If to live is to suffer, then Joseph Douaihy Fontana is more alive than most. With unexplained chronic pain and the fate of his reeling family on his shoulders, Joseph's health, sanity, and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28PMDivorce as fodder for standup comedy is so familiar it's practically a joke itself. In fact, Marion Grodin, Sherry Davey, Ross Bennett, Steven Kent McFarlin and Teddy Smith suggest revenge i…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:13PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the October 15, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:10PMTonight DANCING WITH THE STARS took a trip back to the 80s with The Bangles, shoulder pads, and big hair dominating the episode. At this halfway point in the competiton, the pressure is on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07PMApple iPhones don't grow on trees, despite the fruity name. But where do they come from? Who makes them? And how? You've probably never even wondered about that as you've tapped away and tex…
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Mike Daisey takes off his rose-colored glasses to tell his version of the Jobs story
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:47PMPut the muckraking heavy machinery of Michael Moore together with the free-floating storytelling charm of Spalding Gray, and you get pretty close to Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 10:43PMIt’s hard to get anything done when the Internet beckons -- with yet another friend request, Twitter updates and the latest YouTube video of a dancing cat. It’s even harder when your com…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:38PMHell hath no fury like a geek disappointed. Example No. 3,854: “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” the new solo piece by Mike Daisey.
With shows such as “The Last Cargo Cult” …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:37PMAs first reported by BroadwayWorld back in August, actress Anne Hathaway will join the upcoming film version of LES MISRABLES alongside Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32PMLegit Reviews: The combination of Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage and gifted baritone Mariusz Kwiecien sounded like a potent one -- the former making his Metropolitan O…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:27PMLegit Reviews: Broadway comes to New Brunswick with the new musical comedy "It Shoulda Been You." The cast -- headed by Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris, with the likes of Howard McGillin and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20PMNotes and links for the podcast. Panel: Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons, is n…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:10PMMike Daisey delves into the lives of the workers in China, and the grim conditions there, as he raises questions about our support of products made in such conditions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMMike Daisey's superb solo performance is given added resonance by the recent death of the visionary Apple founder.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMHost of ‘The Debaters’ a winner along with Jason Priestly
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:00PMDavid Rooney Mike Daisey's provocative monologue, which has been updated but not softened since the "techno-libertarian hippie" died earlier this month, makes its New York debut.read more
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HEDY WEISS: You might expect a small, racially segregated, Bible Belt mill town in Depression-era Georgia to have an intense concentration of conformity. But in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:48PMGiddy-up Armageddon! could be the rallying cry for evangelical misfit Will (Michael Russotto), the sad-sack hero of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New Boise, a divinely inspired heartland com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47PMMr. Lopez's new play, "Somewhere," whose world premiere production continues at the Old Globe's White Theatre through October 30, features a show-tune-loving Puerto Rican family in the late …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMINTERN(AL) AFFAIRS We all know that having sexual relations with an intern will get you in a heap of trouble, be it in the Oval Office or at a fictitious regional theatre company. Blame It O…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:17PMLynne Ramsay on directing We Need To Talk About Kevin; Sir Cameron Mackintosh at 65.
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The Swedes, to be sure, came for first-hand footage about the Black Power movement. How they managed to forget about that footage for decades is a story only they can tell. But you feel, in …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:56PMStephen Metcalfe's The Tragedy of the Commons isn't quite a tragedy, but it an uncommonly penetrating portrait of an aging blogger who's in a modern California story reminiscent of The Cherr…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:46PMThe announcement of Spisto's resignation coincides with the company's tumultuous revival of "The Rocky Horror Show" that saw the abrupt departures of its lead actor and director before openi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:36PMBSCP has enough cachet to hire the best in the business -- each of the evening's soloist had instruments and resumes to, as they say, die for -- competitions won, festivals performed in, pr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34PMTWO PLAYS IN ONE What is the purpose of theater? Some say that it is to reflect reality while being entertaining, enlightening, and/or educating. Yet when Shakespeare wrote that theatre is d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:33PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #89: Not Getting Any Younger, The Marsh, September 15.
