In her one-woman, five-year-old confessional show, “Wishful Drinking,” now in its first visit to Chicago, Carrie Fisher distills the essence of many of her problems with this witty bit o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:58PMHEDY WEISS: Dionne Warwick, that cool, blithely rhythmic superstar singer of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, has been hired by Jackie Taylor to create the interior design for the new Black Ens…
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SOURCE: Arena Stage at 09:38PMAlthough the production's knack for snappy one-liners is very much on display in this world premiere, "Addition" is cast in a far more serious mold than playwright R.J. Colleary's his previ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:17PMThe brown-and-tan webbed lawn chair in Bridget Carpenter's "Up," may not look flight-worthy, but it carries so much symbolic weight that it defies gravity simply by remaining upright.The bro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:10PMThe French novella "The Little Prince" has been translated into more than 220 languages. That includes Puppet-speak. Okay, that's not a real language. But life-size puppets are an all-import…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:10PMAs Godspell readies for it's big Broadway bow, Broadway.com is bringing you all the backstage action of the show thanks to our newest video blogger, Telly Leung. In the first installment…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:06PMWe’ve always known that we were going to have a ticket lottery for Godspell. We wanted a way for folks to get a low-priced ticket to the show, and a great view of the action. Then we…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PM
Jon Robin Baitz's OTHER DESERT CITIES will be playing at The Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street beginning Wednesday, October 12 at 8 pm. Opening night is Thursday, November 3, at 645 pm.Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:53PMJon Robin Baitz's OTHER DESERT CITIES will be playing at The Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street beginning Wednesday, October 12 at 8 pm. Opening night is Thursday, November 3, at 645 pm.Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:53PMLA Theatre Center and Women In Theatre give out awards while Rogue Machine premieres Daisy Foote’s Bhutan. Both Pasadena Playhouse and A Noise Within court Pasadena patrons. TV sta…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:42PMDionne Warwick, that cool, blithely rhythmic superstar singer of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, has been hired by Jackie Taylor to create the interior design for the new Black Ensemble Theate…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:42PMThe flames have intensified since the first time Lookingglass Theatre tackled the great Chicago fire of 1871. With the company’s remount of John Musial’s 1999 piece, the blaze seems to h…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:33PMLegit News: London hit lands commercial run -- Producers Stuart Thompson and Jean Doumanian will take "Cock" Off Broadway, teaming with the U.K.'s Royal Court to bring scribe Mike Bartlett's…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21PMDuring the past couple of decades, Gary Griffin has directed nearly all the musicals in the Stephen Sondheim canon, from “Pacific Overtures,” “A Little Night Music,” “Passion” an…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:19PMSometimes evolution takes people in the direction of monkeys. An exercise that Henry Murray wrote about human beings evolved into a play about members of other species. The author writes abo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:17PMI received the note below earlier this week from Greg Cook, head of the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, friend of the Hub Review, and all-around agent provocateur:To mark the 10th…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 07:15PMThis week on Show People, host Paul Wontorek was happy to reunite with an old friend: Tony Award winner and all-around musical theater icon Betty Buckley. Although she now calls Texas home, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMThis week on Show People, host Paul Wontorek was happy to reunite with an old friend: Tony Award winner and all-around musical theater icon Betty Buckley. Although she now calls Texas home, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:12PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Addition by Subtraction' at the El Centro Theatre's Chaplin Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMIt's for anyone who's interested in the future," says Stewart Laing of his immersive experiment The Salon Project. So why does the project hark back to the past, and why will the Traverse Th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
I've been dithering over this post for days, trying to find a way in to writing about this extraordinary show. As with Back to Back's Food Court, which remains one of the most compelling exp…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:59PMFred Melamed played his final performance in Broadway's Relatively Speaking on Sunday, October 2 according to The New York Times. His roles are now being played by Allen Lewis Rickman.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:46PM“The Little Prince,” the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the stage in the Bristol Riverside Theater production at the New Victory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - A new play about Steve Jobs, the public's love affair with the devices he created, and the human cost of creating them, will go ahead next week despite his death, theate…
SOURCE: Reuters at 06:40PMThe world premiere of three one-act comedies, together entitled RELATIVELY SPEAKING, about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children, written by four-time Oscar winner …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PMWhen it came time to select a costume designer for “Don Quixote,” the Joffrey Ballet’s artistic director, Ashley Wheater, simply looked right through the door of the company’s costum…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:28PMSolid as a brick yet graceful, Yuri Possokhov, dressed in sweats, might easily be mistaken for a former member of the Soviet Olympic weightlifting team. But chat with Joffrey Ballet dancer T…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:28PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes, will begin previews as scheduled for the New York premiere of THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOB…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMPeter Mac's Judy & Company, which was scheduled to run October 8-9, 2011 at the Gardenia Theatre in Los Angeles, has been cancelled due to a non-life threatening injury to tribute a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:25PMTorontonians among those cheering award for Scandinavian literary giant.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:19PMThe Original Broadway Cast Recording of the new musical ELF, the Broadway musical for every 'Buddy,' will be released digitally and in stores on November 1, 2011 by Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PM(Warp)The Glaswegian party stamina is legendary, and it's this insatiable appetite for raving that propels the debut album from a lynchpin of the city's music scene, Russell Whyte, aka Rusti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:53PMNicky Silver's new family drama The Lyons is getting set for an October 11 opening at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, and Broadway.com has your first look at this dysfunctional crew…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMMore Than MadonnaWhen libido and midlife crisis meet head on, impartial judgement is lost.by Jim MurchisonI confess that I didn’t know a lot about Speed-the-Plow, other than it was the veh…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:51PMOn October 18, 2011 stage and screen actor Patrick Stewart will be joining STC's Artistic Director Michael Kahn for his first installment of Classic Conversations.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMOn October 24th, the African Children's Choir ACC will host their 3rd annual New York City fundraising gala at the Highline Ballroom. Announced today are five well-known Broadway additions i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMFred Melamed has left the cast of Relatively Speaking, according to the New York Times. The show, an evening of three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May, began previews …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival NYMF announced today that producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, will be honored for their work in bringing musical theatre to a worldwide, pop-culture a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMRemnants from the distinctive facade of the Helen Hayes theater, which was razed in 1982 despite protests, are being put up for auction.
