In honor of this Sundays once-in-a-lifetime worldwide live movie theater showing of the 25th anniversary celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webbers PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Fathom - the same company…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51PMIt’s a strange fact that very few plays look at the subject of contemporary British royalty. The past yes, but today very seldom. A notable exception is 1990s playwright Sarah Kane’s vis…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:47PMThe weekend is here and you know what that means...it's time for Broadway.com's weekly Lessons of the Week! Take a look below to review all the busy happenings of this week and what …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:45PMBeijing International Fringe Festival, virtually unheard of in the UK, closed last Sunday after three weeks’ showcasing the best talent in drama, musical theatre, dance and experimental th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:44PMThere is no press release, but consider it official: The Canadian Opera Company is a European house. All the hallmarks are there: good soloists, a reliable orchestra, a sturdy chorus, intell…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:37PMThere’s a little extra magic in the air in the Theater District as Wicked welcomes two new leading ladies to its Broadway cast. Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz have just ste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:34PMThere’s a little extra magic in the air in the Theater District as Wicked welcomes two new leading ladies to its Broadway cast. Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz have just ste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:34PMThe most enjoyable Daniel MacIvor plays have usually been those in which he has appeared himself. This, in recent memory, has meant that they have been monologues. However, his new play, ent…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:30PMThe Signature Theater offers the world premieres of two mystery musicals, “The Boy Detective Fails” and “The Hollow.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30PMThough at times the rooftop shenanigans wear thin (feeling forced), the pell-mell, helter-skelter, take-no-prisoners daffiness of Ryan Landry's catty script and Director Matthew Gunnel’s d…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:27PMThe people passing by, the noises of the street and even the weather influence the events of “The Love Letter You’ve Been Meaning to Write New York.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:22PMThe theme for this year AxS Festival, a project by the Pasadena Arts Council in conjunction with the city's scientific institutions, is "Fire and Water." In one of the shows, a site-specific…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMAlex Horne: Seven Years In The BathroomUnlike many of his stand-up comedy peers, Alex Horne hasn't had any difficulty filling time in his latest one-hour show, because he's set himself the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSaved, LondonEdward Bond's 1965 play Saved is a landmark in British theatre. First staged at the Royal Court, Bond's portrayal of working-class south London attracted controversy for its vio…
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Listen to the AudioActress Rita Moreno, 80, now has a solo show about her life as a star of stage and screen called "Life Without Makeup." In a joint production with KQED San Francisco, corr…
SOURCE: PBS at 06:50PMIt's classily cast and intermittently sharply funny, but it can't make the gear change between comic and meaningful, and eventually stalls
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:49PMIn honor of the 76th anniversary of the world premiere, Mayor Thomas M. Menino proclaimed today, Friday, September 30, 2011, as The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Day in the City of Boston.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45PMPaul McCartneyBack in February when Paul McCartney announced he had written his first ballet score, the news attracted more cynicism than excitement.The former Beatle's track record as a cla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42PMby Isaac Butler Marshall Mason on Hot L: Norman Lear discussing his failed TV series adaptation: A promo for that adaptation that shows, fairly clearly, that the network had no idea what to …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 06:41PMFoodie Fridays - Traces at Papabubble
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:31PMDavid Henry Hwang and Leigh Silverman discusses the highly-anticipated new Broadway comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:30PMThe cast of Seminar met the press yesterday, September 28. Broadway Beat was there to get the scoop on the show from the cast and creative team
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMBackstage at Godspell Rehearsals
Godspell cast member Corey Mach brings a camera backstage to capture the magic (and madness) of the rehearsal process. #PrepareYe
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:05PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
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MPAACT has consistently offered up an excellent and realistic portrayal of Black life in Chicago and America. Go see this play. You will learn what was most likely skipped in your civics cla…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:55PMSo this Catholic who has never set foot in a synagogue is asked to direct this play about what it means to be a Jew. Darin Anthony tells the rest of the story as he prepares to open his West…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:47PMTony winner Joanna Gleason and Broadway favorite Santino Fontana are getting ready to lead Stephen Karam’s family drama Sons of the Prophet, which has set up shop at off-Broadway&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PMIn this week’s edition of Whole Lotta Shakin': The Rock 'n' Roll Icons of 'Million Dollar Quartet', Broadway.com is taking a closer look at one of the unsung heroes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PMThe 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market was set to be an exciting day filled with greeting fans for Priscilla Queen of the Desert's Nick Adams...until a loose tooth suddenly sent him to an …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMCelebrate the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Langston Hughes' retelling of the Nativity story with two upcoming events at local...
