Harris gave CBS "Early Show" co-anchor Chris Wragge a preview of the Sunday's Tony Awards at New York's Beacon Theatre.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 10:50PMThis morning at the Dramatists Guild’s first national conference, I was on a panel with @AndieArthur and Roland Tec of Extra Criticum, where we talked about blogs and twitter and tumb…
SOURCE: direct address at 10:45PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Sabrina M Paterson
Play: Monster
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: www.planetconnections.org/monster-hold
How did you first get involved in theatre?
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:45PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Takeo Rivera
Play: Goliath
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: www.poetictheater.com/goliath
How did you first get involved in theatre?
In college, I w…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:33PMCasting for the 61st Music Circus season has been completed. After auditioning performers in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento, California Musical Theatre Artistic Director Glenn Casale h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Kimberly Pau
Play: BOMB SHELTER
Relationship to production: Writer/Producer
Website: http://www.kimberlypau.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
My aunt…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:20PMThis is my second episode. I feel so blessed to have gotten the opportunity to write for this wonderful show and these extraordinary actors.
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:16PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Anne Berlin
Musical: HOWLING HILDA
Relationship to production: Playwright/Book & Lyrics/Producer
Website: http://planetconnections.org/howlinghilda/
How did you…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:08PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Christina Quintana
Play: The Recession Club
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.unabridgedcq.com/
www.planetconnections.org/therecessionclub
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:00PM
By Byrne Harrison
Photo by Nathalie Zaro
Name: Marisol Tirelli Rivera
Play: Galileo the Musical
Relationship to production: Book writer/Librettist
Website: _gaia studio
How did you first g…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:50PMDemetri Martin, lawyer. That was the plan. After graduating from Yale University, Martin finished two years of law school at New York University on a full scholarship before dropping out t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:46PMThe 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony Sunday, June 12, airs live from the Beacon Theatre, New York, on CBS. Follow the nominees and winners with our online ballot.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:33PMSleep No More may be the most unusual, fantastical take on Macbeth ever produced. The London-based theater company Punchdrunk has transformed 100,000 square feet of New York City warehouse …
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 09:28PMIf conventional wisdom holds, Sunday night's Tony Awards ceremony will shower a deluge of trophies upon 'The Book of Mormon.'
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Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve struggled with who I am. I think that I was meant to be a woman. As a kid, I would play with dolls and dress up in my mother’s closet when my parent…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:59PMArtistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the full cast and creative team for Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels, opening the Main Stage productions for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51PMWhen I graduated UCLA as an actor and playwright, poetry and stand up were just things I dabbled in. Then I discovered Da Poetry Lounge on Fairfax. For the next two years, I not only perfo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:50PM*NB: Major spoilers after the fold*Deadpan irony is a perilous art. Australians are reflexively ironic, and can find themselves disconcerted when the irony doesn't carry, when a flip stateme…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:45PMBroadwayWorld.com has learned that two-time Tony Award-winner Bebe Neuwirth will host Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most-anticipated cultural event of the Fire Island season as Dancers …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMEnglish National Ballet: Strictly Gershwin, LondonWhile the Royal Ballet aims to fill 10,000 seats at the O2, English National Ballet is vamping the Albert Hall with Derek Dean's Strictly Ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PMPeacock And Gamble, NottinghamComedy podcasts have a habit of gaining a life of their own. In recent times, we've seen Olly Mann and Helen Zaltzman's excellent Answer Me This! getting turned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PMPitlochry Festival Theatre summer seasonThere are plenty of UK theatres with a claim to having beautiful settings, but few are as delightful as that enjoyed by the Pitlochry Festival Theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PMOn his latest tour, the comedian put himself in the hands of his Twitter followers, who led him to tiny pubs, top pies, and an encounter with a very famous dogAs a stand-up comic I have spen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22PMFrom Austen to Waugh to McEwan, great novelists have been drawn to stately homes. Why are grand country houses such a national literary obsession, asks Blake MorrisonThe stately homes of Eng…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21PMIn one of the most highly anticipated openings in recent Broadway memory, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark officially celebrates their opening night on Tuesday, June 14 th at the Foxwoods Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12PMThe 20-year-old could be his generation's Steve Martin, but right now he's pleased to be knocking around with Tim KeyWinchester, Andover, Ipswich: all towns that you might expect any aspirin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMHave you fallen head over heels for ‘The Book of Mormon’ on Broadway? If so, you are in good company as everyone from Neil Patrick Harris to Judd Apatow have been lighting up Twitter sin…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:00PME! Online took on the topic de jour on Wednesday, shining a spotlight on the highly perplexing situation of where is Lea Michele’s recording contract? The recent success of her less talent…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:00PM
Tickets for the Broadway premiere of the 2010 Olivier Award winning Best Play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall starring Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., go on sale Sunday, Ju…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PM"My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for his dau…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:54PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's new feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:39PMNina Arianda is dazzling playgoers in a revival of Born Yesterday; a few blocks away, British-American actor Mark Rylance is performing in Jerusalem — after wowing critics earlier this sea…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:31PMBroadway Beat brings you a special interview with Victoria Clark, Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominee for Sister Act. Clark won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, June 10, 2011 The Friday Broadway Ticker: click on hyperlinked items for more information ANYTHING GOES’ Sutton Foster & “Sesam…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:05PMTickets for the Broadway premiere of the 2010 Olivier Award winning Best Play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall starring Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., go on sale Sunday, Ju…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:02PMThe 2011 Tony Awards will be presented at The Beacon Theatre on Sunday, June 12 and broadcast on CBS. Neil Patrick Harris will host.
