No choreographer alive knows more about getting pop songs on their feet than Twyla Tharp -- and it's al on view in "Come Fly Away," a salute to Frank Sinatra.No choreographer alive knows mor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:54PMBroadway veteran Theo Stockman, most recently seen on Broadway in AMERICAN IDIOT, will appear on PRIVATE PRACTICE tomorrow night.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:51PM"Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," that audition-scene staple, has hardly accrued profound fathoms since its 1984 premiere with June Stein and John Turturro. "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," that …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:46PMMartin Dockery (Performer/Writer)is a frequent performer in NewYork's storytelling scene. Over the past three years, he's created fivemonologues and one play, performing them all …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:46PMLegit Reviews: Twyla Tharp's dance extravaganza set to the Sinatra songbook, "Come Fly Away," doesn't lead us gently by the hand, but wrenches us into an Art Deco ballroom as if by the Chair…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:42PMThe Reduced Shakespeare Company is performing its “Complete World of Sports (Abridged)" at the New Victory Theater. Lorne Manly sat down with the cast for an even more abridged chat on spo…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:26PMDavid C. Nichols reviews the Crown City Theatre revival of John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMPUJOLS IMMORTAL: In an article in today's New
York Times, George Vecsey, sports columnist and
author of a recent biography about Stan Musial,
speculates about where an Albert Pujols statue
w…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:06PMThe Sleeping Beauty is definitely the ballerina’s ballet; the hero doesn’t
show up until half-way through. Even so, Steven McRae was the star of this
Royal Ballet revival, from his…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWhat better work to inaugurate the newly named Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly
the Comedy) than Death and the Maiden? Pinter was a friend of Ariel Dorfman,
and, influentially, champion…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMHe has reinvigorated ballet with eccentric takes on classic tales. And with a new production featuring ancient vampiric creatures cast into the modern world, Matthew Bourne could well enjoy …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMROGERBONAIR-AGARD (Performer) is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, aCave Canem fellow, and author of 2 collections of poetry; tarnish and masquerade (Cypher Books 2006) and GULLY (Cypher Book…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:00PM
Raoul Bhaneja (Performer) is an accomplished actor andaward-winning musician. Bhaneja's theatre credits include TarragonTheatre's Helen's Necklace and The Domino He…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:52PMNew York City Center has just reopened following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala last night, October 25 at New York City Center. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:49PMBroadway star and award-winning singer and actress Lillias White will perform in concert for the first time at Aaron Davis Hall 7 p.m. Friday, November 4. This concert starts the cavalcade o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMJustin Timberlake bursts into song to show Dave what he doesn't like about old musicals.
SOURCE: CBS at 06:48PMThe world premiere of Irish playwright Marina Carr's "Phaedra Backwards" makes the myth sizzle. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:28PMStage an screen star John Barrowman has recenty revealed that there are no plans fro him to make a return to 'Doctor Who,' Barrowman told Oh No They Didn't I can't believe it. I was only mea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMThe pop singer, who quit the group in 2006, has revealed there's a possibility he will reunite with his former boy band mates.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:14PMDylan McDermott will play a political consultant in the upcoming political comedy Dog Fight, according to Deadline.com. Jay Roach will direct the film for Warner Bros, from a script by Chris…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:11PMPS Classics is set to release the new cast recording for the revival of FOLLIES on November 29. To pre-order the double-disc album online at 14.95, visit www.psclassics.com. According to PS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10PMIn anticipation of the arrival of Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly on Broadway, the show’s all-star cast and creative team stepped out to the Hard Rock Café on October 20 to s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:08PMTony Award winner Michael Cerveris will be part of a private Nov. 15 reading of Lisa Lewis' new play Schooled, which examines the relationship between a young writer and her professor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:07PMPop star Lance Bass, Beverley Mitchell, Jamie Kennedy and Matt Seifnia
are putting their heads and wallets together to produce a Broadway play, according to a casting notice. They hope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PMNew York City Center has just reopened following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala last night, October 25 at New York City Center. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMIt’s been eight years since Ted Dykstra, 50, and Richard Greenblatt, 58, last performed their seminal collaboration, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands. But Dykstra didn’t even need to look at the script…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 06:00PM
Tony nominee Jonathan Groff will reprise his role as Jesse St. James later this season on FOX's Glee, according to TVLine.com.
