the …
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On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, after the matinee of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Shirley MacLaine came backstage to visit the cast and crew. Check out a photo of the group below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:55PMAt our recent Winter Camp, the kids made a Music Video ofLES MISERABLE in 9 Minutes
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:39PMVulture reports that Disney has found the director to take on its impending CINDERELLA remake. Just a few weeks after original director Mark Romanek dropped out, the studio has reportedly ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMOur staff list the best events in the week ahead.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:30PMRandy Engstrom, interim head of the city of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and Andy Fife, executive director of Shunpike, aim to shake up the city’s cultural establishmen…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:13PMNew York City Center Encores! is kicking off its 20th year as it began its first, with an affectionate semi-staged concert revival of "Fiorello!" -- the only Pulitzer-winning musical ever wr…
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The stark visual eloquence of Ford’s Theatre’s revival of “Our Town” informs Thornton Wilder’s portrait of the ordinary joys and sorrows of fictional Grover’s Corners, N.H. But t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:55PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, January 31, 2013 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Happy first preview to @mcctheater’s RE…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:49PMAlison Fraser will lead the reading of Wendy Beckett's Off-Broadway - bound production of LOVE THERAPY. This new play, directed by Evan Bergman is the fourth in a series of Ms. Beckett's pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMKristy Edmunds is midway through her first season as executive and artistic director of CAP UCLA. As she plans her next season, she discusses her gradual education in the ways of LA and its …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:37PMTony Winner, Disney Legend Lea Salonga 'Miss Saigon,' 'Les Miserables' opened this year's Lincoln Center presents 'American Songbook' concert series, a 15-year-old annual tribute to great Am…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMHenry Purcell, England's greatest composer.Last weekend Handel and Haydn gave props to a composer they've rarely performed in the past - Henry Purcell (perhaps, as is often claimed, the grea…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:33PMWhatever Cirque du Soleil's dubious appeals, it categorically does not belong on a cinema screenCirque du Soleil's brand of aggressive chicken-in-a-basket whimsy might be wildly successful i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMBroadway's longest-running show, "The Phantom of the Opera", recently marked its 25th anniversary on the Great White Way. So how does the show hold up after all these years?
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:28PMZosia Mamet dropped by Show People with Paul Wontorek to discuss her Girls character, life on the Mad Men set, dealing with the red carpet and tapping into her survival instincts for Re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:22PM Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker Written by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin D…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:15PMThe U.S. premiere of 'Backbeat,' the dramatic new play with music about the birth of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands in history, the Beatles, opened last night, January 30, 2013, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMThe fans love Barry Manilow—and that includes celebrities! The Grammy-winning music legend greeted the incomparable Joan Rivers (a lady he once accompanied on the piano) on January 30 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:06PMChuma Sopotela (photo credit: Andrée Lanthier)Grasping "The Other"JM Coetzee's masterpiece comes to the Segal stageby Caitlin MurphyThough we think that we fear our enemies, we actually dre…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:06PMNature Theater of Oklahoma's "Life and Times" reminds one critic that verbatim conversation on stage can offer its own distinctive pleasures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PM“Comparison is a killjoy: it will steal every ounce of contentment in your heart. It will rob you of perspective and leave you feeling empty.” – Kristen Welch Artists in al…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMAussieTheatre have two double passes to give away to the Australian premiere production of Nicholas Kazan’s haunting play Blood Moon. Recently formed Unpathed Theatre Company is presenti…
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Disney Theatrical Productions will be hosting open auditions, seeking possible future replacements for the Broadway and Touring companies of The Lion King. Auditions for the adult roles of S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMTony winners Kristin Chenoweth and Patti LuPone will return to Carnegie Hall for a pair of solo concerts in the 2013-2014 season.