The show will feature numbers from the 2011 Tony-nomina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM
Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced the full cast for its production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, to be presented June 22 - July 3.
As previously reported,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:46PMAs BroadwayWorld has previously reported, A Fish Called Wanda is being given musical treatment by original screenwriter John Cleese and his daughter Camilla. Bill Bailey has been recruited t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMSutton Foster and Elmo talk ‘Sesame Street,’ premiere clip from the Broadway star’s upcoming appearance Watch the video and read the full feature here: http://popwatch.ew.c…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:40PMHis complex relationship with one neurotic patient is the focus of the new CBC-TV series
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #53: Nobody Move, Intersection for the Arts/Campo Santo, June 5.
By Sam Hurwitt
Everybody in Nobody Move is on the move. More specifically, they’re on th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:23PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone seeks her third statue for her role as the
spirited Lucia in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Fellow Women...
alum Laura Benanti has he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMStage veterans Danny Glover and Gugu Mbatha-Raw will join the previously announced Kiefer Sutherland in FOX's Touch, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series has been created by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:15PMSomething's cooking between Tony-nominated Arcadia star Billy Crudup and Broadway.com's Susan Blackwell! No, the duo isn't romantically involved. Blackwell recently invited the d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PMThe Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMWhile working on her latest play, the playwright discovers that the way we remember things does not work as she had supposed
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:03PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of May 30-June 5, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,705,602
The Lion King (Minskoff…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PMThis beautifully executed revival boasts a cast and a grandeur that do justice to one of Sondheim’s greatest musicals.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:02PMTrey Parker and Matt Stone hit the bulls eye with an irreverent and heartwarming take on two American naifs Mormon mission to Uganda
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMUnder a bigger (and more comfortable) new tent, Bard on the Beach delivers Shakespeares As You Like It with a stunning view of English Bay
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMThree productions at Spoleto USA are decidedly ambitious, but occasionally could do with a less-is-more approach
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
Before ever setting foot on stage as Reno Sweeney in the latest revival of Anything Goes, Sutton Foster stopped by Broadway.com's studio to chat with Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMTennessee Williams' unproduced screenplay One Arm came to life June 9 when the new stage adaptation by Moisés Kaufman, which features Claybourne Elder and Noah Bean, officially op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMMusic Theatre of Wichita marches jauntily into its 40th Anniversary season with THE MUSIC MAN.
SOURCE: Kansas.com at 04:47PMIf you’ve ever watched South Park, you know that a few of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's favorite things are organized religion and musical theater. In 2003, they did a musical episode a…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:46PMDespite frequent chatter, Glee star Lea Michele will not play Fanny Brice in Bartlett Sher's Los Angeles revival of Funny Girl, the director told The New York Times. While Sher says he d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMWhen it comes to fashion, too much is not enough for sexy secretary Hedy La Rue in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Tony-nominated actress Tammy Blanchard, on the other han…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:28PMOn Friday, May 27th, I attended the final weekend for LA Ballet’s performance of Giselle at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The ballet Giselle is near and dear to my heart because it …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 04:25PMI'll be traveling next week, mostly for this conference you may have heard about. I leave you with the strong recommendation to catch Tanya Saracho's Enfrascada, a Clubbed Thumb production, …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:24PMAmerican 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 04:17PMA number of productions struggling at the box office are hoping that publicity from the Tony Awards telecast this Sunday will help attract new audiences.
