Friday, September 10, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch Online This Weekend September 10-12 - See Aaron Tveit in concert, 'Come From Away,' 'Angela’s Ashes: The Musical' an by Raven Snook

In-person theatre is back in NYC, both on Broadway and beyond. So we'll be phasing out these streaming roundups soon as more shows (re)open. I'm so glad virtual performances helped keep us g…

SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AM
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

This Week in Broadway History: June 15 - 21 by JK

This Week in Broadway History: June 15 - 21 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  June 15, 1995: One of the 90s most interesting and underrated musicals, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, opened at th…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 02:18PM
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

This Week in Broadway History: February 2 - 8 by JK

This Week in  Broadway History: February 2 - 8  🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭  February 2, 1966: The thriller Wait Until Dark began its 373 performance run at the Barrymore Theatre starring Le…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AM
Friday, September 18, 2020

Celebrate Nina Arianda's Birthday With a Look Back at Her Tony-Winning Venus in Fur Performance by Mark Peikert

Also Tony nominated for Born Yesterday, the stage and screen star was born September 18.

SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

2019-2020: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Glories of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway by Wendy Caster

I was going to do a "best-of" for 2019 plus a "looking forward" for 2020, when I realized that their focus would be much the same: the treasure that is non-Broadway theatre.I'm not denying t…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:42PM
Monday, July 22, 2019

Bryce Pinkham, Gordon Clapp & Frank Wood Join Cast of The Great Society on Broadway by Andy Lefkowitz

Further casting is set for The Great Society, the sequel to Robert Schenkkan's Tony-winning play All the Way, set to arrive on Broadway this fall. The recently announced production, directed…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Smart Blonde Reveals Judy Holliday in New Ways by Sandi Durell

  By Sandi Durell   When you think of the iconic Judy Holliday, the immediate visual is of that dumb blonde Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday for which she received both an Academy Award and G…

SOURCE: theaterpizzazz.com at 09:15PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Annaleigh Ashford to Star as Judy Holliday in Major Motion Picture Smart Blonde by Andy Lefkowitz

Annaleigh Ashford has landed her first headlining role on the big screen. The Tony-winning Broadway favorite will portray Tony and Oscar winner Judy Holliday in the new biopic Smart Blonde, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
Monday, November 12, 2018

People You Should Know . . . Dominic Comperatore by Zack Calhoon

Dominic's Comperatore-Credits include A View From the Bridge (Broadway) and the critically acclaimed revival of Lost in Yonkers (Off Broadway). Recent regional: Oslo, Born Yesterday, Equivoc…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:42PM
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Kelsey Hunt Dresses the Stars in Ford’s Frothy Revival of ‘Born Yesterday’ by Ravelle Brickman

“Born Yesterday is a winner.” Those are the words of my colleague, David Siegel,  whose review of the gloriously effervescent comedy that just opened at Ford’s Theatre is full of sup…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PM
Monday, October 1, 2018

Review: Born Yesterday, the 1940s comedy at Ford’s Theatre takes serious aim at big money corruption by Kelly McCorkendale

Wow. Just wow. Born Yesterday, a Tony-award winning play written in 1946 by Garson Kanin, feels likes a premonition come to fruition. Shortly after World War II, tycoon Harry Brock (Edward …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018

‘A Quick 5’ with Cody Nickell on ‘Born Yesterday’ at Ford’s Theatre by Mark Beachy

Cody Nickell is currently playing the role of Paul Verrall in “Born Yesterday” at Ford’s Theatre. BIO: Regional: Wilma Theatre; Playmakers Rep; Portland Center Stage; Two …

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:16PM
Friday, September 28, 2018

Theatre Review: ‘Born Yesterday’ at Ford’s Theatre by Peter Orvetti

Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is today seen as a sentimental bit of corn that reflects an idealism about American government that has little in common with the real thin…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Review: ‘Born Yesterday’ at Ford’s Theatre by David Siegel

What a sparkling production of Born Yesterday at Ford’s Theatre. Written in 1946 as the United States was standing powerful after the carnage of WWII, Garson Kanin’s script is delightful…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:03PM