By Sam Hurwitt
“According to Wikipedia, Marga Gomez is known for her honesty,” Marga Gomez says…
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Toronto producer-presenter Aubrey Dan announced the 2012 Broadway subscription series for his Canadian venues on Oct. 17. The previously announced Broadway-bound world premiere of Prince of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:52PMThe Black Ensemble Theatre has announced the star of its reprise of “My Heart is Crying, Crying: The Jackie Wilson Story,” the show that will inaugurate its handsome new home at 4450 N. …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:48PMPlaywright Walt Stepp has, in the last few seasons, established himself as an unquestionable powerhouse of the Off-Off-Broadway scene, with culturally-historical themes ranging from Mark Twa…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:42PMMac Wellman’s enigmatic play “3 2’s; or AFAR” covers ground from physical theater to Heidegger at Dixon Place.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PMThe national tour of La Cage aux Folles is shimmying its feather boa across America, and Broadway.com has a first look at the show’s dashing stars. TV icon George Hamilton and two-time…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03PMThe Red Fern Theatre Company's founder and Artistic Director Melanie Moyer Williams discusses starting her own theatre company, why NYC is the perfect home for The Red Fern Theatre Company, …
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 07:03PMWe all know that Edward Bond's Saved, with it notorious baby-stoning scene, sent the critics into a frothing furore of outrage when it opened in 1965 and that it went on to become the cause…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWith Brilliant Corners, choreographer Emanuel Gat plays at jazz patterns. The work is named after an album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk, but there's nothing by Monk in the soundtrack. In…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIf the Ashington Group hadn't existed, it's tempting to say that Lee Hall would have had to invent them. For the author of Billy Elliot and undisputed laureate of working-class creativity, t…
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The Freedom Theater students of Juliano Mer Khamis, who was assassinated this year on the West Bank, are bringing an adaptation in Arabic of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” to the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:47PMA beautiful wrought-iron bench has been placed in front of the
office of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in memory of Brad
Graham, the theater's public relations director until his sud…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:35PMOnce again Wicked Lit returns to their ghoulish location of the Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery to present six adaptations of horror literature in full theatrical productions. Chilling …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:32PMRussia’s Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, has enjoyed imaginative treatment on the British stage and screen. Brighton Theatre’s now-legendary Vanity conjured the world of Eugene Onegin vi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:31PMPaper Mill Playhouse has just announced that Ms. Lorna Luft will be featured in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of White Christmas opening November 16, 2011. White Christmas will run at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMThe board president of the Old Globe in San Diego praised Lou Spisto, the executive producer and chief executive officer who announced that he will be stepping down from his posts at the end…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:26PMTony Award winner Brian Dennehy will star in Samuel Beckett's solo play, Krapp's Last Tape, to be presented on Stage II at Long Wharf Theatre, November 29-December 18.
In the twi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:25PM Frank Langella in the Roundabout's Man and Boyphoto: Sara Krulwich, NY Times
Another Krulwich gem.
The perfect caption for this might actually be this from Michael Feingold's review …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 06:16PMLegit News: 'Desert,' 'Chinglish' pace pack of four new productions -- Broadway box office gained some steam last week as four new productions began previews and "Follies" returned to the mi…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:02PMLorna Luft has signed to play the featured role of innkeeper Martha Watson in Paper Mill Playhouse’s forthcoming holiday mounting of White Christmas. The musical, which features the mu…
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"Priscilla Queen of the Desert," which opened to mixed reviews in March and had one of the rockiest summers at the box office for new productions, had its highest-earning set of performances…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMSondheim Unplugged, the cabaret-concert series in which original cast members from Stephen Sondheim shows sing songs from his musicals at a grand piano, will end its run at the Laurie Beechm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:57PMSondheim Unplugged, the cabaret-concert series in which original cast members from Stephen Sondheim shows sing songs from his musicals at a grand piano, will end its run at the Laurie Beechm…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56PMIt took almost a century, but London is finally giving the Group of Seven a heck of a reception.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:56PMIn the summer of 2012, Dancap Productions will present the world premiere of an original musical, prior to its Broadway run. Dancap is proud to be the lead producer of PRINCE OF BROADWAY, a …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:54PMThe Public Theater has announced participants for its Speaker Series, held in conjunction with the Public Lab production of Love's Labor's Lost, directed by Karin Coonrod.
On Thur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:54PMWe brought our flip cam to the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre and listened to what audience members had to say about our new play, Sons of the Prophet!
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:49PMIbsen’s play no longer shocks, but it can still be unsettling
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:47PMLorna Luft will play the role of Martha Watson in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of White Christmas, to run at the Millburn theater, November 16-December 24, with an opening on N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMBroadway, recording and concert star Lorna Luft will play salty New Englander Martha, a showbiz veteran who keeps the books at a Vermont inn, in Paper Mill Playhouse's holiday-season run of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PMHOWL WITH US!! On twitter.com Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from 3-4pm EST / 12-1pm PST We are exploring the Play Submission Polivies in the American Theater Don't forget to add '#NEWPLAY' to be…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:30PMFrom the writer of the breakout hit Speech & Debate, Stephen Karam, Sons of the Prophet is a refreshingly honest take on how we cope with wounds that just won't heal, and the funniest play a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:28PMI’ve been taking #NewPlay’s injunction seriously; that is, to envision the future of theater. To help me form an opinion, I have two questions for the community of practice, and I would …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:23PMDamian Cote, Notice: There will be no parade for this warIt was somehow culturally telling that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 became a national obsession - while the same anniversary p…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:23PMSchool education introduces Shakespeare and his contemporaries as texts to be read, analysed and teased apart, and most university English programmes do little to move beyond this. So what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22PMIn this revival of Larry Kramer’s landmark AIDS play, superb acting and scathing words put audiences through the wringer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:18PMWhen Steve Jobs died on October 5 at the young age of 56, my Twitter feed was filled with messages about him, all positive. I think that's the first time I saw so many Twitter reactions comp…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:18PMAxel Avin Jr. answers the question: What's The Future of Theatre? 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 we…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:17PMToday we are featuring the luminescent and golden-voiced Melissa Errico and talking to her all about her sumptuous new album LEGRAND AFFAIR - featuring the music of famed Broadway and Hollyw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PMCasting has been announced for Les Miserables: Unplugged, to be presented by The Coterie at The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, November 3-13.
