Hard Sparks, Under St. Marks, Off Off Broadway
By Terra Vetter
BOTTOM LINE: Wonderfully chaotic romping tornado of a play with a first-rate ensemble cast.
Set in a New York suburb on…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:58PMIf "Riverdance" and "A Chorus Line" had a baby, it would be "Noctu."
That's Gaelic for "stripped" or "exposed," and this pint-size dance spectacle promises a peek through the keyhole into…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:53PMAs far as subjects for a play go, Mike McAlary is a pretty great choice. In the 1990s, the big-mouthed, big-hearted tabloid journalist embodied both tough-guy reporting and the gritty Gotham…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMA couple of seasons ago, the producers of some struggling Broadway plays thought they could improve business by eliminating intermission.
Other than stemming the flow of walkouts, it didn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:37PMAn final list of presenters for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on FOX, has been announced.
Presenters will incl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PMAn final list of presenters for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on FOX, has been announced.
Presenters will incl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PMAn final list of presenters for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, September 18 in Los Angeles and broadcast live on FOX, has been announced.
Presenters will incl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PMActor Tom Hiddleston is set to play the same role three times - in two separate films.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27PMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Blythe Danner will guest star on NBC's new sitcom Up All Night, as the mother of series star Christina Applegate, according to Deadline.com.
The show s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17PMHEDY WEISS: Context is often crucial. I caught Collaboraction’s Midwest premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s “Be a Good Little Widow,” just a day after watching memorials for the 10th ann…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:14PMEllen McLaughlin’s “Septimus and Clarissa,” an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” throws down a bold visual gauntlet from its very first moments.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMJen Silverman's captivating new play focuses on a Japanese-American woman trying to help her brother's ghost find peace.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMEllen McLaughlin's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway has some striking moments, but suffers from a too-literal script.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMReprise offers a powerful, erotic, and mesmerizing version of the classic musical.
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The Australian Theatre Forum. Where to begin? For the past two days, I've been locked in a box with 260 theatre makers - performers, directors, designers, composers, writers, critics, arts f…
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Show #86: Unveiled, Brava Theater, September 11.
By Sam Hurwitt
If you’ve been anywhere near any kind of media, you probably noticed that this past Sunday wa…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:41PMPerhaps you remember this set from Ajax in Iraq:
there was a lot of sand, too. and a giant map.
Or this set, from The Lesser Seductions of History:
circles!
Or this set and costume…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 08:36PMIn 2009, Pixar did something remarkable and released a film that would have almost no merchandising and licensing potential, but would cause numerous adults throughout the country to bawl du…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:35PMTo kick off the second season of the Broadway.com talk show "Show People," host Paul Wontorek sits down with the man who first dreamt up the smash hit "Wicked," composer/lyricist Stephen Sch…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:27PMNeil Patrick Harris, co-star of How I Met Your Mother was honored today by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce with his first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony was held in celeb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews Stephanie Fleischmann's meditation on 9/11 at Son of Semele Theater
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:20PMQ&A: Daters, Amy Roeder feels your pain. The former Denverite is a member of the famed Chicago comedy factory that's taking up residence at the Galleria Theatre for the fourth time with "Lo…
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To kick off the second season of the Broadway.com talk show Show People, host Paul Wontorek sits down with the man who first dreamt up the smash hit Wicked, composer/lyricist Stephen Schwart…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:59PMNorth Shore Animal League America will have three Mobile Rescue and Adoption Units filled with more than one hundred precious dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens looking for permanent and lovin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMIn 1997, a Haitian immigrant named Abner Louima was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub, taken to the 70th police precinct, and sodomized with a wooden handle, which was then used to bash …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:55PMAlmeida Theate, LondonStephen Poliakoff is back with his first new play in 12 years. But, while I welcome his return, this piece feels like an anthology of Poliakoff's recurring preoccupatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PMChicago’s fall theater season is already under way with a slew of hot properties on stages throughout the city and suburbs, and hundreds more productions slated throughout the 2011-12 seas…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:48PMMegan Fox has a pivotal role in the romantic comedy Friends With Kids directed by, and starring, Jennifer Westfeldt.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 07:40PMNEW YORK — If Broadway last season was dominated by a glitzy Spider-Man, Broadway’s new season seems to be shaping up more like his workaday alter ego, Peter Parker. A quieter, less risk…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:40PMIn one of this fall’s most anticipated new Broadway productions, “The Mountaintop,” Samuel L. Jackson will play a weary traveler who strikes up a conversation with a hotel maid. “He�…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:38PMCheck out BroadwayWorld TV's Around the BroadwayWorld for 915 featuring Songs from shows not quite on broadway including 'Now' - Dr. Zhivago, 'Second Hand Lions' - Megan Hilty, Time After T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMKristin Chenoweth is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 1999, for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glind…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMLegit Reviews: they both have one word titles, beginning with the letter "c," and they were written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. "Cabaret," however, is not "Chicago." Marcia Milgrom Dodge di…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:25PMRick Bayless, the superstar Chicago-based chef and master of Mexican cuisine, is cooking up a special show to be performed in collaboration with the Lookingglass Theatre. Though details are …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:22PMThe cast of Circle Theatre’s “Urinetown.” (photo credit: Bob Knuth) Have you ever had to pee so badly you could nearly taste it? I remember one time I was at an Ann Hampton…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:16PMPop star Lady Gaga once was a musical theater hopeful studying at NYU, and the chart-topper memorably shared her Broadway dreams with the cast of American Idiot last year. Now it's final…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:06PMSubliminal Projects is proud to present its opening fall show 3 Kings, opening this weekend with a reception for the artists on Saturday, September 17, from 8—11pm. In classic NYC S…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:01PMThe three frumpy sisters were marooned in a dowdy parsonage on a windswept Yorkshire hillside, surrounded by death and disease, remote from the great events of their time by dint of geograph…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMAs part of its rich celebration of the centenary of Terence Rattigan, the Chichester Festival Theatre has invited David Hare to write a companion piece to Rattigan's 1948 one-act master work…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMHarold Pinter's One for the Road and Victoria Station were last performed
