A sure sign that the holidays are just around the corner came Wednesday, as the Rockettes begin rehearsals for their annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:28PMA sure sign that the holidays are just around the corner came Wednesday, as the Rockettes begin rehearsals for their annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:28PMThe time to see Betty Buckley's new cabaret show "Ah Men! The Boys of Broadway" is now! Come see Betty live on stage at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in NYC until October 29! In this new show…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 11:13PM‘Any Given Monday” is a dark comedy so offensive, so amoral and so generally unpleasant that you’ll hate yourself for laughing at it.
The problem is, you’ll hate yourself a lot.
The …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PMHouston, we have a problem: Your ballet is the fourth largest in the country and its dancers are top-notch, but it rarely visits New York. And now it’s here -- but with only a fraction of …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:01PMFor her off-Broadway debut as a playwright, omnipresent actress Zoe Kazan (“Angels in America,” “A Behanding in Spokane”) has gone out on a limb with an extravaganza in which a telep…
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This past Monday marked my first trip to Morningside Heights. Admittedly, I rarely leave the Midtown/Upper West Side area when in town, though I do occasionally shoot downtown for a Fringe…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 10:55PMTony Award nominee Ray Aghayan, one of the world's most accomplished costume designers, has died at age 83, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Aghayan received a Tony Award nominatio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38PMLegit Reviews: Actor-playwright Zoe Kazan ("A Behanding in Spokane") sets the stage for a tense family drama in "We Live Here" when a gifted Juilliard student brings an unsuitable boyfriend …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:14PM"Secrets aren't everything in Zoe Kazan's new play We Live Here, which just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club: They're the only thing."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMIn “We Live Here,” by Zoe Kazan, a past tragedy haunts a wedding and a family when the bride’s sister brings a date.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMBruce Graham's troubling play examines the pragmatics of morality.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe popular actress discusses her role in Arena Stage's production of The Book Club Play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMZoe Kazan's first play proves to be an acutely observed family drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMBill Bowers' uneven one-man show could benefit from more silence and sharper storytelling.
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Legit Reviews: There are people who would walk over hot coals to see Linda Lavin tear into a meaty role.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater announced today that a limited number of student rush tickets will be available for all performances of Asuncion, a new comedy by Academy Award-nominee Jesse …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52PM Jonathan Moscone Bio Page Deborah: We’re in my office in San Francisco, California. Jon Moscone, I am really glad to interview you and we’re going to talk about the G…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:51PMHaving an ex-boyfriend crash your wedding may not the best thing in the world, but it could be worse: He could also have dated your dead sister.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:34PMBackstage Tour of Broadway's "Mamma Mia!" Hosted by Jordan Dean
The hit musical Mamma Mia! is heading toward its 10th Broadway birthday, and Broadway.com asked the show's …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:12PMOpening Night: "Man and Boy" Starring Frank Langella
To call the October 9 opening night of Roundabout Theatre Company's Man and Boy a celebration of evil may sound melodramat…
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SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, Producers features direction by Philip William McKinley The Boy From Oz, original direction by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37PMDon't judge a book by its cover or a play by its scenery. Zoe Kazan's "We Live Here," at Manhattan Theatre Club, is a forceful reminder of that advice. The production's big House Beautiful-w…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:28PMLongtime friends Karen Black and David Proval play an aging Jewish couple in the South in Moses Supposes, at the Zephyr. Black reveals what every actor should know, and Proval discloses a pr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMI don’t think there is one person in my office on 49th street or at the theater on 50th street that sat down for more than 37 seconds today. Two interns went to Salvation Army for some…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 07:05PMForget Alice in Wonderland, try Paris in Sunderland. A new play that is winning rave reviews in Paris has groups of working-class Wearsiders slagging each other off in French.
