The 37th Annual Humanitas Prize, which honors film and television writers who deeply explore the human experience, were handed out on Friday, September 16 at the Montage Beverly Hills.
Amon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38PMIn “A Night With George,” about an Irishwoman’s “connection” to George Clooney, the title character never appears.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30PMWith over 170 million combined album, singles and videos sold worldwide during her career with Arista Records, Whitney Houston has established a benchmark for superstardom. It had been specu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29PMAN entire circus extravaganza is crammed on one itty-bitty stage, where a trained dog and a magician dazzle the audience with their tricks. Sharp knives are thrown and caught -- through clen…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:13PMBarefoot in the Park’s bouncy narrative evokes a fond nostalgia for an era gone by, even for those who weren’t born until decades later. Laughter never goes out of style - Recommended!
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:02PMBroadway shows need a lot of . . . stuff. It used to be that you rented every piece of equipment you needed from one of the few shops that provided it, paid the weeklies until your show cl…
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The announcement of the 2011 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominees has been set for Monday, September 19th at 7:00 pm. The event will be hosted by the Falcon Theatre, which is lo…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:55PMMichael Ritchie's grade of using LA content and LA talent is moving from last year's F to this year's C, thanks to scheduled shows at the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre, if no…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:49PMHugh Jackman is everywhere this week and it appears he has really arrived in a big way, both in Hollywood and on Broadway - announcing his return to the Great White Way later this season in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMNow I know you were shocked by my little attempt at emulating Jonathan Swift, "Here's to more dead Republicans (a modest proposal)," which I published a few days ago - but consider this late…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:33PMTHE HAPPIEST CORPSE I’VE EVER SEEN How many reasons do you need to rush out and get tickets for the Reprise revival of Cabaret? Let me offer a few. First of all, this is 2011, and a be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:13PMHIGH CULTURE UNDER A MALIBU SKY Anne Bogart is not one to shy away from her own directorial eccentricities. As the American Theater’s Queen of Deconstruction, she has had a formidable …
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HEDY WEISS: It is a given by now: Chicago is fast becoming a major center of dance, with both homegrown and imported companies on stages large and small.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:53PMHEDY WEISS: Chicago’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 …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:49PMA limited number of 40 tickets to the World Premiere all-star staged reading of Dustin Lance Black's new play 8 will be released for public sale at 1000AM Monday morning, September 19, 2011.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMThe Soka Performing Arts Center, which opens Saturday night in Aliso Viejo, is a new acoustical jewel by star acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota. Mark Swed reports on a dress rehearsal by the Pacif…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PMShaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMPatrick Monahan, On tourYou can be forgiven if ITV1's search-for-a-star stand-up reality package Show Me The Funny passed you by. But for many comedy fans, watching wannabe comics trying to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMOh, The Humanity And Other Good Intentions, Newcastle upon TyneIn Thom Paine (Based On Nothing), the US playwright Will Eno wrote a wonderful play about a man who had lost his humanity. Now …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMI've finally ended a period of travel and have gotten back to the theatre.
Reviews are coming of:
Follies
Man and Boy
The Submission
Stay tuned...
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 07:03PMIt has been quite a week for Broadway shows, with several shows marking milestones. Here's a quick look at the ones that happened this week (September 12 - 16, 2011)!OPENING:September …
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There’s a jazzy new musical in town called Play It Cool, set in an underground gay nightclub in Hollywood in the early 1950s. The show features a cast of five colorful characters led T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:52PMLegit Reviews: Steve Thompson's new comedy fictionalizes a real-life U.S. federal case brought by the Monty Python troupe against American net ABC in 1975.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:42PMTHEATER REVIEW: MOUNTAIN VIEW
Show #79: Sense and Sensibility, TheatreWorks, August 28.
By Sam Hurwitt
Jane Austen is far from dull. Even if you don’t give a damn whether or not the daugh…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:40PMMAMMA MIA: Celebrating 10 years on Broadway!
A look back on the creation and journey of MAMMA MIA from concept to now celebrating its 10th year on Broadway.
For more information, visit w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:32PMNext up in our behind-the-music video series, Whole Lotta Shakin': The Rock 'n' Roll Icons of 'Million Dollar Quartet', we’ll meet the show’s only fictionaliz…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:27PMItamar Moses's play explores its subjects' emotional terrain with an aching care that would drive a TV executive barmy, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:19PMBlake Morrison throws new light on to two great literary families: the historical Brontës and the fictional Prozorovs, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:19PMWHAT’S WRONG? IT’S ALL RIGHT In thousands of YouTube videos, out-and-proud adults tell marginalized queer youth that life will get better. Yet the “It Gets Better” campaign a…
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The MCC Theater world premiere of Jeff Talbott's The Submission, starring Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff as a playwright in peril and "True Blood" star Rutina Wesley as an a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59PMThe Rattigan fever seems to have crossed the pond with this revival of "Man and Boy". A reworked version of the Maria Aitken's West End staging from 2004, when it had David Suchet in the cen…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:58PMThe MCC Theater world premiere of Jeff Talbott's The Submission, starring Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff as a playwright in peril and "True Blood" star Rutina Wesley as an a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMOpera expert Norm Hollingshead previews Seattle Opera's upcoming production (Oct. 15-29) of Bizet's masterpiece at several locations of...