together at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1984. The first is a sadistic portrait
of torture; the second a surreal d…
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Reprise Theatre Company presents a satisfying revival of the eternally captivating musical set in manic, hard-partying Berlin just prior to one of history's most sinister turns.Reprise Theat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:54PMThe first preview date for Off-Broadway's SONS OF THE PROPHET will be Wednesday, September 28th at 730PM, at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. 200…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMDirectors, actors, business people and cultural executives rallied Thursday against proposed cuts to Toronto’s arts budget.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:45PMWith "The Playboy Club," NBC offers its own trip back to the 1960s, only here it's a far grittier place than that other, adman's world.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:35PM[Inside] the Ford hosts three new stage works while El Portal Theatre unveils a more contempo Snow White. Albie Selznick does his magic at Santa Monica Playhouse while comics Howard Storm…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:26PMOff-Broadway's Transport Group announced complete casting for the fall world premiere of Queen of the Mist, the Michael John LaChiusa musical about a lady daredevil who survives a plunge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:26PMLegit News: Actor to stick with show through May -- Move means Carney, who plays Peter Parker in the comicbook musical, will be with the musical (which began previews in late November) for a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:23PMTickets are now on sale to the general public for the Broadway production of Private Lives at www.Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross will star on Broadway this autum…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:12PMPrimetime Emmy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy along with Don Cheadle, Kaley Cuoco, Rob Lowe, Lea Michelle and Ian Somerhalder are additional presenters announced for the 63rd Primetime Emmy …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMThe Public Theater recently debuted a very timely work, "Sweet And Sad," that is set on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:06PMRoundabout Theatre Company presents three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella as Gregor Antonescu in Terence Rattigan's drama Man and Boy, directed by Maria Aitken. As part of the centenni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMIn the Sunday Arts section of The Hartford Courant (and on line shortly), I write about the impact the Tony Award-winning hit "War Horse" has had on the puppet arts, most notably at Connecti…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:04PMThe new college graduates that make up the all-male PigPen Theater Company are doing well for themselves so far. This summer, PigPen became the first company to win the top honor for a play …
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Two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa (On the Town, Marie Christine, Xanadu, 42nd Street) and Broadway vet Julia Murney (Wicked, The Wild Party, First Lady Suite) will star in the Transport Group…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'The Chanteuse & the Devil's Muse' at the Bootleg Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:51PMTony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, Pascale Armand and Gilbert Owuor have been cast in the Yale Repertory Theatre world premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville, which will debut in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMThese Two: Songs of Happiness, Heartbreak, and Hope, a one-night-only concert featuring the music of Georgia Stitt and Jason Robert Brown, was held Sept. 12 at the Triad to benefit Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:45PMIn Sunday's Arts Section of The Hartford Courant I write about Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit, "War Horse," and its impact on the puppet arts. One of the people I talk to is Bart Roccober…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:43PMDan Jeannotte (below) and Paul-Antoine Taillefer (Photo: Andrée Lanthier)Of Gods and HorsesShaffer's frightening tale gets another airing at Segalby Sarah DeshaiesEquus—the title brings t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:39PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, September 15, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMDonna English, Edward Staudenmayer and Michael West have been cast in Madame X, the new musical by Tony-winning Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini, which will debut at the New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PMSeattle Opera has selected its 14th class of Young Artists, selected from a field of 584 applicants for training in a rigorous program that prepares them for the world of opera. The New Nine…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:31PMI read Wendy Wasserstein’s biography, it’s a pretty good read if you’re interested but one of the most minor things in the book really resonated with me. That is that Wendy wrote scree…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:31PM Maria Dizzia,
Greg Keller, Pascale Armand,and Gilbert Owuor make up the cast in the world premiere of Amy Herzog's "Belleville" at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre.Previews begin Oct…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:21PMAs the leaves begin to fall and the season changes, Broadway shows brace for the traditionally weak fall ticket buying season. Typically, shows see a boost in sales throughout the summer, wi…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:16PMParticipants have been announced for Prelude.11, to be held at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, October 12-14.
This eighth annual festival is dedicated to ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:15PMReady to find out what really makes Spider-Man's Spidey Sense tingle? Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark stars Reeve Carney and Jennifer Damiano are headed to Broadway.com's studio for a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMLAByrinth Theater Company is presenting the World Premiere Production of The Atmosphere of Memory by David Bar Katz, with performances beginning Saturday, October 15th and an opening October…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMThe Ohio Theatre has announced its fall programming for its inaugural season in its new home, The New Ohio Theatre, located at 154 Christopher Street.
The season will include Erica Fae and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMSeason of Concern (SoC) is once again fielding a team for the 2011 AIDS Run and Walk on Saturday, October 1st. THEY NEED YOUR SUPPORT!Season of Concern has one mission – to raise as much m…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:04PMWhether it's theatrical sets or performing in costume, bands are taking stagecraft seriously in a bid to stand out from the crowdFin Greenall has spent more than a decade working in front of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:02PMPascale Armand, Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, and Gilbert Owuor will star in the world premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville, to be presented by Yale Repertory Theatre, October 21-November 1…
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Celebrity MasterChef | Outnumbered | DCI Banks | The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink? | Milton Jones Live Universe Tour Part One: Earth | Comedy Lab: Rick And PeterCelebrity MasterCh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PMIn the latest installment of Muscles & Mascara, Priscilla Queen of the Desert's Nick Adams is in a particularly charitable mood. Adams introduces his brother, Anthony, before they he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMMarlo Thomas, Steve Guttenberg, Julie Kavner, and the cast of Broadway's Relatively Speaking talk about their show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMThis week I have a second review for the LA Weekly, the bittersweet life story of the famous Hollywood duo, Laurel and Hardy, now playing at the Falcon Theatre. Happy reading! photo b…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:53PMNew York City's iconic Magnolia Bakery takes center stage as it unveils the official cupcake of MAMMA MIA, toasting the smash hit musical becoming the 10th longest running show in Broadway h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMOnline auctions giant eBay is planning to launch a version of its StubHub ticket marketplace division in the UK by the end of the year.
