John Coltrane was a mid-century genius of Modernism who masterfully synthesized the most important elements in both interconnected lines of descent: an African American tradition that stretc…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38PMIf you care about American popular music, you must make a pilgrimage to Beekman Place: 17 Beekman Place, to be exact. There stands a five-story, neo-Georgian brick town house from the 1930s.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PMThis is not a subtle piece but shows the progression from journeyman rock'n'roll renditions to the first budding of what became the Beatles sound – and through the music we hear our own re…
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:18PMNicky Silver's sharp-tongued and cold-hearted farce "The Lyons" follows an American family doused in dysfunction - a theme covered so thoroughly that just typing the words makes my eyelids h…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:16PMIf you've always wanted to dress as Lady Macbeth or the donkey in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Halloween, now's your chance.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:05PM59E59 Theaters, Off Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: A big city play about gay teens that hopes to open the minds of small town audiences. If any play can do it, this is the o…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:04PMIt's an elimination show and one of the DWTS stars has reached the end of their journey. Will it be Carson, whose audience votes have kept him in the competition thus far Or will it be Chynn…
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Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons
Ken Bloom (Broadway Musicals: 101 Greatest Musicals) interviews Peter Filichia about his new book.
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SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 08:49PMOctober 11, 2011by Angela Marroy BoergerEducation & Community Programs CoordinatorAs Education and Community Programs Coordinator at the Playhouse, I work to create programs that support…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 08:47PMIn what has become a kind of ritual, Beyoncé has once again been accused of plagiarizing someone else's moves - this time those of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, a Belgian choreographer (…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:46PMA sluggish domestic economy and a debt crisis in Europe continue to create problems in the nation’s financial hub, as Wall Street firms prepare to cut thousands of jobs in New York City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PMIf anyone knew the legendary chaos and aggravation of opening a new show on the road in preparation for Broadway, it was Moss Hart.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMLegit News: New leader for Lloyd Webber company -- Barney Wragg has been appointed managing director of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMDance, music and spoken word production is intriguing and thought-provoking.
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On Wednesday, October 12, MAMMA MIA stars Liana Hunt and Jordan Dean, artist Marisa Acocella Marchetto and DKNY join together at the DKNY New York flagship store 655 Madison Avenue for a sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:57PMA pointer to my review of New York Theatre Workshop's Aftermath, which I saw at the Perth Festival earlier this year, and which opened in Melbourne last night.
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:49PMA couple of hours ago, I was sitting in a dark movie theatre watching Carl Bessai’s newest film, Sisters&Brothers. Sisters&Brothers is the third and final film in a trilogy tha…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 07:46PMLegit News: Holiday weekend traffic keeps sale strong -- The traditional Broadway sales boost that comes during Columbus Day weekend seems to have overcome whatever B.O. hindrance Yom Kippur…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:39PMSome great shows are remarkable for their spectacular staging; others for their astonishing stories. But in some rare shows, the glory is in the sheer amazement we feel from watching splendi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMOn Wednesday, October 12, MAMMA MIA! stars Liana Hunt and Jordan Dean, artist Marisa Acocella Marchetto and DKNY join together at the DKNY New York flagship store (655 Madison Avenue) for a …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:23PMOut for blood? Nope, but perhaps just out for some “poppy-rock-jive-jazzy-fusion,” as Stephen Moyer once dubbed the kind of music he used to make with his old band, and which there may o…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00PMBackbeat aims to pull off the intriguing feat of turning a footnote into the central focus. Adapted by Iain Softley (with playwright Stephen Jeffreys) from his 1994 movie of the same name, t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe Royal Ballet's oddly balanced triple bill mixes disappointments and very unexpected strengths. Wayne McGregor's Limen goes slack, while Frederick Ashton's Marguerite and Armand gets a ne…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
I've seen Candide more times than I can really count. The first time I saw the show, it was in a fourth-floor walk-up loft in the Back Bay of Boston. It was about 30 years ago, but I seem to…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:59PMTony and Oliver Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has appointed 38-year-old digital media specialist Barney Wragg as the managing director of the Really Useful Group, the company an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:59PMIn honor of its 8th Anniversary on Broadway, the blockbuster musical Wicked will host a month-long roster of activities and promotions throughout the month of October, culminating on Wicked …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMIn September 2004, theatre critic Richard Ozounian learned he had an enlarged prostate. If it wasn’t for the PSA test he wouldn’t be here today
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:57PMEnciWay to Heaven (Himmelweg)See all this week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS (after the jump), including recommendations for I Love Lucy, Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre; Charles L…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:29PMJoe's Pub, the beloved live performance venue at The Public Theater and a vital part of New York City's cultural landscape, reopened last week, October 4, after a three month hiatus while un…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMHave you ever wrapped a towel around your head as a makeshift turban and emoted “With One Look” into a mirror, or longed for the day the word would accept a tall, white guy playing Effie…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 06:15PM#1 (2 weeks in a row)The Book of MormonThe Broadway Box Office Top 10 for the week of October 3 - 9:1. The Book of Mormon (Musical) Eugene O'Neill Theatre (1)2. Disney's The…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 06:09PMThe eighth and (sigh!) final episode of Sister Lives: Backstage at ‘Sister Act’ with Sarah Bolt has arrived, and while we’re bummed to see the last of our wonderful video b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PMMaile Flanagan, Laurie Metcalf, and French Stewart will reprise their roles in Justin Tanner's Voice Lessons, when the show makes a return engagement at Whitefire Theatre, October 21-No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PM
@DavidLOlson answers What's the Artist of the Future? If you want to share your video on this blog: 1. You can go to youtube.com/my_webcam 2. Record Your Response with your webcam 3. Add …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:54PMWHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS REAL? Tom Stoppard is the thinking person’s playwright. Ever since his breakout hit Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in 1967, the erudite scribe has been earmark…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to present three-time Tony Award® winner Frank Langella as “Gregor Antonescu” in Terence Rattigan’s drama Man an…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMThe New York Times Arts & Leisure October 9, 2011 Darkly Comic Voice Adds a Libretto to His Résumé By ROB WEINERT-KENDT NOT many playwrights can claim that a theater was built for them…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMThe multi-talented Tim McGraw might soon be heading to the Great White Way if he gets his way. McGraw recently told Hollywoodlife I love New York. I would love to be in New York and do Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMWHAT WE FIND IN THE ATTIC IS A CASE OF THE CUTES It was a privilege to witness Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook at Northlight Theatre, for this reviewer has never seen anything like it before.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:37PMAfter two weeks away, I am back from China, and this is the most revolting thing I ate while I was there. Now that I’ve returned to the U.S., jetlag is pretty much dominating my daily …
