Today is Sunday, May 19, 2013 Add Your Opening, Closing or Special Event Here! Closing: Orphans
Yes, the 2012-2013 season is officially over, but we didn’t have to wait long before 2013-2014 showed up.
Linked From KritzerlandAll musicals descend from The Black Crook, but On Your Toes is truly its great-great grandson.
Linked From KritzerlandIt was the month in which the word "robbed" is used more around Broadway than any other month for the Tony nominations were dispensed.
Linked From KritzerlandPeter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. We also review Orphans, J&H and Macbeth.
Linked From BroadwayRadioLinda Lavin and John Lloyd Young announced nominees for the 2012-2013 Drama Desk Awards this morning at 54 Below. Eligibility and award category designations for the productions under consi…
Linked From TheaterManiaThe Olivier Awards have finally and defiantly crept out of the shadows and the public have been able to witness the winners accepting their prizes on late evening network commercial televisi…
Linked From The StageBroadway producer Roy Miller passed away suddenly early Sunday morning, April 28, 2013 following a brief illness.
Linked From BroadwayWorldBroadway producer Roy Miller passed away suddenly early Sunday morning, April 28, 2013 following a brief illness. Information regarding the funeral and memorial services will be forthcoming.
Linked From ibdb.comPreview performances are set to begin in February at the Winter Garden Theater, the lead producers announced on Sunday.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe writer reflects on a hectic, heady time with recent work that includes 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' 'The Assembled Parties' and 'Far From Heaven.'NEW YORK — "I'm too tired to be anxio…
Linked From Los Angeles TimesIn the new series Playbill Video Week in Review, Playbill.com recaps its weekly coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they we…
Linked From PlaybillA quickie listing of the Leading Actors/Actresses and Plays/Musicals/Revivals eligible for 2013 Tony Award nominations on April 30.
Linked From Tony AwardsPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Iron Mike brings back the Truth... Donna Murphy, Laura Benanti, Kelli O'Hara and more celebrate the Pops' 30th birthday… Lil…
Linked From PlaybillThe Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled April 26 for the fourth and final time this season to determine the eligibility of 18 Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wi…
Linked From PlaybillAccording to a report released this week by the Brookings Institution, actress, singer, and comedienne extraordinaire Bette Midler is finally back on The Great White Way in a dynamite new on…
Linked From The OnionPippin star Patina Miller had the most magical night ever on April 25—she celebrated her official opening on Broadway, and she also got engaged! Miller’s real-life leading man Da…
Linked From Broadway.comPick a day this week, any day. There was a Broadway opening. It's that time of year, friends.
Linked From PlaybillShana Dowdeswell, 23 — who has acted onstage alongside Cynthia Nixon and appears in the new Robert De Niro movie “The Big Wedding” — died five days after downing several whiskey shot…
Linked From The New York Post SubscriptionWhen producers of American and British musicals book a theater in Amsterdam, Theatre Carre is their first choice. The three-balcony, eight-chandeliered house is where popular hits go to thri…
Linked From KritzerlandIt's no secret that Broadway is just a big-money theme park, where quality productions are hard to come by. But regional companies are increasingly playing it safe, too. One artistic directo…
Linked From The Wall Street Journal SubscriptionLive From Lincoln Center presents the New York Philharmonic's production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's iconic American musical, Carousel, featuring a star-studded cast including Kelli O'Hara,…
Linked From BroadwayWorldA collection of "Pippin" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsThe American Repertory Theater’s recent production of “The Glass Menagerie,” with Cherry Jones and Zachary Quinto, will transfer to Broadway this September for a 17-week run. &nbs…
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThe 2013 theatre awards season is in full swing, and Playbill.com has compiled the latest information on award dates, presenters, nominations, winners and top honors. Read below.