The move, first reported by the Financial Times, would…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:47PMElizabeth Swados' new oratorio, The La MaMa Cantata, honoring the late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart, will receive its world premiere at La MaMa, November 7 and 8 at 7:30pm. The first …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMSons of the Prophet - About the Show
The writer of the breakout hit 'Speech & Debate', Stephen Karam, makes his highly-anticipated return to Roundabout with the New York premier…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:43PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON's Josh Gad just posted a photo on his twitter page of him and Charlie Sheen, who just visited the show and had nothing but good things to say about it Gad wrote So good to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMMy first review this week for the LA Weekly is of David J’s spooky musical play about the gruesome Black Dahlia murder, The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse, now playing at Bootleg…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:41PMThis classic tragedy is presented in the black and white realism of Miller's great plays such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible." Like those plays, the lead character is given littl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:41PMInternational opera star is opening the COC season in Iphigenia in Tauris.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:31PMThe Growing Orchestra Tree
Jon Deak on the Very Young Composers project.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:19PMGivenik.com has announced three more members of their Ambassador Program, it was announced by Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters. The VOCA PEOPLE join in support of VH1 Save the Mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMNo doubt about it, it was an evening of stunning dance as the Houston Ballet opened its season with, “Return of the Masters,” last Thursday night at the Brown Theatre of the Wortham Cent…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 04:07PMOne thing I've been thinking about lately is the relationship between journalism and advocacy.The word 'advocacy' has a slightly pejorative ring to it, or somehow seems antithetical in some …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:05PMThe Antaeus Company, L.A.'s multiple award-winning classical theater company, has announced casting for the U.S. premiere of Noel' Coward's anti-war drama, Peace In Our Time, …
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Michelle Duffy isn't just for musicals. The Ovation winner for Can Can is co-starring in Steven Dietz's non-musical Shooting Star at the Colony Theatre. What's next -- a reality TV show? REA…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:59PMLegit News: Cast complete for Broadway reading -- Ellen Barkin, Stephen Spinella, Jayne Houdyshell and Kate Shindle round out the cast of the one-night-only Broadway reading of "8," the new …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PMThe absolute minute the cover article about Shirtless Spider-Men appeared in/on yesterday’s Time Out New York, we knew it was meant just for us — and every other red-blooded, hormona…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:57PMTwo shows at this year's Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Fest explore the breakdown of communication in the digital era
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:51PMThe composer and writer Elizabeth Swados has created a new musical work, "The La MaMa Cantata," comprising decades of quotations by the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Ellen St…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMKevin Blake and Paul C. Vogt's performances as the bowler-hatted pair in Tom McGrath's 1976 play "Laurel and Hardy," are more successful than even colorization in bringing their art to life.…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PMJust like the school year, a new theater season comes with the crackling feel of autumn. If we're going to be precise, however, the 2011-12 year on Broadway began two nights after the June 1…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:43PMThe Fever Chart: Four Visions of the Middle East - Eclipse Theatre Company at The Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. is offering $8 industry tickets on September 15, 16, 17, 22,…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:41PMOn Saturday, September 24 at 800pm in the Venetian Theater, Kelli O'Hara makes her Caramoor debut as part of the 2011 Fall Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:38PMAnchored by winning performances from its romantic leads, this "Something's Gotta Give"-style sex comedy gains added spice from its colorful Mumbai setting.Anchored by winning performances f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:34PMMany rooms on five stories of Manhattan's West-Park Presbyterian Church have been transformed into the haunted setting of The Woodshed Collective's free environmental production of The Tenan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMThe play, by Bill Nabel and Bob Christianson, about refugees seeking asylum in the U.S., runs at Village in Issaquah Sept. 15-Oct. 23 and in Everett Oct. 28-Nov. 20.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:26PM"Contemporary tinkering with a classic drama or musical — of the sort that Kahn’s company and others in Washington and elsewhere frequently undertake — has become so common that it too…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:25PMThe house lights dim and the band begins. We turn our attention to the singer that the nightclub "is very proud to present" taking a turn in the spotlight. A recorded souvenir may lose somet…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:25PMWorks by Jim Lynch and by Cornish College alumni Joshua Conkel and Wayne Rawley are being staged locally, starting Sept. 16, 2011.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:25PMProducers have revealed the glittering final cast list for a new Broadway play about the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:21PMShow #84: She Loves Me, Cinnabar Theater, September 9.
Show #85: Patience Worth, Symmetry Theatre, September 11.
I have not one but two reviews in today’s Marin Independent Journal (t…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:20PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Producers have revealed the glittering final cast list for a new Broadway play about the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:20PMStage and screen star Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne, along with Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, welcomed CTG donors to a special "Theatre Artists" dinner o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMDaniel Radcliffe and Anderson Cooper are co-starring on Broadway…well, not really, but Cooper is the unseen narrator at How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. So it made pe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:05PMVideoCabaret presentsThe Life and Times of Mackenzie KingThe History of the Village of the Small Huts, 1918-1939Written and Directed by Michael HollingsworthStarring Paul Brau…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:03PMStage veterans Kristen Bell and Justin Long are among the actors who will lend their voice to FX's new animated comedy, tentatively titled Unsupervised, according to The Hollywood Repor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PM99Seats hits it right on the money:Everything you want to know is contained in this right here, every single thing that's wrong with our theatre, the state of playwriting and why puppies die…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:01PMLast March, The Book of Mormon, the profane and funny musical written by the duo behind South Park and one of the songwriters from Avenue Q, opened on Broadway to rave reviews and sold ou…
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Photo credit: Sal Cacciato Caption: Don DiPaolo and Therese PlaehnIt seems we never leave high school. In the revival of Stephen Belber’s Tape, the indelible mark of former school days per…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:59PMMEDIA RELEASE:Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly at theGreat Canadian Theatre CompanyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - OTTAWA, ONTARIO – September 6, 2011Amelia Earhart comes flying in to the Great C…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 02:56PMTHE LEGEND OF Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody gets its world premiere this August at FringeNYC, playing the Bleecker Theatre. The musical by Travis Ferguson book amp lyric…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PMLegit Reviews: Superb Northern Irish scribe Owen McCafferty isn't fully on top of his game in this short, sad play about two aged Belfast laborers passing the time towards death in a London …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMHarold Green Jewish Theatre Company has announced that Mandy Patinkin's critically acclaimed Broadway theatre concert, Mamaloshen, originally scheduled for Sept. 17-18 at the Bluma Appel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMPark Square Theatre has announced four new artistic associates who will work with Artistic Director Richard Cook to expand the theater's play selection and community reach.