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 05:37PMFOOTLOOSE stars Julianne Hough who plays Ariel Moore and Kenny Wormald Ren McCormack talk about their first experiences performing and how they expressed their creative talents in the new fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36PMBroadway audiences are invited to enter the room of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Memphis' Lorraine Motel in Katori Hall's new play, The Mountaintop. Starring Sam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:35PMIt was announced last week that the Broadway-bound production of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, which played a record-breaking, sold out engagement at the American Repertory Theater, will pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMDirector Steven Sabel is opening a small black box in downtown LA, called Archway Studio/Theatre, as a supplement to his work running the Redlands Shakespeare Festival in a giant-size amphit…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:28PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:20PMLITERATURE NOT MEANT TO BE STAGED Halfway through the first act of Brand at Red Tape theatre, it occurred to me that I had no idea what was going on. First of all, it can be argued that Henr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:19PMHundreds of middle school students across the country are taking a pledge to be a respectful and positive person, to recognize that each person is unique, to be more accepting of people and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMUnder the stage direction of Catherine Malfitano, Susanna Phillips as Lucia delightfully transforms from sweet innocent to spurned lover to full-on bonkers. Every level of passion is brillia…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:16PMTony nominee Kenny Leon will direct a film remake of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias for the Lifetime network, according to Deadline.com. The film will be set in present-day Louisiana a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMGeri Reischl will perform her solo show, "Fake Jan" Sings for Real, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on Tuesday, November 1 at 7:30pm.
Reischl became known as "Fake Jan" …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMFAUSTIAN PHANTASMAGORIA “There is nothing new under the sun,” said a Jewish writer more than two thousand years ago. While such a sentiment may not have been intended to discourage creat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05PMThe William & Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) have announced the sixth round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship recipients. The program is designed to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMAccording to Deadline.com, a remake of the 1989 movie 'Steel Magnolias' which was based on the 1987 play, is currently in the works. Lifetime is currently working with Broadway director Kenn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMGetty Villa will present Poetics and Plays, conceived and performed by Obie Award winner David Greenspan, November 11-13.
The solo play unites two of the most influential and antithetical t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:01PMSteel Magnolias, the popular Off-Broadway and regional comedy-drama about wisecracking Louisiana women whose favorite emotion is laughter through tears, will get a second film treatment more…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:01PMMemphis National Tour Rehearsal Process
See the amazing journey the Memphis National Tour took to get to opening night! (And just TRY not to be impressed with their fantastical dancing!)
Fr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:00PMOur young critics competition turned up some fearless talentWhat makes a great critic? Lots of things: an eye for detail, an instinct for the right adjective, an empathy with audience and ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM
The HD film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, which was filmed in front of a live audience at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway early last winter, will be released nationwide on Blu-r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PM"Aren't you old for a haunted house?" asked one of the androgynous seasonal residents of a nondescript warehouse deep in Morton Grove. His/her job, clearly, was to taunt Saturday night vis…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:50PMThe Book of Mormon Tony nominees Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells have done their fair share of interviews in the months since the hit show's opening, so the pals were ready to have fun when…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:49PMSheri Sanders' Rock The Audition -- In Concert, which was scheduled to make its world premiere at the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival Oct. 11-12 at TBG Theater, has been canceled …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMAfter checking out Broadway's The Mountaintop for themselves, the ladies of The View were eager to discuss the show with its Oscar-nominated stars, Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PMDavid Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, which had its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre earlier this summer, begins performances in New York City Oct. 11, prior to an official o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMLONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO DYSFUNCTION What becomes a new artistic director? Ambition, with a two-fisted delivery. Timothy Douglas, the new chief of the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, bravely g…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PMCasting has been finalized for the return engagement of the popular children's musical Freckleface Strawberry The Musical based on the best-selling children's book by Julianne Moore.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMNew York Times critic Christopher Isherwood's Arts Beat blog about his plan to ask his editor to let him off the hook in terms of&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 04:34PMCelia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Elizabeth Stanley have been cast in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, the first New York City Center Encores production of season.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMThe comedy duo known as Igudesman and Joo are coming to the Broad Stage on Saturday for the L.A.-area debut of "A Little Nightmare Music."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:33PMPerformances begin Thursday October 12 at 8 pm at the Booth Theatre 222 West 45 Street for Jon Robin Baitz's critically acclaimed new play OTHER DESERT CITIES directed by Joe Mantello. This …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30PMThe William & Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, are pleased to announce the sixth round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor F…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:30PMAccording to the Chinese Almanac, Tuesday, October 11th is a good day for starting a business. So the producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy about an American businessman doing business in C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMTHE HOWL Today's HowlRound.com "Weekly Howl"- Our weekly Twitter conversation on hashtag '#newplay' about New Theater, New Works - was tha truth! Thanks to all that came to talk ab…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:22PMWhile visiting Ethiopia with World Vision, Broadway-bound Hugh Jackman met a coffee farmer named Dukale. He met his family and friends, worked the farm with Dukale and saw how much a communi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMTo celebrate its eighth anniversary on Broadway, the Stephen Schwartz-Winnie Holzman musical Wicked will host a month-long roster of activities and promotions throughout October, culminating…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMCasting has been announced for the forthcoming off-Broadway return engagement of Freckleface Strawberry. The show, which originally opened on October 1, 2010, at New World Stages, will reope…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMLeading charity auction site charitybuzz is offering a chance for two fans to meet Hugh Jackman after a performance of Back on Broadway The pair will watch the Tony-award winning Aussie from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMStar of the current Broadway revival of FOLLIES, Bernadette Peters stopped by 'The View' today where she chatted about the show and her uping appearance on NBC's SMASH. Click below to go bac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PM
Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Elizabeth Stanley, and Betsy Wolfe will be part of the cast for New York City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, to be presented Februar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMThe Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, directed by the Tony-nominated Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, will open officially on Oct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMIn honor of its eighth anniversary, the Broadway musical Wicked will celebrate "Wicked Day" on Sunday, October 30 with a special, one-time only "Ultimate Encore Performance.&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PMAnything Goes star Colin Donnell will play composer-turned-mogul Franklin Shepard opposite Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger as his collaborator and pal Mary Flynn in the forthcoming Encores!…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PMAs was previously reported, Susan Boyle will be joining the cast of I DREAMED A DREAM, the musical based on her life story. The global singing sensation is set to appear in the exclusive 11-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMPlenty of Broadway stars were on hand at the 25th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market and Grand Auction, including Broadway.com's own Susan Blackwell, who made the scene…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMPlenty of Broadway stars were on hand at the 25th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Marketand Grand Auction, including Broadway.com's own Susan Blackwell, who made the scene …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMPlenty of Broadway stars were on hand at the 25th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Marketand Grand Auction, including Broadway.com's own Susan Blackwell, who made the scene …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMTony Award nominee Kenny Leon will direct a television movie remake of Steel Magnolias, featuring an all-Black cast, according to a report on Deadline.com.
