Karen O.'s new project "Stop The Virgens" is a fun rock show but falls short as new opera or contemporary performance.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:55PMTHE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, which played a record-breaking, sold out engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, will play a 26-week limited run at the Richard Rodgers Thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40PMFrank Langella brings authenticity to a quietly searing revival.
SOURCE: NorthJersey.com at 08:39PMThe unstoppable Eve Ensler is best known as an activist and playwright who has parlayed her tremendous success with “The Vagina Monologues” into a formidable one-woman political …
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:31PMWAITING FOR PINTER National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) takes a steampunk spin on The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter’s classic absurdist thriller. Director Andrew Pang makes grea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:31PMEve Ensler's newest show, Emotional Creature, will premiere in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Roda Theatre, running June 15 - July 15, 2012. Jo Bonney will direct the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:31PMTony Award-honored playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler announced on Oct. 21 that she will team with Berkeley Repertory Theatre to present the world premiere of her new play Emotion…
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Nina ArsenaultFinalists have been announced for the awards handed out by the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT).Though one English-language work is nominated in the t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:53PMI'm pleased naturally with the multiplicity of comments on my last post on the anti-Shakespeare movie, Anonymous. And I can't help notice that those who have sworn to defend the good n…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 07:46PMThe Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going back to producing five plays in 2012 — nine if you count "Women of Will," an extraordinary, five-part tour of Shakespeare's female characters…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:44PM‘TIS FOLLY TO OVERPRAISE FOLLIES The buzz in the lobby of Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) on opening night of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark 1971 musical Follies was palpable; people from…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:43PMFilm and stage superstar Hugh Jackman is getting ready to return to Broadway. NY1's Frank DiLella checked in with the Tony Award winner this past week to talk about his new show, "Hugh Jack…
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:40PMl-r Jeff Miller and Jonathan Wilson (Photo credit: John Karastamatis)Bring Tissues“…it’s not a civil right issue, it’s a contagion issue.” by Beat RiceThe Normal Heart is one …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:38PMCalling all Dr. Beverly Crusher fans! Here is a link to my interview with the lovely and charming Gates McFadden, now Artistic Director of the Ensemble Studio Theatre of Los Angeles (EST/LA)…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:32PMFor eight years now, Joel Greenberg’s Theatre 180 has been bringing us plays on urgent public subjects. They have divided into the documentary or quasi-documentary (The Laramie Project, St…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:30PMAlthough Adam Pascal is busy prepping for his return to Broadway in the Tony-winning musical Memphis, he took a break from rehearsals on October 20 to give fans a sneak peek of his performan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:27PMToday we begin a special series consisting of five entries total, each of which will highlight a different facet of the rich and wonderful world of William Shakespeare and all with a particu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26PMIn the final installment of Whole Lotta Shakin': The Rock 'n' Roll Icons of 'Million Dollar Quartet', Broadway.com zeroes in on the king of rock ‘n’ roll hims…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:25PMRoadkill, LondonAfter sell-out runs in Paris and Edinburgh, this is the first chance for Londoners to see the powerful, unnerving Roadkill which won an Amnesty International Freedom Of Expre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMNick Sun: Golden Showers Of Love, London & ManchesterWhile many comics love to give the impression that they're making it up as they go along – even when working to the strictest of pre-de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMReview: I don't know what takes more bravery: Asking someone on a blind date, or being asked to go on one. No, it's got to be this: Being asked on a blind date that will play out right then…
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Today we continue our special series consisting of five entries total, each of which highlight a different facet of the rich and wonderful world of William Shakespeare and all with a particu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMCHINGLISH is a new comedy 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMGates McFadden was a TV model at the age of five. Now that she's the artistic director of Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, she's able to express her feelings about highly pressured childhoods b…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PMThe world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING - three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, and directed by John Turturro - opened l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's New York Premiere of Stephen Karam's new play, Sons of the Prophet, opened last night, October 20. Directed by Peter DuBois, the cast features Yusef Bulos Bi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMSome of the dance at this year's Melbourne Festival has been full-on sensory overload. Hofesh Shechter's Political Mother hit like a sledgehammer, an avalanche of sound and imagery that stru…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:17PMAnother week has come and gone on the Great White Way, and as always Broadway.com scoured the recent crop of headlines to deliver you the most important lessons we learned in the last seven …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:09PMSneak Preview of Broadway's Godspell
Hunter Parrish, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, and the cast of the Broadway revival of 'Godspell' provide a sneak peek at the new production.
