Even in his most popular work, Tennessee Williams offered a hint of what the New York Times recently called (in an editorial about Anthony Weiner) the “profoundly squalid and offensive.”…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:57PMLegit News: Bible-based marathon launches new venue -- Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, U.S. playwrights Christopher Shinn and Neil LaBute, lyricist Tim Rice and the Archbishop of Canterbury wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:49PMWatching the Bal let Nacional de Cuba is a fascinat ing, strange expe rience, like being in rickety time machine that needs a whack to get started. On opening night Wednesday, some things fe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMBroadwayWorld.com previously reported that NBC has officially picked up the pilot entitled SMASH for a series to begin mid-season. The show is already generating positive buzz, and even some…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39PMThe complete Original Broadway Cast Recording for THE BOOK OF MORMON will be available for digital download for $1.99 from Amazon.com, starting tonight at midnight, Pacific Time. The speci…
SOURCE: Amazon at 10:26PMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center has been at the epicenter of the city's film culture since 1969, but its programs have been limited by a single screen. That will change with the new Elino…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:17PMSweating over your ballot for the Tony Awards office pool? So are we! Broadway.com editorial staffers (Paul Wontorek, Beth Stevens, Kathy Henderson, Bruce Glikas, Jenny Anderson, Michae…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:05PMThe Friars Foundation is an important contributor to the Performing Arts. Academia recognizes the Friars Foundation as an upfront organization due to their activist scholarship programs. Nin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05PMCharles Shaughnessy and Lisa O'Hare add grandeur to the North Shore Music Theater's production of the classic Lerner and Loewe musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PMI recently saw the Transport Group's latest show, "Lysistrata Jones" at The Gym at Judson in NYC. If you are looking for a fun show with some extraordinary talent, then I would recommend "Ly…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 10:00PMMoisés Kaufman's emotionally rich adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams receives a thoroughly engaging production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMWorks by Cassandra Medley and Michael Louis Wells highlight Ensemble Studio Theater's program of one-act plays.
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A fine score by Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham elevates this awkward musical about a group of struggling twentysomethings.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThe union representing the ousted director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Julie Taymor, has filed a claim saying the show's producers owe her about $300,000 in royalties.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:55PMBehind the Scenes: Backstage at "The Book of Mormon" with Andrew Rannells
The charming star reveals some of the backstage magic of Broadway's biggest new hit.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:47PMLegit Reviews: Sandra Bernhard's new show features tracks from her new album and her knowing takes on pop culture.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:47PMTony Nominee Chat: Yul Vasquez of "The Motherf**ker With the Hat"
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:43PMJoel Grey has epitomized the entertainment industry's triple threat for decades. His dynamic talent was confirmed when he created one of the iconic characters of film and theater-the magneti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42PMOn Gwyneth Paltrow's website, GOOP, she posted today a blog entry regarding pride and homosexuality in relation to the Bible. The entry reads as follows.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25PMLegit News: Montreal fest sets Down Under offshoot -- The Just for Laughs comedy festival is heading Down Under.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07PMThe missionaries of the smash hit musical The Book of Mormon are used to going door to door to spread word of their religion. Broadway.com recently turned the tables on the Mormon crew by ri…
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I don't care who wins many of the Tony Awards Sunday night, but don't get the wrong idea. Indifference has nothing to do with it.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 08:49PMThe Times' theater critic thinks we'll be seeing a lot more of 'Mormon' on Sunday night. He also envisions a Tony joining an Oscar at Frances McDormand's house.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:47PMEmmy Award winner Sharon Gless Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, NipTuck, Cagney and Lacey would continue to star in the production, which is based on the best-selling book and follows the real-li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMNaked Theatre’s collaborative premiere presentation is devoted to the interfamilial squabbles that especially occur at funerals. This is definitely a company to watch.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:30PMThe first show of Just for Laughs Chicago will take place before a largely unwitting audience. New York’s Improv Everywhere is staging a mass event Sunday of the mirthful sort that used to…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:28PMWhen Leigh Silverman was a teenager, she dreamed of being an actor. “I loved to act but wasn’t very good at it,” Silverman recalled, laughing. “Thankfully at a young age a drama teac…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:28PMDavid Henry Hwang has finally found a home in Chicago. Make that three homes for three plays. The playwright’s work is seldom done here, but this summer marks a turnaround. The Goodman The…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:28PMLegit News: McDiarmid, Greig among actors lined up -- The latest play from Alexi Kaye Campbell ("The Pride") and six other world preems make up the ambitious Fall season at London's new writ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMClaybourne Elder, Todd Lawson (photo: Monique Carboni)The New Group & Tectonic Theater Project's ponderous production of Tennessee Williams' One Arm, adapted from his unproduced screenpl…
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Robert Sheehan, Ruth Negga and Niamh Cusack will star in The Playboy Of The Western World at the Old Vic from 7 September 2011, according to reports in the Daily Mail.
John Crowley directs …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:58PMShow #55: Tiny Alice, Marin Theatre Company, June 7.
I reviewed Marin Theatre Company’s season-closing production of Edward Albee’s 1964 play Tiny Alice for today’s Marin I…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:55PMThe best thing about Arney s production is the rapport between the two leads. The best thing about Arney s production is the rapport between the two leads.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:50PMAccording to Deadline.com, NBC just signed a deal with Columbia Records to release the soundtrack for the highly anticipated new series Smash. Additionally, leading lady and American Idol al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PMThe stars turned out for opening night of the Los Angeles premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Lett’s Superior Donuts at the Geffen Playhouseh including Dana Delany, Arye Gross, Marin …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:43PMHer email address begins with “nifttt”, which she says stands for “nothing is funnier than the truth.” (It could also stand for “nifty,” which she most certainly is.) For a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:35PMYoung Vic, LondonThere are, broadly speaking, two possible approaches to Gogol's classic 1836 comedy. Treat it as a realistic satire on provincial corruption or as a wild fantasy. Given his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35PMFollowing in the footsteps of Fox's Glee, NBC has signed a deal with Columbia Records for the soundtrack of the network's new musical drama series Smash.