Sally Robinson will pen the adapt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMBroadway veteran Usher is among the nominees for the 39th annual American Music Awards, which will be held November 20 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
Among the other nominees are Tayl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMTo mark the 25th anniversary of the enormously successful play Les Misérables, an all-new production will return next July at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. It’s been six yea…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:31PMCharitybuzz is auctioning off two house seats to Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway!, at the Broadhurst Theatre, followed by a meeting with the Tony-winning star.
In the show, Jackman performs …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:28PMInitial casting has been announced for the City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, which will kick off the 19th season of the series…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMThe American Repertory Theater production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, starring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, finished its run in Cambridge, MA, Oct. 2. The tra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMNew York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala on Tuesday, October 25 at New York City Center. Mayor …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMColin Donnell, currently going toe-to-toe with Sutton Foster as her dapper leading man in "Anything Goes,'' will play the ambitious songwriter Franklin Shepard in the Encores! production of …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PMCheryl Alexander, Jeremy Gumbs, Joshua Henry, John Jellison, Anastacia McClesky and Kenneth Robinson will appear in A Good Man, to be offered by The Amas Musical Theatre Lab at The Snapple T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMCasting has been announced for the return engagement of Freckleface Strawberry The Musical, which will reopen on November 8 at MMAC Theatre (Manhattan Movement and Arts Center). Buddy Crutch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMThe William amp Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group TCG, the national organization for theatre, are pleased to announce the sixth round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fello…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMAnne-Teresa de Keersmaeker says Countdown video was influenced by her work but 'has no edge'An avant-garde choreographer who has accused Beyoncé of plagiarising her dance moves for her late…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMAnyone who reads the newspapers knows that it’s money and not love that makes the world go round. If you hadn’t already heard, we are experiencing a credit crunch and the media cannot ge…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:02PM
TenThousandMeans will present Rock of Changes, a concert to benefit Love146 and its work in the fight against human trafficking, Oct. 19 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMAs Jersey Boys approaches its sixth anniversary on Broadway, the hit musical is welcoming two new Four Seasons: Broadway vet Andy Karl as tough guy Tommy DeVito and tour vet Quinn VanAntwerp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMThis is a charming and upsetting play. It has the flavor of Our Town with a little Alfred Hitchcock tossed in. Small town America with a little ground glass stuck inside your shoe.Harry (T…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:51PM“We do Bar Mitzvahs.” In the benefit production Portrait of Poe, that’s about as close to optimism as Edgar Allan Poe, gets on October 8, 2011, at Area 405. And the show hasn’t even …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:49PMBroadway Beat was on hand for the Man and Boy opening night and takes you inside the after party below. Here what Langella and the stars have to say about the new production
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company opens its 2011-2012 season with the Philadelphia premiere of John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama Red October 14-November 13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMThe first two previews of The Blue Flower, starring Broadway favorites Teal Wicks, Sebastian Arcelus and Marc Kudisch, have been canceled at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Rather…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PMJohn Lithgow spoke to Leonard about his father's influence on his career as an actor recently, and he also shared his favorite comfort food is.