SOURCE: Crain's at 04:15PMThe 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 04:10PMSutton Foster on the Tony Awards and Her Star Turn as Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes"
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:09PMIan Ricksons production of Harold Pinters Betrayal stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Douglas Henshall and Ben Miles
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMEngine28 is a pop-up newsroom that is mostly about experimentation, journalists engaged in a shoulder-to-shoulder editing experience, trying out media and voices and approaches in the name o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:07PMIt's time for the final chapter of Broadway.com's The Book of Mormon video series. In our last entry, Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, who plays chipper missionary Elder Price, discusse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMHere’s an emergency request from director Katrina Ploof: Theatre Winter Haven, a large community based theatre located in Winter Haven Florida, is in need of an experienced Musical Dir…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 04:02PMThe Tony Award, unlike the Grammy and Emmy, is named for a real person. Meet the late, great star.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Tony night is drawing ever nearer, and Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek checked in with the current nominees soon after they got the news they’d be walking this year’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:53PMTony-winning lyricist Tim Rice and playwrights Christopher Shinn and Neil LaBute will be among 66 writers who will unite to pen a biblical stage epic based on the King James Bible, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMThe rain outside was torrential, but the mood inside the Acorn Theatre was high—not to mention dry!—on the June 9 opening night of One Arm, the latest offering from off-Broadway&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PMCooking with "Arcadia" Star Billy Crudup in "Side by Side by Susan Blackwell"
"Arcadia" star Billy Crudup shares the recipe for his grandmother's fudge pie…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:47PMBroadway stars including Nick Adams (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Charlie Williams (How to Suceed…), Hunter Bell ([title of show]), Gavin Creel (Hair) and Rory O’Malley (The Book …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMOne Arm, Moisés Kaufman's fast, fierce, brutally beautiful stage adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams, is more than a play: It's a time machine. Kaufman has retrieve…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:30PMTony Award winner Daisy Eagan, Gay Marshall and Emily Bergl have joined the lineup for A Night of a Thousand Judys, a special presentation of "The Meeting*" hosted by MAC nominee J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMAs the Tony nominees ready to head to the Beacon Theatre for Broadway's biggest night on June 12, Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek caught up with this year's actors to chat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMLegit Reviews: Tough and tender, slick and stunning, sacred and profane, the new production Des McAnuff has mounted in Canada has "Broadway-bound" stamped on every electrifying minute of it.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PMOn Wednesday, June 8, the English National Ballet performed their 'Strictly Gershwin' performance, presented by Raymond Gubbay and The Royal Albert Hall. BroadwayWorld brings you photo cover…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMOkay, I am late to the rodeo. Nevertheless. . .Imagine how much more brilliant Lion King could have been if Julie Taymor had spent even a fraction of her time during the development period f…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:13PMMartial arts comedy Jump is closing before it officially opened. The show will end its run June 12 at off-Broadway's New World Stages, where it began previews on May 11. Opening night wa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMAs charming African villager Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, Tony nominee Nikki M. James costume consists merely of a tattered, soiled dress. That will all change for James come J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:08PM
Show People: Sutton Foster on the Tony Awards and Her Star Turn as Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes"
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMThe show: "Mad Bomber"
The place: Seven Angels Theatre, Plank Road, Hamilton Pavillion, Waterbury.
