After six months of previews, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark has finally faced the critics (officially!) at Broadway’s Foxwoods Theatre. Just before the show’s June 14 opening, Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39PMAfter months of setbacks and a record-breaking 183 previews, the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" officially opened on Broadway Tuesday night.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:23PMIt's casting from heaven.
Kristin Chenoweth, the only Christian fundamental ist I know of on Broadway, played the mascara-en crusted Tammy Faye Bakker last week in an invitation-only readin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:20PMLegit Reviews: "The Last Act of Lilka Kadison," represents another ideal example, a modest, somewhat transparent memory play lifted to surprising heights of beauty by animated design work, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:17PM
From Arthur Miller to Harold Arlen to ol' Willy Shakespeare, Chicago's "Theater on the Lake" summer festival serves up something enticing for tourists and Chicagoans alike. Enjoy!
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:58PMThe long extended mega-million musical is officially out of rehab & our review of th 2.0 version includes a backgrounder on Spdey's Marvel Comic Book
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:38PMI think I have re-linked to this story a number of times over the course of my blog, but Neill Archer Roan’s recounting of how the Oregon Bach Festival engaged their community in a con…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:36PMthis musical's London run may well outlast New York as a genuinely funny musical for all the family.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:31PMOver fifteen Broadway and National Tour performers will join notable personalities on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 7PM to celebrate New York City's Gay Pride at The LGBT Center in Manhattan. Bro…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:31PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Diánna Martin
Play: Carry On
Relationship to production: Director
Website: http://www.carryontheplay.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I was around …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:26PMIf beauty were really only skin deep, then "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" would be the perfect musical. Every cent of the $70 million budget is visible onstage. But what does that amount to?
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:21PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Stacy Glen Tibbetts
Play: Dialing for Donna
Relationship to production: Composer/lyricist
Website: http://www.dialingfordonna.com/
http://www.stacyglen.com/
How did…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:19PMAfter 183 previews, multiple injuries and an ousted director, "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" officially opened on Broadway on Tuesday night, and NY1's Roma Torre filed a review.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:14PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Laura CunninghamPlay: Frack You!Relationship to production: PlaywrightWebsite: http://www.frackyoutheplay.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I bec…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:09PMA fund-raiser for Juilliard Drama raised $1.2 million Monday, thanks, in part, to a presentation of selections from "The Tempest" featuring actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Monica Raymund.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:05PMAt long last, Spider-Man is ready to do some serious web-slinging on Broadway. And what do we get after $70 million, nine years of work and 183 previews? Silly string and paper streamers.
We…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:04PMIf beauty were really only skin deep, then "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" would be the perfect musical. Every cent of the $70 million budget is visible onstage. But what does that amount to?
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:03PMThe mega-expensive musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is no longer the ungodly, indecipherable mess it was in February. It’s just a bore.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Oscar A. Mendoza
Play: The Father
Relationship to production: Director
Website: http://www.oscaramendoza.com/
http://www.themush-roomtheatre.com/
How d…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:01PMIt’s been a long wait through false starts, injuries, firings and mishap after mishap. But the finished “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has finally opened. Here’s our web-slinging ti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:00PMThis long-delayed Broadway musical based on the classic comic book character is more entertaining than genuinely thrilling.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
NY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the June 13, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:59PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Marc Silverberg
Play: He’s Not Himself
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: Planet Connections
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I have been …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:55PM (Photo by John Kandel)David L. Townsend is currently playing William Shakespeare in ResonanceEnsemble's Shakespeare's Slave, at Theatre Row. Previously David has appeared Off…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:50PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Ruben Carbajal
Play: Hold
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.rubencarbajal.net/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
My first product…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:49PMProduced by DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, SHREK THE MUSICAL is based on the story and characters from William Steig's book Shrek and the Oscar-winning original Dreamwor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Elizabeth Alice Murray
Play: Woman in the Dark
Relationship to production: writer and performer
Website: http://www.elizabethalicemurray.com/
How did you first get …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:43PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Victoria Crutchfield (The February Company)
Play: Cécile, or, The School for Fathers
Relationship to production: Translator, Director, Producer
Website: http://plan…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:35PMAdam Feldman, Michael Portantiere, The Mick and James Marino talk about the 2011 Tony Awards telecast and Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark's opening.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:31PMPhilippe Petit, who once walked between the World Trade Center towers on a high wire, will showcase some of his other skills in the one-man show “Wireless!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Rick Leidenfrost-Wilson
Play: The Declaration
Relationship to production: Playwright/Director
Website: www.offsides.org/thedeclaration
How did you first get invo…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:28PMThis morning on a Today Show appearance, Angela Bassett revealed that she's weighing coming to New York to do a Broadway show to the show's hosts, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: David Stallings
Play: The Stranger to Kindness
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.stallingswrites.com/the-stranger-to-kindness.html
How did…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:19PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Jonathan Wallace
Play: Hummingbirds
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: planetconnections.org
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I took a class…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:08PMTheatre for the New City, Off Off Broadway
By Joseph Samuel Wright
BOTTOM LINE: Four plays with twists centering around sex and relationships.
Theatre for the New City is currently s…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:03PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Carol Carpenter
Play: Sweet, Sweet Spirit
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.carolcarpenterwrites.com/
How did you first get involved in the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:00PM
While the theatre world is still abuzz from Sunday's Tony Awards, all eyes now turn to another red carpet event the much-delayed opening of SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Natalie Portman has given birth to a baby boy fathered by a choreographer she met while she filmed her Oscar-winning role in "Black Swan," People magazine rep…
SOURCE: Reuters at 08:57PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Duncan Pflaster
Play: Sweeter Dreams
Relationship to production: Playwright/Director/Etc.