What have you read or seen over the p…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:38PM"Bakersfield Mist," the Fountain Theatre's hit production, is about to reach its 80th performance. Under Actors' Equity union rules, the extended run means a rare pay hike for actors in a sm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:37PMWelcome to the first edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1092011
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMDancing Barefoot Productions and 134 West Productions will present a one-night encore performance of Sean Galuszka's Poison Apple, which premiered at this year's Hollywood Fringe F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is pleased to announce that the 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year will be held on Monday, December 5 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, December 6 (2 PM) at the New Amsterd…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:27PMHello Everyone! If you hadn’t noticed yet, we’ve decided to spread out our “Preview” series through out the season. Thats because we want to give you the most up to d…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:27PMThe Blue Flower will get two extra days of rehearsal sunlight before its first preview at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. The musical will begin performances Oct. 14 rather than Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMIn the week leading up to Columbus Day, Broadway’s box offices showed strength across the board, with a mix of new and long-running shows making their way onto both frontrunners’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMFor a play that has no beginning, middle or end – this one ain’t bad at all. The Lyons patriarch is in the hospital. Ben Lyons (Dick Latessa) is dying of cancer. He doesn’t look or …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:25PMDavid Mirvish and Cameron Mackintosh have just announced the Canadian Premiere of Cameron Mackintosh's highly acclaimed new 25th anniversary production of Les Misrables. The all-new producti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMDen of Thieves is so poorly written that it never has the chance to be a good play. Though sometimes bordering on hammy, the performances are generally strong, partly resuscitating a few mom…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:19PMVineyard Theatre is extending its world-premiere production of Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS, starring Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, through November 11, it has been announced by The Vineyar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMAs things continue to get heated up in the Class War (not the fake one against the Rich but the actual one that as been waging since before the Civil War), the realities of whether or not ou…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PMDuke of York's, LondonDoes London need another jukebox bio musical? No, and it doesn't get one either in this intelligent, multilayered and often touching account of the Beatles' early days …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PMFive artists, working in everything from sculpture to video and photography, are in running for $70,000 prize.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:07PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record of Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre for the 18th time. The show earned 1,337,952.07 in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMTwo Roads Theatre will present the world premiere of Second Coming: A One-Woman Comedy of Biblical Proportions, written and performed by Sherry Glaser. Gail Feldman will direct the productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMCrucible, SheffieldAfter almost 40 years on the road, the new-writing company Paines Plough has decided to build a theatre. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that it has assembled on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTaliesin, SwanseaAfter the sexy energy of their production of Dangerous Liaisons last year, Mappa Mundi's take on Shakespeare's romcom, featuring bickering lovers and disgraced innocence, is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSadler's Wells, LondonTwo images keep coming to mind during Emanuel Gat's Brilliant Corners: birds and brains. The group sequences embody them most vividly. In the opening, for example, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
The world premiere production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons has extended at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. The play will now run through November 11 instead of the previously announc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMEric Cutler, Kyle Ketelsen, Angela Meade, James Morris, and Marina Rebeka will be guest performers in Collegiate Chorale's presentation of Rossini's Moïse et Pharaon, at C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMMarie-Josée Chartier’s Stria was inspired by trips the Alberta’s Badlands.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:47PMShout Factory and Broadway Worldwide, Inc. today announced a new deal to bring Broadway's 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical MEMPHIS to the home entertainment marketplace in the U.S. and C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMMichael Douglas, who won Academy Awards for his work in “Wall Street” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” will star as late pianist Lee Liberace in an upcomi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PM Goodspeed Musicals will hold its Annual Food Drive on Monday, Nov. 21 to benefit the East Haddam Food Bank.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:40PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS held its 23rd annual Flea Market and Grand Auction on Sept. 25. Vendor tables representing Broadway favorites like "Anything Goes", "The Lion King", "Spide…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:36PMFive-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa's ("Marie Christine", "The Wild Party", "Hello Again") new musical "Queen of the Mist" tells the real-life story of Annie Edson Taylor, the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:33PMATW's Working in the Theatre - Behind The Curtain: Dresser
Carly Hirschberg on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Behind The Curtain" talks about he…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:32PMRoman Polanski's upcoming God of Carnage features John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz in the movie version of Yasmina Reva's Tony-winning play. The film just debut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMTony Award winner Hugh Jackman, who will soon return to Broadway in Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, recently made an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" for a comedy skit entitled &#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMby Aislinn Rose I recently started working as the Community Manager for a project called The Conversation About Love. This interactive experiment revolves around an online art gallery based …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:26PMThree choreographers have been chosen to take part in New York City Center's inaugural Choreography Fellowship Program, a new initiative being launched in conjunction with the theater's reop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMThe energetic newsboys of Newsies are going to help change the Broadway landscape once again (if it does, in fact, land on Broadway this Spring). This show is a major throwback to an earlier…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 01:22PMCasting has been announced for for Tennessee Williams' Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws, to run October 27 - November 13 in The Club at La MaMa ETC. Jonathan Warman will direct the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:21PMThe Vineyard Theatre has extended its world premiere production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons through November 11. Mark Brokaw has directed the Off-Broadway production, which officially o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMAndy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp join the cast of Broadway's Jersey Boys Oct. 11 in the roles of Tommy Devito and Bob Gaudio, respectively.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMChekhov's life has provided rich dramatic material for other playwrights, as has Joe Orton's – who else might suit the treatment?Is it wise to write a play about a playwright? We accept it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PM10 lucky BroadwayWorld fans will each win a pair of tickets to see CHINGLISH on October 14, 2011
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related CDs for October, 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMLegit News: Singer to perform finale of 'Dream' -- Global singing sensation Susan Boyle will join the cast of "I Dreamed A Dream," the previously announced tuner based on her life story.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for October 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for October 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMCast members from the new musical Chix 6 will perform selections from the show at the Comic Con Festival at the Javits Center in New York City on Friday, October 14 at 12:15pm.
In addition …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PM“Spring Awakening,” winner of the 2007 Tony Award for best musical, will be staged by the Trinity College Department of Music, Oct. 20 to 23. This is the first production of t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PM
Beginning with tonight's performance, Andy Karl and Quinn Van Antwerp have joined the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys. Karl Legally Blonde, Wicked steps in the role of Tommy DeVito Dominic Nolf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMPast and present stars of Broadway's Rock of Ages -- including MiG Ayesa, Dan Domenech, Rebecca Faulkenberry, and Michele 'Maisey' Mais -- will perform in the benefit concert,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMOrton and his boyfriend, Kenneth Halliwell, went to jail for adding surreal gags to dustjackets in guerrilla protestAs crimes go it was not the most heinous of offences, but Islington counci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PM"Carnage," Roman Polanski’s film adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, will hit the big screen Dec. 16. The film stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMATW's Working in the Theatre - Behind The Curtain: Flute
Dave Weiss on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Behind The Curtain" demonstrating the sign…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMIlya Vett and Thom Christopher Warren on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Behind The Curtain" demonstrating the detailed workings of the Zazu puppet for Disney's "Th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMAccording to Variety, Nora Ephron wil write and direct, 'Lost in Austen,' which will be produced by Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris. The movie will follow 'a modern Gotham girl transported into …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMNew Voices of 2011: I'll Take Manhattan
The opening numbers of the 2011 New Vocies Concert. The concert was
titled "I'll Take Manhattan: Celebrating Broadway's love affair …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMThrough emotional writing by playwright Gregory Moss, effective performances and excellent scenery, The Argument paints a stark portrait of fear, determination and unselfish love - leaving t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:35PMAt 97, the legendary comic Professor Irwin Corey regularly panhandles near the Queens-Midtown Tunnel for a charity that helps needy Cuban children.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMToday, October 11, Broadway legend Liza Minnelli will stop by 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show,' where she will chat about her relationship with the late Michael Jackson, amoung other things. Click…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMThe Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson DR. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Bassett, directed by the Tony-nominated Kenny Leon Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, will open officially on Oct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMThe 23rd annual Gypsy of the Year competition will be held on December 5 and 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The gala performance is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AID…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMEmery LeCrone, Andrea Miller, and Shen Wei have been chosen to take part in New York City Center's inaugural Choreography Fellowship Program, a new initiative being launched in conjunct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PM"Bend It Like Beckham," the 2002 film that starred Keira Knightley, is being adapted into a stage musical with plans for the West End and Broadway, according to the London Telegrap…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMDGA President Taylor Hackford today announced the host and presenters for the eighth Directors Guild of America Honors, to be held at the DGA Theater in New York City on Thursday, October 13…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMPlays aren't fortune cookies. It's not bad to be challenged – even if that means taking time to figure them outIt's OK to walk out of the theatre before the show is finished. I've done it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMLa Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and two-time Tony Award nominee and Christopher Sieber, kicks off its national tour today, October 11, at Des Moines' Civic Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMCarnage, the Roman Polanski-directed adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning Broadway hit God of Carnage, has already made a splash at film festivals, from New York to Venice. The fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:09PMOut of Context: The Songs of Michael Patrick Walker, featuring the work of the co-creator of Altar Boyz, will be presented Nov. 7 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMHarry Belafonte spoke to Leonard about his music career and his commitment to social activism, and he also shared what he's been reading and his love of cooking.