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:33PMThe original Broadway cast recording of the holiday musical Elf will be released digitally and in stores on November 1 by Ghostlight Records. The CD booklet contains Elf’s full lyrics …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMThe New York premiere of Mike Daisey's The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will begin preview performances on October 11 at the Public Theater as scheduled, and run through November…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMProducers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman announced today that tonight's performance of The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, will be dedicated to civil rights pioneer and longtime Dr. Martin L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMIn Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Lidless,” Alice, a former military interrogator at Guantánamo Bay, is forced to confront her time there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMFrom a book by the same name, Carrie Fisher has created a tell-all one woman show, exposing her life - the good and the bad and in-between - for the audience to experience and laugh along wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:20PMA Sneak Peek at "The Blue Flower" Starring Marc Kudisch and Sebastian Arcelus
http://www.playbill.com/video Playbill was invited to capture the sights, sounds and songs of the Off…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:15PMCast member Fred Melamed has left the Broadway production of Relatively Speaking, the new trio of comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, according to the New York Times. The pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMThe Public Theater's new production of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," a one-man show that is sharply critical of Jobs and Apple at points, will undergo changes in the aftermath o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMThe cast of Broadway's "Relatively Speaking" — the collection of three one-act comedies written separately by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May — only hinted at details of plot and …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:10PMThe musical, being staged in Seattle, is based on the life of early evangelical superstar Aimee Semple McPherson.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:07PMThe Broadway League announced today the recipients of its sixteenth annual National Education Grants. These grants support innovative programs that enable students from coast to coast to exp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:05PMGhostlight Records will release the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the musical Elf, both digitally and in stores, on Tuesday, November 1.
The show, which played Broadway's Al Hirs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMTraveling the world is satisfying, but no more so than journeys of the mind. The musical voyage I took with the Chiara Quartet was a trip worth savoring.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:02PM
SIX SCRIPTS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL SHOWCASE OF NEW PLAYS: NOVEMBER 18-20 IN PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON, DC, October 3 - The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:55PMThe playbills are folded and the red velvet curtains are poised to go up on Broadway for a new fall theater season.
This season includes revivals (and revise-als), of "Porgy and Bess" and �…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:53PMProducers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan will be honored at the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Eighth Annual Season Awards Gala, to be held at 6pm on Sunday, November 6 at The Hudson T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMThe company gives top-of-the-line dancers demanding choreography and draws the crowds
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:49PMHosted 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 04:46PMConnie Britton, Carla Gugino and Taylor Kitsch will co-host a benefit for the African Children's Choir, to be held at The Highline Ballroom on Monday, October 24 at 7pm.
Among the cele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:42PMOn stage, three-time Tony winner Frank Langella has played a (literal) lizard in Seascape, an undead aristocrat in Dracula, a 16th century Chancellor of England in A Man For All Seasons, and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:41PMWhen Broadway.com sent photographer Jenny Anderson to spend the day with Judy Gold, co-author and star of the hit off-Broadway comedy The Judy Show, we had no idea she would end up tagging a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PMThe way Hugh Jackman tells it, he had to be stopped from giving Wolverine jazz hands. He tells Ryan Gilbey about his boyhood fight with his brother to be allowed to danceThe day before I am …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMGWB Entertainment and Shanghai Grand Theatre ARTS Centre present a major new theatre in Shanghai, China - The Shanghai Culture Square Theatre - Ultimate Broadway. Built over 6 years, this gl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMTheater veterans Don Cheadle, John Goodman, and Tamara Tunie will join the previously reported Denzel Washington in the upcoming Paramount film, Flight, according to Variety.
The film, to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMProducers of the raucous Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" have gotten into a courtroom brawl with one of the industry’s most respected managers, disputing advice she gave them as a consulta…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 04:26PMAs one of Broadway's absolute best singing actors, Buckley is used to having previews to work out what she's doing before tough-minded commentators descend. Unfortunately, that's not the cab…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMFull cast and creative team have been announced for the Prospect Theatre Company's production of Iron Curtain, featuring book by Susan DiLallo, lyrics by Peter Mills, music by Stephen W…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PMSteven 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 04:20PMLive theater is both prized and underestimated for its here-and-gone shelf life. The moment a play appears, literally, it is in the process of disappearing. Broadway shows, except for the ra…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:19PMThe original Broadway cast album of Elf, the musical comedy based on the 2003 Warner Brothers film of the same title, will be released Nov. 1 on Ghostlight Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMFountain House, an internationally recognized organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with mental illness, released news today that noted actor and Academy-Award nomin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMThe Broadway League has announced the recipients of its sixteenth annual National Education Grants, which support innovative programs that enable students from coast to coast to experience t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMProspect Theater Company, by special arrangement with Fireboat Productions, will present a limited Off-Broadway run of Iron Curtain, winner of the Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMLeigh Marshall answers our question!! If you want to add your video to be on our blog 1. Go to http://www.youtube.com/my_webcam 2. Record Your Response 3.Add #Newplay to the title and share …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:10PMThe Westport Country Playhouse has tapped Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad to stage Lorraine Hansberry's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Raisin in the Sun, while veteran direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMJustice and FaithRyerson brings energy to Miller's classicby Beat RiceThis week, Ryerson Theatre School presents Arthur Miller’s Tony award winning play about the Salem witch trials, The C…
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The Torch Theatre Company will stage a production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Theatre Garage in Minneapolis, according to a report in The Minneapolis Star Tribune. The production wil…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:47PMPREPARE YE Preview performances for the highly anticipated, first-ever Broadway revival of the legendary rock musical GODSPELL begin in one week Producer Ken Davenport announced today that f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMServices and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders has announced that Florence Henderson ("The Brady Bunch," Fanny, Oklahoma!) will host its 16th annual SAGE…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMLike everybody else, I’ve got Steve Jobs on my mind. The Onion posted a column calling him the “last guy in America who knew what the f**k he was doing,” someone on Facebook re-posted …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:37PMACT Theatre will conclude its 2011 season with the thriller, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain. The play is adapted for the stage in this premiere by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMUpdated casting has been announced for Broadway Originals!, part of the seventh annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by TheaterMania contributer Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMBonnie & Clyde, the upcoming Broadway production with music by Tony Award nominee Frank Wildhorn (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll & Hyde) and lyrics by Tony winner Don Black (Sunset Bo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMJoe's Pub, the famous cabaret venue in The Public Theater in the East Village, reopened on Tuesday night with a brand new layout and look, and Heidi Rodewald and Stew of "Passing Strang…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:27PMJoe's Pub, the famous cabaret venue in The Public Theater in the Lower East Side, reopened on Tuesday night with a brand new layout and look, and Heidi Rodewald and Stew of "Passing Str…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:27PMNicky Silver's play THE LYONS is getting its world-premiere this fall with an official opening night October 11 at Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St., it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMThe cast of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER is now complete! Joining the production are Kerry O’Malley as Sharone, Drew Gehling as Warren, Sarah Stiles as Muriel, Paul O’Brien…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:20PMLawrence Clayton, Orfeh, Darren Ritchie, and Jana Robbins will perform at Theater Resources Unlimited's 2011 TRU Love Benefit at Caroline's on Broadway on Sunday, November 6 at Noo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMThe New York Film Festival will feature My Week with Marilyn, directed by Simon Curtis and starring Tony winner Eddie Redmayne, and will have its world premiere on October 9 as the Centerpie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMSacha Wares, director of the upcoming adaptation of Jung Chang's memoir Wild Swans, recently led a workshop in the UK to explore preliminary staging ideas.
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Stage and screen star Patrick Stewart will join Shakespeare Theatre Company artistic director Michael Kahn for the first installment of the Classic Conversation series, to be held at Sidney …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMFollowing a September reading of the Scott Alan-Christy Hall musical Home, Dave Clemmons and John Style of StylesFour Productions, whose producing credits include the recent revival of Drivi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMSilent Roar is a full-length multimedia ‘cirque-like’ theatre piece depicting the story of a family of whales and its perilous journey down and up the coasts of the North American conti…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:50PMDot-Marie Jones and Jayma Mays, who play Coach Beiste and Emma Pillsbury, respectively, on the Fox hit series "Glee," were recently named co-directors of the McKinley High School mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMCenter Theatre Group begins its 2011-2012 season at the Ahmanson Theatre on a high-octane energy note with the West Coast premiere of Bring It On The Musical, an original musical comedy pres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMThe iconic family musical, The Wizard of Oz will be presented at the Comcast Arena at Everett on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 2pm and 7pm.
The production follows the beloved characters D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMDan Futterman will join the previously reported stars Joan Allen and Lauren Ambrose in a benefit staged reading of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, to be held at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMNicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play at Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMWe got a sneak peek at the upcoming new musical "Bonnie and Clyde" which comes to Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre November 4th, 2011. Special behind-the-scenes footage and cast interviews hosted b…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:41PMThe Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis will offer two free screenings of the film Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Saturday, October 15 at 4pm and 8pm in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMTom DiMenna will perform his solo show Who Loves You Baby? at the Soho Playhouse, running October 14 - December 30. Taylor Negron has directed the production.
In the show, which was seen a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMBad things happen to good people. Bad things also happen to actors. (Ha!) All joking aside, injuries in the world of arts are just as serious as those in professional sports. Joel Grey, a To…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 02:40PMAdam Gerber, Aidan Koehler, and Mickey Ryan will star in an Off-Broadway production of Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum, to be presented by the Stella Adler Studio of Acting at The June Hav…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMStage and screen star will guest star on the fourth season of Showtime's Nurse Jackie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Perez will co-star with David Hyde Pierce later this fall in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMAmbassador Andrew Young, Samuel Nappi, Ruth Hendel and Steven Hendel announced Oct. 6 that Moments with Dr. King, a new play about legendary Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., is pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMTony Award nominee Gabriel Byrne will present the Irish Repertory Theatre the Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award, given annually by the Irish American Writers & Artists, Inc,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMphoto by Sarah Krulwich for the New York TimesI admired Stephen Karam's two previous New York productions, Columbinus and Speech & Debate, and had the chance to write about him for the L.A. …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:32PMSilicon Valley is in mourning today for one of its biggest heros -- Steve Jobs. Unless you've been hiding in the basement of an art museum or stuck in rehearsals for a play over the last 18 …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:32PMNick Jonas will climb the corporate ladder as Broadway's next J. Pierrepont Finch' in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYIN…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMVicki Noon will be a sharp-shooting belter in the Village Theatre production of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, which will arrive in Issaquah, WA, Nov. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMBring It On, a new pop-rock musical from Tony winners Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and Amanda Green (High Fidelity), announces the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMPBS has announced additional the celebrity hosts for its previously reported inaugural PBS Arts Fall Festival, to air on consecutive Fridays beginning October 14. On each of these evenings, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMSpanish playwright Juan Mayorga's stiff, harrowing production displays the Third Reich's mastery of stagecraft and forced performances of Theresienstadt's Jewish prisoners with the rigor of …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:23PMRumor has it that “Funny Girl,” the hit 1967 musical by Jule Styne and Isobel Lennart, will now be the subject of a highly anticipated revival effort. Bob Boyett, the producer …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 02:20PMThe writer Stephen Karam has two productions this fall: the play “Sons of the Prophet” and the chamber opera “Dark Sisters.