The moralizing 1946 comedy ‘Born Yesterday’ is not dead yet by Nelson Pressley

As the show on democratic principles opens at Ford’s Theatre, good luck leaving politics at the door.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PM

Tony Goldwyn & Frank Wood to Join Bryan Cranston & Tatiana Maslany in Network on Broadway by Andy Lefkowitz

Scandal star Tony Goldwyn and Tony Award winner Frank Wood are among the newly announced complete cast of Network, the highly anticipated stage adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's iconic fil…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AM
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

People You Should Know . . . Shannon Stowe by Zack Calhoon

Shannon Stowe received her MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama where she is also on faculty teaching Dance for Actors.  Favorite roles include Medea (Medea, New School for …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:48PM
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Born Yesterday

Sat, September 22 thru Sun, October 21 @ Ford's Theatre, presented by Ford's Theatre

SOURCE: culturecapital.com at 12:36AM
Thursday, June 21, 2018

People You Should Know . . . Allen Lewis Rickman by Zack Calhoon

ALLEN LEWIS RICKMAN is an actor, writer and director. He played Velvel, the shtetl husband, in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-nominated A SERIOUS MAN and also translated the Coens…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:06PM
Monday, March 19, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Best Bets: 'Born Yesterday,' Steve Earle & the Dukes, Graham Nash, Lecrae by Go! Magazine Staff

Our staff picks the best things to do this week — with a look ahead.

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:15AM
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Ford’s Theatre’s 2018-2019 season is full of hope and magic by Tim Treanor

For 2018-2019, Ford’s Theatre has opted for a season of magic and optimism in which the corrupt are smited, the stingy are enlightened, wrongs are righted and children are delighted. The s…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:50PM
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

“Born Yesterday” Arouses Laughter, Reflection, at S.F. Playhouse by Robert M. Gardner

Garson Kanin Predicts Trumpian Times by Robert M. Gardner Set Designer Jacqueline Scott has fashioned a spectacular, opulent, hotel suite with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the U.S. C…

SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:09PM
Monday, December 18, 2017

Bumppo to Haven, the top-10 best in off-Loop theater of 2017 by Kerry Reid

In a year when the political and international drama went up to 11, Chicago theaters offered up a raucous and rousing array of productions, from world premieres to classic revivals. Here are…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM
Monday, November 6, 2017

Maltz’s Born Yesterday Is A Progressive Take On A Classic Didactic 1940s Comedy by Bill Hirschman

Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s season-opening rendition of Born Yesterday can’t pave over the script’s glaring weaknesses, but it amplifies the source material’s progressive strengths. Dire…

SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:04PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017

VIDEO: Watch Highlights of Andrea Burns in BORN YESTERDAY in Florida by BroadwayWorld TV

BroadwayWorld has a first look at the Andrea Burns led production of Born Yesterday, on stage October 29 November 12 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Florida.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM

Photo Flash: First Look at Andrea Burns in BORN YESTERDAY at Maltz Jupiter Theatre by BroadwayWorld

What would you do if the gorgeous blonde you discovered ended up being a lot smarter than you gave her credit for That's the hilarious question at hand in the brazen American screwball comed…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Andrea Burns to Star in BORN YESTERDAY at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre by BroadwayWorld

What would you do if the gorgeous blonde you discovered ended up being a lot smarter than you gave her credit for

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15PM

In the Heights’ Andréa Burns Will Be Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday by Andrew Gans

Maltz Jupiter Theatre will present the Garson Kanin comedy beginning October 29.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Sleep No More and Gatz win 2011 Obie Awards by Jaredfine

Congratulations to GATZ and SLEEP NO MORE for their 2011 Obie Awards Presented by the Village Voice The 56th Annual Obie Awards ceremony was held at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village and emc…

SOURCE: americanrepertorytheater.org at 03:18AM
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Review: Born Yesterday (Remy Bumppo Theatre) by Catey Sullivan

After a rather uneventful first act, Born Yesterday picks up the steam of a runaway downhill freight train in the second act, powering through to a finale that feels downright prophetic. Pla…

SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:36PM

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