Friday, May 24, 2013
In the move from Manhattan Theatre Club's Studio at Stage II to the Union Square Theatre, Murder Ballad has a larger performance space, lost Karen Olivo, and gained Caissie Levy, but the sho…
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 07:51PMLaura Osnes, Richard Kind, and Other Drama Desk Winners Let Their Hair Down at the After Party
Billy Porter, Tracy Letts, and Judith Light talk about their award-winning work, as well as wh…
Linked From YouTube at 07:48PMHit YouTube sitcom Smokey's Barbers is transferring to the stage at MIFOn a quiet high street in Surbiton, one shop is considerably noisier than the others. It's midday on a Friday, although…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which was originally schedule to play through June 9, will now run through June 23. Starring Chri…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:37PMStars Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen had fun on set while making a commercial for their hit Broadway show Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Whether improvising n…
Linked From Playbill at 04:26PMMusical fans have watched with pride as Annaleigh Ashford climbed the Broadway and off-Broadway ladder from Legally Blonde, Wicked and Hair to Rent, Dogfight and now a Tony-nominated perform…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:37PMClassic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which was originally schedule to play through June 9, will now run through June 23. Starring Chri…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:32AMDying to know Lea Michele’s secret to her fabulous hair? How about what it was like growing up on Broadway? Well now you can, thanks to the Glee star’s upcoming book Brunette Amb…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:32AMIt's not often we feature a full-on face shot as our POTW, but this Dahlia Katz portrait for Making Love With Espresso, featuring Lorenzo Pagnotta, is not only delicious in its own right, it…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:05AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Aaron Ramey was compelled to grow massive mutton chops to best complete his character in the 19th century-set Jekyll & Hyde.With the show now closed and summer quickly approaching, Ramey…
Linked From Playbill at 01:49PMFuture American Horror Story star Patti LuPone is making a little magic already by adding five additional performances of Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda…(Played That Part) at 54 Below. The t…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:51AMWith plenty of mickeys being taken – including out of Rick Astley and Mumford & Sons – the musical content is the funniest so farReading this on mobile? Please click here to viewWhat hav…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:51AMMonday, May 20, 2013
An ingenue with a rock edge, Caissie Levy first burst onto the Broadway scene in Hairspray before going green in Wicked, taking it all off in Hair and headlining Ghost in the West End and on…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:31PMChuck star Zachary Levi will make his Broadway debut opposite Smash alum Krysta Rodriguez in the new romantic musical comedy First Date, which begins performances at the Longacre T…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:31PMFor America magazine I've done a combined review of two entertaining and popular shows about iconic women leaders at either end of New York's nonprofit stage spectrum: The Public Theater's H…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 10:00AMYoung Vic; Park theatre; Trafalgar Studios, LondonIn the past year the Young Vic has staged a whirling Doll's House and a Three Sisters that danced to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Now …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:43AMOn the day the actor bids farewell to her character in the last episode of Shameless, she will open in a very different role in Eugene O'Neill's marathon, Strange Interlude, at the NationalA…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:43AMLuminaries of stage and screen will come together tonight, May 20th at LaGuardia Arts High School in Manhattan to pay tribute to treasured alumnus and show biz icon Ben Vereen Pippin, Roots,…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:37AMProducers Joey Parnes (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and John Arthur Pinckard (Hair) have announced that the the new musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, directed …
Linked From Broadway’s Best Shows at 07:36AMMarisa Cerveris is fixated on the man in the ribbon tie. She examines his greying hair, receding and combed back off the forehead, a sloping nose, and two delicately poised hands. "It's like…
Linked From TheaterMania at 07:26AMWhat I learned Before...why it is wrongby TJ Dawe@TJ_DaweThe director's job ends on opening night. What a crock. Here's how the gig works, as I learned it in theatre school:-the directo…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 07:21AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
They've Got Magic to Do, Just for You and a Miracle Play to Play
By Lauren Yarger
If ever an opening number delivers on its promise, the exciting "Magic to Do" which opens the Broadway reviv…
Linked From reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 10:01PMNEW YORK (AP) — Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has tapped as its new leader a Broadway producer who has helped mount such hits as the Tony Award-winning revival of "Hair" and "Equu…
Linked From Boston Globe at 05:27PMWhile Kinky Boots stars Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford have found themselves showered in awards love, audiences of the new musical can’t stop talking about the show&rs…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:01PMWriting Surge: It's A-Comin'Once again inspiration struck while I was doing my hair. You may laugh, but I find it's during those daily routines that we do...well...daily, that our minds have…
Linked From Variations On A Theme at 04:32PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Jonathan Groff is moving to San Francisco! The Broadway and Glee favorite will star in a new gay-themed HBO series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. HBO has ordered eight episodes o…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:43PMAbout the author:
Diane Paulus first took Broadway by storm in 2009, when her vibrant interpretation of Hair in Central Park transferred to the Hirschfeld Theatre. Since her acclaimed Broad…
Linked From Broadway.com at 05:43PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Mark Nadler is not instantly likeable, even though he wants to be. He is, however persistent to the point where you realize that underneath all that schmaltz is a guy who has a story to tell…
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 12:34PMSunday, May 12, 2013
BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our May 11th SIP round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured intermissi…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
The ventriloquist daughter of Tom Conti is in the running for a Bafta – just as her latest show premieres in the USSunday night is a big night for Nina Conti. The actor and comedian is up …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:34PMPerformers who’ve made their name in musicals often jump at
the chance to show that they can do straight dramatic roles as well. In just the past year, Norbert Leo Butz and
Nathan La…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:57PM