Singer Darren Criss will appear in concert at Irving Plaza in New York City at 8pm on Wednesday, June 15.
Criss co-stars on FOX's hit series Glee, on which he plays the role of Blaine,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59PMBroadway veteran Bradley Cooper and Tony Award winner Jeremy Irons will star in The Words, according to a report in Variety. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal will direct the film, which the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50PMOn Thursday, June 2, Tony Award nominees Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey, and Joe Mantello recieved their Sardi's charicatures at an event hosted by Village Voice writer Michael Must…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49PMLegit Reviews: Type-casting gives audiences what they know, but that's not necessarily a good thing.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48PMNever mind Bono and The Edge.
The real ratings booster for this year's Tony Awards could have been the No. 1 Mormon in American politics -- Mitt Romney.
On the "Today" show earlier th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PMOf all the major postwar musicals, "Follies" may be the hardest to revive successfully. Not only was it one of the largest-scaled Broadway shows to come along prior to the Era of Falling Cha…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:22PMFor much of "Catch Me If You Can," Norbert Leo Butz plays a paunchy, arthritic FBI agent -- until he morphs into a singing, dancing dynamo.
That showstopper, "Don't Break the Rules," may we…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:21PMStanding under the marquee for Broadway smash “The Book of Mormon,” 92-year-old theatergoer Gloria Lewis is shocked by the musical she just saw. Packed with profane lyrics, such as “F …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14PMA home is much more than a building. "Originally," says John Berger in his almost unbearably beautiful book And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, "home meant the centre of…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 10:04PMAt the very start of “The Detective’s Wife,” Keith Huff’s two-way mirror of a one-woman play, Alice Conroy — the “wife” (now widow) of the title — reminds us that we are fore…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:02PMLegit Reviews: It's not a bad idea to modernize and musicalize Oscar Wilde's story of the Canterville Ghost, but "iGhost" isn't quite ready to be haunting.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWorks by Mac Rogers, Jacqueline Christy, and Jordan Seavey highlight this program of short plays, with the unifying theme of Internet pornography.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMRoy Arias stars as three different island prostitutes in this highly charged piece of stagecraft.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMLucas Kavner's one-act play about the romance of a modern twentysomething couple is insightful and funny.
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This fall, Mirvish Productions brings the critically acclaimed UK production of Noel Coward's Private Lives to Toronto for a pre-Broadway run at The Royal Alexandra Theatre. Kim Cattrall le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51PMOlivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Ben Barnes, John Hannah, J.K. Simmons, and Nora Arnezeder join Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, and Dennis Quaid to round out the cast of the dramatic thriller THE WO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50PMThe first step in the creation of the Chicago Landmark Project was finding playwrights willing to pen short plays inspired by a city location. Six playwrights were the goal; 12 were approach…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:48PMActress Nora Fiffer does not sleep late. In fact, her day job — unloading merchandise and stocking the shelves at a Trader Joe’s store — begins at 6 a.m. “It’s really a great job, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:45PMDoes anybody remember laughter? Specifically, the laughter that once emanated from a thousand comedy caverns and chuckle huts that dotted Chicago’s downtown and North Side in the ’80s an…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:42PMDo theater-lovers spend too much time in the dark? Howard Sherman says they might. And that might be unexceptional except that Howard Sherman is executive director of the American Theatre Wi…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:39PMBackstage recently, the ladies of the BABY IT'S YOU cast performed Cee-Lo Green's hit Forget You a capella check it out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28PM"Extraordinary Chambers" could use some sorting out, but there are plenty of points of fascination inside."Extraordinary Chambers" could use some sorting out, but there are plenty of points …
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Legit News: Opera singer appeared in 'South Pacific' -- Giorgio Tozzi, the Metropolitan Opera star whose career also encompassed work in film, TV and legit theater, died of a heart attack Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:44PMPhoto by Kim Craven Timothy McCown Reynolds is an artist at play working in the theatre, that has had the good fortune to collaborate with a great many varied and talented beings in New…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:38PMAccording to the NY Times, President Obama has chosen SISTER ACT for his first Broadway fundraiser of his re-elction campaign. The event, which will be held on June 23, will be hosted by pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMIt was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in New York, and I was sitting at a small, iron table just south of the TKTS red steps in Times Square. Over my shoulder, the line grew for half-price…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN JOSE
Show #47: Love in American Times, San Jose Repertory Theatre, May 18.
By Sam Hurwitt
When people see a very wealthy, much older man married to a very attractive, muc…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:06PMHe's back! Priscilla Queen of the Desert's Nick Adams has had quite the busy schedule lately and is eager to tell his fans all about it in his latest video blog. The actor recently r…
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Due to popular demand, Signature Theatre Company Founding Artistic Director James Houghton Executive Director Erika Mallin is pleased to announce a one-week extension for Tony Kushner's THE …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMAge & Hometown: 25; New York, NY
Current Role: A Broadway debut performance as Chloe Coverly, a British teenager who falls for an older, suave scholar, in the Tony-nominated revival o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:50PMToday it was announced that Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club, will receive a Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement. Named for playwright Lillian Hellman, the Lilly Aw…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:43PMGoodspeed Musicals will proudly honor the tremendous creative team that introduced the world to Annie nearly 35 years ago when it debuted at the Goodspeed Opera House. The incomparable team …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMThe Tony-nominated revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, starring Tony winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey, will get its very own cast album, to be released by Ghostlight Records. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMAmerican Conservatory Theater's A.C.T. highly anticipated production of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has been extended an additional two weeks through July 24 due to unprecedented de…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMMaryland Theatre Guide's Joel Markowitz interviews winners of this year's Drama Desk Awards in the Press Room. A look back as Ovation is about to broadcast 90 minutes of highlights on Sat Ju…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:22PMPresident Obama's re-election campaign has chosen the production for his first major Broadway fundraiser for the 2012 cycle.