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMGood music rules the day, thanks to that girl who is a self-appointed and plucky "Little Princess" who comes from literature, her story bringing us to Europe and Africa, with the latter cont…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:17PMChicago star Kara DioGuardi, cabaret stars Will and Anthony Nunziata, American Idol contestant Pia Toscano, and Italian chanteuse Giaida Valenti will appear as part of WABC-TV 's broadc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMPreliminary casting has been announced for York Theatre Company's Fall 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMBritish actor Michael Ball is sharpening his razor as he takes on the title character in Sweeney Todd. Ball (an Olivier Award winner for playing Edna Turnblad in the West End production of H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMAge & Hometown: “Finally old enough to play Glinda on Broadway”; San Marcos California
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:10PMThe New York City engagement of The Berenstain Bears LIVE! in Family Matters, the Musical will move to the Marjorie S. Deane Theatre (5 West 63rd Street) on Monday, November 5.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMThe Tony Award-winning musical Chicago and Givenik.com will present a special performance and post-show reception to benefit the favorite charities of leading lady Kara DioGuardi Oct. 11 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMAmbassador Andrew Young today joined Samuel Nappi, Ruth Hendel and Steven Hendel to announce that Moments with Dr. King is preparing for preliminary stagings prior to a Broadway production, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMThe Katselas Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Kathryn Graf's play, Hermetically Sealed at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles, October 22-November 20. Joel Polis dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMVirtuoso, rising star violinist Tim Fain will be premiering his collaboration with legendary composer Phillip Glass on Sunday October 9th, at 4:00pm as part of Portals, an evening-length, mu…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:00PMGeorge Clooney's entertaining big-screen adaptation of Beau WIllimon's play Farragut North is timely, but not timeless.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMThe Path Fund, Inc. will present Rockers on Broadway – Halloween Spooktacular, the latest edition of Broadway's rock-and-roll concert series, Oct. 31 at the Midtown Theatre at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PMThis Tuesday, October 12th the John Denver Spirit Award will be presented to Stewart F. Lane at a ceremony in Central Park West 75th Street and the West Lake at the Ladies Pavilion, New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMMike Bartlett's acclaimed play Cock, which investigates one man's bisexuality and the love triangle that ensues, will arrive Off-Broadway in spring 2012, producers announced Oct. 6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMWalnut Street Theatre has announced casting for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's The King and I, to run November 8 - January 8. Marc Robin will direct and choreograph the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:49PMOn Tuesday, October 11, Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical CHICAGO and Givenik.com will present a special performance and post-show reception to benefit the four favorite charities of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMBroadway-bound Glee star Darren Criss first made a splash as a member of Team StarKid, the Chicago-based performance ensemble whose web productions have become internet smash hits. Criss wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMDan Futterman will join the previously reported stars Joan Allen and Lauren Ambrose in a benefit staged reading of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, to be held at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PM“The Rocky Horror Show,’’ the omnisexual alien monster musical, has taught millions of people to do the Time Warp since its stage and film incarnations debuted in the 1970s…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:39PMJames Macdonald will direct the Off-Broadway premiere of Mike Bartlett's Olivier Award winning new play, Cock, at a theater to be announced in Spring 2012.
In the play, when John takes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMInitial casting has been announced for The York Theatre Company's fall 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series, which presents musical theatre gems in staged concert performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:36PMNBC has canceled the comedy Free Agents after four episodes, according to a report in Variety.
The show, a romantic comedy set in a crooked workplace, starred Tony nominee Hank Azaria and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMMarc Warren stars in Cool Hand Luke, a new stage adaptation of Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name, which officially opened Oct. 3 at the West End's Aldwych Theatre, following previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMThe Town Hall, New York's landmark theatre and concert venue, is pleased to announce additional casting for BROADWAY ORIGINALS on Sunday, October 16nd at 3PM. The matinee is part of The Town…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:34PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON reminds its fans to tune in to Comedy Central® on Sunday, October 9 at 10:00 PM for the premiere of the exclusive new documentary film, “6 Days to Air: The Making of �…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:30PMThe new film Footloose will be expanded into a full-blown movie musical from the earlier film with songs. In addition to starring a young Kevin Bacon as Ren, Footloose also starred Lori Sing…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for Rockers on Broadway - Halloween Spooktacular, the latest edition of the Rock and Roll concert series, to be held at the Midtown Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMBarbican, LondonIt was hard to watch the Cunningham company after Merce's death in 2009, knowing his benignly smiling figure would be absent from the curtain call. It's twice as hard now tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMBirmingham Old Rep / Rose, KingstonTo see one production of Oscar Wilde's most famous play may be regarded as excellent fortune; two in less than a week could be rather too much of a good th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMThe founder SABAB talks about the challenges making "The Speaker's Progress," a satire on political inertia in the Arab world, opening tonight at BAM