The event is a stripped down, acoustic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMInclusion of 'Prince of Broadway' begins to fulfill theatre production company’s promise
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:15PMLooking to buy last minute tickets to a Broadway show Don't know what to see Trying to find a theaterWelcome to BroadwayWorld's feature The Broadway Ticket Buying Guide. Inside, you will fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMChristina Bianco, Ron Bohmer, Carole J. Bufford, Scott Coulter, and Jeffry Denman will star in Broadway By The Bay's production of Broadway By the Year, to be presented at the Fox Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:03PMHugh 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 05:00PMCraig Bierko, Mark Consuelos, Polly Draper, and Harriet Harris will be the initial cast for the Off-Broadway premiere of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, to be presented at the …
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'Did Beyoncé plagiarise my work? She is not the worst copycat: she's a good dancer, and she has good taste'What got you started?Like so many little girls, I started dancing with ballet, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PMChester Gregory, Nikki M. James, and Bob Stillman are among the most recent additions to the cast of A Good Man, to be offered by The Amas Musical Theatre Lab at The Snapple Theatre, Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMWHAT KIND OF FABULOUS WILL YOU BE THIS HALLOWEEN? BROADWAY’S TONY AWARD-WINNING HIT MUSICAL PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT COUNTS DOWN TO HALLOWEEN WEEKEND WITH SHOW-INSPIRED COSTUME SUG…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:51PMLou Spisto, the head of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, will be stepping down from his post in December following nine years with the venerated theater company. Spisto said he is leaving…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:45PMToday, The Old Globe and CEOExecutive Producer Lou Spisto announced that Mr. Spisto is leaving The Old Globe to work independently as a producer. Mr. Spisto was appointed Executive Director …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMCasting has been announced for the Sunday, October 30 edition of Sondheim Unplugged, to take place at 7pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe . The evening will be hosted by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMDKNY Shopping Benefit 2011
On October 12, 2011, DKNY hosted a special shopping event in celebration of MAMMA MIA!'s 10th Anniversary benefiting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Fr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:41PMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Theatre Communications Group have announced the 11th round of recipients for the New Generations Program, a grant initiative originally designed by b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMVOCA PEOPLE www.VocaPeopleNYC.com, has arrived at the Westside Theatre 407 W. 43rd Street, Upstairs, performed by eight snow-white ruby-lipped aliens with perfect harmony, there are no music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMEric Stang steps into the role of Jerry Lee Lewis in the Off-Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet, the musical about a moment in rock 'n' roll history, Oct. 17 at New World …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMTony and Emmy Award-winning actress Leslie Uggams has been cast in an upcoming episode of the CBS drama "The Good Wife."
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMWelcome to our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 10162011
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMAre critics enjoying a sip of "Southern Comfort"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:15PMAs the air turns crisp, Broadway theaters are starting to fill up again, with four newcomers (Chinglish, Godspell, Other Desert Cities and Venus in Fur) beginning previews. Overall results w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PMHelen Hunt and David Duchovny will star in Larry Moss' feature film debut Relative Insanity, according to Deadline.com
The film, to be written by Michael Din and Juri Henley-Cohn, is a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Theatre Communications Group TCG have announced the eleventh round of recipients for the New Generations Program, a grant initiative originally desig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMLou Spisto, CEO and executive producer of The Old Globe, will leave the Tony Award-winning San Diego theatre to work independently as a producer. The theatre has appointed Michael G. Murphy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMTo say that Dead Man’s Cell Phone fits Moxie Theatre like a well-worn glove intends no criticism of either the play or the producing company. Or, for that matter, the glove.