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I've always been fascinated by 1963, so imagine my delight at finding myself surrounded by a grey-haired National Theatre matinee audience stomping, clapping and shouting their appreciation …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:58PMOn Thursday, June 2, Tony® Award Nominees Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey, and Joe Mantello recieved their Sardi's charicatures at an event hosted by New York critic Michael …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PMThe San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, will get additional performances July 12-24 due to demand at American Conservatory Theater in the Cit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMThe website for the upcoming Broadway play, MAGICBIRD, produced by Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo Lombardi, is now online. A new play by Oscar winner and Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson, MA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMThe Tony Awards announced that they will reassemble an all-star cast of the New York Philharmonic’s limited run of Company for the 2011 Tony Awards. This once-in-a-lifetime assembly …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:26PMCribbage anyone? That’s the unlikely backstage passion of Emmy Award winner Michael Park, currently suiting up nightly as Mr. Bratt in the hit Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Bus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:25PMThe Colony opens its 37th season June 4 with the West Coast premiere of Michael Golamco’s Year Zero, centering around Cambodian American brother and sister Vuthy and Ra Vichea’s efforts…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:23PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, June 2, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inform…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:22PMAs 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 05:22PMThe American Conservatory Theater's world premiere production of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has extended its run until July 24.. Jason Moore directs the production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMThe Public Theater will begin previews on Monday, June 6 for the 2011 Shakespeare in the Park summer season featuring MEASURE FOR MEASURE, directed by David Esbjornson, and ALL'S WELL THAT E…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMThe Developmental Lab Production of NOW.HERE.THIS. - the newest work from the creators and cast of the legendary musical title of show which begins performances on Saturday, June 4 at the Vi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMStage Rush TV: Episode 66
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Lucky Guy's unexpected, early closing almost derails Stage Rush giveaway winners
The Phantom of the Opera ticket giveaway concludes
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Ghotslight Records will release the New Broadway Cast Recording of our critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Anything Goes.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMI can hardly call myself an expert on composer Cy Coleman. I know some of his popular music--"The Best is Yet to Come," "Witchcraft"--thanks to Frank Sinatra. As for his musical scores, I'm …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 04:55PMThe top three "American Idol" contestants Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina and Haley Reinhart took in the June 1 performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark at at Broadway's Foxw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM2010 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond have announced the release of their new album OUT OF OUR HEADS The Music of Kooman and Dimond, featuring Tony Award n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMBlue Man Group sizzler
Experience the phenomenon! Blue Man Group takes its high-octane theatrical experience on the road. If you've never seen Blue Man Group, it's a must-see. If yo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:51PMBobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Yul Vazquez talk about starring in “The Motherf***er with the Hat,” Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play about Jackie and Veronica, who have been in lo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:50PMDue to an extension, The Motherfucker With The Hat will now play through Sunday, July 17th at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMAfterElton.com has just released this year's list of the 39 Hottest Guys in Theatre. As described by AE, 'The lines between Broadway and Hollywood continue to blur, and as young men come to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMGhostlight Records will release the new Broadway cast recording of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. The album will be available for purchase at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where the prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:40PMShelby Coleman will present a talk, Life Stories of Cy, at 59E59 Theaters on June 12 at 12:30pm.
The talk will incorporate personal photos and recordings and charts the life and career of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMTwo new shows in Seattle: Jayne Muirhead and John Engerman's "It's in the Cards," and "George M!" by Showtunes Theatre.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:22PMFans of classic early 60s tunes are heading to the Broadhurst Theatre to see the new Broadway musical Baby It’s You! Starring 2011 Tony nominee Beth Leavel as Florence Greenberg, the p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMSarah Jessica Parker, the international TV and film star whose early career included donning a red wig, red dress and patent-leather Mary Janes as Broadway's Annie, will present an award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMInside the Press Room at the 56th Drama Desk Awards
The Maryland Theatre Guide goes "Inside the Press Room" at the 56th Drama Desk Awards. Interviews include Robert Lopez (South …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMAccording to he Hollywood Reporter, GLEE star Jane Lynch will host the 2011 Emmy Awards on September 18. She'll be only the third female to host the show by herself in the history of the awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMOne week after Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark star Reeve Carney joined composers Bono and The Edge onstage at the star-filled American Idol finale, Idol winner Scotty McCreery and the ladies …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:05PMAs Ticketmaster continues to roll out its dynamic ticket pricing sales model, it appears the initiative relies more heavily on information from the secondary market than the company first le…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:05PMCelebrate songs and scenes of a motion picture master. FOR THE RECORD JOHN HUGHES celebrates the soundtracks that defined a generation. Immerse yourself in 80's movie magic with Bender, Ferr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMThe Globe Theatre, NCM Fathom and Arts Alliance Media will present "Shakespeare’s Globe London Cinema Series," an exclusive four-part in-theatre series of classic Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMThe acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes will get a cast album from Ghostlight Records in late summer, Roundabout Theatre Company announced.