Fr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:08PMAs Adam Pascal (Rent, Aida) prepares to step into the role of Huey Calhoun in Broadway's Memphis, he stops by for a chat with Seth, who challenges him to perform "Music of the Night" with so…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PM"Relatively Speaking" -- the new Broadway omnibus production featuring three short plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May -- boasts more A-list writing talent per square foot than a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMMeet the Cast and Creative Team of Broadway's Chinglish
David Henry Hwang and Leigh Silverman discusses the highly-anticipated new Broadway comedy, 'Chinglish'
From:
theatermani…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:07PMThe first ten minutes of Roundabout's "Sons of a Prophet" did not fill my heart with glee. A flurry of major 'isms thrown about so fast it was hard to know what on earth Stephen Karam was ai…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:07PMErich Bergen, Wendy Fox, Jeremiah James, and Amanda McBroom were the initial guests for the new twice monthly series "I Saw Broadway" at Trattoria Dopo Teatro: Jonathan Brielle &am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PMPanel Discussion with the cast of Broadway's The Mountaintop
Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, director Kenny Leon, and playwright Katori Hall talk about Martin Luther King Jr. and Bro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:04PMIn just a few short years since his sensational debut in Lawrence Kasdans MUMFORD, rising star Jason Ritter has carved out an impressive indie resume - including noted standouts such as THE …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMCast Members talks about working on Broadway's Relatively Speaking
Marlo Thomas, Steve Guttenberg, Julie Kavner, and the cast of Broadway's 'Relatively Speaking' talk about …
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:03PMNick Jonas Joins How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The pop superstar discusses his return to Broadway in the hit revival of 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:01PMActor Helen Lederer is still mortified to recall the hungover breakfast TV interview when she couldn't think what to sayI don't know if it's the biggest mistake of my career, but I made a pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:01PMThe Mountaintop, a new play by young playright, Katori Hall, is largely bubbly and fun with plenty of swearing and even a pillow-fight. Therein lies the problem. The play is …
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 06:00PMCostume Designer Jess Goldstein talks about creating the costumes for the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Disney's Newsies.
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:00PM
The creative team talks about building a cinematic set and authentic costumes for the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Disney's Newsies.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:56PMThe playwright's rocky future was written into the fictional alchemy of his playJohn Osborne's Look Back in Anger, based on the story of his first failed marriage, is his most autobiographic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMCast members talk about how audiences have been receiving the revival of Rent.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:53PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Oct. 10-16, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $1,675,421
The Lion King (Minskoff Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:52PM"Saving Aimee," the revised Kathie Lee Gifford musical playing at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, offers an over-reverential portrait of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:51PMCast members from the new Off-Broadway production of Rent recall their initial brush with Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:50PMA better title for these one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen would be 'From Deep in the Drawer', writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:49PMDouglas Hodge gives one of the best performances of the year as Maitland, a self-loathing middle-aged lawyer, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:49PMThree ballets, part of the family silver, were on view, and shown with an engaging understanding of their qualities, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:49PMStage veteran Catherine Tate will return to NBC's The Office in February for a multi-episode arc that is expected to carry through to the remainder of the season, according to TVLine.co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMDoes SWAG and THEATRE belong in the same sentence? Is Theatre HIP enuf to include this type of terminology or should we stick to our REGULAR terms? Send your Video thoughts to us! Just recor…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:44PMThe Lion King opened yesterday at Teatro Lope de Vega in Madrid. It is the first time the show is performed completely in Spanish and BWW TV was there to catch the excitement and all the buz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, October 21, 2011 The Friday Broadway Ticker: click on hyperlinked items for more information PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT star Tony Sheldon on…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:28PMOn Twitter Watch, Michael Ball wrote Mr. Sondheim, Sir Cameron and Richard and Judy in tonight Chichester is show biz central tonight. Where's BigginsChichester's Festival 2011 closes with S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMSISTER ACT to Wendy Williams: How You Doin'?
SISTER ACT backstage with a special message for Wendy Williams!
For more information on SISTER ACT, get thee to http://www.sisteractbroadw…
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A very rare stage appearance by me in this years fest. A scene from the Pocahontas play within a play at the "savages" amusement park in The Invaders.
RtoL: Tony Adams, Tony…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:23PMIt may seem strange for me to say this, but the biggest influence on my work as a playwright is Peter Brook's The Empty Space and The Open Door. The Empty Space is one of the first books abo…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:14PMPRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL's Tony Award nominated star and original Australian leading man Tony Sheldon, will sit down live with NBC 4 Weekend Today in New York anchor Pat Bat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMNo UK opera house has dared to risk baroque's third man, Jean-Philippe Rameau, on its own stage – until now, writes Laura Battle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:07PMThe Kennedy Center stages a FREE PERFORMANCE 365 DAYS A YEAR on its Millennium Stage, featuring a wide variety of music, dance, and performance art. The Millennium Stage is designed to make …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:06PMLuca Ellis didn't move to LA with a plan to make it big as a crooner. But as he listened to more and more Sinatra recordings, he realized that he's got Sinatra under his skin and in his voic…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PMHugh 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 05:00PMChoreographed by Mark Godden, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Svengali features a mind-control master whose hypnotic powers are practically invisible in a production that’s strangely d…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMOpening VO's season with a gritty take on a popular musical is ‘not a slam dunk,’ says general director James Wright
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMAds target a hipper crowd with humorous references to extreme sports and adventurous eating
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
Swingin' Sexy Spoof of 1940s Hollywood and whodunit films. City of Angels is a jazzy, slick, stylish and smart musical comedy with dozens of jazzy tunes and lots of laughs. Missing it would …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:57PMSamuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, and Kenny Leon discuss Broadway's hit play The Mountaintop.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMLOVE, FONTANA, COMPASSION One of the joys of seeing theatre in New York City Off Broadway is that, every so often, you get to see a special star-of-the-future appear in the firmament and wat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PMHIS BRILLIANT CAREER (SO FAR) Still in his twenties, Santino Fontana has performed in quite a respectable number of productions that many actors would hope to accomplish in a life time: mo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PMDoris Duke Charitable Foundation Commits $50 Million to Support Individual Artists The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the launch of a ten-year, $50 million initiative designe…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:49PMThe 1971 flower-child musical Godspell -- a kooky rendering of the Scriptures as a sort of nouveau vaudeville show -- has started Broadway previews, and the kids on the boards are spilling a…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 04:43PMRe:Definition Written and performed by Glenn Gordon Directed by Chadwick Boseman Glenn has received the results of his African Ancestry DNA test. Now he must go on a journey to discover what…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:43PMThe lights were bright at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre on October 20 as the starry cast of Relatively Speaking celebrated its opening night. The show's three one-act pla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMPremiere Stages is committed to supporting emerging playwrights by developing and producing new plays. Through our Play Festival script competition, Premiere Stages offers developmental oppo…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:42PMGary Wilmes is an Ohio businessman in a foreign land in the Broadway production of Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's comedy Chinglish, which began previews Oct. 11 at the Longacre Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMSahr Ngaujah walks almost leisurely inside the Canon Theatre in downtown Toronto and takes a seat in the lobby. “Cool,” he responds when I ask how his day has been. Ngaujah is cool. The …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:37PMThe facilities division of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has been tapped to manage the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, the company announced this week.
