Stephanie J. Block will join the company of the Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes as Reno Sweeney for a period in November while star Sutton Foste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56PMStephanie J. Block will temporarily take over the leading role in Anything Goes in November. Sutton Foster, who won a Tony Award for her performance as Reno Sweeney in the revival, is taking…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:37PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director is pleased to announce Stephanie J. Block will join the Tony Award winning company of Anything Goes performing the role of Reno Swee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36PMLegit Reviews: When is a play not a play? When it's an aria, and in the case of John Osborne's 1964 drama "Inadmissible Evidence," a two-and-a-half-hour mad scene.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:25PMLegit Reviews: If you plan to attend Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," you might want to prepare an essay for the benefit of your friends and family on the topic of "W…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17PMLegit News: Was actress on radio soaps, DJ -- Margaret Ruth Draper, an actress onstage and on radio and later a DJ, died of natural causes on Oct. 14. She was 94.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:02PMEthnic stereotypes no longer amuse or edify us.
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Roundabout Theatre Company announced Oct. 19 that Stephanie J. Block will join the Tony Award-winning revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes for a limited engagement next month when she …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59PMOn October 21st, Silent Street Productions will kick off it's 20112012 season with a staged reading of Mixtape, a new musical by Zoe Sarnak.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50PMI imagine most of we theatergoers have traveled enough to realize that a bus, like many other modes of transportation, can sometimes be a helpful conveyance, while at other times it may expe…
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:44PMAt an intimate reception tonight in the lobby of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty, leaders of the theater and of Dance Alloy Theater announced the two arts organizations will merg…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 09:39PMThe Castillo Theatre will hold its 2011 annual gala benefit entitled, WOMEN ONSTAGE, on Monday, November 7th at the All Stars Project, 543 West 42nd Street between 10th amp 11th Avenue at 63…
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SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:05PMLeaders of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty and of Dance Alloy Theater announced tonight that the two arts organizations will merge, the product of months of planning and discussi…
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On Saturday, October 22 at 9pm, MOVIES ON THE RADIO - WQXR's Saturday evening program devoted to film music, produced and hosted by David Garland - will present the exclusive premiere of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:53PMThird annual Gregory Awards were presented Oct. 17.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:40PMExclusive: Kirstie Alley–newly slimmed down, but still a dieting Scientologist–is planning a Broadway debut. I’m told that Kirstie has agreed to do a three month run in a n…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:35PMZombies walk the Earth and feast on the living. An unlikely band of strangers put their differences aside to survive the bloody onslaught. It’s been done — maybe even overdone. However, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:16PMtheater OPENING A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE. Profiles Theatre presents Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic play about a mysterious man who has been searching for his missing left hand for decades. D…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:08PMMichael Estwanik, president and founder of The American Songbook Project, announced today the judging panel for the "Name That Tune" costume gala benefit to be held at the historic Hudson Th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:00PMKarole Armitage's dances mix ballet technique and pop attitudes. It's a mix that made her name in the 1980s, when she was nicknamed the "punk ballerina". Her company still dance with precisi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMYou can't accuse the Bush Theatre of failing to do its bit by the Bible. Back in the spring, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James version, it sent audiences off on selectiv…
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Hello again, Broadwayworld It's Lourds Lane, bookmusiclyrics writer of CHIX 6, and also performing as the violin playing misfit, RISE, in the show. We've had 3 weeks of shows and it's clear …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMNazis and Communists. Okay, I’ve gotten your attention. Happily, Toronto-based playwright Hannah Moscovitch is far more subtle about such matters. She has titled her two one-acts “East o…
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visible sign of their Cardinal spirit - an enormous banner, draped
across the front of Powell Symphony Hall this afternoon, just in…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:46PMIn a major events coup for Victoria, the Minister for Tourism and Major Events Louise Asher today joined Global Creatures at auditions for King Kong, to announce that the world premiere and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMWatching Thomas Ostermeier's production of Hedda Gabler - the first of his works I've seen - was unexpectedly fascinating. Through directors such as Benedict Andrews, a stablemate of Osterme…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:34PMAccording to People.com, WAR HORSE star Peter Hermann and wife Mariska Hargitay have just adopted their second child- a baby boy named Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMSo if you're thinking of catching one of the major, must-see fall shows in Chicago — I'm talking "Red" at the Goodman Theatre, "Clybourne Park" at the Steppenwolf Theatre and "Follies"…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Beauty of the Father" by Urban Theatre ★★½ and "Pluto Is Listening" ★★ by InFusion Theatre Company
KERRY REID reviews "Beauty of the Father" by Ur…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMEvery so often, I encounter a new score that captures my ear and imagination, and I find I myself listening to it ad infinitum. There’s something about the way the words and music hit…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 06:16PMHeidi Waleson reviews the new Michael Grandage production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni," conducted by Fabio Luisi, at the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:12PMA live stage production of King Kong will receive its world premiere from Global Creatures at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in 2013.