SOURCE: Deadline at 07:32PMComedian and singer Sandra Bernhard proved she's quite the popular lady as a slew of stars showed up for her June 8 concert at The Town Hall, I Love Being Me, Don't You? The legendar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:15PMSignature Theatre Company Founding Artistic Director James Houghton Executive Director Erika Mallin, will launch the theatre's new home, Signature Center, with Athol Fugard as its inaugural …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMLa Jolla Playhouse presents a new adaptation of Sleeping Beauty Wakes, book by Tony Award-winning librettist Rachel Sheinkin The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with a score by compo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PMIt has become acceptable again to like plays that are superbly crafted and take audience entertainment as a primary goalNever given quite his due while he was alive, Simon Gray may be receiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMAlexi Kaye Campbell's The Faith Machine begins series, which also includes work by David Eldridge and April de AngelisThe Royal Court theatre in London will unveil on Friday a season of seve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMThe 2003 Tim Burton film starring Ewan McGregor and Billy Crudup, ‘Big Fish,’ is swimming its way to Broadway this coming spring. Susan Stroman (“The Producers”) has been selected to…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:00PMNo Broadway production has ever been more ecstatic at the news that it has been frozen more than the much maligned ‘Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark.’ Frozen being theatre speak for the end …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:00PMChristie Brinkley might be 57 years old, however she has proven it’s never too late for starting a new life. The former supermodel is preparing to make her debut next month on a West E…
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Marc Warren, best known as Danny Blue in BBC TV's Hustle, will front a stage adaption of Cool Hand Luke at the West End's Aldwych Theatre from 23 September 2011.
The American crime drama, w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:57PMWith "money" reviews from the New York Times and other publications in its gym bag, Off-Broadway's Lysistrata Jones — the pop-comic musical rewrite of Aristophanes' a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:55PMInterviews with voters — and a notebook’s worth of meals in the theater district — ground our annual forecast of the 2011 Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMINSIDER spotlights Hollywood Fringe one-handers and offers some alternative Festival fare. CTG goes on a cyberspace search for new Fanny Brice; helmer Amelia Mulkey offers her take on …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PMPaul Shaffer took a break from his busy duties as bandleader at The Late Show With David Letterman on June 8 and headed over to the Palace Theatre to check out Broadway's most fabulous n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:47PMTo kick off the comedy series, Bay Street warms up audiences on Saturday, July 2 with RICHARD BELZER. Belzer has played Detective Munch on a record-setting ten different television series- L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMThe New York Philharmonic is canceling its popular and free "Concerts in the Parks" series this year, citing an influx of preseason events for the orchestra.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:43PMSince making her debut a dozen years ago as Eponine in Les Miserables, Kerry Butler has been a constant and welcome presence on the Broadway musical stage, charming audiences in Beauty and t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMColoradans in New York, Part 6: Victoria Matlock
Our series of video podcasts with Colorado actors on New York stages continues with University of Northern Colorado grad Victoria Matlock, w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:40PM(Posted by Doug George) The 2011 Just For Laughs Chicago festival is coming June 14-19. We have interviews with the festival organizers and headliner Louis C.K. (left). Plus a schedule of ev…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30PMI can tell you that sometimes you have to wait fifty years and sometimes it comes in a year, but whenever it comes, then, the most dramatic pause imaginable - and the smile. Thats a quote fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:29PMSignature Theatre Company's inaugural season at its massive new Manhattan home, Signature Center, will focus on the work of South African playwright Athol Fugard, billing the writer as i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PMDouglas Carter Beane has adapted the Greek comedy "Lysistrata," which is thousands of years old, into a decidedly fresh, fun tale for modern audiences.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:18PMThough a complex comedy, this spastic Apple Orchard comes off more "Cheers" than Chekhov. Not recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:11PMAcademy Award nominee Rosie Perez will host the 2011 Fort Greene Festival on Saturday, June 25, in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, to be held Noon-8pm.
Multi-Grammy Award/Golden Globe Award/E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMI was at a Symposium this week where some of the talk was about the need for our work to become more participatory. The idea is that everyone is an artist now and so everyone needs to create…
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Daniel Radcliffe and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying have “succeeded” in recording the official cast album of the 50th anniversary revival of the Tony-nomin…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 05:56PMBroadway veteran Josh Lucas is set to star in NBC's new legal drama series The Firm, based on John Grisham's best-selling novel and executive-produced by Grisham and Lukas Reiter.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMAccording to E Online, Broadway veteran and GLEE star Lea Michele wants to star in more movies. Michele told E that she 'wants to focus on movies and other acting roles.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMSignature Theater Company has chosen the celebrated South African playwright Athol Fugard as the focus of its first year in its new 74,000-square-foot home, known as Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMTony Award-winner Cady Huffman, Tony Award-nominee Meg Bussert, Lisa Brescia, Jeremy Morse, and Molly Hager will round out the roster of performers singing Unsung Menken at The Laurie Beechm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMThe lovingly staged revival of Rachel Crothers’s “Little Journey” is a bracing plunge into the three-act theatrical pleasures of another age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMLegit News: Malkovich, Sands, Berkoff on tap -- A John Malkovich-directed solo play starring Julian Sands and perfs from Simon Callow and Steven Berkoff are among the atractions on tap for t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:38PMHarriett D. Foy and Talia Balsam have joined the cast of F2M, a new play by "thirtysomething" and "Brothers & Sisters" actress Patricia Wettig, which will be presente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, June 9, 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 05:31PMTony Award-winning vocalist Idina Menzel performed this week with the Nashville Symphony. Best known for her roles in the Broadway musicals Wicked and Rent, she sang a diverse selection of c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMThe Book of Mormon, by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q's Bobby Lopez, tells the tale of clueless Mormon missionaries in misery-plagued Africa.
Catch Me I…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:27PMFor while the Broadway season was a bountiful one in many ways - what's this, almost a dozen new musicals? - it was pretty thin on significant leading roles for women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMWith only two nominees, this category becomes an interesting coin toss.