The play …
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As reported by Idina Menzel's official website, she will play the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on October 22 with the Pasadena Pops, and in the video below, Menzel chats about the upcoming p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMJohn Achorn, Daniel Blinkoff, Avery Clyde, Kevin Daniels, Jeff Doba, Robert Goldsby, Arye Gross, Shannon Holt, Adrian Latourelle, William Mitchell, Angela Paton, Nicholas Podany, Joseph Rusk…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMWith a book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
and directed by Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's associate artistic director
Gary Griffin (The Color Purple, The Apple Tree)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMAccording to the Toronto Star, Toronto's Dancap Productions has just announced the line-up for 2012. Included in the upcoming season are In the Heights February 7-19, Shrek the Musical March…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMNeil Patrick Harris, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Alfred Molina are among those set to voice key characters for the new half-hour animated Christmas special, YES, VIRGINIA, presented by Macy's, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMActor Mark Consuelos will guest star as a Spanish teacher on at least two episodes of FOX's upcoming comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
As previously reported, the show stars two-time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMActor Mark Consuelos will guest star as a Spanish teacher on at least two episodes of FOX's upcoming comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
As previously reported, the show stars two-time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMLou Spisto -- who has served as the Old Globe Theatre's Executive Director since 2002 and Executive Producer since 2008 -- will be leaving the company to work independently as a produce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMNewsies just closed at Paper Mill Playhouse last night, October 16, and as a tribute to 'fansies' of the show, the cast put together a couple of videos as a special thank you. Click below to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMTony Award nominee Craig Bierko (The Music Man), Tony Award winner Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Daytime Emmy nominee Mark Consuelos ("All My Children") and Emmy Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMPRINCE OF BROADWAY, a new musical celebrating legendary Broadway director and producer Harold Hal Prince, is in development now, aiming for a Toronto production in the summer of 2012, prior …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMMark Campbell, Kerry Conte, Jennifer Hughes, and Anne Tolpegin will star in York Theatre Company's Mufti concert production of The Housewives' Cantata, to be presented at Saint Pet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMPopular Florida actress Jan McArt will star in two staged readings of Tony Finstrom's new comedy thriller Murder on Gin Lane, to be presented October 24 at Lynn University's World …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:28PMOscar winner James Cameron and his daughter Josephine attended the Broadway production of The Lion King at the Minskoff Theater on Wednesday, October 12. Afterwards, father and daughter pose…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:22PMThe West End stage adaptation of Cool Hand Luke, starring Marc Warren in the title role, will close on November 19 after 67 performances, according to the Guardian. The play, written by Emma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMThe national tour of AMERICAN IDIOT kicks off in Toronto, ON at the Toronto Centre for the Arts presented by Dancap Productions Inc, and venues for the tour include The Opera House in Detroi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMTickets for the Broadway revival of Evita, starring Elena Roger and Ricky Martin, are now exclusively available through a presale offer from Audience Rewards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:09PMEmery Battis, a veteran stage actor whoses career spanned more than 70 years and who worked frequently at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven during its first decades, died Sept. 20 at an ass…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:05PMRoslyn Hart will offer two performances of Never Sleep Alone at Joe's Pub on November 10 and December 1 at 9:30pm. Adam Rhodes will serve as musical director.
In the show, Hart plays …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMTony Award winner Leslie Uggams will guest star in an upcoming episode of CBS' The Good Wife.
She will play the upscale mother of two sons, one a Wall Street broker, the other a convi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMArena Stage will present Theater Beyond Twitter: A Moderated Discussion Between Peter Marks and Howard Sherman Nov. 19 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for Ameri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMCuqui Jerez' "The Rehearsal" is a mind-bendingly good time.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:01PM
A special benefit performance of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Thursday, October 6th raised 15,000 for THE TREVOR PROJECT. The performance featured a post-show talkback…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMTwelfth Night an Introduction
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SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMThe New York Pops kicked off its 29th season with an Oct. 14 Carnegie Hall performance celebrating the music of Irving Berlin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMThe producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying teamed up with The Trevor Project for a special benefit performance of the musical at 7 …
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SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 02:24PMThe Public Theaterhas just announced the final line-up for its two upcoming fall Public Forum events. The 2011-2012 Public Forum season will continue on October 23 with The Legacy of Steve J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMFormer Ontario attorney general to discuss car accident that left cyclist dead.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:13PMLa MaMa E.T.C. in association with The Katselas Theatre Company will present the New York premiere of Mad Women, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck. Ric Montejano directs the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMThe story is well-known by those of us who grew up without TeleTubbies or Barney -An Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance and attire hires two tailors who promise him the finest …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PMCHINGLISH is about an American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contact for his family's sign-making firm. He soon finds that the complexities …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMTony Award-winner and three-time Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski makes her Walt Disney Concert debut, Sunday, October 23, at 730 p.m. Krakowski's 75-minute program features cabaret and show tune…
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMFrom an article by David Loehr on stage-directions.com: “Free for all.” “Membership has its privileges.” “All you can eat.” Theatres around the country are taking these sayin…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:00PMPlaywright-poet Marcus Gardley will be the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage during the 2011-2012 season.
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The self-regulatory group — consisting of British ticketer…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:56PMDaniel Radcliffe and the cast of Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying raised $15,000 for The Trevor Project during a special benefit performance of the show, held…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMMark Consuelos, Tony winner Harriet Harris, Tony nominee Craig Bierko and stage and screen vet Polly Draper will be part of the premiere cast of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.…
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This educational video is part of the Westport Country Playhouse initiative Shakespeare In Our Time. With panel discussions, talkbacks, a master class, …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:35PMVictoria & Albert Museum, LondonFrom the moment perky flight attendant, Miss Pat, tells us to "fasten your shackles" and insists that there must be "no drumming", it's clear it's going to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMThe iconic choreographer explores his own mortality in "I don't believe in outer space"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:26PMHowl! Arts Project 2011 and The Actors Fund will present Bobby the Middle-Aged Celebrity: The Nvr 2 L8 2 B Famous Musical, starring original Hair cast member Robert I. Rubinsky, Oct. 19 at T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMSu Teatro's move from the old Elyria School to the Denver Civic Theater has raised the profile of the city's only Chicano theater company and introduced it to a wider audience.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:23PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonCandoco certainly don't play safe in their programming. For the 20th-anniversary tour of this integrated company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, the centrep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMA hot young director focuses on new work “It’s just some dream projects of mine that happened to find their way into the calendar in a strange way.” Sam Gold is describing …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:11PMA historic exchange begins today at Villanova University. The school is beginning an intellectual and artistic partnership with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theater.