Set in 1933 in New York City at the heigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel, who last appeared in the Broadway revival of Hair, is filming is first music video Oct. 23 in New York City and is inviting fans to be part of the ev…
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The Joffrey’s mastery of Yuri Possokhov’s stunningly athletic choreography is simply a joy to behold. But Don Quixote transcends technique; it’s also a flight of fancy, a noble fight f…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:58PMWoodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre will present Elaine Jackson's coming of age drama, Puberty Rites at the company's new temporary home at Castillo Theatre, October 27-Novem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:54PMHugh Jackman, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in The Boy from Oz and was later seen opposite Daniel Craig in A Steady Rain, will return to The Great White Way in his solo show,&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater presents Asuncion, a new comedy by Academy Award-nominee Jesse Eisenberg The Social Network which plays at The Cherry Lane Theatre 38 Commerce Street. The off…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMWHAT 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 SUGGES…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:48PMWhen an American businessman travels to China in hopes of drumming up contracts for his signage company, he has a lot to learn about the subtleties of doing business in the country, not to m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMFour-time Tony Award-winner Zoe Caldwell will star in David Adjmi's Elective Affinities, to be presented by Soho Rep, piece by piece productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory at an Upper…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:43PMChristian-pop singer Sandi Patty, known for her soulful belting soprano in gospel and pops concerts, will play Dolly Levi in a semi-staged concert version of Hello, Dolly! with the Indianapo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMIt is time to stop hanging crepe for the death of commercial Off-Broadway theater. A pulse has been located -- in fact, more than one.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:35PMBets between mayors of the opposing cities on the outcome of the
World Series are a longstanding tradition. This year, though,
there’s a wager between the general directors of the local op…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:33PMTony Award-winner Zoe Caldwell will welcome audiences for tea, sandwiches and lady fingers in the Soho Rep site-specific production of David Adjmi's Elective Affinities, which will begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:31PMSteven Cupo, Nikki M. James, Constantine Maroulis, Heather Raffo, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega will be among the featured performers in QUILT - A Musical Celebration and Reflection on 30 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PM on Thirteen: Fri., October 21st at 1:30 AM (Note special time) on CUNY TV: Sat., October 22nd at 8:30 PM Sun., October 23rd at 12:30 PM and Mon., October 24th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 P…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:23PMJay Hunter Morris will sing the title role in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's Siegfried which opens on October 27 and continues with performances on Nov…
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SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:22PMOur 2011 Season Previewis now online! Click here to watch
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 05:21PMAt TCG Circle, I ask, "What if . . . theatres played Moneyball?"Then I dig deeper by asking, “What if, instead of relying on gut reactions and chemistry, we figured out a way to descr…
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SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:15PMDangling in front of a balcony at the Foxwoods TheatreAfter all the press brouhaha about Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark for thesemany years, and the vituperative reviews from most of the mains…
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PMA Girl Called Vincent, a new musical that is billed as a "theatrical song cycle inspired by the poetry and writings of Edna St. Vincent Millay," begins performances Oct. 19 in the …
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SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMDoes it have a plot? Hardly. Does it leave questions unanswered? Yes. Is the dialogue derivative? Yes. Is there any hope for the characters? Not really. Is the play therefore depressing? Not…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's theater division, which has enjoyed big success with productions like "The Lion King," has commissioned its first original Broadway show, a prequel to "…
SOURCE: Reuters at 04:43PMSamuel L. Jackson is portraying the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Katori Hall's new drama The Mountaintop, and the Oscar nominee had plenty of enthusiastic topic…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMAlas, in this outing, the provocative thesis of L’École des femmes is only superficially addressed. The result is a neutered production
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMA new small commercial slow from MapKap Productions is slated to make its Midwest premiere in January at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:45PMHere's a really positive outcome of the recent Play Submissions conversation on the blogosphere and on Twitter hashtags #NEWPLAY & #2AMT: An open working group has formed to develop an i…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 03:39PMActress, dancer, and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade has been added to the list of honorees for the Castillo Theatre's annual gala, entitled Women Onstage, to be held at All Stars Pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMSilent Street Productions will kick off its 2011-12 season with a private staged reading of Mixtape, a new musical by Zoe Sarnak, Oct. 21.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMNoel Coward didn't spend all his time examining the foibles of the witty rich. In Peace in Our Time, he also imagined what might have happened in England if it had been taken over by the Naz…