The four ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMNewest Givenik Ambassador Adam Kantor (Avenue Q, Rent) meets up with Rod on the set of Off-Broadway’s Avenue Q to talk about their favorite charity, Broadway in South Africa, which was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMLegit Reviews: There is a subset of Off Broadway musicals that feature folks in a bar who sing of love and loss for a couple of hours before everyone goes home unhappy. This rendition, howev…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMLegit Reviews: Kneehigh is back in top form with this stunningly intelligent dance and musical theater version of a Grimm's fairytale.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:47PMTony winners Ellen Barkin and Stephen Spinella, Tony nominee Jayne Houdyshell and Kate Shindle have joined the starry one-night-only reading of 8, the Prop 8-themed play by Oscar winner Dust…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMAmanda Feldman is the founder and one half of Neighborhood Productions. Pastproducing credits include: Thieves (ThePublic); Thee Play About My Dad (59e59); The Wife (Access Gallery); Wh…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:43PMNewsies is inspired by the real life Newsboy Strike of 1899,' when newsboy Kid Blink led the ragged orphans and runaways known as newsies on a two-week-long action against Joseph Pulitzer, W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42PMLegit Reviews: Two lesbian couples contemplate parenthood in this play, which smartly mixes debate and drama, argument and psychological revelation.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:41PMIn these troubled modern times, one has to find things to be thankful about. I, for one, am thankful that Artistic Director Michael Kahn has dug up another dusty old script from the bottom o…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:35PMPhoto by Michael Lamont from the Geffen PlayhouseJustin Leeper in the West Coast premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse
No religio…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:30PMThe South Park creators' musical broke cast recording sales records, thanks to fans and promotions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:28PMLondon's King's Head Theatre, which will present the world premiere of Constance beginning Sept. 16, is billing the production as "Oscar Wilde's final play." Wilde'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMBroadway's Daniel Radcliffe recently visited Anderson Cooper's new daytime talk show, 'Anderson,' where he chatted about everything from being naked on stage to hearing Cooper's narration at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMChoreographer Christopher Wheeldon is considered one of the major movers in the dance world today, and he'll deliver a personal preview on Wednesday, the 21st, of the upcoming Pacific Northw…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:16PMChicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has snagged Steven Sutcliffe, the Canadian theatre star who was Younger Brother in the original Broadway production of Ragtime, to appear in its revised rev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMToday the American Foundation for Equal Rights, in partnership with Broadway Impact, announce the complete cast and roles for the highly anticipated one-night only staged reading of 8, a new…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMJackie Taylor, the founder and artistic director of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, is staring at an utterly transformative fall.
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At least as far as Broadway grosses are concerned.A post over at The Youngblog shows an interesting way to look at the "success" of certain playwrights over history using the The Broadway Le…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:56PMTheatre Communications Group's annual Free Night of Theater is actually a collection of nights throughout October. As in the past, some South Florida theaters are taking part, hoping to expa…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:53PMAge & Hometown: 35; Knoxville, TN
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Emily Osborn, the devoted wife of madman scientist-turned-super villain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, in Spider-Man, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMTony nominee Jeff Calhoun, who will be represented on Broadway later this season with Bonnie & Clyde, directs the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of the new Disney stage musical Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMNorth Carolina Theatre, the region's premier producer of professional Broadway musical revivals is excited to produce the Andrew Lloyd Webber sensation Evita this Fall - Saturday, October 22…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMProducers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris announced today that SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark star Reeve Carney has extended his contract with the production to May 2012, and will continue…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMAmerican Repertory Theater A.R.T. opened its 2011-12 season with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin on August 31. The adaptation …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMStage ghosts and the glamour of a bygone era are haunting Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, where Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies is in residence. Retired showgirl Sally D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMOnce in a while all of the stars align to create a magical theatre event like MetroStage’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo. The script, the cast, the direction, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:28PMSpider-Man Turn Off the Dark, currently playing at Broadway’s Foxwoods Theatre, features a rock score by Bono and The Edge and Reeve Carney in the title role. Here, Carney talks about …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PM“Showboat –’Round the Bend!” is a glimpse at the history of the American Showboat along our country’s waterways including the New York Harbor and its tributaries. The e…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:22PMThe Connecticut Theater Festival will cease operations after 21 years on Oct. 31, the end of its fiscal year.
Founding Producing Artistic Director Dean Adams made the announcement toda…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMHere’s another excellent preview piece about Satchmo at the Waldorf, this one written by Al Krulick for the Orlando Weekly:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:19PMMy iPod is packed with showtunes according to iTunes, I could listen to cast albums for almost two weeks non-stop without ever repeating a song. And yet I continue to purchase more all the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMI will be away from a computer tomorrow so post this regular feature a day early, and to leave the week with a laugh. The below Norwegian television sketch dates from 2001, but it remains a …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 01:14PM— The fall on Broadway started early this year. And auspiciously. Transferring from the Kennedy Center in Washington, Eric Schaeffer's lush, raw and moving revival of "Follies," the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:12PMTheater reviews: 'Yo Joe,' ✭✭✭; 'The City That Drinks ,' ✭1/2
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PMPerchance it was too much lying around on the beach this summer. Maybe the exiting humidity is blessed relief. Or maybe there's the sense that these are serious times requiring serious artis…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PMTony Award winners Ellen Barkin and Stephen Spinella, as well as Tony nominee Jayne Houdyshell and Kate Shindle have joined the cast of Dustin Lance Black's 8, which will get a one-night…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMAccording to the Guardian, Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland is not happy with north London's King's Head Theatre for claiming that they are producing the world premiere of the only unp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMIn Sunday's Hartford Courant Arts section (and on line later today), I write about the impact of the Tony Award-winning hit, "War Horse" has had on the puppet arts, most noticably in Connect…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:03PMNick shares a special Broadway tribute and more.