SOURCE: philadelphia.cbslocal.com at 01:08PM"Patrick's Mom" a NEWSIES Thank you!
After an incredible run at the Paper Mill Playhouse, the cast of Newsies wanted to say thank you to all those "Fansies" who supp…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:05PMAs one of the original stars of Singin’ in the Rain, Debbie Reynolds knows a fabulous musical when she sees one, and on October 15, she saw one on Broadway: Follies! The actress settle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMFifty years ago, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway musical West Side Story premiered in theaters across the country. Like the original production, the film set Shakespeare's Romeo a…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:00PMCraig Bierko, Mark Consuelos, Polly Draper, and Harriet Harris will be the initial cast for the Off-Broadway premiere of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, to be presented at the …
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New papers offering a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire have been donated to the New York Public …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Michael Boyd and the company's executive director, Vikki Heywood, will step down from their positions at the end of 2012, according …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMLIVING FOR TODAY, with musical direction by Nate Patten, and direction by David Alpert, will play a one-night-only engagement at the newly renovated Joe's Pub tonight, October 17, 2011 at 70…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMThe Seventh Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel, kicked off Oct. 16 at 3 PM with Broadway Originals!.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMThe Seventh Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created, written and hosted for The Town Hall by Scott Siegel, kicked off Oct. 16 at 3 PM with Broadway Originals!.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:42PMMelissa Errico has released a video to promote her new CD Legrand Affair, which, as previously announced, will be released by Ghostlight Records on October 18. The disc, produced by Phil Ram…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMRather than launch the new building with one play, 66 mini-plays were performed over 24 hours to mark 400th anniversary of King James Bible
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:35PMBy Isaac Butler Back in July, David Dower wrote a post for HowlRound attemptin to answer a question Hal Brooks asked him at a panel they served on. The question was "how"-- given t…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 12:32PMStage and screen star Anne Hathaway will host the November 21 panel, "Does Culture Make Us Who We Are?" presented by the Public Theater as part of its Public Forum series of lectur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMFormer "American Idol" judge and Grammy winner Kara DioGuardi made her Broadway debut Sept. 6 when she stepped into the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMLantern Theater's latest production is a cross between a courtroom drama and a philosophy lecture, and it's a lot more entertaining than that description sounds ... eith Baker is terrific pl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:21PMPhilippine Development Foundation USA PhilDev, a non-profit organization that supports community and entrepreneurship programs in the Philippines, presents PhilDev Celebrates Broadway Suites…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMWith the critics horrified and wondering why they came, this revival of Edward Bond's grimfest must be a successFor a certain kind of play, unanimous acclaim is not quite the ideal reaction.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMBroadway favorites Daniel Radcliffe, Hugh Jackman and Ralph Fiennes are among the winners of Spike TV’s 2011 Scream Awards, which honor films, TV shows and performances in the genres o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:07PMLiza Minnelli last starred on Broadway in Liza's at The Palace... which earned a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. Minnelli has won a total of three Tony Awards awards, including…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMThrough its American Voices New Play Institute, Washington's Arena Stage provides support to playwrights during three-year residencies. Judging from the sparkling production of the first wor…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:05PMFresh from his Olivier and Tony Award-winning turn in La Cage aux Folles, Douglas Hodge has returned to the London stage to star Jamie Lloyd's revival of John Osborne' Inadmissible Evidence …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMNext summer, after Tony Award adrenaline has subsided and before the excitement of the new season sets in, Broadway now has something to celebrate the first ever Broadway cruise that will em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMStage adaptation of Donn Pearce's novel, starring Hustle actor Marc Warren, is to finish next month after only 67 performancesTwo weeks after opening in the West End, the stage adaptation of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMPrince of Broadway will have world premiere here in 2012.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:02PMReview of the Saturday, October 15 matinee performance. At Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. 2 hours, 45 minutes. Starring Euan Morton, Jenny Fellner, Stephen F. Schmidt, …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMOn the occasion of the Manhattan concert presentation of Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, Milk and Honey, here's a conversation with the composer-lyricist, reflecting on his fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMRelatively Speaking — three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen — plays the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMOn the occasion of the Manhattan concert presentation of Jerry Herman's first Broadway musical, Milk and Honey, here's a conversation with the composer-lyricist, reflecting on his fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
The national touring production of MEMPHIS opened last night at the Orpheum Theatre in its namesake city and the cast recently took a break from rehearsals to visit the home of the King of r…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 11:56AMNational Theatre Live Season
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMThe Art House in Provincetown, MA will present four special shows this holiday season.
