LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Officials for the state agency that oversees coastal development has for a second time recommended denying a controversial development proposal led by U2 guitarist Th…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:58PMThe glam-rock band Scissor Sisters signed on to write the music and lyrics for ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY. The set, which features a lofty set of stairs and landings at 28 Barbary …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49PMInterview: Jonathan Slinger. The actor, who made his name appearing at the Royal Shakespeare Company, especially in substantial roles in the Histories - Richard II and Richard III - talks to…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:35PMFour new Broadway productions, including the Tony-nominated musical "Catch Me If You Can," will be making available technology that allows blind and deaf theater-goers to more fully experien…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:35PMAs Jerry Seinfeld returns to the UK for his first show in 12 years, James Kettle looks back on the best moments of his long-running sitcomGeorge Costanza's worlds collideJason Alexander's Ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMFleet Foxes, LondonNow that Mumford & Sons have come along and ruined it for everyone, you'd be forgiven for never wanting to see another gang of earnest, fiddly folkies in cheesecloth shirt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMStewart Lee's Austerity Binge: At Last The 1981 Show, LondonLet's park for a moment the fresh-faced stand-ups usually featured on this page (performers recently identified by Stewart Lee as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSpring Awakening, StirlingHeading for London's Greenwich Theatre, the Lowry in Salford and Norwich Playhouse, Sell A Door's revival of the hit Broadway musical inspired by Frank Wedekind's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMDave St-Pierre: Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde!, LondonCanadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has acquired a degree of notoriety: not only for the physical extremes to which he has pushe…
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This year, I kicked off my SoloNOVA Festival experience with Jeffrey Solomon's Santa Claus Is Coming Out, a documentary-style piece set after the incident known …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:41PMAs a super-special Spring extension of BroadwayWorlds SOUND OFF column, every day until the Tony Awards on June 12 we will be presenting a spectacular new entry in the SPOTLIGHT ON THE 2011 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMIf you are going to create a play about Shakespeare, it better be about the writing. The Resonance Ensemble’s production of Shakespeare’s Slave is all about the writing; and in this prod…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:29PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the May 21, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:11PMOn Twitter Watch, Kirstie Alley wrote wonton12 not gonna SEE. I'M gonna BE on Broadway..... Tony Oh Tony, is that you Tony.. A girl can dream, rightGreat meeting... BroadwAy here I come.....
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To celebrate the one year birthday of SUBWAY breakfast, Robert Irvine, celebrity chef, author, and host of popular Food Network programs, Dinner Impossible, Worst Cooks in America and Restau…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMThere is never a dull moment in Richard Bean's adaptation of 'A Servant of Two Masters', which is packed with one-liners, running gags and comic fizz, says Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:37PMWith the Stratford Shakespeare Festival staging the latest version of Jesus Christ Superstar, Dave McGinn surveys four decades of a rock-opera classic
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PMShaw Festival’s new production of the Tennessee Williams classic features a pair of performances that will knock your socks off
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PMActor best known as John Travolta's sidekick Kenickie in Grease, and Bobby Wheeler in the US sitcom TaxiIn the late 1970s and early 80s, Taxi was one of the best American television sitcoms.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's new feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMFrom a grain silo to a turbine hall, Rotterdam's Opera Days festival brings performances to unlikely places and poses questions about the nature of music theatre, says Shirley Apthorp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:07PMFor the last nearly six years (since August 2005), I’ve mostly used the occasion of this blog to indulge in long-form essays about theatre, film, performance, television, and anything else…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:04PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of May 16-22, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,696,763
The Lion King (Minskoff The…
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Daniel Radcliffe and a host of stars discuss what they wore to the 2011 Drama Desk Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:42PM"Side Effects" - Playwright Michael Weller
"Side Effects" playwright Michael Weller discusses the origin of his play, its relation to MCC's 2008 hit "Fifty Word…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:35PMAs previously reported by BroadwayWorld, Broadway veteran Jeff Conaway slipped into a drug-induced coma on May 11th after over-dosing on painkillers. According to USA Today, the actor passed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMAfter a year of performing her cabaret act in various New York venues, three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) wanted a record of her endeavors. &…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:23PMAfter a year of performing her cabaret act in various New York venues, three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) wanted a record of her endeavors. &…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:23PMDaniel Radcliffe and a host of stars discuss what they wore to the 2011 Drama Desk Awards.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:20PMLincoln Center recently opened The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Lawn—Lincoln Center’s newest green space. To celebrate, the horses and puppeteers of Broadway’s War Horse trotte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:18PMBrigadoon - Light Opera Works at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson in Evanston, is offering half-price industry tickets on June 4 and 10 at 8 p.m. and June 8 at 2 p.m. For tickets call 847-869-63…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:18PMThrowing convention to the winds, a girl from a well-to-do San Francisco Jewish family joins a traveling theater troupe to get herself to the wild west, where she meets and marries, well, co…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:17PMMichael Urie will star alongside Ryan Spahn and Victoria Campbell in the Vineyard Playhouse production of Stephen Belber's Tape, to run June 2-18. Claudia Weill will direct.