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Producers said Wednesday that “Peter and the Starcatcher,” the first play commissioned by Disney, will be staged in the sprin…
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SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:26PMA prequel to "Peter Pan" is flying to Broadway. Producers Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Greg Schaffert said Wednesday that "Peter and the Starcatcher," the first play commissioned by Disney , will b…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:20PMDog Day cable box.The Good Book on stage.Lots of Sarah Ruhl on this rainy-day-play list.A tribute to Mike Daisey from his director.Speaking of Daisey, these comments are getting ugly.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:15PMThe producers of Peter and the Starcatcher announced today that the acclaimed new American play by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Drama Desk Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMGrammy Award winning composer Mike Stoller will receive Chapman University's 30th Annual American Celebration Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award. It will be presented to him at a bl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Disney's prequel to "Peter Pan" is flying to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:13PMAs part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries events happening across the country in October, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will host an editathon for Wikipedians and researcher…
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SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PMProducers of Seminar have announced a special contest for tickets to the exclusive final dress rehearsal of the upcoming Broadway play by Theresa Rebeck.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMJust-opened productions and new previews drove a boffo Broadway sales surge through the week ending October 16. With 26 shows now playing, ticket sales for the frame totaled $21,328,673 &mda…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:49PMANPF 2011 performances begin Wednesday, October 19, at 8 p.m. and close Sunday, October 23, with the 2 p.m. matinee.Congratulations to this year's winning playwrights, who are in town for th…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:47PMThe world premiere production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons has extended at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre for a second time. The play will now run through November 20 instead of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announce the eleventh round of recipients for the New Generations Program, a grant initiative originally designed …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:46PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre will honor esteemed stage actress Patti LuPone with the company's third Stephen Sondheim Award. The award, established in 2009 in honor of America's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMCreated stitch by loving stitch, The AIDS Memorial Quilt remains an uplifting symbol of hope and a stirring memorial to lives cut short from the ongoing disease, which has become a major sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMWriters' Theatre has announced casting for its production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, to run November 8-March 25. Ron OJ Parson will direct.
In the play, when Aston brings D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:37PMTomorrow night is the official opening of Roundabout Theatre Company’s New York Premiere of Stephen Karam’s new play Sons of the Prophet, directed by Peter DuBois. The cast features Yuse…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:34PMThe Broadway cast of Relatively Speaking, the trio of new one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, is filled with comedy veterans, many of whom honed their timing in film and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMTony Award nominee Cathy Rigby takes flight in an all-new production of Peter Pan
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33PMOn Monday, November 14, the internationally acclaimed revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO celebrates another major milestone with its 15th ann…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMAndrew Knott was scarcely into his teens when the actor, 32 next month, appeared as Dickon in the 1993 screen retelling of The Secret Garden, starring Maggie Smith. Nearly two decades later,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PMTwo-time Tony winner Patti LuPone will receive the third annual Stephen Sondheim Award from the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. The award, given annually to an individual for his o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:27PMJoan Stein and Richard Frankel, are presenting Standing on Ceremony The Gay Marriage Plays, featuring Tony Award-nominee and Theatre World Award winner Craig Bierko The Music Man, Daytime Em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMRobert Lopez is joining Trey Parker and Matt Stone, his collaborators on the Tony-winning smash hit The Book of Mormon, to co-write an episode of Parker and Stone's long-running an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PMPeter and the Starcatcher, the imaginative stage adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's prequel to the tale of Peter Pan, which was seen Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Works…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMVineyard Theatre announced a second extension for its world-premiere production of Nicky Silver's play The Lyons, now to Nov. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMThe Broadway company of the hit Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus musical Mamma Mia!, which opened Oct. 18, 2001, marked its 10th anniversary Oct. 18 with a performance and celebration …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A recently discovered manuscript by Eugene O'Neill that's based on a suicide attempt by the playwright has been acquired by a library at Yale University....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:21PMRoger Rees and Alex Timbers will once again direct Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher, when the play with music makes its Broadway debut in Spring 2012 at a theater to be announced.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:21PMBarbican, LondonLucinda Childs's DANCE was created 32 years ago, and watching its revival now is to see it as one of the blindingly seminal collaborations of its era. Childs, commissioning h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMThe songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, whose latest project A Christmas Story, The Musical! launches a five-city tour in November, are the recipients of the 2011 Songwriter&rsqu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMJayce Johnson has the title role in the Hartt School’s Music Theatre production of the Stephen Schwartz-Roger O. Hirson musical “Pippin,” playing Thursday, Oct. 27, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PMTim Albery's production of Wagner's opera is utilitarian and functional, having purged Wagner's opera of any 19th-century German Romanticism
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMPeter and the Starcatcher, a Peter Pan prequel adapted from the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson novel of the same name, will open on Broadway at a yet-to-be-determined theater in spring 2012. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMPeter and the Starcatcher, a Peter Pan prequel adapted from the Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson novel of the same name, will open on Broadway at a yet-to-be-determined theater in spring 2012. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMIn celebration of the 10th anniversary milestone, the MAMMA MIA company treated fans in Times Square to an encore performance in the streets following the curtain call, before heading to an…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMBaritones Andrew Garland and Joshua Jeremiah, soprano Corinne Winters, and mezzo soprano Liza Forrester will join singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright for the previously reported New York City…
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SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:07PMHARTFORD, Conn. - A recently discovered manuscript by Eugene O'Neill that is based on a suicide attempt by the...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:06PMThe Equal Rights Amendment might itself be amended to include the trend-bucking Betty Buckley who doesn't just ask why a woman can't sing the songs of a man, but goes ahead and sings them an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:06PMWhile Anna Netrebko might be the opera world's fast-rising "it" girl of the moment, unexpected drama came elsewhere during Tuesday night's staging of the Metropolitan Opera's season-starting…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:06PMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for The American Songbook Project's Name That Tune costume gala to be held at the Hudson Theatre on November 4.
Liz Smith will h…
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Alexander Pushkin’s cautionary tale of avarice and deceit gets colourful treatment in this enjoyable adaptation by Fusebox Productions. This Queen of Spades dispenses with the spare, subtl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMWriter-producer Norman Corwin has died, according to published reports. He was 101.
Corwin wrote and directed two plays on Broadway: The Rivalry, which revisited the Lincoln-Douglas debat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMTony nominee Charlotte d'Amboise and John O'Hurley will return to Chicago as Roxie Hart and Billy Flynn, respectively, on November 1 at the Ambassador Theatre. They will be joined by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMTheatre company Paines Plough are working on a bold new auditorium that promises to take travelling theatre farther than ever before. James Grieve and George Perrin explainFor the first time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMThe Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre will present two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone with the company's third Stephen Sondheim Award at the company's annual fundraising gala April…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMCongratulations to MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical! This past weekend the U.S. national tour kicked off in (where else?!) Memphis, Tennessee.
The celebration con…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:37PMMamma Mia!, here we go again—for the 4,159th time! As the curtain rose at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre Oct. 18, the hit musical marked its tenth year on Broadway, complete wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMMamma Mia!, here we go again—for the 4,159th time! As the curtain rose at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre Oct. 18, the hit musical marked its tenth year on Broadway, complete wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMEllen Carr opens the door and the imagination on the theatrical delights and delicacies of one of the UK's finest seaside resorts and cultural hubs. Welcome to Brighton!
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:35PMVan Bramer has provided $200,000 which will include a renovation of the Ethel Merman Auditorium.
SOURCE: The Queens Gazette at 12:35PMOn Tuesday, November 1, John O'Hurley will return to the role of Billy Flynn, Charlotte d'Amboise will once again play Roxie Hart, and Bahiyah Sayyed Gaines will co-star as Velma K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMEncompass New Opera Theatre will present A Musical Salute!, honoring and celebrating the music of Tony Award winner Marvin Hamlisch, Nov. 20 at the National Arts Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMCharlotte Stoudt talks to rising star Patrick Adams about "Luck," "Suits" and his upcoming return to the L.A. stage in "Nine Circles" at the Bootleg Theater
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:29PMAccording to published reports, stage veterans Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune, Elaine Paige, Janie Dee, Maria Friedman and Marvin Hamlisch will perform in a Kander amp Ebb gala tribute on April 24…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMThe celebrated Ealing comedy The Ladykillers comes to life on stage this autumn in a new adaptation by Graham Linehan, directed by Sean Foley. Extra members are invited to a post-show talk w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMThe long-running, Tony-winning revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago will celebrate its 15th year on Broadway Nov. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMThe long-running, Tony-winning revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago will celebrate its 15th year on Broadway Nov. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMMultimedia dance work Eight Ways from Mara points the path toward self-enlightenment.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:18PMPatti LuPone has been named as the recipient of the Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre's third annual Stephen Sondheim Award. It will be presented to her at the company's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical congratulate their composerlyricist team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul on receiving the 2011 Songwriter's Fellowship Award.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMThe Musical Mondays series — which presents cabaret evenings in the lobby of the historic Pantages Theatre — will continue Dec. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMEver wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Christian Delcroix, currently appearing as Young Buddy in the revival of Follies, offers Pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMAccording to published reports, Broadway veteran and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will guest star in the season premiere of the fourth season of NURSE JACKIE. His character is des…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMThe New York Pops opened its 2011-2012 Carnegie Hall season with Irving Berlin: Rags to Ritzes, on October 14. The event was conducted by Jack Everly and featured performances by Ashley Brow…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMI suppose I should have started this series of blogs when I visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last spring. That venue is certainly one of America's greatest venues for…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMUSArtists International (USAI) is committed to ensuring that the impressive range of expression of the performing arts in the United States is represented abroad, and that the creative and p…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMMariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann have adopted a baby boy, according to a report on People.com. The couple have two other children.
Hargitay is best known for her starring role as Olivia …
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On Tuesday, October 18, Mamma Mia! celebrated it's 10th year on Broadway. After the show, there was an outdoor performance on the street in front of the Winter Garden Theatre complete w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMThe fall releases from Masterworks Broadway, drawing from a deep vault of recordings held by Sony, include reissues of studio recordings of Babes in Arms and Shuffle Along and Blackbirds of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMFountain House, an internationally recognized organization dedicated to improving the lives of people living with mental illness, last night hosted a staged reading of Daughter of the Queen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMLast night (19 October 2011) Whatsonstage.com theatregoers enjoyed the West End premiere of Beatles-based musical Backbeat adapted for the stage by Iain Softley who wrote and directed the 19…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:52AM Thursday, November 3 at 6:00pm, and Friday, November 4 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm, at The Snapple Centre, 1627 Broadway.Amas Musical Theatre will present <free staged readings of&nb…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 11:51AMElizabeth Stanley, Lauren Molina and Darren Ritchie will share Broadway Highlights with audiences at the Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island Nov. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe Tempest, the third production in the Trevor Nunn Season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, will have its final performance on 29 October 2011 as previously announced. A final, additional mi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMThe actor’s brain injury guides his performance in “Sons of the Prophet” Welcome to Building Character, TDF STAGES ‘ongoing series about actors and how they create th…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:42AMRather like the high-octane escapades of the title character in Penny Gunter’s new play Dorian’s Second Life, one-man shows are inherently risky. Sharing the stage with nothing other tha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:41AMAdditional guests have been announced for the talkback series "To Be Continued…" which follows performances of Judy Gold's solo performance at the DR2 Theatre, The Judy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMPop star and Broadway vet Nick Jonas, who will join the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in January, is happily immersing himself in the NYC theater scene. On October…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMOpening on Sunday 13 November, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne are bringing their C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord production of Fragments, from five of Samuel Beckett’s …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 11:37AMCarson Kressley's enthusiasm for his ballroom dance routines couldn't make up for his lack of technical ability, and last night, the fashion maven was the latest star to get the boot from AB…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMBob Balaban, Bobby Cannavale, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Chris Rock, Cynthia Rowley and Kristen Wiig will be among the participants in Celebrity Charades 2011: Down and Derby, to be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMTony Award-winning Book of Mormon star Nikki M. James will take part in Amas Musical Theatre's free reading of A Good Man, which will be offered Nov. 3 and 4 at the Snapple Theater Cente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMIs there nothing in life more rewarding and simultaneously frustrating than your family? If you’ve ever had your mother call at inconvenient moments and when she asks, “How is everything…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:24AMChichester's Festival 2011 closes with Sweeney Todd, the musical commonly acknowledged to be Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, in a cast led by distinguished musical performer Michael Ball and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMIn a time when protesters are occupying Wall Street and everybody is questioning our country’s financial system, Horse Trade Theater Group will present the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival h…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:18AMJulien's Auctions will present a collection from Tony Award winner Bette Midler, containing over 300 items from her life and career, which will be auctioned Nov. 12 in Beverly Hills, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMLast night (19 October 2011) Whatsonstage.com theatregoers enjoyed the West End premiere of Beatles-based musical Backbeat adapted for the stage by Iain Softley who wrote and directed the 19…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:14AMCenter 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 11:14AMOn October 19th several of Broadway's greatest stars will be sharing their talents in the name of supporting Cancer research and patient care at a special benefit produced by EMMY Award-Winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMIn honor of the 10th Anniversary of Mamma Mia! on Broadway, the Empire State Building was lit blue, pink and white during an Oct. 18 lighting ceremony.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMThe morning after one of his new shows opened, Hal Prince always held a production meeting for his next show. It always kept him moving forward, and never allowed him to bask in the glory if…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe previously reported new stage musical of King Kong, the sci-fi adventure melodrama about the giant ape who is exploited by showmen and falls in love with a blonde beauty, will get its wo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Hocka-TWO!