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:25PMThe new play, Moments with Dr. King, is preparing for preliminary stagings prior to a Broadway production. The work is being produced and advised by King confidants Ambassador Andrew Young a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMIt’s often vaunted as Mozart’s most revolutionary opera, making bold swipes at the dastardliness of the class structure in 18th century Europe, but these days The Marriage of Fig…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:22PMThe students of NYU Steinhardt’s Program took on Sweet Smell of Success, the Tony Award-nominated musical by John Guare, Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, this past weekend.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMLucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel – America’s favorite sitcom foursome are performing live on stage and in color for the very first time! Making its world premiere is I Love Lucy® Live on Sta…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:19PMBroadway royalty will step into the spotlight of the upcoming NBC-TV series "Smash," the hour-long drama-with-music about the people and passions behind creating a Broadway musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMThe music that ignited a generation is heating up Broadway in the smash hit, ROCK OF AGES. The classic rock love story of the decade erupts into Broadway's best party, all to the sounds of s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMFollies star Bernadette Peters and Nick Jonas, who will join the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in January, will guest star on NBC's upcoming Broadway-themed se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMFollies star Bernadette Peters and Nick Jonas, who will join the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in January, will guest star on NBC's upcoming Broadway-themed se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMA theatrical trailer for the new movie My Week With Marilyn. Simon Stuart has directed the film that centers on the period when Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier were making the film The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMThe Oprah Winfrey Network announced that the premiere episode of the new OWN series "The Rosie Show" will air concurrently across five Discovery Communications networks when the se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMShuttle Atlantis astronaut Sandra Magnus and world-renowned
environmental economist Graciela Chilchinisky are among the guest
speakers at the St. Louis Science Centers 4th annual SciFest, a
…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:10PMThe Broadway-bound production of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, which played a record-breaking, sold out engagement at the American Repertory Theater, will play a 26-week limited run at the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMCasting has been announced for Broadway Does Disney, a one-night cabaret performance to benefit Theatrical Gems, to be held at 7pm on Friday, October 21 at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre. The ev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMDancer and choreographer Mercedes Ellington will be honored at this year's 52nd Street Americana Jazz Festival, to be held on Saturday, October 22 on 52nd Street from Fifth to Seventh A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMFarewell tour gives a final chance to see the choreographer's troupe, following his wishes before he died that his troupe should cease
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:00PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's new Holocaust drama, "Way to Heaven"
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PM
Casting has been announced for the Musicals Tonight production of Charles Strouse and Mel Brooks All American, to run October 25-November 6 at the Lion Theatre. Thomas Sabella-Mills will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMHow should theatre tackle real-life horror? And how much do Doctor Who and Shakespeare really have in common? Find out the issues captivating the blogosphere this weekWhat to do about "reali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMPhylicia Rashad will play the role of director at Westport Country Playhouse next year when she will direct the powerful classic, “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansber…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMAugust Strindberg's Miss Julie will play a limited engagement at the Stella Adler Studio C Theatre In Los Angeles, October 21-December 4. Multi-award winner Stan Harrington will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMA benefit reading of Ben Johnson's classic VOLPONE will take place October 10th, featuring, Michael Urie, Richard Easton, and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMDying to make a trip to New York City to see one of 2012's most anticipated shows, but just don't have the spare cash to make it happen BroadwayWorld.com has just launched a 2011 Travel Surv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMAnother index of how theater is disproportionately on my brain: When Gary Coleman died, the first thing I thought of was Avenue Q. And when I heard that Steve Jobs died yesterday, the second…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:42PMA concert performance of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe's new musical Soho Cinders, which will be presented Oct. 9 at 7:30 PM at London's Novello Theatre, will be recorded and relea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMStewart F. Lane receives the John Denver Spirit Award in Central Park, NYC on Tuesday, October 12, 2011 Presented by the Starsong Foundation and JD Spirit, Mr. Lane is the 9th recipient of t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:33PMMy sister, Heather, is an amazing woman. A tenured chemistry professor by the age of 34. A mother of an amazingly adorable 1 year old boy. Wife of an equally awesome husband — also a c…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 12:31PMThe producers of the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER have just announced the complete cast joining the previously announced stars Grammy and Emmy Award winner…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMNicholas Martin and Phylicia Rashad have been added to the roster of directors for productions at the Westport Country Playhouse in 2012.
Martin will direct the drama, The Year of Magical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMInternational music superstar Nick Jonas is set to join the cast of Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying early next year, but he's not waiting until January to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMPorchlight Theatre Company will present a Halloween themed benefit event, American Gothic, at the Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael on Friday, October 28.
The Falkirk mansion will be th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMThe Atlantic Theater Company is serving up quite the dinner party in Dreams of Falling Dreams of Flying, the latest world premiere play from Adam Rapp. Broadway.com recently ventured downtow…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PMHugh Jackman is demonstrating his versatility this month as he juggles the opening of the new action movie Real Steel and his Broadway return as a song-and-dance man in Hugh Jackman, Back on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMLaugh, Sing, Dance Join Bill Cosby, Chita Rivera and Mark Nadler for an evening of comedy and musical entertainment from three sensational performers
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMPriscilla Queen of the Desert stars Nick Adams, Tony Sheldon, and Will Swenson will lead the Broadway cast of the musical in a medley of the show's most popular dance floor hits -- &quo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMProducers have announced that the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which will arrive at the Richard Rodgers Theatre Dec. 17, will be presented as a limited engagemen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMProducers have announced that the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which will arrive at the Richard Rodgers Theatre Dec. 17, will be presented as a limited engagemen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMYesterday we lost someone who inspired more entrepreneurs than any of us can ever imagine. Below are some videos about this genius. In some of my darkest times, I can hear this voice telling…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:14PMBeyond the Music, a new musical with original book and direction by Tony Award winner Andy Sandberg Hair The Last Smoker in America and a fresh and exhilarating pop-rock score by multiple Em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMOmar Robinson and Marianna Bassham catch the wave in Twelfth Night. Photos: Stratton McCrady.Long-time Hub Review readers know I am fascinated by the Actors' Shakespeare Project. Some …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:12PM"The impoverished repertory system can no longer sustain companies or even in most cases casts of more than five or six per play. Paid employment in the form of small TV parts or commercials…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:10PMJoely Richardson will star as Ellida in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea at the Rose Theatre, Kingston next spring for a limited run.