The title is already a 1988 Tony winner as Best Revival, but this new production of Cole Porter's Anything Goes boast…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23PMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, stage and screen star Danny Glover will join previously reported Kiefer Sutherland in the new Fox pilot, TOUCH. The pilot was written by Tim Kring.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PMA labor dispute is threatening to make a mess of the Tony Awards, forcing actors to cross picket lines to attend the red carpet for Broadway's biggest ceremony.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:17PMLeonard Stern, a prolific writer-producer-director whose credits include "The Honeymooners," "Get Smart," and "McMillan and Wife," died Tuesday. He was 88.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:14PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has filed an arbitration claim on Thursday against the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, saying they had "failed to pay to Ms. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMMrs. Jones and the Man from Dixieland by Tony Award winner Steven Sater officially opens June 9 as part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 33rd annual marathon of one-act plays.
The 20-m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PMBy 'underscoring' its plays with music, is Shakespeare's Globe giving audiences a fresh emotional experience – or robbing them of history?In keeping with tradition, the first and last perf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMOver a quarter-century after the start of the AIDS epidemic, playwright–activist Larry Kramer's play, a work "full of ghosts," still haunts.
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Transport Group has extended Lysistrata Jones, according to a report in The New York Times. The musical, directed and choreographed by Dan Knechtges, will now play through June 24 at Judson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMLegit Reviews: A modest undertaking boasting character truth in its strong thumbs up to people who remain engaged with life.
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMBay Street Theatre has announced its lineup for The Comedy Club at Bay Street Theatre, to run select nights at 8pm.
The comedy series will kick off with Richard Belzer (July 2), and continu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMWhen you think country music, Idina Menzel might not be the first name to come to mind, but the Tony winner adopted the genre in her June 7 tour stop in Nashville, Tennessee, also known as M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:45PMThe performing arts extravaganza put a spotlight on experimental work from the British Isles
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:44PMThe Tony Awards will be broadcast live, from the Beacon Theatre on CBS, Sunday, June 12th, 800 - 1100 p.m. ETPT time delay. The 2011 Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMBroadway veteran Sandra Benhard debuted her new show, I LOVE BEING ME, DON'T YOU, at New York's Town Hall on June 8, and Broadway legend Liza Minelli Joined her onstage to sing Class from Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMIn response to Brendan Kiley's Seattle Stranger piece about the Intiman Theater's collapse, Jeremy Barker, writing at Culturebot, questions the very popular meme of the moment: bad boards ar…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:35PMThe New York Philharmonic's concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which as previously reported will be screened in select movie theaters beginning Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:31PMYet next week, on Tuesday, June 14, the curtain is scheduled to rise above on Spider-Man, thanks in no small part to the efforts of a hard-working creative team that includes Paul Bogaev of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMAs previously announced, the cast of SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK will get a chance to perform at the Tony Awards on Sunday, and according to Rolling Stone creators Bono and The Edge will ma…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:22PMBelow, we bring you Patina Miller, Best Lead Actress in a Musical nominee for Sister Act. Miller is best known for originating the role of the disco diva wannabe Deloris Van Cartier in the 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMOvid's "Metamorphoses" on Whidbey Island and a free reading of Chekhov's "The Wood Demon" in Seattle are among the theater offerings in the coming days.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:16PMAcademy Award-winning actor and multiple Grammy-winning performer Robin Williams has teamed up with leading charity auction site charitybuzz.com to auction off a pair of tickets to the final…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMBrandon Victor Dixon, Chester Gregory, and Alysha Umphress will perform in Broadway Rhythm and Booze, at Tillman's Bar & Lounge, on Monday, June 20 at 8pm.
This cabaret series was …
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Two of this year's Tony Award Best Play nominees -- David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem -- are now available in print from Theatre Communication…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMPlaybill.com offers a look at the nominees for the 65th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards in the categories of Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMI knew the title before I even wrote the script. Eisegesis. I toyed with it in my mouth, giving it different inflections, refracting the syllables into different wavelengths, getting comfo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:56PMThe always fabulous Sandra Bernhard debuted her latest solo show, “I Love Being Me, Don’t You?”, at NYC’s Town Hall on June 8, and she didn’t have to do it alon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMThe Paley Center For Media has announced participants for several of its upcoming events.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Anderson Cooper, who provides the voice of the narrator i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMThis razzle-dazzle musical is as pertinent as ever. Highly recommeded!