What is it?: The world premiere of a musical with a cast of 24 (a few pros mixed with area …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:33PMThe 2009 Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography performed a special one-night-only Broadway-themed edition—Celebrity Autobiography Salutes the Tony Awards—June 6 at New York’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMRajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the self-questioning title character who roams a haunted patch of Iraq, circa 2003, will end its limited Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMPiper Perabo credits senior editors Rob Licuria and Chris Beachum as being her "good luck charm" when it comes to gaining awards recognition for her new series "Covert Affairs…
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SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:19PMTony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Heather Headley were among the performers at Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Silver Jubilee Gala, held at the company's home on Navy Pier on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMLegit News: Red carpet goes on, both sides mum on details -- The red carpet is saved.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:10PMWhat’s better than seeing Joshua Henry in a Broadway show? Seeing Joshua Henry in two Broadway shows in a single season. And… bonus prize! He got a Tony nom for one of them. Afte…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:07PMNeil Patrick Harris, who recently starred in the New York Philharmonic production of Company, is set to host the 2011 Tony Awards that will air live from the Beacon Theatre in New York June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMLive Nation Entertainment Chairman Irving Azoff and major shareholder John Malone, chairman of the cable television and entertainment conglomerate Liberty Media Corp., are looking at the pos…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:04PMTheatre World Award winner Danny Glover will join stage and screen actor Kiefer Sutherland in the new Fox series "Touch," likely to air mid-season, according to The Hollywood Repor…
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As reported earlier today, comedian Tracy Morgan has been taking a lot of heat for the stand-up routine that he performed in Nashville last week, in which he went into a homophobic rant. Now…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMHERE has announced the line-up for Banners & Cranks: A Cantastoria Festival, to be held June 19-26. The festival features puppeteers and artists from far and wide in performances combin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:58PMJump, the internationally-renowned live-action martial arts comedy created by Yegam, Inc. Productions, currently playing at Off-Broadway's New World Stages 340 West 50th Street will play its…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMWhile Broadway.com staffers are (happily!) hunched over our computers on the evening of June 12, the rest of theater-loving America will be raising a glass at Tony Awards parties. With a lit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PMNot to get all frat boy on you, but there are some things that deserve a drinking game, and the 2011 Tony Awards is one of them. Of course, we at Broadway.com don't really need an excuse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMTrudie Styler will once again appear alongside co-stars Russell Barr and Ian Redford in Out of Joint's A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson, when the production transfers to the Arts Theatre f…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27PMJump, the internationally renowned live-action martial-arts comedy created by Yegam, Inc. Productions, will end its Off-Broadway run prematurely June 12 at New World Stages. Following the ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMThe 2009 Drama Desk Award winner Celebrity Autobiography performed a special one-night-only Broadway themed edition-Celebrity Autobiography Salutes the Tony Awards-on Monday, June 6 at New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMIn brief remarks to the audience before the opening-night performance of “My Fair Lady,’’ North Shore Music Theatre owner Bill Hanney noted that the show represents the kic…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PMLocal One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees IATSE and Tony Award Productions Inc have reached agreement on union staffing of the red carpet staging area for the 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMJump, the live-action martial arts comedy, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, on June 12. This new version of the show, directed by Jun-Sang Lee, began…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMBrief roundup as I'm nearing the end of a hectic week. 1. The Chorus America Conference is in full swing here in San Francisco. Everyone's talking social media. Tweeted my way through a disc…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:16PMWant to know what special skills each of your favorite Tony nominees possess that you may not know about Check out the I Can Do That series, created by Sirius XM's Julie James, which we'll b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMLA Poverty Department, based in Skid Row Los Angeles, is a permeable performance ensemble. In other words, there's a core group of 12-20 people who have worked together on projects over …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:11PMAnthony Mackie has joined the cast of the forthcoming film, Gangster Squad, according to a report in Variety. Ruben Fleischer is directing the project, which has a script by Will Beall.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09PMBestofOffBroadway.com announced the winners of the 2011 Tina Awards, honoring the best Off-Broadway productions and performances of the 2010-2011 season, June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMIn 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. Nikki M. James, a B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:02PMA question about whether the June 12 Tony Awards can be seen in South Korea and elsewhere abroad.
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The Signature Theatre Company will launch its previously announced new permanent home, the Signature Center, in February 2012 with Athol Fugard featured as its inaugural Residency One playwr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMTony Award Productions Inc. and Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) have reached an agreement on union staffing of the red carpet staging area for t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMIn 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. Best Actor nominee …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMNew York will be the home of numerous television series next season: Six new series will be filmed in the Big Apple, including the musical drama "Smash" on NBC; "Pan Am,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMBroadway's holding its breath this week, as producers await the outcome of this weekend's Tony Awards, which are to be held for the first time at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMFrom Graham Linehan on the Today programme to Deborah Warner describing her critics as 'toads', it's been a spiky week in the theatre. Alistair Smith of the Stage takes a look backAlistair S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMColumbia Records has nabbed the rights to release soundtracks to NBC's new musical drama series "Smash." Additionally, Columbia has also signed a deal with former "America…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMActor Peter Dinklage and director Erica Schmidt are expecting their first child, according to a report on TVGuide.com. The couple married in 2005.