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:48PMLegit News: Actor makes Broadway bow in Rebeck play -- Jerry O'Connell will make his Broadway debut in "Seminar," the new play by Theresa Rebeck toplined by Alan Rickman.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PMWe weren’t sure what to expect when we caught up with Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and the cast of Chinglish at a September 12 press event for their brand new Broadway sho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PMSally Mayes headlines this sexy new off-Broadway with a hot jazz score.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:41PMThere are two solid reasons for theatergoers to check out the Creede Repertory Theatre's visiting production of "Unnecessary Farce" at the Lone Tree Arts Center.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:34PMVictoria Matlock on the mysterious girl singer she plays in "Million Dollar Quartet."
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:21PMTwo formidable if pleasant forces of nature swept through Manhattan's Central Park Thursday night: a late summer storm and a highbrow media spectacle. Two formidable if pleasant forces of n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMTHEATER REVIEW: 'Yellowman' at Stage 773 ★★★
NINA METZ reviews 'Yellowman' at Stage 773 ★★★ ... Transformed into a New York urban sophisticate, the young…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:19PMThe Sundance Institute is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Theatre Lab, which will see the organization's return to its Utah home at the newly-renovated Sundance Resort in July.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMAs another busy week on the Great White Way comes to a close, Broadway.com is ready to revisit the top stories of the last seven days. Between surprise nudie shots, big-screen movie musical …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:11PMSeason 2 of Submissions Only will be available exclusively on BroadwayWorld.com beginning September, 2011. Click Here for More Information. Catch Up with Episode 5 of Season 1 Below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMRambert Dance Company's new dance piece about childhood reworks Ravel's opera for a trip back down the years, writes Alison Gunn
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:05PM"Relatively Speaking" Press Event
Our friend Julie James of Sirius XM radio interviews the cast of Broadway's "Relatively Speaking", 3 one-act plays by Ethan Coen (&…
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Whazzup,folks It's Lourds Lane here again- the bookmusiclyrics writer of the rock musical, CHIX 6. This month, we will begin our limited 5 week run at the Queens Theatre in the Park from Sep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMAs BroadwayWorld reported earlier, A Georgia production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, playing at Atlanta's Plaza Theatre was shut down by local political leaders for being overly offensive and t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMThe "Nicest Kids in Town" are about to meet the New Directions as two generations of singing teenagers come head to head on Glee! On the upcoming premiere of the series' third …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:45PMTwo formidable if pleasant forces of nature swept through Manhattan’s Central Park Thursday night: a late summer storm and of Andrea Bocelli, the Italian superstar tenor for a free concert…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:33PMTelevision and stage star Wayne Brady and Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young will be among the performers at Broadway & Beyond, to be held at 7:30pm on September 26 at the Alex Theatre i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMGleeks everywhere are gearing up for the third season of Glee to premiere on September 20, and according to show creator Ryan Murphy, it will be worth the wait. “I have my passion for …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMKnife Edge Productions, in association with Swinestars Productions, celebrated the opening of its revival of Stephen Belber's play, Tape on Tuesday, September 13. Sam Helfrich has direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:24PMIt has been 25 years since Barbara Gaines founded the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company that began in a rooftop space of a Lincoln Park pub and has since become a mainstay with two th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:22PMLeading U.K. film and TV actor Warren Clarke will make his first stage appearance in over a decade to play Winston Churchill in Three Days in May, a new political drama by Ben Brown that wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMPeople are not always who they seem in The Submission, the racially heated (and also hilarious) new off-Broadway play by Jeff Talbott. Tony nominee Jonathan Groff stars in the MCC Theater pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMDISCLAIMER:Man and Boy is in previews and opens officially on October 9.One of my favorite things about attending Roundabout theater productions is that I never have any idea what the shows …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:07PMThe Magic of FlightGCTC brings in a winnerby Jim MurchisonThe GCTC opened its season with the much acclaimed Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly. The play had already been a hit for the Festiv…
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The retro Broadway delight "The Pajama Game" is being staged at Seattle Musical Theatre through Oct. 2, 2011.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:55PM"Every time I see some kid on the subway watching The Godfather on his iPod, I think, 'Fuck it, I want to do a play.'"
-Ethan Hawke
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 03:53PMTheare legend Stephen Sondheim took soe time out of his busy musical-writing schedule back in 1968 to write a series of crossword puzzles for New York Magazine. The collection was published …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMBryce Ryness, currently starring as the Emcee in the Reprise production of Cabaret, will present an evening of his original music at Barre, on Monday, September 19 at 8pm.
