Benedict Cumberbatch has confirmed he will star in a London production of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet next year.
Linked From The Independent at 08:10AMGeorg Kaiser's 1912 play is reckoned to be a landmark of German Expressionism but in this rare revival, adapted by Dennis Kelly and directed by Melly Still, it comes over as a massive white …
Linked From The Independent at 08:10AMOpenings this week sees two Doctor Whos, Matt Smith and David Tennant, pitted against each other in American Psycho and Richard II, plus The Duck House, Potted Panto and more
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:09AMThe last in Michael Grandage's West End season, Henry V, opened at the Noel Coward Theatre last week. Starring Jude Law in the title role, it runs until 22 February 2014
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:09AMTheatre Royal Stratford East's panto, Dick Whittington, opened last week
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:09AMTwo more Hollywood legends are heading to the UK in the new year to share their memories of their career highs and lows
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 08:09AMRECOMMENDED Sometimes the title of a show can give you some clear direction as to its content (“Death of a Salesman,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Conversations on a Homecoming”…
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Michael Grandage crowns his opening five play West End season with a production of Henry V starring Jude Law, Grandage's award winning Hamlet of a few years back.
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:30AMa charmingly conceived and cleverly staged version of what is not generally considered to be top drawer Shakespeare
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:29AMThe Menier Chocolate Factory hosts the most charming musicals on a small scale and somehow improves them with their intimate productions. With Bernstein's music and brilliant singing, what m…
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:29AMIt's the time of year when "The Magic Flute" opera is often performed, but what about the man who seems to make magic with his flute, Sir James Galway.
Linked From NY1 at 07:29AMA gorgeous Amy Irving to provide a modicum of text, a pair of New York's American ballet theater dancers to execute Martha Clarke's sensual as ever and literature inspired choreography! What…
Linked From CurtainUp at 07:29AMGossip Girl Leighton Meester Makes Broadway Debut in Of Mice and Men: I'm excited and so will some of my non-theatre friends when they see that Blair from "Gossip Girl" Leighton Meester is m…
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:29AMCarlos Santana, Martina Arroyo, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel and Shirley MacLaine receive Kennedy Center honors.WASHINGTON — Carlos Santana, the Mexico-born powerhouse whose songs have s…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:29AMAs a début play, Kieran Knowles’s Operation Crucible at the Finborough Theatre captures the hours around the Sheffield Blitz in 1940 with urgency and a pounding energy. Like the fire…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:09AMA Younger Theatre is proud to announce that it will be supporting a scholarship for Fourth Monkey Theatre Company’s Two Year Rep training in 2014. One student accepted onto the Fourt…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:09AMThe West Yorkshire Playhouse continues into the Christmas season with yet another spellbinding production, coming in the form of Rosanna Lowe’s new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s cl…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 07:09AMBenedict Cumberbatch is to turn his thespian hand from Sherlock to Hamlet after confirming that he will star in a London production of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy next year.
Linked From The Independent at 07:08AMThe Flame-Haired Dynamo at Hull Truck Theatre is "anything but predictable".
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMMichael Coveney looks back on the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Launch
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMThe annual festival presenting LGBT arts at the Contact Theatre is back, including pieces by Jackie Kay and The Tiger Lillies.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMThe Orange Tree Theatre concludes the trilogy of plays making up the Middlemarch trilogy
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMWith over 80,000 theatregoer submissions, narrowing down nominations to five in each Awards category was extremely difficult. Here are some of the other performers and productions that theat…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMThe Landor's From Page to Stage festival has now secured and Arts Council grant to help showcase new work
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMSteve Marmion's production of Anthony Neilson's The Night Before Christmas opened at the Soho Theatre last week
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMKnight, who marks her West End debut as Rachel Marron, will stay with the show until 31 May 2014
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 07:07AMWe first see the bank clerk, who can’t bear his dull life, serving behind the cashier's till, like an automaton. In Melly Still's hugely inventive, visually stunning multimedia produc…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 07:07AMTerrence McNally is one fortunate fellow. He was quoted in an interview on Playbill.com as having said that he’s been blessed with a happy home life, and the privilege of working a…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:07AMThe Lincoln Center Theatre has assembled a vast company of more than 20 actors, and allotted an equally vast budget to its spectacular production of the perennial favorite Macbeth. Our mos…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:07AMComposer Jeanine Tesori has a new work opening December 14th at the John F. Kennedy Center, with its special Christmas theme making it a suitable holiday treat for the whole family. Commissi…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:07AMSTEPHEN Sondheim says he hates the word “hummable.”