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The long-running hit Broadway musical CHICAGO is pleased to announce an innovative new summer performance schedule.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMRichard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy lead the cast of Ghost The Musical playing Sam and Molly in Matthew Warchus' stage musical version of the Academy Award winning film. Accompanied by Sharon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMHeidi Blickenstaff, Kerry Butler, Anderson Davis, Matt Doyle, Chris Mann, Kyle Dean Massey, Patina Miller, Christopher Sieber, Phoebe Strole, and Natalie Weiss will be featured on the new CD…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMTragic parable given a dark and unremittingly grim treatment
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:47PMThe inaugural A.R.T. in N.Y.C. event was held June 1 at the McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More. The evening "celebrated works born at the A.R.T. in Cambridge and bound for New York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMSteinbeck's tragic parable given a dark and unremittingly grim treatment
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:47PMA closer look at the poster design for a new production of a play based on a Tennessee Williams short story about a boxer missing an arm.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PMThe new musical Baby It’s You! officially opened at The Broadhurst Theatre April 27. Here, the cast of the new Broadway musical warms up to “Forget You,” by Cee Lo Green in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMIn the final days leading up to the 2011 Tony telecast, Broadway.com is posting videos of favorite Tony memories of this year’s nominees, with their own commentary. Andrew Rannells, a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMA special performance of Now.Here.This., the new work from the creators and cast of the musical [title of show], will benefit the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre, which is presenting the wor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMNCM Fathom, Globe Theatre and Arts Alliance Media present Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series, an exclusive four-part in-theater series of the most classic of Shakespeare titles in U.S.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMDaniel Radcliffe, star of the Tony-nominated How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, will serve as master of ceremonies as hundreds of students from middle and intermediate New Yor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMThe 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 03:27PMBroadway legend Chita Rivera is set to make an appearnce at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on May 19, 2012. The event, titled 'An Evening with Chita Rivera' will take place at 7PM in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMPlaywrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, is proud to announce the sixth and final production of its upcoming 20112012 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMThere have been a lot of exciting opportunities for anyone seeking inspiration and community conversation recently. The Chicago Theatre Symposium took place a couple weeks ago at Columbia Co…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:20PMTony Award-nominated as Best Actress for playing ditzy former showgirl Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday, Nina Arianda fell in love with her platinum-blonde, "emotionally b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMNigel Lindsay has performed Pinter and Stoppard, Patrick Marber (Dealer’s Choice) and David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky). But the actor can currently be found at London's Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PMIn NBC's highly anticipated new series SMASH, Debra Messing plays a lyricist developing a brand new Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe, but according to a recent interview with the Hollywood…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMFor the Record: John Hughes, which features music and moments from the films of John Hughes, will be presented June 16-18 and June 23-25 at 9 PM at Barre VT in Los Angeles and June 27 at 8 P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMJohn Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath arrives on stage with considerable power.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:12PMGavin Creel, Audra McDonald, Diane Paulus, Stephen Schwartz, Will Swenson, Randy Weiner, and Fran and Barry Weissler were among the attendees at a June 1 benefit for American Repertory Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMTony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater's new CD, Midnight Sun, will be released on DDB Records/Emarcy (Universal) on Tuesday, August 23.
The CD's 11 tracks will feature selections …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMA musical about an intellectual love triangle? That’s the adventurous premise behind A Minister’s Wife, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Candida and now playing at Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMThis week, Bobby Lopez and the cast of AVENUE Q, join the show with special guests Kate Monster, Rod and Nicky
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMCelebrating its 62nd Season of Broadway at the Beach, Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of Producer and Surflight alum Roy Miller, presents RENT, Jonathan Larson's landmark rock musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMIt's Mormon month at Broadway.com as we continue our daily video series following hit musical The Book of Mormon's road to Broadway. In today's entry, the creative team discusses…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMDaniel Radcliffe, star of the Tony-nominated How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and the beloved Harry Potter films, will serve as master of ceremonies as hundreds of students f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMOFF June 2011
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The Vineyard Theatre will offer a special benefit performance of Now. Here. This at 7pm on Sunday, June 19.
The show, which will have a developmental run at the theater June 4-19, stars Hu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMTony winner Julie Taymor, the ousted director of the much-in-the-news Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, is owed at least six months' pay from the producers of that new musical, according to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMJane Lynch will host the 2011 Emmy Awards, according to a report in Variety. The awards ceremony will be held on September 18 and broadcast live on FOX.
Lynch plays Sue Sylvester on FOX&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMTheatre West will present a concert reading of the 1943 musical Something For The Boys on Sunday, June 19. It will be directed helmed by Brian O'Halloran. Proceeds from the evening wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMThe troubled Broadway musical may be heading to court over the six months’ pay it allegedly owes fired director Julie Taymor. In a Daily Beast exclusive, Jacob Bernstein details the ugly n…
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 02:33PMEmmy Award winner Jane Lynch, who plays Sue Sylvester on the hit Fox series "Glee," will host the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, which will air on Fox from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMIn this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, James Levine gives an explanation of his unique approach to conducting an orchestra - how he believes in being a "teacher conductor."