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:48PMTheatre Communications Group TCG is pleased to announce the publication of two Tony Award nominees for Best Play Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMWhen Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with a degree in English, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his musical-theat…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 03:43PMAge & Hometown: 55; Montreal, Canada
Current Role: Making his Broadway debut as Bob, the rugged Australian mechanic who falls for aging transsexual Bernadette (Tony nominee Tony Sheld…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PMAs the 2011 Tony Awards grow ever closer, stars of the much-nominated Anything Goes Sutton Foster and Joel Grey sat down with CBS News anchor Marysol Castro to talk about the challenge and h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMThis year, the National Gallery took the Venice Biennale project in-house, cutting off a previously inclusive process at the knees
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:30PMA long long time ago (December 5, 1941) a small thriller called Angel Street opened on Broadway, and it had one thing in common with The Motherf**ker With The Hat, in that both plays’ plot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:26PMThis evening the inaugural Celebration of Color on Broadway Awards will take place at SAKS Fifth Avenue 611 5th Avenue beginning at 6PM. Honoring George C. Wolfe and Ruth and Stephen Hendel …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMThe union that represents theater directors is seeking any royalties owed Julie Taymor, the original director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:21PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The union that represents theater directors is seeking any royalties owed Julie Taymor, the original director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:19PMTrey Parker and Matt Stone's lead missionary man talks Tony Awards, shocking old ladies, and escaping voiceover hell
SOURCE: www.gq.com at 03:17PMCarley Stenson will take on the role of Elle Woods in the West End production of Legally Blonde beginning July 11 at the Savoy Theatre. Also joining Stenson, who currenly plays Margot in the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PMBASE Entertainment and Marina Bay Sands in association with Disney Theatrical Productions proudly announce that the award-winning musical THE LION KING has broken yet another record by becom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMThe union representing ousted "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" director Julie Taymor filed an arbitration claim Thursday against the show's producers on her behalf, alleging she is owed aroun…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:05PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wicked; Promises, Promises) will make it back to Broadway next week—42nd Street and Broadway, that is—when sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMThe 50th Anniversary production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, starring Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMEvery year, Broadway producers with musicals struggling to fill theaters to capacity every night, place their financial hopes on the Tony awards. But just how valuable is winning a prestigio…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMLegit News: Tony nominees talk about getting the acting -- For this year's Tony-nominated thesps, acting epiphanies -- when everything suddenly clicks -- generally involve a long, hard haul …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMLegit News: CEOs of the musical theater take risks that are as much about art as commerce -- What drives this year's Tony-nominated tuners? Audiences might cite the slick, tuneful profession…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMLegit News: Shubert Organization chairman honored -- When the organizers of the Tony Awards decided to honor Shubert Organization chairman and co-CEO Philip J. Smith with its lifetime achiev…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMLegit News: Activism at the heart of their art -- Athol Fugard and Eve Ensler, recipients of honorary Tonys, share a passionate conviction that the roles of artist and activist are inseparab…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMLegit News: Broadway's best writes know how to play right -- In a race that is becoming increasingly hard to call, two American plays, David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People" and Stephen Adly G…
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A new version of Funny Girl is in the making and headed for Broadway in early 2012. There was a big buzz over Glee’s Lea Michele’s singing and that she is comparable to Barbra Streisand…
SOURCE: sheris-musings.tumblr.com at 02:55PMProducers of A Christmas Story: The Musical! are seeking young performers to play the ragtag gang of children in the upcoming five-city national tour of that production, which will launch th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMThomas Cox starred in Lookingglass Theatre’s “Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day” in 2008; work commitments with "The Outgoing Tide" will keep him from the Tony Awards.| LOOKING…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMVirginia's Signature Theatre heats up during the dog days of summer with their annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret, a 3-week series featuring thirteen individual acts sure to keep things red hot.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMThe Geffen Playhouse celebrated the opening of its production of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, on Wednesday, June 8. Randall Arney has directed the production.
The play centers on the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMCast members of Broadway’s Rock of Ages hit the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum May 27 for a special Fleet Week Broadway performance hosted by Tony Award winner Greg Jbara (Billy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMWilliam Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor will kick off "Shakespeare’s Globe London Cinema Series," an exclusive four-part in-theatre series of classic Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMExecutive ProducerCreator Tom Diggs is pleased to announce the launch of PERKS, a new musical web series starring Alex Wyse Lysistrata Jones, Alex Brightman Wicked, Allison Strong Mama Mia, …
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BILLY ELLIOT is the spectacular show with the heart, humor and passion to be called "THE BEST SHOW YOU'LL EVER SEE" by the New York Post and honored w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:21PMBroadwayWorld has learned that SDC The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society that represents Julie Taymor has filed an arbitration claim against the producers of Spider-Man for their al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMLegit News: Producer to replace Burns in post -- Independent producer Mark Rubinstein has been appointed prexy of the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), the trade association representing pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:19PMDanny Glover will join the previously announced Kiefer Sutherland in FOX's Touch, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series has been created by Tim Kring, who has also written th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMMy journey into Solitude, the Latino Theater Company's revival for RADAR L.A., began in 1998 when I read Octavio Paz’s obituary in the LA Times. A Nobel Prize recipient in literature, a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMIn 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. David Lindsay-Abair…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PMIt’s been a fabulous season on Broadway, and our resident artist Justin "Squigs" Robertson has been on the scene each week, capturing the essence of the shows and stars for B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PMPreview performances begin tomorrow evening for Roundabout Theatre Company's Death Takes a Holiday, with a book by Peter Stone amp Thomas Meehan, music amp lyrics by Maury Yeston, directed b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the union that represents theater directors including Julie Taymor, said the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" had failed to pay he…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:05PMBono and The Edge, co-creators of the new musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, are the latest additions to the list of participating artists for the 65th Annual Tony Awards, which will be p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PMDixon Place has announced full programming for the 20th annual HOT! Festival of queer performance, which coincides with The 25th Anniversary of Dixon Place. The festival will run June 24-Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMMormon month continues at Broadway.com as we deliver our monthlong video series showcasing the runaway hit musical, The Book of Mormon. In today's video, Tony nominee Nikki M. James, who…
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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 01:58PMProduction directed by Tony Award-winner James Lapine Opens in Fall, 2012 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced Read the Wall Street Journal coverage of the open call: CLICK HERE Telsey a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:55PMBritish choreographer Michael Clark takes some space in the Tate's Turbine Hall with his legion of amateur dancers for an evening-long affair
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:52PMAre there enough hours in a day for Neil Patrick Harris?
SOURCE: www.popeater.com at 01:51PMBroadway stars Chad Kimball and Sandy Bainum sing songs from West Side Story and Misha Berson, author of Something's Coming, Something Good, discusses this extraordinary musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PMA preliminary lineup of participants for The 24 Hour Plays in Los Angeles, to be offered on June 18 at The Broad Stage has been announced. The program features six original short plays, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMJosh Lucas will star as Mitchell McDeere in NBC's reboot of John Grisham's The Firm, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The series is slated to take place nearly a decade afte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:49PMDaniel Radcliffe and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying have “succeeded” in recording the official cast album of the 50th anniversary revival of the To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dafina McMillan June 9, 2011 �…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:48PMTituss Burgess, Marty Thomas and Kristy Cates will join Kate Pazakis and Ethan Paulini for Gaylebrity, a new musical comedy chat show that will play Provincetown, MA, this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMThe sound of optimism will be deafening on Manhattan's Upper East Side on June 12 when an open audition for the coming Broadway production of Annie, the musical, takes place.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PM(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Anna Rahn, Tiffany Clementi, Christina Shipp, Lori E Parquet, Sol Crespo)It was a great to take a moment and look through these photos from the keen-eyed …
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 01:34PMAn updated line-up has been announced for Unsung Menken, to be held at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Sunday, June 19 at 7pm.
