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Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 11pm (Broadway Time)
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Follies by Wendy Caster

In 2003, in the Signature (Arlington, VA) production, Eric Schaeffer demonstrated that he is capable of directing a sensitive, textured, multidimensional, heart-breaking Follies. Has he forg…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:22PM

Marshall to leave Fringe by Elizabeth Maupin

Beth Marshall, producing artistic director of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, announced Sunday night she is leaving the Fringe immediately to devote herself to producing t…

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:03PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10pm (Broadway Time)
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An Inspiring Blog Post from one of our Alcyone Playwrights, EM Lewis (STRONG VOICE) by Jenn

** You can also visit the original post on Ellen's website. Halcyon Theater Company:  When It Comes to Supporting Women Playwrights, Their Actions Speak Loud   There…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:41PM

Breakout role as a wrestler making Desmin Borges a heavyweight

Some actors work for years, moving through a career in which they manage to play everything from Hamlet to Willy Loman. But they never quite get lucky with a career game-changer of a role. A…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:20PM

Feature: Alan Alda Shares His Passion by Brian Scott Lipton

The award-winning star discusses writing his new play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 9pm (Broadway Time)
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Hollywood stars at center of Broadway backlash

NEW YORK (Back Stage) - Every year, Hollywood celebrities head to Broadway where they get plenty of attention for their headlining efforts.

SOURCE: Reuters at 09:47PM

David Hyde Pierce starring in psychological thriller

NEW YORK (Backstage) - David Hyde Pierce, best known for his Emmy-winning role as neurotic shrink Dr. Niles Crane on "Frasier," will show a different side in the upcoming psychological thril…

SOURCE: Reuters at 09:43PM

A SLAM-BANG SUCCESS

Some actors work for years, moving through a career in which they manage to play everything from Hamlet to Willy Loman. But they never quite get lucky with a career game-changer of a role. A…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:20PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 7pm (Broadway Time)
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STAGE TUBE: Nicholaw Talks BOOK OF MORMON on Theater Talk

Casey Nicholaw, co-director, choreographer and Tony nominee for THE BOOK OR MORMON, recently sat down with Theater Talk to discuss his switch from performing to directing.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:55PM

ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Parenthood Plays by Erik Piepenburg

A roundup of readers' reviews of new plays.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 6pm (Broadway Time)
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Photo Coverage: Broadway at Fleet Week by Monica Simoes

The City of New York and the United States Navy and Fleet Week Committee are celebrating the 24th annual Fleet Week, going on through May 30, 2011. Fleet Week is America's premier tribute an…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PM

SPOTLIGHT ON THE 2011 TONY AWARDS: DAY 17 & 18 - WEST SIDE STORY: Then & Now by Pat Cerasaro

As 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 06:33PM

Theater Review | 'As It Is in Heaven': A Striking, Gentle Portrait of a Shaker Community by Anita Gates

The 3 Graces Theater Company offers a rendition of Arlene Hutton’s play, “As It Is in Heaven.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PM

City College to Support New Theater Uptown by Felicia R. Lee

Hopes are high that the New Haarlem Arts Theater will boost the school’s theater education program and draw more audiences uptown.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PM

Tom & Jerry LIVE! by Jerry Beck

You can have your Lion King or Shrek The Musical… Me, I want my Tom and Jerry Live! Last night in Argentina was the off-off-off-off-Broadway debut of a new stage musical based on Hanna-Bar…

SOURCE: www.cartoonbrew.com at 06:13PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 5pm (Broadway Time)
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Another view on The School for Scandal by Laura Barnett

Gossip blogger Sam Nathan feels vindicated by the shameless rumour-mongering in a funky update on Sheridan's playEighteenth-century farce isn't usually my bag, but I enjoyed this. The produc…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM

Music Review: American Songbook as Fountain of Youth by Stephen Holden

At Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, the singer Marilyn Maye, 83, delighted in her long love affair with her audience.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PM

Talawa theatre company: the fights of our lives by Nosheen Iqbal

They've survived blazing buildings, boardroom walk-outs and brutal cuts. But black theatre company Talawa are still celebratingAsk Yvonne Brewster how much the theatre industry has changed i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:05PM

CHART TOPPERS: Most-Read Playbill.com Stories, Week of May 15–21 by Michael C. Gioia

Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of May 5–21, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com War Horse, Book of Mormon, Other Desert Cities, The Kid Are Outer Crit…

SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PM

The Illusion by Tony Kushner, adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique, directed by Michael Mayer, Signature Theatre Company by Yvonne Korshak

… “an extravagant trifle” … The Illusion is well produced, stunningly acted, and trivial. It's interesting, though, for the attention it brings to formal aspects in theater history. …

SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:03PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 4pm (Broadway Time)
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Final Patrons’ Pick show chosen by Elizabeth Maupin

One last Patrons’ Pick show has been chosen at the Orlando Fringe — Punch and Judy Presents Grand Guignol Puppet Theatre, which will have an extra performance in the brown venue …

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 04:21PM

A CHORUS LINE by San Diego Musical Theatre by Bill Eadie

There are three types of potential audience members for San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of A Chorus Line, now playing at the Lyceum Stage through June 12. Type 1 should love th…

SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 04:00PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 3pm (Broadway Time)
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Pygmalion, Garrick Theatre, London

This sumptuous production presents the ongoing British obsession with class and taste, but it overlooks Shaw's subtler and less comfortable truths

SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:46PM

Much Ado About Nothing, The Globe, London

Eve Best's return to the stage following screen breakthroughs uses intelligence and openness, while Charles Edwards excels at urbane, easy-going humour

SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:46PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 2pm (Broadway Time)
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Wide, wide war by John Timpane

Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning "Ruined" is about African civil war, genocide, and, foremost, the assault on women.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:42PM

Weddings/Celebrations: Marissa Heiser, Nicholas Kohn

Mr. Kohn, 35, is an actor in New York, now appearing as Brian in the Off Broadway musical “Avenue Q.” He performed the same role on Broadway from 2008 to 2009 and at the Wynn Las Vegas H…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:41PM

Book of Mormon’s Casey Nicholaw Talks Directing (Video) by Michael C. Gioia

Casey Nicholaw, co-director, choreographer and Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon, talks about switching from performing to directing on “Theater Talk.” The Book of Mormon, the …

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 1pm (Broadway Time)
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Anna Karenina – review by Mark Fisher

Dundee RepWhen Anna Karenina takes up with her lover Vronsky, someone says she has "gained a shadow". She is not the only one. The characters in Jemima Levick's production are forever being …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PM

My Fair Lady delights but lacks class bite by J. Kelly Nestruck

The classic gets an enjoyable rendition, but not enough depth

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:32PM

A View from the Bridge – review by Alfred Hickling

Royal Exchange, ManchesterFew things signify New York quite so succinctly as a cast-iron fire hydrant. And nothing suggests a rough, unkempt outer borough of New York more than a hydrant sta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM

A grand collaboration by SALLY FRIEDMAN

He was a squirmy kid, the kind who fidgeted even through action movies. But when Ted Wioncek III was taken to a high school performance of "Godspell" at the tender age of 6 or 7, he was abso…

SOURCE: www.courierpostonline.com at 01:03PM

Haunting Julia – review by Michael Billington

Riverside Studios, LondonLondon is finally catching up on Alan Ayckbourn's ghost stories. After the all-female Snake in the Grass (2002), we now get the metropolitan debut of its 1994 all-ma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at noon (Broadway Time)
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Review: Shaw’s Fair Lady not as loverly as it could have been by Richard Ouzounian

Shaw Festival production makes numerous decisions that blunt the charm of the original.

SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:53PM

100 Saints by Kyle

There's a nice profile by Rob Weinert-Kendt in the LATimes on Kate Fodor today. It's on the occasion of a local production of her play, 100 Saints You Should Know. I saw a workshop of the …

SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:32PM

Flick Colby, Pan's People co-founder, dies

Driving force behind Top of the Pops' fondly-remembered dance troupe has died of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 65The driving force behind Top of the Pops' fondly-remembered dance troupe …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PM

Arts | Westchester: I’m an Angel, and I’m Here to Help by Sylviane Gold

Lighting designers are rarely on our minds as we watch plays. But this one is crucial.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PM

Theater Review | Connecticut: Africa to Pittsburgh, Slave Ship to 1904 by Sylviane Gold