First up is the legendary LuPone, who will perform a one-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PMPlay to get fall run at the Pels Theater
SOURCE: Variety at 04:48PMThe American premiere of Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles, the Broadway-aimed rock-'n'-roll drama with music, opened at LA's Ahmanson Theatre Jan. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMAuthor and Broadway performer Tim Federle will sign copies of his new book "Better Nate Than Ever" Feb. 5 at the Drama Book Shop. The novel for young readers and theatre lovers of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMSome flops are better left buried. Such is the case with “Moose Murders,” perhaps the most infamously awful show in Broadway history. This farcical concoction about serial killin…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:44PMPhoto credit: Adam MocoThe Coyote and the CrowRevived Shepard/Smith play gives good mouth.by Christian BainesCowboy Mouth, the collaboration between playwright Sam Shepard and rock legend Pa…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:38PMAttention all actors According to a recent announcement on the Actors' Equity Association website, the organization's ongoing renovations, including building a new Audition Center on the 16t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMThe Broadway producers of "Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'" have sorted out money problems that had the potential to derail the show's planned opening in March, a spokesman for the …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:35PMSix years ago Wesley Autrey was one of the most talked-about men in New York, although few knew him by name. He was better known as the “Subway Superman,” the city hero who saved…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:33PMTony Winner, Disney Legend Lea Salonga 'Miss Saigon,' 'Les Miserables' opened this year's Lincoln Center presents 'American Songbook' concert series, a 15-year-old annual tribute to great Am…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMYou have to love life to have life and you have to live to love it. But so few of those who have life even realize that they have it let alone love it. That dawning realization flashes throu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMGood news for the day A statement from the production has just revealed that 'Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is ON. The producers have successfully secured funding for the Broadway p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMRECOMMENDED “You can’t put your hands together in Minsk. You can’t drum.” How can that be true? The element that most bores into the audience at Chicago Shakespeare T…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:24PM(photo credit: Simon Hayter)Brutal Brawl of Words and FeelingsSneak Attack by David C. Jones The PuSh Festival is all about stepping over the line, about taking risks. Themes …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:22PMAccording to SXSW's 2013 website, the documentary film BROADWAY IDIOT, which follows the musical AMERICAN IDIOT's journey to Broadway, will have its World Premiere at this year's film festiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMLA audiences will get the opportunity to view a controversial and prize-winning film from France. “Teenagers” will screen at Arena Cinema in Hollywood for one week only, starting Februar…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:16PMStaged readings of Crush, a new musical featuring music by Passing Strange writers Stew (Tony winner for Best Book) and Heidi Rodewald with a book and lyrics by Yasmine Lever, will be offere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMStaged readings of Crush, a new musical featuring a score by Passing Strange writers Stew (Tony winner for Best Book) and Heidi Rodewald with a book and lyrics by Yasmine Lever, will be offe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMMusica Angelica – the renowned Baroque orchestra – will pay glorious tribute to its 20th anniversary season when it presents a famous work written as a triumphant victory celebration and…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:14PMArs Nova kicked off its 2013 catalogue of productions on January 30 with the opening night of The Netflix Plays, a series of short works and live music from the organization's Play Group. In…
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"Backbeat," in effect, is one story that breaks into two stories, and the Beatles half ends up getting short-changed.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PMElkahna Talbi and Jean Marc Dalpé (photo credit: Mathieu Girard)No Room for CompromiseTo love or loathe those “swinging Tunisian hips” by Gregory BunkerThéâtre Français’s Two Rooms…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:59PMBoeing Boeing, at Delaware Theatre Company, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:52PMLungs, by Duncan MacMillan, produced by Luna Theatre, directed by Gregory Scott Campbell, featuring Charlotte Ford and David Raphaely. Reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:49PMGrab a bingo card, turn on your favorite TV meteorologist and play along.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:46PMBroadway Scores For P.S. 84: A Celebration of Songs Featuring Kerry Butler & Friends, a benefit for P.S. 84 - The Lillian Weber School Of The Arts, will be held March 3 at the Robert H. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMIn an unusual new exhibit, the Museum of Russian Art showcases 70 pieces of spiritual art by 47 artists who dared to defy their rulers.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:41PMFrom Johnny Cash to Babe Lincoln, spliff mania and actors acting, a raft of new shows open this weekend.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:40PM[Warning: The following interview contains "Picnic" spoilers.] Broadway newcomer Maggie Grace is trying to keep the conversation from being about her looks—which is difficult when you're …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMCarmel Dean is the lady behind the music on Broadway’s favorite shows. Dean has served as musical director and/or vocal arranger for American Idiot, The 25th Annunual Putnam County Spe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMSteel Burkhardt (Hair), Krystal Joy Brown (Big Fish, Leap of Faith), Julia Mattison (Godspell), Corbin Reid (Rent, American Idiot) and Alan Wiggins (The Lion King) have joined the lineup for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMI’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “Oops! When did spring get so sexy?” I was halfway through reciting Broadway&…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 03:25PM“Fiorello!,” the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning 1959 musical, opened the 20th anniversary season of Encores! musicals in concert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMHolly Golightly's Broadway future is assured. The producers of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's revealed on Jan. 31 that they have successfully secured complete funding for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMSusan Blackwell crashes Newsies’ weekly game night. See her play Broadway-themed guessing games with stars, Corey Cott, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kara Lindsay and Ben Fankhauser.