The cast will now include Lisa Brescia, Meg Bussert, Badia Farh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PMIt’s tough being a kid, and the pay is very low. You may have forgotten how it was to bear the sodden weight of your parents’ expectations while coping with the assault of the raging hor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:29PMA Christmas Story, The Musical, prepares to launch a five-city national tour for the 2011 holiday season, the show's producers, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the ori…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMMusician Paul Shaffer, well known as the musical director for David Letterman, visited Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert on May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMTHE CIRCLE by W. Somerset Maugham
June 7 - June 25, 2011
Many years ago, Lord Champion-Cheney was abandoned by his wife, Lady Catherine, who ran off to Italy with her lover. Bringing matte…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:22PMWICKED'S Ana Gasteyer visited with Seth Rudetsky on Wednesday as a guest on his Live on Broadway radio show and shared some news about her upcoming role in the new ABC comedy, Suburgatory, p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PMWednesday, June 22, 2011, 12:00pm - 3:00pmPrice: $7512:00pmWelcome12:15pm - 1:00pmSecrets of the HuntDebbie Bisno1:00pm - 2:00pmTBD 2:00pm - 2:45pmFinding, Soliciting, & FussingJed Berns…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:20PMTelsey and Co., casting office for the new Broadway production of ANNIE, will hold an open call on Sunday, June 12, for girls ages 6-12 to audition for the roles of Annie and the orphans. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMSirius XM Radio NASDAQ SIRI announced today that The Book of Mormon Radio, the two-day channel featuring exclusive content about The Book of Mormon, the new Broadway musical by South Park cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PM-Patrick Pacheco gives us the inns and outs of how musicals get their numbers on the Tony broadcast without being nominated. (Bonus Quote of the Day from an unnamed producer: "We may not win…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:14PMHis TV show, “Burn Notice,’’ is a cable hit, already renewed for next season. He recently shot his second movie role for director Clint Eastwood, playing opposite Leonardo …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PMSALEM — Couples don’t come much odder. Lee Miller (1907-77) possessed an aloof, even lofty beauty that had made her one of Edward Steichen’s favorite models and put her on …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PMFantasia Barrino has been announced to play the staring role in an upcoming film adaptation of the 1993 book Got to Tell It Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel, according to published reports. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMPreview performances begin tomorrow evening for Roundabout Theatre Company’s Death Takes a Holiday, with a book by Peter Stone & Thomas Meehan, music & lyrics by Maury Yeston, dire…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:05PMMark Sanchez, the quarterback for the New York Jets, discusses his favorite plays, musical numbers and actors ahead of this year's Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PM
The Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre has announced the line-up for its annual Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret series.
The 21/24 Signature Lab will kick off the series with a present…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMBWW Discounts is offering you the chance to save 30 on tickets to see PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Click here to find out how.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMA labor dispute is threatening to make a mess of the Tony Awards, forcing actors to cross picket lines to attend the red carpet for Broadway's biggest ceremony.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:55PMStage Rush TV: Episode 67
Talking points:
Stage Rush's Tony Award predictions
Attending the opening of Desperate Writers
Stage Rush TV will be coming to you from Los Angele…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:53PMOn June 9 the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) filed an arbitration claim against Spider-Man Broadway, LLC, the producer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark for failure to pay r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThis week, Seth's on a mission to get the backstage scoop from all 4 Tony nominated stars of BOOK OF MORMON. Josh Gad, Andrew Ranells, Nikki M. James and Rory O'Malley share their thoughts j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMPlaywright Athol Fugard will receive a 2011 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 12:48PMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme that launched today is not only the biggest ever but, with a total of 761 theatre productions, it also features more theatre than ever before.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMEach year at the Tony Awards, the celebration halts for a few minutes to pay tribute to the artists we’ve lost during the year, actors, directors, designers, producers. This year, the obit…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:44PMThe Best Bets for Kids and Family Theatre this SummerIs it just me, or is everyone a bit on edge School is ending, schedules are changing, nannies are quitting and those of us who aren't spe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMIf ever there was a tangled web of a Broadway production, it would be Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
SOURCE: The Weston Forum at 12:41PMJoe Foust, Neil Friedman, Sean Fortunato, Erin Noel Grennan and Peggy Roeder will play members of a dysfunctional family in the world-premiere production of Making God Laugh, starting June 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMAn open audition for children between the ages of 8-13 will be held for the 2011 holiday tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, on Monday, June 27 at the Chicago Theatre from 10am to 2pm.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMIllusion Theater has announced the lineup of plays for its annual summer series Fresh Ink, which provides space for artists to develop creative new works. The series will run July 7-29.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMThe new musical BONNIE AND CLYDE will host an industry-only invite presentation taking place on June 9th and 10th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMTarell Alvin McCraney's follow-up to his spectacular debut has energy, stylistic daring and verbal fizz, but none of these make up for its lack of substance
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:37PMTarell Alvin McCraney's follow-up to his spectaualr debut has energy, stylistic daring and verbal fizz, but none of these make up for its lack of substance
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:37PMThe filmed version of the New York Philharmonic's recent starry concert production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company premiered June 8 at NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMA Celebration of Color on Broadway, a special benefit event designed to bring attention to the African-American community and highlight their achievements, history and legends, will be held …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMMichael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, winners of the 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant, will release their new album "Out of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman and Dimond" June 28 on iTunes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMShowstopper is a backstage account of the 1981 production of "Merrily We Roll Along"
SOURCE: Amazon at 12:25PMColin Quinn will bring his Broadway solo evening, Long Story Short, to Chicago audiences for a late summer run, beginning Aug. 24 at the Broadway Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMTate Modern, LondonMichael Clark's latest work was created for the vaulting industrial space of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is a venue that can easily swallow up a choreographer (hence th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMAudiences 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 12:22PMGhost the Musical recently finished a pre-West End run at Manchester’s Opera House to sold-out houses and is now gearing up to begin performances at the West End’s Piccadilly The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMAlicia Goranson will make a guest appearance in Naked in a Fishbowl, playing at The People's Improv Theatre, on June 13 at 8pm.