Website: http://planetconnections.org/sweeterdreams/
How did you first get…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:52PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Joan Kane
Play: The God Particle
Relationship to production: Director
Website: EgoActus.com
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I went to the High School of…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:44PMAccording to Zap 2 It, the FOX dancing show 'So You Think You Can Dance' is set to have some high profile judges this season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:29PMHEDY WEISS: Yes, there are some secrets that people take to the grave with them. But there are others that demand to be told. Such is the case with the 87-year-old woman at the center of �…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:29PMThe famous tightrope walker has a new one-man show showcasing his other identities: juggler, magician, pickpocket, bullfighter, lock picker, motivational author.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:02PMTheatre Communications Group is in town. The nonprofit theater movement's network and advocacy organization is celebrating its 50th anniversary by holding its 21st national conference in…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMThe new London production of the Broadway musical shines much brighter than before.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMBROADWAY REVIEW 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' Plays on Broadway at the Foxwoods Theatre, 213 W. 42nd St. Call 877-250-2929 or visit ticketmaster.com. NEW YORK -- "Spidey 2.0," as the once-…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM
After months of setbacks, the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has officially opened on Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:50PMJohn Leguizamo, currently starring on Broadway in GHETTO KLOWN, will be a guest on THEATRETALK on Thursday June 16 at 1130 PM on NJN-TV on Friday June 17 at 1230 PM on NYC- TV and Friday Jun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMThe one thing I clearly remember about going to see the Danish film The Celebration back in 1999 at the Music Box Theatre was that my friend Niels, who was originally from Copenhagen, kept b…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:50PMOn June 3, BroadwayWorld.com announced the recipients of the 9th annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards, voted on by YOU, the hundreds of thousands of theatregoers and fans who support New York the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:47PMCuba is a place that is very close to us. It is closer to Florida than Angelenos are to Santa Barbara. During the first half of the 20th century, American and Cuban culture shared a very…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:42PMWell, it's finally here. SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark has officially opened on Broadway, on Tuesday, June 14 th at the Foxwoods Theatre. The show now features creative consultation by Philip…
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:52PMBe very afraid, off-Broadway, Hannibal Lecter is coming to town! Brent Barrett (Chicago) will soon take on the role of the notorious serial killer in Silence! The Musical, an “unauthor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:51PMBoss is an original dramatic series from STARZ and Lionsgate Television, starring TV icon Kelsey Grammer and with its first episode directed by acclaimed filmmaker Gus Van Sant in his TV hel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PM“Our Lot,” by W. David Hancock and Kristin Newbom, centers on the stepchildren of a man who collected objects he said belonged to famous people.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Last Act of Lilka Kadison" ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Last Act of Lilka Kadison" ★★½ About halfway through, I found myself reflecting on the d…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:18PMA roster of Tony winners and nominees is set to appear in Broadway Bares XXI: Masterpiece, which will be held on June 19 at Roseland Ballroom. The celebrity performers will join more than 20…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PMTheatre Royal, Drury Lane, LondonOnce upon a time musicals drew their inspiration from books, plays or even real life; now they seem to be based on animated movies. But, although Shrek stems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
Hartford Stage will celebrate outgoing artistic director Michael Wilson with special performances by Betty Buckley, Elizabeth Ashley, Penny Fuller and Hallie Foote, June 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that the Roundabout Theatre Company will produce a workshop of Yank, a WWII musical. The York Theatre Company premiered the show last season and since its critic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMThe recent Broadway comedy smash The 39 Steps will be the final production in George Street Playhouse's upcoming season, and will run April 24-May 20. Cast and creative team will be ann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMWho would have thought that a young boy from Weymouth would become part of such a large family of vagabonds, remarked Hal Holbrook about the actors and industry professionals that gathered t…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:34PMMultimedia Artist, John Jesurun, is next up at Coffeehouse Chronicles at LaMama.Jesurun is the creator of such works as Deep Sleep, Shatterhand Massacree, the Chang in a Void Moon series and…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:28PM on Thirteen: Fri., June 17th at 12:30 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., June 18th at 8:30, Sun., June 19th at 12:30 PM and Mon., June 20th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our guest is Sir Nicho…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:18PM on Thirteen: Friday, June 24th at 12:30 AM Actor and writer John Leguizamo tells us how he transcended writers block to create his latest one-man show on Broadway, Ghetto Klown. Y…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:17PMSarasota's commercial Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, which has been in operation since 1971, may be among the latest professional theatres in Florida to close its doors due to financial wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:17PMThe East Coast was not the only crowd that was in a celebratory mood on Sunday night for the Tony Awards, at which The Book of Mormon came out the big winner. In Seattle, Washington, the pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PM“Let your freak flag fly” is the message in Shrek The Musical, deftly adapted by Rabbit Hole playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (book and lyrics) and Caroline, or Change composer Je…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:10PMChicago has lined up a new gang of convicts for the summer. Charlotte d'Amboise will return to the production as Roxie Hart opposite Nikka Graff Lanzarone as Velma Kelly at the Ambassado…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PMChicago has lined up a new gang of convicts for the summer. Charlotte d'Amboise will return to the production as Roxie Hart opposite Nikka Graff Lanzarone as Velma Kelly at the Ambassado…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PMStephen Sondheim's COMPANY is in over five hundred movie theaters starting on Wednesday and that simple fact is enough to make one want to celebrate with a thousand vodka stingers - and imbi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMSean Penn presented the 2011 Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement to Hal Holbrook at the Actors Fund's 15th Annual Tony Awards Party in Los Angeles, held at the Skirball Center o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:01PMGiuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto – recorded in high definition in the Renaissance splendor of Mantua, Italy, in the actual places and hours of the day specified in the libretto– was broadcas…
SOURCE: PBS at 05:00PM
Say hello to three generations of show people! When theater favorite Lea Salonga stopped by the Broadway.com studios to appear on talk show Show People, she didn’t come alone. The love…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMChris Isaacson and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center will present Jennifer Leigh Warren in Diamonds Are Forever: The Songs of Dame Shirley …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMTHE NORMAL HEART: "Friends" Compilation
Tony®-winner Ellen Barkin (Ocean's Thirteen), Patrick Breen (Next Fall), Mark Harelik (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Tony®-win…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:41PMNew Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale launches his first season at the helm of The Art House with a new concert series hosted by Broadway and Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMAdam Feldman, Michael Portantiere, The Mick and James Marino talk about the 2011 Tony Awards telecast and Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark's opening.