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMAtlanta, GA once again hosted the annual Junior Theater Festival, Jan. 18-20. Co-presented by iTheatrics and Atlanta's Theater of the Stars, this event brings together some 4,000 school-age …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMPhoto credit: Joan MarcusThe Heiress is closing on February 9, and I made it in just under the wire. I hadn't heard great things about this revival, so I thought about skipping it, but …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:01PMThis year, Roundabout Theatre Company is thrilled to celebrate the seventh successful season of Roundabout Underground and the new play initiative, which illustrates a continued commitment t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMJoshua Harmon’s Bad Jews will make its way back off-Broadway this fall for a run at the Laura Pels Theatre, beginning September 20, 2013. Original Bad Jews cast members Tracee Chi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PMFables tell us that we show our worth through courage. In our time, the courage demanded by coaches and fans in sporting contests overshadows other kinds, those with effects that can’t be …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:00PMBad Jews, Joshua Harmon's popular comedy that appeared in an extended run in the 62-seat Black Box Theatre in the Roundabout Underground series in fall 2012, will move upstairs this fall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMRoundabout Theatre Company's hit production of Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews is moving upstairs. The new comedy, which had an acclaimed, extended run in 2012 at Roundabout Underground's 62-seat B…
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After news earlier this week that Truman Capote‘s Breakfast At Tiffany’s was in need of a new investor to cover the $1 million shortfall as a producer backed out of the producti…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:54PMJanuary 31, 2013 by Donnetta Lavinia Grays A funny thing happens when you turn 35. It’s one of many self-reflection years generally falling on the five and ten year increments of…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 02:48PMGreta chats with Nigel Shawn Williams, half of the Interim Artistic Team (IAT) of Factory Theatre about what he would like to accomplish during his…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:30PMWe had the chance to chat with Alan Cumming about his recent film Any Day Now, a true-to-life story about a gay couple in the 70s who take on the courts as they try to adopt a mentally disab…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 02:30PM"You May Not Kiss the Bride," the Hawaiian Film Partners movie that stars "Smash" actress Katharine McPhee and "Brothers and Sisters" actor Dave Annable, will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMYou may not know Angus Augustus Burleigh, but he's a got a story to tell.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:28PMGolden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and The Heiress star Jessica Chastain has previously hinted about her newest project, but now it’s official: The actress will lead a new screen adapt…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:27PMMartin Moran looks like the least angry man on the planet. Slender and soft-spoken, he exudes a mild-mannered friendliness that would make him a welcome dinner party guest. But don’t b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:23PMChicago Opera Theater (COT) offers more opportunities to look inside its operas through its new initiative, Viewpoints. These collaborations with Chicago cultural institutions will draw a…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:20PMNow THIS is theatre you can sink your teeth into. This is theatre that takes itself back to the beginning when we were not only entertaining one another around the fire, we were bringing ne…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:16PMLove looms large, huge even, in any “Fiorello!” That goes double for City Center Encores! revival, even if the so-so production brings little to get fired up about.
Love sneaks …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:12PMEarlier this week I attended auditions for the August Wilson Monologue Competition at Court Theatre. I love this program. I feel like it does so many things for so many of Chicago’s youn…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:08PMReviewed by: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT The side project theater company located in Roger’s Park, and Artistic Director, Adam Webster continues their 2012/2013 season with the World Premiere of �…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:06PMTom Hanks in Lucky Guy
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The late Winter, early Spring portion of the 2012-2013 is set to wow audiences with new shows, great revivals, and movie-star power that could light u…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 02:05PMIt was a big news week on Broadway.com, as five of our 10 most-read stories from January 25 through January 31 centered on stage-related scoop. Click below if you missed news of a Mean Girls…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMTony Award nominee Kerry Butler, Julia Murney, Jason Danieley, Bryce Ryness and Kevin Earley will perform as part of a special 54 Below concert on Feb. 11 featuring music from writers nurtur…
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Martin Moran, whose 2004 solo play The Tricky Part played an acclaimed Obie Award-winning 2004 run, returns with his latest work, All the Rage, which officially opened Off-Broadway Jan. 30 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMI went to see Godot at Marin Theatre Company, and the headliner didn't even bother to show!