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:00PMAs previews continue in advance of the world premiere of Cirque du Soleil's resident production of "Iris" at the Kodak Theatre, the troupe announced Thursday that it will raise its big-top f…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM
Wembley Arena, LondonNot for the first time, Lee Evans ends with a song: a ballad this time, about an entertainer who sacrifices his personal life to make others laugh. Is it autobiographica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMSadler's Wells, LondonThere's a strong collective spirit in the Brazilian company Grupo Corpo, which has been run for 36 years by members of one family, the Pederneiras clan. Yet the name it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMTheatre 503, LondonThere are echoes of Chekhov's Three Sisters in Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán's play, inspired by the true story of three Andean sisters whose bodies were found in 1974…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMMy City, Stephen Poliakoff's first new play in 12 years, opens tonight (15 September, previews from 8 September 2011) at the Almeida.
Poliakoff also directs the cast, which includes Tracey …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:51PMEllen Barkin, Jayne Houdyshell, Kate Shindle, and Stephen Spinella are the latest stars to join the cast of a benefit reading of 8, a new play based on the Proposition 8 trial over same-sex …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMThe Chichester Festival Theatre has confirmed that its production of Singin’ in the Rain will transfer to the West End's Palace Theatre from 15 February 2012 (previews from 4 February)…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:50PMReeve Carney, who stars as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has extended his contract with the production through May 2012.
As previously reported, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMBefore the Bush moves from its home of 40 years, Dominic Dromgoole remembers the ground-breaking plays, the tawdry tales and why working there was such a privilegeThat the 1990s represented …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a new weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week CENTERSTAGE artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah shares pivotal moments in his…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMThe Westport Country Playhouse's fall production of Twelfth Night will feature David Adkins, Darius de Haas, Susan Kelechi Watson, David Schramm, Paul Anthony Stewart and Donnetta Lavini…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark celebrated its 500,000th audience member Jordan Muir, along with parents Michelle and Rob, onstage after the matinee performance on Sept. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMThe critics take their hats and hoodies off to this funny, dark and superbly topical 75th play from the prolific playwrightWhat is Alan Ayckbourn's secret? Because there has to be a secret. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMAs we've seen over the last few years, greed may not actually be all that good for the economy, but when it comes to the theater, the bubble on Wall Street dramas hasn't even come close to b…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:37PMCéline Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti and David Foster will join world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli for his September 15 Central Park concert with the New York Philharmonic. As …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMThis week, the A.R.T. led a two-day workshop sesh with 42 sophomores at Boston Collegiate Charter School. Seven groups of students invented their own theatrical reimagining of th…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 12:33PMKatharine Hepburn was one of a kind, a talented and feisty performer. Among her many accomplishments and accolades are four Oscars (out of 12 career nominations) and one Emmy Award. Actress …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:32PMReeve Carney, who stars in the title role of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, has extended his run in the much-in-the-news production at the Foxwoods Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMThe hit Broadway musical Mamma Mia! is headed into a month of celebrations culminating in its 10th anniversary at the Winter Garden Theatre. On September 14, the show marked a different mile…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMAt a breakfast event Thursday attended by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Goodman Theatre said that it had raised $10 million towards the $15-million goal of its new endowment campaign, dubbed "Endo…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMThe cast and creative team of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory met the press on Thursday, September 15. Pam MacKinnon directs this Labyrinth Theater Company production, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMCharles Isherwood on the coming Broadway production of the David Ives play "Venus in Fur," starring Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PMNicholas Hytner, artistic director of the National Theatre, has told the New York Times he hopes to stay on for "couple of years or so" at the end of his current contract. He had previously …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:22PMFollies which is now taking place at the Marriott Marquis theatre is a sad play about growing older. American society unlike other cultures embraces youth and Follies shows several couples w…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 12:19PMThis season is bounteous with familiar characters from other chapters of dramatic literature, who were last seen in the vicinity only a decade or so ago and are being given fresh life by new…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThe cult classic film "Newsies," featuring music by Alan Menken, has been adapted for the stage and officially hits New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse Sept. 15, prior to an open…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMNYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Competition is returning for its sixth year and will take place at New World Stages on three subsequent Saturdays - September 17th, September 24th, and October…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMCirque du Soleil's Ovo will play a limited engagement under its trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top), located at the Santa Monica Pier, beginning January 20. Renowned Bra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMCasting has been announced for Alan Lester Brooks' A Splintered Soul, to run October 21 - November 13 at Theater Three. Daisy Walker will direct the production.
The play, set in San F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PM"This stuff is low. It is thin. It is unworthy of the talent and effort onstage. It is boring."