Groff's character will now reportedly be the coach o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:55PMA young, curly Gary Sinise in a Steppenwolf production. A black-and-white shot of "City on the Make," a play based on the writings of Nelson Algren, by Northlight Theatre in 1984.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PMAccording to the NY Times, Kirstie Alley is currently in negotiations to star in THE FABULOUS LIES OF HOLLYWOOD WHORES, a new play that is aimimg for a Broadway run in 2012. Broadway veteran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMJust before his first performance as Huey Calhoun in Memphis, Adam Pascal joined the show’s Tony-winning composer David Bryan for a very personal performance of “Memphis Lives in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMCheyenne Jackson, Gabourey Sidibe, Jesse Eisenberg, Megan Fox, Rosie Perez and Jack McBrayer will get a crash course in drama as part of the 24 Hour Plays On Broadway, which will take p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:51PMHow exactly does a comedy about human suffering play out on stage? Broadway.com caught up with Sons of the Prophet stars Joanna Gleason, Santino Fontana and more to talk about exactly that. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMStage veterans Gabriel Byrne, Rufus Sewell, and Toby Stephens will star in the upcoming film, All Things to Men, according to The Hollywood Reporter. George Isaac will direct.
The thriller …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMTV star Kirstie Alley may be headed to Broadway as the lead in The Fabulous Lies of Hollywood Whores, produced by 'NSYNC alum Lance Bass, according to The New York Times. No official ann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:47PMMeet the gala-goers who celebrated the Oct. 25 reopening of New York City Center's mainstage on West 55th Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:36PMThat bright golden haze is just as radiant the second time around.
“Oklahoma!,” the surprise autumn smash at Arena Stage, is back on the Fichandler stage for a summertime fling, looking …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMAn industrious arachnid might be proud of the unassuming high-wire act Joseph Robinette pulled off with his dramatization of “Charlotte’s Web” at Adventure Theatre. Into an hour-long s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMNEW YORK — Bill this midsummer card as an Elizabethan throwdown: the Royal Shakespeare Company versus the New York Shakespeare Festival. Virtually within earshot of each other, Britain’s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMSheri Herren, 50, says it’s been a “healing process” for her and her daughter Laura Herren, 23, to play mother and child onstage in “Steel Magnolias.” Keegan Theatre is doing Rober…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMAs shattered Uncle Vanya, Richard Roxburgh isn’t merely a shell of a man. He’s a shell of a shell, a quaking, sobbing wreck. Racked ever more violently by the realization that the profes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMYou’ve heard this before, right? Rock band begins to fray at the edges; the personalities clash, and the label dumps them; the drummer’s dad is busted for torturing women in a dungeon . …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFoul weather, foul show Saturday night as a loyal band of followers crowded the small Warehouse Theatre for a final, one-night-only debauch by the dastardly, shuttering Cherry Red Production…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhat does the Devil watch on TV? Reality shows, of course, chortling at the mayhem as foul-mouthed, amoral youngsters compete to be “interesting.”
“It’s my fast food,” Satan grins …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIt hasn’t taken long for Allison Arkell Stockman and Tom Teasley to form one of the most distinctive theatrical partnerships in Washington. Stockman, artistic director of Constellation The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, announced Wednesday, salutes four architects of music — from the improvisational saxophone of Sonny Rollins to the Broadway warmth of Barbara Cook, the ten…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen a drunk brings a stripper home and starts talking about the murderous impulses in Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” that can’t be good, can it?
That’s the launching point …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMA king in masquerade; a double agent with a drinking problem; an actress in gold-and-turquoise menswear — historical eccentrics zip in and out of a closet and other hiding places in “Or,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMDeb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” has a firm identity as The Play That Angered Elie Wiesel: Last year the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, one of the many bilked by the herculean…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe Kennedy Center showed taste and maturity in (finally) bestowing one of its Honors on the sublime Broadway songbird, Barbara Cook. The singer-actress—83 and still chirping with amazing …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMNEW YORK — Reaffirming that an out-of-town workout is still a show’s optimal fitness program, the Kennedy Center revival of “Follies,” seen in Washington last spring, has landed on B…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen Puccini’s “Tosca” was scheduled for the start of the 2011-12 season, the Washington National Opera didn’t know that the work would mark the start of the company’s new incarnat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe boys are back from the wars in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” but they’re being played by women in the Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s amusing but unbalanced all-female…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMDiana Son’s “Stop Kiss” plays like an absorbing public-service announcement. The tale of the furtive lesbian romance that unfolds in the months before and after the commission of a bru…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMThe other night, while at a play
A woman in a crafty way,
Came up to me and with some cheek