The play …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:12PMJeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the hit movie version of the musical "Grease" and was one of the stars of the classic sitcom "Taxi," died May 27 at a Los Angeles-are…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PM
While reading your new book, “The Secret Knowledge,” I thought, My God, in crucifying liberals, this guy is going to infuriate a huge chunk of the people who pay money to see plays. Are …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:59PMTim Curry has withdrawn from the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The show is currently in previews, wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:56PMThe Blank Theatre Company will present its 19th annual Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, June 2-26. The festival will feature 12 plays by teenag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PM"No More Dead Dogs" ★★½ Through June 19 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.; $22-$30 at 773-975-8150 or theaterwit.org If a kid in school picks up a book — “Old Yeller,” say, or …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:52PMThe Carlyle Hotel will welcome Tony Award-winner Lea Salonga Miss Saigon back to the Caf Carlyle in an exclusive three-week return engagement.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMBroadway's WONDERLAND played its final performance this Sunday, May 15 at 3pm at the Marquis Theatre in front of a packed house including many Broadway notables. The show played 31 previews …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMThe best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:45PMSo, The Mick interviewed Tom Riley (Arcadia) this week. We won’t give any of it away, but let’s just say that literature was discussed and the word “wenches” was utte…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:38PMLike any good Manhattan tourists, the Salt Lake City citizens of The Book of Mormon recently took a double-decker bus tour of New York City courtesy of People Magazine. A spread in the June …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMCan't get enough of Broadway's newest smash hit musical, The Book of Mormon? Broadway.com's got you covered with our month-long daily video series retracing the show's journe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:13PMThe Blank Theatre Company’s 19th annual Young Playwrights Festival will include appearances by cast members from "Modern Family," "Queer As Folk," "Nurse Jacki…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMPrepare ye! After a few false starts, a revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell is finally heading to Broadway this fall. Performances of the production begin October 13, with opening nig…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMActor Jeff Conaway has died at age 60 in California, according to published reports. He had been in a coma since May 11.
Conaway made his Broadway debut as a child actor in All the Way Home…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Jeff Conaway, who starred in TV's "Taxi" and the movie musical "Grease," has died....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:00PM
Imagine there is a monster eating all your friends and you don’t know where to go, what to do or how to stop it. This is how The Normal Heart co-director George C. Wolfe describes the terr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMLast night, I attended a dress rehearsal/blogger preview of an extraordinary and passionate new production of The Tempest by the theatre company The Tempest Ladies .
The company is co…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 02:56PMJeff Conaway, best known for playing bad boy Kenickie in the movie adaptation of musical Grease, died on May 27. He was taken off life support following two weeks in a coma at a Los Angeles …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMI’ve just come back from a fascinating day at TAPRA, the Theatre and Performance Research Association, where we were discussing reaction to Richard Sennett’s analysis of aspects …
SOURCE: creatingtheatre.com at 02:51PMLove Never Dies is now well into its second year at the Adelphi, where Celia Graham has replaced Olivier nominee Sierra Boggess as Christine Daae. Graham, a 35-year-old from Glasgow, has bee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMBroadway's Jackie Hoffman will take part in a special June 13 benefit of A Night of a Thousand Judys, a special presentation of "The Meeting*" hosted by MAC nominee Justin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMBerkeley's The Marsh is set to present Matt Smith's All My Children, July 1-23. Bret Fetzer will direct.