The arena is scheduled to op…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:36PMThe fabulous Lypsinka, Tony Award-winner Alan Cumming CABARET, The Good Wife, and Tony nominees Alison Fraser SECRET GARDEN, ROMANCEROMANCE and Andrew Rannells BOOK OF MORMON are set to appe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMNY1's Roma Torre reviews "Sons of the Prophet," a complex, funny new play.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:34PMDamian McGinty, who tied with Samuel Larsen for winner of the reality contest "The Glee Project," will make his way to McKinley High in the fourth episode of the third season of "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMTwo-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth’s will return to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency for a concert engagement from November 15 through November 26, 2011. Her new show, Stories With P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PMAmanda Eliasch's semi-autobiographical show, As I Like It, will be presented at West Hollywood's Macha Theatre, December 29-January 12.
As I Like It depicts a gilded life that sca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMAre critics speaking highly of "Relatively Speaking"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:26PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced its schedule for Happenings at the Harman, the company's free lunch-time arts series.
The schedule opens with a performance by the Congres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMThe Wyeth family has returned as Jon Robin Baitz's smash play Other Desert Cities transfers to Broadway's Booth Theatre. For the show's new mounting, the clan is welcoming two ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMThe Wyeth family has returned as Jon Robin Baitz's smash play Other Desert Cities transfers to Broadway's Booth Theatre. For the show's new mounting, the clan is welcoming two ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMThe Great American Songbook is in good hands as some familiar hands turn its pages and raise their celebrated (and celebrating) voices at the 22nd annual Cabaret Convention concerts, in the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:17PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMThe unarguable clincher that Will Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays of Shakespeare (So, who did write Hamlet? 15 October) is the fact that his acting mates who all knew him well, plus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM
For the fourth time in his career, Mark Lamos (once as an actor and otherwise as a director) brings William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" to the stage ... this is a most musical and brightly…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:59PMThe comedic works of three celebrity writers have found a home on Broadway under one roof and one title. "Relatively Speaking," a new three-in-one play helmed by John Turturro, opened Octobe…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:59PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Show #99: Richard III, SHN, October 19.
By Sam Hurwitt
Highly questionable historical accuracy aside, Richard III is one of William Shakespeare’s most delight…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 03:52PMFEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue the Fall 2011 season with the return engagement of two time Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer BEBE NEUWIRTH from November 15 - 26. Her new show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMBroadway Swings, an evening featuring tunes from the Great White Way and co-starring Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde), will be presented Nov. 20 at the White Plai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMToby Zinman found EgoPo Classic Theater's THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK an excellent production of a terrible play.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:42PMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMThe New York Times October 20, 2011 Blighted Existences, Eased With Hope and Humor By CHARLES ISHERWOOD To observe that a play about extreme suffering is also explosively funny might seem ab…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:40PMThe national touring production of MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, kicked off on October 16, 2011 at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, TN 203 South Main Street where it will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:34PMPRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL’s Tony Award® nominated star and original Australian leading man Tony Sheldon, will sit down live with NBC 4 “Weekend Today in New York” anc…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:30PMThe world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, opened at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:19PMInterested in joining BroadwayWorld's worldwide network of published authors BroadwayWorld.com is seeking talented theater enthusiasts to lead our feature coverage in Arizona. Applicants sho…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMWHAT 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 03:13PMIn recent years, Broadway has featured plenty of Disney's greatest animated films, including THE LION KING, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, MARRY POPPINS, THE LITTLE MERMAID, and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMTony Award winner Tom Stoppard will pen a stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Love," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMThough written in 1928 and ripped from the headlines of a sensational contemporaneous murder trial, very little about Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal" feels dated. Though written in 1928 and ri…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PM
A unique and electrifying collaboration between traditional Indian dance (Kathak) and Tap dance set to Jazz music, India Jazz Suites tears up the floor tonight and tomorrow evening, only. Ch…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:52PMBroadway's THE ADDAMS FAMILY, the ideal Halloween musical, will spend the rest of October presenting several Halloween events.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMChord Overstreet, who played "Trouty Mouth" Sam Evans on the Fox hit series "Glee," may make a return to the show in the middle of the third season, according to TVLine.com. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMPerformances began October 12 at 8 pm at the Booth Theatre for Jon Robin Baitz's critically acclaimed new play OTHER DESERT CITIES directed by Joe Mantello. This Lincoln Center Theater produ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Relatively Speaking, the collection of one-acts by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMRobert Cuccioli, Natalie Douglas, Terese Genecco, and Stephen Wallem will perform et al. in Broadway Swings at the White Plains Performing Arts Center, on Sunday, November 20 at 7pm. Phil Ge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMLast night was a high night for Wagner College and the notable Wagner Colege Theatre program as the nationally recognized collegiate theatre program received yet another award honoring and r…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:36PMMarianne Elliott, Tony winner for her co-direction of War Horse on Broadway, has withdrawn from directing the West End-bound Spice Girls musical Viva Forever.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PM(Photo by Kevin Berne. A legendary Russian ballet dancer (Pascal Molat) visits Tosca Cafe.) “Why aren’t more American plays seen abroad?” asked Eliza Bent in the May/June 2011 issue o…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:30PMYou might expect that someone who spends his time watching, writing about, living and breathing theater 52 weeks a year would prefer to turn to other subjects when it comes to the pastime of…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:29PMBroadway veteran Shoshana Bean, American Idol finalist Syesha Mercado, and Sylvia Maccalla will perform in Heart and Soul, to be presented as part of Upright Cabaret's American Icon Ser…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMI suspect that, for many working in the arts, the weekday matinee is no man’s land. I’m not suggesting that we don’t operate them, or deal with them, but I do wonder the last time any …
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:26PMRepertorio Español will present the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz's El Color del Deseo (The Color of Desire) at the Gramercy Arts Theater, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMMike Daisey, creator and star of “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” talks about his admiration for Steve Jobs and what led him to create a critical two-hour monologue that explore…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:19PMRoundabout Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, a play about a tragedy-plagued family, opened Oct. 20 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMVariety reports today that the latest Disney Theatrical undertaking will be a stage adaptation of Shakespeare In Love by original film scribe Tom Stoppard. The media giant will be partnering…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMDan Cooney will reprise his performance as Edgar Allan Poe in a concert staging of Nevermore, a new musical with music by Matt Conner, book by Grace Barnes and lyrics adapted from the writin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will participate in "Bring It On: The Musical" Day at Universal CityWalk, on Saturday, October 22.
The event's guest hosts will include K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMTHE MOUNTAINTOP is "Thrilling, Inventive and Provocative"
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:02PMA four-week tour of Gate Theatre Dublin's productions of Endgame and Watt by Samuel Beckett will begin October 27 in Ann Arbor, Michigan with future engagements in Chapel Hill, Philade…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PM
A stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1998 film Shakespeare in Love is currently in development from Disney Theatrical and producer Sonia Freedman, according to Variety. Tony winner Tom St…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:59PMWith his current acclaimed turn as Buddy Plummer in the hit revival of Follies, Broadway’s Danny Burstein is certainly not singing the blues. In fact, after jumping from The Drowsy Cha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMIt Ain’t Easy Being a Founder, Director, Treasurer, Official Greeter, Artistic Director, and Ticket Seller for a Small Startup Theater in the Middle of Baltimore in the Middle of a Recessi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:53PMVeterans of the Broadway productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas James Clow, Tony Yazbeck, Meredith Patterson and Peter Reardon will star alongside Edward James Hyland and Jill Pa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMTim Intravia will take over the lead role of Charlie in Elan Wolf Farbiarz and Cory Terry's Channeling Kevin Spacey, at the St. Luke's Theatre, beginning this evening, October 21. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMRamona Singer, who stars in the Bravo reality series "The Real Housewives of New York," will make her New York stage debut with a cameo appearance in Off-Broadway's Miss Abigai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMSpookyWorld, the venerable Halloween theme park based in Litchfield, N.H., brings its over-the-top scarefest to Fenway Park for the first time with its all-new “Fear at Fenway’&#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:49PMSheffield Theatres marked its 40th anniversary with a lunchtime gathering at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End yesterday.
Among the guests were artistic director Daniel Evans,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:48PMIn true Priscilla Queen of the Desert road-tripping fashion, the cast of the fabulous musical packed up their bags for a cross country journey as they headed to Chicago to perform on Ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMIf you're an Ontario student in Grade 9 to 12, grab some friends and a video camera and film your performance of a scene from a Shakespeare play. Your video will be adjudicated by an expert …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:43PMAudra McDonald and Norm Lewis in Porgy and Bess.I think what I'll remember most about the recent A.R.T. production of The Gershwins' 'Porgy and Bess' (henceforth just Porgy and Bess, btw) wa…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:41PMRattlestick Playwrights Theatre has announced full casting for the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith's Horsedreams, to run November 9-December 11, with an ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMAll of us have, at some point, had one of those, "Man, what an effed up evening that was! What the hell just happened?" kind of experiences. This play is kinda like that. W…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:30PMTHEATER IN BUFFALO IS NOT A CONTRADICTION. On Allen Street in Buffalo, New York, there is an establishment called Rust Belt Books. While the name certainly pays ironic tribute to an outsider…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 01:29PMThe New Group will continue its "Dark Nights" discussion series with Talking Taboos, a conversation with filmmaker Todd Solondz and playwright Thomas Bradshaw, to be held at Theatr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis opened its national tour Oct. 16, following previews that began Oct. 14, at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, TN.
The musical, set in the 1950s,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMThese days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message board…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMSons of the Prophet- This comedy about grief and pain will l indeed have you laughing often but it's also deeply touching and filled to the brim with serious issue…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 01:24PMLife was much sweeter for the stars of Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet than it is for their catastrophe-ridden characters on October 20. On that night, the buzzed-about Roundabout …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMSoprano Anna Netrebko has cancelled her New York recital debut with pianist Elena Bashkirova at Carnegie Hall om Wednesday, October 26, according to The New York Times.
The paper states tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMLegit News: Disney, Friedman partner for adaptation -- Add another project to the roster at Disney Theatrical Prods., which is partnering with Sonia Friedman Prods. to produce a play adaptat…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMTony nominee Adam Pascal is ready to play Memphis' lovable DJ Huey Calhoun. As an original cast member of Rent and Aida, Pascal has experience kicking off shows that have had health…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMThe Place, LondonThis year's Dance Umbrella festival sees contemporary dance acknowledging its own history. The latest programme to feature rare revivals of old works is by Richard Alston Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMDisney Theatrical Productions is partnering with Sonia Friedman Productions to produce a play adaptation of Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning screenplay Shakespeare in Love…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMThe next seven days could add up to any number of great new plays, from Mike Bartlett's 13 to Abi Morgan's 27, not forgetting Blake Morrison's We Are Three SistersClearly playwrights have a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMRattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Horsedreams, a new play written by and featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMDenise Duncan, a new voice from Costa Rica, knows the issues of immigration first-hand. Her play, Latinas, premiering in Teatro de la Luna’s International Festival of Hispanic Theater, is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:02PMThe return of Mark Rylance to London in the much-heralded Jerusalem is this week's big news, as the National theatre announces a tour for War Horse and a new in-the-round venue is mooted for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM
Michael Morpurgo's classic is the basis of a National Army Museum exhibition tracing the history of the real war horsesOf more than 120 books Michael Morpurgo has written, War Horse is not h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMThe Hangar Theatre's Pilot Reading Series, which is held in Manhattan, will continue Oct. 24 with a free reading of In a Little Room, a new play by Pete McElligott.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe International Touring company of MAMMA MIA! joined in on the celebration and congratulated the Broadway production on 10 fABBAlous years on Broadway.
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMSome notes on an an cappella workshop at Stanford and a performance in San Jose:1. Spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon in the company of the members of Vocaldente, a men's a cappella…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:40PMINTERVIEW: JULIA PASCAL The director and playwright explains to Aleks Sierz the politics and psychology behind her new play, Honeytrap (New Diorama), which tells the story of a Swedish-born …
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 12:38PMKrysta Rodriguez will join the previously reported Bradley Dean, Lauren Molina, Darren Ritchie, and Elizabeth Stanley in The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport's Broadway Highlights. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMToday we are turning our attention to one of the biggest and brightest rising stars in classical music whose seriously awesome piano prowess will be in full view this weekend in two special …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMBobby Cannavale, Phil Donahue, Gina Gershon, Holly Hunter, and more stars join Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, Elaine May, John Turturro, and the cast of Relatively Speaking for their Broadway open…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMAt the 5 p.m. performance on Saturday, October 29, 2011, the hit Off-Broadway comedy MISS ABIGAIL'S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING, AND MARRIAGE will include a cameo appearance from Ramona Singer, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMGuess who Adam Pascal hooked up with while starring in Rent? Host Paul Wontorek (who knows just about every Broadway tale worth repeating) couldn't help being surprised when the Tony-nominat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:28PMWicked headmistress Madame Morrible is a larger-than-life character, so it's only appropriate that actress Kathy Fitzgerald has spacious digs backstage at the Gershwin Theatre. The super fri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:26PMSNL alum Victoria Jackson's video interview with playwright Mark St. Germain. Must be seen to be believed!
SOURCE: patriotupdate.com at 12:19PMO, Mabou Mines, what hath though wrought? Or – overwrought? Anyone who saw how the brilliant Mabou Mines production of Peter & Wendy at Arena Stage four years ago explored the melancho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, Producers has announced an exciting ticket giveaway in celebration of Halloween At both the 130 p.m. and 730 p.m. performanc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMTony Award nominee Adam Pascal, who made his Broadway debut in the rock musical Rent, will find his soul as radio DJ Huey Calhoun in the Tony-winning musical Memphis beginning Oct. 25 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMKasono Mwanza lights up the stage in Chanhassen's "Hairspray" with an ease that belies his youth and a long journey from his native Zambia.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:12PMThis week's roundup of the theatrical blogosphere is brought to you by the letter R, as writers around the world get stuck into questions of relevance, reflexivity and revoltA fortnight ago,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM
Tony nominee Adam Pascal is headed south (on stage at least!) as energetic DJ Huey Calhoun in the Tony-winning musical Memphis. Pascal won't begin performances until October 25, but…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMClutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out will make its Midwest premiere at the Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago, January 19-March 11, 2012. Clutter is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:58AMLee Blessing's play about the developing relationship between two cold war negotiators is intelligent and aware, but not dramatically plausible
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:57AMThe 2011 nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards have been announced. The awards will be presented in New York Nov. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMTony nominee Adam Pascal will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning best musical MEMPHIS next week on Tuesday October 25th. This afternoon, October 20th, fans and press got a special previ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMStages St. Louis will hold its tenth annual Applause! Gala at The Ritz-Carlton in St. Louis on November 11, 2011. The event will be hosted by Fox 2's Kevin Steincross, with over 400 gu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMWar Horse director Marianne Elliott is no longer attached to the previously announced West End Spice Girls musical Viva Forever, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail. Elliott, who had go…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AMRapper/poet George Watsky and The Gregory Brothers (creators of "Auto-Tune the News") will join Team StarKid for stops of The Space Tour (StarKid Precarious Auditory Concert Experi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMStephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 musical about a host of former Weismann Follies stars who reunite for one last look across the footlights is back on Broadway. In a crumbling theatr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:47AMOscar-winning 1998 film Shakespeare in Love is being brought to the West End stage by Disney in partnership with producer Sonia Friedman, according to a report in Variety.
The screen-to-sta…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:47AMStephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 musical about a host of former Weismann Follies stars who reunite for one last look across the footlights is back on Broadway. In a crumbling theatr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:44AMI discovered Lee Lessack at a performance in the late 90’s, upstairs at Eighty Eights, the best-of-its-generation New York piano bar that didn’t live to see the new millennium. I left en…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:44AMSee the critically acclaimed pianist Lang Lang LIVE in movie theatres
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMMonologuist Mike Daisey, who has put in a several dog years toiling at his craft (if you don't know the extensive Daisey oeuvre, you won't get that reference), finally has the bigges…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMRamona Singer, currently starring in Bravo TV's The Real Housewives of New York, will make a guest appearance, and her New York Stage debut, at Ken Davenport and Sarah Saltzberg's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company's New York Premiere of Stephen Karam's new play, Sons of the Prophet, opened last night, October 20. Directed by Peter DuBois, the cast features Yusef Bulos Bi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMRelatively Speaking — one-act comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, who are all writing about family ties — officially opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre Oct. 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMThe new work conceived and directed by Tommy Tune and written by Mark Saltzman, originally announced as Forever 54, will now be titled Fifty Four Forever. As previously reported, it will rec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMThe Company Theatre, last year’s Indie Dora Winner for Outstanding Production is back with a new show The Test and a new social media strategy to promote it. As the production rehearse…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:21AMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, Producers announced the second honoree of the newly developed Everyday Heroes initiative Horace Greeley High School English …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMThe world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING- three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, and directed by John Turturro- opened las…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMThe world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING- three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, and directed by John Turturro- opened las…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMI needed a post-preview snack after Godspell tonight, so I marched over to the Rite-Aid on 50th St., and stocked up on my favorite . . . 99-cent bags of salted peanuts in the shell. These gu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Tony and Oscar Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will star opposite Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the upcoming film "Broken City," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMThe National Theatre has announced that it has indefinitely postponed its production of a new musical that features songs by Tori Amos, according to a report on the website for the U.K. maga…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMTheatre Royal, YorkDavid Harrower's play takes place in the filthy recreation room of an anonymous industrial unit. Middle manager Ray is being held to account by a young woman among the det…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMJordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn
Theaters, discusses the current Broadway season and his
'Broadway Talks' series. Roth talks with Kathleen Hays on "The
Hays Advantage" on Bloomberg Rad…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 10:51AMIn celebration of Halloween, producers of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark have announced a special ticket giveaway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMMusical theatre writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are the winners of the 2011 Songwriter's Fellowship Award, overseen by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCA…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMLegit News: Production to tour U.K. from March -- Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," previously announced in Variety, will premiere at t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44AMCanadian actor enjoys mountain climbing in Peru and the delights of Paris.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:38AMNew York public television station WNET, Channel 13, will present the film version of Irving Berlin's hit musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton, along with a special intervi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMINTAR has extended Carlo Albán's solo show Intringulis a second time. David Anzuelo has directed the production, which will now run through October 30.
The play examines th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AMSoHo Playhouse, Inc. will present the premiere of The Canterbury Tales Remixed, written and performed by Canadian actor and rap artist Baba Brinkman (The Rap Guide to Evolution), beginning N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThis is from 2010, but I think it's still relevant. It's a two part audio of a presentation I did on Authentic Arts Marketing. If you're short on time, just check out Part 2. Link to the aud…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:16AMAccording to Deadline.com, Tony winner Catherine Zeta-JOnes will join previously announced Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the Allen Hughes' Broken City. Zeta-Jones will play the 'philand…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMCarey Mulligan will star alongside Oscar Isaac in Joel and Ethan Coen's new film Inside Llewyn Davis, which focuses on the early folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, acc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth will perform on the hit ABC reality competition "Dancing with the Stars" Oct. 24 and 25 as part of the program's Broadway Week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMCameron Mackintosh has announced details about the new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA premiering at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2012, with previews from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMKatori Hall on THE MOUNTAINTOP
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:01AM
National Theatre executive director Nick Starr talks to Alistair Smith about expanding the NT's brand and influence at home and abroad
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AM"Adaumbelle's Quest" welcomes actress, writer, singer, and comedianne, Alex Bond, who's new play "Derby Day" will have a reading at the Fresh Fruit Fall Festival on Saturday, November 5th @ …
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 09:49AMReviews of Man and Boy and Lemon Sky for the Live Design magazine website.
SOURCE: Live Design at 09:48AMCharles West, who has appeared on Broadway in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Cyrano, the Musical, will make his New York cabaret debut next month at Don't Tell Mama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMI saw a terrific student production of The Bacchae up at Ithaca College this past weekend. It’s my favorite play, which should only surprise you if you haven’t read my book No Ap…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:46AMYou'd expect that Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs would be controversial for its entirely coincidental timing (in the works for some while, the show had been performed …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:46AMWatch the stars of PHANTOM on Broadway--past and present--as they celebrate the exclusive screening of PHANTOM's 25th Anniversary Concert performance in London.
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:45AMJohn Owen-Jones and Earl Carpenter will share the title role and Katie Hall will play Christine Daae in a new production of The Phantom of the Opera, which, as previously announced, will beg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMA by-invitation-only reading of Lempicka, a musical commissioned by Yale Rep and New Dramatists, about the tumultuous life of art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka, will be presented Oct. 28 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMIn the latest performance of our podcast series designed to be heard in specific contexts, poet Lemn Sissay invites you to listen to some Late Night Rain Lemn Sissay
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMTony Award winner Laura Benanti kicks off Landmark on Main Street's Cabaret series in Port Washington, New York, on Saturday, October 22.
The series will continue with Christine Eberso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMThe Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated the opening of Stephen Karam's new play Sons of the Prophet Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre on Thursday, October 20. Peter DuBois has di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AM"Doyle And Debbie" is a satirists dream. Throughout, the cast skewers the ultra-conservative, religion-based politics of the Bible Belt. Creationists and the Tea Party might not see some of …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:07AMBaba Brinkman will perform The Canterbury Tales Remixed at the SoHo Playhouse, running November 23 - January 8, with an opening on December 4. Darren Lee Cole will direct the production.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMRelatively Speaking is the collective title for three one act plays by three who usually turn their talents toward the screen. Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen are three stagestruck …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMThe £55 price tag slapped on tickets to see Ian Brown and co is way too much, but they're not alone in putting excessive pressure on fans' walletsThe news this week that tickets for next ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM
My friends at Public Works Project want you to know that they are presenting a free site-specific theatrical tribute to the “Mama” of off-off-Broadway tomorrow on the L.E.S. tomo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:42AMHaving a few hours to spare at the Baltimore AMTRAK station yesterday, I made several pages of notes about a new play, very loosely inspired by this rather beautiful essay by Emily Rapp in�…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:41AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced that noted stage and screen actor Kevin Kline will join Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for a conversation in front of an audience at t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMI’ll be performing tomorrow night in Art Wallace’s “Brown Clown” in the Brick’s Tiny Theatre Festival, but when the show’s over I’ll strongly cons…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AMA brand-new U.K. touring production of The Phantom of the Opera will hit the road, beginning performances at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth Feb. 27, 2012, prior to an official opening Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AMThe New Yorker has published a copy of the play O'Neill wanted no one to see. Perhaps they should have respected his wishesIn Act 4 of Long Day's Journey into Night, the protagonist James Ty…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Much is made, by the Gunpowder Theatre Company, of their latest endeavour’s
ambition.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:53AMMuch is made, by the Gunpowder Theatre Company, of their latest endeavour’s
ambition.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:53AMJohn Owen-Jones and Earl Carpenter are to share the title role in the new touring production of The Phantom of the Opera, which launches in spring 2012.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMFirst, can you tell us a bit about your background/ previous work?
I trained at Middlesex University, on their Theatre Arts degree. It’s a
fantastic course and most certainly my train…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMFirst, can you tell us a bit about your background/ previous work?
I trained at Middlesex University, on their Theatre Arts degree. It’s a
fantastic course and most certainly my train…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMFirst, can you tell us a bit about your background/ previous work?I trained at Middlesex University, on their Theatre Arts degree. It’s a fantastic course and most certainly my training gr…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32AMPlease come see me tonight (and tomorrow) in Art Wallace’s play Brown Clown in the Brick Theatre’s Tiny Theatre Festival! Details all below: Think Inside of the Box… (By wh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AMT Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle plays the title character and Julio Monge plays the Minotaur in âPhaedra Backwards.â Every playbill routinely lists in what era or year a s…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:17AMJust yesterday I was pointing out that Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, which plays out a fictitious meeting in a hotel room between a powerful alpha male and a lowly maid, might have been m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMThe Jackman is back… Professor Snape teaches a master class on Broadway… Adam Pascal utters his first “Hockadoo!”… and “Dancing With the Stars” goes legit!
Blake
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SOURCE: Playbill at 07:12AM
The movie version of this show starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds was a big box office success of the 1980s, while the original Broadway production in 1978 ran for over 1500 performance…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:53AMAre critic heeding "Sons of the Prophet"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:40AMAlthough she just turned 25, Jackie Rivera s best known locally for a procession of pugnacious characters negotiating late adolescence, but now she has the linchpin role as Emma, the idealis…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AMApril De Angelis' new comedy Jumpy opened earlier this week (19 October, previews from 13 October) to critics at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
Tamsin Greig is Hilary, a 50-yea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:15AM****One More Thing About Steve Jobs...The legacy of Steve Jobs is not about the cool toys. Certainly, the cool toys had to exist for there to be a legacy at all but their existence is …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMIf the prospect of an old religious trial about belief in God and adherence to rules sounds heavy and grim, give David Ives' version a chance. The playwright best known for comedy makes a po…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 06:04AM
The Guardian (UK) 10/19/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:59AMThe New York Times 10/21/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:55AMAs previously announced, award winning West End star Daniel Boys will join the previously announced West End and Broadway singing sensation Kerry Ellis in the 40th anniversary concert versio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAs previously announced by BWW's Spain Editor Juanjo Gonzalez, DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS Thomas Schumacher, producer and president in association with STAGE ENTERTAINMENT SPAIN Julia Gme…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThose of us who have followed the work of the talented Ron Megee through the decades know what to expect from one of his theatrical extravaganzas: big laughs, a clever sense of satire, some …
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:20AMTalking points: Moonface Martin-Reno Sweeney romance rumors from Anything Goes‘ Robert Creighton The top reasons to see Relatively Speaking and Sons of the Prophet Broadway grosses Wha…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 01:18AMFamilies are complicated, and there’s a deep ocean of theatrical works that illustrate this point. We can add another hefty addition to that list with Relatively Speaking, a collection of …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 01:15AMThe City of Las Vegas approved ownership transfer of nearly two acres of green space from the Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas to the The Smith Center for the Performing Arts …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14AMSome people are saddled with the responsibility of being the glue that keeps everyone together. Yet when that person is unsettled in his life, it inevitably affects everyone else as well. Th…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 01:12AMWord-of-mouth has been great, and now there’s a good review from Charles Isherwood on Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophets. Let me say that I agree. Some, I fear, will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I report on two shows, the Old Vic's Richard III in San Francisco and the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Certain things, once said, can change at a stroke the interior workings of love, leaving the outside architecture untouched." William...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMothers come in for some serious savaging in “Relatively Speaking,” a reasonably savory tasting platter of comedies by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen that opened on Thurs…
SOURCE: 10 at 01:00AMThe singer-actor stars in "What My Husband Doesn't Know," which
plays at the Fox Theatre on Sunday.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMSeldom does Cathedral Concerts present a group so well suited to
the spacious acoustic of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis as the
Westminster Cathedral Choir. Their home base, London's Ro…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMGoodspeed Musicals Revives Wiseguy Gumshoe Parody, "City of Angels" Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: "City of Angels"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM
"We knew instantly when we landed [this theater] that the performers would be in and amongst the audience, and that felt special and unique and completely outweighed the challenges," Mr. Kor…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:58AMLegit Reviews: Though the venture clearly aspires to entertain and enlighten about the emotional and physical realities of golden-age sex, pedestrian text and adapter Jane Prowse's old-fashi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53AMI guess I've been a little slow admitting to myself what a lot of other people have been saying for quite some time:Maybe Charles Isherwood does suck.I just finished reading a rave - and I m…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:26AMThe trio of one act plays called “Relatively Speaking” is a hit–opening last night on Broadway with contributions from Woody Allen, Elaine May, and Ethan Coen. And it’…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:25AMRemember how scary Hannibal Lector seemed when you first saw him in that prison cell? Well, imagine how scary he’d be if he was singing a showtune. OK, not that scary. But it’d b…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:25AMFriday October 21, 2011
CHICAGO -- Kelsey Grammer makes it clear from the start: He’s not playing Mayor Richard M.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:05AMFIVE PEOPLE YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE IN THE AUDIENCEFor an actor, looking out into the audience during a performance can be perilous. You do not want your eyes to suddenly happen upon the wro…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement of Odyssey – The Epic Musical, starring Eddie Korbich, Emma Zaks, Janine DiVita and Colleen Zenk, begins Oct. 21 at the American Theatre of A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA new North American tour of Fiddler on the Roof, featuring John Preece as Tevye the milkman, launches Oct. 21-27 at Atwood Concert Hall in Anchorage, AK. Engagements in American and Canadia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company's production of Housewives' Cantata, the first of its fall 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series, which presents musical theatre gems in staged concert perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMARLA Productions & Rosalind Productions present the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Lester Brooks' A Splintered Soul, which begins previews Oct. 21 at Theater Three prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGlorious. Larger than life. Dangerous. These are just a few of the words used to describe Tony Award-winning stage veteran Elaine Stritch by some of the actresses who have been influenced by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTo Kill a Mockingbird, starring Drama Desk Award winner Jeremy Webb as Atticus Finch, begins performances Oct. 21 at the Dallas Theater Center's AT&T Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, Pascale Armand and Gilbert Owuor lead the world premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville, which begins performances Oct. 21 at the Yale Repertory…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1933 Trying to follow-up the success of their Pulitzer-winning musical Of Thee I Sing, George and Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind bring back President John Wintergreen and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMReeve Carney was concentrating on making music with his band and not thinking about acting when opportunity came calling after a gig at New York's Mercury Lounge. The backstage visitor was J…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMPhilip Brandes reviews Sophie Treadwell's prophetic 1928 drama "Machinal" at the Open Fist Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AM 