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SOURCE: PBS at 02:24PMIt’s a time-honored Broadway tradition: the day after the Tony nominations are announced, the lucky nominees get gussied up to meet the press. Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontore…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:15PMDavid Beach, John Hemphill, Jordan Dean and Jacob Pinion will join the cast of the long-running hit musical Mamma Mia! on June 6 at the Winter Garden Theatre. Beach (Urinetown) returns to th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:10PMInside Broadway's Executive Director Michael Presser is pleased to announce that stage, film, amp TV star Brooke Shields, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and managing partner …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMFour productions from Shakespeare's Globe in London will be screened in over 250 movie theaters throughout the U.S. as part of the Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMIn this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, James Levine remembers growing up with a father who led a dance band that broadcast from the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and recalls his firs…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:01PM“Northwest Highway” is a new play by William Nedved set in Jefferson Park, opening soon at the Gift Theatre. There have been plays about Chicago as long as there has been a Chicago theat…
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Hal Linden joins "On Golden Pond" at Colony while Hollywood Fringe spills over with legit fare. La Jolla premieres "Sleeping Beauty Wakes," and a look back at venerable Theatre 40. READ…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:59PMMatthew Morrison, the Broadway performer who went on to star in the Fox hit series “Glee,” says that his success is due to the help, encouragement and advice from his life-long f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMRichard III | "Excerpt C" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
King Richard III (Seana McKenna) is reflecting on his triumphs when Sir Richard Ratcliffe (Oliver Becker) warns of a gro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:51PM"American Idol" finalist Justin Guarini, recently on Broadway in American Idiot, portrays struggling musician Roger in Jonathan Larson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMTony Award nominee Laura Bell Bundy will host the 2011 CMT Music Awards' "Video of the Year" special June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMIn this outtake from James Levine: America's Maestro, Levine instructs Ed Parks on how to be an Italian operatic Figaro, teaching him how to make the music his own.
Please view the origin…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:40PMRichard III | "Excerpt B" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
As the Duchess of York (Roberta Maxwell) and Queen Elizabeth (Yanna McIntosh) grieve for the Princes in the Tower, Queen…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:39PMMy Space: Michael Park of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31PMNOW. HERE. THIS. will be given a Developmental Lab Production by the Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St. June 4 to 19, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of The Vineyard, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMWatch Layla Claire and Paul Appleby perform in the Lindemann Young Artists production of The Bartered Bride, conducted by James Levine, and talk about the experience working with Maestro. Th…
SOURCE: PBS at 01:27PMBarrett Foa, Rogelio Douglas, Jr., Tracie Thoms, Darren Ritchie, Brenna Whitaker, and Jessica Keenan Wynn will star in the return engagement of For the Record: John Hughes, to play June 16-2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMHollywood actor who shot to fame as Marlon Brando's girlfriend in The Wild OneCo-starring with Marlon Brando in his prime is a bonus for any actor's filmography. The fame of M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMDays before the live, tenth anniversary 2011 CMT MUSIC AWARDS, actress and Mercury Records singer-songwriter Laura Bell Bundy will be hosting the VIDEO OF THE YEAR SPECIAL, premiering Saturd…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMLast week, the acclaimed revival of The Normal Heart offered a special 30 for 30 night to help introduce Larry Kramer's powerful and important play to a new generation. Based on the success …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMAdam McKay and Chris Henchy, co-founders of the comedy Web site FunnyOrDie, will be honored as film and video person of the year at the 15th Annual Webby Awards, which will be handed out Jun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMAccording to Deadline.com, Jennifer Hudson is the latest star to join previously announced Larry David, Jane Lynch, Will Sasso, and Sean Hayes in the upcoming big screen adaptation of The Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMNCM Fathom, Globe Theatre & Arts Alliance Media Present Exclusive Shakespeare Four-Event Series in More Than 260 Movie Theaters Beginning Monday, June 27 Centennial, Colo. – June 2, 20…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:12PMActress Nora Fiffer does not sleep late. In fact, her day job — unloading merchandise and stocking the shelves at a Trader Joe’s store — begins at 6 a.m. “It’s really a great job, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:09PMTaylor Swift, country sweetheart and singing-songwriting hit machine, is on the road in her second world tour tied to her latest hit CD, Speak Now, with an ambitious and theatrical performan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe Arlington Commission on the Arts, headed by John Seal, has just released a proposal with recommendations for Arlington County support of the arts over the next 20 years. Titled ‘Arli…
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Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA, now in its 10th year on Broadway, will welcome new principals John Hemphill, David Beach, Jordan Dean and Jacob Pinion to the Winter Garden Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMJulie Atherton will perform her biggest concert to date, bringing her No Space for Air live show to the West End's Apollo Theatre for a one-off performance on Sunday 26 June 2011, accompanie…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:51PMAccording to published reports, 'The Perfect Host,' starring stage and screen star David Hyde Pierce, is set for a theatrical release on July 1, 2011. The film, which premiered at the 2010 S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMAcademy Award nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg will star in a self-penned play, Asuncion, as part of the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's 2011-2012 season. Directed by Kip Fagan, the pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMStage and screen actress Brooke Shields will be among the honorees at Inside Broadway’s 2011 Broadway Beacon Awards June 23 at the Players Club at Gramercy Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMBEVERLY — Bill Hanney, who bought North Shore Music Theatre last year, would love to talk about this season’s musicals all day long. But he’s just as focused on operational…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PMANIMAL CRACKERS There are periods of sluggishness when this 1928 musical comedy shows its age, but verbal sparks fly when Ed Hoopman (pictured) holds center stage as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaul…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PMTony Kushner's The Illusion, based on the play by 17th-century tragic playwright Pierre Corneille, will get a one-week extension by Signature Theatre Company, which is producing the work…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMPresenters and performers have been announced for the 2011 Theatre World Awards ceremony, which will be held on June 7 at the August Wilson Theatre. John Lloyd Young, a 2006 winner, will ret…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMSOMERVILLE — Dollhouses are neat little homes over which we have complete control. They are stages for enacting our hopes and our neuroses.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PMThere is a natural dynamic to Catherine Tate and David Tennant in a production that does what it says on the tin, smartly and with verve