Linked From PlaybillThe long-awaited pairing of Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in "Othello'' at the National Theatre is one of the director Nicholas Hytner's greatest achievements.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionStars of stage and screen came out in droves on April 13 to catch the opening night of The Trip to Bountiful, starring Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams. Get a front r…
Linked From Broadway.comThe musical “The Last Five Years” has a huge following, despite mixed reviews.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionProducer Thomas Viertel revealed in an official statement We have had the rare and tremendous opportunity in the last several months to experience Flashdance - The Musical on the road. We kn…
Linked From BroadwayWorldI got an email from a passionate yet disgruntled theatergoer recently who told me that several of her recent show-going experiences were marred by not-so-polite audience members who texted, …
Linked From The Producer's PerspectiveBack in 1997, University of Southern California freshmen Stark Sands and Charl Brown were placed in the same orientation group. More than 15 years later, these best friends are starring in t…
Linked From Broadway.comBritish actor Matthew James Thomas, who made his Broadway debut as the Peter Parker alternate in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark — going on twice a week for star Reeve Car…
Linked From PlaybillA collection of "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsFree beer (or even cheap beer) may be the easiest and fastest way to tap into a new audience. Drinks, food, socializing, and costumes (on the audience, not the performers) are what young Den…
Linked From Theatre Communications GroupThe producers of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT have announced that the Broadway production will play its final performance on Saturday, June 15, 2013after…
Linked From BroadwayWorldTony Award nominees Daniel Breaker, de'Adre Aziza and Jonathan Hadary, as well as Colin Donnell, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Patti Murin and Heidi Schreck will be part of the Public Theater'…
Linked From PlaybillGet ready, Broadway—here comes Anne Hathaway! The Oscar-winning Les Miserables star will make her Broadway debut this fall in Cabaret, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. Hathawa…
Linked From Broadway.comTwo-time Tony nominee Terrence Mann created leading roles in three of Broadway’s longest running musicals: Cats, Les Miserables and Beauty and the Beast. His intensity onstage and…
Linked From Broadway.comThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this year's recipients of the 2013 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre. These honors will be presented at the Tony Eve Cockta…
Linked From PlaybillThere are a lot of good actors onstage at the Sondheim Theater in the revival of Horton Foote’s “Trip to Bountiful.” Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, Condola …
Linked From ShowBiz 411Can the “Divine Miss M” win a “Divine Miss T?” That is, can Bette Midler win a Tony Award (which is named after Antoinette Perry)? Midler returns to Broadway tonight for the first ti…
Linked From The New York Post SubscriptionA collection of "The Trip to Bountiful" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsJames Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with John Rubinstein. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you …
Linked From BroadwayRadioWatch & share video of this year’s Easter Bonnets at http://youtu.be/zqxPaA_1M4s The 27th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition raised a staggering $4,250,542 – eclipsing the previou…
Linked From BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWNOur Time will offer after-school programs in Westchester County, Long Island, and northern New Jersey.
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionIn the February 2013 issue of Opera News, director Michael Mayer offered a lengthy explanation of why he chose not to set his new production of Verdi's Rigoletto for the Metropolitan Opera i…
Linked From BroadwayStarsTheater stars led by Tony nominees Kelli O’Hara and Victor Garber came out on April 22 for the 11th annual gala benefitting Our Time, a nonprofit offering arts programming, summer camp…
Linked From Broadway.comThe Drama League Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks has announced the 2013 Drama League Awards Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Musical, Distin…
Linked From BroadwayWorldLast week, the Producers of the upcoming (and from what I hear, wonderful) new musical Tuck Everlasting, announced they were postponing its pre-Broadway Boston tryout due to the lack of an a…
Linked From The Producer's PerspectiveSo you think that the first "so-bad-it's-good" musical was The Rocky Horror Show? A case can be made for a very different property: Say, Darling. Truth to tell, Say, Darling was less of a …
Linked From Masterworks BroadwayA collection of "The Testament of Mary" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsSometimes, legit critics still sell tickets. Case in point: “Matilda,” the Broadway transfer of the Brit hit that won Stateside raves after its April 11 opening – and then topped $1 mi…
Linked From variety.comAfter a 25-week national tour, Jekyll & Hyde has finally landed on Broadway, and landing with it is fan favorite Teal Wicks, who plays the role of innocent Emma Carew. Wicks first tread …
Linked From Broadway.com11 - Pippin 9 - Kinky Boots 8 - Chaplin The Musical, Cinderella 6- Golden Boy, The Nance 5- Dogfight, Matilda the Musical 4- Here Lies Love, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Trip to Bountiful…
Linked From BroadwayWorldIt's a fitting farewell, and at the after party at the Maritime Hotel's Cabanas, Chiemi gave me some of the backstory. "Was anything off-limits for Stritchie as far as filming?" I wondered. …
Linked From Village VoiceElaine Stritch, the celebrated, Tony Award-winning actress who was named a Living Landmark by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, played her farewell performance at the Café Carlyle t…
Linked From PlaybillIan McKellen and Patrick Stewart will perform a pre-Broadway engagement of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land this summer at Berkeley Rep.