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SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:31PMHis Jerusalem is a Broadway hit – now director Ian Rickson is back with a star-studded Betrayal. He talks to Andrew Dickson about his debt to Pinter, coaching PJ Harvey – and why he's fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMHartford Stage's departing artistic director Michael Wilson will be honored on Monday for his 13 years of leadership."The Michael Wilson Tribute Celebration" will be held at Hartford Stage, …
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SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 04:16PMLegit Reviews: A dynamite cast hurtles through the spellbinding tale of young love wrecked by rank as if their lives, or those of their characters, depend upon it.
SOURCE: Variety at 04:03PMOn the subject of breaking the 1000 p.m. embargo on reviews, -Rick Miramontez, Spokesperson, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark released a statement noting that For The Hollywood Reporter to break…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMThe Old Globe in San Diego is behind a fall workshop of the Broadway-aimed musical Yank!, about gay military personnel during World War II. Director David Cromer and the project's writer…
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Beginning tomorrow, June 15, American Express Cardmembers will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets to the Tony Award-Winning blockbuster The Book Of Mormon for shows running f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMSpider-Man has taken a quantum leap. Yeah, I know, Spider-Man is supposed to do that, that's his job. But we're talking about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive show in Broadw…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:59PMBelieve it or not, opening night of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark has finally arrived! The musical spectacular has kept the news desk at Broadway.com busy over the last few months, making he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMThe 2011-2012 Public Theater Season: A Message from Oskar Eustis
Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis introduces the 2011-2012 Season.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:50PMMusical Theatre West has announced casting for its production of The Wedding Singer, to run July 8-24 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Larry Raben will direct the production, which w…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMPerhaps the most talked-about happenings of Sunday night's Tony Awards ceremony were Brooke Shields' misfortunes, which began with a mess-up in the opening number and continued with a few bl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Barnaski will do a guest voiceover on Comedy Central's animated series Ugly Americans, which returns for a 10-episode run on Thursday, June 30.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMWhen we ran into Brooke Shields and her husband Chris Henchy at the Webby Awards last night, she was still reeling from her snafus at the Tony's the night before. "I think it was the first t…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:38PMTony Award nominee Christiane Noll kicked of her June with a concert trip to Kuala Lumpur where she performed with Debbie Gravitte and Doug LaBrecque. Having documented previous trips to the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMI did not see the “original” version of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the new Broadway musical and cultural dartboard many critics attended (and trashed) this past March after mul…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:34PMThe Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre will once again hold its Signature Idol competition, during this year's annual Target Open House on July 23.
The event will feature a pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMAfter months of previews, revisions and exhaustive media coverage, the most expensive – and accident-prone – production in Broadway’s history finally makes its official debut. Some cri…
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:33PMEven sitting at a banquette in one corner of the nearly empty Knickerbocker Bar & Grill, an old-style grill in Greenwich Village, with his orange Perspex-framed glasses lying on the table in…
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SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:25PMSamuel L. Jackson, who will play Martin Luther King in the upcoming Broadway play The Mountaintop, is narrating the audio book version of Go the F**k to Sleep, which is being released on Tue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMA host of theatre favorites will perform this summer at Provincetown's The Art House in a new concert series hosted by actor-musician-Playbill.com writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PM"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens Tuesday. Where have we heard that before?
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In celebration of Zarkana’s official June 29 opening, Magnolia Bakery created a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMHERE's downtown avant-garde documentary series invites you to a screening
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMDanielle Arci, William Thomas Evans, Felicia Finley and Alex Michael Stoll will star in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray at the Engeman Theater on Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMThe Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, will be undergoing numerous changes to its principal cast in the coming weeks.
On Monday, June 20 Chris Sullivan will take ove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PM
In a show about the relationship between fathers and sons, Catch Me If You Can's Tony winner for Best Actor in a Musical Norbert Leo Butz reveals that the inspirations for his performance as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMScrewing up on live TV is an actor’s worst nightmare, and it’s exactly what happened to Broadway vet Brooke Shields at the Tony Awards on June 12. During the show’s hilario…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMOn the evening of June 13, 2011 at the home of Frank and Mary Skillern David Staller and Gingold Theatrical Group presented Cabaret Soiree of Shaw and Song
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMTwo-time Tony nominee Charlotte d'Amboise will return to the Broadway company of Chicago June 24 in the role of merry murderess Roxie Hart. She will succeed supermodel Christie Brinkley,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PM"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens Tuesday. Where have we heard that before? But this time -- the sixth scheduled opening, for those keeping score -- producers mean business. The $70 mill…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:51PMA priceless collection of Tony winners and nominees will be making this year's BROADWAY BARES XXI MASTERPIECE a truly starry night as they join more than 200 of Broadway's sexiest dancers in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMEmmy nominee Steve Burns -- perhaps best known as the original host of the hit children's TV series, Blue's Clues -- will play Dromio of Syracuse in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMWhen Glee premiered a couple of years ago, I was the Fox TV series' biggest fan. I watched the first couple of series avidly, and then my viewing dropped off. I got busy. And I just didn't …
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SOURCE: iBlogBroadway at 02:40PMBroadway Bares XXI: Masterpiece, Broadway's sexiest night of the year, is set for June 19 at 9:30 PM and midnight at the famed Roseland Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMThe 65th Annual Tony Awards were on Sunday night. I usually treat the event like it's Prom Night, but I wasn't in the mood to celebrate this rather dull season in my typical fashion.&n…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 02:34PMEpic rock-opera composer pays a visit to Shakespeare Festival, which is staging the musical this season
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:34PMAfter more than 185 previews, onstage and offstage drama, and the critics descending long before the opening, the official opening of SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK is - at last - here tonigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMThe cast of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, featuring Reeve Carney as Peter Parker, perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Featuring a score by Bono and The Edge from U2 and drawing fro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:15PMAccording to TicketNews' exclusive weekly events rankings, Wicked was the hottest selling event on the secondary market for the week ending Sunday, June 12. Power scoring a 3.88, the popular…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:13PMBroadway Show Stoppers and the Theater Songs of Neil Berg will play Feinstein's at Loews Regency, July 5-16.
Berg will host the evening, which will feature a rotating cast including La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMThe National Theatre is set to present Jersey Boys, November 10-January 7. This will be the production's second engagement at the Washington, DC-based theater.
Jersey Boys is the stor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMUpdated casting has been announced for the San Francisco engagement of Billy Elliot the Musical, which will play the Orpheum Theatre, June 27-September 17.
Based on the 2000 film of the sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMThis is not a review. I repeat: This is not a review. As you may know, the fine, talented, and delightful crew that gave us [title of show] are hard at work on a follow-up, previously titled…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:02PMPop superstar Billy Joel had his Broadway moment in 2002 with Movin’ Out, the fabulous dance musical based on his hits, and now his ex-wife and pal Christie Brinkley is having hers as …
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The Guthrie Theatre has announced that it will host former company member and Emmy Award nominee Rainn Wilson The Office in conversation with Guthrie Director Joe Dowling on Sunday, July 17 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMNational Theatre Live will broadcast a live performance of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, screening in movie theatres throughout the U.S. June 30, followed by multiple encore showin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMActress Liz Robertson unveiled a plaque dedicated to her late husband, theatrical legend Alan Jay Lerner, during a service held at St. Paul's Church Covent Garden in London on June 14.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMShaftesbury, London"One of you will find yourself possessed by an entity." It can only be Derren Brown, tickling our taste for the melodramatic and supernatural. It works a treat during…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:47PMThe Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York has announced the selections for its 2012 season.
Tony Award nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct Meredith Willson's beloved musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMI was sitting in my home on the former military base of Adak, depressed after my mother had passed on, when my colleague Shelley Niro, an artist and filmmaker, emailed me the Alaska Native…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:34PMNikka Graff Lanzarone, who recently appeared as 'Marisa' in Lincoln Center Theater's production of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, will be stepping into the role of Velma Kelly in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33PM“ARCADIA STANDS TO LIVE FOREVER.” Marilyn Stasio, Variety The Tony® nominated revival of Tom Stoppard’s ARCADIA directed by David Leveaux, begins the final week of its limited…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:27PMRocker Billie Joe Armstrong will play the drug-dealing fiend St. Jimmy in the film version of the Broadway musical American Idiot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A 2013 release date is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMRichard Digby Day writes: I directed Miriam Karlin (obituary, 6 June) in Sondheim's Company, as Brecht's Mother Courage and as Shakespeare's Volumnia in Coriolanus. She was a supportive, ene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMThe Fix, John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe's rock musical about the grimy underbelly of American politics, will receive a staged reading at the International City Theatre in Los Angeles June…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMUrban space collapses in Mary Lum’s mind-bending works on view at Carroll and Sons. In paintings, collages, and photos that spring from a DNA cocktail that includes Stan Lee, Robert Ra…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:23PMMichael Grandage's latest production really is the business, with Felicity Jones in top form as a fatalistic Luise and Max Bennett as a tempestuous and compelling Ferdinand
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:17PMThe production's two unadulterated triumphs are aerial pyrotechnics and a seamless marriage of Marvel comic-book graphics and Manhattan art-deco
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:17PMNational Theatre Live will complete its second season of live HD broadcasts with Howard Davies' production of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, in a version by Andrew Upton, which wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMA revamped version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, starring Ben Lewis and Anna O'Byrne, plays the Regent Theatre in Melbourne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMTony Award Winning Actress Laura Benanti's NBC pilot, Playboy Club has been picked up by the network. Below are the first photos from the show which will premiere on Monday night's this fall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Wicked; Promises, Promises) is scheduling a very busy year for herself, but since the actress had some down time …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company announces its 2011-2012 season highlighted by a Tony Award winner, a new play by a prominent local playwright, a Tony and Drama Desk nominated comedy and a multi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMDetail of Portrait of Aeltje Uylenburg, painted in 1632, when Rembrandt was 26. Sometimes, yes, the Hub Review makes mistakes (we're partial, however, to self-admitted ones - don't look so s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:12PMOctagon, BoltonStephen Sondheim's musical shocker borrows from the Grand Guignol narrative of Victorian penny dreadfuls and the cathartic arc of Jacobean revenge drama. Elizabeth Newman's pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMIN THE WINGS: Episode One – David Ferry – The first in a series on the Dora Mavor Moore Awards with special correspondent A. Jelly Konstruct At the Dora nominee press conference …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:10PMTonight's concert by Bang on a Can All-Stars, originally scheduled to kick-off the International Festival of Arts & Ideas's Courtyard Concert Series at the Yale Law School Courtyard, wil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:09PMLegit News: Appointment is latest at Opera House -- Kevin O'Hare has been appointed director of the Royal Ballet, the latest in a succession of senior appointments at U.K. cultural flagship …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PMYou may have your own milestone for the beginning of summer, but around our theater for the past nine years the season doesn't officially start until It Came From The Neo-Futurarium! gets go…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:09PMTony Award winner Beth Leavel will sing the original opening number, "Going, Going, Gone," written by Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar, at this year's Broadway Bares XXI: Maste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:08PMAddendums, Corrections, and Reflections on Sunday night.
-Within the diminished expectations of the show in Television terms, the broadcast itself did surprisingly well--considering it was …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:06PMThe 3-D animated feature Paranorman will be released by Focus Features on August 17, 2012. Sam Fell and Chris Butler are directing the project.
The comedy thriller, which has a screenplay…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMLegit Reviews: Grand gestures are all over the stage in his idiosyncratic take on Gogol's "Government Inspector" but, as is typical of the most operatic of British directors, his sensibility…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM
Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghad Zoo began life at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, so it was only fitting that the man himself checked out the Broadway production of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMA priceless collection of Tony winners and nominees will be making this year’s BROADWAY BARES XXI: MASTERPIECE a truly “starry night” as they join more than 200 of Broadway…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:57PMAs part of the Ice Factory Festival of new work at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, the festival will present the Ice Cubes studio series on Thursday and Friday nights at 9pm.
Works wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMAudiences 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 12:56PMLegit Reviews: The story of an American hustler in London attempts to channel the city's multicultural vibrancy in a bawdy, energetic form that emulates his historical model.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PMJoseph - Adelphi Theatre - Butler or Baker
http://www.josephthemusical.com
Another video blast from the past as the cast members from the Adelphi Theatre revival of Joseph and the Amazing …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:50PMGet a rush of excitement when you hear Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel belt out the opening number from Broadway Bares XXI Masterpiece, appropriately titled Going, Going, Gone. Just imagine th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMJoseph - Adelphi Theatre closing, 2009
http://www.josephthemusical.com
A video blast from the past as the cast members from the Adelphi Theatre revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMI read on the Internet that Anthony Weiner’s (or Whiner’s) troubles stem from a typo he committed on Tweeter: @ instead of D, turning a private misdemeanor into a public offense. Typos a…
SOURCE: John Simon at 12:42PMDevotees of Jack Sbarbori’s Quotidian Theatre won’t be the only ones fascinated by this new biography of the late Horton Foote, one of the two authors whose work inspired that co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:39PMAfter surviving a Broadway flop (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer anyone?), 2011 Tony winner for Best Featured Actress in a Musical Nikki M. Jones knows the difference between a show that has "i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMSince their inception in 1996 the Paper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee- Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director Rising Star Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMNominated shows pull out all the stops when they perform on Tony night, so we asked fans to choose their favorite production number in the 2011 telecast. The winner? "I Believe" fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31PMGreen Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will play the role of St. Jimmy in the previously reported film adaptation of the Broadway musical, American Idiot, according to The Hollywood Reporte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMTryst, a romantic thriller by Karoline Leach, seen in a commercial Off-Broadway run in 2006 and in regional productions, returns to New York City July 1 for an engagement by Irish Repertory …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMThe show: "The Circle"
The place: Westport Country Playhouse
What is it?: W. Somerset Maugham's drawing-room comedy of English manners and morals.
By Jove!: Yes and a few "dash it a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:20PMAnn Morrison, who created the role of Mary Flynn in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, will don the turban of Norma Desmond in the Music Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMReturning to the role he originated 10 years ago, stage and screen actor (and TV director) Tate Donovan is about to appear in a radio theater production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 12:15PMThe Royal Ballet's decision to shun glitzier candidates in favour of O'Hare is sensible, as he arrives to his new post of director without any artistic ego"We have to talk about Kevin" is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PM“Tonight’s the Night” that you can run over to your local record store and buy your copy of the Baby It’s You cast recording! The Original Cast Album of the 2011 mu…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:10PMGreen Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will star in the previously announced film adaptation of American Idiot when the movie hits theaters in 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMSutton Foster is the 2011 recipient of the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for the revival of ANYTHING GOES. Broadway Beat's Richie Ridge spoke with the star immediately fol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMMark Rylance is the 2011 recipient of the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for Jerusalem. Broadway Beat's Richie Ridge spoke with the star immediately following his acceptance abo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMAfter a Tony Awards ceremony filled with eloquent words and emotional tears, who could possibly choose a favorite acceptance speech? Broadway.com readers, that’s who! The clear victor,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMHere’s an audition notice from Melbourne Civic Theatre: Melbourne Civic Theater AUDITIONS LEADING LADIES BY: KEN LUDWIG Directed by Peg Girard Synopsis In this hilarious comedy by the …
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 12:02PMThe Roundabout is offering Donna Murphy to its audiences for a run in a new musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. Ms. Dart is a best …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 672011 - 6142011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCedric Sanders, Emily Swallow and Michael Weston will join Tate Donovan in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
Tony winner Sutton Foster recently hopped off the Anything Goes cruise liner and headed down to Sesame Street to pay a visit to her furry friend Elmo. While on the scene in TV's most fam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMWell, we never thought we’d see it, but next week the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is finally breaking ground. And you’re invited. Here’s info from the Dr. P…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:57AMStage and screen star John Turturro will make live appearances at Film Forum, following screenings of Passione, on June 22 at 6:30pm, June 23 at 8:20pm, and June 25 at 6:30pm.
Directed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti will be seen on the small screen this fall on NBC's new series "The Playboy Club".
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe run of Murder for Two — A Killer Musical has been extended by six weeks, to July 31, at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMThe Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is making its way back to Washington, D.C. when it plays a return engagem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMHere’s an announcement of a casting call for a web project needing actors good with Elizabethan English: Casting Call for The Aegeans NOTE: Experience with Shakespearean theater and/…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:39AMThe Star-Spangled Banner
JERSEY BOYS Broadway, had the honor of opening the Fleet Week Broadway Showcase at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Friday, May 27, 2011. The cast also s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMMPs grill David Abraham over why he failed to apologise after Ofcom ruled jibe about star's disabled son was 'highly offensive'The Channel 4 chief executive, David Abraham, has admitted that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMBroadway box office results remained steady in the week leading up to the Tony Awards, with perennial winners Wicked, The Lion King, Spider-Man, Book of Mormon and Jersey Boys at the top of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMBroadway Rhythm and Booze, a new cabaret series created as a platform to "highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community," will continue June 20 at Tillman's Bar &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMHere’s a notice from the Moonlight Players. You might want to call there for further info (352-243-5875), since the theater’s website has not been updated: Please come out and au…
SOURCE: Orlando Theater at 11:25AM"Critics are human. They're going to say what they want to say, and I can't control that," says the Broadway actress.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:24AMThe Normal Heart made its World Premiere at The Public Theater in 1985 and premiered on Broadway on April 19, 2011 before opening to rave reviews on April 27, 2011. The limited engagement, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMJERUSALEM: 2011 Tony Award Winner for Best Actor Mark Rylance
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http://www.JerusalemBroadway.com. Tony and Olivier Award winning star Mark Rylance recreates his wildly a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:21AMRomeo and Juliet - First Folio Theatre at Mayslake Hall, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W 31st St, Oak Brook, is offering $10 industry tickets every Weds. & Thurs. evening at 8:15 PM from…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:18AM"If we thought it would take this long, there is not a chance on earth we'd have done it," says Bono, who composed the music with his bandmate.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:17AMRainn Wilson, star of the hit NBC series "The Office" and one-time Guthrie Theater actor, will take part in the theatre's "In Conversation" series with artistic direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMShake those hips and roll those shoulders loose. Viva Peru! Vicky Leyva, a.k.a. “The Mulatta Flower of Peru,” dances barefoot, sings folklore straight from an impassioned heart and l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMAfter securing his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of backwoods philosopher/drug dealer Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, Mark Rylance puz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMRecent Tony winner Sutton Foster just stopped by Sesame Street where she taught Elmo and the rest of the gang about her love for levers. Click below to check out her performanceSesame Street…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMFormer dancer Kevin O'Hare plans to bring together the 'most talented artists of the 21st century'After a worldwide search to find a replacement for the Royal Ballet's soon-to-retire directo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMMany members of the "Spider-Man" team have lately come to Taymor's defense, including Bono, who called Taymor a "card-carrying genius," and T.V. Carpio, who plays Arachne and says, "The foun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMA resident Philadelphia production of the 12-time 2011 Tony Award-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys is part of Philadelphia Theatre Company's 2011-12 season, the company announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMLin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, came back to the Tony Awards for this year’s ceremony, but spent most of his time backstage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMFull cast and creative team have been announced for the John W. Engeman Theatre's production of Hairspray, July 7-August 28. Paul T. Stancato will direct the production.
The show, whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AM
"The Normal Heart" has been nominated for five Tony awards, including Best Revival of a Play and focuses on the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Seth Doane talks to playwright Larry Kramer, …
SOURCE: CBS at 10:59AMSimon Gray’s 1971 bitter comedy “Butley” is being revived at the Duchess Theatre starring Dominic West, while the Young Vic sees a lively take on Gogol’s dark 1836 play “Government…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:58AMDavid Garrison, last seen in the Second Stage Theatre production of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, is the final actor to join the cast of the new Charles Busch comedy Olive and the Bitter Herb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMWho Loves You - JERSEY BOYS Broadway Fleet Week 2011
Along with opening and closing the Fleet Week 2011 Broadway Showcase in patriotic fashion (The Star-Spangled Banner & God Bless Ame…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AM"Broadway had its biggest year ever, setting a box office record that was attributable not just to the usual uptick in ungodly ticket prices but also to a spike in attendance. The Great Whit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:53AMDavid Garrison will complete the cast of Primary Stages' world premiere production of Charles Busch's Olive and the Bitter Herbs, to run July 26 - September 3 at 59E59 Theaters. M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMDuring his acceptance speech at the 2011 Tony Awards, John Benjamin Hickey joked that his mother had better be watching him and not the Dallas Mavericks. Presenter Chris Rock jokingly grouse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AMStage and screen stars Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons will perform in Music Inspired by Shakespeare, with Lorin Maazel and the Castleton Festival Orchestra, as a fundraiser for the Castleton …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMSpider-Man Turn Off the Dark will officially open on Broadway June 14 at the Foxwoods Theatre following the longest preview period in Broadway history—performances began Nov. 28, 2010. Aft…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMGod Bless America - JERSEY BOYS Broadway Fleet Week 2011
In honor of Memorial Day, the cast of JERSEY BOYS Broadway, performed "God Bless America" during the Broadway Showcase at …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:33AMFerran Adria is one of the most acclaimed chefs in the world. By any reasonable definition, he's an artist. His advice to his fellow chefs/artists is interesting. Here's his response to the …
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:27AMCharitable foundation gives National Theatre Wales £175,000 to develop Somali-led production in CardiffNational Theatre Wales has been awarded the £175,000 Calouste Gulbenkian performance …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMThe Television Critics Association has announced nominations for its annual TCA Awards, which will be presented in a non-televised, invitation-only ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMAmong the 2011 Tony Award winners were many first-time winners, including Ellen Barkin and John Benjamin Hickey, from The Normal Heart; Nikki M. James, Trey Parker and Matt Stone; from The B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMIn an age of cuts, would regional theatre be better served by investing in people and ideas rather than bricks and mortar?If travel broadens the mind, that goes for theatres too. It's going …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMFinborough, LondonWhat a bizarre little show this is. From its topsy-turvy title to its outmoded sexual politics and racial stereotypes, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley's 1964 musical is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMWelcome to our coverage of this year’s 2011 Source Festival. Here’s how this year’s producers describe it: “Every creative journey begins with one bold step. In the spiri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AM