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:33PMMaggie Gyllenhaal, Liev Schreiber, Allison Janney and more took part in a one-night-only presentation of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie June 1 at Alice Tully Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMThe original cast recording of SPIDER-MAN will be released on the show's expected opening night, June 14, 2011. The disc, which is now available for pre-orders on iTunes, is 9.99 and featur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe Theatre School at DePaul broke ground on June 1 for a new home – a 165,000 square-foot multipurpose facility designed by internationally renowned architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli.…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:22PMThe choreographer's capacity to distil drama into image is astounding and more impressive still is the way he moves between this drama and its abstraction
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:21PMCasting is set for the world premiere of Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about "the challenges of doing business in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMNew York City's Performance Space 122 has announced its 2011 summer schedule, which includes performances from stage actors Eric Bogosian (Time Stands Still), John Kelly (James Joyce'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMAudiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the fami…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMThe success of the May 26 performance of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which was available for discounted prices for young people, has prompted producer Daryl Roth to extend the "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThe Theater and Performance Studies program (TAPS) in collaboration with University Theater at The University of Chicago is very happy to announce their 2011 Summer Incubator collective. Thi…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:15PMMarie Curie is the sexiest story in science history. The Polish-French physicist and chemist may be as famous (alas) for her love life and tragic death as for her essential early studies…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:12PMLUNAR ECLIPSE a Chicago Theatre Networking MixerSaturday, June 18, 20118 p.m. and into the nightat the Eclipse Theatre Rehearsal Space4001 N. Ravenswood, Suite 402Chicago, IL 60613It's that …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:11PMCurve, LeicesterScratch-and-sniff theatre comes to family audiences with this musical adaptation of David Walliams's best-selling children's novel about the homeless Mr Stink, "the stinkiest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMBaby It's Cee Lo - "Forget You"
The ladies of BABY IT'S YOU on Broadway sing "Forget You."
For more information on BABY IT'S YOU, Please visit http://babyit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:08PMArcola, LondonPublished in 1751 for distribution among London's lower orders, William Hogarth's illustrations of the Four Stages of Cruelty contained a blunt moral message: don't stick an ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMAs the national leader in playwright training, Chicago Dramatists offers a variety of professional playwriting classes designed for both beginning and experienced playwrights. Classes are fo…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:08PMMiss the special concwert of the musical "Company" with the New York Philharmonic earlier this year in Manhattan?
The show was filmed by Screenvision and will be shown at many movie theaters…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05PMComing quick on the heels of last month's extensive acting-based discussion in BroadwayWorld's SPOTLIGHT ON THE NY POPS series, today we are again highlighting one of the brightest stars on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMJohn Hemphill, David Beach, Jordan Dean, and Jacob Pinion will join the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia! in the roles of Sam Carmichael, Harry Bright, Sky, and Pepper, respectively, beginning wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PMTony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur is standing up to cancer and celebrating her tenth year cancer-free.
The actress was diagnosed with cervical cancer in August 2000 while simultaneousl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMReVision Theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team of the NJ Premiere of XANADU. The cast features Ralph Meitzler Bway Rock of Ages, Lindsay Nicole Chambers Bway Legally Blon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMA host of Broadway favorites will take part in the annual Broadway Close Up series at the Merkin Concert Hall in Manhattan.
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Due to popular demand, Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) is pleased to announce a one-week extension for Tony Kushner’s…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:57AMNorthlight Theatre's world-premiere production of Bruce Graham's play The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi Reed, will get an extra week in Skokie, IL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMFull cast and creative team have been announced for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, to run June 22-July 31 at the College of Saint Eliz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMYou know him as the J. Peterman character on television’s “Seinfeld,” as well as that silvery-haired guy who can make his way around a dance floor (he and partner Charlotte Jorgensen e…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:52AMTony, CMT, and ACA Award-nominee Laura Bell Bundy and her adopted Chihuahua, Norma Jean, giddy on up with PETA to remind people never to leave their dogs unattended in vehicles during the wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMKristin Towers-Rowles is an actress, vocalist, wife and mother of three girls. She began her training at an early age with quite an impressive mentor, her grandmother, legendary star of st…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:50AMThe story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller -- as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the tru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMThe Broadway company of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia!, now in its 10th year at the Winter Garden Theatre, will welcome new principals John Hemphill, David…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe Broadway company of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia!, now in its 10th year at the Winter Garden Theatre, will welcome new principals John Hemphill, David…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMSignature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion has been extended until July 17. Michael Mayer directs the production, which opens officially on June 5.
In t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AMDue to overwhelming demand across North America, the producers have announced a second touring production of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMTony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris will reunite with his starry castmates from the recent New York Philharmonic concerts of Company to perform live on the 2011 awards show telecast. Harris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMPhilip Rose, a Broadway producer who bet—and sometimes won—on unlikely theatrical projects, including several works that advanced the cause of African-American stage artists&mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMExtra members can get 20% off tickets to soul musical The Wiz at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. The cast includes Clive Rowe and X-Factor finalist Treyc Cohen. The offer runs until S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMBROADWAY’S SMASH HIT MAMMA MIA! ANNOUNCES NEW PRINCIPAL CASTING JOHN HEMPHILL as “Sam Carmichael” DAVID BEACH as “Harry Bright” JORDAN DEAN as “Sky” JACOB PINION as “Pepper�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:20AMBetween Heaven and Hell in contemporary Japanese art
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:19AMTony Award winner Daisy Eagan will help celebrate the annual Tony Awards with a performance at the Laurie Beechman Theatre June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMAndrew Rannells recently visited “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” to talk about the Tony-nominated musical The Book of Mormon, which officially opened on Broadway at the Eugene O�…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AM An Off Broadway company revives a forgotten classic Three people appear in the very first scene of Rachel Crothers’ A Little Journey, never to be seen again. That fact alone wou…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:10AMThe Tony Awards announced today that they will reassemble an all-star cast of the New York Philharmonics limited run of Company for the 2011 Tony Awards. This once-in-a-lifetime assembly of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMThey're a passionate pair with a fetish for West End playhouses – and they're putting actors off their lines. But who are they?When the Telegraph's Charles Spencer reviewed Nicole Kidman i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Detective's Wife" ★★★ Through July 31 at Writers' Theatre in Books On Vernon, 664 Vernon Ave., Glencoe; Tickets: $50-60 at 847-242-6000 or writerstheatre.org At a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:01AMAccording to the Daily Beast, Julie Taymor has not received payments owed for her pervious participation on the Spider-Man project. Says Laura Penn, executive director of the Stage Director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMA couple of weeks ago, I found myself in a hotel sports bar in Minneapolis having my favorite meal of wings with a side of Coke. My dining partner was a television that was actually in the b…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe cast recording of the much-in-the-news musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, which resumed performances May 12 at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, is now available for pre-order on iTune…
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Neil Patrick Harris will perform with his co-stars from the New York Philharmonic's recent "Company" revival, including Stephen Colbert, Christina Hendricks and Patti LuPone at the Tony Awar…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AMA preliminary list of presenters and performers has been announced for the 38th annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, which will take place at the Las Vegas Hilton on Sunday, June 19, ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMSan Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre is now presenting Armistead Maupin and Jake Shear's TALES OF THE CITY, based on the novels. First serialized in The Chronicle, Armistead Maupin'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AM"The first time that I fell in love with performing is when I went to go see theater in my hometown in Pennsylvania," Swift said after the performance at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:47AMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN: The Real Frank Talks About the Show
The real Frank Abagnale, Jr. discusses the musical based on his incredible life.
For more information on CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, pleas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:43AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater today announced its roster of plays for 2011-12, the award-winning company's 17th season. The all world-premiere season will feature new works by Dan Klores, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMNew company gambles by mounting beloved story in Tranzac Club.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:36AMDue to overwhelming demand across North America, the producers have announced a second touring production of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:34AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will appear on the June 10 episode CMT's Next Superstar!, according to EW.com.
On the show, singer-songwriters will compete to see which might have …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMA second touring production of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will launch in Philadelphia, PA, later thi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMBeen buried. Two links to explain why, and still more for your reading pleasure:The StageGrade Critics Tony Poll 2011: A lot of Mormons, a lot of strong male performances.A preview of Kate F…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:27AMSouth Coast Repertory's 2011-12 season in Costa Mesa, CA, will feature three world premieres, all of them spawned from SCR Pacific Playwrights Festival earlier this year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:17AMOscar and Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson has joined the cast of the new Three Stooges movie, according to a report on Deadline.com. Peter and Bobby Farrelly are directing the project.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMHost Neil Patrick Harris will be joined by the his castmates from the recent New York Philharmonic production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Company for a special perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMA second national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys will launch with an engagement at Philadelphia's Forest Theatre, beginning on December 6
Directed by Des McAnuff an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMThe cast of the New York Philharmonic’s recent limited run of Stephen Sondheim's Company will reassemble for the 2011 Tony Awards, which will be presented June 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:07AMTony Award winner Douglas Hodge will star in the BBC1 upcoming four-part drama, One Night, according to The Stage.