What have you…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:08PMOut of Context: The Songs of Michael Patrick Walker, featuring the work of the co-creator of Altar Boyz, will be presented Nov. 7 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe Leadership U[niversity] program was designed by TCG and is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The overall intent of this program is to strengthen the field by developing the indi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:06PMTheatre Exile has announced casting for the Philadelphia premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, to run November 10-December 4. Deborah Block will direct.
The play chr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMLast night (10 October 2011) just under 100 Whatsonstage.com
theatregoers visited the Arts Theatre for our Group Outing to The
Killing of Sister George:: L0547173427 starring Meera Syal, Eli…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:06PMTits, boobs, melons, jugs, bazookas – whatever you want to call them, Busting Out! is a comedy sketch show all about female assets. An uplifting celebration of bouncy songs and wobbly joke…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMNicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opens Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 1042011 - 10112011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMFor the print headline for this week's stage feature on the new Saved by the Bell musical in Burbank, written by our theater critic Steven Leigh Morris, the challenge was: how do you combine…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PM
Jacques Brel RETURNS ...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest en Cabaret announced that Bob Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde will rejoin the cast for the November 26th performance at The Tri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMA new production honors the late Lanford Wilson When Carl Forsman, artistic director of Keen Company, was about 11 years old, his parents took him to see his first Broadway show— Lanfo…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:58AMThey come, with startling regularity, on Monday and Tuesday each week. “The Grosses.” The Broadway League aggregates and releases the gross sales and attendance for every Broadway show o…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:54AMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS is pleased to announce that the 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year will be held on Monday, December 5 430 PM and Tuesday, December 6 2 PM at the New Amsterdam The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMA philanthropy watchdog group reports that "billions of dollars in arts funding is serving a mostly wealthy, white audience that is shrinking while only a small chunk of money goes to emer…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:52AM10.24.11 TCG brings together three new voices in the American theatre —David Adjmi (Stunning and Other Plays), Young Jean Lee (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays and The…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 11:50AMAccording to Music-news.com, Nick isn't the only Jonas brother with an affinity for the Great White Way. Older brother, Joe Jonas recenlty revealed that he'd love to head to Broadway if the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMSteffanie Leigh Arrives on Broadway!
After traveling with the North American tour playing the practically perfect nanny, Steffanie Leigh is making her Broadway debut at the New Amsterdam th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:41AMF. Murray Abraham, Michael Urie and more took part in an Oct. 10 reading of Ben Jonson's Volpone to benefit the Red Bull Theater and kick of the 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThe newly imagined production of Les Misérables seen in London, on a U.K. tour and now on a U.S. national tour, will get a sitdown Canadian production starting in summer 2012 at Toron…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMJohn Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle and discovery, telling about his road to becoming a star. His memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education, is a tribute to his most importa…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:36AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the world premiere of Asuncion, a new play by Academy Award-nominee The Social Network Jesse Eisenberg. In a recent interview with the New York Post,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMIn the run up to the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Theatre Club is excited to offer another new benefit to members - access to a series of exclusive Winners' Cabarets. First in the serie…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:30AMLast night (10 October 2011) just under 100 Whatsonstage.com
theatregoers visited the Arts Theatre for our Group Outing to The
Killing of Sister George:: L0547173427 starring Meera Syal, Eli…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:29AMRosie O'Donnell was a big supporter of Broadway on her hit '90s talk show, and it looks like O'Donnell's love of song and dance will also be a factor on her newest series, Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AMDiego Boneta, who plays Drew in the upcoming Rock of Ages film, has joined the cast of the film adaptation of Paradise Lost, alongside Broadway veterans Benjamin Walker and Bradley Cooper, a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMMeryl Streep, Helen Mirren and Martin Scorsese have been announced to present awards at the eighth annual Directors Guild of America Honors Oct. 13 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMTony Award nominee Anna Kendrick (High Society), Oscar nominee Terrence Howard (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, "Hustle & Flow") and "America's Got Talent" contestant Jack…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMAbout the Author:
Never hesitant to explore his heritage in his work, playwright David Henry Hwang long ago established himself as a preeminent Asian-American playwright. He earned a Tony A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMWeekly Howl today from 3-4pm EDT! Discussing Confessions of a Reluctant Writer by Tony Taccone! Check it at Howlround.com Hashtag #newplay
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 11:19AMLast night (10 October) just under 100 theatregoers descended on
the Arts Theatre, with our free programmes in hand, for the Whatsonstage.com Group Outing to see The Killing of Sister George…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:16AMGuild Hall will present the benefit, An Evening with Joyce Randolph at The Little Church Around the Corner, on Thursday, October 20 at 7pm.