Ryness received a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMThe Obie Award-winning Classical Theatre of Harlem in conjunction with Hip-Hop Theater Festival presents the world premiere of Seed, an award-winning play written by Radha Blank, opening Sep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMLearn about David Henry Hwang's new play about an American businessman's adventures in China.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:37PMTony Award-winning actress Phyllis Newman was recently on hand at New York City’s P.S. 212 to read and sing from the brand-new children’s book “What’s New At The Zoo?…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMApplause, Across Cultures
The New York Philharmonic concert in Pyongyang, DPRK, on February 26, 2008, bridged cultures that had been long separated, creating a bond within the East Pyongyan…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:19PMPlaywright Itamar Moses and actor Karl Miller, who plays Elliott, discusses his new play, “Completeness,” about a computer scientist who hooks up with a molecular biologist. When Elliot …
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:16PMTony Award-winning actress Phyllis Newman performed the song, "What's New At The Zoo?" from the Betty Comden/Adolph Green musical, Do Re Mi, with students from New York City&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMKristin 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 03:13PMTony Award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim has not only written musicals—the world-renowned artist, known for his tricky melodies and wordy lyrics, also crafted crossword puzzle…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMA Gerogia production of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, playing at Atlanta's Plaza Theatre has just been shut down by local political leaders for being overly offensive and too risque. After the mayo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PM"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" is currently playing to sold-out crowds at The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. NY1's Frank DiLella recently took a trip to check in with the fo…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:04PM"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" is currently playing to sold-out crowds at The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. NY1's Frank DiLella recently took a trip to check in with the fo…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:04PMFriday again. The theater season is about to go insane. And somewhere on the Groff farm in Pennsylvania, someone is singing “Totally Fucked” in order to call the goats to their feeding, …
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Embrace the mystery of Downtown LA. When a prominent real estate developer ends up dead, a cache of stories is discovered immersed deep in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. From the mouths,…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:57PMFrank DiLella interviews director Diane Paulus and the stars of "The Gershwins' Porgy And Bess."
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:52PMKristin Chenoweth, Megan Mullally and Jeremy Piven may be stage stars and super-famous big-time Emmy winners, but don’t worry: Success hasn’t changed them. With the Emmys approac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PM‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” a play written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lynn Nottage, is a winning proposition, or so its producer believes. After receiving multiple p…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 02:45PMJames Vsquez directs THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at The Old Globe, with book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, choreography by JT Horenstein and music direction by Mike Wilkins. The Rocky Horr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMTheater Professional/semi-professional 11th Hour Theatre Company: The Bomb-itty of Errors Hip-hop version of Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors.' Closes 9/25. Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:41PMFiasco Theater has dived into the tricky, genre-bending Shakespeare romance "Cymbeline" with pluck and good humor.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:41PMMuch Ado About Nothing Trailer
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Sam Buntrock
September 10 - October 2, 2011
Two River Theater Company
Red Bank, NJ
Trailer by Erik Pearson
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:40PMSistas: The Musical, which debuted at The Midtown International Theatre Festival, will begin performances at Off-Broadway's St. Luke’s Theatre Sept. 29. Tony winner Hinton Battle p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM“Dear Friends”, 1409′s Facebook entry began this morning, and with that, Elsayed Mansour and Jeff DeMontier went on to announce that their restaurant, 1409 Playbill Cafe, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PMK, so they’re NOT the folks next door–or even farther down the block; they’re “The Addams Family”, and in the hit musical named after them they actually live in New York’s …
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:32PMJohn Leguizamo, who is bringing his one-man show "Ghetto Klown" to Los Angeles in October, will be joining us for a live online chat on Friday, Sept. 23 starting at 11 a.m. PDT.John Leguizam…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:32PMAlright, I’ve had it and I’m not keeping it to myself anymore. It seems that not a day goes by that a news item appears one place or another announcing that someone famous is considering…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:31PMTony Award winner Blythe Danner has been cast in a potentially recurring role on NBC's new comedy series "Up All Night," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMMarc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray and Irving Berlin's "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun will be among …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMCity Varieties music hall, which hosted BBC's long-running The Good Old Days series, is reopening after a £9.2m restorationStandup comedy in the UK is to get a shot in the arm with the reop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27PMThe upcoming production of “Stick Fly” has completed the casting process, adding yet another impressive Broadway personality to its roster. Rosie Benton, a member of the original…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 02:22PMThe Eagles, continues to tour and plans a Broadway show called (what else?) Hotel California.
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:20PMThe producers of the new musical BONNIE amp CLYDE announced the complete cast of the show. Previously announced stars Laura Osnes 2011 Drama Desk nominee, Anything Goes and Jeremy Jordan New…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMThe Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of David Simpatico's adaptation of Trouble in Paradise Sept. 26 at the Mainstage Theater in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PMNew York- BroadwayFollies- To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "When you're tired of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, you're tired of musical theater" . . .New York-Off-BroadwayThe Wood- …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:16PMTony-winner Alice Ripley will be featured in the cast of Thomas Higgins’ Wild Animals You Should Know, produced by off-Broadway’s MCC Theater. Performances begin at the Lucille L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:10PMTony-winner Alice Ripley will be featured in the cast of Thomas Higgins’ Wild Animals You Should Know, produced by off-Broadway’s MCC Theater. Performances begin at the Lucille L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:10PMFST Improv is in rehearsals for its brand new comedy show, JUST DESSERTS, where competition is the name of the game. In JUST DESSERTS, four improv directors are duking it out on the Gompertz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMNewsies, the new adaptation of the 1992 Disney movie musical, began performances at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse Sept. 15, prior to an official opening set for Sept. 25. Tony nomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMJohn Leguizamo, who is bringing his one-man show "Ghetto Klown" to Los Angeles in October, will be joining Culture Monster for a live online chat on Friday, Sept. 23 starting at 11 a.m. PT.
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Nederlander Sales amp Patron Services, Camp Broadway and BroadwayWorld.com will host the third annual At This Stage Education Expo on September 19th at the Minskoff Theatre. The event will f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMComplete casting has been announced for Bonnie & Clyde, the new Broadway musical from Frank Wildhorn. Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan will star as the title outlaws, and will be joined on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON is featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Tony winning co creator, Trey Parker recently spoke to NPR correspondent Jeff Lunden about the album's success and a cast album…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMLow laughs, sly raunchiness make for a mostly gut-busting evening. Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:46PMProducers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman announced today that prime tickets to The Mountaintop will be reserved for each and every performance, even in cases when the show is otherwise so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMVictoria Marks was thinking mostly about her son when she began to create Medium Big Inefficient Considerably Unbalanced Dance, but it grew into a dance about her own connections with others…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:41PMMCC THEATER today announced that John Behlmann The 39 Steps, MCC Theater founding member Patrick Breen The Normal Heart, Gideon Glick Spring Awakening, Jay Armstrong Johnson Catch Me If You …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMThe Friar's Club, the famed New York private club, hosted its annual Diva Showstoppers concert Sept. 12, featuring comedienne Lisa Lampanelli in her singing debut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMFollies is back.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMTony Award winner Beth Leavel and Broadway star Alexander Gemignani will serve on the judging panel for the first installment of the 2011 edition of NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation Compe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMEarlier this week, some online chat sites devoted to puzzles began to buzz about a Web site that included scans of 19 crosswords that were apparently the Sondheim mother lode.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of the new musical, Bonnie & Clyde, featuring music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell. Je…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Star singer Andrea Bocelli dazzled thousands with his signature brand of pop and opera in a cold, wet night in New York City's Central Park, which will be etched in his …
SOURCE: Reuters at 01:25PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMThe good news: President Obama’s new jobs bill, released Monday, includes nonprofits in its tax credits that go to companies that hire veterans and long-term unemployed people. The tax cre…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:23PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Still in Play: A Performance of Getting Ready" at MCA Stage ★★
Jenny Magnus and her tribe, the Curious Theatre Branch, have been doing their own deeply personal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:23PMClifford Odets' 1950 play examines the lives of a once-promising actor derailed by alcoholism, a hotshot director determined to give the actor a chance to start over, and the actor's support…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:22PMGrammy-winning 1970s musical mainstay The Eagles may be turning their hit single and album "Hotel California" into a Broadway musical, according to Deadline.com. While the ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMGrammy-winning 1970s musical mainstay The Eagles may be turning their hit single and album "Hotel California" into a Broadway musical, according to Deadline.com. While the band con…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMFall arrived pretty quickly this time, didn't it?This image is a painting by American artist Stephanie Frostad, titled The Sudden Autumn. The woman in the painting seems to have been taken b…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:09PMProduction: The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, directed by Kenny Leon, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PMThe Huntington Theatre Company has announced complete cast and creative team for its production of Yamagiwa Alfaro's Before I Leave You, to run October 14-November 13. The production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMPaul Michael Valley has joined the cast of the New York premiere of Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday, to be presented at 59E59 Theaters, October 6-November 6, with an opening on October …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PMComplete casting has just been announced for two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMThe friends, family and enemies of American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been announced for the new Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, starring the previously reported Laura…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMAlison Fraser will join Michael Urie in Tennessee Williams' Dirty Shorts, to be offered on Sunday, September 25 as part of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. She repl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMBryce Ryness, currently starring as the Emcee in the Reprise production of Cabaret, will present an evening of his original music at Barre, on Monday, September 19 at 8pm.
Ryness received a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMIf an actress expects to make a career out of playing a teenager,
certain challenges will arise. After all, no one can remain youthful
forever. Andréa Burns (In the Heights) joins S…
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From identity, mother issues, and unfettered love of kugel, to inner conflict over Israel, and the sheer joy of discussing and debating - TRADITION... we all have a little inner Woody Allen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMI have one word for my fall, and that word is BUSY! I’m cutting way back on my publicity work, partly because my teaching and workshop schedule is very, very full. Here’s a look …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:54PM"Some of us care about fashion and the rest of us just wear clothes," Nora Ephron said in a recent three-way phone interview with her sister Delia on the line. "When you're 3 years old, one …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:54PMBig spectacles are awaiting us this fall, but some smaller-scale works seek to make up in offbeat charm what they may lack in expensive special effects.Big spectacles are awaiting us this fa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:53PMScores of shows are opening in Chicago this fall. Here are 10 productions to anticipate with particular relish.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:52PMCurve, LeicesterDESH is Bengali for homeland, and in Akram Khan's latest solo the choreographer returns to the world of his Bangladeshi roots, in search of the stories and characters of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMRoundabout Theatre Company will featureTony Award winner RoseMary Harris as Miss Helen, Carla Gugino as Elsa Barlow and Tony Award winner Jim Dale as Marius Byleveld in the Broadway premiere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMSome big-name openings this week, including the new Mike Leigh play Grief, Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing, and The Wire's Dominic West and Clarke Peters reunite in OthelloAnother pretty busy w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMAre critics expansive about "The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 12:47PMThe classic film, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" celebrated its 50th Anniversary at Alice Tully Hall on Sept. 15. Julie Andrews, Bebe Neuwirth and more were on hand.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMClassic Stage Company CSC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Anton Chekhov's tragicomic masterpiece THE CHERRY ORCH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMTony Award winner Idina Menzel will return for the third season of Fox's "Glee" in episode two, airing Sept. 27. She will reprise her role as Rachel Berry's mother for a mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMThe Paul Taylor Dance Company has announced the selections for its d three-week engagement at its new venue, the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, March 14-April 1. The company's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMTo commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, Desipina & Co. — a fusion arts company focusing in film and theatre — presents Barriers, a play by Rehana …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMTo commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, Desipina & Co. (a fusion arts company focusing in film and theatre) presents Barriers, a play by Rehana Lew Mirza abou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMJohn Behlmann, Patrick Breen, Gideon Glick, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Alice Ripley, and Daniel Stewart Sherman will star in Wild Animals You Should Know, by Thomas Higgins. Trip Cullman will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMMTV has given a series order to Craig Wright's Underemployed, according to Variety.