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 12:00PM
You couldn’t swing a sequined clutch without hitting a Broadway star at the September 12 opening of Follies, starring Bernadette Peters and Jan Maxwell. Famous faces from Edie Falco to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMOur experts on theater, dance, visual arts and film wax nostalgic on three decades of reviews.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 11:58AMAward-winning orchestra/arranger, pianist-singer-actor, songwriter, TV composer and theatrical musical director Fred Barton and his nine-piece Broadway Band will star in Fred Barton Present…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMCasting has been announced for the national tour of Bring It On, which will launch at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on October 30. The cast will be lead by newcomer Taylor Louderman as C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMWrite-On!, a series of new plays written by Acting Company alumni will be performed as staged readings, beginning Oct. 3 at 7 PM at New York City's Theatre Row.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThis 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 11:51AMWe are thrilled to present our second issue with the incredible Kristin Chenoweth. We sat down with her to talk about her newly released country album Some Lessons Learned. Chenoweth is best…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMLauren Kennedy will show off her star quality as controversial political figure Eva Peron in the North Carolina Theatre's upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Ev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMWhile I am always happy to see original, innovative musicals succeed Off Broadway, I’ve been a lot less happy in the past few seasons to see how such shows fare once they’ve been moved t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:48AMROCK OF AGES THE MUSICAL is currently in previews at London's Shaftsbury Theatre, led by Justin Lee Collins, Shayne Ward, Amy Pemberton, Oliver Tompsett and Simon Lipkin. The production offi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMMichael Chernus, Diane Davis, Crystal Finn and Jeffrey Hawkins will take part in a reading of Jonathan Caren's Open Heart Meditation, to be offered at Ars Nova on September 19 at 7pm as…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMNew York City’s iconic Magnolia Bakery takes center stage as it unveils the official cupcake of MAMMA MIA!, toasting the smash hit musical becoming the 10th longest running show in Broadwa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:30AMChichester Festival Theatre's critically-acclaimed double bill of David Hare South Downs and Terence Rattigan The Browning Version, directed by Jeremy Herrin and Angus Jackson, opened last n…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:30AMPaper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the premiere of a brand new musical, Disney's NEWSIES! Adapted for the stage from the popular Disney film, NEWSIES is based on the 1899 true story of…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:28AMRichard Easton, Carrie Preston, Michael Urie, F. Murray Abraham, Marsha Mason and Veanne Cox will take part in the Red Bull Theater's 2011-2012 Revelation Readings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMChichester Festival Theatre's critically-acclaimed double bill of David Hare South Downs and Terrence Rattigan The Browning Version, directed by Jeremy Herrin and Angus Jackson, opened last …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:23AMJeremy Jordan’s theatrical version of two-timing means that during much of the world premiere of “Newsies” he’ll also be rehearsing “Bonnie & Clyde.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22AMIn honor of her birthday, here’s a clip of the late Penny Singleton singing “Gentlemen Don’t Deserve a Lady” from the 1941 film Go West, Young Lady. You probably know…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AMI’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I turned up at Richmond Theatre with my mother in tow for One Night at the Proms (even though the official Last Night of the Proms was shown on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMThe Broadway company of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia!, which opened Oct. 18, 2001, became the 10th longest-running show in Broadway history following the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMOut Loud, Ars Nova’s free play-reading series dedicated to developing new work by emerging playwrights, will continue Sept. 19 at the Manhattan venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMTickets are now available for the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, starring Weeds' Hunter Parrish as Jesus. Directed by Daniel Goldstein, performances begi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:10AMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, has played to over five-hundred-thousand audience members, as of yesterday's matinee performance. The 500,000th ticketholder, Australian youngster Jordan Muir, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThe brilliant, witty caricaturist Drew Friedman has a new book out and you already know its title. It’s the latest in a series of successful books on this theme, and Friedman now has a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AMMerlin Holland, Wilde's only grandson, said it was "dishonest" for a London theater to present a new work as the final play of his illustrious grandfather.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:01AMWhen I was a kid I collected baseball cards of my favorite players. When I was a kid I had posters of my favorite movie stars on my walls. When I was a kid . . . I didn't know...
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The National Endowment for the Arts is launching a new initiative called ArtPlace to spur various projects across the country. Warner Bros. has restructured its live-theater division, with A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:51AMNominees for the 2010-11 Suzi Bass Awards, which celebrate excellence in metro Atlanta’s professional theatre community, were announced Sept. 12 at Fabrefaction Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe glittering opening night of the Broadway revival starring Bernadette Peters and Jan Maxwell.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:49AMBenny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus' global hit musical MAMMA MIA celebrated another milestone during its landmark 10th Anniversary year last night, September 14, when it became the 10th longes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMFollowing mixed reviews in Boston, there have been rumors that the A.R.T. production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess might not reach Broadway. However, the estates of George Gershwin, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:41AMNY1's weekly segment "Your Weekend Starts Now" shows entertaining picks for great things to do this weekend all around the city.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:39AMFarah Alvin and Jamie LaVerdiere will share the Date of a Lifetime this October as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMSeptember 19NYCDramatist Guild Fellows Night of ExcerptsPlaywright's Horizons7pmI'll be presenting a scene from THEN AND NOWfeaturing:Sarah Kate JacksonChris Kipiniakdirected by: Kyle Ancow…
SOURCE: Daily Plays at 10:34AMGaurav Gopalan, an aeronautical engineer who brought boundless energy, a vigorous intellect and startling insight to theater in the Washington area, was found dead in Columbia Heights on Sat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMWhen flipping through the channels a week ago, I came upon the happy news that JLTV (Jewish Life Television) is showing reruns of The Soupy Sales Show every Thursday at 9pm. And now I’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:23AMSinger-songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who is currently making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, may pen a Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMThe Inis Nua production, seen here in April, has opened Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:16AMLarry Pine will join the previously reported Adam Green, Kathryn Meisle and Carrie Preston in a staged reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, to be presented by Red Bull Theater as part…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMI AM THEATRE: Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah, an award-winning British playwright, director, actor, singer and broadcaster, was selected as CENTERSTAGE's Artistic Director in Februa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:15AMThis week's awesome person has been brought to us by performer Erica Dorfler. I've known Lilli for quite some time and she's got something very cool that she's developing! Take it away Erica…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:15AMExperimental theater director Whit MacLaughlin moves in mysterious ways.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:14AMThe DVD of the Melbourne production of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, will be released in February 2012, a production spokesperson confirmed t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMThe acclaimed Chichester Festival production of Singin' in the Rain is headed to London's Palace Theatre. The show will begin performances on February 4 and open on February 15, with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:09AMDay 2 Next Broadway SensationBy Jason Haft- Line Producer of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMThe Broadway star's appealing cabaret show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room shows off his facility with love songs.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMThe London show-business shop Dress Circle will welcome cast members from the new musical Betty Blue Eyes Sept. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM
Notwithstanding rave reviews, the post-war British comedy, Betty Blue Eyes, has become one of the first West End casualties of the global recession, with the final curtain scheduled for Satu…
SOURCE: Musicals in London at 09:58AMAlthough we’ve mentioned in several previous posts that celebrities add a potent “star power” to Broadway productions, we have yet to mention the possibilities when one cel…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:49AMFull casting has been announced for the new musical Madame X, featuring book, music, and lyrics by Gerard Alessandrini and Robert Hetzel. Alessandrini will direct the production, part of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMBilled as “the Slave of Fashion” big time vaudeville female impersonator Francis Renault would display his expensive, five-figure gowns placed in the lobby for his lady fans (vas…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AMAnd, some said it would never open.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMThe company of Mamma Mia! celebrated becoming Broadway's 10th longest running show Wednesday, September 14 with a Magnolia Bakery cupcake giveaway and post-performance party.