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, who made her New York Philharmonic debut in February at Avery Fisher Hall, will hit the road in November with a brand-new concert act.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Last Act of Lilka Kadison," Lookingglass Theatre Compnay. About halfway through “The Last Act of Lilka Kadison”—the final show of the 2010-11 season at the Tony Aw…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:51AMMichael Grandage’s production of Luise Miller opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (13 June 2011, previews from 8 June), bringing Friedrich Schiller’s 1783 play to the Londo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:49AMIf you loved Lin-Manuel Miranda's hilarious Tony-awards closing freestyle rap that was performed by 'host with the most' Neil Patrick Harris, you must check out this video that Miranda has u…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:47AMAccording to Showbiz411.com who has been fairly accurate with Julie Taymor related news, they report that I'm told that the show's masterful creator, Julie Taymor, is likely to attend the pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:41AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will open with the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play, John Logan's Red (October 14-November 6). Anders Cato wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMA staged reading of Rinne Groff's Compulsion will be presented June 14 at 7 PM at California's North Coast Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMThis year the Source Festival provided three different themes for the over 500 entries in its 10-Minute Play competition. The Festival chose to highlight the group of six plays in its “L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMAfter months of setbacks, the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" officially opens on Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:23AMRSO: Barre Bones, an evening of songs by Ryan Scott Oliver, will be presented at Show at Barre/BARRE vt in Los Angeles July 6 at 7:30 PM at 9:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMCasting is now complete for the June 20 performance of Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays — billed as "a funny, provocative evening of new plays by award-winning playwri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMCasting is now complete for the June 20 performance of Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays — billed as "a funny, provocative evening of new plays by award-winning playwri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMTony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Barry Manilow made a special appearance at Radio City Music Hall on Monday, June 13 to sign copies of his new album 15 Minutes and promote an upcoming seri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09AMIn a backstage video recorded during the Tonys show Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail document the process of writing a rap in real time for the host, Neil Patrick Harris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07AMThe preliminary ratings for Sunday night’s Tony broadcast are 6.9 million, just a smidgen down from the 7 million who watched last year. But it seems there was a 9% increase in viewe…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:07AM
Little Angel, LondonProspero, at the end of The Tempest, promises to break his staff and "bury it certain fathoms in the earth." Clearly he didn't make a very good job of it since, in Michae…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMFaced with a country on the brink of financial collapse, the only light at the end of Jim Hacker’s (Richard McCabe) tunnel is a considerably suspect potential deal with the Foreign Ministe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:55AMAs my readers know, I am not crazy about the theatre's reliance on subsidy, but London Guardian critic Michael Billington makes a persuasive argument for it when reviewing the success of War…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:47AMDue to high box office demand, both Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth this week announced extended runs. Woolly Mammoth’s Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara now closes July 3, 2011.�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMTwo actors. Minimal set. No intermission. Easily transportable. A description of “Any Night” which is now trying to scare up its audience at the LABA Theatre @ the 14th S…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:32AMKristin Newbom and W. David Hancock's new play is yet another examination of dysfunctional siblings, a well-trodden path brightened by a superior cast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMEven an ostrich with its head imbedded deep in the sand would figure out what’s going to happen
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:27AMThe Red Room, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: A charming, appealing work that is able to convey both lighthearted humor as well as heavy-hitting drama.
Memory is a…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:24AMSusan Marshall & Company celebrated its 25th anniversary last weekend with a pair of works using both performance spaces at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The company is at New Haven’…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:03AMSutton Foster, who took home a 2011 Tony Award for her performance in Anything Goes, recently sat down with Elmo from “Sesame Street” to chat about the use of utensils and perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:01AMUpcoming College Shows - 614 for DallasHouston
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Opening keeps eyes on Broadway
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Other entertainments have held an afterparty at the Plaza Hotel, but not like this. The Broadway League didn't just rent out the ballroom for its post-Tonys bash, it commandeered…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Stage celebrates best of the year -- Other entertainments have held an afterparty at the Plaza Hotel, but not like this. The Broadway League didn't just rent out the ballroom for…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Mormon' breaks another record -- A little summer momentum kicked in on Broadway last week, with overall sales up despite the fact that a handful of productions played fewer-than…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Writer wins year-long fellowship -- A. Rey Pamatmat has picked up Lark Play Development Center's Playwrights of New York Fellowship, a yearlong gig that comes with a rent-free Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
By Byrne Harrison
Name: George Katt
Play: "FACE DIVIDED" / "MUTILATION OF ST. BARBARA"
Relationship to production: Actor & Founder/Artistic Director of The Indies Lab
Website: http://ww…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:55AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Thom Fogarty
Play: Hell Is Where the Heart Is by Melissa Skirboll
Relationship to production: Director
Website: http://thomfogarty.weebly.com/ and http://melissaskir…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:49AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Nikki M. Jenkins
Play: Disenchanted, a new musical
Relationship to production: Playwright/Co-Producer/Actress
Website: http://www.disenchantedthemusical.com/
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:41AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Yvette Heyliger
Play: White House Wives: Operation Lysistrata!
Relationship to production: Writer/Director
Website: Planet Connections
http://www.twinbiz.com/
How d…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:31AMThe UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which stars Keith Jack in the title role, has extended with new dates added to the schedu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:24AMMichael Grandage’s production of Luise Miller opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (13 June 2011, previews from 8 June), bringing Friedrich Schiller’s 1783 play to the Londo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:18AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady
Play: The Orange Person
Relationship to production: Writers
Website: http://www.jeremybloomplays.com/
How did you first get involved i…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:18AMMichael Grandage’s production of Luise Miller opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (13 June 2011, previews from 8 June), bringing Friedrich Schiller’s 1783 play to the Londo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:12AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Tramaine Montell Ford
Play: TheTramaineExperience: AnUrbanDramedy
Relationship to production: Actor/Co-playwright
Website: http://www.tramainemontellford.com/
How d…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:10AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Mike Poblete
Play: Antenora
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.antenoraplay.wordpress.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I wro…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:02AM
By Byrne Harrison
Name: Lauren Epsenhart
Play: Pushing Daisy
Relationship to production: Playwright/Producer
Website: http://www.pushingdaisyproject.org/
http://www.laurenepsenhart.com/
…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:57AMTony Award-winning 'Book of Mormon'
© Book of Mormon
With all of us still on a high from the Tony Awards, we still have great things to look forward to from the current Broadway season…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:51AMFriedrich Schiller's 1783 play Luise Miller opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (13 June 2011, previews from 8 June) in a new version by Mike Poulton. The penultimate production direct…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:51AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Mark Jason Williams
Play: The Other Day
Relationship to production: Playwright
Website: http://www.markjasonwilliams.com/
How did you first get involved in theatre?…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:48AMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Alex Bond
Book reading: LATE NIGHTS WITH THE BOYS: confessions of a leather bar chanteuse
Relationship to production: I am the novelist and I read selections from my…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:41AMA few weeks ago Ken Davenport - industry insider blogger and Broadway producer whose next big show is a revival of Godspell heading to the Circle in the Square in October - wrote a fascinati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTyne Daly as Maria Callas in 'Master Class'
Manhattan Theatre Club©
The "Good People" at Manhattan Theatre Club are definitely ready to go back to school tonight!