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 01:55PMJessica Chastain, who currently plays the title role in Broadway's The Heiress, will star in a film adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMA reading of Wendy Beckett’s Off-Broadway-bound Love Therapy will be presented Feb. 3 at 3 PM at TACT Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMThe show now features Hugh Panaro, Sierra Boggess, and Kyle Barisich as the Phantom, Christine, and Raoul respectively and you can check out highlights of the cast in action below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMBecca Wolff's direction of Dan LeFranc's Sixty Miles to Silver Lake has given her a new appreciation of social media's role in changing our attitudes toward time. The play opens Saturday at …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:33PMGreenhouse Theater Center is currently renting last minute Mainstage Space for Studio Rates! Two winter performance slots are available in the Upstairs Mainstage – February 11-March 17 and…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:28PMLuis Carreon, a Chicago-based magician, has announced two performances of his original solo show, Bending Minds and Bending Dreams, at one of the most renowned magic shops in the country, Ma…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:27PMMartin Moran (Spamalot, Titanic, Floyd Collins) is back off-Broadway with a new autobiographical solo show, All the Rage. Moran received an Obie Award and Drama Desk nomination for his last …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMA CRY TO CARE The 85-minutes of this electrifying protest play begin with a lone microphone suddenly erupting in an ear-splitting feedback. The noise is intolerable, no less than what it ush…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:13PM The Board of Directors of About Face Theatre Company has announced that Executive Director Jason Held will be stepping down at the end January to pursue a position with Playworks Chicago…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:10PMFELA! is perfect pleasure for your senses! From the moment you enter the theatre, the sounds of the pulsing drums and Afrobeat rhythms envelope you and draw you into another time and place. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMThe CLF Art Cafe, The Bussey Building, London: The comic potential of the enigmatic Iago is exploited to good effect here. Iago, who is excellently played by Jack Johns, stalks through the m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PM
Shakespeare’s ladies are stepping into the spotlight! The New York premiere of Tina Packer’s groundbreaking series Women of Will began previews on January 29 at The Gym at Judson…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMThe Bruntwood Prize for playwriting launched at the Barbican Centre last night, with a panel discussion featuring Vicky Featherstone, Bola Agbaje, Benedict Nightingale, Suranne Jones, David …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:59PMBroadway vet Steven Pasquale,reasons to be pretty, Off-Broadway's A Man of No Importance stars as Dr. Jason Cole in the new NBC drama DO NO HARM. The cast also includes Phylicia Rashad A Rai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMThe sunny faith in the body that runs through Brown’s work tempers the ache of loss in her final works, Apollinaire Scherr writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:53PMThe sunny faith in the body that runs through Brown's work tempers the ache of loss in her final works, Apollinaire Scherr writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:53PMSet at a New York bus stop, Hamish Linklater’s new play is a sparse, touching meditation on grief, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:53PMSet at a New York bus stop, Hamish Linklater's new play is a sparse, touching meditation on grief, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:53PMAge & Hometown: 36; Baton Rouge, LA
Current Role: An explosive Broadway debut as Nick, a rookie professor at New Carthage University in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMThe Hall of Hams is my series on some of my favorite actors who have brought the art of melodramatic acting into the modern era. Today is the birthday of Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). IR…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:46PMJohn Malkovich is performing in Chicago this weekend for the first time in five years. But the formidable and distinctive actor is not appearing at Steppenwolf Theatre, where of course he re…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "Successors" at Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★ and "Stadium Devildare" at Red Tape Theatre ★½
NINA METZ reviews "Successors" at Signal Ensemble Theatr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:39PM(BY KERRY REID) Sit down for coffee and conversation with Sophia Sinise (who goes by "Sophie" informally) and she seems like any other personable 24-year-old mulling over her career possibil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:39PMThe New York Pops orchestra will welcome a host of Broadway stars—including Montego Glover, Ashley Brown, Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley—into the 31st season of the company&rsqu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PM"Priscilla Queen of the Desert" echoes another breezy hit, "Mamma Mia!"