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:37PMA Belgian choreographer gives us guys of "African descent" doing dance-y stuff
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:34PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Sept. 19-25, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,561,913
The Lion King (Minskoff T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PMThe Flea Theater will present Sean Graney's These Seven Sicknesses in January. Ed Iskander will direct the production, with casting and creative team to be announced in the near future…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PMThe cast of of the New York premiere of Stephen Karam's new play Sons of the Prophet, directed by Peter DuBois features Yusef Bulos Bill, Jonathan Louis Dent Vin, Santino Fontana Joseph, Joa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMJeremy Jordan, who will soon be starring on Broadway as Clyde Barrow in BONNIE amp CLYDE, and is currently starring in Paper Mill Playhouse's NEWSIES, recently sang the National Anthem at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMThe Rocky Horror Show Preview 1
RICHARD O'BRIEN'S THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien
Live on Stage from Sept. 15 -- Nov. 6, 2011 at The Old Globe i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:21PMJackie Burns , Connecticut Repertory Theatre, UConn BFA alum and Connecticut native, is now starring as Elphaba in the hit musical "Wicked" on Broadway.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:17PMAccording to Baz Bamigoye for Daily Mial, Trevor Nunn will direct a production of KISS ME KATE at Chichester Festival Theatre next year, which will likely make a West End transfer soon after…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMDeary me. After Monday's radiant "Anna Bolena", I suppose it was almost inevitable that "Nabucco" would fail to live up. As it happens, it failed to live up by quite some margin, looking unr…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:07PMYou've been following the BWW's exclusive CHIX 6 blogs for weeks and yesterday CHIX 6 opened at the Queens Theatre where it will be playing through October 30, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMMartin McDonagh will write and direct the film Seven Psychopaths, according to Deadliine.com.
The website reports that the film will star Colin Farrell, as a struggling screenwriter who get…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMThe season features original full-length stories, acclaimed works on national tours and key festivals showcasing Canadian and international talent
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMAnything Goes, at Broadway's Sondheim TheatreGratuitous Violins rating: *** out of ****Set aboard an ocean liner sailing from New York to London, the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Anythin…
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The National Center for Race Amity, Students Organized Against Racism, Brandeis University and the A.R.T. teamed up for a special post-show discussion on race and the legacy of Porgy and B…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 04:54PMOn September 26, Michael Feinstein paid tribute to Tony Award-winning songwriter Frank Loesser in an intimate evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency to benefit Ronald McDonald House&am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PMIn the book review, Ada Calhoun reviews new memoirs by Hal Halbrook and by John Lithgow, who appears on this week's podcast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMChichester's Festival 2011 closes with Sweeney Todd, the musical commonly acknowledged to be Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, in a cast led by distinguished musical performer Michael Ball and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMThe membership of the Dramatists Guild of America has issued a letter of complaint, crying censorship, about a Georgia mayor's Sept. 15 decision to shut down a community theatre producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMJan Maxwell, who stars as Phyllis Rogers Stone, and Danny Burstein, who stars as Buddy Plummer in the new production of "Follies," talk about their roles and the production. When former memb…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:32PMJoseph Gordon-Levitt talks about his acting career and his new movie "50/50," about a young man whose life changes when he's diagnosed with cancer. The screenplay was written by Will Reiser,…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:31PMRoundabout Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, a play about one man's chronic ill health, plays the Harold and Miriam Steinberg …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMThe Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, announced today that Grammy- and Academy-Award-winning songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David will join the ranks of Paul Simon, Stevie Wond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMJoe's Pub, a vital part of New York City's cultural landscape, is currently taking a hiatus to undertake an exciting interior redesign and renovation, spearheaded by original designer and Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMDuring the entire month of October, performing arts organizations from across