Based on this new HBO biopic on the widely admired Broadway composer, he may not be big on “cuddly,” either.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:04AMWar is hell. So is love. Let’s dance. And let’s talk, too. That’s the formula for director-choreographer Martha Clarke’s compact and compelling — but uneven — dance-theater mashu…
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:04AMThe 36th annual "Kennedy Center Honors" celebrates the careers of opera singer Martina Arroyo, jazz man Herbie Hancock, rock and pop star Billy Joel, actress Shirley MacLaine, and …
Linked From Gold Derby at 07:04AMBilly Joel was bestowed one of the nation’s top awards Sunday as a star-studded crowd at the Kennedy Center in Washington let him know they love him just the way he is.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:04AM54 Below Presents a Smash: Hit List or The Price of Fame: Hit List is a show for anyone whose dreams are on the edge.
Linked From Times Square Chronicles at 07:04AMLAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas appears to have a winner when it comes to hyper-specific themes. The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas has opened a concert venue intended to evoke a 1930s-era theater d…
Linked From Associated Press at 07:04AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Former "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester will make her Broadway debut next year as a beautiful temptress in the revival of "Of Mice and Men."...
Linked From Associated Press at 07:04AMWASHINGTON (Reuters) - With notes of rock, jazz and opera, Washington feted piano man Billy Joel, actress Shirley MacLaine and guitarist Carlos Santana on Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors…
Linked From reuters.us.feedsportal.com at 07:04AMMy first brush with existentialism came not through my college-era reading list—Kierkegaard, Kafka—but when I first heard Burt Bacharach. This was in the old country of childhood…
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As I’ve recently discovered, it’s difficult to keep one’s private life entirely private and events and indiscretions from the distant past can suddenly rear up and influenc…
Linked From The Stage at 06:47AMThe season's first snowfall this past week in St. Louis provided the perfect setting for the Rep's current production, Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”. A month ago I mentioned …
Linked From St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:32AMSo here comes Howard Barker, preparing to torture us with his new radio play. If you extract his own spikily anti-promotional soundbites in the manner of dubious theatre posters – drama sh…
Linked From The Stage at 06:29AMJesse Green on The Flick, Fun Home, The Glass Menagerie, and more.
Linked From New York Magazine at 06:29AMDennis Kelly's new adaptation of Georg Kaiser's play opened at the NT Lyttelton last week
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:07AMScarlett Strallen is currently starring as Cunegonde in the Menier Chocolate Factory's Candide, which opened last week. She was recently nominated for the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Act…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:07AMCast, Doncaster's impressive new theatre, stages its first pantomime.
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 06:07AMLeading entertainment lawyer Neil Adleman has said that the theatre tax reliefs that were proposed in the Autumn Statement last week could be “more far reaching than they may at first …
Linked From The Stage at 06:07AMAhead of tonight's broadcast of the Royal Variety Performance, full principal casting has been announced for the Harry Hill musical
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Diversity is a word that creates a variety of images and emotions among people in theatre. Companies strive for diverse casting to bring diverse audiences. Backstage, though, at least in the…
Linked From The Stage at 05:54AMOn Saturday I attended an up-beat Christmas concert in St Paul’s Covent Garden, the actors’ church. It included numbers from musicals, carols, some traditional Christmas hymns and readin…
Linked From The Stage at 05:36AMSo art is to be a part of the First World War commemorations – not “celebrations” as everyone is still having to be so careful to say. And so they should be, perhaps at the...
Linked From The Stage at 05:29AMFollowing the success of its inaugural outing at the Comedy Cafe last month the International Comedy Club reprised the francophone stand up night on Tuesday mixing French comedians with Engl…
Linked From The Stage at 05:10AMSince 1893, only 12 dancers have been designated “prima ballerina assoluta,” which is like being crowned empress of the ballet galaxy. So it’s a big deal that the last one...
Linked From nypost.com at 05:06AMThe EastEnder will earn his musical theatre chops alongside Richard Fleeshman, who leads the Urinetown cast in their first sneak-peek performance of "Run Freedom Run" at the WhatsO…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:06AMMichael Coveney looks back on the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Launch
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 05:06AMCookbooks offer more than just recipes. A new exhibit in at the University of Michigan shows the evolution and development of Jewish cuisine — and community.