Richardson follows in the footsteps of her mother Va…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:10PMThe Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, will now be a limited 26-week engagement, to run December 17, 2011 through June 24, 2012 with an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMWhatsonstage.com has teamed up with the West End's Criterion Theatre as media partners of their new monthly lunchtime debate, Critics at the Cri, which will see eminent drama critics and
c…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:03PM
The Broadway-bound production of THE GERSHWINS’ PORGY AND BESS, which played a record-breaking, sold out engagement at the American Repertory Theater, will play a 26-week limited run …
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 12:02PMLast night (5 October 2011) over 80 theatregoers made their way to the Aldwych Theatre for the world premiere of Cool Hand Luke, the American crime drama, which was famously adapted into a 1…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:01PMAccording to published reports, Nick Jonas, who will soon return to Broadway in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, has joined the long list of theatre stars who will guest sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe Who's opera comes alive with Roger Daltrey at the Peabody
and a production by Stray Dog Theatre.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PMArtists in the Kemper exhibit use different media to examine the
world condition.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PM
Broadway.com's resident artist Justin 'Squigs' Robertson recently ventured to Memphis' Lorraine Motel (a.k.a. Broadway's Jacobs Theatre) to sketch Samuel L. Jackson and A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMDaisy Foote's play, Bhutan will make its West Coast premiere at the Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles, October 16-November 22. Elina de Santos will direct.
According to press notes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMThe box office for The Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Street opened today at 10AM for two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman Private Lives, Les Liaisons D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMNow that casting has been announced for Glee's upcoming production of West Side Story, Broadway.com asked readers which casting decision excites them most. Take a look at the results bel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMBOX OFFICE OPENS
TODAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
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ALAN RICKMAN
STARRING IN
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
BY THERESA REBECK
DIRECTED BY SAM GOLD
ALSO STARRING
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SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 11:51AMGet top price tickets for Cool Hand Luke at the Aldwych for performances until 16 December (book by 21 October)
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:49AMAnother local arts group with good financial news to report: The Seattle Chamber Music Society announces that its 30th anniversary season ended with no accumulated deficit. The society also …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 11:46AMTony Award winner Bernadette Peters and Broadway veteran Nick Jonas will guest star in NBC's new musical drama Smash. Both performers will sing in the respective episodes in which they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMDonna Bullock, Emily Padgett, Bryce Ryness and Saycon Sengbloh will take part in Beyond the Music, a new musical about the underbelly of the music industry, which will receive industry …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMPlaywright Julia Pascal wants more women in top arts jobs – and believes it's up to Arts Council England to lead the revolutionWe all know equality is a point of contention in the arts. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMA gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his cha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMBroadway vets Kerry O’Malley, Drew Gehling and Sarah Stiles will be part of the complete cast of the forthcoming “newly imagined” Broadway production of On a Clear Day You …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMProducers revealed the complete cast and creative team for the reincarnated Broadway production of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Harry Connick Jr. Tony Award-winning director …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMHere are a few more pictures from L ong Wharf Theatre 's fundraising ecvent Monday night, celebrating 10 years under artistic director Gordon Edelstein .
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AMFull casting has been announced for Broadway's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which will begin previews at the St. James Theatre on November 12, prior to an official opening on Dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:35AMTen new plays have been announced as the shortlist for the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
According to press material: “The UK’s biggest playwriting competition, this yea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:30AMAccording to the Toronto Sun, theatre impresario Garth Drabinsky, who only just began serving his seven year sentence weeks ago, is attempting to be released on bail while his team of lawyer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMIn an era where ‘sour’ seems to say it all, there’s one thing to like about South Pacific at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre even before seeing it. This 1949 musical about America…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMThis past weekend they filmed, and showed in movie houses, the live performance of the 25th anniversary of "The Phantom of the Opera" and will repeat the film in special engagements.
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 11:17AMThe sexual tango with the giant squid is out"The Addams Family" didn't exactly take Broadway by storm when it opened last year. Though Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth gave the $16 million…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMTron, GlasgowIt's the end of the world as we know it and Catherine Gillard and Nancy Walsh feel fine. The two actors are washed up on a tiny cabaret stage for one last vaudeville turn before…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM"Glee" star and Team StarKid co-founder Darren Criss will reunite with Team StarKid at the culmination of its first national tour, The Space Tour (StarKid Precarious Auditory Conce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMThe new musical Peter & I opens tonight, October 6 at the Chernuchin Theater at the American Theater of Actors as part of The Araca Project, a new program created by The Araca Group to suppo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMThe award-winning playwright and actor discusses his new film, Blackthorn, and his early days at LaMama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMI don't know if Steve Jobs ever even went to a Broadway show, but I do think he was one of the greatest Producers who ever lived. He built things the world didn't even know it needed. And he…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Hal David, who penned the lyrics to Broadway's Promises, Promises, will be honored with a musical tribute, in celebration of his 90th birthday, Oct. 17 at the Music Center of Los Angeles…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMMore details on the planned movie museum, a partnership between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The upcoming revival of "Funny Girl"…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMRose Hemingway, Tituss Burgess, Adam Kantor, Carrie Manolakos and many more will take part in the inaugural Artists for World Peace benefit concert Nov. 6 at the Helen Mills Theatre in New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMA web of betrayal, scandal, and murder is brewing deep in the heart of Columbia, MD. In their crowd-pleasing production of Chicago, Toby’s Dinner Theatre puts their own stamp on the sordid…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM"Venus in Fur" meets the press
Our friend Julie James of Sirius XM radio interviews the cast of Broadway's "Venus in Fur", a dazzling new comedy written by David Ive…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:48AMYesterday, October 5, the company of Queen of the Mist met the press and below we bring you complete performance preview coverage