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:30PMThe Lower Manhattan Development Corp. has authorized $1million for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site, a sum that is designed to allow the center to begin hiring staff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMOn October 4, 2013, The New York Pops orchestra - famous for presenting popular programs with a symphony orchestra of the highest quality - will launch its 31st season, a Carnegie Hall serie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMTony Award nominee Sam Buntrock will stage the Benjamin Britten opera The Turn of the Screw as part of New York City Opera's upcoming season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The season …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMPodcast with Linda Balgord from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. Musical theatre star Linda Balgord discusses her famous roles in Sunset Blvd., Cats, Aspects of Love and The Pirate Queen. Ms. Balgo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:19PMBravo shines the spotlight on multi-talented star, and 2013 Oscar nominee, Hugh Jackman, as he returns to the 'Inside the Actors Studio' stage for a second time, premiering Wednesday, Februa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMDavid Robertson and the SLSO will perform the complete opera on Britten's 100th birthday.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:15PMFolks my age or older will protest “NOT forgotten!” (after all, it was a hit show from 1969 through 1974), but younger people are less inclined to have heard of this show (I̵…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:12PMI’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, starring Better Midler has found a home. The new play by Tony Award winner John Logan and directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello will play t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:10PMDavid M. Rubenstein, Chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has announced plans to construct a new facility south of the Center's current building. Steven Holl and h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMDue to overwhelming demand, Off-Broadway's newest hit comedy How To Be a New Yorker today put a new block of seats on sale through May 25th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Ke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMTwo Tony Award-winning actresses will return to Carnegie Hall during the famed New York venue's 2013-14 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMAnne Kauffman, Pam MacKinnon, Leigh Silverman and more: It’s no longer so rare to see female directors at the helm of prominent New York productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMA person telling a story. Whether around a fire, perched on the edge of a child’s bed or striding on a stage, it is an elemental human experience. Some would say that the act of storyt…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:00PMIn honor of the Mardi Gras Beggin' Pet Parade, we link headliner Kevin Bacon with some of our favorite canine characters.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
The New York Pops has announced its 2013-14 concert season under the direction of music director Steven Reineke.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe TV medical drama "Do No Harm," directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer and starring Steven Pasquale, premieres Jan. 31 on NBC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMAs part of its national tour, the acrobatic phenomenon Traces will spring into the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall for an eight-performance run, from February 19-24. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMClassic Stage Company will present a private reading of a new musical comedy A Doctor in Spite of Himself, with book, music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Sheldon Harnick, who drew from Mol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMBroadway veteran Martin Moran (Spamalot) celebrated the opening of his new solo show, All the Rage, on Tuesday, January 30 at the West Bank Café. Produced by piece by piece pr
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMBroadwayWorld is thrilled to present its latest feature series The Performer of the Week Get to know these amazing talents as they share a bit about themselves, their work and life Today, we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AM Dance on Camera Festival Screens at Film Society's Walter Reade By Ellis NassourIf you're a dance fan and …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:47AMWest End star Adam Cooper discusses his exceptional transition from ballet star to musical theater leading man, why he found Black Swan laughable and the wet consequences of texting during h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMWell, I doubt this will be the last time you hear from me, but it is my last blog for BW. Thanking Christina Mancuso for going out on a limb and asking me to share with you whatgoes on in my…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMStage and screen actor Chris Henry Coffey will replace original star Bill Heck in the final week of off-Broadway's Water by the Spoonful, beginning February 5. Heck, who plays Fount…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMLooks like three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is returning to politics Deadline.com reports that the 'FrostNixon' star will portray, Paul Nitze, United States Secretary of the Navy …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe Skivvies just played the Highline Ballroom on Monday, January 28, featuring special guests Alice Ripley, Wesley Taylor, Adam Kantor, Leigh Ann Larkin, Joseph Morales, Mitchell Jarvis, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMThe Project Shaw series will continue Feb. 25 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMAfter seven seasons, the critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning comedy series '30 Rock' is set to conclude its run on NBC. The series finale is tonight Jan. 31. The New York based s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMTuesday, temperatures in Washington rose unseasonably high, and that night The Keegan Theatre fairly sizzled with one of the hottest interpretations – and darkest — of the musical …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMChris Henry Coffey will replace Bill Heck in the final extension week of the Off-Broadway run of 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water By the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMNYC's Hot choreographers Show their stuff at Hip Innovative Festival- in Brooklyn at The Irondale Center
SOURCE: Dance Enthusiast at 11:04AMWhile I was watching TEDxBroadway ‘trend’ on twitter the other day, I noticed another interesting trending topic . . . #SAGAwards. Yep . . . you know where I’m going with…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
This week's A.P.T. is Michael Ian Cedar of Ask Yourself in Entertainment. I first met Michael when I wrote this blog post back when I was first starting and he was the only one to answer. So…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:56AMA comedic romp up five flights of stairs (six if you count the stoop but who’s counting?) An empty apartment; a newlywed couple currently on the rollercoaster ride of their six whole days …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:56AMHaving seen every one of Woody Allen’s nearly four dozen feature films, I now consider it my duty to see each new one, just to keep on top of it. The trouble is, he turns them out so f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:55AMRebecca Atkinson-Lord is joint director of theatre at Ovalhouse, where the 50th anniversary season launches tonight (31 January 2013).