10 lucky…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, will kick off its new season Sept. 26 in the Bruno Walter Auditoriu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMThe Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin' in the Rain will transfer to the West End's Palace Theatre, beginning performances on February 4 in anticipation of an officia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMMaybe once or twice a year I do a live arts marketing workshop. Typically these workshops are for small to mid-sized arts organizations. This time I'm doing a workshop that will focus on the…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:19AMCasting has been announced for Bring It On: The Musical, which as previously announced, will launch a national tour with an engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre, running November 1 - December …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMThe Arts on TV: Michael Feinstein; Kirk Douglas in 'Lust for Life'
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Technical Director of the Avon Theatre describes some of the joys and challenges of working in a repertory theatre company with such technically heavy productions such as The Grapes of Wrath…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:58AMWith less than 4 hours between shows, the exceptional Stratford Festival crew goes to work changing the Avon Theatre stage from The Grapes of Wrath to Jesus Christ Superstar.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:55AMWest End gala concert A Night for Jennifer is being held at the Lyric theatre on Monday 31 October 2011 in aid of Jennifer, a support organisation for widowers and their children.
The eveni…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:54AMThe national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams kicks off tonight at the Mahalia Ja…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:53AMI’m giving you fair warning: This one is a turkey. It premieres Monday night. You gotta see it to believe it. THE PLAYBOY CLUB.From the first second you know you’re in trou…
SOURCE: Ken Levine at 08:53AM"The Lady With All the Answers" presents the columnist Ann Landers as a person who just might write a letter to Ann herself. Her faith in herself and her work is unquestioned, even as her ow…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMFour musical revivals are coming to Broadway this fall, with a couple offering extensive reinterpretations of the original works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Once,' 'Memory,' more set casts -- The fall lineup of Off Broadway productions continues to nail down casting, with the tuner version of 2006 film "Once" -- now set to star St…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMIn an interview, playwright Dan Klores notes that his maiden effort, last season's "Little Doc," was "a disaster" and "a great learning experience." I'd say the learning curve was not a sh…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMInspired by the Japanese myth of the crane wife, this play about ghosts is rescued by its self-aware sense of humor as well as sensational stage flourishes and some deftly operated puppets.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Sally Mayes, consummate singer, gets to wear the pants and strut her inner jazz baby, riffing and skatting with the best of them in “Play It Cool” which has just opened at the Ac…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:55AMThe cast of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” had a great year last year. Contracts, promotional tours, endorsements, and millions of adoring fans at their feet. What did the cast of “Jersey Shor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMthis odd little concepty gets stranger and stranger as the night goes on. And funnier and funnier
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:29AMComedian and musician Bill Bailey and his band perform Gary Numan's electropop classic Cars. With 'appropriate' instrumentation. In FrenchAndy GallagherBen KapeKen MacfarlaneAlice Salfield
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMAndrea Gallo stars as the title character in Ian Augustâs âDonna Orbits the Moonâ at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch. Have you ever wondered what Lucy Van Pelt of …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AMTry as I might, I find it impossible to appreciate the Elevator Repair Service’s aesthetic. This enterprising downtown troupe has made a significant name for themselves in recent years…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:02AMBy Bill Hirschman Theater reviewers must have a better than average ego to flatter themselves into believing that their judgment has worth, regardless of what anyone else thinks. So imagine …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:00AM
Who can predict what will happen the moment after a first kiss? Those tender, uncertain seconds can reveal worlds about the heart you’ve just touched. But they can also reveal the secret h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57AMMarquis, New YorkWith its themes of youthful callousness, middle-aged regrets and vital emotions pumping beneath crusty surfaces, all mixed together in a tangy marinade of nostalgia and clea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM The South Florida theater scene is so busy that often the news comes too fast for us to keep up with. From time to time, we’ll run a column like this one, containing several items. …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:45AMJonathan Church's new production of Singin' in the Rain is to transfer to the Palace Theatre following its critically acclaimed, sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Church's product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:38AMAre bloggers legitimate journalists?The arguments range from a defiant NO to a qualified YES but, ultimately, legitimacy is granted by those who read the writing rather than any of the estab…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:06AMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center, America's pre-eminent New York-based non-profit film organization, and Paramount Home Entertainment announced today that they will hold a gala event to ce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMA memorial celebration of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt's life will be held at the Shubert Theatre 225 West 44th Street on Thursday, September 15th at 1PM. The memorial is open to th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AM
While it's refreshing to see women working in the male-dominated political world, playwright Victor L. Cahn still resorts to gender stereotypes, and Eric Parness' rickety direction inhibit…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:52AMNew Jersey’s Bobby Cannavale is a man whose rise to celebrity and fame is a story of success and perseverance that could inspire each of us. Now, in a career-advancing move, Cannavale …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 05:49AMA row has erupted over the origins of a play at the King's Head Theatre that producers claim is an Oscar Wilde “world premiere”.
Constance, which opens tonight (15 September 20…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43AMJonathan Church's production of Singin' in the Rain, based on the celebrated 1952 MGM film of the same name, will transfer to the West End's Palace Theatre, after its hit summer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32AMThe Kitchen trailer
The Kitchen by Arnold Wesker is now playing in the Olivier until 9 November.
Travelex £12 tickets available.
4 STARS Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Financial Tim…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:26AMSingin' in the Rain is to transfer into the West End in 2012, it has been confirmed.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM
On 14 September a Whatsonstage.com theatre group of 180 descended on the Shaftesbury Theatre for a trip back to the 1980’s with the jukebox musical comedy, Rock of Ages, starring chat …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:58AMMamma Mia!
© Mamma Mia!
Calling all "Dancing Queens!" The cast of Broadway's Mamma Mia! has a special party with your name on it!!