Linked From PlaybillA collection of "Macbeth" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsThe Divine Miss M has had a colorful career, but even she's not as outsize a personality as larger-than-life Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers, whom she portrays in the new solo show I'll Eat…
Linked From National Public RadioIn the new series Playbill Video Week in Review, Playbill.com recaps its weekly coverage of Broadway performances, celebrity interviews, web series and opening nights – in case they we…
Linked From PlaybillPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that solo shows from Alan Cumming, Bette Midler and Fiona Shaw surface on Broadway… Pippin's got new "Magic to Do"… …
Linked From PlaybillSam Mendes on making Bond, coming home and turning Charlie And The Chocolate Factory into a musicalCharlie and the Chocolate Factory has taken five years to become a stage musical, for reaso…
Linked From The GuardianThe Guthrie today announced that it has commissioned Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning Broadway songwriter and composer Jason Robert Brown to create an original music piece for its 50t…
Linked From BroadwayWorldThe Broadway season is not quite over—still five shows left—but you wouldn't blame critics if they checked into a rest home after this week. They crammed in six opening in fi…
Linked From PlaybillOrin Wolf Once and Maxwell Williams are developing a new musical based on Eran Kolirin's film The Band's Visit, which won the Jury Coup de Couer prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Linked From BroadwayWorldNew musicals involving Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, the authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, and the composer Lin-Manuel Miranda will be part of the Powerhouse Theater’s season in…
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionThis winter, when I heard Barry Manilow sing "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" from the stage of the St. James, I realized that this song was now being performed in two Broadway theaters.
Linked From KritzerlandIs anyone on the Northeast Corridor planning to present JEKYLL & HYDE? If so, don’t hesitate to contact Donald J. Simon. The president of the International JEKYLL & HYDE F…
Linked From Music Theatre InternationalRocky the Musical, the new stage production based on the Academy Award-winning film, and featuring a score by Ragtime Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, may arrive on Broad…
Linked From PlaybillThe creative team behind the “Pippin” revival has upped the ante on Bob Fosse’s original effects, using circus elements in the opening number, “Magic to Do.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription‘mamma Mia!” is on the move. After 12 years and 5,000 performances, “Mamma Mia!” is decamping from the Winter Garden to the Broadhurst in the fall. The move is a tacit acknowledgment…
Linked From The New York Post SubscriptionWith the 2012-13 Broadway season coming to a close this month (April 25 is the cut-off date for eligibility for the 67th Annual Tony Awards), Playbill.com offers a four-part look at the curr…
Linked From PlaybillA collection of "Orphans" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsThe puckish Broadway star returns to New York theater in a (nearly) one-man version of the Scottish Play.
Linked From Time OutA collection of "The Assembled Parties" reviews and news from around the internet.
Linked From BroadwayStarsWhat is it about Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical that inspires a passionate following?
Linked From The New York Times SubscriptionIt may surprise some audience members to realize that Alan Cumming's solo Macbeth, currently running at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, isn't actually a solo show. Cumming is joined onstage by …
Linked From TheaterManiaPippin could be heading to the movies! Writer and director James Ponsoldt has been tapped to adapt the hit Steven Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson musical for the big screen, according to D…
Linked From Broadway.comThe world premiere of the new musical Little Dancer, featuring book and lyrics by Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will be produced by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. ne…
Linked From Broadway.comDigital Theatre and CinemaLive have paired up to screen best of British theatre, both new and from the archives, in UK cinemasDigital Theatre, which makes filmed theatre productions availabl…
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