Dinklage's stage credits include Thi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PM“Oswald,” by Dennis Richard, is based on the actual interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting JFK on that fatal day in November. Based on the scribbled note…
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Director Jackson Gay will team with p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMSources tell NY1 a deal was reached Friday morning with members of the stagehands union to work the red carpet at this year's Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMWith the Broadway premiere of the beleaguered "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" finally in sight, Bono and The Edge, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical, were in a jovial mood as th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:07PMBush Theatre has announced the writers who will contribute to 66 Books, to run October 14-29. Josie Rourke is curating the production.
Created on the 400th anniversary of the King James Bi…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMTony Kushner words open you up to the raw places within and leave you to laugh, cry, contemplate and lick wounds you forgot were there. Last season we were given the wonderful moving revival…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:02PMMolly Smith, at the helm of Arena Stages renaissance
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:02PMHere’s an audition notice from Theatre Downtown: Theatre Downtown for Prelude To A Kiss by Craig Lucas Auditions will take place Wednesday, June 15 6:30–10 PM Please bring headshot/r…
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Legit News: Warren to join stage version of 'Cool Hand Luke' -- Small-screen stars Robert Sheehan and Marc Warren will topline London legit productions this fall.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:21AMBono and The Edge, who wrote the music and lyrics for the $70 million Broadway musical, previewed the "Spider-Man" soundtrack Thursday night. The soundtrack will be released Tuesday.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:20AMDonna Hanover and Colman Domingo hosted a luncheon yesterday, June 9 at the National Arts Club. A benefit for the Vineyard Theatre's artistic and education programs, playwright Branden Jacob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMPlaybill.com staff writer Adam Hetrick will blog live from the Tony Awards press room June 12, beginning at approximately 7 PM ET, to give readers a first-hand account of winners' reacti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMWith the English National Ballet bringing tutu to the catwalk, we give you a sneak preview of the one-off dresses donated by leading namesPeter Beech
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMAudiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to seeDanielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the famil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMChicago Shakespeare Theater has announced a six-week extension for its production of Murder for Two--A Killer Musical, by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair. David H. Bell directs the production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMThree years ago Rylance baffled the Tony audience at Radio City Music Hall when he went on stage to collect the top acting prize for his work in "Boeing-Boeing" and began talking about wha…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:16AMPlaybill.com staff writer Adam Hetrick will blog live from the Tony Awards press room June 12, beginning at approximately 7 PM ET, to give readers a first-hand account of winners' reacti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMThree new seasons at off-Loop theaters have been announced: In September, Sideshow Theatre Company will produce a world premiere entitled "Strangerland," penned by Matt Fletcher, Karie Mille…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:12AMTony Nominee Chat: Bobby Cannavale of "The Motherf**ker With the Hat"
Bobby Cannavale on saying the title of his show on Tony night and more.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMKate Baldwin will celebrate the release of her new CD, She Loves Him, with a concert to be held on July 14 at 8:30pm at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. PS Classics will release the recor…
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Learn more about the What If…? Project What if…theatres swam against the small cast currents, and sought out epic plays to produce? Well, people do like to experience BIG! There�…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:58AMAs previously reported, the cast of the Tony nominated SISTER ACT will be performing the show stopper Raise Your Voice at the Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday, June 12. The performance will b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMProducer Mark Rubinstein will succeed Nica Burns as the president of the Society of London Theatre, the trade association that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of major …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMMother Bear by Jayme McGhan - Mortar Theatre Company at The Athenaeum, 2936 N. Southport Ave., is offering $15 tickets for all Friday and Sunday performances until June 19. Get the deal at t…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 10:55AMGregg Edelman, a four-time Tony Awards nominee, will play the title role in Rachel Rockwell's new production of "Sweeney Todd" at the Drury Lane Theatre this summer. Mrs. Lovett will be play…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:54AMIn a season rich with straight plays, the problem family play once again laid claim to being a genre in its own right-- Off…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:51AMChild Wrangler Felicia Velasco is the guardian for a show's young cast members while they're at the theatre for performances and rehearsals. As a combined authority figure and assistant, sh…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:50AMThe League of Broadway Super Friends, a five-part harmony singing group featuring some of Broadway's brightest stars who perform concerts to benefit various fundraising organizations, pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AM2011 Tony Award Predictions from the Broadway.com Editorial Staff