the five boroughs will be offering free tickets as a way of introducing new audiences to New York City's diverse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMChristopher Baker Explains It All To YouChristopher Baker, senior dranmaturg at Hartford Stage , will speak about the theater's world premiere of " Water by the Spoonful" in a talk at the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:20PMBurt Bacharach and Hal David have won the Library of Congress' 2012 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The songwriting team will receive the prize in a tribute to be held in Washington i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMJonathan Bank, director of "Temporal Powers," and actors Rosie Benton and Aidan Redmond talk about the play. Written by Theresa Deevy and set in Ireland in the 1920s, it tells the story of M…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:08PMThree local artists have been chosen for the Great Rivers
Biennial 2012. Each is awarded $20,000 and will have work in an
exhibition next summer in the main galleries of the Contemporary
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:02PMWeeds star Hunter Parrish has returned to Broadway to lead the cast of the first-ever revival of Godspell. Parrish, Godspell composer Stephen Schwartz and cast members Telly Leung, Morgan Ja…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMEmmy Award winner and Broadway veteran Gordon Clapp will star in This Verse Business, A.M Dolan's bioplay about poet Robert Frost, to run at Merrimack Repertory Theater, October 20 - N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:01PMConverting his memoir Hyper-Chondriac into a solo show at Asylum Lab, former stand-up comic Brian Frazer had to cut 256 pages down to 80 minutes and then learn to commit 100% to his own scri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMSOMEWHERE, now in its world premiere on the Old Globe’s White Theatre stage, is a play with a choreographer but no musical director. And its five actors offer some of the best theatre …
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It's here. This summer, BroadwayWorld.com introduced it's first, exclusive, fully scripted program series - SUBMISSIONS ONLY, created, written, and directed by Kate Wetherhead and Andrew Kee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMThe October season preview issue of American Theatre just went up online, and it's a keeper. There's a meaty, provocative interview with Clybourne Park's Bruce Norris (available online here;…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:58PMTickets for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN will go on sale to the general public starting tomorrow, Saturday, October 1 at 12am at Telecharge.com 212-239-6200. Tickets will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMHunter Parrish and the cast of the revival of the beloved musical prepare for Broadway.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:45PMThere’s a tsunami of retrospective art coming our way, on track to engulf LA. Over the next six months, more than sixty (60!) museums and arts venues, from Santa Barbara to San Diego, will…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:42PMRob Kendt in Time Out clears up some misconceptions about The Threepenny Opera on the eve of the sold-out(!) run at BAM next week of Robert Wilson's staging with the Berliner Ensemble.
In fa…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 03:39PMOn October 4, MAMMA MIA and Hard Rock Caf join together in the heart of Times Square to throw the ultimate Rock Chick Supremo Party, with a silent auction featuring signed memorabilia, ticke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMA new revival of Godspell begins performances at Circle in the Square Theatre Oct. 13.
Conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak with music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMSISTER ACT on Broadway: True Confession #224
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:23PMBroadway stars Tituss Burgess, Ramona Keller, and Patricia Phillips will headline I Hear a Symphony: Motown's Greatest Hits, to be offered at the Orpheum in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMThe union for the former director of the most expensive show on Broadway, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," will head to the bargaining table with the musical's producers on Monday. The Stage…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:19PMOn October 1, The Phantom Of The Opera will celebrate 25 hit years with a special concert performance at Royal Albert Hall in London. Who would you like to see slip into 'The Phantom' mask n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMHosted 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 03:14PMThink of “Becky Shaw,” Gina Gionfriddo’s tragical-comical, psycho-sexual social satire, as something of a Dysfunctional Family Olympics, with a couple of crucial outsiders adding to th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:12PMThe premiere voyage of a new cruise entitled "Broadway on the High Seas" departed from Rome on Sept. 13 and traveled for a ten-day excursion throughout the Mediterranean.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMAnd so, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the 2006-2007 season came to an end. Let’s take a look at it from A-to-Z.