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMTony Award nominee Forrest McClendon and Broadway veteran Josh Lamon will headline 11th Hour Theatre Company's upcoming concert, which celebrates the date of 11/11/11. Fran Prisco will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMRiveting pairings emerge in mixed repertoire of dance in Proartedanza at the Fleck Dance Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:42AMArcLight Theater, Ethos Performing Arts, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: Therapy gets analyzed in Aron Eli Coleite's The Family Room, a new play about a family of thera…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:37AMComposer-lyricist Scott Alan will return to London for a one-night-only concert at the Arts Theatre London Nov. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMBroadway performers who make up the extended creative family of songwriter Joe Iconis — whose pop-rock songs capture the pulse of outsiders and searchers — will sing 8 PM Oct. 10…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMThe New York Philharmonic presents "Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance", a fusion of sound and image, featuring The New York Philharmonic, Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble performi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:24AMDay 23 Jack Perry Is Alive and DatingHarrison David Rivers, playwright and bookwriter of Jack Perry is Alive and Dating sheds some light on the question Why are we at NYMF
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AM
Quite possibly the worst play of the season on Broadway. Quite possibly the best cast of the season on Broadway. Katori Hall's new play is imaginative and entertaining, but not B…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:59AMCollaboraction is sending out a nationwide call to playwrights, directors, ensemble-based groups and theater artists of all kinds to submit scripts or concepts to be considered for the 12th …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 09:55AMFood for Thought's Lunch Hour Theatre series, featuring readings of one-act plays, will continue Oct. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMAlan Rickman is headed back to Broadway for the first time in a decade in Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy Seminar. Tickets are now on sale for this world premiere production, which also st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMBlackthorn opens in New York and L.A. tomorrow. The below is adapted from my review in the Villager during Tribeca Film Festival in April. Blackthorn may well be the most Southerly western i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:49AMGreenhouse Theater Center has 2 studio rental openings. A Winter slot from 12/26-02/12 (6 week run) and a Spring slot from 04/02-05/27 (7 week run). Only companies interested in the full per…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 09:43AMD. Watts' Spoken Word Preserves: The Jam, described as an "innovative, soul revealing 'play on words' jam session," will be presented Oct. 10 at the Helen Mills Spotlig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMThe Recording Academy has issued a statement following the death of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 following a lengthy battle with cancer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AM"Theater Talk," which is co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and series executive producer Susan Haskins, returns for its 16th season Oct. 7 at 1 AM ET on WNET/Thirtee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMAvant-garde legend Robert Wilson stages Brecht and Weill's satirical 1928 masterpiece as a cold clown show with brilliant and haunting performances from the Berliner Ensemble.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:25AMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for a concert to benefit Artists for World Peace, to be held on November 6 at 8:30pm at the Helen Mills Theatre. Tituss Burgess will ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMAshleigh Gray, Alexia Khadime, Caissie Levy, and Natalie Weiss will appear in Divas Sing Scott Alan, to be offered at the Arts Theatre in London on November 13 at 4pm. Songwriter Alan will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMDarren Criss will make a guest appearance in the national tour of The Space Tour (StarKid Precarious Auditory Concert Experience) for two performances when it plays New York's Irving Pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMWhen I found out yesterday - reading a news bulletin on my iMac - that Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had died, it hit me hard.It's not just that Jobs passed away much too young, at age 56 of pa…
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 09:15AMDavid Bedella, Clive Carter, Sharon D. Clarke, Amy Lennox, Beverly Rudd, Jos Slovick, Sandi Toksvig, Hannah Waddingham, and Michael Xavier will be featured on the new CD Soho Cinders - A New…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMChichester's Festival 2011 closes with Sweeney Todd, the musical commonly acknowledged to beStephen Sondheim's masterpiece, in a cast led by distinguished musical performer Michael Ball and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13AMI AM THEATRE: Judy Rubin
Judith O. Rubin is Chairman of the Board of Playwrights Horizons, a distinguished forty-year-old not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater in New York City. She served f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:08AMIn September, Pace University, in Lower Manhattan, kicked off a new degree program: a Bachelor of Arts in theater arts with a specialized track in commercial dance.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:00AMDancers interested in earning a college degree often struggle with the decision to give up four of their prime performing years to academic studies.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:00AM
Graham Greene's novel "The End of the Affair" has been channeled into two movies, the latest in 1999 with Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore steaming up the screen. Now it's Quantum Theatre's …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:44AMPaul Czarnowksi’s original play, Scott Janus: Monster Hunter, is an homage to the camp horror films of the 50’s and 60’s. Unfortunately, the most terrifying thing about this play is th…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:39AMPoor Marc Warren: stuffed with boiled eggs yet still no match for Paul Newman. The critics deal a blow to the West End showPity the producers of the West End's Cool Hand Luke. The trouble is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMJournalists from around the world arrived in Montreal this past Sunday to write about Cirque du Soleil’s new arena spectacle, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour. The Post’s…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMThe Arts on TV: Isabella Rossellini; Alan Menken; 'Limelight'; Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Kids' musical is based on book by Julianne Moore -- "Freckleface Strawberry," the tuner based on the children's book by Julianne Moore, will reopen in November at the MMAC Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Actors line up for benefit concert -- The Roundabout Theater Company has lined up a starry cast for a benefit concert reading of the 1963 tuner "She Loves Me," with Josh Radnor, …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Revival books Broadway venue -- Exit the moppet ballerino, enter the Follies girl: The incoming Broadway revival of "Funny Girl" has booked the Imperial Theater for its upcoming …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Director Fiona Shaw tells Tom Service about English National Opera's take on Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Coliseum in LondonFiona ShawTom ServiceAlex Healey
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMMichael Ball and Imelda Staunton open in Chichester Festival Theatre's new production of Sweeney Todd Oct. 6, following previews that began Sept. 24, for a run through Nov. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:57AMWhatsonstage.com has teamed up with the West End's Criterion Theatre as media partners of their new monthly lunchtime debate, Critics at the Cri, which will see eminent drama critics and
c…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:48AMLast night (5 October 2011) saw 85 theatregoers at the Aldwych to see Cool Hand Luke; which tells of a decorated WWII veteran and his refusal to conform to life in a Florida prison camp and …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:32AM From CBS News:A new CBS News poll finds that just 11 percent of Americans approve of the job being done by Congress. That’s down from 12 percent last month and reflects a new lo…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMAs previously reported, Cyndi Lauper is writing the music and lyrics for KINKY BOOTS - The Musical, with a book by Harvey Fierstein, and Jerry Mitchell as directorchoreographer. Daryl Roth a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMThe producers of the 50th Anniversary production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING announced today that they will b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AM
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play Driving Miss Daisy opened to critics last night at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre (5 October 2011, previews from 26 September 2011).