Tuesday, September 20th, at 7:30 p.m., the cast of the…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 04:56AMI spoke last month about the perils of rehearsal room block, those difficult first few days with a new company, and the worries I’ve often had about misunderstanding or misinterpreting a n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52AMThe final stage of Chichester's Rattigan celebration couples his one-act play of thwarted ambition and loveless marriage with a new play from David Hare looking at life in a public school ab…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:50AMRussell Crowe
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 04:42AMMost of the actors in Michael West's tonally confused comedy make no further effort at an Irish accent than applying a lilt to a word or two in each sentence.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:32AMWilliam Shakespeare
Fans of the Bard will flock to movie theaters today as a grande London production of Henry VIII wraps up the Globe's season.
For one day only, Shakespeare's Globe London …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 04:21AMThe Chichester Festival Theatre has confirmed that its production of Singin’ in the Rain will transfer to the West End's Palace Theatre from 15 February 2012 (previews from 4 February)…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:08AMTwo old Irish fellas from Belfast, Iggy and Gerry, are working on the roads in London and exchanging memories over large cups of coffee in the hostel they now call home.
The stage is bare …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:08AM
The first two parts of Puccini’s
Il trittico have finally caught up with the four year old Gianni
Schicchi, getting the Royal Opera’s new season off to a cracking
start. Th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 02:56AMPaper Mill Playhouse just announced the cast for its season opener, the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies. Revolutionary newsie Jack Kelly will be portrayed by Jeremy Jordan of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AMReview: "Justin Bieber Meets Al Qaeda," easily the most provocative title of the fall theater season, is the only original local theatrical response to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attac…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:27AMVideo podcast: Running Lines at opening of new LIDA Project
This week, John Moore takes you to the Sept. 9 opening night of LIDA Project's new theater space at an artist collective call…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:23AMRita Gardner is remembering. Watching her on the small stage of Metropolitan Room, beautifully performing songs and telling compelling stories from the Golden Age of Off-Broadway (the late …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:17AMExperimental theater director Whit MacLaughlin moves in mysterious ways.
As the master of Philadelphia's New Paradise Laboratories, MacLaughlin and his revolving-door company have created a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:01AM
"The recently formed Utah chapter of the Dramatists Guild of America calls the prospective [2,500-seat] theater 'an echoing and unrealistic, airplane-terminal of a building.' The group ... c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:58AMThe controversial new version of the Gershwin-Heyward opera now playing in Cambridge, Mass - directed by Diane Paulus and starring Audra McDonald - has been approved by the Gershwin and Heyw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:35AM"Merlin Holland [says] that his grandfather did no more than devise a 'minimal' scenario - just a few paragraphs - for a drama called Constance, which Wilde jotted down in a letter of 1894. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32AM"What do you see?"That's the first question painter Mark Rothko poses, almost pleads, to his new apprentice Ken in the opening minutes of the Rep's scorching season opener, John Logan's…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:32AMNicholas Hytner's five star production of One Man, Two Guvnors will transfer to the West End for a 16 week run following its sell-out run at the National Theatre, subsequent UK tour and Nati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMI am just getting around to reading a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Stephen Tepper and George Kuh (subscription required) about the need to get serious about teaching creativ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:28AMIf you’re wondering why I’ve spent the week vacillating between terror and joy, then I should remind you that the new TV season has begun. Every night brings a new companion to m…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 01:03AMSatchmo at the Waldorf opens tonight in Orlando, Florida. We had a few high-octane technical snafus at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom the film Satchmo the Great, narrated by Edward R. Murrow, Louis Armstrong and the All Stars perform “Mack the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM“I think that all ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMs. Mayes is giving a fantastic, full dimensional portrayal of a “Butch Dyke - owner of Mary’s Hideaway – an underground gay jazz club off Sunset, Hollywood, circa 1953
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe 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 …
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WHEN YOU USE MACE, USE WITH DISCRETION Playwright Kristoffer Diaz has an ear for unleashing the poetic possibilities in “street-smarts” vernacular; and director Edward Torres has…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:22AMThe British-born television comedienne and writer Tracey Ullman, who has long been resident in the U.S., returns to the London stage to star in the world premiere of Stephen Poliakoff's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe National Theatre's third season of National Theatre Live, an initiative to broadcast live performances from the National's stages to cinemas worldwide, begins with the screening …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe life of late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mike McAlary unfolds in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater world premiere of Dan Klores' The Wood, which officially opens Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLerner and Loewe's Camelot, starring Jim Stanek, Kim Carson and Jarid Faubel, begins performances Sept. 15 at the Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Tony winner Sheldon Harnick reunite in Manhattan Sept. 15 to perform a handful of Harnick songs, and to sign copies of "She Loves Him: Live at Feinst…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTrouble in Mind, Alice Childress' 1955 play about a racially integrated theatre company presenting a race play, opens Sept. 15 following previews from Sept. 9 at Arena Stage, the residen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rocky Horror Show, the rock musical about a vanilla couple that stumbles into an altered science-fiction world where sexuality and gender roles are redefined, begins Sept. 15 in a reside…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriends, colleagues and family will gather to celebrate the life and work of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt at 1 PM Sept. 15 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Wreghitt died May 18 fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, opens for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe national tour of the Broadway musical The Addams Family takes its first breath Sept. 15 for a run to Sept. 24 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans, LA. Tony Award nominee Dougla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaywrights Realm presents the world premiere of Jane Silverman's Crane Story, which officially opens Sept. 15 following previews that began Sept. 6 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA Contemporary Theatre's production of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, starring Anne Allgood and Suzanne Bouchard as dueling royalty, officially opens Sept. 15 in Seattle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe excitement is still vivid from David Mamet conquering Pittsburgh back around 1980, with the punchy dialogue and dark comic insight of "American Buffalo" and "Sexual Perversity in Chicago…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMDally With the Devil by Victor L. Cahn is about 3 politically powerful women--one on the left, one on the right, and a blogger (think Arianna Huffington) in the middle. Irene is a lefty coll…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMExisting somewhere between immersive installation and extravagant vaudeville, The Lapsburgh Layover operates as broad comedy developed by artists with a firm grasp of theatrical perspective.…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWhen tasked with reviewing a play that's already won an Obie and stirred whispers of a new literary sensation, I sensed that I was walking into a gift assignment. I missed Jonas Hassen Khemi…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWhat's harder, love or science? For Elliot and Molly, grad students who can compute and explain complex algorithms and theories, it's the former. The struggle for connection amongst late twe…
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