My 2011 Playwriting Work Plan: Third Quarter Check InThe end of the third quarter is fast approaching, and even though it's technicaly at the end of September, I'm going to go ahead and do m…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:53PMActor Gilles Marini will guest star on Modern Family, according to TV Line.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26PMFemale playwrights are woe fully underrepresented on our stages -- women of color particularly. Helping to correct that sorry state of affairs is the Ensemble Studio Theatre's "The River Cro…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:20PMAfter being stopped short in their tracks by Stephen Sondheim's blistering letter and Ben Brantley's tough review, the producers of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" are getting the show back …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMTonight was the first elimination on the thirteenth season of DANCING WITH THE STARS Which stars will continue on, and whose journey has ended before it's even begun Find out now
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16PMIt's fairly common for a fund-raiser benefiting a children's organization to feature a performance by the children. But few have the scale and professional quality of the show at a gala for …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:12PMA San Diego Odyssey
Commissioned by The Old Globe, Odyssey is a new music theater event that reimagines Homer's epic poem as seen through the lens of contemporary San Diego. Conce…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:09PMPhoto: Steven MenendezThe four musicians are elegant and graceful. The bass player is cool and contained. The piano and drum players banter with the singer. The trumpet player may be her lov…
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SOURCE: Theater Talk at 09:48PMThe one-night only reading of the new theater piece by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black drew an impressive crowd, represented both in the audience and on stage.The one-night onl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:29PMAndrew Gerle gives a musical theatre audition workshop & signs copies of his new book,
The Enraged Accompanist’s Guide to the Perfect Audition.
Award-winning composer, musical director, …
SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 09:26PMHEDY WEISS: By all rights, the phenomenal production of “My Fair Lady” now inaugurating the homegrown, grandly ambitious Broadway Series at Aurora’s historic 1,888-seat Paramount Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:13PMAs a Producer I spent a lot of time in my office, a lot of time in conference rooms, and a lot of time at lunches. Today, I took a break from proofing ads and returning calls about cast albu…
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Crucible, SheffieldIt's been billed in advance as a classic encounter between two stars of The Wire, Clarke Peters and Dominic West. But what first impresses about this much-touted event is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59PMThe annual monthlong Arts Crush celebration kicks off Sunday at McCaw Hall in Seattle. Registration continues for free tickets to various arts events.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:57PMArthur Miller's Keller family and their neighbors take on a whole new dynamic in the Matrix Theatre's multi-racial production of All My Sons, which will debut Oct. 13 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:51PMReview: The great American musical "Ragtime" is a paean to what this country was and yet could be — which makes it so discombobulating seeing it now, when economic pessimism hangs ove…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PMThe nominees for the 2011 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards were announced last night at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. The nominations were revealed by 2010 Ovation Award winners Brendan Hun…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:25PMI will be seeing very little of the Fringe Festival this year. This is because Life is getting in the way. To wit: the edits for my novel Black Spring (coming out late next year, but the lea…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:24PM“A simple story of everyday life in a big city, a story of love and passion and greed and death.” That was how Kurt Weill described Elmer Rice’s 1929 play, Street Scene, set on the fro…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:20PM"To me, this is an educational outreach tool," the writer says at the star-studded one-night-only presentation. "It's important that people know the arguments on both sides as this case make…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:18PMAs Poor Behavior opens at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with David Dean Bottrell, Charlayne Woodard, Chad Coleman and Sharon Lawrence, at the theater and at the opening-night party. R…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMIn the theater, comedies tend to end with a marriage—not a civil union. Monday night at the world premiere of "8," the new theater piece by Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwrit…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PMNikki M. James, Tony winner for her role in THE BOOK OF MORMON, is currently featured on O Magazine's Wow List, where she shared career advice, and how she made it to the Great White Way. On…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMThe inaugural program at the renamed New York Live Arts features works made in the early years of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Called "Body Against Body," its a title far more…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:06PMThe New York Theatre Workshop has extended Elevator Repair Service's The Select (The Sun Also Rises), a dramatic take on Ernest Hemingway, for an additional two weeks of performances thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:06PMKim Cattrall and Paul Gross will star on Broadway this autumn in Nol Coward's Private Lives, directed by Richard Eyre at the Music Box Theatre this fall, with previews beginning on Sunday, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05PMTheresa Rudolph joins her dad in the “family business” — the Toronto Symphony Orchestra — as the 90th season begins.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:05PMApril Fool's Day 1994, the first day of "the cruellest month". A young Scots writer wanders the streets of Gloucester hunting for echoes of the horror which shook the nation when the crimes …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMShe was tall, blonde and Swedish. The kind of woman who has known the adoration of men since adolescence. "Susanne" was in her fifties when I met her in Israel. She was Ingrid Bergman and L…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe King's Head have billed this production as "the world premiere of Oscar Wilde's Constance". Merlin Holland, the dramatist's grandson, has scornfully questioned the honesty of this, decla…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMDaniel Evans has pulled off a genuine casting coup for his production of Othello – a staging that forms the centrepiece of the Crucible Theatre's 40th birthday celebrations.
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Ever read a 3.5-star review and scratched your head and thought, "What does that mean?" Here's what the star ratings mean to us.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PMTony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct the show, which will come to Broadway after playing a limited road engagement in an as-yet unnamed city.Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall wi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PMThis month L.A. Theatre Works moves to its new venue at the James Bridges Theater on the campus of UCLA. They’re opening their 2011-12 season with Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A Doll Hous…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:43PMThe musical Ragtime is the big-ticket event of the season.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:39PMNEW YORK — Barry Levinson is returning to the diner, and bringing along Sheryl Crow. The writer and director has revisited his 1982 movie, “Diner,” and turned it into a stage musical w…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:36PMIn “Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day” at Mabou Mines as part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival, Joyce’s daughter sends herself off to the next world with a steady stream of ta…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:31PMJen Silverman’s “Crane Story” follows a woman who goes to the afterlife to speak with her brother, who committed suicide.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:28PMThe Philharmonic: The Next Generation
The New York Philharmonic reaches out to tomorrow's audiences and cultivates future composers through the School Partnership Program, Very Young Co…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:24PMThe Brazilian artist takes a few minutes from his North American tour to talk about the host of works he'll be presenting in NYC this weekend
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:05PMThey’re creepy and they're kooky…and coming to a city near you! The national tour of The Addams Family is kicking off at New Orleans’ Mahalia Jackson Theater, with an …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:05PMNew Playwright Series: David Ives
Join us for the first of our new monthly playwright series. This month's playwright is David Ives. Selections will be read from Ives upcoming Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 06:00PM
The fifth episode of Sister Lives: Backstage at ‘Sister Act’ with Sarah Bolt found our intrepid video blogger delving into the lives of some of Broadway’s unsung heroes: un…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:59PMFor waspish, caustic wit you couldn't do much better than Diane in Douglas Carter Beane's enormously funny "The Little Dog Laughed". She is the lynch pin of this hysterical, but not altogeth…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:57PMOscar nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett are inviting audiences into the Lorraine Motel room of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to examine the final hours of the civil rights pioneer&#…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:55PMBolt reveals backstage secrets from unsung heroes of "Sister Act."
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:52PMThe Book of Mormon's Nikki M. James brings a sentimental charm to the raunchy musical thanks to her solo number "Sal Tlay Ka Siti," a song in which she dreams of moving to the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMKatherine Crockett and Daphne Rubin-Vega hosted a benefit event for The Independent Collective's IndieGoGo film funding campaign at a private residence in Tribeca on Monday, September 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:49PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMYestersay, the company of The Mountaintop, including stars Samuel L. Jackson DR. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, ventured to Brooklyn to meet with students of the Brooklyn High …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMTHE HOWL... Today's howlround.com "Weekly Howl"- Our weekly conversation about New Play development- was AMAZING! Shouts to everyone that joined in on the conversation: "Daydr…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:42PMStars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett discuss bringing this new work about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Broadway.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:41PMLegit News: Basketball play shoots for spring 2012 -- Legit director Thomas Kail ("In the Heights") has signed on to helm "Magic/Bird," the upcoming basketball play produced by the duo behin…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Count of Monte Cristo" at Lifeline Theatre ★★★½
Ham, cheese, a generous portion of something sweet on top — these are the standard makings for …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:33PM2 @ 24 channel ETC Unison Dimmer racks for sale. Upgrade your theater with reliable, affordable, DMX controllable ETC dimmers. These racks are 4 years old and have been keep in a climate con…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:33PMHis epic dance-theatre piece from thine eyes deals with moving on from this life into the next
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Tea at Five" for First Folio Theatre ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Tea at Five" at First Folio Theatre ★★★ ... Darned if Melissa Carlson's tur…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PMThe national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams kicked off September 15 at the Maha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMThe title of this post is not a spiritual claim… it’s the name of a 1999 song by The Tamperer featuring Maya (not to be confused with Mya.) However, the song is so awesome that t…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 05:20PMWith all the chaos of getting two kids back to school, making the transition from summer to cool weather and preparing for the upcoming High Holidays, it's been hard to get my kids to the th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMGregory Harrison will guest star on ABC's Body of Proof, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will play an anatomy professor who finds, during a class, that one of his cadavers has …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMThe principal cast of the film The Help will receive this year's Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award at the 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, to take place on O…
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Lidless, the Yale Drama Series Award-winning drama by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig about a Guantanamo Bay interrogator attempting to live a new life, begins previews Off-Broadway Sept. 20 at Walker…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMThe company's new Residency Five program guarantees three full productions of new plays by five early to mid-career playwrights.The company's new Residency Five program guarantees three full…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:57PMTony nominee and Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf will return to the London stage for the first time in more than 10 years to play Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey In…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMWhile growing up, Michael Matthews was the target of gay-bashing bullies. Later, in Chicago, he directed a play about that subject. Now he has brought that play, What's Wrong With Angry?, to…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:54PMThe Disney movie-musical "Newsies" didn't exactly catch fire at the box office in 1992, but it earned a cult of fans who embraced Alan Menken and Jack Feldman's pop score (including the song…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:50PMThe Actors Fund announced today that the Special Benefit Performance of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 7 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMJMI Show - Antoine Smith
James Monre Iglehart interviews Memphis cast member Antoine L. Smith! Stay tuned for the next installment of this awesome three-part interview!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:48PM"Newsies" composer Alan Menken, lyricist Jack Feldman and choreographer Christopher Gattelli, along with librettist Harvey Fierstein, wanted much more than to simply transplant the Disney mo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:48PMMany of Broadway's best and brightest talents performed in Westport Country Playhouse's one-night-only fundraising gala, Playing Our Songs Celebrating 80 Years of Musical Theater, a fully or…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMSignature Theater Company annouces a new playwriting program as the MacArthur Fellows Program awards overlooks the theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMBernadette Peters comments on the diverse musical voices within Follies' composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:39PMBernadette Peters discusses the evolution of Sally Durant Plummer.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:38PMThe new musical A Letter to Harvey Milk, based on the short story by Lesla Newman will enjoy an invite-only staged reading in New York on Monday, September 26 amp Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:38PMJan Maxwell discusses the emotions of "Could I Love You?"
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:35PMGifted jazz vocalist Jane Monheit sang the score of Cole Porter's Anything Goes to swinging new arrangements by bassist Mary Ann McSweeney at the Broadway at Birdland concert series on Monda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMElaine Paige and Jan Maxwell speak on tackling the footwork of Follies.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:32PMWith the fall season approaching, straight plays are headed back to Times Square, and they've got a big list of stars in tow.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:31PMElaine Paige reflects on the determination to survive present in her character Carlotta Campion.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:30PMMorgan Freeman, Matt Bomer, Bob Balaban, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Cheyenne Jackson and more brought the fight for marriage equality to Broadway Sept. 19 in Dustin Lance Black's 8, dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMDanny Burstein discusses his hapless character, Buddy Plummer.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:28PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns to the Triad Theater for a new season with a new edition, Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, beginning Monday, October 3. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMRon Raines reflects on his experiences as the character Benjamin Stone.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:26PMOn Oct. 24, 1901, 63-year-old daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the
first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell
about it.
Five-time Tony Award-nominated compose…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe cast of Follies discuss how they joined the revival of this iconic musical.
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:20PMThe stars certainly aligned for the one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, which took place on September 19 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The line-up of talent on and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMThe stars certainly aligned for the one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, which took place on September 19 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The lineup of talent on and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMThere weren’t any singing Mormons at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on September 19. Instead, the stage was lined with two rows of blue directors chairs, standing ready for the slew …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:09PM MCC’s new play tackles race and identity Call a Spade is the name of a daring new four-character play by Shaleeha G’ntamobi, who has been called “our next Lorraine&#…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:06PMClick here for information on how to purchase the CDDVD and get tickets to upcoming concerts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMFor the first time in Black Dahlia Theatre's ten-year history, the company will present its first musical production. The world premiere of Hey, Morgan!, helmed by Dahlia artistic direct…
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He's battled renegade mutants, conquered Broadway and exterminated bloodthirsty vampires. And now, Hugh Jackman has taken on what may be his wildest role yet celebrity guest star of WWE Raw …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMExtant Arts will present the World Premiere of emerging playwright Andy James Hoover's NYC Debut CORNER POCKET, October 7-23 at the Gene Frankel Theatre 24 Bond Street between Bowery and Laf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMThe Actors Fund announced Sept. 20 that the special benefit performance of the Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon has been rescheduled for Dec. 7 at 1 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMThe conceit behind “Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing” is that a band of fictional performers who specialize in cutting-edge art and pretentiousness are serving up…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:53PMThe Broadway production of The Book of Mormon, playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, will offer a special Actors Fund performance on Wednesday, December 7 at 1pm. This special perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMParticipants have been announced for the 3rd annual Howl! Arts Project 2011, a month-long series of music, film, theater, performance art, burlesque, drag entertainment, and family fun to ta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMThe company of the first North American tour of WICKED welcomes Mamie Parris as Elphaba on Tuesday, October 4 in Atlanta, GA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMProducers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo Lombardi announced today members of their creative team. Tony nominee Thomas Kail Lombardi, In The Heights will reunite with Lombardi playwright and O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMCHINGLISH, the new comedy by Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly, and directed by OBIE Award winner Leigh Silverman, will begin previews at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMWelcome back to BroadwayWorld's newest feature, and first-ever talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE. Follow Richard as he visits Broadway's best and brightest in their Broadway dressing r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMActors Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson talked with theater students at Brooklyn High School of the Arts in Boerum Hill on Monday, in advance of their new Broadway play on civil rights l…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:36PMThomas Kail, the Tony Award-nominated director of In the Heights and Lombardi will direct the new sports-minded play Magic/Bird, written by Lombardi playwright Eric Simonson and produced by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMDiner, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film, will arrive on Broadway in fall 2012.
Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph the production, wh…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:27PMA new edition of the Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography, entitled Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, will begin a run at The Triad Theater on Monday, October 3.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMThough often inconsistent, Eve Rydberg's nearly flawless performance of Alma is a wonder to behold. It’s hard to believe that Tennessee Williams would want Alma any other way.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:25PMIt is with great sadness that we report that the death of Gaurav Gopalan, an aerospace engineer who doubled as a director, dramaturge and production manager, has been ruled a homicide. Polic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMThe YWCA Boston and the A.R.T Community particapte in a discussion on race and Porgy and Bess
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 03:22PMA letter to Mayor Rob Ford from leading cultural figures warns that cultural cutbacks could set the city economy back 25 years.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:20PMTen years on Broadway is a verrrry long time, and Mamma Mia! is set to hit that impressive milestone on October 18 at the Winter Garden Theatre. To celebrate, the production put together an …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PM8, the new drama by Academy Award-winning “Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the reversal of California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop. 8, receiv…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMAccording to the Associated press, Richland School District, outside of Pittsburgh, has decided to cancel a production of KISMET a musical about a Muslim poet because the community 'complain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMGroupon has a surprising offer today: Seattle Symphony tickets at discounts up to 57 percent. This on top of last week's Seattle Symphony announcement of free tickets for kids who attend wit…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:01PMCrushing news today that John Malkovich, an actor I have ever so long venerated as a truly insightful artist as well as an uniquely idiosyncratic character, will NOT be giving interviews abo…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 03:01PMMusicals like Rent and Godspell have encountered resistance on the school and community levels after their acclaimed Broadway runs, and now the 1953 Tony Award-winning musical Kismet faces a…
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How do you put together a fully-staged musical theatre production in only nine days? Bryce Ryness, starring at the Emcee in Reprise Theatre Company's Cabaret, shows us just how it's possibl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMHow do you put together a fully-staged musical theatre production in only nine days? Bryce Ryness, starring as the Emcee in Reprise Theatre Company's Cabaret, shows us just how it's possibl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMFlorida Studio Theatre has announced plans for its upcoming 2011-2012 mainstage and cabaret seasons.
The mainstage season's first production will be Brian Yorkey's Pulitzer Prize-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMTony Award nominee Thomas Kail will direct the Broadway production of Eric Simonson's Magic / Bird, a new play about basketball Hall of Famers Larry Bird and Earvin 'Magic' Jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMTheater Communications Group has announced the fourth annual Free Night of Theater New York City, which will take place at participating Off-Broadway, Independent Theaters, and Music and Dan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMNick and Catherine discuss the art of Burlesque. Is it simply walking on stage and taking off your clothes? We don't think so!.
SOURCE: traffic.libsyn.com at 02:46PMNick and Catherine discuss the art of Burlesque. Is it simply walking on stage and taking off your clothes? We don't think so!.
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 02:46PMMamie Parris will star as Elphaba in the first North American tour of Wicked, beginning with the Tuesday, October 4 performance at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta.
Based on Gregory Maguire'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMThe company of the first North American tour of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked will welcome Mamie Parris as Elphaba beginning Oct. 4 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMTheatre by the Lake, KeswickArthur Schnitzler's sexually explicit play La Ronde attracted a fresh wave of controversy in 1998 when David Hare's two-handed adaptation at the Donmar Warehouse …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40PMActress Rebecca Creskoff will reunite with "Hung" series writer Julia Brownell in the world premiere of her play All-American, which will debut Off-Broadway under the wings of LCT3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:37PMIndustry readings of the new musical A Letter to Harvey Milk will be presented Sept. 26-27 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMNamed one of New York's Best Once-a-Year Markets, the annual Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS Broadway Flea Market amp Grand Auction will be held from 10 AM - 7 PM on Sunday, September 25 in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMYestersay, the company of The Mountaintop, including stars Samuel L. Jackson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, met the press to talk all about Katori Hall's highly anticipated…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMRebecca Creskoff, Meredith Forlenza, Brock Harris, Sarah Steele, C.J. Wilson and Harry Zittel will star in the world premiere production of Julia Brownell's All-American. Lincoln Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonPlaywrights, like policemen, are getting younger. Teenage writers are now regularly found at the Royal Court, but when 18-year-old Christopher Hampton wrote this pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMBernadette Peters received the Distinguished Dedication and Service to the American Musical Theater Award at the Westport Country Playhouse's gala, Playing Our Songs: Celebrating 80 Yea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMPrint Room, LondonThese two short Pinter plays are here presented as an almost seamless event. Both, in fact, are set in a bleak, white-walled, fluorescent-lit room that suggests an interrog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMThink of it as a new (and decidedly edible) take on “Like Water for Chocolate.” For one month this spring (March 23-April 22, 2012), Rick Bayless, the Chicago restaurateur (Frontera, Top…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:10PMWestport Country Playhouse is known for its swank, celeb-filled galas. Monday night's event -- which paid tribute to Bernadette Peters -- was no exception.Pictured below" Curtain call with D…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PM“The notion that I could actually come to work [at the National Theatre]—and be paid—and just think was unique and new to me, and opened me up to a whole new concept of what theatre wa…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:06PMRon K. Brown Workshop - "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess"
Ron K. Brown, Artistic Director of Evidence, A Dance Company and choreographer of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Be…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:06PMIf you’ve never been to the opera, have no fear.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:01PMGhostlight Records' new Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony-Award winning production Anything Goes will be released today, September 20th and will be followed on Sep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMA theatrical cage match between two advocates of the disenfranchised.
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Alyssa Alpine talks with ERS's director about "The Select," which just opened at NYTW and plays through early October
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:58PMTony Bennett played the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday evening, conjuring an American spirit that has little to do with the hypercompetitive excesses of our new gilded age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:58PMBy August SchulenburgThere is much to say about the 2011 IT Awards, and very little time for me to say it, leaving momentarily as I am (along with my beautiful new wife and Flux founder, Hea…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 01:58PMRick Bayless in Cascabel: Dinner - Daring - Desire will play a limited engagement at the Lookingglass Theatre, March 23 - April 22. The piece has been created by Bayless, along with Heidi S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMThere is somewhere called Leighland, where people may be ineffably sad or existentially cheerful, old or young, live in a high rise or a semi. But they are all recognisably inhabitants of th…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:52PMThe September 19 premiere of Dancing With the Stars included the debut of a new set that looks vaguely like an opera house, new pros (including Peta Murgatroyd of Broadway’s Burn the F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMPrivate Lives first night
Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) and Paul Gross (Due South) co-star in a new production of Noël Coward's comedy classic! The show had its first night of pe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:49PMThe third season of the hit comedy "Glee" — a favorite show of many musical theatre fans — kicks off Sept. 20 on FOX. We offer an early look at the show's returning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMDarren Criss auditioned for Glee just a year ago, and now look at him! The heartthrob had a lot to talk about on the Emmys red carpet on September 18. Criss was coy with MTV as they wen…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:45PMGlee is gearing up for its third season premiere on September 20 after a looong summer hiatus...and even we admit we’re a little rusty on what went down in the New Directions choir roo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PM"I'm really glad they didn't have Facebook when I was a teenager," I said to my friend after a performance of Facebook Me at the Soho Playhouse. Middle and high school are tough enough witho…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:41PMExclusive! Celebrating 10 Years of "Mamma Mia!" on Broadway
The ABBA musical celebrates turning 10!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:37PMWar Horse Toronto Launch
War Horse launched in Toronto with an exclusive demonstration by Handspring Puppet Company's founders Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones. Also on hand was Joey, the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:35PM8, the new drama by Academy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the reversal of California's anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop. 8, received a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMDoug Eskew, Kecia Lewis-Evans and Eugene Barry-Hill will be part of the Long Wharf Theatre production of Ain't Misbehavin', staged by original creator and director Richard Maltby, Jr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:28PMNational Theatre Live: The Kitchen
Arnold Wesker's extraordinary play The Kitchen premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries.
National Theat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:20PMA fine reminder that even in his late 70s, Arthur Miller's sense of the vital connections between the personal and the public was no less keen and vital than in his heyday
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:19PMCanada's Shaw Festival will offer two plays by George Bernard Shaw in its 2012 season, plus the musicals Ragtime and Trouble in Tahiti and works by Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, John Guare,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMBest known to America as Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart began her career on the stage. As she prepares to perform the role of Nora in A Doll House for LA Theatre Works, she recalls some of h…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:14PMAbout the author:
If director Maria Aitken looks more familiar than many in her behind-the-scenes role, there's a very good reason. Aitken has played leading roles at the Royal Shakesp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMA two CD recording of The Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall concerts scheduled for October 1-2 will be released by Really Useful Group/Polydor on November 14. As previously announce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMThe only person in my family even remotely “famous” in the last century or so (apart from a great aunt who dated Jerry Van Dyke — true story) is someone you’ve STILL …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:10PMo many things change as years and eras pass, but surprisingly, some things don't seem so different after all. Playwright Alice Childress wrote "Trouble in Mind" in 1955, during an era of Jim…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:08PMNEW YORK -- Filmmaker Barry Levinson and singer Sheryl Crow are teaming up to turn Levinson's breakthrough film "Diner" into a Broadway musical, producers announced Tuesday.
"Diner" will be …
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Tony Award Winning actress Laura Benanti's new NBC show, The Playboy Club, features the Broadway veteran as Carol-Lynne, the very first 'Bunny' The show premiered last night, September 20 on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMAt the Walnut Street Theatre through October 23, you can catch a good production of a lousy show, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love." It's a musical that works hard to create a romantic…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:58PMAri Graynor, who is featured in the Broadway premiere of Relatively Speaking, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PMGreat art depends on great diversity. So why is an event that celebrates performers from all backgrounds under threat?Handling the solitary remaining testicle of an ex-cancer patient, live o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMBen Cole and Clea Alsip (both of Williamstown Theatre Festival's "One Slight Hitch"), Varin Ayala (the film "Lie to Me"), Royce Johnson (TheaterWorks' "God of Carnage" and "Broke-ology")&nbs…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:45PMInfographics are really hot right now. Seems like they are everywhere, and some of them are really interesting. In terms of niche marketing, our goal is to figure out who our market is, and …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:40PM"8" the Play | Arrivals
Givenik.com was on the scene at the world premiere of "8" the play, by Dustin Lance Black. The play benefited the American Foundation for Equal R…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36PMLegit News: Musical aims to open in fall 2012 -- Barry Levinson and Cheryl Crow have teamed on a stage musical based on Levinson's 1982 pic "Diner," with the tuner aiming to land on Broadway…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMThe Woman Standing on the Moon is a new show that I have been consulting on that takes a look at intense political themes through the lens of a contemporary ghost story. There are moments in…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:35PMPop sensation and soon-to-be Broadway leading man, Ricky Martin will rock Fontainebleau Miami Beach when he takes the stage as part of the legendary hotel's newly launched BleauLive performa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMThe cast and creators of Transport Group's production of Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist, met the press at an event held at New 42nd Street Studios on Tuesday, September…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMFor all the work we do around our home space, we also like to take the opportunity now and again to spotlight the work our ensemble is doing either at other theaters or on their own. Towards…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 12:26PMDavid Bedella, Beverly Rudd, Sandi Toksvig, and Hannah Waddingham will star in a benefit concert of the new musical Soho Cinders, according to a report on WhatsOnStage.com. The event will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMBASE Entertainment Co-CEO's Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker announced that DINER, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film, will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012. With …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMTony Award nominee Nina Arianda (Born Yesterday) will star opposite Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy (Journey’s End, "The Big C") in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMLast night, September 19, the likes of Tony-winner Nikki M. James, Jerry Springer, Lisa Lampanelli and more gathered at the Copacabana in New York to celebrate the recent release of Michael …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMAs if our tantalizing audio preview and sexy poster reveal of Broadway’s upcoming Bonnie & Clyde wasn’t enough to get you in the mood for this new Frank Wildhorn tuner, we&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMWhy you should go to more local theater. Reason No. 214: You can see future stars closeup and personal.Take Jeremy Jordan. He was featured in TheaterWorks' 2008 production of "The Little Dog…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PMOstar Productions has acquired the television rights to Terry McMillan’s bestselling novel A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT for Lifetime television. Ostar Productions and Stephen Tolkin wi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:15PMA screwball comedy, a never-performed 1914 play and a landmark musical epic will fill out the Shaw Festival’s 51st season, artistic director Jackie Maxwell announced Tuesday. The Niagara-o…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:15PMMichael Greyeyes new work, from thine eyes, explores the dark mysterious spaces between life and death at Enwave Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:12PMSweeney Todd's original Johanna, Sarah Rice, will join Marni Nixon, of the 2001 revival of Follies, for the Sept. 27 installment of Sondheim Unplugged at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMIts fall and that means back to school for the students and faculty at McKinley High. The New Directions clan returns after a devastating loss at Nationals, so Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morriso…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 12:07PMGavin Creel, Fran Drescher, Anthony Edwards, Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rory O'Malley and more luminaries come out for the benefit reading of Dustin Lance Black's new…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMBroadway favorites Raul Esparza, Stephanie J. Block and Laurie Metcalf are among the 2010-2011 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominees, which were announced on September 19 at Burb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 9132011 - 9202011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCan you identify any of these four people? You should be able to!(See the answers below.)Recently, one of my favorite bloggers, Ken Davenport posted a piece lamenting the fact that Bro…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PMAs previously rumoured there will be no productions of Shaw plays on the mainstage at the festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake next season. Instead the centrepiece in the big house will be a musi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:00PM
JERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical, opened to rave reviews in Omaha at the Orpheum Theatre, Friday, September 9 (performances began Wednesday, September 7) a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:59AMPatti Murin and Josh Segarra, who played the lead roles of Lysistrata and Mick, in the Off-Broadway pop musical Lysistrata Jones, will reprise their performances when the musical makes the j…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMThe Shaw Festival, located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, has announced selections for its 2012 season, which will be its 51st.
Works written by George Bernard Shaw will include Misallian…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMGrammy winner Sheryl Crow will compose the score for a musical adaptation of the hit 1982 film Diner, with a Broadway run planned for fall 2012. Tony winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMDavid Hallberg, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, will join the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow, the first American to do so.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:41AMLong Wharf Theatre has announced casting for Aint' Misbehavin', to run October 26 - November 20. Richard Maltby, Jr., who originally directed the revue, which he conceived on Broa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMKathleen Marshall ("Anything Goes") will direct and choreograph the musical adaptation of Barry Levinson's 1982 coming-of-age film, for which Mr. Levinson will write the book and Ms. Crow wi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AM"Decade," a mosaic of responses to the Sept. 11 tragedy, acts as a textual tapestry of grief, rage and compassion -- and as first-rate theater, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMMax Crumm, the reality TV contestant who made his Broadway debut in the revival of Grease, can be seen in Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera, part of the FringeNYC Encore Series, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Barry Levinson is returning to the diner....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:35AMTony Award winner Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph a musical version of the popular 1982 film Diner, scheduled to open on Broadway in the fall of 2012. Prior to its run in New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMLenny Wolpe has joined the cast of Project Shaw's presentation of The Millionairess, at the Players Club on Monday, September 26 at 7pm. He replaces the previously reported Peter Bartle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMBritish musical theatre duo George Stiles and Anthony Drewe will premiere their new show Soho Cinders at the West End's Queen's Theatre in a special one-off charity concert on Sunday 9 Octob…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:28AMLast night, September 19, Rosie O'Donnell hosted a special event honoring Nancy Coyne, CEO of Serino Coyne, Ruth Ponturo, TeacherChoreographer and Marva Smalls, EVP of Public Affairs amp Chi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMFreckleface Strawberry: The Musical, seen in an Off-Broadway run that played September 2010 to April 2011, returns to New York City starting Nov. 8 in a non-Equity engagement at a new venue …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMBroadway favorites Raul Esparza, Stephanie J. Block and Laurie Metcalf are among the 2010-2011 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominees, which were announced on September 19 at Burb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMYou've Got Hate Mail, a comedy written by Billy Van Zandt & Jane Milmore, will return to the Triad Theatre after a three week hiatus on Friday, October 7, and will play every subseq…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMBASE Entertainment announced Sept. 20 that Diner, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film, will arrive on Broadway in fall 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMOn Monday September 19, 2011, the IT Awards New York Innovative Theatre Awards, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host comedian Harrison Greenbaum, announced th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMInfluences on playwrights and theatre practitioners run the gamut. Everyday life experiences are an obvious influence. History, another. Politics, psychology, religion, science, too. Whe…
SOURCE: Drama, Daily at 11:10AMCasting has been announced for Sixty-Six Books, to play the Bush Theatre, October 10-29. Josie Rourke is curating the production, which is created in conjunction with the 400th anniversary o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMFestival scales back Shaw offerings but will revive popular hits
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:09AMThe small screen just got a whole lot steamier thanks to The Playboy Club's Laura Benanti. On September 19, the Tony-winning actress (and recent Playboy cover model!) kicked off the much…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMBehind the Scenes at the LYSISTRATA JONES Commercial Shoot!
Website: http://LysistrataJones.com/
Telecharge: http://bit.ly/BuyLJTickets
Get an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes at the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:06AMIrving Berlin's Say It With Music, an original Reagle musical revue, will star Kirby (Never Gonna Dance) and Beverly (Epic Proportions) Ward at the Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMGoldoni's popularity is based on fast-paced plots, not poetic dialogue, depth of characterization, or philosophical content. While playwright Bean hews closely to the storyline of the origin…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMThe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold its annual Town Hall
Meeting at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, September 22, onstage at Powell
Symphony Hall.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:02AMLast night the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER and Broadway Impact launched the all-star Broadway premiere of 8. The play, which chronicles the historic trial in the federal legal …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:00AMAnthony Sher delivers an impressive performance in the West End revival of Arthur Miller's play about an unhappy couple in the 1930s.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe secret of marketing an experience like theater is knowing how to tease. Because the price of a Broadway show can be in the triple digits, your audience needs to understand what they are …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Two of the entertainment industry's leading advocates of marriage equality are combining forces Monday night in New York for a chamber reading of Dustin Lance Black's new play "8."
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:59AM“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” Some have been swift to suggest that Stephen Poliakoff is (somewhat) resting on his laurels. What with the critical succe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:56AMRelatively Speaking, the new Broadway comedy made up of one-act plays by award-winning writers Ethan Coen, Woody Allen and Elaine May, begins previews on September 20 at the Brooks Atkinson …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMRick Bayless is adding another leaf to his already formidable repertoire of celebrity chef, researcher, author, TV host and all-around culinary entrepreneur focused on the cuisine of Mexico.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:54AMBroadway will be travelling to the far East this fall when Chinglish, the new play by Tony winner David Henry Hwang, gets its New York premiere at the Longacre Theatre. Tickets are now on sa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMKuti’s Afrobeat was just the background to his workouts until 30 years later when he brought the musician’s story to Broadway Consider Fela Ankulapo Kuti. In his fifty-nine years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMThe hit television series "Glee," focusing on the McKinley High School glee club, The New Directions, returns for a third season, airing on Fox Sept. 20 at 8 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe Mountaintop stars Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, and is directed by Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun. The play features or…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMHeart throb and Top 10 singer-songwriter, Peter Andre, wowed West End audiences in a brief, yet satisfying one-off portrayal of Sam Wheat in Ghost The Musical, a role made famous by the late…
SOURCE: Musicals in London at 10:43AMFirst, I wanted to give you a quick “post-Irene” update. Our TCG Circle post last week highlighted a number of theatres that were affected by the hurricane. Open Eye Theater in Margaretv…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:39AMAdditional performers have been announced for Career Transition For Dancers' gala, A Halloween Thriller: A Dance Celebration of Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires & Wilis, to be held at New Y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMHarold Pinter, perhaps best known for his pauses, dialogues within contained rooms and tormented characters, is perhaps less known for some of his one-act plays such as One For The Road and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AMAmy Booth-Steel, Siobhan Dillon, Simon Thomas and Gabriel Vick will lead the cast of Rob Young’s new play with songs EX which opens at the Soho Theatre on 15 November (previews from 10…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:34AMFormer “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi made her Broadway stage debut Sept. 6 when she stepped into the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMDay 7 Crazy, Just Like MeBy Rob Intile, Jr.Executive Producer for Crazy, Just Like Me
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMVictor Willis, the original lead singer of "The Village People," visited Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Sept 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMRupert Everett, who was seen by New York audiences in the 2009 Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit, has joined the cast of "Parade's End," Tom Stoppard's television adaptatio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMAfter a brief stint in Chicago in 2009, TV and radio presenter Justin Lee Collins fulfils his dream to star in a West End musical next week (28 September 2011, previews from 31 August), when…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:26AMAmy Booth-Steel, Siobhan Dillon, Simon Thomas and Gabriel Vick will lead the cast of Rob Young’s new play with songs EX which opens at the Soho Theatre on 15 November (previews from 10…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:21AMRolex is set to present A HALLOWEEN THRILLER A Dance Celebration of Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires amp Wilis, - Career Transition For Dancers' 26th Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, October 31, 2011 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMAlan Souza's production of the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical at the John W. Engeman Theatre has a rare spark of originality.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMLast night the American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER and Broadway Impact launched the all-star Broadway premiere of 8 to a packed and enthusiastic audience. The play, which chronicles th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMPhoto(s): Megan MooreI'm still pondering The Persian Quarter (at left and at top), Kathleen Cahill's play about the Iranian hostage crisis and its aftermath, which is currently on the boards…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:11AMThe Mountaintop stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, along with director Kenny Leon and playwright Katori Hall, participated in a Sept. 19 discussion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMOlivier Award winner Elaine Paige, who is currently playing Carlotta Campion in the Kennedy Center's critically acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AMWhy Shakespeare without words? And can it be done well? People are still asking that. But Synetic Theater, now in its tenth season, with no less than seven of its signature wordless Shak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AM
The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation's IT Awards, honoring excellence in off-off Broadway theater, were presented in a ceremony held on September 19 at Cooper Union's Great H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMJERUSALEM (AP) -- Veteran Israeli actress Hanna Maron has added another item to her resume - the world's longest career in theater....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:58AMBush, LondonIt's hard to make that final exit. Particularly after 40 years. That's how long the Bush has been "a tiny box of magic" perched above a pub on Shepherd's Bush Green, west London.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMDavid Ives's translation and adaptation of Jean-François Regnard's 1708 comedy is delightful fun
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:55AMAndy Karl and Quinn Van Antwerp, established theatre veterans, are set to join the cast of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical “Jersey Boys” following the departur…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:50AMBobby Cronin's new musical Daybreak will be presented Oct. 3 at 7 PM at New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center as a benefit for the LGBT Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMSo what do we think of Signature's announcement of five playwright residencies?
Annie Baker, Will Eno, Katori Hall, Kenneth Lonergan, and Regina Taylor [will] be charter members of a progra…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:46AMLaurie Metcalf will play Mary Tyrone opposite the previously announced David Suchet as James Tyrone in a West End revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMSometimes Brooke just knows things, partly thanks to her excellent memory. But sometimes she just knows for reasons that have nothing to do with that.
That’s the way it is with Scott A…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:41AMTwo-time Tony winner Chita Rivera will host Career Transition For Dancers' 26th Anniversary Jubilee, which will be held Oct. 31 at 7 PM at New York City Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMA western Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a Tony Award-winning musical about a Muslim street poet after members of the community complained about the play on the heels …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:33AMNEW YORK - A play based on last year's federal court fight over California's gay marriage ban made its Broadway...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:27AMScreen star Harry Hamlin, last on Broadway as Billy Flynn in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, will take part in a reading of Stephen Calmson's new play Collaboration: A Play About a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of its 2011 MacArthur Fellowships, often called "the genius grants." Each fellow will receive $500,000…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMToday, BroadwayWorld has the distinct privilege of premiering an exclusive world premiere clip from the Season Three finale of Liftimes hit original dramedy series DROP DEAD DIVA. Click belo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMBy Kevin Griffin The National Ballet is presenting a program of four diverse works including one based on the country music of Johnny Cash and another on the Polish mazurkas of Frederic Chop…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMTheresa Rebeck's new play about two married couples is frequently hilarious but only occasionally as insightful as it could be.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMTheresa Rebeck's new play at two married couples is frequently hilarious but only occasionally as insightful as it could be.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
A small black tin lockbox holds the secret that ultimately destroys Smitty in In the Zone, another of Eugene O’Neill’s Glencairn plays (and which, when accepted for a tour by the…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:56AMOn Friday, September 16, 2011, Chris Isaacson presented New York's Finest The Leading Men of Broadway on the open-air stage of the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood, CA which was directed by To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AM“Anything Goes” is fairing quite well on Broadway. Well enough, in fact, for it to receive yet another extension of shows into Spring, 2012. The latest revival of the famous Cole…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 08:54AMWill the well of wonders unearthed in Secaucus in 1986 ever run dry? Here, 25 years later, we have a brand new “World Premiere Recording” of the score of a 1946 musical! Who know…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMIt's not east fighting an octopus for 22 straight hours.
Tom Zemon should know. The actor, who was
raised in West Hartford and attended Hartt School at the University of Hartford, is
featur…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:40AMSinger and philanthropist who was married to Bob Hope for 69 yearsThe singer Dolores Hope, who has died at the age of 102, was known primarily for her 69-year marriage to the comedian Bob Ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMJonathan Bank runs a pretty tight ship over there at the Mint Theater Company, one of our off-Broadway treasures. In the most unpretentious of black box theatres on the third floor of a 43rd…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Writers named for Off Broadway residence -- Kenneth Lonergan, Annie Baker, Katori Hall, Will Eno and Regina Taylor have been named the first playwrights to be part of the Residen…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Composer Jeanine Tesori and the Jose Limon Dance Company will be among the highlights of the O'Neill Theater Center's 12th
Annual Eugene O'Neill Celebration on
Sept. 30 and Oct.1, comm…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMI don’t usually cover the Cabaret world, but as Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder have both graced Broadway stages on their career trajectories, I thought you might like to know how the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMI had heard a bit about Sharon Anyimi; but I didn't know much. I knew she visited Baychester Library in Co-Op City — a lot — and was always reading books with the help …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:26AMMy name is Jennifer Jane and I am a Gleek. Most people do not know what a Gleek is... that's because they don't watch the TV show, but you should watch an episode and just Give Glee a C…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:14AMIt’s Tuesday. Time for some random silliness. I’ve been a fan of the folks behind the Punchy Players YouTube channel for about a year now. While the frequency of their output is …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:11AMLast night I performed a piece at The Moth. The theme was "Firsts."
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:10AMIt had to be more than just a homonym for him. In two decades of writing lyrics, Lorenz Hart used the word “heart” an inordinate number of times. That’s readily apparent in “Ten Cent…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:08AMRich people have problems too, including an unhealthy dependence on alcohol and banal truth telling, in Molly Moroney's new play that's an endless sea of wine and whine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
If you have an affinity for things that go bump in the night, then the TeenLIVE event with Darren Shan on November 12, 2010 was right up your blood-curdling alley. Have no fear (pun definite…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:58AMThe scrappy Naked Stage and Promethean Theatre and about 50 of their friends stage a coffee-fueled marathon jam for a mostly sleepless 24-hour period to produce and present from scratch an e…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:58AMThe Bush Theatre opens its new home, the old library on Uxbridge Road, next month (14 October 2011) with a spectacular 66-writer, 23-director, 130-actor, 24-hour production of Sixty-Six Book…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:45AMLooking to stretch your family entertainment dollar during yet another period of economic uncertainty? Well, here’s some good news. The Washington National Opera is coming to your rescue w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36AMThe Bush Theatre opens its new home, the old library on Uxbridge Road, next month (14 October 2011) with a spectacular 66-writer, 23-director, 130-actor, 24-hour production of Sixty-Six Book…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AM
Our latest podcast playlet is by Melanie Wilson, and is designed to be listened to in the bathroom in the evening with the door closed and standing in front of the mirrorTim Maby
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM“These awards celebrate our incredulity that things ever go right,” said playwright John Patrick Shanley Robert, one of the presenters for the seventh annual New York Innovative …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:52AMIt may be a hard lesson to learn, but its often inevitable: if it doesn’t work on Broadway, that doesn’t mean it won’t work elsewhere. Although “High” failed to…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 05:52AMIf proof were needed that
torture, and the capacity to torture, is both inhuman and all too human at the same time, the
half hour of Harold Pinter’s One
for the Road does the job. Revi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:37AMThe West End transfer of Driving Miss Daisy starring Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones opens at the Wyndham's Theatre on 5 October (previews from 26 September) playing a limited London s…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:28AMThe 25th anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera will be screened live to cinemas around the UK on October 2.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AM
The Gallery Players' "The Drowsy Chaperone" and T. Schreiber Studio's "Balm in Gilead" took home the top prizes—for outstanding production of a musical and outstanding production of …
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:43AMAmerican icon Tony Bennett will celebrate his 85th birthday this year with a new CD, Tony Bennett Duets II which will be released on September 20th on RPMColumbia Records.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe original, staged version of this deathless camp classic has been around since 1973. But the show is still too outré for Carrollton, Ga. mayor Wayne Garner. After seeing some rehea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:16AMFrom the 1976 Tony Awards telecast, the original cast of A Chorus Line performs "I Hope I Get It":...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The supposition that the world is ever in league to put a man down is childish. Hardly less childish is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMLarger than life, Mae West set the standard for generations of
blonde, sexually uninhibited glamour girls who followed her. She
wasn't so much ahead of her times as a creator of times in whi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMTuesday, September 20, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) – The Phantom of the Opera is ready to share its 25th Anniversary Concert with you by releasing a special 2-CD concert album of the perform…
SOURCE: 1744 at 01:00AMSara Gore (NBC) gets a special first look at the new Woody Allen penned play – Relatively Speaking.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: "Hunger"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMTuesday, September 20, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - Relatively Speaking is the world premiere of three one-act comedies by Ehtan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, and is making its debut perform…
SOURCE: 1743 at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Love, Loss and What I Wore" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Love, Loss and What I Wore" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★½ ... When you …
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The characters of "Poor Behavior" don't have enough independent life to convince us of the truth Theresa Rebeck is groping toward.The characters of "Poor Behavior" don't have enough independ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:52AMThe Reprise Theatre Company received 17 nods, the most of any theater company, with their production of "Kiss Me, Kate" receiving 14 nominations.The Reprise Theatre Company received 17 nods,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:51AMClybourne Park comes home.Apparently a different Hunka.A farce about the IRS in Beijing.Four Baltimore dudes in a diner would totally be singing Sheryl Crow tunes.A most helpful web page.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:17AMMost people want to separate their work environment from their home, but most people are not Steve Cohen. Cohen, his wife, and two children live in the Waldorf Towers in the same suite where…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:06AM(Photo: Devon Cass)The reluctant divaAmerican soprano Nicole Cabell brings star-wattage to L’Opera de Montreal’s season-opening production of Mozart’s The Marriage of FigaroBy Richard …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMNominees for the 2011 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards were announced on the evening of Monday, September 19 at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank the complete list of nominees is as follows.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01AMBill Norrett/Cyrano Players, Inc. present the world premiere of Kithless in Paradise, a play about cracks that form in a lifelong friendship, which officially opens Sept. 20 at the Lion Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Dark Comedy of Forbidden WordsComedy goes where theatre fears to treadBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisI entered into an email correspondance this week with a highly talented young theatre artist…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Broadway League and The Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds present the third annual Broadway Salutes, a public celebration recognizing the countless professionals who have made Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA new beautiful morning dawns in Portland Stage's all-African-American production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, starring Rodney Hicks and Brianna Horne, which begins previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe pulse of Southern black gay men is taken by writer-actor E. Patrick Johnson in Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, opening Sept. 20 following previews from Sept. 13 at Signature Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Randy Graff, Mary Bacon, James Lecesne and Saidah Arrika Ekulona share stories of mothers and children in Motherhood Out Loud, a new dramatic anthology that begins Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRelatively Speaking — three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen — plays its first preview performance Sept. 20 at the Brooks Atkinson T…
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