Set…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:50AMYoung Philly theater companies in need of a place to call home take matters into their own hands.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:50AMA reading of a brand new musical entitled Peter amp I will be held on August 4th at Ripley Grier Studios. Peter amp I stars Chris Dwan, Julia Murney Wild Party, Wicked, Jack Noseworthy Sweet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45AMActing legends Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones received a rapturous reception at Wyndham's Theatre last night (5 October 2011, previews from 26 September) following the press performan…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43AMJoey Arias may be a singer, a comedian, a performance artist, a drag queen or all of the above. Most important, he's back in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35AMSTEVE JOBSSteven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile commu…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:30AM
A Noise Within has announced casting for its production of William Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will, to run October 29-December 16. Julia Rodriguez-Elliott will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51AMAkram Khan is, as ever, utterly virtuosic in his movement, commanding the huge, empty stage of Sadler’s Wells with energy, humanity and beauty. However, his collaborators for DESH, wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:26AMLiving in the UK, we forget how comfortably we have been brought up. This island, whilst small, has survived surrounded by water under the same occupancy for hundreds of years, and aside fro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21AMYou can accuse Alfred Uhry's 1987 play Driving Miss Daisy of many things – being overtly sentimental is top of the charge sheet – but you certainly cannot claim that it’s a case of fal…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:06AMIt is fairly wonderful to see Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones as the warring stereotypes of a Southern Jewish matriarch and her illiterate black chauffeur in Alfred Uhry’s sentim…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:04AM
Are critics crowing about "Motherhood Out Loud"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:54AM"The Royal Court, perhaps? The Bush? The National? ... In fact it's none of these. The title is held by a pub theatre in the West End of Glasgow - Òran Mór - which this year alo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:51AMAfter more than two hours of stories — about the sexual proclivities of dad Eddie Fisher, the Hollywood stylings of mom Debbie Reynolds, the marriage to the cerebral Paul Simon, the de…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:42AM Some months ago I began to hear reports that the Houston Family Arts Center had a cast of area youngsters being selected to participate in the eighth annual New York Musical Theatre Festiv…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 01:19AMChristina Bianco impersonates Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, and Lady Gaga. She has to, because she’s already mastered most of Broadway’s biggest stars. Yet if you’re thinking that B…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 01:18AM"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is." W. Somerset Maugham, Ten Novels...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDavid Patrick Kelly has played some formidable and strange characters over the years. Now the Obie-wi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMAfter more than two hours of stories — about the sexual proclivities of dad Eddie Fisher, the Hollywood stylings of mom Debbie Reynolds, the marriage to the cerebral Paul Simon, the demand…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM
With a travel schedule that is, to say the least, brutalizing (anyone want to swap with me on my five-day weekly sojourn to the city of the gateway arch?), it’s been quite a challenge …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 12:24AMMark Lang's magnificent poster art for Hyena Subpoena(read Alison Darcy's first person piece about the genesis of the show)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe National Theatre's third season of National Theatre Live, an initiative to broadcast live performances from the National's stages to cinemas worldwide, continues with the screeni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe National Asian American Theater Company kicks off its 22nd season with Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, beginning Off-Broadway Oct. 6, with an official opening Oct. 13, at the Duo …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAccusations of plagiarism have dogged Toronto writer Zhang Ling’s work
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMTony Award winner Linda Lavin shows 'em how it's done in Nicky Silver's new Off-Broadway play, The Lyons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMNew Jersey's Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theater Company, devoted to African-American voices and artists, revives the musical Ain't Misbehavin' — the celebration of songs…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office at Broadway's Golden Theatre opens Oct. 6 for walkup sales for the world premiere of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's dark comedy in which Alan Rickman plays a novelist and e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGreenwood, a new musical inspired by the French Woods performing arts camp, begins its sold-out run Oct. 6 as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Tony nominee Andrea McArdle stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCoActive Content in partnership with American Latino Theatre Company will present Stacey Martino's The King of the Desert, opening Oct. 27 in the Forum Theatre at the El Portal Theatre i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, who made her New York Philharmonic debut in February at Avery Fisher Hall, plays London's Royal Albert Hall Oct. 6 at 7:30 PM London time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMississippi Mud Productions presents the first New York City revival of Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow beginning Oct. 6 at the Theatre Row Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying team with The Trevor Project for a special benefit performance of the musical Oct. 6 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Provincetown Theater Company presents the world premiere of Myra Slotnick's new drama The Weight of Water. Directed by Obie winner David Drake, performances begin Oct. 6 at the Massa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFemme Fatale Theater's production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome, which features an all-male cast, begins performances Oct. 6 at The Secret Theater in Long Island City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Linda Lavin shows 'em how it's done in Nicky Silver's new Off-Broadway play, The Lyons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"I measured love by the extent of my jealousy." -- Novelist Graham Greene in "The End of the Affair" "Watch love burn." -- Quantum Theatre's tagline for Karla Boos' stage adaptation of "The …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAfter an 11th-hour scramble in the spring to come up with $100,000 to stage the summer production of “Macbeth,” the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival now appears to be…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 12:00AMThe renowned bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, who grew up on the high plains of northwest Kansas, has played La Scala, the Met, Covent Garden and opera houses in Paris; Geneva, Switzerland; and S…
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