Randolph is perhaps best known for her role as Ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMYesterday, Broadway veteran Rosie O'Donnell kicked off her new talk show on OWN with a big song and dance number and flanked by shirtles 'Broadway boys.' Click below to check out the perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMTony winner Linda Lavin, currently appearing Off-Broadway in The Lyons, will release her new solo recording, "Possibilities," next month on the Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMPulitzer Prize winning author and journalist William Kennedy celebrated the release of his new novel, Chango's Beads and Two Toned Shoes, at an event held at Theater District eatery, Tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMBend It Like Beckham, the 2002 film that starred Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keira Knightley in her first big role, is being adapted into a stage musical, with Sonia Friedman s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AMLittle Billy Elliot broke a lot of hearts last week, when he announced he was hanging up his toe shoes and closing up shop at the Imperial Theater, where he has been dancing his bollocks off…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Flea Theater and Kurotama Kikaku will present Jun Kim's adaptation of Shin Hasegawa's Kutsukake Tokijiro, to run November 10-27 at the Flea. Jun Kim, who conceived the project…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMThe authors are now in the running for four literary awards apiece this fall.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:58AMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present the 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, December 5 at 4:30pm and Tuesday, December 6 at 2pm.
The event is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMIn the run up to the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards, the Theatre Club is excited to offer another new benefit to members - access to a series of exclusive Winners' Cabarets. First in the serie…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:55AM"Freud's Last Session," Ephrons' Comedy Also in LineupStratford’s Square One Theatre Company open its season at the Stratford Theatre with the Connecticut premiere of Donald Marguli…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMComing Out Day is not so much about the people yet to come out. It's about the rest of us. It's about being the people they know they can come out to. It's about being the people they know…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:53AMSony Pictures Classics has released the theatrical trailer for Roman Polanski's Carnage, his film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. The film is set for release on Dece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMStage and screen actor David Aaron Baker will join Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, forthcoming Funny Girl star Lauren Ambrose and Dan Futterman in a staged reading of Jacki Lyden's mem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 9, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $882,827 8,018 97.69% $110.11 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICA…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWENN News reports that the 2002 Kiera Knightley film, Bend It Like Beckham, is currently being adapted for the stage, helmed by the film's director, Gurinder Chadha. The new musical has bot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMHarry Belafonte talks about his life—as an actor musician, and passionate activist. In his memoir, My Song, he writes of his close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr.; his role as a co…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:42AMAmerica's most iconic sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, made a return visit to Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session, playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages, on Sunday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMRobert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde) will rejoin the cast of Jacques Brel RETURNS ...The Music of Brel, Blau, Shuman and Jouannest en Cabaret for the Nov. 26 performance at 7 PM at The Triad.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMTony nominee Robert Cuccioli will rejoin the rotating cast of the musical revue, Jacques Brel Returns, at the Triad, for the Wednesday, November 26 performance at 7pm. Created by Dan Whitten…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMBilly Elliot 2011 :30 Commercial
Once in a lifetime comes an event so inspiring you have to see to believe...
BILLY ELLIOT is the spectacular show with the heart, humor and passion to be c…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:35AM“I’ve been a theatre groupie since day one… Being on the board of Playwrights Horizons has never ceased to be the most satisfying thing I’ve done.” – Judith O. Rubin, I AM THEATR…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:32AMHow a disaster at sea changed the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes There are times when a theatre buff comes across something he (or she) wants to share with others of like mind which doesn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: The Story of Billy
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 …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:26AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: On The Road with Billy
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 Y…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:26AMAs a member of the press, I'm typically shielded from the ticketing headaches of the average theatergoer, but occasionally I opt to pay for my tickets through the usual channels and receive …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:26AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: From Screen to Stage
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 Yor…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:24AMThis week, 1812 Productions' season opens with Mistakes Were Made, a comic play by Craig Wright that was named "Best of the Year" by both New York and Time magazines in 2010. The producer, a…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:23AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: Flying
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 hon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:23AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: Finding Billy
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 …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:22AMBilly Elliot Webisodes: Family & Community
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 Y…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:21AMSusan Boyle has joined the cast of I Dreamed a Dream, the previously announced musical biography of her life. Elaine C. Smith will portray Boyle in the show, and star herself will take the s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMThe internet is awash with rumours that hit 2002 film Bend it Like Beckham will be the next blockbuster to receive a musical makeover. The film's director Gurinder Chadha revealed the plan r…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:18AMWorks of art often reference other works of art, so is the Belgian choreographer right to accuse the R&B star of plagiarism in her new music video?To read about Beyoncé Knowles and Anne Te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMIt's time to name your favorites, give some props and get your picks in for the best of the best - nominations for the 2011 BWW Philadelphia Awards are now open
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMI actually didn't think the Boston Police Department would be this stupid. But they were. The country's economy can be trampled to pieces as far as they're concerned, but NOBODY TOUCH THOS…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:13AMOn Monday, October 10, Richard Easton and F. Murrray Abraham participated in Red Bull Theater's benefit reading of Ben Jonson's Volpone at the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Hori…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMDay 28 TutBy Marcus HummonConcept, Music and Lyrics
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMBroadwayWorld.com has learned that a new reading of the long in development Rocky musical is taking place this week in the city. Starring in the workshop is Andy Karl as Rocky, Glenn Flesher…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMTony Danza, Rachel Dratch, Carol Kane, and Sherri Shepherd help to brilliantly bring the unintentionally hilarious words of the world's biggest stars and semi-stars to life.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
The 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year competition — benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS — will be held Dec. 5 at 4:30 PM and Dec. 6 at 2 PM at The New Amsterdam Theatre, hom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMAlso Includes Rarely Produced, Controversial Wallace Shawn PlayYale Cabaret will be presenting one U.S. premiere and two controversial productions this fall at its basement theater at 217 P…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:55AMRashaad Newsome will be the first artist featured in a video display wall located in the lobby of the newly restored and revitalized New York City Center when it reopens this October.
