Directed by Richard Eyre, PRIVATE LIVES will play at the Music Box Theatre 239 West 45th Street with previews beginning on Sunday November 6 and opening night set for Thursday November 17. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:50PMAfter a nationwide search of over 3,000 performers, the producers of Bring It On The Musical are pleased to announce the cast for the National Tour which launches at the Ahmanson Theatre in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40PMMichael Barrett, CEO and General Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, will present the third annual Caramoor Fall Festival on September 23, 24 and 25.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:24PMHEDY WEISS: For one former generation the buzz words were “sex, drugs and rock and roll.” For the next they became “sex, lies and videotape.” Today, the most appropriate triumvirate …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:24PMThirty-two new plays. Twenty-nine local writers. I was seriously thinking about pitching an idea about Gemini, until I realized I didn’t have any ideas about Gemini. Instead, I am seri…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:17PMLa Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Milk Like Sugar, by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman Playhouse's Sleeping Beauty Wakes, running through September 25 in the S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:17PM"Where there’s smoke, there is not always fire."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PM"The Devil and Mr. Punch," "The Aliens," and "Carthaginians."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMA.R. Gurney's tale of a dog and her owners blends a clever approach with recognizable situations and characters, and, for the most part, the dialogue and the plot feel natural and believable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMMinerva, ChichesterIt takes a certain wild courage to write an accompaniment to an acknowledged one-act masterpiece like Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version. But David Hare has taken on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMTaylor Louderman, Adrienne Warren, Ryann Redmond, Elle McLemore and Jason Gotay will put on their game faces in the national tour of Bring It On: The Musical, which launches Oct. 30 in Los A…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:58PMOver at LA FPI, the Literary Manager of Impact Theatre, Steven Epperson, has a nice long article about lit manager pet peeves. It’s filled with mostly common sense advice, but speaking…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:50PMAn actor doing short stories by Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz -- with a fiddler. Sounds crazy, no?An actor doing short stories by Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz -- with a fiddler. Sounds crazy, no?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:49PMA definite perk of being an arts journalist: spending a Wednesday lunch hour watching the Seattle Symphony rehearse "An American in Paris" for Saturday's season-opening concert, and listenin…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:47PMA fresh bilingual approach to a kinetic and touching California immigrant tale, "The Romance of Mano Rubio," will open the coming season of the [Inside] the Ford series at the John Anson For…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:43PMA 20-year-old University of Michigan student and a onetime "Dreamgirl" have been cast in the roles of Campbell and Danielle, the battling head cheerleaders of the musical "Bring It On."A 20-…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMJoi Danielle Price returns to The Metropolitan Room this fall with her debut show- UNFILTERED. Unfiltered is an exploration of music that holds back nothing and reveals everything, for bette…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31PMBroadway's most popular new show, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, has played to over five-hundred-thousand audience members, as of today's matinee performance. The 500,000th ticketholder, Aust…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMSarah Ruhl is the first to admit she never thought her most recent play would make it to Broadway, much less be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. “It’s a highly controversial subject and I…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:20PMThe musical 'Bring it On' will feature a newcomer and an actress from a touring company of "Dreamgirls" in the lead roles of the head cheerleaders.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:16PMQueen of the Mist is a world premiere musical with words and music by 5-time Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Hello Again. Based on an astounding, outrageo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMBroadway's most popular new show, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, has played to over five-hundred-thousand audience members, as of today's matinee performance.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14PMHampstead Theatre seems to be making a habit of presenting new plays that are fictionalised accounts of real-life events. Hard on the heels of Sarah Helms's semi-autobiographical Loyalty, we…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
OPENING ACME: (LIVE) ACTION CARTOON. Silent Theatre pays homage to the cartoon in a series of vignettes. Opens Sept. 16, 8 pm. Fri-Sat, 10:30 pm. $10. To Oct. 15. Prop Thtr, 3504 N. Elston. …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:46PMBruce Norris began work on “Clybourne Park,” his 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about race, class and home ownership, shortly before the real estate bubble burst and foreclosure became…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:36PMAccording to the Toronto Star, stage and screen star Geoffrey Rush will star as Man in the Chair in an upcoming big screen adaptation of the 2006 Broadway musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. Fred …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:25PMWe three Filskit ladies might seem like unlikely spokespersons for technology in theatre. It is true that we do not have a smartphone between us, and we have spent many a happy hour swearing…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23PMLegit News: Producers aim to silence doubters -- The estates that control the rights to "Porgy and Bess" have officially given a greenlight to the Broadway-bound revival of the 1935 musical,…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMNamed one of New York's Best Once-a-Year Markets, the annual Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS Broadway Flea Market amp Grand Auction will be held from 10 AM - 7 PM on Sunday, September 25 in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMBryce Ryness (Hair, Legally Blonde) will perform a concert at Los Angeles' Barre Sept. 19 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMTelevision producers have begun to wise up: The best TV actors come from the stage. From The Good Wife and True Blood to 30 Rock and Glee, Emmy-bait series tend to be top-heavy with theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMThis fall season is full of new plays opening between now and December. Charles Isherwood, theater critic of The New York Times, joins Jeff Spurgeon to give a preview of several of the new p…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:04PMThe Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, welcomed its 500,000th ticketholder at the Wednesday, September 14 matinee performance.
Australian youngst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:04PMDespite Rick Miller’s obvious talents, his hit Shakespeare spoof is getting a bit stale after 15 years
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMHow 8 plays made the transition into TIFF-worthy films
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00PMDance-theatre company celebrates and spoofs the rituals of weddings
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This post resumes my series profiling the hundreds of performers I’ve presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre , initiated in conjunction with American Vaudeville Theatre’s 15th …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:58PMSpider-Man is one popular superhero! On September 14, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark welcomed its 500,000th audience member to the Foxwoods Theatre. After the matinee performance, the show…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMThe ever-resilient Elaine Stritch is performing an all-Sondheim program at Café Carlyle and embracing those pesky obstacles that come with age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes is offering one lucky tap dancer a chance to win a trip for two to New York City to catch the production, featuring Tony Award-winning choreog…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Breaking News Hugh Jackman Will Sing and Dance Again on Broadway NYTimes.com/ArtsBeat Blog – by Patrick Healy Hugh Jackma…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Creating Her Career)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and everyone…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:42PMJoe's Pub has released an initial lineup of cabaret and burlesque performances for its fall 2011 season.
The venue, which has undergone a restoration/refurbishment, will re-open with t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PMGivenik Ambassador | Adam Kantor
Adam Kantor, currently appearing as Rod and Princeton in the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q, talks about his favorite charity: Broadway on South Africa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:36PMIt's official.The estates of the creators of "Porgy and Bess" have green lit for Broadway the controversial American Repertory Theatre production of the show, titled "The Gershwins' Porgy an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:29PMDemetria Joyce Bailey, who channeled the persona of Ethel Waters in His Eye Is On The Sparrow when it played at Bristol Riverside Theatre, has her Media Theatre debut in a legendary role of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMComplete casting has been announced for LAByrinth Theater Company's world premiere production of David Bar Katz’s The Atmosphere of Memory, directed by Pam MacKinnon. Tony winner J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:22PMCharles Osgood will offer a one-night-only performance of A Columbus Day Special: A Voyage of Discovery on October 10 at 7pm at Birdland. The event will benefit the Broadcasters Foundation.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:21PMSISTER ACT on Broadway: True Confession #202
In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
From:
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In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:07PM David Adkins (Broadway's "St. Joan") will be Malvolio;
Darius de Haas (Broadway's "Kiss of the Spiderwoman," "Carousel,"
"Rent,") will be Feste; Lucas Hall (Off-Broadway's "The Merc…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:07PMTransport Group has announced casting for Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist, to run October 18 - November 20 at the Gym at Judson. Jack Cummings III will direct the production,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMThe [Inside} the Ford series offers a new translation -- into Tagalog -- of an admired play about Filipino immigrant farm workers in Depression-era California. Two other shows are world prem…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:06PMSISTER ACT on Broadway: True Confession #200
In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
From:
SisterActBroad…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:05PMPaulo Szot is becoming a big name in opera – thanks to a musical'It was the best part," says Paulo Szot, relaxing in his smart flat, a stone's throw from St Paul's Cathedral. "And it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMMarriages hit a rough spot in a supposedly tranquil weekend in the country in Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior, opening Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum. Director Doug Hughes and Rebeck analyze …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMThe Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) is calling for all Canadians to nominate their favourite Canadian performance artists for six prestigious lifetime artistic achiev…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PMThe Broadway and film star discusses his new NBC comedy, Free Agents.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
“On the Twentieth Century” has been pegged for a Broadway revival, and Kristin Chenoweth is rumored to be performing in this decadent, posh tale of drama, death and the pursuit…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 04:52PMThree-time Tony winner Frank Langella is returning to the Broadway stage as a corrupt and desperate 1930s financier in TRoundabout Theatre Company's revival of Terence Rattigan’s c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:51PMan of La Mancha arguably marked a turning point in American musical theatre. It opened in 1965, at the peak of that decade's idealism where everyone wanted to "dream the impossible dream."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50PMWhat's more adorable than Glee star Jonathan Groff? How about Jonathan Groff cuddling a baby goat?! On the latest episode of Side By Side By Susan Blackwell, the always hilarious ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:41PMWhat's more adorable than Glee star Jonathan Groff? How about Jonathan Groff cuddling a baby goat?! On the latest episode of Side By Side By Susan Blackwell, the always hilarious ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:41PMManhattan Theatre Club's Lynne Meadow Artistic Director, Barry Grove Executive Producer, and Mandy Greenfield Artistic Producer present the world premiere of WE LIVE HERE by Zoe Kazan, direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMBizarre absurdism, the kind you used to get from Ionesco or Beckett, reaches horrifying new heights in the world premiere of David L. Williams' new two-act play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:35PMThere’s no way I could limit myself to one “star in the making.” New York theatre is just too full of riches. I did however manage to limit myself to seven. Lemp and KautzSarah Lemp an…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:31PMThe producers of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning smash hit musical, are pleased to announce that Andy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp will join the Broadway company on Tues…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMGiven all the neck popping and hand flailing and implied snapping, you might think this Tide commercial perpetuates the stereotype of the “sassy black woman.” But think again. It…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 04:20PMWelcome to the effervescent, energetic world of Fats Waller, a world of rent parties, hot jazz and the exuberance of the Harlem Renaissance. The joint will definitely be jumpin' as Crossroad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMWith a 28–piece orchestra, FOLLIES features a cast of 41 and stars two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 04:17PMArs Nova Jason Eagan, Artistic Director Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director proudly announces Fall Into the Nova, a benefit to support emerging artists. The concert features the music of emerg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMTony Award Winning actress Laura Benanti's new NBC show, The Playboy Club, features the Broadway veteran as Carol-Lynne, the very first 'Bunny' Benanti chats about her role as the first moth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMJulie Taymor attended today the upcoming production of The Lion King which is going to open in Madrid Teatro Lope de Vega next October 21st. She joined the company in the celebration of this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PM
Stars who will appear at the Celebrity Autograph Table for the 25th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction have been announced. The event will be held in Times Square on Sunday, Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMWith four Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards, the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald returns to performing live full-time this month following four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:56PMRoundabout Theatre Company is presenting three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella as Gregor Antonescu in Terence Rattigan's drama Man and Boy, directed by Maria Aitken. The production sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Avoiding Elle as a Caricature)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:45PMWestport Country Playhouse has announced casting for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will, to run October 11 - November 5. Mark Lamos will direct the production.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMInterested in joining BroadwayWorld's worldwide network of published authors BroadwayWorld.com is now accepting inquiries for Detroit Contributing Editor positions to lead the new season App…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMSusan Blackwell heads to the goat farm to hang with "The Submission" and "Glee" star Jonathan Groff.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:40PMPhilip Brandes reviews "‘The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz" at the Complex.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:37PMAfter years of delay, 70M in spending, casting and creative team do-overs, injuries and a Media Blitz unlike Broadway has ever seen before, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark opened at the Foxwood…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella returns to Broadway to play a ruthless businessman whose estranged grown son may hold the key to success, in Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMA glimpse of the acclaimed playwright's frequently overlooked directorial talentsAyckbourn in Action (Radio 4) is primarily a show about Alan Ayckbourn (pictured) as director, a role in whic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:29PMEarlier this year Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark star Reeve Carney teamed up with the show's rock star composers Bono and the Edge to film a special music video for the show's anthem …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMAndy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp will join the Broadway company of Jersey Boys, at the August Wilson Theatre, beginning with the Tuesday, October 11 performance. They replace, respectively, Do…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMAfter the success of the first Glee-inspired comic book, Bluewater Comics is readying to release a second installment, Fame: Glee 2, this October. The comic will feature Glee stars Darren Cr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMAfter the success of the first Glee-inspired comic book, Bluewater Comics is readying to release a second installment, Fame: Glee 2, this October. The comic will feature Glee stars Darren Cr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMTV history is awash with musical episodes of popular shows, from Gilligan’s Island's musical version of Hamlet to Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s famous all-singing, all-dancing e…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMAndy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp will join the Broadway company of the Tony-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys Oct. 11 at the August Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (From a Bad to a Good Situation)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:16PMAcademy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons, Theater for the New City co-founder George Bartenieff and Paul Green Foundation executive director Marsha Warren will take part in an Oct. 10 t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PMCasting has been announced for Crossroads Theatre Company's production of the musical, Ain't Misbehavin', to be directed and choreographed by André De Shields. It w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMMerlin Holland claims his grandfather 'never wrote a word' of play heralded by north London company as 'genuine' WildeThe grandson of Oscar Wilde is accusing an Olivier award-winning theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10PMRelatively Speaking, the upcoming Broadway production featuring three one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, will begin previews Sept. 20 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMBroadway favorite Andy Karl and Jersey Boys tour vet Quinn VanAntwerp have been tapped to star as Tommy DeVito and Bob Gaudio, respectively, in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys, beginning…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMChicago Shakespeare Theater has announced casting for its 25th anniversary production of Elizabeth Rex, November 29-January 22. CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines will direct.
Timothy Fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Be True To Yourself)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and everyone…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:03PMNeil LaBute and Theresa Rebeck took time Tuesday to write a play -- live -- on Culture Monster, based on a scenario selected by readers. Now it's time to come up with a title.Neil LaBute and…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PM
photo: Broadway.comThe criminally underrated musical adaptation of Sister Act (by Alan Menken and Douglas Carter Beane, at the Broadway Theatre) is notable for many reasons, including a brea…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:57PMLabyrinth Theater Company has announced final casting for the World Premiere Production of The Atmosphere of Memory by David Bar Katz. Performances begin Saturday, October 15th with Opening …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMLabyrinth Theater Company announced complete casting for its world-premiere staging of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory, about a playwright crafting a memory play, starring the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMOver the next few weeks, the ShowShowdown team will be providing our opinions on a variety of theatre-related questions that often come up. These are questions that interest us, fascinate us…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:49PM(Video of Megan Wanlass, Executive Director, SITI Company presenting Martha Coigney with the 2011 Visionary Leadership Award at the 2011 TCG National Conference) I want to be Martha Coigney…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:45PMJamie deRoy & friends, the MAC Award-winning variety show, will return to the Metropolitan Room Oct. 4-5 at 7 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMJoan Crawford, Medea and the Wicked Witch of the West combined have nothing on Hope, the monster-in-law who completely torpedoes "Be a Good Little Widow," the sincerely meant but structurall…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PMNow, based on user-demand, the site has added two exclusive new features to its industry-leading Pick-a-Show feature. First, users can now enter their zip code to find regional shows musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Finding Who You Aren't)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and e…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:39PMMosaic Legends has partnered with the hit musical Wicked to "go green" with the Wicked Mosaic Electronic Program Book, a digital alternative to the traditional paper format of its so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PMThe continuation of Broadway's longest-running musical The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, which is currently playing at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, is being filmed this week, and acc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMShows by Waller, R&H and the Gershwins salute American
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:36PMAward-winning comedian Harrison Greenbaum will host the seventh annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards (also known as the IT Awards), in a ceremony to be held at Cooper Union's Great…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMKarl Miller and Aubrey Dollar are the lovers at the center of Itamar Moses' Completeness, the story of a computer scientist and a molecular biologist drawn to each other over mutual inte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMGoldoni's classic Italian comedy has been given a British humor makeover, complete with mischievous ditties by Grant Olding.Goldoni's classic Italian comedy has been given a British humor ma…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:33PMEstablished in 2006, THRILLER LIVE moonwalked into the West End after three acclaimed UK tours and standing ovations across Europe. Currently playing at the Lyric Theatre, as well as simulta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMTron, GlasgowBorderline theatre company is brandishing a lethal comedic weapon with DC Jackson's workplace rom-com. The first gag comes after less than 10 sentences and, from then on in, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMPolly Bergen, Emily Bergl, Peter Cincotti, Jane Houdyshell, Paul Iacano, Charlie Mars, Phyllis Newman, Elaine Paige, Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Beth Peil, and Barry and Fran Weissler were amon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMJoel Rooks, who starred in the recent national tour of Say Goodnight Gracie: The Life, Laughter & Love of George Burns, will reprise his performance as George Burns when the show returns…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMI’ve always had this desire to weave tales and imagine a world different from the one I’m living in. Why tell stories? Sometimes it’s simply to entertain. Sometimes it’s to pass the …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:24PMPop singer Ricky Martin, who will star in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita, has been nominated for three 2011 Latin Grammy Awards. The awards will be handed out in Las Vegas on Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Elle as a Role Model)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and everyon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:18PMThe post-summer slump arrived on Broadway in full force last week as students returned to school and tourists returned home. Main Stem box office receipts plunged $4 million from the previou…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:18PMPAE Live!, Furious Theatre Company and Circle X Theatre Co. have been selected to present three new plays at [Inside] the Ford in 2011-2012.
The season will begin with Lonnie Carter's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMViaduct, HalifaxIn the preface to his translation of Chekhov's Three Sisters, Michael Frayn observes that the place where the family live remains anonymous: "But we know its spiritual name w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMTony Award-winner Audra McDonald will appear at Carnegie Hall on at 8pm on Saturday, October 22 as part of her 17-city concert tour across North America. She will be joined by Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMBest. Neruda Poem. Ever.I think what I've been needing in my life is more Neruda. An inoculation, if you will. And today's dose opened my heart in a wonderful, wonderful way. The way you hop…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 02:01PMPrior to her return to Broadway in the American Repertory Theater production of the George and Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward folk opera Porgy and Bess, which begins performances Dec. 17 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Mosaic Legends, in collaboration with the blockbuster musical WICKED, is proud to announce the WICKED Mosaic Electronic Program Book for iPhone and iPod touch, now available on the App Store…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMThe cast of Broadway's Relatively Speaking — the collection of three one-act comedies written separately by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May — only hinted at details of plot and ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMSignature Theatre will open Signature Center, its new, permanent home designed by Frank Gehry, in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, Si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMMax Casella, Kelley Curran, David Deblinger, John Glover, Charles Goforth, Paul Kandel, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, Melissa Ross, and Sidney Williams will join the previously reported star El…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMAfter a twice extended run at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre earlier this year, Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark may be heading to Broadway, according to The New Y…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMTICKETS TO BROADWAY’S AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN EXCLUSIVELY ON SALE TO AMERICAN EXPRESS® CARDMEMBERS BEGINNING TODAY, SEPTEMBER 14 OPENS ON BROADWAY NOVEMBER 21 PREV…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:46PMSPIDER-MAN's own Reeve Carney recently chatted with Time Out New York about how how he keeps himself in top Spidey shape. Carney revealed, For me, the show is my workout. Spider-Man is a rea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMThere have been many a time when Richard Nelson’s writing has made me want to jump into oncoming traffic. Happily this was not one of them.Sweet and Sad is the story of the Apple family,…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:44PMGet your tickets for the New York Musical Theatre Festival today
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMIsrael Galvan’s solo show pushes the boundaries of flamenco dancing From September 20-25th The Joyce Theater opens its fall season with Israel Galván’s vibrant Le Edad de Oro or The…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:41PMA line-up of performers have been announced for the latest installments of Jamie deRoy & Friends, to take place at 7pm on Tuesday, October 4 and Wednesday, October 5 at the Metropolitan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMAccording to the NY Times, Lynne Nottage's BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK, which ran at SEcond stage theatre this past spring might make its way into the Fall 2011 Broadway line-up. Producer El…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMProducers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel in association with the American Repertory Theater announced Sept. 14 that the estates of George and Ira Gershwin, and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMWill Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage make her Broadway debut with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark? Nothing is sure in show business, but commercial producer Elizabeth Ireland McCa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMAnything Goes Dance Captain, Jennifer Savelli, guides you through the Anything Goes "You're the Tap" Contest on Facebook.
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:28PMTony nominee Andrew Rannells will host Fall into the Nova, a benefit at Ars Nova, to be held on Monday, October 3 at 7pm. Sonny Paladino will musical direct the evening, and Kerry Whigham wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:25PMProducer Alicia Keys has just announced that Rosie Benton completes the cast of Broadway's STICK FLY as Kimber, the well-to-do white girlfriend of Flip Mekhi Phifer. She joins previously ann…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Author Heather Hach Interview (Big, Pink and Fun)
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and everyone&#…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:20PMDegas's primary interest, the human body, is revealed in a way so singular and visionary that he pushed boundaries with an instinctive feel for what the 20th century would hold
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe A.R.T. Institute second year students just started rehearsal for its first production of the season, Oni Faida Lampley's intense drama Tough Titty. This incredibly personal look …
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 01:15PMThe Edgerston Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield, CT has announced its programming for the 2011-2012 season.
Performer highlights will include David Cassidy (October 1), Shirley Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMSteve Thompson's new comedy sees Michael Palin as the knight in shining armour determined to stand up for the right to be rude
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:13PMThe Walnut Street Theatre production of the cult-favorite Webber musical, Aspects of Love, with stars Jennifer Hope Wills as Rose, Paul Schoeffler as George and Charles Hagerty as Alex.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12PMTo mark the 25th anniversary of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, producers will broadcast a special performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" from London's Royal Albert Hall.
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:05PMAn initial lineup of performers has been announced for the 21st annual Divas Simply Singing!, a benefit concert presented by Sheryl Lee Ralph, to be held on Saturday, October 22 at 7:30pm at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMNT Live's broadcast of its current hit, “One Man, Two Guvnors," begins Thursday, Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London Where is the theatre responding to the recent riots, asking the hard questions about why so many feel disaffected? It might have been found in Stratford …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTickets for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN will be on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers from Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1000am through Friday, September…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMOne Man, Two Guvnors in the West End
The National Theatre's smash-hit comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors, opens at the Adelphi Theatre on 8 November with the original cast. Book tickets onlin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:49PMLegit Reviews: The Fiasco Company is a seriously cute young troupe, and this commercial mounting of their offbeat garage-band treatment of the Bard's dopiest play should be an inspiration to…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:49PMLEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL Librettist Heather Hach sits down for a chat about her work, her life, and everyone's favorite sorority gal, Elle Woods!
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMProducers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel in association with the American Repertory Theater A.R.T. have announced that the estates of George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and DuBose and Doroth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMTo mark its 25th Anniversary year, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh present The Phantom of the Opera in a fully-staged, lavish production, set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMThe dust has finally settled. It’s just over two weeks since our last performance of Waterproof at the Edinburgh Fringe and it’s only in the writing of this blog that we feel like we’r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:43PMRosie Benton completes the Broadway cast of Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, joining the previously announced Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Condo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PMLegit Reviews: To speak or not to speak -- that's the question behind "Sweet and Sad," the second play in Richard Nelson's projected trilogy about the Apple family.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMAdditional guests have been announced for the talkback series "To Be Continued…" which follows performances of Judy Gold's solo performance at the DR2 Theatre, The Judy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMThe anticipation is building around Relatively Speaking, the upcoming Broadway show written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen. The evening of three one-act comedies begins performanc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMRosie Benton, who originated the role of Kimber in the 2010 Arena Stage-Huntington Theatre Company production of Lydia R. Dimond's Stick Fly, will repeat her performance on Broadway this…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMItmar Moses writes plays that seem to say, “Look. It is a fact that we humans are using about 1/10th of our brain. This is a play that will help you to use a bit more.” In this excell…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:20PMThere is The Circus of Barnum and Bailey. And the Circus of the Sun. And now, for your enjoyment, ladies and gents, I give you the Circus of the Vegetables and a bit of Fruit. Cirque de L�…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:20PMThe theater producer Elizabeth I. McCann said that she had acquired the rights for a Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's satire about black actresses and typecasting in Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PMRosie Benton will join the previously reported Dulé Hill, Mekhi Phifer, Tracie Thoms, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Condola Rashad to complete the cast of the Broadway production of L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMBilly Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei will star in Us & Them, according to a report in Variety. Andy Rickman is directing the picture, which will have a script by Lowell Ganz and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:11PMNathan Lane has signed on for the upcoming film The English Teacher, starring fellow Broadway veteran Julianne Moore and Greg Kinnear, according to Deadline.com. The movie marks the director…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMIt seems there are three simple rules to staging Shakespeare successfully. One: put the play in a modern setting, like, say, a dive bar in Anytown, country unknown. Second, inject as muc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMKoyaanisqatsi Trailer
The trailer of the 1982 hit cult film directed by Godfrey Reggio. The Philharmonic and the Philip Glass Ensemble will performed the live score on Nov 2-3, 2011. For m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:01PMI do love a good podcast. You see, I have this thing about multi-tasking. For better or for worse, I feel like I’m slacking unless I’m pretty much doing at least two things at on…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:00PMAcademy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme attended the Saturday, September 10 performance of Silence! The Musical, playing Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Mark's, and visited with th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Welcome to 30 Days of NYMF By Isaac Robert HurwitzExecutive Director and Producer, NYMF
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMLucy Briers comes by her theatrical leanings naturally as the daughter of actress Ann Davies and the veteran English comic actor Richard Briers (a 1998 Tony nominee for his Broadway performa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMTony Award nominee Bonnie Franklin, Steve Blanchard, Philip Hoffman and Lois Robbins have been cast in the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of My History of Marriage, featuring m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMCLICK TO PURCHASE TICKETS NOW Celebrate the 10th Broadway anniversary of the smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! with the Broadway stars at a special one-night only sing-along screening of MAMMA MI…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:52AMTony Award winner Nathan Lane, Julianne Moore and Greg Kinnear have been cast in Artina Film's upcoming project, "The English Teacher," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMWICKED, the smash hit musical that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, is pleased to announce that Gina Beck and Matt Willis will join the cast on Monday 12 December 2011 to star as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMIt's not easy saving New York City from the dastardly deeds of the Green Goblin, so Reeve Carney and his Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark co-stars have to stay in top shape for the action-p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:45AMCome up with a title for the play, written live by Neil LaBute and Theresa Rebeck. Culture Monster will let playwrights Neil LaBute and Theresa Rebeck choose the one they like the best.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:44AMThe exquisite cast.Okay, we've been veering more toward the bluntly political of late at the Hub Review (and in the process anticipating posts by Andrew Sullivan and Paul Krugman) - largely …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:43AMMany of everyone's Broadway and off-Broadway favorites, including Featuring William Finn, Jonathan Groff, Sherie Renee Scott, Raul Esparza, Patina Miller, John Gallagher Jr, Krysta Rodriguez…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMThe Broadway-bound American Repertory Theater production of Porgy and Bess, starring four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, has been transformed from an opera to a musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMCasting has been announced for My History of Marriage, which will be presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Michael Bush will direct the production, which will have cho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMWest End vets Gina Beck and Matt Willis will join the cast of London's Wicked on December 12 as Glinda and Fiyero, respectively, and Wicked alum Desmond Barritt will return to the role o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMJim Gaffigan, Ricky Gervais, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, and the Max Weinberg Big Band will take part in Stand-Up for Heroes, to be held at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday, November 9 at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMShirley Jones and Lee Majors will guest star this season on FOX's Raising Hope, according to TVLine.com. They will play the parents of Burt Chance (played by stage veteran Garret Dillah…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMTony and Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch opened the Carlyle's fall season Sept. 13 with Elaine Stritch At Home at the Carlyle: Singin' Sondheim... Again. Why Not?, which will run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMStage 773 staff has taken their hard hats off and ear plugs out. Construction has finished and Stage 773 is reopened with a full slate of shows (every night night the week!) in our newly ren…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:22AMTony Award nominee Sean Hayes has signed on to make a guest appearance during the upcoming season of TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland," according to New York Magazine.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMRaven Theatre is now accepting submissions for its New Play Workshop that explore the Chicago immigration experience. The selected play will receive a fully-rehearsed three-performance prese…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:17AMBenny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus' global hit musical MAMMA MIA celebrates another milestone during its landmark 10th Anniversary year today, September 14, when it becomes the 10th longest-ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMThe new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool will celebrate its opening night on September 14 at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. Featuring a jazzy score and a talented cast of five (Sally May…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AMThe Mint Theater Company has extended its first-ever New York revival of Teresa Deevy's 1923 drama Temporal Powers for a second time through Oct. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMAn initial list of artists have been announced for the Broadway Flea Market's Celebrity Autograph Table.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMAn initial list of artists have been announced for the Broadway Flea Market's Celebrity Autograph Table.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThis week theatre bloggers wage battle over ageism on stage and call for greater clarity on the term 'interactive theatre'This week the blogs are ablaze with disagreements. First up, Jo Cair…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMTo begin with, The Habit of Art is not a play about an imagined encounter between W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, late in their lives. It is a play about a play about this fict…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMI took a call today from a producing peer who was having a serious issue with a project. After a heck of a lot of work (a couple of years, actually), the show just blew up. It was nothing he…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Off-Off Broadway theater company Partial Comfort Productions scored a slew of accolades last year with A Bright New Boise, a play that was more solid and satisfying than many produced by…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:59AMHugh Jackman
© Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway
Since proving his singing chops both on the live stage and the televised stage, Hugh Jackman is no longer a questionable Broadway musical st…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 10:58AMTickets are now on sale for off-Broadway production of the new musical The Blue Flower, starring Broadway favorites Teal Wicks, Sebastian Arcelus and Marc Kudisch. The Jim and Ruth Bauer-cre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:58AMDeadline.com reports this morning that Julianne Moore, Nathan Lane and Greg Kinnear are teaming up for Artina Films' The English Teacher, a comedy about a loveless English teacher Moore who …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMStageside Shorts | Theatre Tech | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Technical Director of the Avon Theatre describes some of the joys and challenges of working in a repertory theatre company w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:54AMMikhail Baryshnikov is performing in “In Paris,” a stark, experimental theatrical adaptation of a 1940 short story by Ivan Bunin, the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:51AMHugh Jackman sets November opening for new Broadway show
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth said that her next Broadway project will be a revival of the On the Twentieth Century, the stylish 1978 musical comedy set on the 20th Century Ltd., the l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMFor the first time ever, the 23 plays presented by Group Theatre will be woven together as a fundraiser for the ReGroup Theatre Company.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMThe special 25th anniversary staging of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall will be broadcast live in a host of theatres across the globe Oct. 2, including New York City's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMNone dare call it a publicity stunt, but according to the Los Angeles Times, playwrights Neil LaBute and Theresa Rebeck collaborated on a play yesterday, in real time, for the Times‘ &…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:42AMThe Weston Playhouse Theatre Company in Vermont has received national coverage recently, both of its devastating flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene, and of the inspiring community effort…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMComplete casting has been announced for the upcoming off-Broadway premiere of Once, based on the hit independent film of the same name. Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti will star as the Guy a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's two biggest financial successes, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, have been released for performances by academic schools and colleges in the U.K. for the first t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's two biggest financial successes, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, have been released for performances by academic schools and colleges in the U.K. for the first t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMThe Broadway company of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia!, which opened Oct. 18, 2001, becomes the 10th longest-running show in Broadway history following the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMSamuel L. Jackson will star in Django Unchained, according to a report in Variety. Quentin Tarantino is writing and directing the project.
The movie will focus on Django, a freed slave, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is in town for the filming, and Australian TV has the first look at the filming of the production with some behind the scenes footage and a new interview with Webber and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMIs it just me or does the whole discussion surrounding around “social media marketing” getting annoying . “The consumer is in control”, “It’s quality, not quantity”, “listen…
SOURCE: the Situation at 10:03AMIf going to the theater seems a little like visiting an exotic country, the Berserker Residents have merely made that more literal. The moment you arrive at Ars Nova, you are given travel do…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:02AMThe legendary star provides another singular experience in her latest cabaret outing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Billed as “The Blue Streak of Vaudeville”, Rae (Rachel) Samuels (1887-1979), performed in front of her own deep blue backdrop with a lightening bolt across it. The brand intimate…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:59AMThe new production of FOLLIES opened on Broadway on Monday night, September 12, 2011 to multiple rave reviews. Before the show, we were there for long-standing opening night tradition on the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMA benefit concert to aid The Weston Playhouse, the Vermont theatre that was devastatingly damaged by Hurricane Irene, will be held in Manhattan Sept. 26 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMA benefit concert to aid The Weston Playhouse, the Vermont theatre that was devastatingly damaged by Hurricane Irene, will be held in Manhattan Sept. 26 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane will join stage and screen star Julianne Moore in the new film The English Teacher, according to Deadline.com.
The film, which will be directed by Cra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AMWalnut Street Theatre opens Aspects of Love, a cult-favorite show among fans of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sept. 14 following previews from Sept. 6. The Philadelphia revival of the r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMEmma Rice’s Kneehigh production of The Wild Bride, an adaptation of the Grimm fairytale The Handless Maiden, opened earlier this week (12 September 2011, previews from 7 September) at …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:38AMBehind the Scenes | Broadway Unites
In the aftermath of 9/11, Broadway performers helped inspire New Yorkers to return to normalcy and get the message out that the Big Apple was open for bu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:32AMNew casting has been announced for the West End production of Wicked, playing at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, according to Whatsonstage.com. The show is directed by Joe Mantello.
The musica…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23AMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced complete casting for Once, which will begin performances November 15 in anticipation of an official opening on December 6. John Tiffany will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23AM Pictured above: Jayne Houdyshell as Hattie and Mary Beth Heil as Solange as former showgirls in Follies.What's this picture from the latest production of&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 09:18AMPlaywright Bekah Brunstetter has penned a familiar tale, but this "Widow" grieves for lost potential. Slightly Recommended
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:11AMIt seems like the public just can’t get enough of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s latest and greatest allegorical masterwork. Not only has the Broadway edition of “Book of Mor…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:10AMHere's a sneak peek at Playhouse on Park's production of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days," as performed with five actors. The adaptation is by Mark Brown and the production is dir…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:07AM
Playwrights Horizons' production of Itamar Moses' Completeness opened on Tuesday, September 13 at the company's Mainstage Theatre. Pam MacKinnon has directed the production.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMAdam Guettel, Sally Ann Howes, Christopher Lloyd, Cass Morgan, Kelli O'Hara, Mercedes Ruehl, and Emily Skinner will be among the artists appearing in New York City Loves Vermont, a bene…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:55AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company will fete artistic director Michael Kahn and celebrate 25 years of classic theater in the nation's capital during the Harman Center for the Arts Annual G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:33AMBroadway producer Mitchell Maxwell will be speaking at Hartford's Mark Twain House and Museum Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m.Bargain alert!! The event is free and open to the public.Mitchell (Broadway's…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:27AMLegit Reviews: Jonas Hassen Khemiri's inventive tragicomedy "Invasion!" hits all the right notes on the way to its moving conclusion, managing to infuriate, then amuse, then enthrall without…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:19AMTom Zemon, formerly of West Hartford and of the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, has had leading roles on Broadway ("Les Miserables," "The Scarlet Pimpernel'), at regional theater…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:09AMFor those of you who missed it and for those of you who want to see it again
NOIR is back for four additional performances!
this time they’re at
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMGina Beck and Matt Willis are to join the London company of Wicked as Glinda and Fiyero, respectively, and Desmond Barrit is to return as the Wizard, beginning performances Dec. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:09AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Bicoastal approach for division -- The newly restructured Warner Bros. Theater Ventures creates a bicoastal office that puts an exec on the ground on each coast, with exec VPs Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMA plethora of flavorful jazz and Sally Mayes' exceptional vocals can't compensate for Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris' sketchy book, which ultimately undermines this tuner.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Cleverness can be its own curse. Elevator Repair Service became a critics’ darling with Gatz, the experimental company’s dramatized reading of the full text of F. Scott Fitzgerald�…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:58AMReviewed by Judd Hollander
Are you ready for The Judy Show? Comedienne/actress Judy Gold certainly is, and thinks of rest of America should be too, her desire to get the show on the air for…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:57AMHartford Stage celebrates its 48th season with an Open House on Saturday from 11 a.m. and through the afternoon.Bargain alert!! The events are all free and open to the public. The event…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:56AMReviewed by Judd Hollander
One of the most riveting plays to hit the stage this young 2011-2012 season is the fascinating Unnatural Acts, written by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceive…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:51AMAn updated lineup of performers has been announced for Musical Mondays Theatre Lab's benefit salute to founder Bick Goss, to be held on Monday, September 19 in Manhattan.
Follies star …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:48AMThe latest installment of Cabaret Cares' Divapalooza will be held at 10pm on Friday, September 30 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Café. This monthly cabaret s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:47AMHampstead theatre, LondonSteve Thompson is a very funny writer who has here chosen a tricky subject: the 1975 legal battle by members of the Monty Python team over a US network's censorious …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMFormer Python Terry Gilliam was guest of honour at the Hampstead Theatre last night, watching a version of himself on stage in Steve Thompson’s new play No Naughty Bits.Directed by Edw…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:43AMFormer Python Terry Gilliam was guest of honour at the Hampstead Theatre last night, watching a version of himself on stage in Steve Thompson’s new play No Naughty Bits.Directed by Edw…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:39AMReview by Rob Hartmann
ROCK THE AUDITION: HOW TO PREPARE FOR AND GET CAST IN ROCK MUSICALS. By Sheri Sanders. 264 pp. Hal Leonard Books, 2011. $29.99 (paperback with …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:35AMWhen
Anthony Burgess took A Clockwork Orange to US
publishers, he was told that American readers would not be convinced
by the novel's final chapter of redemption and hope and that it
should…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:32AMThe Disney screen-to-stage adaptation of The Long King celebrated its 5000th performance at the West End's Lyceum Theatre last night and has now been seen by almost 10 million people since i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:28AMAfter a near collapse of the finish of their '09-'10 season, Roundabout Theatre has stumbled into another programming embarrassment right out of the gate this year. (I guess big cheese Todd …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 07:26AMRita Gardner's tribute to the venue that nurtured her cuts its nostalgia with a lightly acerbic wit and mint-fresh song stylings, making for a marvelous hour.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:22AM
Christine Lakin, left, and Beth Malone star onstage in "ÂThe Breakup Notebook."Â Everyone who’s ever been dumped — and doesn’t that include all of us? — is going to a…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:58AMScout’s honor Remember Scout from “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Of course you do — be it from reading Harper Lee’s classic novel or seeing the famed 1962 film version. In the latter, 10…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:53AMGreen arts organisation Julie's Bicycle has launched a campaign to encourage theatres to switch from disposable to rechargeable batteries, saying this would deliver cash savings as well as e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMAs Alan Ayckbourn's 75th play, Neighbourhood Watch, opens in Scarborough, test your knowledge of Britain's most prolific and popular dramatistMichael Billington
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMAre critics savoring "Sweet and Sad"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:48AMAs a new retrospective of the French impressionist's work pirouettes into the Royal Academy this weekend, we ask: how much do you know about the man and his work?Leo Benedictus
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:47AM In typical Kneehigh style, The Wild Bride is exuberant, gruesome fun, bursting with good tunes and playful staging. However, for a show that describes itself as a “feminist fairytal…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:45AMAfter seeing the RSC's direly unfunny The City Madam in Stratford last week, I'm thinking of hiring a charabanc to bring all those involved to Southwark Playhouse for a lesson on how to play…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:35AMA Younger Theatre are teaming up with the English National Opera to offer an exclusive night at the opera for nine theatre enthusiasts who have never seen an opera before on Monday 19th Sept…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23AM...that all the BIG issues facing us as a country are like Elephants and we're ALL blind men trying to figure out what this thing is. Maybe it's time to shut up and listen to the guy h…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:15AMTickets only £25 (normally £35) for performances until Sat 8 October inclusive.St Katharine Docks.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:14AMThe title says it all -- "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway." The Tony Award-winner plans to bring his one-man show to the Broadhurst Theatre on 44th Street from Oct. 25 to Jan. 1.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:10AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The title says it all - "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:04AMJeff Roberson discusses his alter ego "Varla Jean Merman," working with Charles Busch and starring in Speakeasy Stage's upcoming production of Charles Busch's "The Divine Sister," his curren…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AM
The former business partners Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, whose Livent Inc. "produced major musicals throughout North America in the 1990s", were ordered to begin serving their prison…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58AM"Ambassador Theatre Group has announced a new partnership with cinema advertising firm Pearl & Dean that will see ads for Gordon's Gin projected onto safety curtains ... immediately prior to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:51AMSixty audience members are accommodated in seats lining the walls while the “machina” of the work’s title takes pride of place in the room's centre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:46AMAmerican Lyric Theater (ALT) has announced its 2011-2012 season of public programming.
The group's first offering will be Why Opera?, a roundtable discussion to be held on October 30 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34AMTickets for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN will be on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers from Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1000am through Friday, September…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAt the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September began with a night of delightful Italian musical classics, and to be honest, the night would end with a cheering audience expressing its enth…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:14AMDo we have the Beatles to thank -- or blame-- for John Doyle’s concept of having actors play instruments in musicals? The director actually thought of the convention in the early &lsqu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMIgor Stravinsky talks about his Variations for Orchestra, then watches George Balanchine making a ballet version of the score. The...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom the film New Orleans, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday perform “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM“I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMPorgy and Bess is considered the American opera and one of the most singular pieces of theater ever produced. Now the piece has undergone a transformation of sorts at the American Repertor…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMLike a Pinter play with a dirty mind, "The Winners" invades the
most intimate territory, the relationship between married people.
There — again echoing Pinter — playwright David L. Willi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AM
After giving the world "Billy Elliot," Playwright Lee Hall pulls more innovation out of a coal mining town. "The Pitmen Painters" powerfully tells the real story of coalminers releasing thei…
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SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMChristina Haag, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir "Come to the Edge," stars in the world premiere of Sharyn Rothstein’s new play, The Invested, opening Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWill budget cuts cause the three well-used venues to be rented or sold?
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMCreated by HERE artistic director Kristen Marting with writers Robert Lyons and Qui Nguyen through an extensive process of workshops and public discussion, Lush Valley is set in a fictional …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMEugene O’Neill is arguably one of the greatest American playwrights. He came of age when melodrama ruled the stage but the fact is he considered himself a poet. He didn’t even like the t…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMSteve Kazee and Cristin Milioti will play the Guy and the Girl, respectively, when Once, the new stage musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, gets its world premiere at New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe curtain parts on the return five-week engagement of Arias With a Twist, the heady musical and visual feast by puppet designer Basil Twist and drag performer Joey Arias, Sept. 14 at the A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody!, a hit at this summer's New York International Fringe Festival, plays an additional five performances Sept. 14-17 as par…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRachel Reiner Productions presents the world premiere of Victor L. Cahn's Dally With The Devil, which officially opens Sept. 14 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre following previews th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTickets for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin go on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers Sept. 14 at 10 AM ET (through Sept. 30 at 11:59 PM) via Telecharge.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlay It Cool, which was part of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 22nd annual festival in 2010, officially opens at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre Sept. 14 at 7 PM following p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDespite the popularity of "America's Next Top Model," former contestants and fashion industry insiders don't believe the show is an avenue to supermodel stardom. One of fashion's greatest mi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