A is for Angela Lansbury, who wins the award for Receiving the Biggest B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMWhat a nice and pleasant young man Duncan Sheik is! We had a lovely time talking and drinking at Sardi’s. I enjoyed hearing how, in the third grade in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMWell, now that the Tonys are over, I can let you know what’s been on some readers’ minds.
“Here’s to the authors who stretch,” wrote Doug Braverman, in respons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMThese days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message board…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMSounds Like His Story Would Make a Great Solo ShowHal Holbrook , who played the Stage Manager in Hartford Stage's "Our Town" and starred in his solo show "Mark Twain Tonight!" throughout…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:05PMHenson Alternative "Stuffed and Unstrung" has been canceled for the Oct. 21-22 shows in Jorgensen's Cabaret on the UConn campus in Storrs due to taping in October for an appearance on Do…
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Jeremy Jordan, currently starring in the world premiere production of Newsies before jumping into the upcoming Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, sang the National Anthem this summer at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMThe biggest party on Broadway will spend the month of October giving away some fabulous prizes to audiences at the Helen Hayes Theatre (240 W 44th Street)! Celebrate Rocktoberfest with ROC…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 02:56PMLegit Reviews: Whether it was nerve or foolhardiness that led actor Saul Rubinek ("Warehouse 13") to choose the title "Terrible Advice," the worst advice he was given about his debut stage c…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:53PMIF YOU HAVE AN ANSWER RESPOND ANY WAY YOU FEEL IS COOL! TAG: @Howlround (your comment) #Newplay CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR IT!
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:50PMIF YOU ARE IN PALO ALTO... Dragon Productions is accepting submissions for The New Play Development Festival. The New Play Development Festival seeks to provide an opportunity for local play…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:46PM& Chicago Dramatists serves the American theatre community not only by nurturing playwrights and their plays but by facilitating the entire playwriting process. Part of that mission invo…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:43PMThomas Fiscella, an actor in the baseball-oriented Honus & Me at MainStreet in Rancho Cucamonga, ruminates on the connections between theater and baseball. The production is in a promo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:39PMIn Goodman Theatre's much anticipated production of Red, we get a real sense of this tortured and fastidious progenitor Mark Rothka, stunningly played by Edward Gero. Highly recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:36PMTwenty five years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" had its world premiere in London, inaugurating what would eventually become a record-breaking run for a musical. Today…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:32PMSUBMISSION PROCESS Play Selection Process Hundreds of new works are submitted each fall for consideration by the Ojai Playwrights Conference, and generally six to eight playwrights, both eme…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:31PMUpdated casting has been announced for the Philippine Development Foundation benefit concert, PhilDev Celebrates Broadway: Suites by Sondheim, to be held at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, Novem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMThe brilliance of the score cannot be fully appreciated with the downsizing of the orchestra, and the sound quality is uneven, coming across as tinny when the volume is turned up. "Rodgers &…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:20PM"Flipside," the new show by HartBeat Ensemble , will present a return run Oct. 13 to 19 at the theater's new base at 410 Asylum St. in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMTickets for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN will go on sale to the general public starting tomorrow, Saturday, October 1 at 12am at Telecharge.com (212-239-6200). Tickets…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:07PMThe non-Equity national tour of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," currently playing at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, is a tale of two perspectives, rather than the advertised tale as old …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:02PM“There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:01PM"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall reprises her role as "Amanda Chase" in the Toronto production of Private Lives opposite Paul Gross. The show will transfer to Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThe New York Post reported that the new Disney stage musical Newsies, which officially opened Sept. 25 to critical acclaim at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey — certainly more ac…
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‘Tis the season for screamin’ and for nearly four decades, World famous Knott’s Berry Farm in Southern California has welcomed these days of lengthening nights with a grand, ghoulish t…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 01:58PMJoan Cusack, Peter Dinklage, Neil Patrick Harris, Edward Herrmann, Anjelica Huston, Jason Lee, and William H. Macy are featured on Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, an audiobook now avail…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMEditor's Note: One of the ways that people of my generation were first exposed to Lanford Wilson was through high school and summer camp theater programs. Certainly, that's how I encountered…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:53PMDazzling and sometimes lyrical, "Traces," presented by Montreal's 7 Fingers at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts through October 9th, is difficult to categorize yet often pu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:52PMNikki M. James, Tony winner for her role in THE BOOK OF MORMON, will be featured on WCBS2 Eye on New York this Sunday, October 2 at 640AM. James recently sat down with correspondent Dana Tyl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMLegit News: Road version lands in London next year -- "The Madness of George III," the historical drama by Alan Bennett ("The History Boys") revived for a U.K. tour by helmer Christopher Lus…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:45PMTony Award-winner John Rando will be directing “A Christmas Story, The Musical!” at the Chicago Theatre when the show, based on the writings of Jean Shepherd and the classic 1983 film, o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:42PMThis production, well directed by Stephen Rayne, is powerful enough that its good points more than compensate for its weaknesses.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMTony Award winner John Rando will direct the 2011 holiday tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, according to The Chicago Tribune. Warren Carlyle, who was originally announced as director,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMOn October 4, MAMMA MIA! and Hard Rock Café join together in the heart of Times Square to throw the ultimate “Rock Chick Supremo Party,” with a silent auction featuring signed memorabil…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:34PMOn 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 01:33PMLegit News: Almeida sets 2012 slate -- Two-time Tony-winner Jonathan Pryce ("Miss Saigon") will play the title role in "King Lear," the climax of the 2012 slate at London's Almeida Theater. …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonIf you were being charitable, you might say that Saul Rubinek, an experienced Canadian actor, has written a satire on male manipulativeness in the manner of N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMA colleague of mine said to me recently that the most dedicated and professional you are as an actor is during your time at drama school. I can relate to that. I can clearly recall spending …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:26PMBirmingham RepTom Stoppard's 1974 play is rarely revived, and it's not hard to see why. It's complicated – very. Mind you, it's as sharp as a fop's trouser crease and self-consciously cuck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMSteve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers were named Entertainer of the Year at the 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday, September 29 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMBeing Billy Webisode 1
BILLY ELLIOT is the spectacular show with the heart, humor and passion to be called "THE BEST SHOW YOU'LL EVER SEE" by the New York Post and honored wit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:15PMAny accurate review of Laurie Anderson's Delusion (above, at ArtsEmerson, straight from BAM, through this weekend only), could, I think, be read as either a rave or a pan. Because the botto…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:13PMAyelet Waldman called online reviewers “f***ing MORON(s)” because they gave Chabon's The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man one star out of five on amazon.com.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:09PMHIPSTER BAND We are a 4-person hipster band and we're living happily, and our title has the word "Fuck" in it. FANGIRL What happens if I date the lead singer, causing unrest within…
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Click here to save on tickets when CHINGLISH comes to Broadway on October 11th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMA spate of big openings might be grabbing the headlines but a number of smaller shows deserve your attention this weekConor McPherson's The Veil at the National, Marc Warren in Cool Hand Luk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThe Casting Society of America held presentations in both Los Angeles and New York on Sept. 26 for the Artios Awards, which are held yearly celebrate outstanding achievements in casting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMJulie Reyburn, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Joshua Dixon, Stephanie Gibson Chase, William Blake, Nicole Johndrow, and Carly Jibson will appear in Cautiously Optimistic, an evening of songs by compose…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMDanny Burstein and Jan Maxwell swing by to talk about starring in the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim's classic but rarely performed m…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:39PMTony winners Sutton Foster (Anything Goes) and Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon) will be featured in interviews on CBS Oct. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMThe cast catch the flights of Synge's dramatic language but fail to keep their feet on the ground, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:29PMI was privileged to attend a workshop of Young Jean’s Lee’s new piece at the Baryshnikov Center last Saturday, and my admiration for her work remains undiminished. I won’t …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:19PMNikki M. James, Tony winner for her role in THE BOOK OF MORMON, will be featured on WCBS2 “Eye on New York” this Sunday, October 2 at 6:40AM. James recently sat down with correspondent…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:19PMOne of the two works on the Another Africa program may be the best play to premiere so far this decade in Toronto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:12PMNewsies, the stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film currently running at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, may head to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre in April 2012, according to t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:02PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of
Oz has extended its booking period at the London Palladium to
28 October 2012.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMFollowing our rehearsal photo story from Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the show's producers have now released production shots of stars Michael Ba…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMJohn Malkovich stars in this oddly conceived piece that combines classical music with the story of a real-life psychopath.
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Comedian Judy Gold's solo show The Judy Show has extended through November 27 at off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre. The limited engagement, which has already received one extensio…
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SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:57AMAlan Bennett’s The Madness of George III will make its West End debut at the Apollo Theatre on January 18, 2012 with the official opening set for January 23. David Haig will star in th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AMTony Award nominees Bob Dishy and Tony Roberts, along with Judy Graubart will take part in a reading of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical have announced the latest additions to their creative team and principal cast. Tony Award winning John Rando Urinetown, The Wedding Singer has…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMShe originated the roles of Elphaba in Wicked and Maureen in Rent and her performance in Glee was so well-received that her presence has been increased in season three. Idina Menzel talks to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AMI got this thing that I do now, it is a joke I make, it is not really a joke but just a way of saying something, but I try to make it funny. It goes like this...Say you were living with me,…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:46AMTony Award nominees Annette Bening (Coastal Disturbances) and Dustin Hoffman (The Merchant of Venice) are among the artists who will record a new line of audiobooks for Audible.com, accordin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" will celebrate its 25th anniversary this weekend with a lavish birthday party that will certainly involve someone swinging from a chandelie…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:45AMWelcome to Rocktoberfest! As if getting your face melted by the hits of Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Foreigner, Twisted Sister and more at Rock of Ages on Broadway isn’t cool enough, durin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMPRELUDE, everyone's favorite annual don't-miss festival sneak peek of the upcoming season by NYC-based theater and performance artists returns to The Segal Center, October 12-14, 2011.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AMOn Sunday, October 2nd between 830AM-9AM Sutton Foster will be interviewed on CBS2 News Sunday Morning on channel 2 in New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMTony Award winner John Rando has joined the creative team of the national tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, taking over as director from Warren Carlyle, who remains the choreographer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT announced today initial casting for the eight new musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMThe Disney film "Newsies" is now a splashy new musical that recently opened across the river at The Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:27AMRelatively Speaking, the new play featuring three short comedies from Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May, recently wrapped its first week of previews (playing to an impressive 98% capaci…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMThe West End's Rock of Ages opens to a chorus of protest, Shakespeare's Globe goes global and 'genital origami' gives Leamington Spa the williesAlistair Smith
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AMTwo-play package about two worlds’ interaction bound to be hit.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:26AMA songlist has been announced for the Tuesday, October 4 edition of FOX's hit series Glee.
The episode will also feature Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's "Cool"…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who can currently be seen on the third season of the hit Fox series "Glee," will perform in concert in Toronto Nov. 17 and 18 at Koerner Hall with t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who can currently be seen on the third season of the hit Fox series "Glee," will perform in concert in Toronto Nov. 17 and 18 at Koerner Hall with t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMEventually you must have a moment where you answer this question: Are you serious about this? Is this theatre company a hobby . . . a way for you and your peeps to commune . . . or is this...
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 11:21AMBeing a good father is its own reward, but for actor Daniel Jenkins it pays off professionally as well. The actor made his last Broadway outing as stuffy patriarch Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMOne of the myriad of new changes that Facebook has made recently is the introduction of a “Subscribe” feature. You can enable this on your own personal account: click here to do …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:17AMMatthew Freeman has perhaps the best response I've seen to the handwringing about the parlous state of American playwriting, from Todd London's Outrageous Fortune to this recent lamentation …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:10AMMarti Pellow will assume the role of the Narrator in the West End production of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, playing at the Phoenix Theatre, on November 1, according to a report on W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMFifty years after its release, the MGM re-mastered film returns to the big screen in high definition with its original vocals and dialog intact. Experience this classic romantic tragedy and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AM"As critics get older – and I concede this may be a fault – they also tend to become less recklessly violent in their judgments."-Michael Billington, quoted by Miriam Gillinson
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:07AMThis weekend, six of Canada’s brightest talents will receive one of the highest honours this country can give: the chance to have their names tromped on by Toronto pedestrians. Ben Kap…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:03AMReports on Outlaws: The Ballad of Billy the Kid, Ennio: The Living Paper Cartoon, and F**king Hipsters!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMOne of the economic challenges of a long-running musical or play is that because it's pretty much the same experience, it's hard to get an audience to come back a second time (which is one o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced initial casting for the eight new musicals selected to be part of the 23rd annual Festival of New Musicals, which will be presented Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMphoto of the Steppenwolf production of The Hot l Baltimore by Michael BrosilowIsaac Butler kindly asked me to contribute to his blog's awesome Lanford Wilson "issue," and I turned in a consi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:55AMTed Shen, the investment banker who put his passion for music aside in order to become a successful businessman — leading to the creation of a foundation that has funded many new Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMBroadwayWorld was on hand for the private premiere screening party this week and spoke to the stars of SUBMISSIONS ONLY. Click below to get the scoop on the genesis of the project and new s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMEmmy-winning actress and comic Judy Gold, who officially opened in The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom July 6 at the DR2 Theatre, has extended her run at the Off-Broadway venue for a sec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMDavid Haig will star in the West End in a new production of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, beginning performances Jan. 18, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre, prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMThis week's guest blog comes from Krystle N. Adams, an up and coming film maker. Take it away Krystle! When I was in High School (Professional Performing Arts School), I had an amazing Human…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMSinger-songwriter Marti Pellow, formerly the lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, one of the most successful bands in British pop history, will join the West End company of Blood Brothers, now r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMI don't know where September went but it's g-g-g-g-gone. Let's see what interested you in what seems like the shortest month of the year. The most read post of the month: 5 Shows that Stand …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMThe Australian production of Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, will be released on DVD in February 2012. Here, the composer-lyricist takes the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMPrivate Lives opened last Sunday in Toronto, where it will play for a limited 6 week engagement before heading to Broadway. BWW is thrilled to be presenting this pre-Broadway coverage of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThis week Greg Cook of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research and I have been engaged in an extended conversation on the newly opened Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:25AMThe Chicago-based touring production of "A Christmas Story: The Musical!" (a new stage version of the iconic holiday movie) will now be directed by John Rando, the producers announced Friday…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:21AMThe Notables, Carnegie Hall's membership and ticket program for music enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s, will present a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters Nov. 17 at Za…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMDay 17 Blanche The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie DameBy Onalea Gilbertson
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMBWWUK's Kaite Welsh speaks exclusively to the Phantom and Christine prior to this weekend's Phantom of the Opera 25th birthday celebrations
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMThe Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra will accompany screenings of the multi-Academy Award-winning film West Side Story at the Royal Albert Hall, June 22-24. Jayce Ogren will conduct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the directors and preliminary casting the eight musicals that have been selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AM
Tomorrow marks the eighth anniversary of Superfluities Redux, and this year the theatrical blogosphere crossed a Rubicon of sorts with the completion of the first (to my knowledge) master…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:58AMDavid Haig will star in Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, which will play a limited run at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, January 18-March 31.
The work, which premier…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMMulti purchase ticket discounts and money off when registering to the Rosenblatt Recitals newsletter. Monthly recitals take place at St John's, Smith Square at 7.30pm.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:54AM"Sometimes the play really is the thing, to the exclusion of almost everything else, most notably in comedies that explore the joys, perils and humiliations of mounting a show and the sublim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:53AMMarti Pellow is returning to the West End stage to play the Narrator in Willy Russell's long-running musical Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre for a limited season.Pellow, who is fresh f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:40AMBy Teresa Smith OTTAWA • An air-conditioned boardroom on the 14th floor of a downtown Ottawa highrise is about as far as you can get from a 40C, pitch black cavern in a collapsed copper mi…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:30AMWhat’s the best of the annual art feast? Depends what you bring to it.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:30AMJermyn Street Theatre has announced casting for Charles Morgan's The River Line, to run October 4 - October 29. Anthony Biggs will direct the production, which will have designs by Rhi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMAs previously tipped, fresh from his Theatre Awards UK nomination for Best Performance in a Play (the newly rebranded TMA Awards) David Haig will star as King George III in Christopher Lusco…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:23AMA new staging of JM Synge's The Playboy of the Western World opened this week (27 September 2011, previews from 17 September) at the Old Vic Theatre.
Set in a small village on the west coas…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:09AMLast night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, we learn that Book of Mormon is not everyone's cup of tea. Apparently a woman had stormed out of a preview of the show with such dramatic gusto that Trey Par…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:07AMThe Almeida Theatre has announced four selections for its 2012 season.
The slate includes a new production of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (January 19-March 10), …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:06AM"Cyclops," a concert adaptation of a little-known Euripides play, rocks and rolls and in the tradition of the best rock operas, but, lacking motivation, it never fully ignites.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:00AMThe new Disney stage musical Newsies, which officially opened Sept. 25 to critical acclaim at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, may be headed to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Why are theatre bloggers so angry? Can the furious be fair critics? And don't get me started on the comments thread ...The internet. It sure is grand, but by God is it angry. And in few plac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMAre critics singing the praises of "The Bald Soprano"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:53AMStage and screen stars Annette Bening, Anne Hathaway, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman, Meg Ryan, and Susan Sarandon are among the artists who will be recording a new line of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49AMPonka Nation Festival to Read Play Based on Seminal Civil Rights Case The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will present a free staged reading of Waaxe’s Law, Mary…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMATA's Sargent Theatre, The Seeing Place Theater, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: The Seeing Place Theater gives a worthy performance of Patrick Marber’s brilliant…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:29AMLondon's Almeida Theatre has announced details of four productions to be staged between January and November 2012, including Jonathan Pryce returning to Shakespeare to play the title rol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25AMJane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, at the New York Musical Theatre Festival
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:17AMSometimes rewrites are not such a good idea. In “This One Girl’s Story” a new musical which is part of NYMF’s eighth season the creators - Dionne McClain-Freeney -(…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMQuantum Leap star Scott Bakula, Men Behaving Badly's Caroline Quentin, Ghost Stories' Andy Nyman and Pulling's Sharon Horgan star in the world premiere of Saul Rubinek's Terrible Advice whic…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:14AMThe story of The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit, sees three children move to Yorkshire following the mysterious calling away of their father. They live in a cottage on the moors with their w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Director to stage touring production -- John Rando has been tapped to direct the upcoming touring production of the tuner adaptation of "A Christmas Story," replacing Warren Carl…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMTalk About Iron ChefsThe next show as part of "National Theatre Live in HD" series will be Arnold Wesker's "The Kitchen" which will be broadcast live from London at 2 p.m. on Thursday, O…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AM
Andrew Lloyd Webber's tame simulacrum of dark passion is now celebrating 25 years. This cultural juggernaut must be stoppedThe Phantom of the Opera is the most successful piece of entertainm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMAnna Carteret, Anna Calder-Marshall and Imogen Stubbs will lead the cast of Salt, Root and Roe, which opens the second Donmar residency at Trafalgar Studios 2 with a 12-week run from 14 Nove…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:44AMAdventure Theatre’s production of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse hits new heights of exuberant energy and hilarity thanks to winning combinations of a fun loving cast featuring Felicia Cur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AMIt is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn't filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn't count on it in this economic climate. So let's bask in the chan…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:44AMFresh from his Theatre Awards UK nomination for Best Performance in a Play (the newly rebranded TMA Awards) David Haig could be making his way into the West End with Christopher Luscombe's c…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:42AMBob Dishy, Judy Graubart and Tony Roberts will take part in a reading of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, to be offered as part of Food fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:34AMAudra McDonald will perform songs by old and new composers in Princeton
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AMThe Royal Court's Jeremy Herrin directs Thandie Newton, Tom Goodman-Hill and Anthony Calf in Ariel Dorfman's Olivier Award Winning play, which premiered 20 years ago. Extra members get top p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMAdolph Behrend (a.k.a. “Salerno”, b. this day in 1869) is known for several things: * He was one of the originators of the style known as “gentleman juggling”, in whi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:12AM By Bill Hirschman Variations on a Theme The Harvest One Act Play Festival, sponsored by the Variations Theatre Group in New York City, has accepted two plays each from local actor/pla…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 07:09AM
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