After a brilliant run …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:30AMAndrew BetzThe party's on at Mm. Dubonnet's school for girls on the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties in "The Boy Friend", and it will be for audiences, too. It's all song, da…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:20AMAfter she batted back his balls while wearing some serious heels, Kristin and I sat down (once again) to talk about her upcoming solo CD, new ABC series and thoughts on last night's Tony Awa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:17AMLiza Minnelli held a Hamptons yard sale to offload some of her possessions including lampshades, wine glasses, worn dance shoes -- and a set of epaulets given to her by Michael Jackson.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:09AMFor a long time, American politics has been defined by a Left/Right dynamic. It was Liberals versus Conservatives on a variety of issues. Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, Tax Cuts vs. More Spendi…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:05AM"Chicago" star Christie Brinkley took on the role of doctor to help a woman who fainted at the Tonys, with Paul Shaffer playing nurse.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:02AM
Producers of Shrek The Musical, which opens tonight (14 June, previews from 6 May 2011) at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, have today released production images of the musical.
The show, whic…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:42AMDerren Brown’s new show, Svengali,
contains all the clever trickery you’d expect from the UK’s best-known
illusionist. Unfortunately, we were appealed to in such plaintive …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMThe Devils Festival at The Print Room, Notting Hill 18th June to 2nd July. Book before Friday 17th June 2011 and save £5. Offer avaliable both online and by calling the box office.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:35AM'Spider-Man'
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With all the hoop-lah of the 65th Tony Awards behind us, we now look forward to several show openings and cast album releases.
One show that fits in both ...Rea…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:33AM
Michael Billington: "Where would Broadway be without the British taxpayer? I ask because it always strikes me as faintly ironic that the most flagrantly commercial theatre district on earth …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:46AMThe original cast recording of the new Broadway musical BABY IT'S YOU will be released by Universal Music Group's Verve label, and produced by legendary music producer Richard Perry and asso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AM"In their fullest comments yet about the creative clashes this winter inside Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Bono and the Edge, of U2 - first-time Broadway composers - said they originally em…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:25AMThe Book of Mormon (Broadway) - "I Believe" [LIVE @ The 2011 Tony Awards)
Andrew Rannells, the star of the musical THE BOOK OF MORMON, perform the number "I Believe" liv…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:24AMJust as the tempest-tossed Spider-Man is set to formally open on Broadway, Zarkana, Cirque's "own high-flying blend of circus and rock opera," begins a four-month run at Radio City Music Hal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:21AMAfter more than 185 previews, onstage and offstage drama, and the critics descending long before the opening, the official opening of SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK is at last here We'll be b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02AM"A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
From an article by Michael Billington in The Guardian: Where would Broadway be without the British taxpayer? I ask because it always strikes me as faintly ironic that the most flagrantly co…
SOURCE: direct address at 12:50AMWriting The Closing Number--Backstage at the Tonys
Tommy Kail and I, in the basement of the Beacon Theater, writing Neil Patrick Harris' closing number recapping the 2011 Tony Awards. W…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:16AMand I'm seeing lots of it this week. Most of it Saturday. I think I might actually collapse from theatrical exhaustion on that day, but I'm seeing Neva tomorrow night and The Method Gun on…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:07AMPriscilla, Queen of the Desert (Broadway) - "It's Raining Men" [LIVE @ The 2011 Tony Awards)
The cast of the Broadway musical PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT perform a special …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06AMon Saturday after attending a concert of George Crumb's song cycle, Winds of Destiny, sung by Dawn Upshaw. JW and I really liked the Crumb evening at the Green Umbrella earlier in the seaso…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:05AMAfter months of previews, cast injuries, scathing reviews and delay upon delay followed by a shut-down and complete overhaul of the script, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark — the most expensi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:01AMMultiple award-winning actor Lorenzo Pisoni, who stars as The Duke in Measure for Measure at Shakespeare in the Park, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSavage Radio Plays is an ambitious show. It is a veritable fountain of creativity, inventiveness, and talent. The performance is indeed an impressive feat to watch with all the action coming…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMShrek the Musical, originally produced on Broadway in 2008 and now on a U.S. national tour, officially opens at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane June 14 following previews that b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJames Olm and J.C. Hanley's The Magdalene, a new musical inspired by the Gnostic gospels that portray Mary Magdalene in a new light, begins previews Off-Broadway June 14 at the Theatre a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRichard 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 12:00AMJoe Foust, Neil Friedman, Sean Fortunato, Erin Noel Grennan and Peggy Roeder play members of a dysfunctional family in the world-premiere production of Making God Laugh, starting June 14 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTyne Daly's late-career diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's music-kissed biographical drama, Master Class, dawns on Broadway starting June 14 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Charles Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" takes a new turn as the funky musical Twist, starring Tony Award winner Cleavant Derricks, "American Idol" finalist Tamyra Gray…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe original cast recording of the new Broadway musical Baby It's You!, recorded between April 17-25, gets released in stores and digitally June 14 by Universal Music Group's Ve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Pittsburgh CLO production of Jekyll & Hyde, staged by its original Tony-nominated star Robert Cuccioli, officially opens June 14 at the Benedum Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing the longest preview period in Broadway history — performances began Nov. 28, 2010 — a revised version of the much-in-the-news musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark offic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArne Gundersen, president of the Actors' Equity Foundation, announced May 12 that The Clarence Derwent Awards for most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDeirdre O'Connell and Reed Birney, winners of the annual Richard Seff Awards presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation, receive their awards June 14 at 3 PM at Equity's Eastern …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1929 Birthday of Broadway composer Cy Coleman, (1929-2004) whose multidextrous scores for shows like Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, The Will Rogers Follies, The Lif…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWho was Violet Sharp? Two serious students of American history I asked the other day had no idea. With good reason. She is barely a footnote to one of the past century's notorious crimes, th…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