The w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMAsuncion, a new play written by and starring Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland) begins performances October 12 at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre. Directe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMMike Daisey’s latest one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs is open for business as it begins previews at the Public Theater on October 11. The limited engagement will o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:49AMTony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) is back on the boards on October 11, when his new play Chinglish starts previews at the Longacre Theatre. Leigh Silverman directs the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AMAcclaimed playwright Nicky Silver's world premiere comedy The Lyons officially opens at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre on October 11. Tony winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa lead …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:44AMProducing musicals is a tricky business. It takes a lot of money and a lot of patience. There are of course the success stories that make it all worthwhile -- David Stone could never work a …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:38AMTheatre writer-critic Peter Filichia will chat with Ken Bloom about his new book, "Broadway Musical MVPs: 1960-2010 - The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons" (Applau…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMAdditional casting has been announced for the new film, The Company You Keep, according to a report in Variety. Robert Redford will direct and star in the project, which has a script by Len…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMBroadway Sessions with Ben D, the weekly musical theatre-themed evening at The Midtown Theater at the Ha! Comedy Club, will continue Oct. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMThe lineup of presenters for the Directors Guild of America's 2011 DGA Honors ceremony have been announced. Richard Belzer will host the event which will be held on Thursday, October 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMWe have, by virtue of our earthquake last August, an inkling of what the people of Kobe, Japan suffered sixteen years ago. The deep inharmonious rumble – the incomprehensible undulation of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMAward-winning television and film actor Tim Allen attended the opening night performance of I Love Lucy Live on Stage, at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles.
This musical comedy trib…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMActor, musician, standup comic, radio host and Playbill.com columnist Seth Rudetsky will perform his one-man show Rhapsody in Seth Oct. 15 at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMNora Ephron is adapting the BBC miniseries Lost in Austen for a feature film, according to a report in Variety. She will also direct the project.
The movie will focus on a contemporary you…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMThis obscure musical (based on the Peanuts comic strips of Charles M Schulz) with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, has set up camp at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick this autumn. Foll…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:14AMWith “Reverse Threads,” Regina Carter moves beyond conventional boundaries, her music a rich blend of jazz and world music—a cross-cultural exploration of modern and traditiona…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMThree stars currently on Broadway will be guests on the Oct. 11 broadcast of the ABC daytime chat show "The View."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:08AM It’s the musical that shamelessly promotes bad rhymes such as “His astounding clothing took the biscuit/ Quite the smoothest person in the district” and stereotypically has a ba…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMQueen Elizabeth Elizabeth TudorPlayed by Vanessa Redgrave older and Joely Richardson youngCharacter Bio Elizabeth presided over a golden age in England, a time when the arts flourished and h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Backbeat, an adaptation of Iain Softley's 1994 film on the birth of The Beatles, opened last night (10 October 2011, previews from 24 September) at the Duke of York's Theatre, marking its We…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:56AMMark St. Germain ’s latest work, “The Best of Enemies,” which was a hit at Barrington Stage this summer, will return to the Pittsfield, Mass. theater for a second engag…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMTomorrow night, Wednesday 12 October at 8.00pm, Marilyn Nonken, whom the New York Times has called “a determined protector of important music” and “one of the greatest inte…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AMThe 2011 Inaugural Broadwayworld Baltimore Awards are now seeking nominations
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMAre critics beaming about "Man and Boy"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:28AMDo not be surprised if a decade from now some of the most interesting arts projects in the world are emanating from a nation that many of us could not identify on the map.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Actor to receive union's Robeson Award -- James Earl Jones has landed the Paul Robeson Award from legit thesps' union Actors' Equity Assn.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: 'Man and Boy' preems at American Airlines Theater -- Helmer Maria Aitken first revived Terrence Rattigan's 1963 play "Man and Boy" six years ago in London to great success.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
The Last Living Male Star of the '30sHollywood legend Mickey Rooney will be in an “Actors Studio”-style conversation March 24 at 7 p.m. at the Edgerton Center for the Performi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMIt must be Matt Month. How else can you explain not one but two musical productions in the area featuring the music of composer Matt Connor? Creative Cauldron, celebrating the company’s lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMSherry Rubel The "Ainât Misbehavin'" cast, from left: Johmaalya Adelekan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Zurin Villanueva, Rheaume Crenshaw, J. Leonard Oxley (on piano) and Tyrone Davis Jr…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:38AMToday is the birthday of one of vaudeville’s most legendary acts: Peg Leg Bates. See him in action below. And for the full bio go here. To learn more about the variety arts past and p…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:22AMI don't have much to add to Isherwoodgate (Isaac has been on the case), but I wanted to pass along this comment on the American Theatre Facebook page. It's a point of view you don't hear ver…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:06AMThe veteran star discusses her role in Annie, her benefit for the Cabrillo Music Theatre, and her early days in show business.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMWhy does Bill Bailey feel sorry for Belgium? It's more than the fact that France nicked French fries from under their nosesBill Bailey
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMNicky Silver's latest dysfunctional-family comedy may be a tad familiar, but it's still wildly funny and deeply touching. Linda Lavin miraculously makes a monstrous mother sympathetic.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
By Peter Filichia –
Here’s a Broadway trivia question that’s not easy to answer. What musical opened on a holiday that celebrates a person mentioned in one of its songs?
No, no musi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:54AMSusan Boyle will join the previously announced Elaine C. Smith, in the musical based on Boyle's life, I Dreamed a Dream, when it launches a U.K. tour at Newcastle's Theatre Royal, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:51AMBackbeat, the stage adaptation of Iain Softley's 1994 film about the birth of the Beatles, opened last night (10 October, previews from 24 September 2011) at the Duke of York Theatre.
The …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:24AMThe global singing sensation is set to appear in the exclusive 11-week tour across the UK amp Ireland which opens at Newcastle Theatre Royal in March 2012. Susan's appearance in the musical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22AMIt’s fantastic, but you probably should only consider bringing Grandma if she’s okay with Tarantino levels of the word “fuck.”
SOURCE: www.avclub.com at 06:10AMThe major beneficiaries of foundation support for the arts are big-budget institutions with fat-cat audiences, according to a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthro…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMAbi Morgan, Scott Graham and Siân Phillips discuss Lovesong, a physical theatre piece inspired by TS Eliot's poem The Love Song of J Alfred PrufrockAndrew DicksonAlex Healey
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTracy Jennissen discusses starring as "Lady Macbeth" in The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's production of "Macbeth," as well as other everyday details of her life and career!