Goranson is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Beck…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMMurrays' Mills, Manchester"The mills lead us to no further destination than death," says the weaver Stephen Blackpool in Charles Dickens's novel, set among the misery and ignorance of Coketo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMMurrays' Mills, Manchester"The mills lead us to no further destination than death," says the weaver Stephen Blackpool in Charles Dickens's novel, set among the misery and ignorance of Coketo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMOur theatre, dance and comedy critics choose their first-glance fringe highlights – what are yours?Lyn Gardner's theatre picksThe Simple Things in LifeBarnaby Stone's table will tell a sto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMMatthew Arkin, Rebecca Myer, and Phil Johnson will perform in a staged reading of Rinne Groff's Compulsion, to be presented by North Coast REP in Solana Beach, CA on June 14 at 7pm. D. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PM“This sparkling show brims with a joy in pranks and japes and silly jokes that suggests the devilish feeling that possesses people on the first bright, balmy day after a long winter.” -T…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:05PMRichard Hellesen's One Destiny, the 35-minute play commissioned by the Ford's Theatre Society "to bring the drama and emotion of the American Civil War to life through theatre,&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PM
Last night on THE LATE SHOW funny man Jon Cryer stopped by and discussed why he was ill prepard to star in the recent COMPANY concert at the New York Philharmonic. To watch the video, click …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMIn 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. Joshua Henry, a Bes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMThe Drama Book Shop in Manhattan will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film of the classic Broadway musical West Side Story June 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMLast year, the 2010 Tonys Drinking Game was a big success. This year, you guys contributed even more suggestions - each of which is funnier and more clever than the last So finish up the pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMI know, I know, I'll get around to posting some reviews eventually. In the meantime, enjoy a little space weather that looks even hotter than what we're enduring today.The Hub Review, the g…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:49AMCurrent Tony Award nominees Sutton Forster, Joel Grey (for The Normal Heart) and Kathleen Marshall of Anything Goes sat down with CBS news anchor Marysol Castro to talk about the Tony- nomin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMCarley Stenson will take over as college sweetheart Elle Woods in the London edition of Legally Blonde the Musical, beginning performances July 11. Currently playing Margot in the show, Sten…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMYou Left Out the Part About ... - NYTimes.com:I am reminded of the House Republicans, opening the 112th Congress by reciting the Constitution, minus the slavery parts. I am reminded of the E…
SOURCE: Mike Daisey at 11:40AMKevin Chamberlin has joined the cast of upcoming Disney Channel series "Jessie," which has begun production for a fall premiere.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39AMA bumper crop of cabaret acts will take to the stage this year in the largest Edinburgh festival fringe ever announcedThe comedians, actors and street performers who dominate the Edinburgh f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMEDINBURGH (Reuters) - Over 21,000 performers in search of fame and infamy will gather in Edinburgh in August to put on 2,542 shows in a record year for the city's Fringe, the largest annual …
SOURCE: Reuters at 11:38AMStage and screen star Jeremy Irons will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at the Sunflower Jam Charity Concert, to be held in London's Royal Albert Hall on July 8.
The legendary heavy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMOPENING THE AMBASSADORS. Annoyance Theatre presents a scripted sitcom featuring two impressionable childlike roommates looking to broaden their horizons. Guests will include members of Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:36AMThere is no hotter artist in the world than this year’s Golden Lion, Christian Marclay
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:33AMTHE LEAGUE OF BROADWAY SUPER FRIENDS - a five-part harmony-singing group featuring Broadway's brightest stars and biggest talents, held their inaugural concert on Tuesday, June 7. At the eve…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMColor Purple star and "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino will explore the life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a new biographical film based on the Jules Schwerin book &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMOne of my favorite parts of the summer is the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park series. One of my least favorite parts of the summer is waiting in line for free tickets to Shake…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 11:28AMIt’s official: After a successful Broadway debut as foxy Roxie Hart, supermodel Christie Brinkley is headed to London to star in Chicago for a four-week summer engagement, July 11 to A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMJon Robyns' debut album Open Book will be released by Curtain Records on July 10.
The eight track disc will feature such songs as "Purpose" (Avenue Q), "Il Mondo Era V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMTony Award nominee Chad Kimball, who stars in Broadway's Memphis, and Sandy Bainum will sing songs from the musical West Side Story as part of a book signing event for Misha Berson&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMThe San Francisco-set musical Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's novels, opened at American Conservatory Theater May 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMFormer In the Heights co-stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also penned that musical's Tony-winning score, and Christopher Jackson will perform with their freestyle hip hop crew, Freestyle Lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMHayden Panettiere is in talks to join Oscar winner Melissa Leo and E.R. star Laura Innes in a revival of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Picnic on Broadway.