In the piece, aging bachelor Max Poth tracks down the six children of his…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMAward-winning lyricist Tim Rice will bring a musical adaptation of James Jones’ 1951 novel From Here to Eternity to the London stage in 2012. The score feature music by Stuart Brayson,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:37PMDavid Zippel’s new musical revue The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman which just opened at 59E59 Theaters is one of the best musical revues I’ve ever seen. The cast is …
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 02:31PMBook of Mormon's CASEY NICHOLAW on the moment he decided to direct
A preview of THEATER TALK's interview with Tony-nominated choreographer/co-director CASEY NICHOLAW, which airs on …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PMThe Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart held a special performance May 26, offering a discounted price for young people.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMLast night, May 25, 59E59 Theaters welcomed the Rubicon Theatre in California to Americas Off Broadway with their critically acclaimed production of THE BEST IS YET TO COME THE MUSIC OF Cy C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMTo celebrate PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERTs 100th performance on Broadway, tonight, Friday, May 27th -- the smash hit new musical is counting down 100 memorable fun facts and backstage secr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMLegit News: Tim Rice, Lee Menzies to produce London show -- LONDON -- "From Here to Eternity," James Jones' 1951 novel about the attack on Pearl Harbor that was turned into the celebrated mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:10PMStage and screen star John Malkovich, along with filmmaker Otar Iosseliani, will receive a CineMerit Award for lifetime achievement at this year's Munich International Film Festival, ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PM
Meet the 2011 Tony Nominees part 2
The American Theatre Wing's 2011 Tony Award® nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 3rd. The next day our friend Julie James of SIRIUS XM radi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:58PMGlobe, LondonOn a chill, damp night Jeremy Herrin's production, pre-empting next week's West End version (starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate) conquered its audience. But, although Her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:53PMCape Playhouse has announced casting for two of its summer productions.
Doug Cohen's No Way to Treat a Lady (June 27-July 9) is described as "an uproarious, sexy musical that give…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's FOLLIES opened on May 21, 2011 after previewing since May 7. The cast features two-time Tony wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMThis powerful 1985 Off-Broadway play about the early days of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in NYC is receiving a striking Broadway revival at the Golden Theatre. THE NORMAL HEART follows a gro…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:40PMFollies cast members Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines and Elaine Paige sat down with moderator Dwight Blocker Bowers for a Kennedy Center presentation entitled R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMThe original Broadway cast album of the Tony-nominated musical The Book of Mormon has sold 13,000 copies since its digital release May 17 from Ghostlight Records, according to a report …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMEmily Bergl, Julie Halston, Ashley Auston Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski are set to join off-Broadway's Love, Loss and What I Wore. Bergl, Halston and Morris will join previously announce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMThe Kennedy Center's Gift Shop will host a series of autograph sessions with stars from the current production of Follies, following select 1:30pm matinee performances.
Participating c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMIN THE HEIGHTS' Andrea Burns is set to star in Tim Pinckney's new comedy, EVER SO HUMBLE and The Hangar Theatre. The production will run from July 14 through 23. She will be joined in the pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMPRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL GOES WEST ON BROADWAY! CELEBRATING 100 PERFORMANCES AT THE PALACE THEATRE TONIGHT “Queen of Broadway! A feel-good show with a big, joy…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:01PMMay is Mormon month at Broadway.com as we continue our daily The Book of Mormon video series. In today's entry, the show's Tony-nominated director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PM
On April 11, 2010, the Sunday newspaper carried its quota of serious news, including a plane crash that killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and the launch of Massachusetts Governor Deval …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:58PMNina Arianda, nominated for a best actress Tony for “Born Yesterday,” has screeched, pouted and purred her way to roles in film and on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PM“Captors,’’ a world-premiere drama about Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the Israeli agents who tracked him down in 1960 Argentina, will fill the final spot in the Hun…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:50PMBroadway Inspirational Voices, a popular gospel choir made up of Broadway singers, will perform two concerts at Central Presbyterian Church in June. The show, a "summer celebration of s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMOff-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2011 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's CAMELOT the beloved musical that def…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMTim Curry has withdrawn from Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead due to ill health.
Opening on Tuesday (31 May, previews from 20 May) for a ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:40PM Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, May 27, 2011 The Friday Broadway Ticker: click on hyperlinked items for more information RT @JERUSALEMBWY: Tony nominated playwright, Jez Bu…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:36PMStephen Schwartz, composer of the Tony-nominated musical Wicked, talks about the origin of “For Good” from the hit musical and follows with a solo performance.