The cast, creative, and producing team of the National Tour wish the Broadway cast a happy two year anniversary!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMCheck out the cast of All-American play some football!
All-American
A new play by Julia Brownell
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Playing at the Duke at 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street project
Octo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:57AMCelina Carvajal, Allison Case, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Janet Dacal, Madeleine Doherty, Daniel Everidge, Autumn Hurlbert, Aaron Lazar, Steven Reineke, Darren Ritchie, Jessica Rush, Jason Mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AM“the best one-person show we’ve seen in many a year.” The Theater of the First Amendment’s latest offering—Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones—is a virtual blast …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThe Tony Award-winning rock musical Memphis, authored by Tony winners Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, celebrates its second anniversary on Broadway Oct. 19 at the Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMThe Butler Baker trailer
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Introducing the Butler Baker Project - the dynamic duo from the 2008 London production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:38AMWashington, D.C.— The Ford’s Theatre Society hosted a private reception in honor of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at the historic Ford’s Theatr…
SOURCE: fords.org at 10:36AM“Why does anyone ever have kids?” By the time that a character in April De Angelis’s new comedy utters this exasperated exclamation, there are many in the audience — whether parents …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:34AMOn October 19th several of Broadway's greatest stars will be sharing their talents in the name of supporting Cancer research and patient care at a special benefit produced by EMMY Award-Winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMMasterworks Broadway has announced some recordings that it will re-release digitally and as disc-on-demand.
The company will issue a new release of the 1985 Follies in Concert recording in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMDays after Katori Hall's The Mountaintop receives Broadway premiere, off-Broadway Kraine theatre hosts musical MartinA new musical about the life of Martin Luther King opens in New York toni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMTony Award and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline will join Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for the second installment of the company's Classic Conversations se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AM"3rd Rock From The Sun" actor French Stewart will host the 2010-2011 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards ceremony Nov. 14 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMGroup of Connecticut students objected to two male actors kissing on stage during visiting production of Zanna, Don't!A musical shown in Connecticut high schools as part of an anti-bullying …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMMonty Python's Spamalot will play a four-week Christmas season at Brighton's Theatre Royal, beginning Dec. 15, before embarking on another extensive U.K. tour that kicks off in Liver…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMSharon Gless is best known for her role as Detective Christine Cagney in Cagney & Lacey, and then to another generation in the American version of Queer as Folk and currently in the dram…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:08AMTony Award winner Robert Lopez will contribute to the October 26 episode of South Park, according to The New York Times.
The long-running animated series on Comedy Central is co-created an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AMLast night (19 October 2011) Whatsonstage.com members turned out in force to see the West End premiere of Beatles-based musical Backbeat adapted for the stage by Iain Softley who wrote and d…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:03AMBroadwayWorld.com has learned that the big, unnamed Broadway star is none other than Tony-winner and BroadwayWorld fave Kristin Chenoweth. The star is set to perform on BOTH nights of the hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMJanie Dee, Maria Friedman, Marvin Hamlisch, and Chita Rivera are scheduled to take part in a concert honoring John Kander and Fred Ebb, to be held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on April 24…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMIt helps if you start by acknowledging that you don't know exactly what people want. I mean sure you may know the basics, that people want to be treated with respect, that they enjoy good cu…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AMExplore the ways in which technology is influencing community building in the arts. This is a Creative Conversation hosted by the Foundation Center-San Francisco and presented in partnership…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMThe Broadway star talks about her starring role in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical, Queen of the Mist.
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Encompass New Opera Theatre will honor Oscar winner and Tony Award winner Marvin Hamlisch at their annual gala on at 6pm on Sunday, November 20 at the National Arts Club.
Performing songs f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMEverybody LOVES Priscilla!
For more information on PRISCILLA, please visit http://www.priscillaonbroadway.com/
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:51AMThe third season of Upright Cabaret's American Icon Series will kick off Nov. 6 at 7:30 PM with an evening entitled Heart and Soul.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMThe longlist has been announced for this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, which will be announced on 20 November 2011.
Among the names in the ring for the acting awards are Jam…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:47AMUncle Floyd and his partner Oogie Today is the birthday of “Uncle” Floyd Vivino (b. 1951). One of my most cherished features of his famous tv show was the moment when he read the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:40AMLegit News: Musical to feature score by Marius de Vries -- Global Creatures, the team behind the successful live adaptation of the BBC's "Walking with Dinosaurs" docu, has announced its King…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AMMindy Kaling, Patton Oswalt, and J.K. Simmons, and James Van Der Beek are among the actors set to participate in a live reading of the 1985 John Hughes classic The Breakfast Club at 7:30pm o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMJoan Allen, Lauren Ambrose, David Aaron Baker, and Dan Futterman took part in a reading of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on Monday, October 17.
Wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMWhile Hugh Jackman warms up to star in the film version of Les Miserables, a host of theatre actors are preparing to be part of Les Miserables: Unplugged, which will play The Coterie in Los …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AMA new 350-seat theatre is being planned to replace the West End’s Astoria, which was demolished in 2009.
The theatre is part of a new planning application to revamp the area around To…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:02AMTroubadour Theater Company will present its newest mash-up, A Christmas Westside Story, at the Falcon Theatre, November 30 - January 15. Matt Walker will direct the production.
The show fu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
Michael Riedel reports in today's New York Post that producers of FOLLIES on Broadway had been trying to convince the Nederlanders to allow the show to extend past its current January 22, 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59AMIt’s not every young playwright who makes her New York debut at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Or who has that play directed by the hot- director-of-the-moment Sam Gold. Or designed by …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMCast members from Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Death Takes a Holiday reunited to perform and sign copies of the musical's newly released cast recording on Tuesday, Oc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AMThe Butler Baker Project - Lee Mead, part 2
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A video blast from the past... More from Any Dream Will Do Winner Lee Mead (Joseph) as Russell Walker and Adam P…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:45AMThe Butler Baker Project - Lee Mead
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A video blast from the past... In the first of a series of video blogs from the 2007 London production of Joseph and the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:43AMAmy Sedaris will join the cast of CBS' The Good Wife, according to a report on TVGuide.com. She will play a lobbyist who starts stealing the clients of from Eli Gold, the character pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:36AMHeaded for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances in the musical Parade at Ford’s Theatre If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank – and the lynchi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AMAndrew and Ben Elton at The Boys in the Photograph rehearsals
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A video blast from the past... Andrew joined Ben Elton for rehearsals of The Boys In The Photograp…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:11AMRobert Lopez will help his "Book of Mormon" collaborators Trey Parker and Matt Stone write an episode of their animated series "South Park" that is planned for next week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMReview by Judd HollanderPhotos by Carol Rosegg
File this one under "B" for "Black Comedy" and "H" for "Hilarious" as playwright Bruce Graham uses his work Any Given Monday to put a delightfu…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 19 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Theater company's benefit set for Nov. 14 -- Kristen Wiig, Chris Rock, Bobby Cannavale and Philip Seymour Hoffman are among the performers on tap for the Labyrinth Theater Compan…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM
Andrew and Connie Fisher backstage
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Andrew Lloyd Webber pays a visit backstage to see How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? winner Connie Fisher (Maria) after T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:52AMLiz Duffy Adams' affectionate look at Aphra Behn's rise to public prominence, despite prejudice against her gender, comes off as a sort of farcical love letter to an ink-stained ancestor tha…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:50AMFrom Oedipus to the Oresteia, ancient plays are full of folk taking out their nearest and dearest – and the theme persists through the centuriesIs there a phenomenon more elusive to the st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMTomorrow night’s the big fund raising gala for the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT. They sustained heavy damage in a tornado a number of months backs and they’re seeking vital re…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AMExceptionally talented child stars make this take on the classic a must-see
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:30AMLee Mead, winner of the BBC "Any Dream Will Do" casting program for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat who subsequently played the title role in the West End and has sinc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:28AMChita Rivera, Janie Dee, Maria Friedman and Marvin Hamlisch are being lined up to appear as part of a special gala performance paying tribute to John Kander and Fred Ebb.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMWhen journalist Lawrence Wright took to the stage he began and ended his impassioned monologue, The Human Scale with footage about the young soldier Gilad…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:18AMAndrew and Arlene Phillips celebrate Starlight Express 20th Birthday