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Red Bull Theater presents Vladimir Nabokov's The Tragedy of Mr. Morn Dec. 9 as part of its Revelation Readings series.
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMIn the New York premiere of How I Learned What I Learned, Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson takes on the role of playwright August Wilson — who also happened to be his collaborator and…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMProducers Martin Platt, David Elliot, Patrick Blake and Cheryl Wiesenfeld present a developmental lab of the new musical comedy My Life Is A Musical, featuring a book, music and lyrics by Ad…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMTransport Group's 2013 Gimme a Break! gala is held Dec. 9 at 6 PM at the Asia Society and Museum.
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMBless This House: A Holiday-ish Benefit Celebration, which raises funds for repairs for the historic Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, is presented Dec. 9 at 7 PM at the Upper West Side chu…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMContemporary musical theatre songwriters Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar celebrate the release of their debut album "#LOVE" Dec. 9 at Rockwood Music Hall. Soul Doctor's Amber I…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMMary Birdsong joins the cast of Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick's Disaster! A 1970’s Disaster Movie…Musical beginning Dec. 9 at St. Luke’s Theatre.
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMAbingdon Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, adapted for the stage and directed by Donald Brenner, Dec. 9 at 7 PM at the June Havoc Theatre …
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMThe 25th anniversary edition of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' Gypsy of the Year Competition is presented Dec. 9 at 4:30 PM and Dec. 10 at 2 PM at the Minskoff Theatre, currently the…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMTony Award-winning dancer Donna McKechnie sits with Tony-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell for In Good Company, a special conversation, Dec. 9 at Birdland.
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMPlaywrights Horizons' world premiere of The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, a new play by Madeleine George (The Zero Hour), officially opens Dec. 9 at 7 PM following prev…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AM"Six By Sondheim," a new documentary exploring the work of Tony-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, premieres on HBO Dec. 9.
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMThe York Theatre Company honors Tony and Oscar-winning Broadway and film composer Alan Menken with the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at the 22nd Oscar H…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMTickets for the Broadway production of Mothers and Sons, the new play by four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally — which was seen in a recent world-premiere engag…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMProducer David Binder announced Dec. 9 that Leighton Meester ("Gossip Girl," "Country Strong") will join Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner James Franco and Ch…
Linked From Playbill at 01:02AMThe New York Times 12/08/13
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The Gun. The Bullet. The Target. The Eyes.by Estelle RosenJon Lachlan Stewart is a playwright, performer and director originally from Edmonton Alberta, a graduate of Studio 58 in Vancouver, …
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:59AMSignature Theatre, Off Broadway
By Brett Epstein
BOTTOM LINE: Exquisite dance, beautifully performed, is not enough to make this an engaging dramatic production.
According to progra…
Linked From Theatre is Easy at 12:43AMThe Pigeoning is 70 minutes of pure delight. This brilliant piece of puppet theatre is the story of Frank, an office worker who cannot function unless everything on his desk is aligned perfe…
Linked From Show Showdown at 12:09AMDonny & Marie - A Broadway Christmas, a holiday stage production that starred the showbiz siblings Donny and Marie Osmond, began a limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre on Dec. 9, 20…
Linked From Playbill at 12:02AMGossip Girl star Leighton Meester is swapping her Manhattan digs for a California ranch! The small screen favorite will make her Broadway debut in Of Mice and Men as Curley’s Wife. She…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:02AMMolinaro's passing was confirmed by the office of French President Francois Hollande's, in a statement that called him 'great, appealing and original,' a director who 'conquered the public a…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMNBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE aired last December 5 and it's all the theatre world has been talking about since. Below, check out a photo from the wrap party, in fact, it's the very first ph…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMStars and casts from the current Broadway line-up have been busy in the studio, recording for the 2013 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 15. Singing traditional and original holiday songs…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMIt was a full house of New York City school children at The Broadway Theatre on December 5 as 'Inside Broadway' presented another afternoon of 'Creating The Magic' at Rodgers amp Hammerstein…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, December 8, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMThe legendary Birdland was packed to the gills for the latest presentation of Jim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland Series, Jonathan Brielle's I Saw Broadway. An all star gathering of Broadway's…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, December 8, 2013 - Sunday, December 8, 2013.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMThe former "Gossip Girl" star will make her Broadway debut in the spring alongside James Franco and Chris O'Dowd in the revival of John Steinbeck's classic drama.NEW YORK -- In what is shapi…
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