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AMThe Public Theater will begin previews on Tuesday, October 11 for the New York premiere of THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS, created and performed by Mike Daisey and directed by Jean-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AM
Jonathan Kent's revival of Steven Sondheim's classic musical thriller Sweeney Todd opened to press last week (6 October 2011, previews from 24 September) at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:55AMThe producers of JERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning smash hit musical, are pleased to announce that Andy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp will join the Broadway company on Tues…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45AMSusan Boyle will appear in the finale of I Dreamed A Dream, a new U.K. touring musical based around her life story, which will begin performances at Newcastle's Theatre Royal March 23, 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43AMSusan Boyle is to join the UK tour of I Dreamed A Dream, the musical based on her life story.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMStacey Weingarten and David Levinson's depressing musical feels like an attempt to recreate "Les Misérables," and despite some pleasant voices, the show never fully takes flight.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:14AM
I’ve been thundering on (and on) about the absurd (and ultimately self-defeating, I fear) greed of producers trying to get an additional slice of the income pie by introducing premium pric…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AM"Described as a 'live installation with edible interludes', writer/director Ali Zaidi's show" - Journeys of Love and More Love - "unfolds before audiences seated at tables as he transforms h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:45AMAccording to the Chinese Almanac, Tuesday, October 11th is a good day for starting a business. So the producers of CHINGLISH, the new comedy about an American businessman doing business in C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) notes that the governor of New Jersey has placed salary caps on non profit executives who do business with the state and the governor of New York…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AMTheater review • ‘Wedding’ is an archetypal tale of love,
death.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:05AMThe New York theater season is now rolling, and The Wall Street Journal has given me an extra column this...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"As life had repeatedly shown him, there was usually something to other people's pleasures." Scott Turow, The Burden of Proof...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"I had this idea to write a play about China, but I didn’t know what the story was. One day I went to visit this brand new cultural center in Shanghai. It was just gorgeous&hellip…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:00AMThe new Broadway comedy "Chinglish" explores the language barriers that a U.S. businessman tries to overcome as he looks to secure a lucrative contract in China for his sign-making…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 01:00AMChinglish playwright David Henry Hwang once again takes Broadway’s Best Shows backstage for an exclusive look into the rehearsal process.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMThe Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess features internationally renowned stars Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy, and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life. A.R.T. Artistic Director and T…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMGrief and humor co-exist in an uneasy alliance in “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion’s stage adaptation of her award-winning memoir.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - Chinglish, a new play by Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, starts performances this evening at the Longacre Theatre.
SOURCE: 1802 at 01:00AMTuesday, October 11, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - Tony award-winning musical Memphis is in its final days of rehearsal for the national tour, which kicks off this Friday.
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“The King’s Speech” is headed to Broadway. But readers of this column know I broke this story last year–that David Seidler wrote the script as a play, then converted …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44AMEye on Dance celebrates 30 years of arts coverage with a screening and talkback featuring Yvonne Rainer, Sara Rudner and EOD founder Celia Ipiotis. October 15 at Gibney Studios @ 4:30PM. FRE…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:21AMLooking Closerwhen a choice of a play should have been obviousby Andrew ZadelNo matter how starkly obvious it seems to me now, the decision to mount Patrick Marber's Closer was not made over…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMHitting the WallReflecting on every Canadian critic's dilemmaby Gaëtan L. CharleboisI have been earning my living by my pen for some three and a half decades. I have never had writer's bloc…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMGary Wilmes is an Ohio businessman in a foreign land in the Broadway production of Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, which had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMLee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, which originally premiered at Newcastle's Live Theatre and was subsequently brought to London's National Theatre and later to Broadway with its or…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award winner Randy Graff, currently appearing in the Off-Broadway production of Motherhood Out Loud at Primary Stages, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, back…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMiriam Felton-Dansky is a DFA candidate in the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism department at the Yale School of Drama, and an associate editor of Theater magazine. She is a founding member…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTwo sisters, the ugly sisters, the ones who didn't get the prince--what happens to them after Cinderella disappears into the sunset with her prize? In the drug-and-sex-imagery-addled world o…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMNicky Silver's The Lyons is the newest entry into a genre that can only be described as "wealthy white people being mean to one another." While superbly acted by the six-member company, slic…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTony nominee Christopher Sieber and stage and screen star George Hamilton head the cast of the national tour of the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles, which la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFuerza Bruta: Look Up, the adrenaline-fueled spectacle that first made a splash Off-Broadway in 2007, celebrates its fourth anniversary Oct. 11 at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA one-night-only benefit staged reading of Terrence McNally's play Some Men, which chronicles the history of the gay movement over the past 80 years, will be presented Oct. 11 at the &nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway gets a new nanny beginning on Oct. 11 when Steffanie Leigh flies into the New Amsterdam Theatre to play Mary Poppins. Coming in from the North American tour, she is making her Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's Tony Award-nominated musical adaptation of the Eudora Welty novella The Robber Bridegroom begins performances Oct. 11 at the International City Theatre i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Westport Country Playhouse's staging of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will, featuring David Adkins, Darius de Haas, Susan Kelechi Watson, David Schramm, Paul Anthony S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonologist Mike Daisey delves into the dark side of the creative genius who shaped the way the world engages with technology in The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, which begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAndy Karl and Quinn VanAntwerp join the Broadway company of the Tony-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys Oct. 11 at the August Wilson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRock The Audition -- In Concert, created and performed by Sheri Sanders, makes its world premiere at the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival Oct. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominees Bob Dishy and Tony Roberts, along with Judy Graubart take part in a reading of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running Oct. 11 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway Dolls, also known as "the official girl group of The Great White Way," hit the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival with the premiere of their Tour de Fierce be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNicky Silver, chronicler of dark dysfunction in such plays as Raised in Captivity and Pterodactyls, conjures another fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opens Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMilk and Honey, Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, gets a concert version by Musicals Tonight Oct. 11-23 at Off-Broadway's Lion Theatre. Richard White and Barbara McCullogh play …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1918 Jerome Robbins born today. The choreographer spent most of his early career moving easily between the worlds of classical ballet and Broadway, choreographing and/or directing classics i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDance troupe The Pillow Project will trade the Steel City for the City of Light this week when it travels to France to perform with Paris-based poet and musician Moe Seager, a native of East…
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