Steven Brinberg will star in Simply Barbra over Thanksgiving weekend (November 25 and 26 at 7:30pm). A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMLa 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 last week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMThe Society of Ticket Agencies and Retailers has re-branded and re-launched its "industry kitemark" scheme to combat the problem of ticket fraud and rogue retailers.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMThe Occupy Wall Street movement may have made its way up to Times Square on the weekend of October 15, but the protesters weren't the only group creating a spectacle in the Theater Distr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMAcademy Award nominee Anne Hathaway will host the Nov. 21 discussion "Does Culture Make Us Who We Are?" presented as part of the Public Theater's upcoming Public Forum events.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:47AMThere was that season when we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Public (Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMOn the week that thousands protested in the theater district as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, two shows opened on Broadway: “The Mountaintop,” about Martin Luther King Jr. and…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:40AMOscar nominee Angela Bassett is back on the boards opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway premiere of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. To mark this starry event, Broadway.com asked rea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMOscar nominee Angela Bassett is back on the boards opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway premiere of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. To mark this starry event, Broadway.com asked rea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMAfter more than 14 months at the Marjorie S. Deane Theater, Mark St. Germain's clever and engrossing two-hander, "Freud's Last Session," which depicts a visit between the aging atheist Sigmu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMAs Michael Boyd announces that the curtain is to fall on his 10-year tenure at the RSC, who's in the frame to take over?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMJoe's Pub at The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, and Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre announced today an evening of song, video and performance on October 30th, 2011 at 700pm …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM13P is entering its "ImPlosion Season," which will be the final one for this lauded playwriting collective that consists of 13 writers who banded together in 2003 as a response to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMTickets are now on sale for the forthcoming Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross. Performances begin November 6 at the Music Box Theatre, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMPassage Theatre has announced casting for Eisa Davis' The History of Light, to run November 3-20. Jade King Carroll will direct the production.
The play centers on the love stories of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMThe "Trouble in Mind" With a Race Play in a Race Play
http://www.playbill.com/video Irene Lewis directs the Arena Stage's revival of Alice Childress' 1955
meditation on ra…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:21AMDancing With The Stars finalist and N'SYNC star Lance Bass, theater producer and last years' honoree Michel Butler and New York Yankees pitcher David Robertson will be featured guests at ton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMSam Yates’s very fine revival of Irish Protestant playwright St John Ervine’s 1911 ‘Belfast tragedy’ Mixed Marriage (the first London revival in 90 years), set in pre-partisan Irelan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AMAngels in America playwright Tony Kushner will join Audra McDonald and David Byrne for Songs for Freedom, an Oct. 30 benefit for the Jenin Freedom Theatre, which operates out of the Palestin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMHighlights From "The Submission" Starring Jonathan Groff
http://www.playbill.com/video Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff plays Danny Larsen, a promising playwright on a crash cour…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMHighlights from "Newsies" at Paper Mill Playhouse
Based on the 1992 cult classic movie, Disney's latest stage musical features music by eight-time Academy Award-winning compos…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:11AMThere are three strong contenders to fill Michael Boyd's shoes: Gregory Doran, Rupert Goold and David Farr. Or could a Shakespearean twist see the job going to a maverick outsider?Everyone i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:10AMBLOOD AND GIFTS is, at its core, a spy-versus-spy play, laced with black humor. Rogers gives us a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse, evoking the worlds of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. At …
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:08AMReview by Rob Hartmann
Southern Comfort (playing through October 29th at CAP 21 Theatre Company) is a new musical adaption of Kate Davis’ award-winning 2001 documentary about the life and …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:07AMThe original cast recording of Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Musical is now available for digital download.
The show, with songs by Michael Tester, explores the worlds of a group o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMDid you know there are over 13,000 yellow cabs in NYC? And over 50,000 drivers? And guess what the #1 form of transportation is for a tourist in our fair city? Yep, it's a taxi. Since touris…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
One more week of Fighter. For once, we've got people talking about it!
What is Fighter?
"Fighter," a play created, directed and choreographed by Tisch graduate Jose Perez, is no ordinary t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:55AMRachel Griffiths made such an indelible impression as a world-class neurotic in the TV dramas Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters, it’s a jolt to discover that the Australian-bor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMIt’s nowhere near June yet love and marriage seems to be in the theatrical air as Hallowe’en approaches. On October 14th. the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMUpdated casting has been announced for Divas Sing Scott Alan, , to be offered at the Arts Theatre in London 3, which will have shows at both 4pm and 7pm.
The show will feature Sharon D. Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 16, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $850,308 7,933 96.65% $107.19 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSIC…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMMike Daisey’s latest one-man show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, has officially hit the market at the Public Theater, where it opens on October 17, directed by Daisey's …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMActor, playwright, and producer Tyler Perry and stage and screen star Chris Rock and his wife Malaak will be among the honorees at the National Action Network's 2nd annual Triumph Awar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMA recently discovered one-act play by Eugene O'Neill, titled "Exorcism," has been published. The new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was formally dedicated in a ceremony over the weekend in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35AMCarole Demas was the original "Sandy" in the 1972 Broadway production of Grease. Other notable roles were as the original "Baker's Wife" in Stephen Schwartz The Baker's Wife and played…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 10:26AMMary Zimmerman's definitive production of Candide gave its final performance yesterday at the Huntington, and you know the partner unit and I had to be there (it was our third time at the sh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:20AMA "gimp" can be a lame person. But it can also be a ribbon-like fabric or a fighting spirit. It can also mean an uneven gait or the ability to turn, vacillate and tremble ecstatically.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:18AMActually, I hate fishing. But Chicago Theatre Addict is taking a pause for a bit as lifely obligations take center stage. Back in a week or so! As always, thanks for reading.