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Last night, October 11, Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical CHICAGO and Givenik.com presented a special performance and post-show reception to benefit the four favorite charities of cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMNEW YORK - Nuance - the shadows and creases that provide depth and richness - is what makes the Off-Broadway production of Any Given Monday so different from its world-premiere version last …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:45PMIt was another Broadway morning for Barbra Walters, Whoopi Goldberg and their co-hosts on The View when they welcomed to their couch “the ultimate Broadway star” Bernadette Peter…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMAdditional dates have been added for Team StarKid's The Space Tour (StarKid Precarious Auditory Concert Experience), which will launch with a performance at The Michigan Theater in Ann …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:18PMLegit News: Actor-director was key figure in L.A. theater -- Film, television and stage actor-director Paul Kent, a leading figure in the Los Angeles and regional theatrical community for mo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:17PMRehearsals for Broadway musicals usually unfold in dance studios, but this time actors from “Lysistrata Jones” huddled with the retired N.B.A. star Chris Mullin for a five-day basketball…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMWhen Hofesh Shechter debuted here during Brett Sheehy's first Melbourne Festival, I was in the UK and missed it. So it's fair to say that I had no idea what to expect last night when I sat d…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:10PMThe hit musical Mamma Mia! is heading toward its 10th Broadway birthday, and Broadway.com asked the show's handsome young leading man Jordan Dean (Sky) to give us the backstage scoop. De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:09PMArts for Life show will raise funds for Joplin and St. Louis
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:07PMThe Tony-winning Broadway smash War Horse is gearing up for a very special Veteran’s Day performance on November 11, and The Today Show and Nightly News anchor Lester Holt is inviting …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMIt's only the first week of Rosie O'Donnell's new OWN gabfest, The Rosie Show, and already the comedian has showed Broadway plenty of love, kicking off the first episode with a m…
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Engine29, another pop-up arts journalism web site, is preparing for a November burst of activity. But don't confuse it with last June's Engine28 website, which also arose out of USC's Annenb…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PMJim Simpson will direct a reading of popular actor Hamish Linklater's play, The Vandal, to be presented by New York Stage and Film with Barnard College, in the latter's Glicker-Mil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:58PMPeter Howard, who helped found Cornerstone and has performed in many of its productions, is receiving the "distinguished achievement" award from the foundation.Peter Howard, who helped found…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:54PMOlympic track star John Carlos made headlines in 1968 after raising his fist to symbolize "black power" while claiming his gold medal at the Mexico City summer games. More than 40 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMSignature Theatre will open Signature Center, its new, permanent home designed by Frank Gehry, in February 2012. Spanning an entire city block at 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenue, Si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMA respectful adaptation of the 2001 documentary of the same name, “Southern Comfort” chronicles the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual who has ovarian ca…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMLegit News: Actor to play Lector in musical spoof -- David Garrison has signed on to play Hannibal Lecter in the latest run of "Silence! The Musical," the "Silence of the Lambs" spoof launch…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:47PMStrawdog has created a well-executed Harold Pinter production, taking us deeply into the interior lives of three characters played by Abigail Boucher, Michaela Petro, and John Henry Roberts.…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:46PMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie begins previews tomorrow, October 13 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PM“No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn’t love enough?”
Tonight is opening night of Closer by Patrick Marber at Espace 4001 in Montreal.
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 05:36PMPlaywright Rebecca Gilman grew up in Trussville, Ala., and, although she has lived in the North for many years, the spirit of the South has never really deserted her. So she was the perfect …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:36PMOn today’s show: Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe explains the co-evolution of human beings and viruses. Linda Lavin discusses her role in the family drama “The Lyons.” We’ll take a l…
SOURCE: WNYC at 05:35PMAs previously reported, MARY POPPINS star Laura Michelle Kelly, who wrapped up her Broadway run playing the beloved nanny on October 9, stars in the upcoming film GODDESS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMScott Richard Foster and Antoinette LaVecchia will star in the national tour of Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn's You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up. The tour will kick-off with an engageme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMUp until last week the famed Berliner Ensemble — the theater company founded by Bertolt Brecht and his wife, the actress Helene Weigel, in 1949 — had never appeared in the United States.…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:23PMThe New 42nd Street Gala on Monday, October 17, 2011, will honor Cheryl Henson, President of The Jim Henson Foundation with the second annual New Victory Arts Award. The annual event, which …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMOff-Off-Broadway's Target Margin Theater will stage Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and a new company-created work called Listen!, exploring the history of Yiddish and avant-garde t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PMCHICAGO Charity Night Party
On Tuesday, October 11th, the hit Broadway musical CHICAGO celebrated Kara DioGuardi's favorite charities: Phoenix House, Malaria No More, Sister Domingas an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:05PMBack in the mid-1990s, a lover of the Chicago theatrical fringe could toddle over to the latest production by the European Repertory Company and watch artists such as Yasen Peyankov, Carolyn…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:05PMArtistic director noted for programming NAC’s first season of Canadian plays
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:04PMNew Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak Stages Two New PlaysDarko Tresnjak, the new artistic director of Hartford Stage, will direct two of the five plays which make up the theater’s …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:04PM
The prospect of a Broadway play about Martin Luther King threatens to be as earnest as an after-school special or as nobly stone-faced as the new MLK monument in Washington.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:58PMSirius XM Radio announced that the legendary club Studio 54 will reopen at its original location, for the first time in more than 25 years, for one night only on Tuesday, October 18.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMWith original music by Grammy winner Branford Marsalis, The
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMClaire Ann Rice is writing a new play and I want to share it with you as I write it. Over the next few months, I'm going to post a new scene to this blog about every week. I will post the sc…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:48PMPhilip Dawkins, Nambi E. Kelley, Elaine Romero, and Martín Zimmerman have been named as the participants in The Goodman Theatre's second annual Playwrights' Unit.
This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:46PMAccording to published reports, Barbra Steisand will be honored with the L'Oral Paris Legend Award at Elle's Women in Hollywood celebration. Additional honorees include Viola Davis, Michelle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMMia Yoo, the new artistic director of La MaMa, inherited the post from its colorful founder and longtime leader, Ellen Stewart, who died in January.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMLetters between two artists form the text of the performance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:33PMA guide to the shows coming to Broadway this season and hoping for Tony Award nominations.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 04:30PMDirect from the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, Steffanie Leigh made her Broadway debut in the title role last night, October 11 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Olivier Award winner Laura…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMFREUD'S LAST SESSION, the sellout sensation by Mark St. Germain, will host special post-performance discussions October 13th, 14th, 22nd, 23rd (matinee) and 27th, led by the playwright and t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMSome of Broadway's greatest talents will pay tribute to award-winning director and teacher, Gerald Freedman at Sonnet Repertory Theatre's 10th annual benefit & cabaret at Joe&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMA WILD WEST PARTY IN CULVER CITY The Rude Mechs’ I’ve Never Been So Happy works overtime to please. This Western extravaganza spills into the Kirk Douglas Theater’s lobby for an intera…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:25PMThe AZ Centennial Plays kicks off Oct. 21, 2011 We asked playwrights across the country to reflect on their views of Arizona in its 100th year of statehood — and to write their impressions…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:19PMTicketmaster announced today, October 12, that it has signed ticketing deals with more than 35 Canadian venues, promoters and events in recent weeks. This includes a multi-year renewal with …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:16PMNew York Live Arts will present John Kelly in the revival of his Bessie Award-winning work, Find My Way Home, at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, October 22-29.
This theatrical dance …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:13PMBroadway veterans and pop culture stars Clay Aiken and Debbie Gibson will be among the competitors on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice, according to People.com. Teresa Giudice of Real …
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Julian Richings (photo credit: John Lauener)I am ThankfulSimple is beautiful but never stagnantby Beat RiceI cannot say that I have ever spent a Thanksgiving evening in the theatre. This yea…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:58PMWhat's behind Door Number 7? Bluebeard and his bride prepare to find out.When Béla Bartók and librettist Béla Balázs took on the themes of Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard's Castle," they w…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:56PMOne of the founding members of L.A.'s Cornerstone Theater is being honored by the Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group as part of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships. Pe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:45PMChinglish on Broadway (Video 4)
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunic…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMNorth Shore Music Theatre has announced casting for its production of Legally Blonde The Musical, to run November 1-13. Nick Kenkel will direct and choreograph.
Based on the hit movie, the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMAcademy Award nominee Paul Giamatti will host a benefit for Target Margin Theater at 56 E. 1st Street, on Monday, October 17 beginning at 6pm. The entertainment portion of the evening will b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMIt's one of the most well-known stories of all time, and according to USA Today, Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is getting yet another make-over. Comic book legend Stan Lee is busy recreat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMBonnie & 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 03:34PMChinglish on Broadway (Video 3)
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunic…
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunic…
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http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/Chinglish
From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunic…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:28PMCIRQUE DU CINEMA When Quebec-based artistic troupe Cirque du Soleil creates a new resident production, they typically design the building to fit the show. Not so with Cirque du Soleil’…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PMAn updated list of participants have been announced for the fourth annual Broadway in South Africa gala, to be held at the Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom on Monday, October 17, at 7:…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:24PMOn Tuesday, October 11, Nicky Silver's The Lyons opened at the Vineyard Theatre. The cast includes Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Dick Latessa, Linda Lavin, Brenda Pressley, and Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMStage773 has space! Fully renovated Northside theatre space available for November/December at Stage773. Blackbox space seats 80 and theatre in great location near public transportation come…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:22PMWe are very excited to unveil the new BroadwayWorld DB Pro - BETA, our new service that will let theatre professionals add themselves to the BWW International Theatre Database, addupdate cre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PM"Government planning proposals would put theatres at risk of being redeveloped into commercial properties if the scheme is implemented, Arts Council England has warned."...
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#Newplay and #Backintheday battle in the ring! Who will be crowned champion??? LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:58PMNY1 Theater Review: "Man And Boy"
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:55PMFilm and television star Jerry O'Connell, now in rehearsals to make his Broadway debut in the world premiere of Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, will co-host "Live! With Regis and Kelly&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:55PMJeff Fulton 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 #…
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SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:52PMTony Award-winner Linda Lavin discusses her role in the family drama "The Lyons," playing at the Vineyard Theater. Ben Lyons is dying. When his wife, Rita, and grown children gather to say g…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:50PMBroadway Green Alliance E-Waste Collection
On Wednesday October 12th, the Broadway Green Alliance teamed up with WeRecycle! to host an electronic waste drive in Times Square. E-waste, or el…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:44PMChoreographer Wang Yuanyuan, whose "Haze" comes to BAM this month, talks about making contemporary dance in China
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:44PMPalace, WatfordAs a playwright, Julian Mitchell is part of a vanishing breed: the fastidious craftsman who knows how to explore ideas while generating suspense. And I certainly enjoyed Mitch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMBradbury Studios, LondonMad has always been the word for performance artist Bobby Baker, and she would be the first to say it – and she has, in a string of shows as well as the extraordina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMStudio 54, the famed nightclub that was transformed into a Broadway house for Roundabout Theatre Company, will recreate the iconic '70s nightlife scene when the club reopens for a One Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMTony Award winner Idina Menzel has a diverse career on stage and in film, television, and music. In 2009 Ms. Menzel co- starred with Josh Groban in the concert version of Chess The Musical, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMSteffanie Leigh stepped into the title role of Broadway’s Mary Poppins Oct. 11, marking her Broadway debut. After traveling around the world as the practically perfect nanny in the Nor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMVirginia Grise started writing in between the classes she taught at a Texas middle school. Then she decided to concentrate on the writing in a move to LA. In her blu, at Company of Angels, c…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:32PMSydney James Harcourt, who takes on the role of Rocky in The Rocky Horror Show at the Old Globe, takes Playbill.com on a backstage tour of the San Diego theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:29PMCritically acclaimed MEMPHIS won four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, Best Book Joe DiPietro, and Best Orchestrations David Bryan a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMManhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie begins previews tomorrow, October 13 at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:19PMMcCarter Theatre is thrilled to welcome back Emmy and Tony Award winner Tyne Daly to open its 2011-2012 Cabaret Series on Saturday, October 22 at 730 p.m.
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When Coya Paz and Halcyon Theatre started working together to create The Americans a year and a half ago, I joined as A…
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:17PMMeet "Bring It On: The Musical"'s Newest Squad
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:16PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Glass Menagerie" at Oak Park Festival Theatre ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "The Glass Menagerie" at Oak Park Festival Theatre ★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:16PMJeesh!The Grand Old Party cannot get a break!First, the absolute destruction of the dying idea of Trickle Down Economics (turns out if you give the Wealthy tax breaks, they keep the money in…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:15PMTony Award winner Bill Irwin, Tony nominee John Tartaglia and Joey Arias will celebrate Cheryl Henson during the New 42nd Street's second annual New Victory Arts Award gala Oct. 17 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe Rocky Horror Show Preview 2
RICHARD O'BRIEN'S THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Book, Music and Lyrics by Richard O'Brien
Live on Stage from Sept. 15 -- Nov. 6, 2011 at The Old Globe i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:09PMJeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes are "Bonnie & Clyde", outlaws and leaders of the Barrow Gang, in the new Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell musical coming to Broadway this November. A…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:08PMTony Award nominee Maria Dizzia and John Douglas Thompson are among the recipients of the Fox Foundation's 2011 Resident Actor Fellowships.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PMThe Tony Award® winning smash hit PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, produced by “The Divine Miss M” Bette Midler, will be the first Broadway musical to perform during the premiere week o…
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If you'd have told me this morning that my biggest laugh today would be a tumblr that combines Charles Isherwood and yogurt, I would have just been confused.
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SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:58PMTony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly will open the McCarter Theatre's 2011-12 cabaret series Oct. 22 at 7:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMVineyard Theatre, Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A biting dark comedy about a cruel family coming to blows.
Filter-less is one way to describe Rita Lyons (Linda Lavin), …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 01:50PMOn the whole, Broadway box offices were strong through the week ending October 9, grossing $19,589,603 total thanks to 205,123 attendees. But for individual productions, the week leading up …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:43PM"Ordinary Witnesses," the first of two at NYLA, uses interviews with torture survivors to explore the human capacity to survive
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:38PMJohn Tartaglia will host The New 42nd Street Gala at the at the New Victory on Monday, October 17, at 7pm. As previously reported, Jim Henson Foundation President Cheryl Henson will receive …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:33PMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of WE LIVE HERE, the new play by Zoe Kazan, directed by Sam Gold opens Wednesday, October 12 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PMJerry O'Connell, who is making his Broadway debut this season in Seminar, will co-host the October 13 episode of Live! with Regis and Kelly.
The actor, who will be filling in for host …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMHappy 10th Anniversary, MAMMA MIA! Broadway
The London company of MAMMA MIA! joined in on the celebration and congratulated the Broadway production on 10 fABBAlous years on Broadway.
For m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMStage and screen veteran Ben Stiller will star in the film RentaGhost, according to Variety.
The script, to be written by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, will be based on the 1970s BBC…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PM(submitted by Ottawa editor Natasha Gauthier)NAC press release:Peter Hinton to step down as the NAC’s Artistic Director of English Theatre after…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:09PMFour Things Productions announced today a special one-night-only staged reading of Matthew Lombardo's High, Looped one-woman show, Tea at Five, starring the one and only Charles Busch The Di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMThe Civilians will present Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street at Joe's Pub on Friday, October 28 at 7:30pm.
The cabaret evening, which features monologues and songs by Michael Fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMPlaywright/actor Charles Busch will be among the presenters at the M. Edgar Rosenblum Awards, to be held at Irondale Center on Tuesday, November 15 at 6:30pm. The PigPen Theater Company will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMBroadway got a new nanny beginning on Oct. 11 when Steffanie Leigh flew into the New Amsterdam Theatre to play Mary Poppins. Coming in from the North American tour, she is making her Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMAs the world-premiere engagement of the stage version of Disney's Newsies plays its final week at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, to Oct. 16, cast member Ryan Breslin plays Playbill corr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMGoodspeed Opera House Revives Musical ComedyDavid Zippel famously remarked that as the lyricist of “City of Angels,” he was “the only person in the room whom I’ve …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PMTony Award winner John Lithgow will host the ceremony for the National Book Awards, to be held in Manhattan on Wednesday, November 16.
Awards will be presented in the categories of fiction,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
In addition to hosting this year's Oscars and being set to appear in the upcoming Batman The Dark Night sequel, Anne Hathaway's film credits include 'The Princess Diaries,' 'Brokeback Mounta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMMia Barron and André Sogliuzzo will join the previously reported Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried in L.A. Theatre Works production of Itamar Moses' Completeness, to run Octob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMBernadette Peters, who can currently be seen in the Broadway revival of Follies, and Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, who star opposite each other in The Mountaintop, visited the ladies…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44PMSee the highlights of Malicious Damage, a collection of library dust jackets defaced by playwright Joe Orton and his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell, on display in Islington
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMErich Bergen, Wendy Fox, Jeremiah James, and Amanda McBroom will be the initial guests for the new twice monthly series "I Saw Broadway" at Trattoria Dopo Teatro: Jonathan Brielle …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMMary Poppins veteran Laura Michelle Kelly will star in the upcoming Australian movie musical, Goddess, according the The Hollywood Reporter. Kelly will play an isolated housewife who becomes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMThe 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 tomorr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMPatrizia Ciofi's veiled soprano tone may be a matter of taste but her splendid tuning, secure high notes and sheer doggedness once again bring the house down.
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:36PMAnton Chekhov is the man of the hour in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's 2012 season, which features lower-price ticket options and a handful of first-time Pittsburgh productions, incl…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:35PMBill McCabe uses Richard as his professional first name, since there was already a Bill McCabe in Equity, the actors’ union. But there is only one Scottish-born actor, now 51, who has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMAs she got ready to headline her first concert at famed London venue Royal Albert Hall on October 6, Idina Menzel treated British TV audiences to a preview on morning show This Week. Before …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMActor-writer Chris Lemmon, son of Hollywood star Jack Lemmon, will perform a new one-man-show, Twist of Lemmon: A Musical Memoir, at 7 PM Oct. 14 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe family reunion on stage in Nicky Silver's new play, The Lyons, might not be the happiest of gatherings, but the show's cast was in high spirits on October 11, as they celebrated …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:27PMOn Oct. 10, the Broadway musical Chicago and Givenik.com presented a special performance and reception to benefit Kara DioGuardi's four favorite charities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:24PMT.R. Knight guest stars in this Saturday night's Law and Order SVU in an episode called Double Strands. The episode airs on NBC Saturday, October 15 at 1000 pm ET.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMBONNIE amp CLYDE will play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, beginning previews on Friday, November 4th and opening on Thursday, December 1st. In the video below, go inside the recent commer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMNCM Fathom and Turner Classic Movies will re-release the Oscar-winning film adaptation of West Side Story in over 400 movie theaters on Wednesday, November 9.
A modern retelling of Shakespe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMDaytime drama actor Forbes March will be featured in the New York premiere of Randall Colburn's Verse Chorus Verse, to be presented at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, October 28-Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe cast for the New York City return of Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical on Nov. 8 will include newcomer Francesca McGrory as Strawberry along with Sarah Haines, Bridget Riley, Welsey Tu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PMThey like their flags in New Orleans. That's one of the things I observed walking down Bourbon Street. It's like most things in life. It's a street filled with choices. I lost count of the n…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 12:03PMTrevor Nunn's production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, produced by the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, runs from 5 November 2011 - 28 January 2012, with press night on 15 November …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMChess the Musical with James Fox
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMAcclaimed physical theatre company DV8 will return to the National Theatre next year, bringing director Lloyd Newson's new work about freedom of speech, Islam and multiculturalism, Can We Ta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:56AMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical have announced complete casting for the 2011 holiday season tour. Broadway favorite Karen Mason Wonderland, Mamma Mia, Sunset Boulevard will p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMChris Lemmon will perform his new one-man-show, Twist of Lemmon: A Musical Memoir at New York's Metropolitan Room on Friday, October 14 at 7pm.
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SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 11:49AMRobert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley star in Trevor Nunn's new West End production of James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, due to begin performances Nov. 5 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMAward winning actor and playwright Charles Busch will play Katharine Hepburn in a special one-night-only staged reading of Matthew Lombardo's one-woman show, Tea at Five, on Monday, Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMThe fourth annual Living For Today concert, entitled First Name Basis and hosted by Chris Blisset, will be held Oct. 17 at 7 PM at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMJustin Been and Gary F. Bell's big new musical is a marvel of precision, charm, beauty and tenderness�terms you don't usually associate with the topic of "rock opera." But forty-two years af…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:41AMVineyard Theatre opened the world-premiere production of Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS, starring Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, last night, October 11. The production, which was originally s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMVineyard Theatre opened the world-premiere production of Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS, starring Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, last night, October 11. The production, which was originally s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMNicky Silver conjures a fractured family — The Lyons — in his new play that opened Oct. 11 following previews from Sept. 22 at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMCharles Busch will play Kate Hepburn in Matthew Lombardo 's solo show, "Tea at Five" for a special one-night-only staged reading Monday, Nov. 28 at off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel T…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:27AMFor its 22nd season, Signature Theatre is celebrating their signature composer Stephen Sondheim by presenting his very first musical, Saturday Night 1953 as a concert event for four performa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMFour Things Productions will present a one-night-only staged reading of Matthew Lombardo's one-woman show, Tea at Five, starring playwright-actor Charles Busch (The Divine Sister, The Ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMFour Things Productions will present a one-night-only staged reading of Matthew Lombardo's one-woman show, Tea at Five, starring playwright-actor Charles Busch (The Divine Sister, The Ta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMThe Amas Musical Theatre Lab will present A Good Man, based on the novel of the same name by Jefferson Young, for three performances only, beginning Nov. 3 at the Snapple Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe Argument – Interrobang Theatre Project at the Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western Ave., is offering $10 industry tickets Thursday – Saturday 7 p.m. and Sunday 5 p.m. through November 6.…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:17AMChicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will host to a panel of distinguished speakers that includes Tony Award-winning director Anna Shapiro and platinum-selling recording artist Matt Nathanson f…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:15AMThe latest Trevor Nunn production in his residency as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket sees Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley star in James Goldman’s The Lion in Winter.…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:11AMGorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago (Bucktown) - easily accessible by “L” or bus, ample street parking available – has space available in December and going forward into 2012! Basic marke…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:11AMWonderland's Karen Mason has joined the cast of the national tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, which will begin performances Nov. 8 in Hershey, PA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMAdditional awardees have been announced for he 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The event will be held at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMAdditional awardees have been announced for he 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The event will be held at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMKaren Mason, the Broadway actress with much history in Chicago, is to headline the upcoming Chicago-based tour of "A Christmas Story: The Musical!," it was announced Wednesday. Mason will pl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:01AMNINA METZ reviews "F--- You, I Love You, Bye: The Rahm Emanuel Story" at the Annoyance Theater; and "Brand" at Red Tape Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:01AMAllow me to present three articles, from three of our major online trade sites: The announcement of the opening of the Lysistrata Jones box office on Playbill. The Porgy and Bess limited run…
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Hide your kids. Hide your wife. John Waters has escaped from Baltimore.
On Friday, Waters will appear at the University of Southern California for a discussion and screening of his…
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Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba will portray Gretchen, the German fiancée, in Riverside Theatre's upcoming production of Boeing Boeing, which will play the Stark Stage in Vero Beac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMWhen Samuel L. Jackson stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on October 11 to promote his Broadway play The Mountaintop, the Oscar nominee decided to get with the times and activate his Tw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMComplete casting has been announced for the 2011 holiday tour of A Christmas Story, The Musical!.As previously announced, John Rando will direct the production, which will have choreography …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMThe complete cast has been announced for the fourth annual concert series of LIVING FOR TODAY, with musical direction by Nate Patten, and direction by David Alpert.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMThe Tony Award-honored Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, announced casting for its concert presentation of the early Stephen Sondheim musical, Saturday Night, to play four performances Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMNBC's Parks and Recreation goes into the wilderness for its October 13th episode entitled Pawnee Rangers. The show airs at 830 pm ET.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMMia Barron and André Sogliuzzo have joined the L.A. Theatre Works production of Itamar Moses' Completeness, which will begin performances Oct. 20 at UCLA's James Bridges Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMLast night, October 11, Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical CHICAGO and Givenik.com presented a special performance and post-show reception to benefit the four favorite charities of cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMThe new Oprah Winfrey Network series "The Rosie Show," with talk-show host and Broadway veteran Rosie O'Donnell, debuted Oct. 10 to 497,000 viewers on the fledgling network, ac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMAre critics roaring about Nicky Silver's "The Lyons"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 10:35AMSignature Theatre has announced casting for Saturday Night, which will be offered in two concert performances on Saturday, October 30 at 2pm and 8pm. Matthew Gardiner will direct.
With mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMDirect from the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, Steffanie Leigh made her Broadway debut in the title role last night, October 11 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Olivier Award winner Laura…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AM(Video of the Centre x Centre Festival 2011) By Erik Ehn, Playwright, Head of Playwriting, Brown University TAPS Department and recipient of a Global Connections In the Lab grant Following …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:26AMIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the film adaptation of West Side Story, NCM Fathom and Turner Classic Movies will re-release the film in movie theatres nationwide Nov. 9 for one ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMCasting has been announced for the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of Legally Blonde The Musical, which begins performances Nov. 1 at the Massachusetts venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMThe popular singer's new show at the Cafe Carlyle proves to be a fitting and extremely entertaining tribute to the late, great performer.
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Tony Award-winner Ben Vereen will participate in an “Actors’ Studio”-style event Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. at the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart Unive…
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SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 09:30AMWe got a sneak peek at a rehearsal of the new musical "Bonnie and Clyde", which comes to Broadway this fall at the Gerald Schoenfeld theatre. Special behind-the-scenes fo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:29AMAn updated list of talent has been announced for Living for Today's First Name Basis concert, a benefit for The Gilana Shira Alpert Fund to be offered at Joe's Pub on October 17. C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMAn updated list of talent has been announced for Living for Today's First Name Basis concert, a benefit for The Gilana Shira Alpert Fund to be offered at Joe's Pub on October 17. C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AM"Theater Talk," the PBS talk show that spotlights the theatre scene, will offer its Fall Season Preview Oct. 14 at 1:30 AM on WNET/13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMThis year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Ned Harrigan, one of the unjustly neglected giants of the American Theatre. To celebrate his life and work (and that of his pe…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AMThandie Newton, Tom Goodman Hill and Anthony Calf star in Ariel Dorfman's Olivier award winning play DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. Come on our hosted Whatsonstage.com Outing on 2 November and get …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AMThe Broadway company of Chicago, gave a special benefit performance at the Ambassador Theatre on Tuesday, October 11 at 8pm, which was followed by a reception at E&E Grill House.
Prese…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMWilliam ShakespearePlayed by Rafe SpallCharacter BioDespite being credited with writing 37 plays, 154 sonnets and several epic poems and being the most performed playwright of all time, no d…
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Steffanie Leigh assumed the title role in Broadway's Mary Poppins, playing at the New Amsterdam Theatre, on October 11.
The company also features Tony Award nominee Gavin Lee as Bert,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMStarring Oksana Maslova, ABT's Charles AskegardConnecticut Ballet opens its 30th anniversary season with “The Sleeping Beauty” at two venues around the state starting later th…
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week saw the launch of the Brixton Empire, a new theatre space in the
converted St Matthew's Church in the heart of Brixton town centre.
Any ravers among you will recognise the venue as…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:53AMHarold Pinter (1930-2008) might be said to have domesticated Samuel Beckett‘s more metaphysical concerns by moving them from an abstract setting into the sitting- and living-rooms of h…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:45AMEvery week, Ryan Seacrest counts down the Top 40, in a tradition handed to him by the shaggy-voiced Casey Casem. It's a weekly "hit-list" that I listened to as a kid, and millions more list…
SOURCE: the Situation at 08:36AMIn our fast, impatient, bite-size world of iPads and Twitter, surely this should be the era of the short playThe short story is a virtuoso form – think of it as the brilliant friend at a d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMPlenty 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 wit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:29AMThe 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 blogger, she sends …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:24AMLast
week saw the launch of the Brixton Empire, a new theatre space in the
converted St Matthew's Church in the heart of Brixton town centre.
Any ravers among you will recognise the venue as…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:15AMCasting has been announced for Beasts and Beauties, to run December 1-January 7 at the Hampstead Theatre. Melly Still will direct.
The show is Still and Tim Supple's dramatization of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:13AMMany years ago, before I ran the Williamstown Theatre Festival or Center Theatre Group, I was a stage manager. I had never been trained for that job, in either an academic or a professiona…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMIt must have been the fall of 1985. I was living in San Francisco, running the Eureka Theatre, and visiting New York. As always, I was trying to cram in as much theater as I could.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMDiscovering an exciting new artist is obviously thrilling—that moment when you know you've met someone with a talent that doesn't come along very often.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMIn December of 1961, I was able to get—through the kindoffices of my friend Nancy Donahue, who introduced me to her agent Deborah Coleman—an audition for Arthur Kopit's play "O…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMHere are the discoveries I've made in 25 years as a casting director:
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMThere are a couple of actors I saw who impressed the living life out of me. I saw Al Pacino in "American Buffalo," and I saw John Malkovich in "True West."
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:02AMMichael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatreâs revival of âLittle Shop of Horrors.â Michael Linden and Rhiannon Hansen in ReVision Theatre’s revival of “Little S…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:01AMPlaywright-actor Zoe Kazan continues to show promise in her second play, a funny and sad portrait of a family in crisis, but she needs to smooth out some rough edges.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMUsing pantomime, storytelling and music, Bill Bowers examines what it means to be a man in America—and uncovers very little that is new for 21st-century audiences.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 12 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMKen Ferrigni's clever "Mangella" starts out as a twisted romantic comedy between a man and his computer, and gradually becomes a twisted philosophical comedy about privacy and identity.
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People see plays for all kinds of reasons. I was excited about The Lyons because I wanted to see what made Linda Lavin turn down chances to reprise her terrific performances in two hig…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMThere is nothing funnier than other people’s suffering, so they say, and this bittersweet comedy from Steven Berkoff certainly capitalises on that. Following the mundane ups and downs …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:58AMFeaturing Dee Roscioli, Who Played Elphaba at the BushnellDee Roscioli, who recently played Elphaba in the touring production of “Wicked” (which played the Bushnell) will be i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMThe two met in 2000 when cast in a production of "The Berlin Circle," by Charles Mee, at the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:54AMArtistic director Sean Holmes stages Edward Bond's Saved at the Lyric in Hammersmith. Extra members can get two tickets and a programme for £50 (normally £63.50)Saved, now running at the L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMMichael Feingold, on Robert Wilson's Threepenny:Although the installation-like works of his creative years, long since past, employ live performers and move through time, Wilson has never re…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:32AMJack Blumenau shines a spotlight on Pegasus Theatre in Oxford to discover more about their arts provision for young people and thriving theatre programme.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AMThe play presents the anguish and isolation of areas of historical conflict: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bosnia, Rwanda and Northern Ireland. For me, the performance began as I was finding my w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:19AMEarlier this month, I became the new chairman and CEO of Back Stage, and I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and share with you how excited I am to be involved with the i…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:19AMWhen we think of prominent African-American human rights and civil rights movement leaders, we are drawn to the powerful and moving speeches of Martin Luther King. We are less drawn to, whil…
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The Six Brown Brothers were a sextet of Canadian saxophonists (or should I say a saxtet of Canadian sexophonists? Perhaps not) The group is largely credited with helping to popularize the sa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:53AMRead our top-rated entries to the Guardian's annual competition to find the best young talent in arts writingOVERALL WINNERVisual art, under 14Freddie Holker, 12 – Homage to Lucian Freud, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMFormer music industry executive Barney Wragg has been appointed managing director of the Really Useful Group.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMBy Bill Hirschman Even with a month of work remaining before the gala opening on 11/11/11, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ new home in the transmogrified Cuillo Center is breathtaking. It’s a vis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:29AMOne would imagine that a man who wrote a book entitled How To Be Happy would be a guru of finding joy amongst life’s anxious moments. But Paul is in the same miserable state as the rest o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26AMIf Shakespeare had an iPad, the poignant, prickly history of its magical inventor would have made the perfect family drama for the Bard.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19AMIt’s 7:30pm on a Sunday evening and the Queen’s Theatre, which usually hosts Les Miserables is absolutely packed. The composing team that brought us Betty Blue Eyes are, for one night o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMCatherine Zeta-Jones took her kids to see Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark,” but it was a trip backstage that scared her family more than any high-flying action in the show.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:13AMMr. Jefferys also had a show on ABC radio that was broadcast nationwide as an alternative to Top 40 rock ’n’ roll stations in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11AM(Disclosure: I've been doing "I Believes..." for about four years now - how much shit can I believe!!?? - so I'm going to, inspired entirely by the work of Coya Paz, start doing this for awh…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMThe West End transfer of The Pitmen Painters opened at the Duchess Theatre last night (11 October, previews from 5 October 2011), following the show's recent nationwide tour.
Written by Bil…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:02AMJon 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…
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Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, with a surprisingly varied score and a dated story about Americans finding love in Israel, is given a competent barebones revival by Musicals T…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:57AMA lovely, evocative title, a memorable central performance, strong design credits, plus impassioned advocacy of a worthy cause advance dramatic interest to a point, but don't completely sa…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:57AMThe rich milieu of South Central Los Angeles in the 1940s is well served by the music and overall look of the production, but the acting is uneven, the plot somewhat predictable—or t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:55AMContemporary playwrights seem forever bent on proving Tolstoy’s line that “all families are unhappy in their own way.” The latest example is Nicky Silvers, who has mined su…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:51AMEdinburgh's theatre, live music and comedy venues offer the great, the grand and the intimate, writes Michael MacLeod• As featured in our Edinburgh city guideThe Scottish parliamentOne of …
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"This attitude ... seems to rest on the assumption that the customer is always right. But audience members aren't customers in the ordinary sense. ... More broadly, there's an assumption tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:45AMTony Bennett and Bill Evans perform "When in Rome" on The Tonight Show in 1975: (This is the latest in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"There was no place for brutal honesty with a child. Everyone felt that. It was taken in the Western countries...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Angela Bassett, comes straight off its highly-acclaimed London run for a limited Broadway engagement. In this vi…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMA look back on the creation and journey of MAMMA MIA from concept to now celebrating its 10th year on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows 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 01:00AM"Nuts" is a courtroom drama that takes place in real time. Even
the recesses align with the play's two intermissions.
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Gary Griffin has directed the work of Stephen Sondheim before, but never Follies. Here's his perspective on the classic, which he directed as the current season-opener at Chicago Shakesp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThe 12th annual Canadian Comedy Awards are now a five-day event that features performances by nominees at five venues, from Thursday to Monday.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMPatrick Marber's troubling and difficult drama, Closer, presentedby Montreal's Chesterfield Productions
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe University of North Carolina School of the Arts' all-school production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, staged in early 2011 and using the original 1943 designs, dance a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStop the Virgens, the world-premiere "psycho opera" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' vocalist Karen O and designer-rocker KK Barrett, opens the 2011-2012 season at St. Ann's Warehouse O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou might think of it as "the other" Follies this season. If the Kennedy Center's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical about a showbiz reunion hadn't…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEquivocation playwright Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible get its world premiere, opening Oct. 12, for a run to Nov. 20 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere production of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here, a play about a family's buried secrets, desires and grief, directed by Sam Gold, opens O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA hacker who really, really loves his computer might never need to face the outside world. But what happens when the world (technically, several possible ones) comes crashing in? Mangella by…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe Los Angeles world premiere of Ellen Melaver's Moses Supposes, starring Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Karen Black, begins previews Oct. 12 at the Zephyr Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhen the love of your life walks out on you for someone else, there are the socially acceptable things one does to mourn the relationship, like sit around in your sweats, pine away in front …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley, Hallie Foote and Penny Fuller, who starred in the world premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate, reunite for the Alley Theatre production of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, the acclaimed drama about a wealthy Republican family dogged by its past that played a sold-out run Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater last win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award-nominated "Social Network" actor Jesse Eisenberg co-stars in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of his world-premiere comedy Asuncion, which begins previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBalls… The Musical?, billed as an "unruly quintet of testosterone-laden performers," is presented by the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival beginning Oct. 12 at the 47th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHarry & Eddie: The Birth of Israel, which opened at Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre Sept. 8 and played its final performance there Oct. 5, reopens at the Actors Temple Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan join the recent roster of high-profile actors-turned-playwrights turning their attention to the stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang and David Ives are anything but newbies. But their latest projects have them experiencing Broadway in a new way.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnton Chekhov is the man of the hour in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's 2012 season, which features lower-price ticket options and a handful of first-time Pittsburgh productions, …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWriter Dave Eggers' truly heartbreaking book, the 2007 novel "What Is the What," is the fictional story of one of more than 20,000 Lost Boys, children who fled the violent upheaval in their …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFor those who were fans of last winter's ballroom stage show "Burn the Floor," another dose of "Dancing With the Stars"-style entertainment is coming to Heinz Hall Thursday when the Pittsbur…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMKuntu Rep opens its 37th season Thursday in a new home, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Homewood Auditorium at 7101 Hamilton Ave.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIt's been made into three ballets, 13 Broadway plays, 20 movies in different countries (including "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts and "Camille" with Greta Garbo), and even a critically acc…
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