Sweating over your ballot for the Tony Awards office pool? So are we! Broadway.com editorial staffers (Paul Wontorek, Beth …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:42AMFor their latest project, a celebrated team keeps pushing boundaries When your last show was a musical about two guys writing a musical, where do you go from there? For several years,…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:42AMMarc Warren (West End's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice) is set to star in Cool Hand Luke, a new stage adaptation of Donn Pearce’s 1965 novel by the same name, beginning Sept. 23…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMOn Thursday, June 9, The New Group's production of One Arm opened at Theatre Row, where it will play through July 2. Opening night guests included Ethan Hawke, Lucas Steele, Jonathan Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMSo, we wanted to alert you to the fact that some very important theater awards were given out recently. Yeah, the Tonys are Sunday and that’s fun. But these awards have better categori…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:27AMFans who waited until a latter day to purchase the original Broadway cast album of The Book of Mormon can now rejoice. The digital album is currently available for $1.99 on Amazon.com for a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMMarc Warren will play the title role in Emma Reeves' stage version of the movie Cool Hand Luke, which will begin performances on September 23 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre, in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMNYT's 538 blog sifts through the historical data:
On average, winners of the Tony for best musical saw their average weekly gross jump 48 percent, from $656,784 in the eight weeks before …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 10:22AMLas Vegas Previews Programming June 2011
A sneak peek of the hottest shows playing on the Las Vegas Strip with exclusive interviews of its brightest stars.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:17AMThe strange finale of Caesarean Section.American theatre doesn't really do "raw" anymore. In fact I can't think of a professional show I've seen in the last oh, five years or so that d…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:08AM"She was very cagey, but Angela Lansbury said we could see her back on stage by January 2012. Beyond that, all I got was a Mona Lisa smile."
Tweeted by Howard Sherman, the Executive D…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 10:07AMStan Richardson's Veritas will be presented June 16 at 7 PM at The Laurie Beechman Theater as part of the New York International Festival's FringeBenefits Series, which
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Two other major Off-Broadway companies, Playwrights Horizons and the New York Theatre Workshop, have collaborated on a very different moment in American cultural history. "The Shaggs: Philos…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:55AMTennessee Williams wrote a prison short story called "One Arm" in the '40s, adapted it into a screenplay in 1967 and spent a chunk of his disappointed late life trying to get it filmed.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:54AMOne thousand books reproduced page by page, exactly as they appear in the hard copies, are now available on a free app.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:53AMJ.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World will begin previews at London's The Old Vic Sept. 17 with an official opening scheduled for Sept. 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMScreen star George Takei (”Star Trek,” “Heroes”) may soon be seen on Broadway. Takei is scheduled to star with Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Miserab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMLeading designers including Moschino and Erdem recruited for catwalk show as Black Swan's success fuels 'ballet obsession'Hard on the coat tails of the Oscar and box-office success of Black …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe dance driven Midnight Tango will play a limited engagement at the West End's Aldwych Theatre, running January 20 - March 31. Karen Bruce will direct the production.
The show is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMBAFTA nominee Robert Sheehan will make his professional stage debut as Christy Mahon in The Old Vic's production of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, to run September …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMBefore listeners around the country who were tuned in to NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Thursday heard about the regional Tony Award being presented Sunday night on the t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMBroadway Beat brings you Ellen Barkin, Best Featured Actress in a Play nominee for The Normal Heart. Making her Broadway debut in The Normal Heart, Barkin is stranger to the stage having app…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMWilly Falk, who created the role of Chris in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, will play Feinstein's at Loews Regency June 21 and 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMMIDNIGHT TANGO is the creation of Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, stars of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. The show has been touring the United Kingdom since April and has been the fastes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:34AMdiscussion of the development of the Tony nominated scenery for The Scottsboro Boys
SOURCE: www.cultureid.com at 09:33AMRoyal Court Theatre has announced its programming - as well as preliminary casting - for its fall/winter 2011-2012 season.