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A video blast from the past... On Sunday 15th June 2008, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Starlight …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:09AMLorna Luft, Tyne Daly and Leslie Uggams all coming to area theaters
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:01AMTony Award winners Christine Ebersole and Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform at a benefit for cancer research and patient care at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPM…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
DC’s Source Festival, which produces a dozen-and-a-half ten-minute plays each June to go along with full-length plays and productions from blended disciplines, seeks interested Source audi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:59AMThe Donmar's revival of John Osborne's rarely-seen 1964 play Inadmissible Evidence opened last night (18 October 2011, previews from 13 October), starring Douglas Hodge as a middle-aged lawy…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:41AMBy Bill Hirschman There is something inexplicably hilarious about people struggling to master the high technology of operating an automobile. One of the funniest comedy routines of the secon…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:26AMInspired 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 are ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:22AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:17AMInspired 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 are ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:12AM(H/T to the work of Coya Paz)...blame the victims for rape, poverty, and racism then claim victim status when they are subjected to the same. If HE trips over the rock, it's because HE…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:10AMIndie rock star Lourds Lane discusses her new Broadway-bound musical "Chix 6," currently playing at Queens Theatre in the Park (Flushing Meadow Corona Park) through October 29 as well as oth…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:00AM
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:51AMThe explosive growth of Philadelphia's theater scene has coincided with a rise in local new-play development. Internationally produced playwrights Michael Hollinger and Bruce Graham and Inte…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:02AMSo if you were in New York on Tuesday and had a nice view of the top of the Empire State Building, you might have noticed that the colors illuminating the building were blue, pink and white.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMNorman Corwin, who wrote verse dramas for network radio back in the days when such things were possible, has died...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMLuciana Souza records her setting of Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet 49" in 2003: (This is the latest in a weekly series...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The incredible has a habit of disrupting the parts of our lives to which we're most attached." William Brodrick, The...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMChinglish playwright David Henry Hwang once again takes Broadway’s Best Shows backstage for an exclusive look into the rehearsal process.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMWednesday, October 19, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - CHICAGO will welcome back "Seinfeld" and "Family Feud" star John O'Hurley to the role of Billy Flynn for a limited engagement…
SOURCE: 1843 at 01:00AMFrom cannabis to Christ: Filling the big sandals of Jesus, "Weeds" star Hunter Parrish has nothing but high praise for the company of Broadway's Godspell revival.
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The political landscape in The Normal Heart is still compelling, but 30 years later the tears are of pity, more than anger.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:24AMThe moment you have all been waiting for has arrived- the finalists have been revealed After surviving the auditions, boot camp, and now the judges' home round, the toughest competitors are …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16AMSoprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and her pianist/husband Serouj Kradjian don’t fret the chores on show day.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMDirector Diana Leblanc loves her “clear-eyed” vision of squabbling parents.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMFrom cannabis to Christ: Filling the big sandals of Jesus, "Weeds" star Hunter Parrish has nothing but high praise for the company of Broadway's Godspell revival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Bruce Norris about the changing face of a Chicago neighborhood, officially opens Oct. 19 at the Trinity Repertory Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKevin Spacey's turn as the "bunch-back'd toad," Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes and booked for international engagements in the coming months, plays the Curran Theatre …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award nominee Haley Joel Osment of "The Sixth Sense" and "Pay It Forward" plays opposite Broadway veteran Stephen Rowe in the resident Philadelphia production of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMD.B. Bonds and Burke Moses are nothing without each other in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of City of Angels, the sexy noir musical comedy about a mystery writer named Stine and his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing the September release of his new CD, "The Best of John Barrowman" — featuring songs from his previous albums, "Another Side," "Music Music Music"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA memorial for Price Berkley, the founder of Theatrical Index who died Aug. 21 at his home in Manhattan, will be held Oct. 19 at 5:30 PM at Sardi’s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHowl! Arts Project 2011 and The Actors Fund 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 12:00AMOne recent Broadway show and one that's still running will stop here as part of the 2012 Pittsburgh CLO season. "Come Fly Away" and "The Addams Family" tours join the first CLO production of…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMPaul Taylor didn't just help ignite the movement of American modern dance. Since the 1950s, he has kept it burning with choreography that colors outside the lines of classical movement (whil…
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