SOURCE: Contactmusic.com at 11:14AMLora Lee Gayer of Naples stars opposite Bernadette Peters in DC revival of 'Follies'
SOURCE: www.naplesnews.com at 11:13AMPhilip Rose, a groundbreaking theatrical producer who expanded the artistic and social horizons of the Broadway stage with his 1959 production of “A Raisin in the Sun,” died May 31 at a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:11AMWhen Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with a degree in English, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his musical-theat…
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 11:10AMChristie Brinkley cried while rehearsing for "Chicago" - but just once.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:09AMShrek The Musical, which opens at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 16 June (previews from 6 May 2011), held a Royal Gala performance last night (8 June 2011) in the presence of the Prince of …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:07AMFrom 11 July 2011 Carley Stenson will play college sweetheart Elle Woods in the Olivier award-winning Legally Blonde The Musical. Stenson, who is currently playing Margot in the West End pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMThe iconic Cook’s latest offering “You Make Me Feel So Young,” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, is a tribute to her never-ending ways in which she reinterprets both…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:05AMA Chorus Line Broadway revival cast member Jessica Lee Goldyn and David Elder head the cast of the Michael Bennett dance musical, which runs through July 3 at Stages St. Louis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMEarlier this week, Million Dollar Quartet announced that it would be closing June 12th. But it won't be gone for good. MDQ will become the lastest show to transfer from Broadway to Off-Broad…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Natascia Diaz will appear in six performances of The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, playing at 59E59 Theaters, June 16-19. She will be stepping in for company member Sally Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMActress Natascia Diaz — of Off-Broadway's Jacques Brel and Bright Lights, Big City and the recent Public Theater concert production of The Capeman — will step in for Sal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMEdward Gardner, English National Opera’s dynamic young
Music Director (though at 37 he must be growing weary of the ‘young’ epithet),
proves his mettle as a conductor of Ve…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:47AM50% off Best Seats* (normally £45 & £37)for The Merchants of Bollywood at the Peacock Theatre. Valid for evening performances Tue, Wed, Thu & Sun between 14-26 June.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:43AMJune 9, 2011By Patricia BlaufussPublic Relations ManagerIn honor of Westport Country Playhouse’s 80th birthday on June 29, 2011, I’ve been asked to blog about the Playhouse’s storied p…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 10:43AMLegit News: Pearce, Webster, Judd selected for regional program -- The Regional Theater Young Director Scheme, the U.K.'s longest-running and most influential training scheme for helmers, ha…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38AMThe lineup for the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival has been announced. The event, running August 5-29, will feature a total of 2,542 theater, dance, music, comedy, and cabaret offerings.
Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMThe Tony Awards are Sunday! Let’s hear it for people named Tony who are also really awesome! Tony Sheldon: If Tony (Sheldon) wins a Tony (Award) this year, well… that headline ju…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:37AMBroadway favorites Sebastian Arcelus and Erin Davie, who star in the fiery courtroom drama A Time to Kill (based on John Grisham's novel) at Washington, DC's Arena Stage, offer an ex…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMPhil Ashby, Craig Baldwin, Tina Benko, Annika Boras, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Deanne Lorette, Kate McCluggage, Alfredo Narciso, Andrew Weems, and Emily Clare Zempel will perform in Red Bull Theater…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMThe Big Apple bestowed its "big" thanks to Matt Damon and John Leguizamo for their contributions to NYC's entertainment and new media industries at the sixth annual "MADE IN NY Awards" - hos…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:31AMLike a bartender in the West Village at 3:45 AM, it's time for me to say, "LAAAST CAAAALLL!" My Tony pool officially closes at midnight tonight, so this is your very last chance to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMWashington, D.C.—The Ford’s Theatre Society offers evening performances of One Destiny by Richard Hellesen, June 14-July 2, 2011. One Destiny was commissioned by the Ford’s Theatre Soc…
SOURCE: fords.org at 10:28AMCelebrated Canadian playwright takes on Indian monument
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:27AMJohn Larroquette, nominated for a 2011 Tony Award for his performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will be among the honorees at Inside Broadway's 2011 Broadway B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMRosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Current Town: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Q: Tell me about your play next season with the Huntington Theatre.
A: I have lived in Ha…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:19AMAcademy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis will host a benefit performance of American Conservatory Theater's world-premiere musical, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City on Friday, June…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMBringing Voices to Light, a benefit concert to support global Internet access, will be presented June 13 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMOne of the toughest lessons in leadership for me to learn was this one: People are watching you. I don't mean that in a paranoid way. I mean that people are taking their cues from your words…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:12AMA battle has erupted between Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" and one of the city's most iconic skyscrapers.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:08AMInside Broadways Executive Director Michael Presser is pleased to announce that current Tony Award-nominee John Larroquette of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will join stag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMNew Diorama, LondonFact or fiction: which is the best way to deal with the issues raised by the Baha Mousa inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian in army custody? Coming hot on the heel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMCarley Stenson will star as Elle Woods in the West End production of Legally Blonde The Musical, at the Savoy Theatre, beginning July 11. She will join the previously reported Lee Mead who w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMThe winners of the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway — were celebrated June 7 at a ceremony at the Augu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMThe winners of the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway — were celebrated June 7 at a ceremony at the Augu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Gavin Creel, Lindsay Mendez, Greg Naughton, Kelli O'Hara, and Sherie Rene Scott performed as The League of Broadway Super Friends in a debut benefit concert presented by Sh-K-Boom/Ghos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMThe Bush Theatre will inaugurate its new home at the Old Library building on Uxbridge Road in Shepherd’s Bush, London, this October with another celebration of the 400th anniversary of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:50AMThe 2011 Edinburgh Fringe programme, published today (9 June 2011), features a record-breaking 2,542 shows – 89 more than last year. The 64th annual Festival Fringe, the world’s …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:50AMFollowing in the footsteps of a number of global stars, supermodel Christie Brinkley will cross the Atlantic to play Roxie Hart in the West End production of Chicago. She will start a four-w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:49AMTheatre World Awards | Jonathan Groff
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Jonathan Groff (Glee, Spring Awakeni…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:43AM8 of the 2011 Tony Award nominees visited the Empire State Building's world famous Observatory including Colman Domingo The Scottsboro Boys, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMSupermodel Christie Brinkley, who is currently playing Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago, will reprise the role in the West End edition, beginning performances July 11 for a four-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe cast of Sister Act the Musical welcomed legendary comedienne Joan Rivers to the Broadway Theatre following the Wednesday, June 8 evening performance.
Jerry Zaks directs the musical, bas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMUnion stagehands are threatening to stage a protest at this weekend's Tony Awards.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:27AMUnion stagehands are threatening to stage a protest at this weekend's Tony Awards.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:27AMNot to sound like a grumpy old man, but upon taking my seat at the Greenwich Theatre I quickly realised I was slap bang in the middle of two teenage school parties. What with themes of teena…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:22AMThe June 8 evening performance of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theatre was a special one for the musical's cast.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMAs a playwright, Jez Butterworth seems to be keenly interested in the implied. The words that he puts in his characters' mouths are often meant to signify something that's three steps remove…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:19AM"Broadway's powerful stagehands' union, which usually does all of the staging work at the nationally televised ceremony each year, is planning to hoist one of its inflatable rats and mobiliz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AMLast Friday I went to the Royal Court to see Arnold Wesker’s 1958 play Chicken Soup with Barley. Director Dominic Cooke’s revival comes 51 years after its Royal Court debut and i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMIt was developed following consultation with those working in the sector and is described as a "call to action" to MPs, parents, teachers and practitioners to "unify their efforts and ensure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AMLocal One, the stagehand union of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, is threatening to picket the Red Carpet at the June 12 Tony Awards for its use of non-union employ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AMJohn Larroquette 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 will host the event.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:01AM
Some of this year’s Tony Nominees made their way to the top of the Empire State Building on a windy afternoon for photos, video and interviews and I took advantage of the opportunity t…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:47AMSome of this year’s Tony Nominees made their way to the top of the Empire State Building on a windy afternoon for photos, video and interviews and I took advantage of the opportunity t…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:47AMChristie Brinkley, who is currently starring as Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, will reprise her performance with the West End company of the musical from July 11 - August …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:45AMChristie Brinkley is to appear in the West End production of Chicago.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMExperimental musician teams up with choreographer Aletta Collins to reimagine a Jean Cocteau play written for Edith PiafScott Walker will soundtrack a forthcoming dance performance, based on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMLegit News: Stroman to direct spring 2012 production -- Susan Stroman has been tapped to helm the tuner "Big Fish," in a stage version of the 2003 movie that is targeting a spring 2012 berth…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Priscilla,' 'Klown' also performing -- "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," "Ghetto Klown," "Memphis" and the seemingly inevitable "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will all get perfo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Following in the footsteps of a number of global stars, supermodel Christie Brinkley will cross the Atlantic to play Roxie Hart in the West End production of Chicago. She will embark on a fo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:59AMIf you’d like to know why we’re going to be lucky enough to have Hugh Jackman singing and dancing at the Princess of Wales Theatre from July 5-17, there’s two people we can thank. Stin…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:55AMYanna Avis’s show at the Metropolitan Room is a nod to the glamorous, high-style cabaret shows that flourished in New York in the 1950s and early ’60s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:20AMThe Bush Theatre will inaugurate its new home at the Old Library building on Uxbridge Road in Shepherd’s Bush, London, this October with another celebration of the 400th anniversary of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:19AMA friend, upon hearing that The Belle of Amherst was in production at Rose Valley's Hedgerow Theatre, commented, "That thing is going to play until there's nothing left on Earth but Cher doi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:16AM
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has filed an arbitration claim against the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on behalf of the Broadway musical's former director, …
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:47AMCirque Du Soliel's newest show, ZARKANA is set to play Moscow's Kremlin Palace in 2012 following a priemiere at Radio City music Hall on June 9, 2011. The production will be written and dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTony winner Debra Monk is set to join The Stonewall Chorale for their concert Songs of Love and Passion. THe event will take place at Holy Apostles on Thursday, June 9 at 8PM, and will feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM"I don't quite understand myself how, why, or when technology and the technical aspects of filmmaking completely overran, overcame, overwhelmed...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMYo-Yo Ma And Friends, 'Inishmaan,' Bang-On-a-Can Launches New Haven International GatheringUsually the opening of New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas starts slowly, building t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMHartford Stage's Alyssa Bresnahan Brings Maternal Heart To 'War Horse'N ew Canaan High School 's production of "The Drows y Chaperone" received top honors as outstanding production of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM
It's that time again. The Tony Awards are nearly upon the Broadway community. All in all, a fantastic season -- strong plays, great performances and even a few celebrities thrown in the mix.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:09AMToybox Theatre, Teatro IATI, Off Off Broadway
By Tzipora Kaplan
BOTTOM LINE: Cute and effervescent. Nothing earth-shattering, just good fun and some laughs.
The show opens with a TV…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:02AMA poster exhibit sets the tone for a series of events, performances and concerts aimed at remedying the city’s collective cultural amnesia
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMGoliath is a one act choreopoem relentlessly written by Takeo Rivera. It is the story of a young soldier, David, who heads off to the Iraq war to become the man others expect him to be, and …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMIf Moises Kaufman's production proves anything, it's that "One Arm," which is one of Tennessee Williams's finest short stories, probably doesn't belong in any other medium. The ways that Wil…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMJean Anouilh wrote Cecile, or the School for Fathers in 1954. The February Company's production at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is translated and directed by Victoria Crutchfield…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAs Broadway's biggest names gather for the Tony Awards this weekend, one of the city's oldest off-Broadway theaters is patiently trying to dig itself out of a deep financial hole. Many small…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMAs so often happens to a critic from the provinces, I saw just half the 26 shows nominated for the 65th annual Tony Awards, to be awarded Sunday (CBS-TV, 8 p.m.). The half I did see accounte…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFollowing is a list of Three Rivers Arts Festival exhibitions, and activities other than stage performances. Unless otherwise noted hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMBorn Yesterday Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda chats about becoming Broadway's newest "it" girl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPuppeteers Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler show us how many people it takes to make a War Horse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCirque du Soleil's new acrobatic spectacle Zarkana, with music by Elton John protégé Nick Littlemore, begins a world-premiere engagement June 9 at Radio City Music Hall. Pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou Like Me, which features humorous reinterpretations of classic speeches from the Tonys, Emmys, Golden Globes and more, will be presented June 9 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new musical Bonnie and Clyde, a blues-and-rockabilly-flavored show by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell, gets an industry presentation June 9-10 in Manhattan in anticipation of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTennessee Williams' unproduced screenplay One Arm comes to life June 9 when the new stage adaptation by Moisés Kaufman, which features Claybourne Elder and Noah Bean, officially o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1891 Birthday of composer Cole Porter (1891-1964), whose witty, urbane songs will grace five decades of musicals, including Anything Goes, Can-Can, Gay Divorce, Silk Stockings and his greate…
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