August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” evokes the African-American experience from the slave ships to the first decades of emancipation.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM

Arts | Connecticut: Broadway Rhythm Reappears in ‘My One and Only’ by Sylviane Gold

“My One and Only,” at the Goodspeed Opera House, features songs by George and Ira Gershwin and choreography by Kelli Barclay.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PM

Theater Review | New Jersey: ‘Alive and Well,’ and Also Aging, Alone and Desperate by Anita Gates

Two River Theater Company’s production of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” comes through as a moving and entertaining evening.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PM

Theater Review | Westchester: You Call This a Golden Age? 1950s TV, via Neil Simon by Anita Gates

Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon’s early television career working for Sid Caesar.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PM

"Play Dead" Asks the Living to Invite the Dead by [email protected] (suzanna Bowling)

Looking to be scared this weekend? Though more appropriate for Halloween, “Play Dead” could be just the ticket to making this weekend feel more authentic. Memorial Day is a day …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:14PM

Spiderman Idolizes and Musicalizes by [email protected] (suzanna Bowling)

 "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," may have rumors of failure and is the easy prey for jokes galore, but boy does this show get the best PR ever. As some of the top performers strutted their…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:06PM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 11am (Broadway Time)
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Theater auditions: ‘Spring Awakening’ at Breakthrough by Elizabeth Maupin

Here’s an audition notice for the musical Spring Awakening at Breakthrough Theatre: The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park will hold auditions for the regional premier of the musical …

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:34AM

Theatre Winter Haven announces ’11-’12 season by Elizabeth Maupin

Here’s the coming season from Theatre Winter Haven: The Full Monty, Sept. 15-Oct. 9. David Yazbek-Terrence McNally musical. It’s a Wonderful Life, Dec. 1-18. Adaptation of the cl…

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:25AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 10am (Broadway Time)
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IceHouse Theatre starts a major renovation by Elizabeth Maupin

The IceHouse Theatre in Mount Dora is starting a big renovation project, which will add largely to its lobby — planned to wrap partway around the building — and improve its parki…

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 10:56AM

Theater auditions: Playwrights’ Round Table’s ‘Summer Shorts’ by Elizabeth Maupin

Here’s an audition notice from Playwrights’ Round Table: Playwrights’ Round Table Announces Auditions for Summer Shorts 2011 Playwrights’ Round Table will hold auditions …

SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 10:50AM

Review: The Shaw Festival’s Candida is best when it plays it straight by Richard Ouzounian

Shaw's play is best-served when the cast don't go in for broad comedy.

SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:40AM

Melba Moore Recording New Album, 'Forever Moore'

Disco and RampB singer Melba Moore is recording a new album, Forever Moore, for Universal Motown this summer, according to the NY Post. The album will be her first in almost 20 years.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AM

BWW TV: Broadway Beat Tony Interview Special - George C. Wolfe on Why THE NORMAL HEART Touches His Heart by Broadway Beat

The 2011 Tony Award nominees were announced live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The next day, proud nominees gathered at t…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 9am (Broadway Time)
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BWW's On This Day - May 29, 2011

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 6am (Broadway Time)
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Rob Ashford Kicks Off These Are A Few of My Favourite Songs Season May 29; Mark Shenton Hosts by Playbill Staff

Rob Ashford, currently represented on Broadway by How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying for which he is Tony-nominated for Best Director of a Musical and Best Choreography, and &n…

SOURCE: Playbill at 06:52AM

John Treacy Egan by Adaumbelle

John Treacy Egan discusses Broadway's Tony Award nominated musical "Sister Act" and other everyday details of his life and career!

SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 5am (Broadway Time)
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LUCKY GUY to Shutter Early; Ends Run 5/29

L. Glenn Poppleton Producer announced that Lucky Guy, a new musical comedy, will end its limited engagement following the evening performance on Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 730 p.m. The show, wh…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45AM

Wide, wide war

'The war in my play is being fought on at least three fronts," says playwright Lynn Nottage. She's speaking of Ruined, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama now being produced by the Philade…

SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:29AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 2am (Broadway Time)
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At Steppenwolf, a new associate artistic director by Chris Jones

Erica Daniels, the longtime casting director at the Steppenwolf Theatre, and a peerless source of knowledge on Chicago actors, has a new title. She's now to be known as associate artistic di…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:17AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 1am (Broadway Time)
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GOOD PEOPLE Closes May 29

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's GOOD PEOPLE, the critically acclaimed new American play directed by Daniel Sullivan, will close on May 29, 2011 after two ex…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM

KNICKERBOCKER at Public Theater Closes 5/29

The Public Theater's productino of KNICKERBOCKER will close on Sunday, May 29. All tickets for Public LAB productions are 15.