When Rachel (Briscoe) and I took over at Ovalhouse w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:54AMThe Playhouse, Nottingham: What the audience doesn't see here is as funny, riveting and important as what it does see, whether it's watching one player and invisible opponent in a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMDirect from Broadway, the smash-hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Make sure to get ticke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMWritten by Sandi Durell Suffering from the remnants of a cold on the evening I attended, vocal angel Christine Andreas took on an even more exciting addition to her colorful in…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:49AMThe Gallery Players, the award-winning Brooklyn theatre company now in its 46th season, presents Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's Parade. The piece, starring Jesse Manocherian, opene…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMIn honor of comedy legend Carl Reiner's 75 years in the business, Center Theatre Group presented a staged reading of Enter Laughing, The Musical, which is inspired by Reiner's experiences as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMI’ve been paying close attention to this interesting looking monthly show that mixes a bill of stand-up comedians and side show people. It’s a little bit of a hike but, at $5 and…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:39AMLaurie Metcalf gives a harrowing performance. Review appears in other North Jersey Media Newspapers.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 10:34AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's production of the first ever revival of Arthur Bicknell's Moose Murders, the most notorious flop in the history of modern theater, celebrated its open…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:29AMA guest post by Levi Branson
By 1920 Jerome Kern had achieved success as a noteworthy American composer with a uniquely American career. His melodies graced many entertainment platforms, b…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:24AMFailed Broadway musical's press representative accused of scaring off potential investorsThe ill-fated Broadway musical Rebecca, which collapsed last year after a major investor proved to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMBroadway.com’s resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson recently took a trip to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to meet Maggie, Brick, and the rest of the Pollitt family of Mi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:23AMThe special features never-before-seen rehearsal footage and behind-the-scenes interviews with GRAMMY AWARDS staff and GRAMMY Award-Winning artists including, Bonnie Raitt, Executive Produce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMTony-nominated actor Adam Pascal will return to 54 Below in March.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's production of the first ever revival of Arthur Bicknell's Moose Murders, the most notorious flop in the history of modern theater, celebrated its open…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMDavid M. Rubenstein, Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, today announced an expansion project to be constructed south of the existing facility. The project will i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AMpiece by piece productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, and The Barrow Group have announced that All The Rage, written and performed by Martin Moran, and directed by Seth Barrish, began perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMGiving audiences an unbridled and candid look behind the scenes of the Broadway curtain, NCMR Fathom Events, Overnight Musicals and The Broadway League just presented 'One Night Stand Creati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMPaul Downs Colaizzo’s new drama Really Really begins performances off-Broadway on January 31. Starring Zosia Mamet (Girls) and Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood), Reall…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:01AMTheatre attendance on Super Bowl Sunday always takes a dip, and those might have been Carolyn Griffin’s thoughts when she came up with the idea a few years ago to offer a special ticke…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal), Mitchell Jarvis and Leigh Ann Larkin were among the performers who joined the Skivvies for their Jan. 28 concert and video premiere at the Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMPatti LuPone is returning to West End with a week’s worth of concerts later this year. The Tony and Olivier award-winning actress will appear at the Leicester Square Theatre from June …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMFrom Eric's Gotta Dance feature on Broadway.comPhoto by Matthew MurphyWhen word got out a few weeks ago that Andy Karl would be out of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that Eric Sciotto,…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
It may not equal "What happened to the lost city of Atlantis?" as one of the world's great mysteries, but many a musical theater geek has spent part of a sleepless night wondering how Fiorel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMPlaywright Ruth Margraff’s “Stadium Devildare” is a caffeinated dystopian fiction wherein politics, sport and theater have become indistinguishable from one another. Corpor…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:48AMMatt Thomas, in his one-man show, attempts to end the religion vs. science debate once and for all. Written with and directed by Sarah Elaine Stewart, the show is billed as a “comedic …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:45AMATampT Performing Arts Center Presents Lily Tomlin on Feb. 10. An Unforgettable Night with more than a dozen of her timeless characters, from Ernestine to Edith Ann. Get tickets today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMSarasota Opera has a long history of bringing opera to the people along the Gulf Coast. Starting in 1960 when the group was called Asolo Opera Guild the company presented a touring chamber-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMWhether or not you’re emotionally ready to say goodbye to 30 Rock after its final episode on January 31, you can fondly look back on seven seasons of ridiculous plotlines, outrageous J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:37AM[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Henry James’s 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw is one of the ripest pieces of fiction for re-reading. One never ceases to marvel at Henry’s genius in creating a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMToday is the birthday of Roosevelt Sykes (1906-1983) a.k.a The Honeydripper. An Arkanasa native, he learned to play barrelhouse piano in the work camps along the Mississippi River, which is …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AMI must be one of the last people in the country never to have seen this classic play on stage. My excuse for missing the original production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's hit play at the Royal…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 09:30AMMayor Michael Bloomberg did not address the theatergoers at City Center on the first night of the Encores! appealing if not thrilling production of the 1959 musical “Fiorello,” and he di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMLike it or not, for most Americans Broadway is America’s center of theatre and drama. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars are invested in Broadway shows every year, catering …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:19AMNEW YORK (AP) — It's a few minutes after a performance of his debut play and Hamish Linklater looks like he's got indigestion.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:18AMIn 1972, Joel Grey got a precious gift plenty of Broadway stars never receive: His Tony-winning performance as the Emcee in Cabaret was preserved on film in Bob Fosse’s glossy big-scre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:16AMNEW YORK (AP) -- It's a few minutes after a performance of his debut play and Hamish Linklater looks like he's got indigestion....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:15AMLondon’s National Theatre Company has an extensive and eclectic lineup of shows, including a new production of “King Lear” by Sam Mendes and the much awaited “The Lig…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
Composer/Arranger David Krane (THE ROAD TO QATAR) has put his inspirational Roxbury, CT home up for sale. In his future: A presentation in London of THE ROAD TO QATAR at the Landor Theatre, …
SOURCE: www.countytimes.com at 08:56AMI brought a pen and notepad to Henry V on Sunday. Rookie mistake. I should have brought my sword and armor to director Robert Richmond’s muscular and immensely entertaining new production …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #112: Eddie Cantor (for my complete biographical article on this giant of stage, screen and broadcasting go here). Many contemporary people compla…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:52AMNational Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner has said it is “not surprising” that box office figures showing London theatres’ overall sales in 2012 were higher than the y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMChicago, which ended a 15-year run in the West End last year, is to receive a brand-new production in the UK at Leicester's Curve, beginning performances Nov. 29 prior to an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AM Based on Victor Hugo’s novel, The Man Who Laughs is performed in the style of a silent film, complete with live piano accompaniment, projected title cards, and vibrant black-and-whi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:24AMIf George Orwell were alive today, he would be a pundit par excellence – whoops! He hated the use of foreign phrases – firing off trenchant opinions on platforms not available in his day…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis is the RSC's fifth revival of this play in the last 15 years. Such over-familiarity may account for the fact that Lucy Bailey's new product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMMydidae, a new play by Jack Thorne exploring a relationship between two people and staged in a fully plumbed bathroom, is to be revived at the West End's Trafalgar Studios 2, beginning p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AMPeacock Theatre, London: There have been a lot of personnel changes in this youthful company over the last two years. Some dancers have left to be replaced by equally arresting talents, Quar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMLiv Ullmann will direct cast including Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton in adaptation of Strindberg's groundbreaking playOscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain has been line…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM This is a call out to all the crackerjack arts administrators out there, working behind the scenes to make it happen. Same goes for you—loyal arts patrons, showing up for every show…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 08:00AM
What can the theatre learn from Facebook? That was the question at the second TEDx Broadway conference this week.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMThe Winter's Tale does have a reputation for being a problematic play. The verse is some of the most challenging Shakespeare ever wrote and the overall structure of the text presents directo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:49AMPatti LuPone is to perform a week of concerts at the Leicester Square Theatre in June this year. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning performer will appear at the venue from June 16 until June…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMIt is still possible to discover amazing things in the New York Public Library in 2013, its 108th year of existence. What's even more amazing about this story is that the discovered items ha…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:36AMToday (31 January) marks the final day of voting in the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards - the original, biggest and best audience-voted theatre awards.So if you're not one of the over 50,000 pe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:25AMVasco ( 1871-1925) was a British music hall entertainer known for his flamboyant showmanship (he would often drive around town in a car adorned with signs advertising his act). Billed as the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:23AMToday we continue our second week of dramaturgical conversations with an interview with the accomplished Maren Robinson of Chicago. I think it is safe to say that Maren is eventually going t…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 06:23AMThe Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, which gives out awards totalling £40,000, has opened for entries this year. The winner of the 2013 prize will receive £16,000 and three judges’ award…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThirty minutes before curtain at the Broward Center Wednesday, Miranda Palumbo ecstatically grinned as a clerk at the Oz Dust Boutique stuffed a grey hooded sweater jacket into a Wicked shop…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:11AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There's a striking take on the separate worlds of The Winter's Tale in Lucy Bailey's new RSC production, designed by William Du…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM
Today is the birthday of J. Homer Tutt (1882-1951). Along with his brother (or half-brother) Salem Tutt Whitney (1869-1934) he formed one half of a concern variously called the Tutt Brothers…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:55AMProduction images have been released for the new cast of One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, including Rufus Hound as Francis Henshall - who is soon to be seen co-hosti…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:18AMLet It Be has released 250,000 new tickets ahead of its re-opening at the Savoy Theatre on 1 February 2013. Following a successful 18-week run at the Prince of Wales Theatre, the Beatles con…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:09AMYou have until just before midnight today (Thursday) to contribute to the Alliance Theatre Project’s online funding campaign to raise money to help pay for its revival of the acclaimed Bro…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:07AMNotting Hill’s Gate Theatre has launched an artist-in-residence scheme that will see visual artists create foyer installations to complement the venue’s productions. The project is a col…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM
This week, AussieTheatre will launch a brand new feature series in conjunction with Australian performer and writer, Marika Aubrey. Marika’s series entitled How We Do What We Do will be …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:45AMMargie Fischer shares a brilliant response to cope with unwelcome charity phone calls: “They’re all dead”. But in her case, it’s true. When her mother died, Margie was the last membe…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:35AMIn these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17AM"Modern Family" Creator Steve Levitan Talks First Job
"Modern Family" creator Steve Levitan pays a visit to our pop-up studio at NATPE in Miami where he basks in the glow of continued accola…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis debate faith in this two-man staging in Santa Monica.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:50AMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMTony Nominee Yul Vazquez will join Chris Rock, Bobby Canavale Tony Nominee Elizabeth Rodriguez Tony Nominee and Annabella Sciorra - all in their original Broadway roles - for this 2011 Tony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMYou’ll think twice about taking advantage of the Missed Connections section on Craigslist after seeing “The Man Under.” Paul Bomba’s strained drama about a man who falls in love with…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:08AMThe new off-Broadway piece “All the Rage” starts off with a diffident man in a pale-blue button-down shirt giving out a few words of welcome. He concludes his brief speech with a meek re…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:06AMHEDY WEISS: The Chicago director behind acclaimed revivals of “Annie,” “The Sound of Music” and “Miss Saigon” was handpicked to update the classic musical by the daughter of its …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:06AM‘We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces!” Movie buffs will immediately identify those words with legendary actress Gloria Swanson, whose character, Norma Desmond, spoke the line 51 year…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:04AMIsn't this a joyous picture? Yves Renaud, a photographer who captures opera splendidly virtually every time he aims his lens, represents, with this shot, all that is good about opera: you al…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:03AMSMASH makes it's long-awaited return to the NBC lineup for a second season on Tuesday, February 5 9-10 p.m. ET and will continue in its regular time slot on Tuesday, February 12 10-11 p.m. E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMJeremy Jordan, fresh off his Tony-nominated turn as the rebellious paper boy Jack Kelly in Broadway's Newsies, turns up the angst and anger for the second season of NBC's "Smash…
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SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy." Samuel Johnson (quoted in James Boswell, Life of Johnson)...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe MCC Theater staging of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, starring Matt Lauria, Zosia Mamet and Evan Jonigkeit, makes its New York premiere Jan. 31 at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe complete original Broadway cast of Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf**ker with the Hat, including Chris Rock, Bobby Cannavale and Annabella Sciorra, reunite for the L.A. Theatre Work…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Vandal, a new dark comedy by actor Hamish Linklater set in Kingston, NY, officially opens Off-Broadway Jan. 30 at the Flea Theater. The cast features Tony Award nominee Zach Gr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC presents Eugene O'Neill's Hughie beginning Jan. 31 at the company's Lansburgh Theatre. Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Schiff, re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Writers' Theatre production of Sweet Charity, featuring a book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, officially opens Jan. 31, following previews that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTurner Classic Movies (TCM) continues its latest Road to Hollywood tour around the country with a stop in New York City, where TCM, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Verizon FiOS present a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYale Repertory Theatre's production of Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets, about a movie being made in Ireland, arousing the passions of the locals, officially opens Jan. 31 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway cult-hit musical [title of show] makes its Danish debut Jan. 31 in an American-directed, Danish-language staging opening at the Fredericia Teater in the city of Fredericia, Denm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1903 Future actress Tallulah Bankhead, who can count two U.S. Senators and a Congressman in her family, is born today.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM