HEDY WEISS: It happens very rarely. But there are times when you leave a theater fervently hoping no one will try to engage you in small talk and break the spell that has just been so magica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:56PM"Lemon Sky" presented by the Keen Company at the Theatre Row, September 24, 2011
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My experience with the Keen Company has usually been very good - solid…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 10:56PMOn September 29, 14 Broadway.com staffers joined the NOH8 campaign, the photographic protest to California's Proposition 8 that has already seen over 13,000 faces adorned with the campai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48PMTheater's no longer central to the American cultural conversation, and you can't make money writing for the stage. So why still do it?
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:45PMAudra McDonald has been dazzling audiences for more than a decade with her stunning soprano voice. She has won Grammy and Tony awards, and has starred in stage classics and the TV drama, 'Pr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:31PMNew York’s streets teem with such chaotic vitality that stepping into a theater can seem anticlimactic. So it’s exciting to enter 3LD and encounter floor-to-ceiling windows exposing lowe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:30PMHere are some more puzzles for you to enjoy this weekend. CAUTION: These two are much more difficult! Have fun!Jigsaw Puzzle #10 (198 pieces)This is FRAVER's interpre…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:25PMRead all about it: “Newsies,” a surprise hit from Disney, will land on Broadway in the spring, just in time to upset the Tony Awards apple cart.
The musical, based on the popular 1992 mo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14PMYesterday I posted a quote on my Tumblr discussing “What Would Be America’s National Theatre?” and then proceeded to say, “The Goodman Theatre is not better than Step…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:13PMThe Submission, presented by MCC Theatre at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, September 11, 2011
Writing a play is a daunting task. Getting a new play produced takes "daunting" to exp…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 10:10PMOutside The Box is a new musical comedy web series about a very outr musical theatre group called Outside The Box. Each episode features an entirely new cast, save for one recurring characte…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:02PMThe popular actors discuss their new film, Take Shelter, and their very busy careers.
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Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, opened Wednesday, March 9, 2011 to rave noti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51PM... it beats me ... ? I really don't know why anybody thought this play was worth producing. It's a shipboard farce, a sendup of ship narrative cliches presented with something like frolicks…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:46PMWherein Our Intrepid Critic Gets to See a Show He Really Wanted to SeeWhen real life, comedy and theatre collideby Gaëtan L. CharleboisThe way the Charlebois Post - Montreal covered the Fri…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 09:44PMPlaybill Broadway Yearbook - Seventh Edition
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:43PMThe production may be headed for Broadway even earlier than originally anticipated a source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the paper that talks are underway between Disney an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32PMShows get put together in a rehearsal room, and then, during tech, they get taken apart and put back together again in the theater, with the addition of scenery, costumes, lights, etc. Right…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PM
Legit Reviews: The fabled thoroughfare circa 1997 is a generic, conflict-free fantasyland characterized by random hugs and unmotivated high spirits.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:55PMNew York theater owners have approached Disney Theatrical Productions about mounting the company's "Newsies the Musical" on Broadway this season
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:47PMFirst reported by the Toronto Star this afternoon was news that Tony-winner Idina Menzel would be filming her first PBS special in Toronto on November 17-18 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMHeartbroken Emily (Alexandra Hoover), abandoned by her husband, discovers that shooting a stranger in a public bathroom eases her grief. Heartbroken Emily (Alexandra Hoover), abandoned by he…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMMuffins and basil bushes become metaphors for two destroyed marriages and a quartet of shattered friendships in LA theatre darling Theresa Rebeck’s comedic domestic drama Poor Behavior, ma…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PMDavid Alpert, Maria Macioce and Justin Huebener have announced the fourth annual concert series of LIVING FOR TODAY, with musical direction by Nate Patten, and direction by David Alpert. LIV…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19PMMargaret Gray reviews the world premiere of Kristina Poe's "Love Sick" at the Elephant Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMSaul Rubinek is an established actor in American television programmes such as LA Law and Frasier, where he played Daphne's fiancé Donny. Now the Canadian has turned his hand to playwriting…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMNew York audiences might be famously jaded but it was hard to ignore the rustle of anticipation at the Lincoln Centre ahead of the debut of Ocean's Kingdom, Paul McCartney's specially commis…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWhen J M Synge's The Playboy of the Western World was first staged in 1907 at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, it provoked riots and was denounced as "an unmitigated protracted libel upon Irish peasa…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe Twilight actor Charlie Bewley, 30, who plays red-eyed vampire Demetri in the romantic saga makes his stage debut with his sister. Lydia Rose Bewley, 26, who made her screen debut in The …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe Twilight actor Charlie Bewley, 30, who plays red-eyed vampire Demetri in the romantic saga makes his stage debut with his sister. Lydia Rose Bewley, 26, who made her screen debut in The …
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The monologist Mike Daisey speaks about what defines a real “tech geek” and how his exposure to Chinese factories has changed his relationship with his beloved iPhone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PMTheater fans are eagerly awaiting the February 6 premiere of Smash, the hour-long NBC series centering on the creation of a Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe. “It&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMSince July 2010 the Off Broadway drama “Freud’s Last Session” has had a relatively long and financially promising run on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PMACT Theatre Busts Another Smart Move Re-post by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM from SLOG In case you haven't heard, the regional theater model is kaput. People who care about …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:56PMOn Thursday, November 17 at 730 p.m. in Zankel Hall, the Carnegie Hall Notables-a membership and ticket program for music enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s-will host Love Letters, a performan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMFeaturing the contents of every Playbill from every Broadway show, as well as a "Scrapbook" page of photos and stories supplied by a special correspondent from each show, The Playbill Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMPatrick Andrews and Edward Gero get to work in John Logan’s “Red.” The creation of art is a daunting thing. Not only is the process most usually taxing (especially if the c…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:38PMThe Twitter Revolution WILL NOT be televised. (because it will happen too fast for the cameras!) This is the 1st track from the #NEWPLAYAHZ album dropping Nov 1. Holla at me on the #NEWPLAY …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:37PMThe stars of Chess shine despite Craig Revel Horwood’s otherwise overly cluttered production
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:37PMThe Past Stays Alive in Playbill's 2010-2011 Broadway Yearbook
Featuring the contents of every Playbill from every Broadway show, as well as a "Scrapbook" page of photos and s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:35PM Gentle readers, this week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is a rave for Kristina Poe’s savagely funny and astonishingly perceptive play, Love Sick about a rejected woman on…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:27PMJeremy Webb will star as Atticus Finch in the Dallas Theater Center run of DTC and Casa Manana Theatre's co-production of To Kill a Mockingbird, when it performs at the AT&T Perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PMA boy who had a rough start in life captures the attention of a social worker he meets by chance in “Seed,” a play by Radha Blank at the National Black Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PMChicago's fall season offers a plethora of fantastic theatre options - it would be easy to overlook a little Amish show. And that would be a huge mistake. The Amish Project is unique, upli…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:21PMThe Denver Center Theatre Company is talking openly about race in America — on and off the stage. "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens next week. On Saturday, an all-day forum will attempt a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:11PMNew Paradise Labs closes out Philadelphia's premiere contemporary performance showcase with a production that veers from web to reality over the course of a month
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:11PMStaging I Love Lucy episodes in a 99-seat theater is harder than it looks. The actors, producers and director Rick Sparks talk about the challenges in the Live on Stage version at Greenway…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:03PMOn Twitter Watch, wrote Currently watching Hoarders and this man has a Barbra Streisand Barbie Where is this man and how can I get my hands on that dollmsleamichelemsleamichele Forget the g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMClick here to enter for your chance to win ticket to see the PHANTOM broadcast with the Broadway cast
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMPhilip Brandes reviews Edward Albee's "Seascape" at Theatre West
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Andrea McArdle is a straight-shooter, which makes her guest appearance on Show People with Paul Wontorek a must-see. The original star of Annie opens up about the effect of the iconic role o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PMAndrew Fortman and Erin Layton will star in an adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, to be presented by Off-Broadway Family Theatre at St. Luke's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMMiami Childrens Theater has created a playwrights' festival for Miami-Dade County kids 13 to 18, but the company isn't just looking for scripts. It is holding three free workshops (the first…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 04:49PMCatherine Wyler talks about the 50th anniversary of “Ben-Hur,” which her father, William Wyler, directed. The film won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:35PMAndrea McArdle is a straight-shooter, which makes her guest appearance on Show People with Paul Wontorek a must-see. The original star of Annie opens up about the effect of the iconic role o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:28PMAn arbitration hearing between fired Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor and the Broadway show's producers will begin the week of Oct. 3, the New York Times has reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMThe highly -anticipated new movie, 'New Year's Eve' features a star-studded cast, including GLEE star Lea Michele, as well as stage veterans Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica Parker, and many mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMRIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean. Simon & Schuster, 324 pp, $26.99.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:07PMOver 400 leaders in the advertising and market industries will join GLAAD for the 2011 Amplifier Awards to honor the best in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT inclusive advertising…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PM"American Idol" veteran and Broadway actress Diana DeGarmo will be part of a Manhattan industry reading of Jawbreaker, the musical based on the 1999 Darren Stein film, which will t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMA review of Seattle Children's Theatre's new musical based on Crockett Johnson's classic "Harold and the Purple Crayon" story books.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:04PMFifty years ago, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg published "Kaddish." The 1961 poem is about Ginsberg coming of age in Paterson, New Jersey and his troubled relationship with his mentally ill …
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Carnegie Hall Notables, a membership and ticket program for music enthusiasts in their 20s and 30, will host a special performance of A. R. Gurney play Love Letters starring Renée…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMLegit News: Broadway opening set for April -- The tuner incarnation of "Ghost" has found its Broadway haunt, booking the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for an April opening.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PMAccording to the NY Times, former SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK director Julie Taymor and the producers of the show will enter arbitration next week over the 500,000 in royalties that Taymour…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PM(Photo courtesy of Trudy Lee Photography)The Truth in True Love LiesHaving performed in Fraser's works, an artist finds directing him is a case of finding balanceKate NewbyWhen approached by…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:45PMPatti LuPone has proven her mettle as an interpreter of the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim in Broadway productions of Gypsy and Sweeney Todd and Ravinia Festival mountings of Passion, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:44PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, Radha Blank and Lisa Kron Among Helen Merrill Award Winners By Adam Hetrick 28 Sep 2011 Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Playwrights Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Dorothy …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:41PMThe Metropolitan Room has announced revisions to its October lineup.
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There will be two special editions of Jamie deRoy and Friends devoted to singer-songwriters on October 4 and 5, fea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMTheater eview: Anyone with a passing interest in Mary Shelley has heard the story of how created "Frankenstein" as part of a party-game challenge. But Buntport takes more of a fever-dream a…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:39PMI wanted to give you all a heads up about our annual meeting this year. The listing is below in the broadcast but I really hope you all can make it. Also, bring as many people as you’d lik…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:39PMProduction: Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway starring Hugh Jackman, with musical staging and choreography by Warren Carlyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMMarried couple Brian and Diane Sutherland will star in the world premiere musical, A Second Chance, to be presented by the Arlington-based Signature Theatre, November 15-December 11. Jonatha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMWho would do standup comedy in front of sleep-deprived mothers and their babies? A growing number of female comics, it seemsIt is lunchtime in the back room of a pub in Sheffield, and a grou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PMFrom Rent to Wicked to Glee, Idina Menzel knows how to make things sparkle.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:30PMMario Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Kevin Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and more were on hand at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre Sept. 25 to celebrate the opening night of Cirque du Soleil's Iris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMEUGENE O’NEILL THEATER CENTER CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2012 NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE. The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center is now accepting scripts for development during the 20…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:22PMTwo-time Tony nominee Alison Fraser and Jill Shackner will join the previously reported Alysia Reiner in the Off-Broadway production of A Charity Case, written and directed by Wendy Beckett.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMThe talented cast successfully portrays characters created by
the brilliant cartoonist Charles Addams.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:22PMOpen to the Public!Monday, October 10th, Noon – 8 p.m.(or until we sell out, whichever comes first!)In the Studio of the Lookingglass TheatreAt the Water Tower Water Works821 n. Michigan A…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:21PMThe London production of rockabilly tuner Million Dollar Quartet has released a live cast album! Recorded at the Noël Coward Theatre, the CD was released on September 29 in ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMOn Tuesday, September 27, Madison Square Garden hosted a private tasting at Tribeca Three-Sixty of selections from the new food stands that will debut at the famed sports arena this fall.
F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMAge; hometown: “Oh, say something funny”; Lowell, Massachusetts
Current role: Bringing her powerhouse operatic vocals to her Broadway debut performance as former showgirl Heid…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMAge & hometown: “Oh, say something funny”; Lowell, Massachusetts
Current role: Bringing her powerhouse operatic vocals to her Broadway debut performance as former showgirl…
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Signature Theatre Company announced yesterday seven productions for its inaugural 2012 season at Signature Center, the company's new Frank Gehry-designed permanent home opening in February 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PM"Godspell," Stephen Schwartz's rock-infused musical based on the Gospel of Matthew, is currently in rehearsal and about to return to Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:49PMOdalys Nanin didn't quite believe it when she first read that Mercedes de Acosta and Greta Garbo had a long love affair. But then she read the letters herself, and the result was her play Ga…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:48PMThough slighly recommended, in Evan Linder's memoir of fraternity life, there is not much new exposed about the Greek system. What's billed as a comedy is more of a disturbing expose of of t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:41PMActors on the set of the live action Simpsons porn parody...really.
What's the old adage? "If it exists, someone's made porn out of it." I suppose it's not really an old adage...but …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:30PMThomas MikuszEdward Albee's "Seascape", at Theatre WestIn this week's paper, our critics are recommending Edward Albee's Seascape, at Theatre West; William Finn's Falsettos at the Third S…
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The former director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will square off against the producers who fired her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:59PMThe New York Public Library has announced the participants for LIVE from the NYPL Presents the Rolex Arts Weekend, to be held November 11-13.
Among the highlights will be a conversation be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:58PMThe countdown for the celeb-filled romantic comedy New Year's Eve has begun! The Garry Marshall-directed comedy features Glee star and Broadway favorite Lea Michele as well as stage vete…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMIt is the ninth longest-running musical currently playing in London and the 18th longest-running musical of all time in Theatreland. According to Michael McCabe, executive producer for Wicke…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:53PM3-D Theatricals is set to present The Wizard of Oz, October 14-30 at the Historic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA. Shauna Markey will direct and choreograph the production.
Based on th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PM...does today's edition of the college newspaper include a glossy, full-color magazine-style insert produced by the high-end French fashion house Hermes. Move over H&M and Forever 21. Oh, an…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:48PMtheater OPENING BRAND. Red Tape Theatre presents Henrik Ibsen’s drama about a priest who attempts to reform a small town steeped in corruption. Directed by Max Truax. Previews Sept. 30-Oct…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:44PMOver the past year, Broadway.com has been floating around the idea of a theatrical offshoot for the Bravo Real Housewives franchise: The Real Housewives of Broadway. We dreamt it up, asked r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:37PMSave on tickets to see MEMPHIS when they welcome Tony Award Nominee Adam Pascal on October 25th
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:35PMApparently, the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway is the official home of all things spiritual. First, there was “The Addams Family”. Next in the lineup? “Ghost” R…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 01:34PMThe American Theatre Wing Gala honoring Sir Howard Stringer was hosted at the Plaza Hotel on Sept. 26. The event featured appearances by Angela Lansbury, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine Paige, Ke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMMichael McKenzie (Broadway's "Waiting in the Wings," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "Eastern Standard") will play Dr. Stockmann in Arthur Miller 's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PMAt a special press event on the construction site of the new venue, Signature Theatre loyalists Edward Norton, Edward Albee and more were on hand to discuss the future plans of the company. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMStephen Sondheim and Tony Kushner will reunite for a Jan. 17, 2012, discussion at the Skirball Center as part of the Public Theater's Public Forum series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMTheatre manager who went on to resuscitate the Catholic HeraldIn the late 1940s, Otto Herschan, who has died aged 84, joined the Boltons theatre, the best-known of London's four theatri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMSadler's Wells, LondonPurcell's Dido & Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice must be the most choreographed operas in the repertory. Their buoyant, punchy baroque rhythms, and the simple arc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsA good Lear is someone who can get through three hours of howling and humiliation without genuinely going mad. A great one is someone alive to textual hints an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMGreenwich theatre, LondonA romantic hero and a ge ntleman of the highway who danced with his victims in the moonlight? Or a petty thief and horse-stealer who raped and tortured his way acros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week production manager Anthiny Runfola shares pivotal moments in his theatre career …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMA Walking Tour of "The Tenant"'s Haunted Apartment Building
http://www.playbill.com/video Many rooms on five stories of Manhattan's West-Park Presbyterian Church have been…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:03PMBelgian choreographer Thierry Smits aesthetically splits the difference between Africa and the Occident in a piece that aims for pure movement joy
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:00PMLauren Samuels, Alasdair Harvey and Wayne Robinson will join the cast of the West End's Queen musical, We Will Rock You, on October 10 at the Dominion Theatre. Samuels will take on the r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMCrossroads Theatre Company's production of the musical, Ain't Misbehavin', is now in rehearsal. André De Shields is directing and choreographing the production, whi…
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Broadway is welcoming a new pair of Wicked witches, which makes it the perfect time for our resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson to pay a visit to the Gershwin Theatre. Broa…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:57PMROCK OF AGES is currently in previews at London's Shaftsbury Theatre, led by Justin Lee Collins, Shayne Ward, Amy Pemberton, Oliver Tompsett and Simon Lipkin. The production officially opene…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMLast weekend brought the season opener for the Handel and Haydn Society, and the return to our fair city of artistic director Harry Christophers. By now the success that I predicted for Chri…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:54PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre will stage the world premiere of Emmy Award-winning "Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss' I'm Connecticut as part of its 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMThe Public Theater Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director Joey Parnes Interim Executive Director will continue the 2011-2012 Public Forum season in October with Users or Used, a provocative discuss…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMCanada's Shaw Festival has announced that Colleen Blake will retire after 17 years as executive director in early spring 2012, when the festival's 50th season comes to a close.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMWhen the Carrollton, Georgia production of The Rocky Horror Show was shut down by Mayor Wayne Garner and local political leaders last week for being too risqu, the Dramatists Guild of Americ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PMThe West End cast of Million Dollar Quartet is preserved on a live London cast album, recorded at the Noel Coward Theatre, on sale Sept. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMTwo time Tony nominee Andre de Shields directs and choreographs Ain't Misbehavin' at Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, NJ featuring Shrek's Jacob Ming-Trent and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMMove Over Mrs. Markham, a bawdy farce at Stage West about marital infidelity, is a very mixed affair indeed.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:38PMShayne Ward, the 2005 winner of Britain’s perennial favorite, “The X Factor,” has recently signed on to the upcoming West End production of “Rock of Ages.” Outs…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:37PMScott Bakula, best known for his Golden Globe Award-winning role as Sam Beckett in TV's "Quantum Leap" and as Captain Jonathan Archer in "Star Trek: Enterprise," retu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMThe Media Theatre's production of Chicago has opening night Friday September 30 after three preview performances. With Broadway's Justin Guarini American Idiot, Women on The Verge as charism…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMWith Idina Menzel returning to Glee, Broadway.com asked which other Wicked veteran should guest star on the Emmy-nominated series. The top three vote getters include two Elphabas and a Fiyer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PMGhost The Musical has found its Broadway home – the Lunt-Fontanne Theater! This brand new, smash hit musical is directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus and choreographed by The …
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:24PMSecond Stage Theatre will present the new musical THE BLUE FLOWER written by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer, with choreography by Chase Brock and direction by Will Pomerantz, this fall. Previews w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMSteven Spielberg is adapting War Horse into a feature length film, and though it was set to be released in movie theatres on December 28, the movie will now arrive in theatres on Chrismas Da…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMDire, repellant absurdity or infantile fun? The critics were shriller than an extended solo but didn't harmonise on this one"There's no doubt that Rock of Ages is absurd," says Kieron Tyler …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMThe opera based on the life of tabloid queen Anna Nicole Smith opened at Royal Opera House in February, and now the show has just been released on DVD and Bluray.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMCasting has been announced for the regional premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Tony-nominated play Motherf**ker with the Hat, which will open the 2011-2012 season at Hartford's Theate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMPittsburgh Public Theater kicks off its 37th season with Sophocles' Electra, adapted by Frank McGuinness, beginning Sept. 29 at the O'Reilly Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMActors' Equity Association PresentsHave Show! Will Travel. . . Flying Solo Workshop/SeminarPack Your Stuff, Map your Course, Work with Navigators, Take a Test RunThe Idea…Writing and Editi…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:07PMBroadwayWorld has learned that the musical BARE may be getting a staged reading in New York in October. Randy Taradash and Martian Entertainment will produce the reading of the Damon Intrab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMIt's official Ghost The Musical, currently running in London's West End, will open on Broadway on Monday, April 23, 2012 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater 205 West 46th Street. Preview performanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMHosted by Steve Jones, THE X FACTOR made its highly anticipated debut last week on FOX. THE X FACTOR judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid and Nicole Scherzinger began their search for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMJeff Talbott's premiere compares the rhetoric of black civil rights advocates and those pressing for gay civil rights
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:02PMCabaret singer Karen Akers' tribute show to Stephen Sondheim once again reminds us of the composer-lyricist's genius.
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An updated list of featured vocalists for Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Vol. 13, the annual holiday CD set benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), has been released.
Al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMHappy 10th Anniversary, MAMMA MIA! Broadway
The Chinese production of MAMMA MIA! celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Broadway production by sending this special message.
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:50AMStage veterans John Hurt and Sebastian Stan will star in the three-part mini-series Labyrinth, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Christopher Smith will direct.
Adapted by Adrian Hodges f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMOctober offers an embarrassment of musical riches. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, without a Music Director, is still putting on impressive programs, including several this month.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:37AMThe first five previews have been cancelled for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s forthcoming production of Matilda the Musical due to technical issues surrounding the installation of th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMIn SEMINAR, four aspiring young novelists Ms. Rabe, Mr. Linklater, Mr. O'Connell and Ms. Park sign up for private writing classes with Leonard Mr. Rickman, an international literary figure. …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:34AMSome quick research tells me that these three one-act gems came together around the one that Woody Allen wrote. The umbrella title, Relatively Speaking, refers to the concept of famil…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:32AMMax von Essen, Darren Ritchie, Tony nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Alison Case have joined the one-night-only Living for Today benefit concert on Oct. 17 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMLegit News: Producer to work with a.d. Josie Rourke -- Kate Pakenham, producer at London's The Old Vic theater, has been appointed as exec producer at the Donmar Warehouse.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:27AMAn actress steps into an audition room, and sparks fly with the playwright/director—that’s the intriguing premise behind David Ives' Venus in Fur, which includes a provocativ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMWhat do you get when you combine Stephen Sondheim and dinosaurs? No, not "Jurassic Park: The Musical."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:25AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Living for Today's First Name Basis, a benefit for The Gilana Shira Alpert Fund to be offered at Joe's Pub on October 17. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMNewsies, the new adaptation of the 1992 Disney movie musical, opened at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse Sept. 25, following previews that began Sept. 15. Tony nominee Jeff Calhoun, dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMThe Public Theater has announced participants for upcoming events in its Public Forum series.
On Sunday, October 23, at 7pm, Mike Daisey, the creator and performer of The Agony and The Ecs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMBay Theatre co-founder Lucinda Merry-Browne, who left that company to found an Annapolis theater school, today announced that the school has become a “teaching theater company” with a sl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMAccording to Winnepeg Free Press, West End star Ramin Karimloo, who will soon be starring in the 25th Anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera, might be 'producing and starring in Hou…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:19AMThe League of Professional Theatre Women held a 30th Anniversary kickoff event in Duffy Square Sept. 28.
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Summer 2011 Intern Olivia talks about her experience being a Markering/Givenik.com Intern at Jujamcyn Theaters!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:16AMThe hit musical adaptation of Ghost, currently running at London's Piccadilly Theatre, has set a Broadway opening date of April 23, 2012, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Previews will begi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMOctober is an exciting month for The Broadway Channel as two new stars join the cast of BILLY ELLIOT. Peter Mazurowski (Billy Elliot) along with Daniel Jenkins (Dad) speak about the struggle…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:15AMLegit News: LONDON -- The Royal Shakespeare Company has cancelled the first five previews of its West End transfer of its hit tuner "Matilda the Musical."
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMLegit News: Structural work causes hitch at musical -- The Royal Shakespeare Company has cancelled the first five previews of its West End transfer of its hit tuner "Matilda the Musical."
SOURCE: Variety at 11:13AMThe Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which currently hosts the undead Addams Family clan, will be haunted anew this spring when Ghost The Musical, the London stage production based on the Academy Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMGhost the Musical is to play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre when it opens on Broadway next year.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:08AMGhost the Musical, adapted from the Oscar-nominated 1990 film, will play Broadway's Lunt Fontanne Theater, with previews beginning in March 2012, and an opening set for April 23. As pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMLauren Samuels, Alasdair Harvey and Wayne Robinson are to join the West End cast of We Will Rock You, beginning performances Oct. 10.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMOver 300 high school students were in the crowd for Wednesday's matinee; needless to say, it was an awesome show. Click for photos.
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 11:03AMBuilding Operations Internship
Anna, Former Building Operations Intern at Jujamcyn Theaters, reflects on her experience!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMNicholas II with the Second Pacific Ocean Squadron
on board the battleship "Prince Suvorov" in Libava in 1904. This photo from the Digital Gallery shows Tsar Nicholas II paying a r…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:03AMSutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner now tapping her heart out in Broadway's Anything Goes, will star in a pilot for ABC Family, her representatives confirmed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMWe're going international, y'all! On December 12th at 8 PM, we'll have our final reading of the year and this time, we've gone overseas to get our subject. Martha, Martha comes to us all the…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMText: “In creating the man that we want to be, there is not a single one of our acts which does not at the same time create an image of man as we think he ought to be. To choose to b…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:56AMAudrey
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AMRichard Jones' production of Mark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas' new opera Anna Nicole has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray by Naxos. The discs feature performances, which ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMSALZBURG, Austria (AP) -- The new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival has unusual plans - he wants most operas performed there to be new productions....
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:49AMLong-running West End hit We Will Rock You has announced three new principal cast members, who will join the show from 10 October 2011.
The new cast members are: former Over the Rainbow co…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:46AMPhillip Jackson Smith and Emily McNamara will lead the cast of the Gallery Players' production of The Little Shop of Horrors, in the roles of Seymour and Audrey, respectively. Joe Barro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMThe Old Globe is now presenting SOMEWHERE by Matthew Lopez, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. The production began previews on September 24, and officially opens tonight, September 29. The sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMThis week's Awesome Person Thursday post comes from Domenic Mezzanotte, who also blogs. You can read all about him here. Domenic introduces us to the new group The Tempest Ladies. Take it aw…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMIt’s tremendous! It’s stupendous! It’s packed with thrills, chills, and magical fun for boys and girls of all ages! It’s none other than The Big Apple Circus, now camped out on mirac…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:26AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Musical Mondays' Diva Month, a series of concerts to be offered on Mondays, October 3-24 at Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMRhino UK is releasing a live London Cast Album for the musical Million Dollar Quartet tonight, September 29, to coincide with Jerry Lee Lewis' 76th birthday.
Million Dollar Quartet, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17AMDay 16 Kiki BabyKIKI BABYBy Kitt Lavoie, co-book writer
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMIf you're looking for high-energy musical romps both raucous and rosy, cozy cooing, happy harmonizing and dance breaks, this very bright and sunny Anything Goes goes a long way towards fitti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07AMWhat article do you think opens with this sentence?
These days, there's no boatman in a dark cowl to take you over to the other side where the souls who wail for eternity are found.
If you …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:00AMThe last time concertgoers walked through the doors of the Kiel
Opera House to see a concert was May 4, 1991, to see the St. Louis
Philharmonic Orchestra.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AMPeabody Opera House's entertainment lineup
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I AM THEATRE: Anthony Runfola
Anthony Runfola is a production manager, director and sound and projection designer. He is currently in his 12th season serving as production manager for Child…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:57AMThe ex-Beatle wrote the score for Ocean's Kingdom and his daughter Stella made the costumes – what could possibly go wrong? A damp squib of a story, that's whatWell, the critical verdicts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMThe London production of We Will Rock You, which will soon be celebrating its 10th anniversary, has announced updated casting.
Lauren Samuels and Alasdair Harvey will join the cast on Mon…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMThey’ve made a video to help raise money for the Goodman Cancer Research Centre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:49AMAt its October 2010 Director-Choreographer-Network, SDC Director of Member Services Barbara Wolkoff moderated a panel featuring SDCF's Director of Foundation Ellen Rusconi, Theatre Communica…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:41AMThe West End transfer of the RSC's production of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical has announced a short delay, with performances now beginning Oct. 25 prior to a revised opening of N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMThe Theatrical Management Association (TMA) has announced nominations for its Theatre Awards UK 2011, which honor creative excellence and the outstanding work seen on stages throughout Engla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMStephen Spielberg's forthcoming movie version of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse will now open in theaters on December 25, according to a report on Deadline.com. As previously …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMTaye Diggs is known as a Hollywood hunk, but the actor says he wasn't always comfortable in his own skin.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:21AMThe new musical Matilda has changed its first preview and opening dates at the West End's Cambridge Theatre due to delays in the structural and installation work at the theater that are…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMSutton Foster will take the lead role in a new TV pilot from the creator of "Gilmore Girls."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
In Remembrance and Renewal, 9/10/2011
Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic gave A Concert for New York, featuring Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11;…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:50AMRoundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes celebrated their new cast album with an in-store performance and CD signing yesterday, September 27th. Director Kathleen Marshall and stars Sutton …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMOn September 27, Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated their new cast album with an in-store performance and CD signing. Director Kathleen Marshall was on hand to introducer performers and s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMThis is is not a show about metal so much as silver-sprayed Styrofoam: namely, the poodle-rock or mullet-rock of the 1980s
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:35AMDreamless Land, written and directed by Julia Jarcho, will be the next offering from Richard Maxwell’s company the New York City Players, opening at the Abrons Arts Center on 4 Novembe…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:31AMThose who take an interest in patents will have heard by now; the U.S. has a new patent law, the "Leahy-Smith America Invents Act." It's too early to tell whether the changes that …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:09AMDespite its subject matter of adolescent aimlessness and its rudderless characters, this rock musical about the legendary teenaged bandit packs quite a punch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:08AMAmerican actress and soprano Sierra Boggess was recently seen in the West End playing Christine Daaé in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to Phantom of the Opera.
She no…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:00AMDonna Lynne Champlin wonders what she's doing in a sold-out show at the New York Musical Theater Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 29 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Playwright award comes with cash prize -- Lisa D'Amour and Melissa James Gibson have scored the Steinberg Playwright Award.
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And she proceeded to burn perfume...,Gulnare of the sea,
Digital ID 1704102, New York Public LibraryFrom ghost-hunting reality-TV shows to feature films like The Hereafter, the paranormal ha…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:58AMJust when you thought the project was already pretty interesting....
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMHere’s what I like and here’s what I’m giving you — plenty of notice! Old-timey songwriter Al Duvall will be the special guest on Michael Haar’s Ragged Phonogra…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:50AM"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."-John le Carré
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:34AMJosh Sherman is a proud three year veteran at On The Road afterspending six years as a booking agent at Columbia Artists Theatricals. He hasrepresented numerous national tours including …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:32AMIt’s that time again. The NY Burlesque Festival opens tonight with a “teaser party” at the Bell House hosted by the World Famous Bob, and culminates this sunday with The Go…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AMThe Picture of Dorian Gray – banned! A Farewell to Arms – banned in Boston! Twelfth Night – banned in New Hampshire! In the shadow of Round House Theatre’s production of Fahrenheit 4…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:01AM
Philosophers are kind of, by definition, gloomy. Just listing them makes me depressed: Nietzche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger. Leibnitz is the single one who springs to mind who used reaso…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:57AMBroadway import Rock of Ages opened to press last night (28 September 2011, previews from 31 August) at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
Set in LA’s infamous Sunset Strip in 1987, Rock of Ag…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:55AMOn the surface, the Tales of Beatrix Potter seems to be a strange selection for the one-man show from Applause Unlimited, but just as he has in previous guest performances, story teller and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMOn Wednesday September 14th, over 200 patrons came into New Dorp Library to visit our Art Gallery!
Children, Teens and Adults had a blast as they walked around our Community Room exploring…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:43AMThere's lots of English conversation activity around NYPL this week! Participants are signing up for the We Are New York English conversation programs in several library branches, and r…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:36AMWith a dysfunctional score and cartoonish characters, "Man of Rock" proves that first-time musical writers Ken Flagg and Daniel Heath need more than just a good song to write an entertaini…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:34AMIn 1990, Aspects of Love was Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway follow-up to Phantom of the Opera. I don't need to tell you it fell short of that juggernaut, and Aspects is rarely revived. So it…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:25AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has cancelled the first five previews of the West End transfer of Matilda the Musical, citing issues with the “extensive installation” of the show a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:18AMTuesday night I was invited to participate in WRITE CLUB. Inspired by Ian's inspiration, I give a hat tip to Chuck P., Tyler Durden and Ray Bradbury.I lost to Ian but I anticipate anot…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMGlam rock jukebox musical Rock of Ages received its London premiere last night (27 September 2011, previews from 31 August) with a gala at the Shaftesbury Theatre ending a week of performanc…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:02AM
Judith Mackrell chooses her favourite videos of legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs – from her collaborations with Philip Glass to a tribute to the great Merce CunninghamThis Einstein o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThere are few theatrical sights more dispiriting than watching a group of seriously talented, highly professional actors plowing their way through a rankly amateur show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:49AMDerek Jacobi, Marianne Oldham and David Haig are to vie for the best performance in a play award at this year's relaunched Theatre Awards UK, sponsored by The Stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:46AMIt's not every day that someone invents a new genre of theatrical performance, yet that's essentially what happens in this clever one-man show that's driven by ingeniously designed, transf…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:43AMPowerful vocalists cannot save this haphazard musical, featuring a gospel-inspired score by Bill Wright and Dionne McClaine-Freeney, from a weak plot, redundant songs, and stereotypical ch…
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:39AMAll change at the Unicorn Theatre where Tony Graham has done such a good job these last 14 years; he signs off with a revival of the Michael Morpurgo football show he first did four years ag…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:04AM
In my [Short Shorts blog]( http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/shenton/2011/09/short-shorts-7/ last Friday, I mentioned that one tweeter/critic, who was there on press seats as a guest of the manage…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54AMis turning out to be a big day for me. I'm presenting my writing in two different venues, starting in West Hollywood at 10am and ending in Culver City at 7pm. October 2, 10am, homo-centric …
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:52AMThe Los Angeles Times has a video of the change over process between the LA Opera productions of Cosi fan Tutte and Eugene Onegin. My first reaction was how cool the magic of theatre is that…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:15AMIt will take some time for opera house to establish an
identity.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:10AM"Standards always are out of date. That is what makes them standards." Alan Bennett, Forty Years On...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMVeterans of the mating wars will recognize the scene, from one agonizing side or another. There has been a single date — an awkward date that began with the tactless suggestion that th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMCirque-with-Attitude Show Plays Belding Theater Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: "Traces"
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Time plays a big part in Lanford Wilson’s “Lemon Sky” -- but it also hasn’t been kind to the show. When the largely autobiographical piece opened in 1970, it must have felt fresh and…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AMSeeing “Noche Flamenca” at The Joyce, with the stage softly glowing and its brick walls exposed, is like seeing flamenco in an Andalusian tavern -- minus the paella. But top-notch perfor…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:44AMIf there were an award for Most Unpleasant Character in a Play, the male lead of Jeff Talbott’s willfully provocative “The Submission” would win in a landslide. It’s not often you se…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:43AMThe Seattle dance company presents a visually stunning and provocative new work
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:30AMReview: The Pulitzer-Prize winning "Next to Normal" rewrote all the rules for musical theater. Now it's rewriting the rules for dinner theater. Rating: *** 1/2 stars
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:17AMWHO’S AFRAID OF ADAPTING VIRGINIA WOOLF? Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway beautifully intertwines the inner and outer worlds of her characters, seamlessly sweeping from description to dial…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:17AMThe gorgeous poster art for the upcoming double-bill at Edmonton Opera.(We don't know about you but we may have nightmares about that scary-ass clown.)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMFor the Record, the "one-of-a-kind Hollywood" musical revue conceived and directed by Chris Bratten and Shane Scheel, continues with a showcase of the movies of Quentin Tarantino i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAcclaimed graphic novelist ends 7-year hiatus with sprawling new book
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMTim Rice/ABBA musical ultimately triumphs with its emotional content.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThe X Factor came back with its third round of auditions this week, in none other but the very rainy and windy cities of Chicago and Seattle. The rain didn't seem dampen the contestants' spi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00AMTime Between Us, featuring Kristy Cates, Kasey Marino and Tom Rainey, begins performances Sept. 29 at the McGinn/Cazale Theater as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe students of NYU Steinhardt’s Program take on Sweet Smell of Success, the Tony Award-nominated musical by John Guare, Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, beginning Sept. 29 at the F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSistas: The Musical, which debuted at The Midtown International Theatre Festival, begins performances at Off-Broadway's St. Luke’s Theatre Sept. 29. Tony winner Hinton Battle and J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Old Globe's world premiere of Matthew Lopez's Somewhere, a new play about the neighborhood torn down to make way for Lincoln Center, opens Sept. 29 following previews from …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBefore "High School Musical" was a hit franchise, it was an American institution. Patti LuPone, Tom Kitt, Kate Baldwin, Tommy Tune and Constantine Maroulis talk to Playbill about t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAround 500 to 400 B.C., give or take a few years, Sophocles and his playwriting contemporaries were treating Greek civilization to this new invention we now know as the drama.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMDance works crafted by some of Point Park University's premier student choreographers will be staged this weekend during the Conservatory Dance Company's annual "Student Choreography Project…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn 2004, Alice is a military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay, nearing the end of her tour and preparing to go home to Texas and get married. By day, she performs her job with gusto, and to th…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMScottish-American couple Addie and William Turner are getting divorced after 60 years of marriage. This protracted legal and emotional adventure, based on a true story and developed over a l…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMStories of adventure on the high seas have long been part of our tales, plays, and literature. Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Moby Dick, to name a few, have taken us on adventures …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe city as we know it is a hybrid of its physical landscape suffused with the emotional landscape we create through the accretion of experiences therein. This dual nature of large cities is…
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