The song, which ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMMichael Longoria — the original Joe Pesci in Broadway's Jersey Boys, who later graduated to leading man Frankie Valli— has a featured role (or is it roles?) in Seth's Musical Disaster. M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMI spent the afternoon at Stanford University yesterday observing 20 of this year's Knight Journalism Fellows deliver short presentations on their visions for the future of journalism.As some…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:34PMFour actors, one show, and the entire 20th century. It may seem like an insurmountable task, but that is what you would expect from a true Epic, and which Foster & Déchery have attempte…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMTim Curry, who has been playing the role of The Player in Chichester Festival Theatre's new London-bound production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, has withd…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMToday marks the centennial of Hubert Humphrey's birth and I can't let it pass without mentioning my brief but memorable meeting with him.It was in 1976, when I was in high school and visitin…
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 12:30PMFollowing a a 35-week national tour, the Berenstain Bears come to New York City for a limited summer engagement of The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical. Devanand Janki h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMJulie Halston, Emily Bergl, Ashley Austin Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski have been announced to join the summer cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PMThe cast of West End show Shrek The Musical will perform live on ITV's Britain's Got Talent next Tuesday.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMThe absolute worst part of my new job doing the weekly Q & A in the magazine is editing the hour-long conversations down to the paltry 700 words allotted for my interview. So many darlings. …
SOURCE: 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com at 12:20PMJulie Halston, Emily Bergl, Ashley Austin Morris and Zuzanna Szadkowski have been announced to join the summer cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMSpeaking to long time theater critic Peter Filichia, one is reminded of listening to an old-time sportwriter talk about baseball. The Broadway he describes is full of colorful personalities,…
SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 12:19PMAudiences surprised by the heartwarming and endearing moments of Broadway's raunchy musical hit The Book of Mormon have lovable actress Nikki M. James to thank. James, who plays Afr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMJazz legend Wynton Marsalis will be honored at The Interfaith Center of New York's ninth annual James Parks Morton Interfaith Awards Dinner, to be held at Tribeca Rooftop on Monday, Jun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThe Disney animated musical, "The Lion King," will return to movie theatres in 3-D for a two-week engagement beginning Sept. 16, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMPRISCILLA on Broadway: The Priscilla Diva Mix
PRISCILLA is now on Broadway! For more information on PRISCILLA, please visit http://www.priscillaonbroadway.com/
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One and only: pictures from fans who captured Kate Bush's 1979 Tour of Lifeguardian.co.uk/music
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56AM4000 MILES - Interview with Gabriel Ebert & Mary Louise Wilson
An interview with Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson, who play the grandson (Leo) and grandmother (Vera) in 4000 MILES.
…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMGuest stars have been announced for the seventh season of the Showtime series "Weeds," scheduled to premiere June 27. Among those who will make guest performances are stage actors …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMIrish Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for its concert performance of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot, to be presented as part of the company's 2011 benefit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMIn conjunction with its current production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which officially opened May 21, The Kennedy Center's Gift Shop will offer signings with se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMProducer Daryl Roth announced today that Emily Bergl Desperate Housewives, returning cast members Julie Halston The Divine Sister and Ashley Austin Morris The Electric Company and Zuzanna Sz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMOn Wednesday, the producers of the new Off-Broadway musical Lucky Guy announced that the show would be closing this coming Sunday, May 29th, after only 14 regular performances and 23 preview…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 11:39AMAs America continues through a recession and arts funding is continually slashed from public schools, questions linger in the heads of artists, primarily how to introduce children to theater…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:39AMWe haven't heard much from Baz Luhrmann since his stylized vision of La Boheme livened up the 2002-03 Broadway season. Back then, there was a lot of talk that Luhrmann's next st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMJonathan Marc Sherman's new play about expectant parenthood, Knickerbocker, isn't exactly a bundle of joy, even if you're familiar with the parent-child themes he digs into in previous wor…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:38AMCasting is now complete for the one-night-only concert staging of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot this summer to benefit Irish Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMIt’s a time-honored Broadway tradition: the day after the Tony nominations are announced, the lucky nominees get gussied up to meet the press. Broadwaycom Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMWith so many productions of The Tempest a year, what's special about the production on June 2 (7 and 9 p.m.) at The Players Theatre? Well, it's being performed by six women--Stella Berg, Lau…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:26AMShakespeare's Globe's production of Much