The company will produce three works in its Jerwood Theatre Downst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMOn Thursday, June 9, the inaugural Celebration of Color on Broadway benefit was held at SAKS Fifth Avenue. The benefit is designed to bring attention to the African-American community and hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMTony Award-winning actress Lea Salonga, who is currently playing a limited engagement at the Cafe Carlyle, will release her latest solo recording Aug. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMRoyal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Strictly Gershwin was premiered three years ago, it had the feel of a one-off novelty, a neat alternative to the arena-scaled classics with which English Nation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMThe Signature Theatre Company has named Athol Fugard as its inaugural Residency One playwright for the company's new home, Signature Center, which will open in February, 2012. Residency…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMThe New York Philharmonic's critically acclaimed concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company, which will arrive in movie theatres June 15, is expanding to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AM"On Thursday the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the union that represents theater directors including Julie Taymor, said it had filed an arbitration claim against the producers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM"On average, winners of the Tony for best musical saw their average weekly gross jump 48 percent, from $656,784 in the eight weeks before the ceremony to $972,006 in the eight weeks after. B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AMBe sure to catch the hilariously talented Julie Halston in her new one woman comedy show "Old, New, Borrowed, Blue" on Monday, July 11 at 7pm at Birdland in NYC!
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 09:02AMThe Transport Group's off-Broadway production of "Lysistrata Jones," a musical comedy adapted from a classic Greek story, is gracing the hardwood at the Judson Memorial Church Gymn…
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:01AMArnold Wesker’s semi-autobiographical state-of-the-nation play Chicken Soup with Barley opened this week (7 June, previews from 3 June 2011) at the Royal Court.
Originally staged at …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:01AM"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: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM
I have lived in Moscow for nearly 23 years and I have heard this comment so many times my head hurts: “Russians and Americans are identical”; “We Russians and you Americans are exactly…
SOURCE: rbth.ru at 08:59AMLea Salonga's newest CD, The Journey So Far, will be released by LML Music on August 9. Chris Keaton is producing the disc.
The album, recorded live during a performance at the Caf&am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMTony Award
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 08:53AMFormer "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" director Julie Taymor is demanding a reported $300,000 in royalty payments from the musical.
SOURCE: NY1 at 08:52AMAre critics putting their hands together for the Tennessee Williams curiosity "One Arm"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:48AMColumbia Records will release the soundtrack recording of the first season of the new NBC series Smash. The show is scheduled to begin mid-season, airing on Mondays, 10-11pm ET. Additional…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:42AMI always remember my parents’ generation being able to answer where they were when JFK was shot. After September 11, my generation’s question became, “Where were you and what were yo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:38AMBridge Theatre Company and Starry Night Entertainment, LABA Theatre, Off Off Broadway
By O'Hagan Blades
BOTTOM LINE: Hitchcock for the 21st century.
Starry Night Entertainment, in as…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:34AMIn my time as a theatre critic I've been stalked in my seat and groped onstage. What's your lowest theatrical moment?What's your lowest theatrical point? I don't mean the sort of evening whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured:Stephen Conrad Moore, Christina Shipp)Jon Sobel of Blogcritics has reviewed everything since Pretty Theft (except for Jacob's House, I believe), and so it …
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 07:56AMFrom left, Reed Schmidt, Avery Bryce, Brittany Santos, Kate Hamilton, Rachel Handler and Andrew Betz in "The Boy Friend." A wish Andrew Betz made in the fourth grade has finally co…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:31AMMidnight Tango - which stars Strictly Come Dancing dancers Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace and is co-produced by former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips – will transfer to the West End in t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:17AMThe Young Vic's production of Government Inspector opened last night (9 June, previews from 3 June) starring The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt and Smack the Pony’s Doon Mackichan…
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Theatre Royal, YorkGerald Durrell said that growing up in Corfu with his family was "like living in one of the more flamboyant, slapstick comic operas". Witnessing this new stage adaptation,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58AMThe International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 1, which represents Broadway stagehands, is threatening to picket the red carpet section of this weekend's Tony Awards in prote…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMWe have the inside scoop on all the shows and performances of the season. We'll be live blogging at Blog Stage, tweeting from @BackStageCast, and posting regular updates on our Facebook pa…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:50AMProducers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark have been hit with a claim for unpaid royalties by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society on behalf of the show's dire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMAndrew Dickson speaks to Arnold Wesker about his life and work including the new revival of his landmark play, Chicken Soup with Barley, as it returns to London's Royal Court after 50 yearsL…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:35AMPlaywright Arnold Wesker speaks to Andrew Dickson about his life and work including the new revival of his landmark play, Chicken Soup with Barley, as it returns to London's Royal Court afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:35AM"The Book of Mormon" is a favorite to win at the 2011 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12. Heading to the Tony Awards, proof Chicago is an ensemble town (posted June 9) "Mormon" is more than just…
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I always mean to see more theatre outside London, but find myself deterred by astronomical train fares, so I was delighted to be notified of Southern Rail’s 90% off sale. How fortunate, as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55AMASPEN - Appropriately for an art form that is loose, anti-establishment and always in flux, there is no perfect agreement on just what defines a fringe festival. There are fringe festivals w…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:52AMOne of the reasons the Young Vic is my favourite London theatre is that, under David Lan's artistic directorship, there's a steady stream of great productions by Richard Jones.