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:10AMLast week, I was at the annual Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, where the theme of the meeting was Embracing the Velocity of Change. There were important discussions about the rapid demog…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:09AMIs it the fall season, or is it just me? Truly--and I don't mean to be overly dramatic about this, even though arguably this is exactly the place for it--I can't figure out why this season f…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:09AMPrice is another one of those flags you waive that indicates who you intend on serving. Art is such a complex thing so you can't really have a simple set of rules about how to price what you…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AMTheaterMania checks out the new releases of Anna Nicole: The Opera, Bette Midler: The Showigrl Must Go On, Forever Plaid, Memphis, The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Wishful Drinking.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
On Sunday the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical will begin its first theatrical run in the Austrian city where it is setOver half a century after its Broadway premiere, The Sound of Music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AMA preliminary lineup of artists who will take part in Songs For Freedom, a benefit concert to be held at Joe's Pub on October 30 at 7pm, has been announced. Tony Kushner will host the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:47AMOn 30 October 1947, Bertolt Brecht appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in response to a subpoena; his testimony is controversial for a number of reasons. Many commenta…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:42AMStella Feehily’s new play, which arrives at the Royal Court Upstairs as part of Out of Joint’s national tour, places a piercing spotlight on foreign aid workers and journalists.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:34AMWhy, given so much social progress, have we failed to produce more leading arts organizations of color? I think there are two different answers.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:18AMMandy Patinkin has yet to meet a medium he cannot conquer. He first hit national prominence as Che Guevara opposite Patti LuPone’s Eva Perón in the Broadway production of “Evita,” for…
SOURCE: blogs.forward.com at 08:18AMUNDER St. Marks, Horse Trade, Off Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: Writer-performer Clay McLeod Chapman once again brings his dark, humorous and unique sensibility to the s…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:17AMThe Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is presenting a very fine production of the popular stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:17AMA long-time worshipper of Apple draws attention to the iPhone and iPad maker's production in China in an engaging, solo performance
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 08:15AMThe 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, opened last night, October …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMYesterday, October 13, 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. Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMIf this first 24-hour performance of Sixty-Six Books felt like a pilgrimage for those of us who witnessed every second, it must have seemed even more so for the team at the Bush Theatre. Aft…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:05AMFrank Langella. Is there any other actor who can portray Gregor Antonescu, the vile financier, a man with no conscience, a man who is as charming as can be on the surface but hiding the ma…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:04AMPeacock theatre, LondonA while into Shaun Parker's dancework Happy as Larry you start asking: just how happy was Larry anyway? For although programme and publicity suggest that the piece is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 17 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Contract is union's first on urban circuit -- Legit thesps' union Actors Equity Association and David E. Talbert Presents, the company that has produced a string of stage offerin…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Show starring Jackson, Bassett opened Thursday -- Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" opened Thursday -- and helmer Kenny Leon is already headed into rehearsals for his next Broadw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMMike Daisey's accidental eulogy to the late Apple CEO fuses personal narrative and journalistic storytelling to create a captivating and relevant evening of theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
A spate of plays dealing with religious oppression in the country is a reminder that we can take years to process collective traumaTowards the end of Irish Theatre Magazine's annual internat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMNYC’s longest running all-clown variety show is back for its 5th Season! As seen in American Theater,The Village Voice Choice, New York Times, The Villager, Spectacle Magazine, Variety…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:39AMDaphne Pollard (born Daphne Trott today in 1892) is best known as a recognizable (if tiny) figure from the Hal Roach stock company, including several Laurel and Hardy films (as Mrs. Hardy). …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:29AMHere’s something you don’t see every day…or every half century for that matter. An archive has recently turned up Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 play Exorcism , long tho…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:15AMI was up in Ithaca, New York over the weekend, and we chanced to pass by the local demonstration in support of Occupy Wall Street. There were only a couple of dozen people there (it was rain…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:11AMWalking around Broadway, it is bad enough, of course, that most musical titles are revivals (Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Chicago, Follies and Godspell, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AM
Broadway veteran Will Chase delivered the National Anthem prior to the New York Giants vs. Buffalo Bills game at the MetLife Stadium on Sunday, October 16.
The performer's Broadway cre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:24AMAnd this is why it's important to continue the democratization of communication.Cell phone videos, YouTube, Vimeo, iMovie - these tools allow us to shine light on what was once a hidden secr…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMThe tragedy of this lavish, ebullient production of Hairspray is how the muddy, uneven, out of balance, sloppy sound on opening night fatally sabotaged the energy, enthusiasm, theatrical sk…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:06AMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the Tony Award winning musical from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the co-creator of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez will be featured on SiriusXM's ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMPlaywrights Horizons will present its popular benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES Dirty Laundry on Monday evening, October 17.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMLIVING FOR TODAY, with musical direction by Nate Patten, and direction by David Alpert, will play a one-night-only engagement at the newly renovated Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street, New York,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMBeyond the Music, a new musical with original book and direction by Tony Award winner Andy Sandberg Hair The Last Smoker in America and a fresh and exhilarating pop-rock score by multiple Em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now playing at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street, will welcome Eric Stang to the role of Jerry Lee Lewis starting Monday, October 17.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the Tony Award winning musical from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and the co-creator of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez will be featured on SiriusXM's ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMFountain House, an internationally recognized organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with mental illness, will present a staged reading of Daughter of the Queen of Sh…
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Another side benefit of my weekend sojourn in Ithaca – -I got to see this swell exhibition Roman,s Exploits & Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca, organized by the Ithaca Motio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:56AMCompany offers enlightening tour
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performances.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:35AMSlight verbal mayhem ensues when Elaine May interviews filmmakers and fellow playwrights Ethan Coen and Woody Allen. Of course, she could have made the whole thing up....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30AMThe sharp, short play that opened Friday at the Repertory
Theater of St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:30AMRace figures heavily into this charming and deftly written play about a reverse-discrimination lawsuit, but the big issues ultimately take a back seat to a twisty, somewhat implausible fam…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:18AMIt's curious that Curio Theatre wasn't too intimidated by the Wilma Theater's 2008 production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice to produce it itself. That earlier version, with its Barrymore-winning …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:02AMThere was that season where we had two Wild Partys. We’re about to have two Titus Andronicuses, too: one at Seth Duerr’s Access Theatre (now through Oct. 29), the other at the Pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMI didn't take any time off this summer, so last week I compensated myself for my excessive industry by spending...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJo Stafford sings "The Gentleman Is a Dope":...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Anselm's first surprise on entering religious life was to discover the monastery contained ordinary human beings alarmingly similar to one...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFew shows are trickier to keep on the tracks than "Pippin," one of the mercifully limited number of Broadway musicals set in the eighth century. "Pippin," which dates back to 1972, is a trul…
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SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMMeticulously clothed. Concentrating on getting exactly what he wants. Even if it means baiting the homosexual Herries with his own son
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMWhen I last saw "Mary Poppins," in early 2009, the first national tour was brand new. After a rehearsal process that took place entirely in Chicago, the stage-musical version of the movie-mu…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMPeople of a certain age have fond memories of “Mary Poppins.” Today’s youngsters, many of who have probably never seen the movie, have the Broadway musical version which attempts to de…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:13AMHEDY WEISS: Few have entertained more elaborate fantasies than those conjured by Don Quixote. But even he would have to admit that the beguiling reality of the Joffrey Ballet’s new full-le…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:09AMComa UnpluggedCunningham and HunterThe Gentleman Caller of this title is a handsome young man who comes to visit an aged, ragged, virtually ruined Tennessee Williams and bring him back to hi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMMark Rylance returns to the West End in his Olivier and Tony-winning performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre—where the play originally r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe fourth annual Living For Today concert, entitled First Name Basis and hosted by Chris Blisset, is held Oct. 17 at 7 PM at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award winner Bill Irwin, Tony nominee John Tartaglia and Joey Arias celebrate Cheryl Henson during the New 42nd Street's second annual New Victory Arts Award gala Oct. 17 at the New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Lillias White, Tony nominee Forrest McClendon, Lawrence Clayton and Nikki Crawford lead the cast of the new musical The Countess of Storyville, which is presented in three …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDonna Bullock, Emily Padgett, Bryce Ryness and Saycon Sengbloh lead the Oct. 17 and 18 New York City readings of Beyond the Music, a new musical about the underbelly of the music indust…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe downtown experimental theatre company La Mama etc honors Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard with the first-ever Ellen Stewart Award, named in honor of the late La MaMa founder…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIrish American Writers & Artists Inc. honor Ciarán O'Reilly and Charlotte Moore, co-founders of Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre, with the Eugene O'Neill Lifetim…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe fourth annual Living For Today concert, entitled First Name Basis and hosted by Chris Blisset, is held Oct. 17 at 7 PM at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Joan Allen (Burn This), forthcoming Funny Girl star Lauren Ambrose, Dan Futterman (Angels in America) and David Aaron Baker (The Merchant of Venice) star in a staged readin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMeet house carpenter Charlie Rasmussen, the oldest active member of Local One of IATSE.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPerformers bringing short works to life for Playwrights Horizons' annual Stories on 5 Stories benefit on Oct. 17 include Dana Ivey, Parker Posey, Campbell Scott, Josh Hamilton, two-time …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presents Super Shaw 2011, which is billed as "a lively and irreverent evening of George Bernard Shaw," Oct. 17 at The Players Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMProspect Theater Company celebrates the release of the original cast recording of its 2010 Off-Broadway production of John Gregor's With Glee with a concert of the musical Oct. 17 at 7:3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHal David, who penned the lyrics to Broadway's Promises, Promises, will be honored with a musical tribute, in celebration of his 90th birthday, Oct. 17 at the Music Center of Los Angeles…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, continues Oct. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMI always told myself that when I hit fifty I was going to discover opera, not just casually but full force: studying the composers, learning Italian, maybe even buying a cape. It seemed like…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMMartin Luther King, Jr., may have had a dream, but it was not to be the subject of a Broadway show. Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop” (directed by Kenny Leon, at the Bernard …
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LCT3 presents a new play by Julia Brownell, …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM 