According to the report, the series, to be written by Paul Smith, "t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMLearn more about the What If…? Project What if more organizations that started as a result of the Black Arts Movement survived? I can properly state without reservation that our art form …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:06AMHere’s a notice from The Humor Mill Orlando, which produced the recent The Humor Mill Orlando Presents … The War on Terriers at the recent Fringe: The Humor Mill Orlando announce…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 10:02AM
One Man, Two Guvnors, James Corden's triumphant return to the National Theatre opened last week (24 May, previews 17 May 2011), our own chief critic Michael Coveney going so far as to say th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:58AMTony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce stars in the new film "The Perfect Host," a "slippery psychological thriller" that will arrive in theatres July 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMTony Award-winning producer, director, and writer Philip Rose has died at age 89, according to The New York Times.
Rose won a Tony Award for co-authoring the 1975 musical Shenandoah, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMPlaywrights’ Round Table needs new scripts for its annual John Goring Memorial One-Act Fest and for Fringe 2012. Here are the guidelines and further info: We have a pair of new script …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:53AMThe L.A. Theatre Works production of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, which will be directed by Bart DeLorenzo, is scheduled to begin performances June 15 at 8 PM at the Skirball Cultural …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMPerformance Space 122 has announced its 2011 summer schedule.
The venue will host The UK Comes to the EV, a mini festival of performance work from the U.K., to run June 1-11. At the cent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41AMTony nominee Barbara Walsh (Broadway’s Falsettos, Company, Big) and renowned mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will be among those giving concerts and master classes for the new Starving Ar…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 09:38AMSylvester Stallone will help produce, but not act in the show. Producers hope to get it on New York’s Broadway in spring 2013.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:38AMOn Wednesday, June 1, the World Science Festival held its opening night gala at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, featuring a reading of Alan Alda's new play, Radiance: The Passio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMJacob Clemente from Broadway's Billy Elliot will take part in a special performance at Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance at 3pm on Sunday, June 26.
The performance, which marks th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater announced June 2 its roster of plays for 2011-12, the award-winning company's 17th season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its 2011-2012 season.
The season will include Asuncion, a look at two young men's attempts to demonstrate their open-mindedness, written b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMAlessandro King
Hometown: New York City
Current Town: New York City
Q: Tell me about the play you have coming up with Trustus.
A: Swing ’39 is an imagined story about …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:09AMDesperate Writers helmer Kay Cole shares her philosophy on directing.
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Art, Life, Reality, Blurred Lines, and Who’s Daddy? The Neo-Futurists p…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:57AM“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory We wer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:57AMBroadway and film star Brooke Shields will be honored at Inside Broadway's 2011 Broadway Beacon Awards to be held on Thursday, June 23 at The Players Club. FOX reporter Julie Chang wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:55AMTony Award winner Daisy Eagan will perform at The Tonys @ The Beech, to be held at 7pm on Sunday, June 12 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
The event celebrates the Tony Awards and will fea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:55AMThese are auditions for Ragtime in Concert at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center in Sanford, a fundraiser for the Seminole Repertory Theatre Company (which performs at the Wayne Densch …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:54AMReVision Theatre has announced casting for Xanadu, to run July 7-24 at The Carousel House in Asbury Park. David Leidholdt will direct the production, which will feature choreography by Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:51AMJosh Gad was in for quite a climate shock when he moved from his West Hollywood house to Manhattan to star in Broadway’s “The Book of Mormon.” The South Florida native — with his act…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:51AMI must admit that when I hear the words ‘youth’ and ‘theatre’ combined I don’t immediately jump at the chance to see it. Images spring into my headof Eastenders-style issues and li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AMJosh Gad of "The Book of Mormon" is up for a Tony. An 11th Commandment might be "Thou shalt make sure he gets it."
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 08:50AM“Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” finally opens–yes, opens– on June 14th after a wild winter and spring of previews, the sidelining of creator Julie Taymor, and a three…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:46AMIt’s the end of most theaters’ seasons, and the IceHouse Theatre in Mount Dora is one busily planning its annual end-of-season awards, the Cubies. They’re happening June 18…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 08:43AMDaniel Boys, Michael Bruce, Richard Fleeshman, and Lance Horne will make guest appearances in Julie Atherton: No Space for Air, a concert to be offered at London's Apollo Theatre on Sun…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:42AMCirque du Soleil's Quidam will play Boston's Agganis Arena, September 7-11. Franco Dragone has directed the production, which features choreography by Debra Brown.
This show cent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:33AMDavid Tennant and Catherine Tate – would there be as much ado about Josie Rourke's joyously 80s-esque production without their celebrity draw?Stars cast off the telly, Shakespeare's text r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AM“I always think a playwright’s job is to let actors do their stuff,” playwright David Ives asserts. “I think what we’re supposed to do is write wonderful things for actors, who are…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AMHigh school theater's brightest stars gathered last night to see who would take home the coveted award for Most Awkward Kiss.