Ado About Nothing opened last night (26 May, previews from 21 May 2011) with Eve Best and Charles Edwards as sparring lovers Beatrice and
Benedick. …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:24AMA quiet holiday weekend still spells the start of the Midlands' Neat festival, as a second Much Ado gets under way in LondonAnother bank holiday spells a slightly quieter theatre week ahead,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMDick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott, who collaborated on the Tony-nominated Everyday Rapture, have been working with 13 men incarcerated in Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMThe Wizard of Oz promises to be the biggest theatre event of the West End year, combining all the much-loved songs from the Oscar-winning movie score with new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMTheatre World Award winner Colin Hanks will join Tony Award winner Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen for the upcoming film "My Mother's Curse," according to The Hollywood Reporte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMAtlantic Theater Company conjures a stage version of Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning "Through a Glass Darkly," starring Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMStage and screen actor Zach Braff is in final talks to join the cast of the upcoming Disney film, "Oz, the Great and Powerful," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMThe U2 frontman, who composed the music for problem-plagued $70 million Broadway production with the Edge, says the revamped show "will be there by opening night."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:04AMMarc Kudisch is a versatile musical star who can go “light” or “dark” with equal ease. A three-time Tony nominee for expert comic performances in Thoroughly Modern Mi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMI got an email blast for a Broadway show the other day that made me wonder whether or not we're putting too much emphasis on the "like" or the "follow" call to action tha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Tonys are less than three weeks away have you started planning your bash yetEvery year, I throw a big party complete with themed food based around the titles of the nominated shows. I'v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMIan Rickson's revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, opens at the Comedy Theatre on 16 June (previews from 27 May 2011). Producers have today (27 May 2011) released images of the principal cas…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:47AMBritish playwright Penelope Skinner, whose play The Village Bike begins June 24 at London's Royal Court Theatre, has been awarded the 2011 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwrig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMWePay, an online payments company begun in 2008, is branching out into the ticketing business.
With the launch of its new WePay Tickets product, anyone can get online and within minutes sta…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:40AM“Cradle and All” at Manhattan Theatre Club ~ NY City Center: Equipped with only an iPhone 4, AndrewAndrew shoots, edits and posts their “Insta-Review” of Cradle and All at Manhattan …
SOURCE: Andrew Andrew at 10:39AMAssociate Lighting Designer Caroline Chao takes care of all the details for a lighting designer, including handling the production schedule, helping to draft the lighting plot, and keeping t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:39AMHomeless youth striving to turn their lives around will get a chance to perform with Broadway stars at Covenant House's A Night of Broadway Stars gala June 2 at Frederick P. Rose Hall in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMWinners of the 2010-11 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which honor the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre, were celebrated May 26 at Sardi's Restaurant.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMYesterday, May 26, The Outer Critics Circle honored Broadway's and Off Broadway's best of the 2010-2011 season. BroadwayWorld was on hand at Sardi's for the ceremony and brings you photo co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMP+H Productions in association with Provincetown Counter Productions will present the world-premiere production of David Caudle's The Common Swallow in Provincetown this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMOn Thursday, May 26, the 2010-2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards were presented at a ceremony held at Sardi's Restaurant.
Presenters at the event included Charles Busch, Julie Halston, B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMUpdated casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway hit, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theatre.
The show, which is written by Nora and Delia Ephron and directed by Karen …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMBWW Discounts is offering you the chance to save now on tickets to see Roundabout Theatre Company's PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE Click here for information on how to save.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMEver So Humble, a new work by New York playwright Tim Pinckney (Message to Michael), will make its world premiere this summer at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMIt’s been all Fringe, all the time here lately, so here’s something completely different. Two theater professors from my college, Nora Hussey and Melinda Lopez, have put together…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 10:09AM"Not only are we seeing the fast rise of micro-festivals but regional theatres are increasingly throwing open their doors to companies that, in the past, they might have deemed a risky box-o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:07AMProducers Tim Rice and Lee Menzies have announced plans to stage a new musical theater version of James Jones' award-winning novel From Here to Eternity, to debut in London in 2012. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMRichard III: Transforming Tradition | Between the Lines | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Director Miles Potter, actor Seana McKenna and designer Peter Hartwell discuss the Stratford Shakesp…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:04AMTheatre companies can now advertise and recycle old sets and costumes on a new Freecycle-style website specifically designed for the sector.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM
Two-time Tony Award winner James Naughton City of Angels, Chicago, Democracy and four-time Tony Nominee, 4-time Drama Desk Award Winner Tovah Feldshuh Irena's Vow, Golda's Balcony, Lend Me a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMUnfortunately, I had to miss the Boston Theatre Marathon this year. I've directed and performed in the Marathon in different years, and I have also sat through the whole day as an audience m…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:39AMFor Fringers sitting around with no shows to see on Friday night (that’s tonight, in case you’ve lost track), here’s an alternative: Radio Rickshaw’s live show, to be…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:38AMA by-invitation-only reading of Hal Ackerman's contemporary mortality comedy Testosterone will be presented June 13 at the Roy Arias Off-Broadway Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMAs George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion hits the West End, test your knowledge of the great playwrightLeo Benedictus
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThe Five Lesbian Brothers -- the theatre collective consisting of Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Lisa Kron, and Babs Davy -- won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Dra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMThe York Theatre Company's Developmental Lab series will continue with free readings of the new musical Cuts: An Uplifting Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AMIn Lynn Nottage's powerfully crafted Ruined, which opened Wednesday night in director Maria Mileaf's riveting production by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, you want so much to believe that…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:16AMUnder Bruce Lumpkin's direction, everyone uses big Broadway voices, straining to create lots of passion and intensity but with few genuine emotional moments. What a waste that Jeff Coons and…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:12AMHe was a child of privilege, with a mother who was a CNN anchorwoman and a father who was chief of police in Atlanta. And he skyrocketed to fame in 2002, finishing second in the first season…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:09AM
Upon entering the stage area of Unmythable, I was pleasantly surprised to be offered a few olives by a ruddy-faced man. “Take more! Take more! Pass the bowl around!” lisped his s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMLet's get one thing perfectly clear - the music of the real-life group, The Shaggs, is confoundedly awful. Yes, awful. If you don't believe me, take a listen. The other thing tha…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:28AMHaving never seen Thriller Live I was intrigued to finally have tickets for the production that isn’t a show, or a musical but “two-hours of non-stop hit songs from Michael Jacks…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:23AMAccording to Baz Bamigboye in today's Daily Mail, Nick Scandalios, executive vice-president of the Broadway giant the Nederlander Organisation, had hoped this year to revive Alan Jay Lerner …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:19AMCritics and audiences alike are declaring Edward Gero and Sasha Olinick a triumph in Amadeus at Round House Theatre, which just added three performances, now closing June 12th. Washington …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:17AMI’d like to talk a little about those motherly and fatherly figures in the early career of an actor: our drama school tutors. Wonderfully eccentric as a rule, but also full of knowledge, a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:17AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Revival books fall opening -- The brewing revival of "Godspell" has laid claim to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater, setting a timeline that will see the show open there in…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Play 'Village Bike' wins Devine -- Penelope Skinner has won the 2011 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright for her play "The Village Bike."
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Ritter, Camp, Barnes also will star -- Justin Bartha, Krysten Ritter, Anna Camp and David Wilson Barnes will star in "All New People," the new stage comedy by Zach Braff bowing a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Publishing houses Bloomsbury and Faber and Faber are to launch an online digital archive giving access to more than 2,000 years of drama.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMMatthew Morrison at the VH1 Save the Music concert - May 16 2011
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:43AMThe Stage's Alistair Smith gives you the lowdown on the latest in theatre, from Andrew Lloyd Webber's £32m donation to a Shakespearean reunion for The Wire's McNulty and Freamon
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AMThe Stage's Alistair Smith gives you the lowdown on the latest in theatre, from Andrew Lloyd Webber's £32m donation to a Shakespearean reunion for The Wire's McNulty and Freamon Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AMGet to know our Tony Nominated leading lady, Patina Miller!
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:37AMNew York City Ballet presents a triple bill with music by Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22AMThe rain and clouds might have led a decidedly chilly atmosphere over Jeremy Herrin's vision of sunny Messina but there are compensations a-plenty in this slick production of one of Shakespe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:06AM
Anya Reiss' second play The Acid Test opened this week (23 May, previews from
13 May) at the Royal Court. Following the success of Reiss' Spur of the Moment::E8831279702659, which debuted la…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:48AMHines Ward confessed throughout his run on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" his newfound respect and interest in dance. And he's not the only one.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:38AM"Not only are we seeing the fast rise of micro-festivals - events such as the Junction Sampled, Harrogate's Two's Company or the Basement's 5x5 in Brighton - but regional theatres are increa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:31AMThriller
Live celebrated its 1000th
performance last night (27 May 2011) at the Lyric Theatre with featured performances by Blue and Britain’s Got Talent's Shaheen
Jafargholi.