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM

Center Theatre Group's GOD OF CARNAGE Closes 5/29

GOD OF CARNAGE at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre will close on May 29, 2011. The production features the original Broadway cast of Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Mar…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Short-a-Day: Stephen King's "Herman Wouk Is Still Alive" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in The Atlantic, May 2011. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 96.Given that he's known best for his heavily plotted horror novels, and not for his characters, it's …

SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:30AM

Girls going wild by Wendy Killeen

If you’re a fan of karaoke, “Girls Night: The Musical,’’ opening at the Stoneham Theatre on Thursday, is for you.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:20AM

A Conversation with Two Alcyone 11 Playwrights by Jenn

This is a rough cut of a video we are working on for the Alcyone Festival 2011. 20% of plays produced in the United States are written by women. We are fiercely committed to changing that! Y…

SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:12AM

Stage reviews: 'Book of Mormon' is best news of Broadway season

NEW YORK -- This year's big news out of Broadway is there are so many new plays that some good ones didn't get the Tony nominations that in most years they would have been assured.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM

Stage preview: '9 to 5' has fun on the job

Diana DeGarmo laughs and giggles as she talks about laughing and giggling the handful of times she's been in the presence of Dolly Parton, who originated the role of Doralee Rhodes that Ms. …

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM

Schenley, Hampton and Woodland Hills capture Best Musical Kelly awards

Luke Halferty of Central Catholic and Kirsten Hoover of North Hills were crowned the best actor and actress winners Saturday night at the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musi…

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM

Much Ado About Nothing Launches Old Globe Shakespeare Season May 29 by Kenneth Jones

The Old Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival begins May 29 with the first preview of Much Ado About Nothing, part of an in-rep 2011 season that also includes Peter Shaffer's Amadeus and…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Good People, a Two-Time Tony Nominee, Ends Limited Run on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire's new play about high-school lovers reuniting in adulthood and reaching across a class divide, ends its world-premiere Broadway run May 29. The close da…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Lucky Guy Closes May 29; Cast Album Expected by Kenneth Jones

Lucky Guy, the country-fried musical comedy about a singer who dreams of Nashville stardom, closes with the evening performance May 29, just ten days after opening May 19 at Off-Broadway'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

ON THE RECORD: The Book of Mormon by Steven Suskin

We give a listen to the original Broadway cast album of the Trey Parker-Robert Lopez-Matt Stone musical Book of Mormon, a show nominated for 14 Tony Awards.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Game Over: That Championship Season, With Kiefer Sutherland, Ends Broadway Run by Andrew Gans and Adam Hetrick

The starry Broadway revival of Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1972 drama That Championship Season, which boasted the Broadway debut of screen star Kiefer Sutherland, play…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Euan Morton Celebrates New CD With Manhattan Concert May 29 by Andrew Gans

Tony nominee Euan Morton, who will star in the Ford's Theatre's upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning musical Parade, celebrates the release of his new solo recording, "…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

"National Memorial Day Concert," With Gary Sinise, Joe Mantegna, Dianne Wiest, Kris Allen, Airs May 29 by Andrew Gans

Emmy Award winner Gary Sinise and Tony Award winner Joe Mantegna co-host PBS' "National Memorial Day Concert," which will be broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capit…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Off-Broadway's Manipulation Closes May 29, Prior to Official Opening by Andrew Gans

Victoria E. Calderon's Manipulation, which is billed as "one woman's struggle for freedom and self-discovery," plays its final performance at the Cherry Lane Theatre May 29.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Today In Theatre History: MAY 29 by Anne Bradley and Ernio Hernandez

1951 Performer Fanny Brice dies today in Hollywood at age 60. She started in showbiz by winning a series of amateur nights at vaudeville theatres in Brooklyn, then graduated to Burlesque as …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
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