The project focuses on five 20-somethings in Chicago who find themselves struggling to make ends me…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMJarrod Spector, who currently stars as Frankie Valli in the Tony, Olivier amp Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, JERSEY BOYS, will take his own concert entitled MINOR FALL, MAJOR LIFT to ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMA Mandarin version of 'Mamma Mia!' is wowing audiences in China. But can it spark a homegrown musical theatre industry? Patti Waldmeir reports
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:19PMTo 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 12:15PMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Tony winner Sheldon Harnick reunited in Manhattan Sept. 15 to perform a handful of Harnick songs and sign copies of "She Loves Him: Live at Feinstein…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMThe Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Trouble in Paradise at 7pm on Monday, September 26 at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater.
The work is adapted from the 19…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMComplete casting has been announced for Classic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the tale of rich but shortsighted Russians — chief among t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PM Elevator Repair Service gets inventive with Ernest Hemingway Elevator Repair Service’s new show The Select (The Sun Also Rises) is a lot of fun, but in between the stellar perfo…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:06PMJerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park will join previously announced cast members Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater in Theresa Rebeck's world premiere play, Seminar. Directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley and Patrick Breen will star in Wild Animals You Should Know, the new world-premiere play by Thomas Higgins, which will be presented by MCC Theater in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMSoprano Anna Netrebko will make her New York recital debut with pianist Elena Bashkirova at Carnegie Hall in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Wednesday, October 26 at 8pm.
She will perform …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMThe Pasadena Playhouse announced that Bradley Whitford is set to play the role of Marc in ART and Robin Givens is to play the role of Angel in BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY at The Pasadena Playho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMReagle Music Theater is set to present the original musical revue Say It with Music, October 1 and 2.
Broadway veterans Kirby and Beverly Ward, 40 local singers and dancers, and a professio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMBen Brown's Three Days in May will receive its West End premiere at Trafalgar Studios, beginning on October 31, according to Whatsonstage.com. The production, which is part of a nationa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Here is a selective list of Southern California's season's biggest dance and performance events, plus a nod to some major out-of-town productions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:55AMTony Award winner Stephen Mangan will voice the title character in the animated film, Postman Pat: The Movie -- You Know You're the One, which is scheduled for planned 3D theatrical rel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMMike McAlary was passionate about his work as a journalist. He was so passionate that he once stole a book from the Columbia University Library that contained articles on all the Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:53AMFilm and television star Jerry O'Connell and Hettiene Park will join previously announced star Alan Rickman Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in Teresa Rebeck's Seminar. The producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMFilm and television star Jerry O'Connell and Hettiene Park will join previously announced stars Alan Rickman, Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in Teresa Rebeck's Seminar. The produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMThe "How I Met Your Mother" star told "THR" about the director he'd like to work with, and which TV show revival would be "kick-ass."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:53AMLAByrinth 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 11:52AMThe National Theatre's acclaimed production One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden, broadcast live to cinemas last night as part of NT Live - including a special free screening outside …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:51AMThe Stage's Alistair Smith finds a lot of firsts this week in the world of theatre: cinema-style adverts take centre stage, injured dancers gain specialist NHS treatment, and Lloyd Webber le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMOn August 31, American Repertory Theatre opened The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS. Written by Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, the A.R.T. production features an adaptat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMFrom shoving her fist in her mouth to discussing her kissing obsession, Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth has made some campy TV appearances this week as she promotes her new solo album, Some Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AMTHRILLER LIVE will hold open call auditions in NYC on Friday, September 23rd. Click here for more information.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMFull casting has been announced for the Classic Stage Company production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, to be presented November 16-December 23, with an opening on December 4. A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMTony Award winner Garth Fagan will present the world premiere of his new piece "Madiba," a celebration of the indomitable life force of Nelson Mandela set to a score by Abdullah Ib…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMTickets go on sale to the general public beginning tonight, Friday, September 16 at midnight for two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman Private Lives, L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMJerry O'Connell, the film and TV actor known for Hollywood's "Stand By Me" and "Jerry Maguire" and TV's "Crossing Jordan" and "The Defenders,&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMBig Apple Circus will present its new show Dream Big! at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park, October 20-January 8.
The production, which is under the artistic direction of Guillaume Dufre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMMarc Bruni and John Rando will join James Lapine in directing the musicals of the 2012 Encores! series at City Center. As previously announced, Lapine will helm Stephen Sondheim’s Merr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMToronto Heritage Dance presents a powerful show featuring new and old works by half a dozen major talents
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:30AMCharles McNulty's picks for the fall theater season
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMThe Grammy-winning band the Eagles are turning one of their best-known singles into a Broadway musical, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMThe full list of presenters has been announced for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on Fox from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles Sept. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMWinners have been announced for The Midtown International Theatre Festival's 2011 awards, which were presented in a ceremony on Friday, September 9.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMThough she is a self-professed “girly girl,” Sally Mayes looks positively gleeful to be wearing a severely tailored pants outfit in the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. Cas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMA production of Side By Side By Sondheim, a fundraiser for the inaugural season of Singing OnStage Productions, was presented at The Laurie Beechman Theatre Sept. 13 and 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMBradley Whitford ("The West Wing," Boeing Boeing) and Robin Givens ("Head of the Class," Chicago) will be part of the upcoming season at The Pasadena Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMLong-running shows don't get revived.Black-lahoma.Rocky Horror banned in Carrollton.Chatting with David Cote about Trouble in Tahiti led me to this delightful Dawn Upshaw clip.Two scoops fro…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:12AMHugh Jackman is officially coming back to Broadway this fall, and Broadway fans are officially excited! In Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, the Tony winner will reflect on his life and career…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMSpider-Man, Turn Off the Dark star Reeve Carney is readying to swing back to the big screen as the late musician Jeff Buckley in an upcoming biopic about the Grammy nominee’s life. Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMEmmy Award winner Bradley Whitford will star as Marc in Pasadena Playhouse's production of Yasmina Reza's Art, to be presented January 24 - February 19, with an opening on January …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMOlivier Award winner Maria Friedman, who made her Broadway debut in The Woman in White, will be the guest star in An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMWe often talk about the longest runnings show in Broadway history . . . Phantom, Cats, Les Miz, Chicago . . . but rarely do we talk about the longest running plays. Why? Because you wouldn't…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
According to Deadline.com, stage and screen star Blythe Danner is set to guest star on NBC's new series 'Up All Night,' as Christina Applegate's mother.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMSome video on the new Porgy and Bess out of Boston. (And pace Riedel, it is still coming to Broadway.)
It's from WGBH's "Greater Boston" tv show. Full 30-minute(!) segment here, but this pa…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 10:57AMThe Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom, starring Emmy Award-winning actress and comic Judy Gold, has announced additional celebrities to be featured in "To Be Continued…," …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMRandall L. Wreghitt, a dreamer and a believer who made theatre on Broadway under the generic title of Producer, had more friends than George Bailey, judging from the turnout that filed into …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMThe sci-fi rock musical Bedbugs!!!, featuring Jenna Leigh Green and Brian Charles Rooney, will receive two concert presentations Sept. 20-21 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMTony Bennett's big break came in 1949 when comedian Bob Hope noticed him working with Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village. As he recalls, Bob Hope came down to check out my act. He liked my si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMGarth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, former executives and co-founders of the Livent theatrical organisation, have begun serving jail sentences on their convictions of fraud, bringing down th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMIf you "wish you could go back to college" like Princeton, Kate Monster and Nicky from Avenue Q, currently playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages, the chance has come. The Tony Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMLegendary feminist writer and activist and New York Times bestselling author Rachel Simmons will participate, along with the cast, in a post-show talkback session with the audience of facebo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AM'Spider-Man' actor Reeve Carney extends stay on Broadway
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMThis week's guest blog comes from Kate Powers who has a no-nonsense approach to exploring text. Take it away Kate! Excelsior! Act better, suck less Too often actors cannot find — and direc…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThe full list of presenters has been announced for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. The telecast will air live from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 18th, 800 P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThis morning I'll hand the floor to Steven Pressfield and his fantastic post, Unscrewing the Writer He talks about a set of essential skills for writers (and other artist), let me draw a lit…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:28AMThe Road to Mecca - About the Show
Tony Award®, Emmy Award® and Golden Globe Award® winner Rosemary Harris returns to Roundabout alongside the remarkable Carla Gugino and Tony w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:27AMDay 3 The Kid Who Would Be PopeBy Tom and Jack MeganBook, Music and Lyrics
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMJenna Leigh Green, Brian Charles Rooney, Chris Hall, Eric Anderson,
Shannon Conley, Steve Watts, Michael Zahler, and Stephen Sheffer will be featured in a concert verison of the musical Bedb…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMAccording to Deadline.com, the Eagles are busy developing a musical for the Great White Way. The band is currently touring, and will name the show after one of their biggest albums Hotel Cal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMAnthony Rapp and Ann Harada are among the Broadway folks who will perform the music of Eli Bolin at the Laurie Beechman Theatre Sept. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMLabyrinth Theater Company held a meet and greet with the cast and creative team of The Atmosphere of Memory, about a playwright crafting a memory play. Ellen Burstyn, John Glover, Max Casell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMTheatre East will present readings of James McLure's companion pieces, Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon as part of its Neighborhood Reading Series at O'Lunney's on Monday, Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMThe Extraordinary Ordinary, seen Off-Broadway this past season, makes its Midwest premiere Sept. 16 at the Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:12AMTricycle, LondonBelfast men don't dance. They don't talk much, either. During the 1950s and 60s, they left Belfast in their droves for jobs digging the roads and tunnels of England. They lef…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMBen Brown’s wartime thriller Three Days in May, starring Warren Clarke as Winston Churchill, will receive its West End premiere at Trafalgar Studios 1 on 2 November 2011 (previews from…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will return to FOX's Glee on Tuesday, September 27, according to TVGuide.com. The series will begin its third season on Tuesday, September 20.
Menzel&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMCrucible, SheffieldThe African American playwright Don Evans was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 70s, though his plays have never made much of an impact in this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMTerrific news! After 27 years of ongoing restoration, Jane’s Carousel opens to the public today! You may have passed it (as I have) on your way to St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO. I…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:43AMThe world premiere of The Real Love: A New Musical, which was presented Aug. 27 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, will be rebroadcast on Supreme Master Television in nine parts, beginning Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMStage and screen star Carrie Preston will return to CBS' The Good Wife as lawyer Elisabeth Tascioni, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, which stars Julianna Margulies, wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMErwin E.A. Thomas does some moral accounting.There's an odd moment early in the Foundry Theatre's How Much is Enough? Questions of Value (now playing at ArtsEmerson) which inadvertentl…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:33AMDowntown Music Productions present of revival of Harold Rome's satire Pins and Needles, featuring music direction by Mimi Stern-Wolfe and stage direction by Eleanor Reissa, on October 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMJack Viertel, artistic director of New York City Center’s Encores! series, announced Sept. 16 the final two directors for the 2012 Encores! season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AMMatthew Martin and Tim Realbuto's Ghostlight, presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, has added a performance, to be held on Wednesday, September 28 at 4:30pm. Mart…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMIt's all a bit much - and a bit too little. Lloyd Webber's painfully swollen music (played with gusto by the Walnut's orchestra, which knows its way around a crescendo, or two, or maybe 70) …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:03AMKnife Edge Productions, Abingdon Arts Complex, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: A well-designed set, skilled director, and convincing cast give life to this revival …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:00AM
Jack Viertel, Artistic Director of New York City Center's Encores series, today announced the final two directors for the 2012 Encores season. As previously announced, James Lapine will dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41AMBy Doug Strassler This past July, I fully anticipated writing a laundry list of personally beloved – and meritorious – shows and performers that went without Emmy recognition. But when t…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 08:37AMNew York City Center has announced updated information on its 19th Encores season.
James Lapine will direct Merrily We Roll Along (February 8-19), featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:35AMIn "Drive," director Nicolas Winding Refn crafts a cool, tight and stylish film that gets away with a lot. He managed to make a movie that works as some kind of bizarre but wonderful Michael…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:15AMI Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a comedy about the joys and pitfalls of relationships, love, sex and everything in between. Unfamiliar with its long history (and success) Off…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMFourteen-year-old actor Khadim Diop makes this 'Seed' grow to its full potential, and while the play drags at points, playwright Radha Blank's Harlem-set drama grabs the heart.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Broadway outing's aim isn't boffo box office -- A star-filled courtroom drama makes its stage debut on Monday, but the intent of this one-night Broadway outing isn't boffo box of…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
an Othello that still shocks and delights at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:54AMKneehigh's dark fairy tale fantasy is not for children, but it's a stunning, not to be missed experience.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:52AMDan Klores's docu-drama about the late journalist Mike McAlary is too jumpy and maudlin
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:49AMA note from Doug: Occassionally throughout this series I will invite other musical theater scholars with expertise in a particular show to write a few guest blog posts. This month I have inv…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:47AMINTERVIEW: SAM WALTERS The artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond talks to Carole Woddis about what it feels like to be the longest-serving head of a theatre in the country…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 07:44AMGaurav Gopalan, whose death rocked the DC theater community earlier this week, probably died of natural causes, his longtime partner told DCTS. Bob Shaeffer, who lived with Gopalan and their…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AM“To Machiavellian Capitalism- Boo Ya! Boo Ya! Boo Ya!” A Clockwork Orange at Theatre Royal Stratford East was a brave and bold retelling of Anthony Burgess’s seminal novel set …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMA fantastic way to gain a foot in the door of the arts sector, or an exploitative way for employers to get free workers? Jessica Wilson weighs up the benefits in the unpaid internship debate.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AM
Ripe Time delivers a breathtaking fusion of text, dance, and design in this insightful adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic stream-of-consciousness novel.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:58AMAs
I scanned through the press release for A Clockwork
Orange, the show currently running at Theatre Royal
Stratford East (see below for my review), I noticed the
following paragraph, tagged…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:50AMWelcome back Stephen Poliakoff. With his first new play for 12 years, the master penman has set aside his television excursions into history and memory — most recently Glorious 39 for the …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:34AMMy City, Stephen Poliakoff's first new play in 12 years, opened at the Almeida last night (15 September, previews from 8 September) where it runs until 5 November 2011.
Billie Piper and Ca…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:22AMI spend quite a lot of my life shuttling between home and theatres on the North London line which runs from Stratford in the east to Richmond in the west. It's a much improved service, with …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:14AM
"I feel, going back now, that the early '90s, the late '80s, for all the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, were comparatively innocent and carefree times compared to where we are now. ... [The] …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:55AMThanks to the internet, journalists are no longer the sole distributors of news and critics no longer have the monopoly on opinion, but it has become a process that literally everyone can no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AM"Trey Parker and Matt Stone have confirmed ... that they plan to adapt their Broadway hit The Book of Mormon for the big screen." Says Parker, "Hopefully [the stage show] will have a big run…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42AMSimba, Mufasa, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa are back and better than ever this fall when Disney's The Lion King roars into theaters and homes in breathtaking 3D. A special two-week theatrical extr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMI’m not going to do what every other long-time theatergoer does: tell you about the glories of the original 1971 Follies and detail how every other production has paled in comparison. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22AMSatchmo at the Waldorf was successful in every way. The house was sold out and the audience gave every indication...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:16AMIn today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I write about Hartford Stage’s revival of The Crucible and the Broadway transfer...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMLouis Armstrong, Velma Middleton, and the All Stars perform “St. Louis Blues”:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn my “Sightings” column for today’s Wall Street Journal I report on a recent visit to the Portland Art Museum’s...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM“Do not be an art critic, but paint, therein lies salvation.” Paul Cézanne, letter to Emile Bernard, July 25, 1904...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIs the new play based on the 2000 motion picture 'Bring It On'? Screenwriter Jessica Bendinger believes it is and has enlisted the help of the Writers Guild of America and attorneys.Is the n…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AMJanna Cardia stars in "Victor/Victoria" at Stages St. Louis,
playing a soprano who achieves success after she pretends to be a
female impersonator instead of a woman. Her identical twin, Jul…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMStages St. Louis has long been known for its visual style,
thanks to a top-notch design team that includes such artists as Lou
Bird (costumes), Mark Halpin (sets) and Matthew McCarthy
(light…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMFriday, September 16, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) – MAMMA MIA! teamed up with Magnolia Bakery for a special giveaway as it became the tenth longest-running show on Broadway following its 8 P…
SOURCE: 1716 at 01:00AM
FIVE DECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE WORD “THEATRE”Did you know that the word “theatre” is actually an acronym? Most people don’t know the history. The name given to this form of live perfo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMAs the musicals of lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II continue to be performed around the globe, Alice Hammerstein Mathias reflects on the life and work of her groundbreaking fathe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSkyline Theatre Company kicks off its 11th season with four fundraising concerts of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic Pirates of Penzance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSouth Coast Repertory opens its season with Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan's stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Sept. 16, following previews that began Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOntario theatre town has great stage productions, fantastic eats and baby, baby, baby, lots of Justin Bieber tie-ins too.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMAs Mayor Rob Ford and council Toronto dismantles itself, the arts are under attack — again
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMToronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre, the site of the Canadian premiere of Noël Coward's Private Lives in 1931, welcomes old friends back on Sept. 16, when the recent London reviva…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Doyle's Ten Cents a Dance, a rueful musical tale culled from the songs of Rodgers and Hart, officially opens Sept. 16 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ. Ton…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNeighbors, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ unconventional comedy which uses minstrelsy to confront tensions in "post-racial" America, opens the 2011-2012 season at Mixed Blood Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe troubled Weston clan hash out their past and present in the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County, which begins performances Sept. 16 at the Kansas City Repertory Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSouth Street, a musical comedy about a Philadelphia nightspot that is facing transition, gets its premiere at Pasadena Playhouse beginning Sept. 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as adapted by Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl, begins performances Sept. 16 at the Yale Repertory Theatre with much of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre cast in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Paramount Theatre in suburban Chicago opens My Fair Lady Sept. 16, launching a first-ever subscription series of locally produced large-scale productions at the venue in Aurora, IL. Prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRent's Frenchie Davis, a recent finalist on NBC’s "The Voice," acts as Mistress of Ceremonies for New York’s Finest: The Leading Men of Broadway Sept. 16 at 8:30 PM…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger-actress Judy McLane, who plays Tanya in the Broadway company of Mamma Mia!, stars as Diana, a mother battling depression and bipolar disorder, in Pioneer Theatre Company's product…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWalking Shadow Theatre Company's production of Neil LaBute's Tony Award-nominated dark comedy reasons to be pretty plays the Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio Sept. 16-Oct. 2. Ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Guthrie Theater's production of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing officially opens Sept. 16 following previews that began Sept. 10 on the Wurtele Thrus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll (1892-1948) is born today. His best-remembered contribution to Broadway was the eponymous revue The Earl Carroll Vanities, which had nine editions b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStep into a venerable Upper West Side church where Joe Papp once installed the Riverside Shakespeare Company. You will be ushered from room to room by docents who fill you in on the surprisi…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM1904 was a watershed year for Irish drama. On December 27, the Abbey Theatre opened its doors, fostering a renaissance of new, specifically Irish writing for the stage at a time when Ireland…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWoody Guthrie was a man whose wealth of big ideas exceeded his small frame. He created the cookie cutter for the American Protest song, and without him we may not have had great American son…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMA wildly pivoting grand staircase in the beginning of Septimus and Clarissa draws you into the stormy interior world of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Ellen McLaughlin, who adapted Woolf's …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM 