Boy …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:29AM"Wilton's Music Hall has had its £2.25 million application to the Heritage Lottery Fund rejected and now faces being closed by this autumn if nothing is done. ... The London venue need…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AM
"Big stars, classic productions and the pulling power of one of Australia's best known international actresses has fuelled higher profits, bigger audiences and helped attract new corporate s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:41AMTim Rice and Lee Menzies have today (27 May 2011) confirmed they will bring their long-rumoured musical adaptation of James Jones’ 1951 classic novel From Here to Eternity to the stage…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:37AM"Horror writer Stephen King's first play, The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, featuring haunting melodies by rocker John Mellencamp, is finally ready for the stage. The musical was origin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:34AMBen Brantley: "Famous people of all stripes are returning the compliment by looking to Broadway to rejuvenate their careers [and] enhance their artistic credibility ... I am proposing a litt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26AM
This musical homage to spectacular mediocrity, staged in a gallery installation, is a visual achievement, but the script is dramatically disappointing and the songs forgettable.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:36AMThe Japan Society will present a first look at Wax Factory's new work-in-progress, 416 Minutes, at 7:30pm on Thursday, June 2.
The event will be hosted by creator and director Ivan Ta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36AMChristopher Fry's blank-verse comedy-drama about the meaning and purpose of life won't be everyone's cup of tea, but this scrappy production succeeds in making a case for it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:26AMOne highlight of the next two years will be a work called The Radicalisation of Bradley ManningA dramatisation based on the teenage school years of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning in H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Originally published in The New Yorker. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 65.Either I'm getting better at identifying excerpts passing as short stories or The New Yorker is getting les…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:58AMLegit Reviews: A powerhouse cast led by the scribe himself and Jon Bernthal of AMC's "The Walking Dead" makes for a most gripping and fast-moving 85 minutes.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35AMWell, I must admit that Part One of the Broadway University Final Examination has flummoxed a number of students. Of course, I haven’t heard from everyone, for the deadline is not unti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AM• PLUS KERRY REID'S CHART OF DOZENS MORE SHOWS FOR THE SEASON After the grayest spring on record, Chicago is looking forward to a change in season. Time and reviews will tell for sure, but…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:01AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I file the first of two reports on my recent visit to Chicago. This week...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMy "Sightings" column in today's Wall Street Journal is about Ai Weiwei. Here's an excerpt. * * * China locked...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof owes it all to Jim Mezon and Gray Powell.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:37AMTalking points: Word association with Wonderland‘s Kate Shindle Acrobats tumble at Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana press event Win a pair of tickets to see The Phantom of the Opera Br…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:12AMWe now have three Patrons’ Picks announced for the Fringe. Here are the shows and the times for their additional performance Monday May 30: Dog Powered Robot and the History of the Fut…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 12:04AMThe Oops Guys’ Bitches of the Kingdom!, probably the biggest hit at this year’s Fringe, already has a follow-up date — June 3 and 4 at the Parliament House for Gay Days. He…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 12:01AMFestival star tackles the greatest male villain, Richard III
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMNational Ballet presents sumptuous new production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by star choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMOn Saturday, July 9, the lights of The Great White Way are going to shine all the way up to the Rexall Centre on the York University campus.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMWith everything from Al Pacino to Hall and Oates, it’s a great month for casino lovers in Ontario.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMMost people who attend on June 29 will be drawn by two Oscar-winning actors, Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMA new production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Miles and Douglas Henshall, begins performances May 27, prior to an official opening June 16, for a run t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe premature closing of a show is the kind of event that can throw a dramatist into a self-protective mood. That's exactly what happened with composer John Kander and librettist David T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award winner Greg Jbara (Billy Elliot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chicago) hosts a special Fleet Week Broadway performance, featuring Tony Award-nominated musicals Catch Me If You Can and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1953 John Mills is The Uninvited Guest at London's St. James's Theatre. Written by his wife, Mary Hayley Bell, and co-starring Cathleen Nesbitt and Joan Greenwood, this story of a ma…
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