SOURCE: The Onion at 08:09AMThe proportion of London theatregoers attending plays has increased for the second year in a row, seemingly refuting claims that musicals are taking over the West End.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMBarbara Robertson. That’s the reason you need to see this one-person play about a recently widowed detective’s wife, named Alice, who sets out to find who killed her husband R…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:02AMSummer in New York City offers plenty of outdoor classical theater, with settings as bucolic as parks and as prosaic as parking lots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Directors set for conference -- A new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, "Leveling Up," will take the place of "Tell Us of the Night" by "A Steady Rain" scribe Keith Huff at the Eugene …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
The historical musical that earned rave reviews from both critics and theatre patrons is back at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles for another run that is set to make every Irish theatre f…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:55AMLauren Class Schneider talks to Colman Domingo about what it feels like to be a Tony nominee.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMAmerican Conservatory Theatre, San FranciscoWhen the young Cleveland transplant Mary Ann Singleton sets down her suitcase in San Francisco at the start Tales of the City, things will never b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMLos Angeles theatre fans will be excited to know that their favorite Broadway musical, “Wicked”, reignites its previous success at the Pantages Theatre with a brand new production set to…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:46AM‘Shrek the Musical’ will be hitting San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts early in the fall, from September 20 to 25, 2011. Everyone’s favorite ogre who turned the Kingdom of Far…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:42AMMost musical theater history books cautiously locate the birth of the American Musical at Niblo's Garden (a theater once located on Prince Street) on September 12, 1866 at the opening of The…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:42AMIn his play The B Team, David Holstein, who, it should be noted also writes scripts for the Showtime series “Weeds”, asks and partially answers a question kind of fundamental to our time…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:35AMGo behind the scenes at Richard Norton-Taylor's play, Tactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Inquiry, about the Iraqi hotel worker who died in British army custodyAlex HealeyLindsa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMBBC1 has commissioned a four-part drama written by Paul Smith which will star Jessica Hynes and Douglas Hodge.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMSnapshots of love fill Lucas Kavner's moving drama, whose out-of-order scenes don't fit together perfectly, just as the remains of a broken heart never quite mend completely.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
A resurgence in the popularity of the ukulele could rekindle our bizarre affection for the oddball singer-comedianBritain has apparently gone mad for ukuleles. An extraordinary resurgence in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMIn the latest of a series of features looking at the power of social media to promote theatre, producer Neil Eckersley explores how he used YouTube to market the debut album by young compose…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMBritish TV and radio personality Justin Lee Collins will star in the West End premiere of Rock of Ages, beginning performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre Aug. 31, prior to an official openin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48AMThe good people over at Zurvived have an interview with Stuart Gordon, who wrote and directed the musical, based on his 1985 cult film of the same name (minus "The Musical" part, of course…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:45AMAs Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK talk shop on Sky Atlantic, who would give the show more edge?"Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog," wrote E B White. "Few peo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:20AMA brilliant production might help Ruined cohere, but at PTC, director Maria Mileaf traffics chiefly in big gestures. A few Brechtian touches feel out of place in what is basically a realisti…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:12AMMr. Rose, the producer of shows like “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Purlie Victorious,” advanced the cause of black playwrights and actors and helped widen the scope of American theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08AMClaire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett are performing a breezy Irving Berlin program at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05AMWhen Tony front-runner Ellen Barkin opened her home for a magazine profile in April, one detail the reporter managed to miss was the 20-something boyfriend residing in Barkin's bedroom.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:02AMCarol Linnea Johnson discusses the new Off-Broadway musical "I Married Wyatt Earp" as well as other everyday details of her life and career!
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AM
When West Mifflin Area High School students who were among the cast of "Seussical" this year attended the Pittsburgh CLO Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater Satur…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:56AMBroadway took in a record-breaking $1,080,562,880 at the box office for the just completed 2010/11 theatre season, a 53-week period which began on May 24, 2010 and ended May 29 2011.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMDuring her 35 years with the Greece Central School District, Ranaletta, the school's vocal music director, has helped launch the careers of dozens of performers, among them Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: www.democratandchronicle.com at 05:46AMFor a second edition in a row, we’ve got a Whatsonstage.com Award winner as the face of Whatsonstage.com Magazine. Nigel Lindsay won this year’s gong for Best Supporting Actor in…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:02AM"Asuncion," a play by and featuring Mr. Eisenberg, the Oscar-nominated "Social Network" star, will be presented by the theater company starting in October as part of its 2011-12 season.
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Lend Me a Tenor The Musical, based on the hit Ken Ludwig stage comedy, begins performances at the West End's Gielgud Theatre June 2, prior to an official opening June 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMEntertaining Broadway-tested diversions from the workaday world come few and far between, so "9 to 5: The Musical" arrives like cool breeze amid a heatwave -- or more to the point in this ci…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe Momentum new play festival that City Theatre has used to develop works from concept to readings to full productions is back with a "POP!" after two years on the sidelines. "When the econ…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNew Line Theatre's mounting of the cult hit musical Bare begins performances June 2 at the Washington University South Campus Theatre in St. Louis, MO; the production, which officially o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGolden Globe winner Joely Richardson ("Nip/Tuck," Lady Windermere's Fan) and Cotter Smith (Next Fall, An American Daughter, Burn This) star in the third and final production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHomeless youth striving to turn their lives around 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 Manh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCast members from Andrew Lloyd Webber's new London production of The Wizard Of Oz will make an appearance at the London show-biz shop Dress Circle June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony and Emmy Award winner Rosemary Harris will be honored at the Eighth Annual Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship Luncheon, which will be held June 2 at the New York Friars Club. Pia Lindstrom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks directs the Texas premiere of her play The Book of Grace, which debuts June 2 at the Zach Theatre in Austin, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel is revived for a ten-week run at the New York City Center. In the cast are Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM