According to a report from The Daily Mail, actress Lindsay Duncan, a two-time Olivier winner, will lead Noel Coward's HAY FEVER at the theatre named for the playwright himself.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59PMHedy Weiss, the longtime and indefatigable theater and dance critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, is to receive a special Joseph Jefferson Award in November in recognition of her years of covera…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55PMKatori Hall's starry Broadway debut mixes historical realism and something a bit more cosmic.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 11:54PMSamuel L. Jackson makes an impressive Broadway debut Katori Hall's faction about Martin Luther King's last night on earth.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:40PMNot all that much happens in the cozy, book-strewn Manhattan living room that serves as the setting of New Repertory...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:25PMIf you're reading this on an iMac, MacBook, iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad, you can thank the late Steve Jobs. But your gratitude should also be extended to another technology giant who passed …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24PMBetter, stronger, faster -- Hugh Jackman is Broadway’s $6 million dollar man!
His one-man show -- “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” -- doesn’t open until Nov. 10, but he’s already p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PMCat Kidd (Photo credit: Tristan Brand)Cat's PlayExploring new territoryby Gaëtan L. CharleboisFull disclosure: I have only seen Cat Kidd's work on YouTube. However there was a chorus of peo…
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Skilled comic actor gets lost in a web of good intentions.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:55PM‘Liquidity and confidence’ is the motto of Gregor Antonescu - the Bernie Madoff of the nineteen thirties – featured as the leading character in the Roundabout’s revival of "Man and B…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:44PMLegit Reviews: Katori Hall's imaginative two-hander is a soul-stirring drama. Factor in the double dose of charisma from certifiable stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, and this show…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:38PMOscar Isaac will star in the title role of Joel and Ethan Coen's new film Inside Llewyn Davis, which focuses on the early folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, according …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31PMIt’s a stormy night in Memphis on April 3, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. has only a few hours left to live.
Earlier that evening, he delivered his famous “I’ve been to the mountaint…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:04PM"Few performers can truly make a bad play good, but great actors can always elevate a passable evening to the status of special event."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PM“The Mountaintop,” with Samuel L. Jackson as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., takes place the day before Dr. King was assassinated in the motel where he spent his last night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMKatori Hall's play about an encounter between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel chambermaid on the night before his death boasts award-worthy performances by Samuel L. Jackson and Angela B…
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The 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, officially opened tonight a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:58PMWhen the Metropolitan Opera started broadcasting its performances live in high definition back in 2006, it sparked what is now a maturing modern industry than spans artistic genres.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 09:52PMDenver's Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, opens its 40th season with artistic director Tony Garcia's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Enrique's Journey," which recounts the …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:51PMSomething very strange is happening in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. Playwright Katori Hall takes us into the room to reveal what it might have been like to be in the Memphis room in April…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PMDavid Rooney Katori Hall’s play is based on the legendary Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, with a fictionalized account of his last night on Earth.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
According published reports, Ray Aghayan, a costume designer whose works were seen on such stars as Judy Garland, Lucille Ball and more, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMJohn Walch's evocative, overstuffed production, now at the Boston Court, has plenty to say about overcoming loss, but can let ideas bury its emotions.John Walch's evocative, overstuffed prod…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:42PMHenry Murray's new play, is inhabited by animals that behave a lot like human beings or human beings who behave a lot like animals.Henry Murray's new play, is inhabited by animals that b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMThere's rich teams, and there's poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's us."-- Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, MoneyballI'm not much of a sports fan, so Moneyball was a real dep…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:20PMReview: Undoubtedly informed by the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, Jez Butterworth's "Parlour Song" is about how maddeningly easy it is to destroy in seconds what it took years to build u…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:09PMDaniel Young and Christian Giroux, a Toronto-Guelph art duo, have won the 2011 award.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:00PM
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonBecause we see it so rarely, we forget that Edward Bond's Saved is a play rather than a cause celebre. And watching Sean Holmes's powerful production, the first majo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53PM"Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord." Thursday night, "Godspell" returned to Broadway (at Circle in the Square), so we'll be hearing Stephen Schwartz's exhilarating song heralding the arrival of…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:49PMMargaret Gray reviews the premiere of Henry Murray's "Monkey Adored" by Rogue Machine at Theatre Theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:46PMWhat was Martin Luther King Jr.'s final night on Earth like in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis? Katori Hall offers a dramatic response to that question with her irreverent fantasy …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:26PMThe Fountain's Bakersfield Mist moves to an Actors' Equity contract. The Geffen Playhouse opens its kids' Scene Season. Lauri Fraser loves a good story at her salon series in Culver City. Pl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:18PMThere is a shocking moment halfway through “The Mountaintop,” the play starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett that imagines the last night that Martin Luther King Jr. is alive. It…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:14PMMUSING ON RODGERS & HART Before there was Rodgers and Hammerstein there was Rodgers and Hart — a partnership that yielded 550 songs and 31 Broadway shows. Richard Rodgers, that fluid, disc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:12PMHere is the kind of rediscovery at which Jermyn Street Theatre excels. Once renowned as a novelist and a playwright and for 15 years the chief theatre critic of The Times, Charles Morgan is …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
"There is class warfare going on . . . It's just that my class is winning. And my class isn't just winning, we're killing them."-Warren Buffett
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:57PMToday, the company of Lysistrata Jones took some time out from some rigorous basketball training with former NBA star and Hall of Famer Chris Millen to meet the press. BroadwayWorld was ther…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMHUGH JACKMAN, BACK ON BROADWAY begins previews on October 25, and in celebration of the Tony-winner's return the the Great White Way, BroadwayWorld will feature a daily countdown of his grea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMHop aboard for You're The Tap, a fun and fancy-free Facebook tap dance contest from Roundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:15PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews John Walch's dramedy of evolution, 'The Dinosaur Within,' at Boston Court
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:10PMThe Marsh has announced that Marga Gomez's Not Getting Any Younger will extend through December 17.
Gomez is the recipient of the "Outstanding Solo Performance" 2010 Bay A…
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Point Park University's Conservatory Theatre Company will present Illyria, a musical based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, November 10-20. Illyria, wri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMLa beauté, “Beauty is difficult, Yeats” said Aubrey Beardsleywhen Yeats asked why he drew horrorsor at least not Burne-Jonesand Beardsley knew he was dying and had tomake his hit quickl…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 05:58PMLegit News: Brooklyn presenter sets spring slate -- Jonathan Pryce in Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker," Simon Callow as Shakespeare and Kevin Spacey in the Sam Mendes-helmed "Richard III" are…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMRosie O’Donnell is (finally!) back on the small screen hosting The Rosie Show, and even though her new home at Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios in Chicago is far from Broadway, the mu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:52PMDon Nigro's Seascape with Sharks and Dancer will serve as the debut production of the recently formed Look at the Fish Theatre Company.
The play, which stars company co-founders Thoma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:51PMThe Guthrie Theater has announced complete casting for Adam Rapp's The Edge of Our Bodies, to begin previews October 22 with an opening on October 26. Benjamin McGovern will direct.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, October 13, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:30PMYou wouldn't want a monster wife at your bedside, but you won't want to miss Linda Lavin's irresistibly funny and moving portrayal of her .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:29PMThe Noho Arts Center Ensemble's production of That's Amore! An American Italian Songbook is extending at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood through Sunday, November 13.
Tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the October 8, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:21PMAuston James and MJ Sieber will star in the title roles of Seattle Children's Theatre's production of A Year With Frog and Toad. Rita Giomi will direct the show at SCT's Charl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:17PMThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Follies runs through November 6, on Navy Pier. Starring in the Chicago production, directed by Gary Griffin, are Hollis Resnik as Carlotta, Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMOne of the world's most famous ballerinas, Suzanne Farrell celebrates her tenth season as the Artistic Director of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at The Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:09PMTony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti, last seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and NBC's "Playboy Club," will perform a solo evening of song Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMGet out your most fabulous frock and put on that bedazzled thinking cap The Tony Award winning smash hit PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, produced by The Divine Miss M Bette Midler, will host …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:02PMWork begins on the latest new high-end arts space in Brooklyn's downtown cultural district, where BRIC will take up residency in 2013
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Guess who Adam Pascal hooked up with while starring in Rent? Host Paul Wontorek (who knows just about every Broadway tale worth repeating) couldn’t help being surprised when the Tony-n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PMGuess who Adam Pascal hooked up with while starring in Rent? Host Paul Wontorek (who knows just about every Broadway tale worth repeating) couldn’t help being surprised when the Tony-n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PMThe Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates and Penguin Young Readers Group will team up to kick-off the Geffen Playhouse Saturday Scene season with Theodore Boone and the Thrill of Rights!, November…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:58PMPlaywright Emily Schwartz has created a lovely diversion for the season of witches, ghosts and the truly hallowed Day of the Dead .
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:54PMReports on Kiki Baby, Tour de Fierce, and Greenwood.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMAshlee Thomas, Miss Howard, answers What's the Future of the Artist? 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…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:41PM"The Mountaintop," a new play about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has a lot going for it, including a starring role for Samuel L. Jackson, but odd writing ultimately makes for a dis…
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:40PMCorine Cohen was invited to cover a reading of the Wanderer about the Life of DION at the Triad Theater.
Video was shot with permission of Dion singing. There are also photos with the cas…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 04:39PMCenter Theatre Group begins its 2011-2012 season at the Ahmanson Theatre on a high-octane energy note with the West Coast premiere of Bring It On The Musical, an original musical comedy pres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMIt worked on October 5, when three St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
trumpets performed the National Anthem at Busch Stadium before that
night's faceoff with the Phillies: the Cardinals won. Now …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:38PMOoo, I love a good courtroom drama. And there's a fine one going on right now at the Gaslight Theater, kicking off St. Louis Actors’ Studio's season. Possibly best known f…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:35PMIf you are passionately in love with show business — with tour-de-force production numbers, torch songs that burn the edges off your heart and soul, classic vaudeville routines, song-and-d…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:32PMThe Lark Play Development Center hosted a special event on October 11th celebrating playwright Katori Hall on her Broadway debut with The Mountaintop. The Mountaintop was extensively develop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMThanks for the mammaries. Breast wishes. Tits a Wonderful Life. You can cry over breast cancer—or you can laugh. Composer, lyricist and playwright Joan Cushing does both—as well as pens …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:30PMThe Odyssey Theatre Ensemble will present a limited three week engagement of Pat Kinevane's Forgotten at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, November 17-December 4. Jim Culleton will d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMACCESS YOUR INNER DINOSAUR The Dinosaur Within digs up some curious storylines, but these fragments fail to cohere into a compelling narrative. In its West Coast premiere at Boston Court, Jo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:27PMDefinition: Special effects. n. 1 Visual or sound effects introduced into a recorded production. 2. "Cirque du Soleil: Quidam." The effects in "Quidam" are such that you just can't believe t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:25PMKara DioGuardi and Amra-Faye Wright, who play Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, respectively, in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago were on hand Oct. 11 for a charity night event hosted by and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMPeople probably knew this, deep down, eons before Tolstoy made it his first sentence in "Anna Karenina" in 1873. But that observation -- "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family i…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:19PMWhat the GGs are, aren't and could (should) beThe problem is that the GG is a book award.By Frank Moher (Reprinted from Back Of The Book with permission)The Governor General’s Aw…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:06PM
Erica Peck leads talented group directed by Donna Feore.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:58PMThe Big Interview: famous host had an unshakable conviction about what to do with his life.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:56PMRyan McCaulsky from Howard University Answers What's the Future of the Artist? If you want to share your video on this blog: 1. You can go to youtube.com/my_webcam 2. Record Your Response…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:50PMGary Lloyd's international touring production of rock musical Hair will visit the UK next year starring Gareth Gates, according to an interview the singer gave on Irish television last weeke…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:50PMThe company of Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday celebrated their opening night performance Oct. 12 at Bistro 60. The production plays 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMApparently, MiG Ayesa isnt saying goodbye just yet neither to Stacee Jaxx nor to ROCK OF AGES because Atlantis Productions Inc., a prolific theater company based in Manila, Philippines whose…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMAs kooky, symbolic sets go this is a pretty one. Sliding doors and autumnal colours bringing the stage to life. It's a pity then, that the stagecraft that comes with it, is so numbingly stra…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 03:41PMIn celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's work, Rep Stage will present The Poe Show at the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center's Studio Theatre, October 21-24.
The Poe Show will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMOne-woman show uses discredited fabrication in bid to offer calm perspective on teen sexuality
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:37PMToday, the company of Lysistrata Jones took some time out from some rigorous basketball training with former NBA star and Hall of Famer Chris Millen to meet the press. Later on we will be br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMBroadway's new musical comedy Lysistrata Jones is set in the competitive world of high school basketball, which means that the cast needs skills on the court that are just as solid as th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMBroadway's new musical comedy Lysistrata Jones is set in the competitive world of college basketball, which means that the cast needs skills on the court that are just as solid as their …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMTickets are on sale for the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam Gold and starring Matthew Rhys, Adam Driver, Sarah …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:25PMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Road To Mecca, starring Tony winners Rosemary Harris and Jim Dale and Broadway vet Carla Gugino. The Roundabout …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMNewsies, which made its world premiere at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, will wrap up performances Oct. 16. In celebration of the show’s final week, cast member Ryan Breslin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMJamal Williams 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. A…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:15PMSusan Moniz as Sally Durant Plummer in Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s “Follies” Something magical’s happening on Navy Pier, and it’s not the weekly fireworks spe…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 03:12PMThe Society of the Educational Arts will present the world premiere of DC-7, The Roberto Clemente Story, a musical about the life and legacy of the Baseball Hall of Famer and humanitarian du…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMThe Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre has announced its 2012 season, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Performances will be at the Charity Randall Theatre and the Henry Heym…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMThursday is opening night for Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play about Martin Luther King Jr. and his encounter with a chamber maid in Memphis the night before his assassination. Starr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:00PM
According to the Hollywood Reporter, stage and screen star Martin Short will judge 'Canada's Got Talent' which is set to air in 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMInstinct Magazine, in conjunction with The Zarley Family Foundation, will host a listening party for Matt Zarley's latest CD, Change Begins With Me, which will benefit Broadway Cares / …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMToday we are talking to one of the worlds foremost cabaret artists and jazz vocalists - also known for her famous rapport with sibling and fellow Broadway baby Liz Callaway - who has written…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMI am encouraged to see the way in which organizations that care about the media are throwing themselves at trying to find new, sustainable ways of creating and disseminating journalism. What…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:49PMHockadoo MEMPHIS Fans How would you like to be among the first to get a sneak peek at the new Huey The 2010 Tony winning Best Musical MEMPHIS announced today that there will be a special sne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:39PMCatia Ojeda, Matt Kalman and Ean Sheey will star in Alex Goldberg's thriller, It is Done. Tom Wojtunik will direct the site-specific production at The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill (266…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMIn the final week of the world-premiere engagement of the stage version of Disney's Newsies, cast member Ryan Breslin takes us backstage at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse to see how the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMand MARK PEIKERT Inside Broadway’s first autism-friendly performance In many ways, the October 2nd matinee of The Lion King was like any other performance. The theatre buzzed wi…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:37PMIn Sister Act, Tony winner Victoria Clark takes her role as convent whip-cracker Mother Superior very seriously, but backstage at the Broadway Theatre the actress is anything but stern. Clar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMMatt Doyle, who currently stars in the Tony Award-winning play War Horse, will return to Joe's Pub for a concert benefiting Broadway Impact Nov. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMThe Path Fund, Inc. has just announced that Drama Desk Award nominee Cheryl Freeman The Civil War, The Who's Tommy, Billy Porter Angels in America, Ghetto Superstar and Gerry MacIntyre Once …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:31PMThe cast of LYSISTRATA JONES got their game on for a coaching session with NBA Hall of Famer Chris Mullin. The actors from the musical comedy about “faith, hoops and chastity,” have been…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 02:29PMBad Habit Productions has announced casting for their interpretation of Ann Noble's And Neither Have I Wings to Fly at the Black Box Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts. Daniel M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMGadgetry and assorted consumer goods are the omnipresent extras in this comedy-drama which serves as a reminder that purchases can't mask discontent.
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:25PMThe interplay between the actors is so fine and their dialogue so lively that I wanted everything about this interval-less show to shine. Angela Bassett's delivery of two big speeches is su…
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:25PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week playwright Young Jean Lee shares pivotal moments in her theatre career and why t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMTony Award nominee Adam Pascal will step into the shoes of Huey Calhoun in the 2010 Tony Award-winning musical Memphis Oct. 25. Before he begins performances, the hit musical is offering fan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:22PMLa MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the world premiere production of Clowns Ex Machina's Clowns Full-Tilt: A Musing on Aesthetics at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre, Novem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMThe mayor of Budapest is defending his choice for director of a prestigious city theater after Jewish groups highlighted the nominee's links to far-right groups.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:11PMLegit News: Musical to launch U.K. tour -- The West End run of "Million Dollar Quartet" will shutter at the Noel Coward Theater Jan. 14.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will participate in "Bring It On: The Musical" Day at Universal CityWalk, on Saturday, October 22.
The event will celebrate the national tour …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMGoodman Production Set for New Haven's Long Wharf TheatreTickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. for the Goodman Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's "Krapp’s Last Tape" starrin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:00PM
The 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, officially opens tonight, O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMSPECIAL SNEAK PEEK PHOTO of the cast of Broadway’s smash hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL direct from the Chicago set of Rosie O’Donnell’s new daily …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:55PMAbout 10 years ago I took advantage of the TCG program “Expanding the Theatre Manager’s Repertoire,” the workshop was led by Robbin Walker and I have never forgotten many of the things…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:51PMIf fear were a drug, Blackout would rate as some pharmaceutical-grade stuff.
The post Trauma Center: Blackout Haunted House appeared first on Slant Magazine.
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:49PMThe Tony Award winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles celebrated the kick off of its national tour in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 12 with an opening night party held at the Civic Center of Great…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PMRemy Bumppo's rehearsal space at 3717 N Ravenswood is available for rental, November 2011 and beyond. Rates vary from $11 - $16 per hour, depending on hours scheduled per week. Approximately…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:47PMSonnet Repertory Theatre presents their Tenth Annual Benefit and Cabaret on Monday, November 14, bringing together a diverse and talented group of performers and composers at Joe's Pub to ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMAcclaimed actors Jonathan Pryce and Simon Callow are among the luminaries joining Kevin Spacey in productions during the 2012 winter/spring season at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
As previou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMUpdated casting has been announced for Rockers on Broadway - Halloween Spooktacular, the latest edition of the Rock and Roll concert series, to be held at the Midtown Theatre at the HA! Come…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMJanet Foster has been appointed artistic associate and casting director for American Conservatory Theatre.
Foster previously served as casting director at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE, Con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMTony nominee David Garrison is set to take on the role of iconic cannibal Hannibal Lecter opposite previously announced star Jenn Harris in Silence! The Musical. After a successful run at of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:39PMBroadway veteran Reba McEntire is among the nominees for the American Country Awards, which will be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on December 5.
Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:38PMBAM has just announced its full 2012 line-up, according to the NY Times, which is set to include the previously reported RICHARD III led by Kevin Spacey. Also included in the winterspring se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMAward-winning singer and actress Maureen McGovern will play Birdland with her cabaret show, Dangling Conversations, November 8-12.
This intimate evening will feature classic songs by iconic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMMiscast 2011
MCC Theater's annual Miscast gala is one of the most exciting and unique theater events in town. Each year, Broadway's hottest stars performing songs from roles in whic…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:33PMHere are three vocalists saluting their special favorites, major songwriters of standards, with tracks sampling many of those writers' numerous writing teammates.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:28PMBROADWAY’S TONY AWARD WINNING HIT MUSICAL PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE CONTEST TO WIN TICKETS TO THE SHOW AND A GRAND PRIZE OF A FABULOUS FIVE-NIGHT AUSTRALIAN O…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:27PMKieran Campion, Sean Patrick Reilly, Mark Shanahan and Paxton Whitehead will appear in the Westport Country Playhouse's Nov. 7 "Script in Hand" reading of Dial 'M' for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMCast members from the New 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misrables will present a one-night-only concert Signature Songs An Evening of Broadway Showstoppers' to benefit Broadway CaresEqu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMNassar Al Nassar and Faisal Al Ameeri grove with Shakespeare's Lord of Misrule.As Rodgers and Hammerstein might have said, the Arab Spring is bustin' out all over - we just saw the intriguin…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:20PMStephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies opened at Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Courtyard Theater Oct. 12, following previews that began Oct. 4. The limited engagement conti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMHowl! Arts Project 2011 and The Actors Fund will present Howl-O'Weeeeen (w)Rites, an evening of scary short plays inspired by the works of Allen Ginsberg and his beat contemporaries, Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMSt Pancras Church, LondonLast winter in Athens I discovered the work of a major Greek director, Theodoros Terzopoulos. The piece I saw, based on the letters of Elizabeth I and Mary Quee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMUstinov, BathDon Juan is in love with Leonor, but their midnight trysts are discovered by her jealous sister, Beatriz. So Don Juan calls on the help of his love-'em-and-leave-'em friend, Don…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMTramway, GlasgowFor a mesmerising 90 minutes, we don't hear a single word from the six actors in Saturday Night, a new work from the company Vanishing Point. They appear to hear each other, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMThe Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones took to the court at Sports Club LA in New York on Oct. 12 for a coaching session with NBA Hall of Famer Chris Mullin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Follies runs through November 6, on Navy Pier. Starring in the Chicago production, directed by Gary Griffin, are Hollis Resnik as Carlotta, Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama is riveting, riotous and ribald from beginning to end ... Meanwhile, in the Mount Airy section of the city, there's another long, three act pla…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:11PMOn Thursday, October 20th, National Theatre Live will re-broadcast a live performance of the five star production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Directed by Nicholas Hytner Starring James Corden Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:07PMThe Shotgun Players have announced details for the company's 2012 season, with all performances to be held at the Ashby Stage on 1901 Ashby Avenue in Berkely, CA.
Works will include …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMKieran Campion, Mark Shanahan, Sean Patrick Kelly, TooWestport Country Playhouse will present two Script in Hand play readings this autumn with the classic whodunit, “Dial ‘M&rs…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00PMDirecting for the theater, like most professions, has a hierarchy. You do well in the minor leagues and you move up. Or you get a lucky break — maybe a mentor gives you a chance, or so…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PM"The Woman in Black": Fox Valley Repertory marks the ghostly season with Stephen Mallatratt's sturdy chiller (which is being turned into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe). An actor is hir…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PM
Members of the cast of Les Miserables The National Tour cast of Les Misérables, currently onstage at the Kennedy Center, will step out on October 24 to present a concert to benefit Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMHOWL ARTS PROJECT 2011 and The Actors Fund present HOWL-O'WEEEEEN wRITES -- an evening of scary short plays inspired by the works of Allen Ginsberg and his beat contemporaries - on Sunday, O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMBroadway plays don't tour much ... not even Tony Award winners ... but at least Chicago is getting the chance to see a Broadway-quality production of 2010's Best Play winner, John Logan's "R…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:54PMTo call the October 9 opening night of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Man and Boy a celebration of evil may sound melodramatic, but to hear the show’s talented cast tell it, it&rsq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMPeter Mattei will sing the title role in Tony Award winner Michael Grandage's new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera for its premiere performance on Thur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMOn last night's episode of HAPPY ENDINGS, guest star Megan Mullally played Penny's perpetually optimistic mom who was in town for a singing gig at the boat show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMBrent Barrett, Caroline O'Connor, Susan Moniz and Robert Petkoff star in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMTearin' Down the House with the National Tour Cast
The cast of the National Tour of Memphis can totally rip up the dance floor, as the Broadway cast found out when they got to see this …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:49PMCast members of Follies turned out yesterday as Serendipity 3 225 E 60th Street btwn. 2nd and 3rd revealed a special Follies sundae. The Live, Laugh, Love Sundae will be on sale at the popul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMCast members from the 25th anniversary touring production of Les Misérables, now playing the Kennedy Center, will present a one-night-only benefit concert, Signature Songs: An Evening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMSinger, actress and award-winning recording artist Maureen McGovern will bring her latest concert act, Dangling Conversations, which celebrates the second half of the Great American Son…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMThe Mountaintop, at Broadway's Jacobs TheatreGratuitous Violins rating: **** out of ****When he was governor of New York, I once heard Mario Cuomo read a story to students at an elementary …
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 12:30PMTrying to see what's there to see in Lin Hwai-min's latest calligraphic exploration "Water Stains on the Wall"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:29PMKieran Campion, Sean Patrick Reilly, Mark Shanahan, and Paxton Whitehead will take part in a script-in-hand reading of Frederick Knott's Dial 'M' for Murder and Philip Barry&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PMLa MaMa etc has announced that it has added Tennessee Williams' Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws, starring Mink Stole and Everett Quinton, to its 50th anniversary season. The comedy will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMNBA hall of famer Chris Mullin coached basketball camp for the Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones, at a press event held at Sports Club LA on Thursday, October 13.
The production will begin …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMReviews of the new pre-Beatles musical range from scathing to ecstatic, but it's slightly more Help! than A Taste of HoneyReviews don't always find a common ground; sometimes it's best to ad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAccording to published reports, stage veteran Paul Kent recently passed away from myeloma. He was 80 years old, and is survived by his wife and three daughters.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMAge & Hometown: 25, as of October 23: “I get to spend my birthday on Broadway!”; Ukiah, California
Currently: Making his Broadway debut as composer Bob Gaudio, the brainie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMThe Lark Play Development Center honored playwright Katori Hall and Lark board member Sandi Goff Farkas at a special benefit event, held on Tuesday, October 11.
The evening included a pre-s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMLook at this happy couple. It seems that George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber are getting along just fine, co-starring in the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of La Cage aux Folle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMLa Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and two-time Tony Award nominee and Christopher Sieber, just kicked off its national tour at Des Moines' Civic Center. Winner o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMThree-time Tony winner Frank Langella doesn't shy away from larger-than-life characters, and his latest is no exception. Gregor Antonescu of Man and Boy is an amoral 1930s financier faci…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMBenjamin Walker has returned, y’all. At least for the time being. Tuesday night, Mr. Walker took a break from his big, fancy, Hollywood life where he makes movies with Bradley Cooper, …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:09PMThis Friday, October 14, Paramount Pictures will release the highly anticipated feature film, Footloose, starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMYesterday marked the start of previews for the Broadway engagement of the play Other Desert Cities. Last year, it was the hit of the off-Broadway season, had a slightly different cast …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMWe I can tell you one thing for certain – I wish I did. This is a show that you can go see for the set alone. But after the real owners showed up you would feel a bit like Goldilocks and…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:00PM
Alec Baldwin will host a regular podcast for WNYC entitled "Here's the Thing," according to The New York Times.
The initial podcast will be released on October 24 and feature…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:58AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Brazilian artist Michel Melamed's play "SEEWATCHLOOK" - a series of 28 scenes performed free at a New York City intersection - has been extended....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:57AMThis Friday, October 14, Paramount Pictures will release the highly anticipated feature film, Footloose, starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMFull casting has been announced for SILENCE The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell title of show, music amp lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMPerformances are set to begin on October 13 for the sexy comedy Venus in Fur, starring Tony nominee Nina Arianda and movie favorite Hugh Dancy. Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMTest your knowledge of the man behind the play that shocked Britain in 1965, Saved, and which is now enjoying a revival at London's Lyric HammersmithMichael Billington
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMDavid Ives, a thinking man's playwright, approaches theater philosophically.
SOURCE: The Jewish Exponent at 11:51AMGoodman Theatre's second Playwrights' Unit, "a season-long residency program designed to nurture Chicago's most promising playwrights," will include writers Philip Dawk…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMParticipating Oratory Fellows engage students by using great speeches to teach history, writing and leadership.
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SOURCE: fords.org at 11:48AM Airing on Thirteen: Fri., October 14th at 1:30 AM (note special time) * Repeats on on CUNY TV:Sat., October 15th at 8:30 PM; Sun., October 16th at 12:30 PM and Mon., October 17t…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 11:45AMOur critically-acclaimed show, The Fall and Rise of TERENCE RATTIGAN is now Online Click here to watch
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 11:43AMOne at Jorgensen; the other at Twain Center in HartfordFilmmaker Michael Moore and Fox News' Juan Williams will be appearing under the auspices of The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hart…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:43AMThe Gay amp Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today announced an initial li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMSonnet Repertory Theatre will present its Tenth Annual Benefit and Cabaret, this year celebrating the career of director and teacher Gerald Freedman, Nov. 14 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMSonnet Repertory Theatre will present its Tenth Annual Benefit and Cabaret, this year celebrating the career of director and teacher Gerald Freedman, Nov. 14 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMElisabeth Ahrens, Anna Andersen, Michael Chernus, Ryan Colwell, Deanna Henson, David Michael Holmes, Nicole Mangi, Annie O'Sullivan, Kellie Overbey, Ryan Reilly, Samantha Shane, and Bob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMIn Glenn Close's latest film she stars as Albert Nobbs- a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some twenty years after donning men's clothing, she fin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMBroadway.com introduced you to the top-notch cast of Chinglish in our video preview of the show, and now we’re taking you behind the scenes with the stars of the play's new TV comm…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music's winter-spring season will include Jonathan Pryce in The Caretaker, Simon Callow's solo turn in Being Shakespeare and the previously reported Bridge Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:26AMLulu Brud, Tony Gatto, Ronnie Marmo and Jacque Lynn Colton will head the cast of Elephant Theatre Company's production of Baby Doll at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood. There will be o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMTony and Academy Award-winning actress Ellen Burstyn and cast are currently in rehearsal for the LAByrinth Theater Company's world premiere of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMGlenn Close has spent the past three decades trying to put together a film version of The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, the play she starred in at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1982. It’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMMAMMA MIA opened at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on October 18, 2001, and has become one of the most successful musicals of all time anywhere in the world, celebrating its 10th anniversa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMHow did a holy day become a horror fest? And from haunted houses to parties in the park, how will you celebrate?
Here's our quick Halloween “how” guide. First up, how did a holi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:15AMChinglish on Broadway (Version 4)
http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/Chinglish
From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:09AMChinglish on Broadway (Version 3)
http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/Chinglish
From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:07AMChinglish on Broadway (Version 2)
http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/Chinglish
From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:05AMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music has announces its programming for its 2012 Winter/Spring season.
The schedule will include, as previously announced, the Bridge Project production of Shakespea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMChinglish on Broadway
http://broadwaysbestshows.com/show/Chinglish
From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication, wri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:01AMChris Mullin, the retired N.B.A. All-Star, plays host at a basketball camp for the cast of the coming Broadway musical “Lysistrata Jones.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMToday is October 13th. And there are three very special things associated with this great day. - On October 13th, 1929, my father was born. Today he turns 82. Happy Birthday, Dad. Thank you …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
We know (we have the analytics) that quite a few TAD readers are not averse to a bit of arty burlesque – our candid interview with Striptease Artist Ursula Martinez was read by many thousa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:59AMChris Dinolfo, Gregory Gallagher, Will Gartshore, Tim Getman, Rick Hammerly, Mitchell Hébert, Jason Lott, Karl Miller, Holly Twyford, and J. Fred Shiffman will star in a reading o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMPerformers and additional songwriters have been announced for The Fourth Annual "Broadway in South Africa" Gala at 7:30 PM Oct. 17 in the Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom on W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMGet top-price tickets to see the celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers at
the Gielgud Theatre, plus enjoy a three-course dinner with a glass of
champagne at The Ritz Restaurant for …
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:51AMGet top-price tickets to see the celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers at
the Gielgud Theatre, plus enjoy a three-course dinner with a glass of
champagne at The Ritz Restaurant for …
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:51AMRemember how cool it was when Kanye West featured alt-rock’s Bon Iver on his last album? And remember in the 90s when P.M. Dawn made amazing hip-hop records by referencing everything f…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 10:47AMStage and screen stars Eileen Atkins and Matthew Rhys will star in a screen adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1957 novel The Scapegoat, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Charles Stur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMManhattan 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, opened …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMMr. Baldwin's podcast, called "Here's the Thing," will make its debut on Oct. 24 with an interview with Michael Douglas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:44AMInspired by our adoption of Stage One as the charity for the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards,
we’re declaring this the “Year of the Producer” on Whatsonstage.com,
and will b…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:43AMTony Award winner Martin Short will be a judge on Canada's Got Talent, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new incarnation of the reality TV show talent competition will begin air…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMManhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of WE LIVE HERE by Zoe Kazan, directed by Sam Gold, opened last night, October 12 at New York City Center - Stage I.. Due to popular demand, the produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMChicago Shakespeare Theater presents a near-perfect production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's landmark musical
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMWhoopi Goldberg, Kerry Butler and Marc Shaiman will celebrate Tony Award-nominated scenic designer and architect David Rockwell, who will be honored by the Design Industries Foundation Fight…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMFourteen Out of Ten Productions will present Complicated: Relationships Through Scene and Song Oct. 15 at 8 PM and 11 PM at Houndstooth Pub in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMEven the marquee will also be revamped in the next three weeks/ Photos by Bill Hirschman By Bill Hirschman Even with a month of work remaining before the gala opening on 11/11/11, Palm Beach…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:23AMNatacha Roi has joined the cast of the world premiere of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She replaces Annabeth Gish, who left the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe Bridge Project's production of "Richard III," starring Mr. Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes, will be followed by "Being Shakespeare," a one-man drama about the playwright starring Simon…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:13AMJournalist, syndicated columnist and author Naomi Klein www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaEeeLOB5IA Daily Kaos writer and Fox News worst nightmare Jesse LaGreca www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhO3dTdp6ek P…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:11AM
Two performers with Broadway credits will be seen on the fifth season of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMThe Mountaintop, Katori Hall's Olivier-winning play examining the final hours of of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., opens at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre on October 13. Directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMThe Mountaintop, Katori Hall's Olivier-winning play examining the final hours of of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., opens at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre on October 13. Directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMNancy Anderson, Ron Bohmer, Chuck Cooper, Bill Daugherty, John Dossett, Kevin Earley, Alexander Gemignani, Marc Kudisch, William Michaels, Patrick Page, Max Von Essen, Barbara Walsh, and Ter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMThe first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, starring Weeds' Hunter Parrish as Jesus, begins performances on October 13 at Circle in the Square Theatre. Directed b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:44AMThe company of Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday, receiving its New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters, celebrated its opening night on Wednesday, October 12. Bud Martin has directed the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMFat Cat Killers in Philly
Nerve in Halifax
New York One Min Play Festival at Primary Stages
A Night of Burlesque to Benefit a production of my play Elsewhere in NYC
What else? …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:37AMFelicia Ricci, a former standby for the role of Elphaba in the San Francisco company of Wicked, has just released a new tome entitled "Unnaturally Green," a humorous memoir that jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM59E59 Theaters, Off Broadway
By Eleanor J. Bader
BOTTOM LINE: A poignant, funny, and emotionally intense play that explores the limits of loyalty, fidelity, and love.
Imagine learnin…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:35AM2011 Billy Elliot on Broadway :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 pas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:35AMOn Wednesday, October 12, the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Zoe Kazan's We Live Here opened at New York City Center. The playwright was joined by director Sam Gold and cast membe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:35AMSDCF hosted a Symposium on Musical Theatre in 2003 moderated by Daniella Topol, then the National Alliance Musical Theatre's New Works Program Director. The panel featured "Urinetown" direct…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:31AMThe eighth annual Broadway Unplugged concert — featuring singing actors performing with no amplification — will be presented in November at Town Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMActor/director Paul Kent has died after a lengthy battle with multiple myeloma, according to a report in Variety. He was 80.
Kent's stage credits include productions of Guys and Dolls…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMWhen Silence! The Musical — billed as the "unauthorized parody of 'The Silence of the Lambs'" — begins its open-ended run at the 9th Space Theater at P.S. 122 l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AMGet tickets to see John Lequizamo in GHETTO KLOWN at the Charing Cross Theatre between 25 Oct and 12 Nov for just £19.50 for all performances
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:12AMSo who ruled that all plays must be 2 to 3 hours, anyway?
As cultural consumption increasingly focuses on smaller and smaller forms of entertainment--IPod-able songs, YouTube vids, E-reader…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:12AMI AM THEATRE: Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee has been called "a rising star" by the New York Times and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by Time Out N…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:07AMIt was announced today that the critically acclaimed annual concert, Broadway Unplugged, will return for its 8th season in a row with yet another all-star line-up. Musical theater history wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMTony Award nominee David Garrison will assume the role of Hannibal Lecter in SILENCE! The Musical when it begins performances on October 25 at the 9th Space Theater at P.S. 122, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:01AMThe Earl of Southampton Henry WriothesleyPlayed by Xavier SamuelCharacter BioHenry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, was a generous patron of the arts and a well known fan of theater. Shakes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
Arts on TV: Upcoming arts programs on TV include "The Goodbye Girl" "Black Swan" and "The Guthrie Theater Presents H.M.S. Pinafore.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWhen Karole Armitage created Drastic Classicism back in 1981, she harnessed a new rock'n'roll energy for ballet. Guitarists and a drummer thrashed out brutal musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMMass protest and theatre aren't as dissimilar as you might think – not least because they ask political questions about how we gather, where and whyCritical Mass is a collectively organise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMFor all concerned, Jez Butterworth’s play Jerusalem was an unparalleled success back in 2009 at the Royal Court – its run at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs was extended due to rave revie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMSimon Singh explains why he hopes psychic Sally Morgan will take up an offer to demonstrate her powers in a scientific testAfter concerns raised last month that celebrity psychic Sally Morga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM"Dance/Draw" at the ICA is a major exhibit about how moving bodies leave traces, what curator Helen Molesworth, not particularly originally, calls the “afterlife of dance.” To a lesser e…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AMIf you were a young boy in the early 90s, chances are you wanted to be Aladdin and Simba. Heck, if you were a girl, you may have wanted to be them too, or at least marry them. Only one perso…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 08:07AMMy apologies to those of you who follow the blog on a daily basis. Mom, you can breathe now. I am still alive I am currently General Managing the show Tour De Fierce by The Broadway Dolls an…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 08:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMKatori Hall's two-character fantasy on Martin Luther King Jr. fails to delve into the complexities of American race relations and features an over-the-top performance by Angela Bassett.…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Forum Theatre will stage a reading of Larry Kramer’s Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart on Monday, November 7 at 7.30 as a fundraiser for the company. Kramer’s play, which won the 201…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:55AMNow about that review....Will there be yelling, hair-pulling, snide remarks?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMWith all eyes on London in 2012, the first time England has held the Olympic Games in 63 years, London will become the world’s stage for a short while. Whilst it may be true that the m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMBruce Graham’s dark but fiercely funny comedy
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:53AMFrom the moment you enter the Product Solutions headquarters, the Office Party cast have won half the battle. Because inside, harnessed in the paltry initial set of balloons and breeze block…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:52AMDon't miss this year’s hottest ticket as two of the world's greatest living
actors arrive in London to perform Alfred Uhry's timeless, Pulitzer
Prize-winning classic, in a strictly l…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:50AMDon't miss this year’s hottest ticket as two of the world's greatest living
actors arrive in London to perform Alfred Uhry's timeless, Pulitzer
Prize-winning classic, in a strictly l…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:50AMGodspell
© Godspell
Hark, thee, good gentles! A momentous Broadway revival is upon us.
The first ever Broadway revival of Steven Schwartz's musical Godspell begins Previews tonight at t…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:19AMThe Fartiste opens with a might blast tonight at Sofias, just a few blocks downwind of Times Square and Broadway. For tickets and info go here.
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06AMJoe EpsteinLeft to right: Charlie Kevin, Annie McAdams, Matthew Lawler and Patricia Buckley in "God of Carnage." Maybe it should be called “Short Day’s Journey into Nig…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:03AM
Welcome to the new generation of promotional videos: arty, polished and fun to watch. If you can tell what the shows are actually about, that isTheatre trailers have come a long way in the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM13
Across London, people wake up from an identical, terrifying dream.
Meanwhile, a young man named John returns home with a vision for the future and a way to make it happen. From the writ…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:26AMTracy Letts' extraordinary play is the blackest comedy I've seen in years. It's also the funniest.
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:13AMHundreds 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 06:00AMART START, an organization dedicated to providing creative arts to transform New York's at-risk kids, is hosting the Laugh, Sing, Dance benefit at Town Hall in NYC tonight.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMThe revival of Godspell, which has long been expected to head to Broadway next season, will reportedly open at the Circle in the Square Theatre on November 7, 2011. according to a report in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMDGA 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 06:00AMDancing dynamo Yukichi Hattori reflects on his leading role in ballet based on Elton John’s music
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM
Football is huge, period. Worldwide there are millions of teams, all trying to score success. Fit and Proper People is Georgia Fitch’s latest foray into the world of British football a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:54AMToday is the birthday of Julia Rooney. Born in 1887, she was a daughter of the famous Pat Rooney, Sr. and was thus a member of an important vaudeville dynasty. From approximatelely 1895 thro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:47AMThe cast of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT will be making an appearance on OWN Network's new talk show, 'The Rosie Show', starring Rosie O'Donnell.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45AMToday is Lillie Langtry’s birthday; go here for more info on her. Below, the classic scene from William Wyler’s The Westerner (1940) wherein Gary Cooper buys a little time from h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:23AMOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 13 October 1908The "Lancet" returns to its warnings against reading in bed. Dr. Hugo Feilchenfeld, of Berlin, has recently published t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20AMBritain’s longest-established black theatre company, Talawa, has announced the appointment of Michael Buffong as its new artistic director.
He will join the company, currently celebra…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:02AM
Alexandra Coghlan: "We are, as we're forever being reminded, the iPod generation - restless and easily bored, seeking our fulfilment in snack-size portions. By rights this should be the era …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:50AMThe Broadway aimed musical adaption of the 90's cult classic Jawbreaker will receive an industry reading in Manhattan on October 13th under the direction of Gabriel Barre. With a book by Dar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOkay, a topic seemed to beg me to write on it today– Keeping connected with those who purchase tickets in advance. There were a couple of incidents today that demanded I give some thou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:27AMNEW 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 01:03AM"Like all things human, the sight was far more bearable than he had imagined." Scott Turow, The Burden of Proof...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMOn Thursday, October 13, NBA hall of famer Chris Mullin coaches basketball camp for the cast of Lysistrata Jones to sharpen their skills before hitting the stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - The 2010 Olivier Award winning play The Mountaintop by Katori Hall officially opens tonight at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
SOURCE: 1824 at 01:00AMThursday, October 13, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - The first-ever revival of Stephen's Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL starts Broadway performances tonight at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
SOURCE: 1826 at 01:00AM
Do critics think "We Live Here" is all there?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 12:54AMThere are a solid 15 minutes when Man and Boy, which opened Sunday night at the American Airlines Theatre, becomes a good show. Those 15 minutes involve a ruse between two of the main charac…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:53AMActress Zoe Kazan's first major Off-Broadway play is an imperfect pleasure.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:09AMFor a guy who has written a blog a day for the last 100 days, I’m a little “word”-less. The last 100 days have been awesome. I’ve been through this process before, …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 12:01AMConrad John Schuck, John Rubinstein & Cast of MTC's Grumpy Old Men: The Musical (Photo by Leif Norman)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe national tour of Million Dollar Quartet, the Tony-nominated jukebox musical about a flashpoint in rock 'n' roll history, officially opens Oct. 13 in Cleveland, OH.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArthur Miller's All My Sons gets a multi-racial makeover in the Matrix Theatre production of the classic portrait of an American family, which begins previews Oct. 13 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Fartiste, billed as a "musical comedy for all ages," begins previews Off-Broadway at Sofia's Downstairs Oct. 13 with an official opening scheduled for Oct. 27.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony winner Chita Rivera joins forces with Emmy winner Bill Cosby and singer-pianist Mark Nadler for an evening at Manhattan's Town Hall Oct. 13 to benefit Art Start.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVenus in Fur, David Ives' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, makes its Broadway premiere Oct. 13 following an acclaimed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West Coast company of Milk Like Sugar, Kirsten Greenidge's play about a "pregnancy pact" between a group of inner-city teens, reunites Oct. 13 for the play's New York C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, the rock musical that relates parables of Jesus, begins previews Oct. 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKatori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, directed by Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun), officially opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Oct. 13 at 6…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe National Asian American Theater Company kicks off its 22nd season with Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, opening Off-Broadway Oct. 13, following previews that began Oct. 6, at the D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDue to a production delay, Kuntu Repertory Theatre is pushing back its season opener, "Little Willie Armstrong Jones," to Oct. 20. Performances will be at Kuntu Rep's new home, Carnegie Libr…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThere's no matching a child's vivid imagination when they read or listen to a book, but a theatrical retelling of a tale engages them in its own special way. The Pittsburgh International Chi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMRob Becker has had his regrets about titling his show "Defending the Caveman," a misnomer of a name that implies a heartfelt defense of knuckle-dragging chauvinists and an indictment of femi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThey really know how to tell a tragic tale of passion and blood, those ancient Greeks: start in the middle and plunge toward the finish line, with only a few pauses for lyric lament.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMNew play festivals are a dime-a-dozen these days. But a new play festival that regularly features works by writers such as Mando Alvarado, Clay MacLeod Chapman, James Comtois, Mike Daisey, J…
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