Jones has di…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:33AMBill Rutkoski's superficial comedy incomprehensibly attempts to center a full-length play on an already-tired stereotype: the overbearing mother. The result is reminiscent of a standup act.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:26AMAn often lovely score gives Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham's extremely generic, haphazardly structured musical about 20-somethings in Manhattan what individuality it has.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:20AMWE OF LITTLE FAITH Kate Fodor’s 100 Saints You Should Know is a mildly interesting play, given heft by its author’s obviously sincere attempt to deal seriously with the nature of faith, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05AM
Come join the celebrations in June, where once again Adelaide Festival Centre will be transformed into Cabaret mode and experience some of the best Cabaret at one of the world's most unique …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMCongratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, John Atkins, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John Griffin, Cathy Jones, David Kanter, Jack Lechner, Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMThe other day I took my mother for a drive through the flood-drenched lowlands of Illinois, east of the Mississippi...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I report enthusiastically on a pair of shows in Chicagoland and Washington, D.C., Writers' Theatre's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe first paragraph of my "Sightings" column in today's Journal sums it up: Drama critics who cover Broadway can vote...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Screenplays can't be works of art unto themselves because they're not unto themselves, they're roadmaps to something else." Lem Dobbs,...
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The company's trademarks are imaginative spectacle and intense physicality (often including acrobatics), as well as a concentration on brand new work. Among Lookingglass's best-known product…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:51AMNever mind the straw polls, the crystal balls and the off-the-record chats with voters. If you want to know who's going to win a Tony, look at seat locations.
Tickets to Sunday night's te…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47AMThe image of a doomed figure dependent on the kindness of strangers looms large in the work of Tennessee Williams. Turns out Ollie Olsen could give Blanche DuBois a run for her money.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:40AM"The opportunity [to audition] has prompted parents to seek out Annie boot camps around New York to get their daughters ready. Workshops - many led by former Annie cast and creative-team mem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:13AMTalking points: Stage Rush’s Tony Award predictions Attending the opening of Desperate Writers Stage Rush TV will be coming to you from Los Angeles next week Broadway grosses What do y…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:04AMA kindler, gentler and more grown-up cruising excursion on the canalboats of Germany.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMDancer marks her 20th anniversary with the National Ballet of Canada happy in her career and her life.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMKate Baldwin's new recording, "She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein's," her tribute to Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, will be celebrated at a release event July …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe question of why mortals cling so passionately to life hangs in the air of the new musical Death Takes a Holiday, starting a world-premiere Off-Broadway engagemet June 10. The songs of To…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJohn Larroquette, the charming, Tony-nominated chief of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, finds room at the top of the marquee.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"How do you measure a year?" those kids from Rent once asked. How about in a timeline that charts the major milestones of the 2010-11 Broadway season?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPioneer Theatre Company presents its own Salt Lake City production of Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent, directed and choreographed by Karen Azenberg, June 10-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1922 Birthday of Frances Ethel Gumm, better known as Judy Garland (1922-1969), star of numerous Hollywood film musicals including The Wizard of Oz. Her Broadway experience consisted of three…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNoon-1 p.m.: Gary Belloma and the Blue Bombers (blues), Katz Plaza Noon-1 p.m.: Pete Bush and the Hoi Polloi (jazz/rock/latin/folk/punk), Dollar Bank Stage 5-8 p.m.: AcoustiCafe with Marc Mc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNEW YORK -- When Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with an English degree, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his mus…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFor them, the Civil War was a profound, heroic, and sometimes tragic extension of a deeply held cause to which they were wholly committed.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMConcerts and rooftop movies might be popular summer entertainment mainstays in the city, but the long days and muggy air also promises a wealth of new theater productions. Check out the list…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMStephen Colbert, Patti LuPone and Alec Baldwin are some of the big stars who will be performing at this year's Tony Awards on Sunday night. Other Hollywood names, like Frances McDormand an…
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