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SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PM“White folks can’t stand unhappy Negroes, so laugh,” the veteran black actress instructs the young black actor in “Trouble in Mind,” Alice Childress’s wise and extraordinarily wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen a Georgia native named Freddie settles down on a chair near the wrought ironwork of a Southern veranda, carefully adjusting the rings on his fingers as he recalls his turbulent childhoo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIt takes a really refined actor to get away with mischief onstage, and at the Studio Theatre Ted van Griethuysen is offering not one but two sly turns — both as the irascible British poet …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIs the National Ballet of China bringing us ballet of the future? Presumably, as China grows its wealth and global ambitions, so will this company and its way of presenting classical Western…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMFeeling invisible is the one torment no theater person can endure. So it has long driven inhabitants of Washington’s stage world batty that, when outsiders are told the city has a lively p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMLike any other stage parent, Frank Robinson Jr. arrives at the Shakespeare Theater after the curtain falls on each performance of “The Heir Apparent” to pick up his little star. Unlike a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMCommedia dell’arte, the antique Italian street comedy theater style, lends itself to improvisation, and actor Matthew R. Wilson had to think on his feet a couple weeks ago as his Faction o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMIf there were a Williams-Sonoma for witches, the cauldron in Synetic Theater’s wordless “Macbeth” would be a bestseller. Consider: In an early moment of this darkly incantatory product…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMStudio Theatre embarks on an exciting new path with “Lungs,” a bracingly dramatic walk through the thicket of couples communication that proves an auspicious start to the company’s amb…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMBig Brother is watching — or, at least, Nicolae Ceausescu is. The stony gaze of Romania’s long-reigning communist dictator can be felt in Forum Theatre’s smart, absorbing production of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMWhen Suzanne Farrell arrived in Washington a decade ago to launch a ballet troupe at the Kennedy Center, it was as momentous for the arts as when basketball great Michael Jordan moved here t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMAfter two years of canned Tchaikovsky, the Washington Ballet will dance to a live orchestra during its four-week run of “The Nutcracker” this season, thanks to a $250,000 gift from longt…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMBallet fans, rejoice: Movie technology has come to your rescue. At the very least, it can help salve a recent wound. You know the one I’m talking about — the history-making news that hit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PMBack in 1984, the news hit the dance doubles hard: “Footloose” was going to have more story than dancing. But that choice has served fans of the original film well — we got more of Kev…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMNEW YORK — One of the eventualities of a storied life is that by virtue of perseverance and sacrifice, the great person winds up — on Broadway. The latest such case of sanctified Tony e…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMIn her sparkly pink gown on the first week of “Dancing With the Stars,” soccer star Hope Solo looked uncomfortably exposed. Naked, even. It wasn’t just that her backless dress barely c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMACT ONE. SCENE ONE..
Playwright sits at a kitchen table in pink T-shirt and jeans, rewriting the second act of a play that will be produced in two weeks at a major Washington theater. Playw…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMIn Lee Breuer’s avant-garde staging of Henrik Ibsen’s landmark “A Doll’s House,” Nora — the wife who famously walks out on her husband — practically has to crawl to look up at …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMThe versatile Chicago and Washington actress E. Faye Butler recounted a call she received to audition in New York for a British stage version of “Gone With the Wind.” “Faye, there’s …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMFor a fleeting instant, you grasp the potential in the new, extensively rewritten version of playwright Karen Zacarías’s comedy of modern literary manners, “The Book Club Play.” The m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMUsing minimal theatrics and the testimony of real soldiers, “ReEntry” creates a stage document about an aspect of military life that few of us back home ever fully understand: the trials…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMThe saddest moment on a Washington stage this year also happens to be one of the most exhilarating. It occurs in Act 2 of “A Bright New Boise” — playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s unspari…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMAmid the Babel of voices in Zuccotti Park, Greg McFadden wanted to listen to just one: a voice that might suit his own perfectly. “Let’s take a look around,” the actor declared, survey…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMWhat makes Iago seethe? The eternal mystery of his mortal loathing of Othello isn’t totally cracked in Folger Theatre’s impressive, compulsively watchable staging of the tragedy. But in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMBroadway star Sebastian LaCause is about to unveil a new pet project, the web series Hustling, and Broadway.com’s got an exclusive sneak preview. In the show, which he created, wrote a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMBenjamin Walker, Mamie Gummer, John Gallagher Jr., Rebecca Naomi Jones and more took to the karaoke stage at Brooklyn's CAMP Bart at a benefit for Colt Coeur.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMAs theatres and audiences face a brave new digital world, 12 of the nation's most influential theatre critics talk about their towns and their changing roles
SOURCE: tcg.org at 05:24PMThe New Ohio Theatre presents an industry reading of the new play Schooled, written by Lisa Lewis and directed by Oliver Butler, starring Michael Cerveris, Phoebe Strole, James Kautz and Mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMOlney Theatre Center has announced casting for The Sound of Music, to be presented on the Mainstage, November 16-January 1.
Award-winning director Mark Waldrop will helm this musical, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMChinglish, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication
which had its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, makes its way to
Broadway's Longacre Theatre. Gary Wilmes mak…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMTony winner Lillias White will perform in concert on November 4 at Aaron Davis Hall at the City College of New York. White will be accompanied by musical director Timothy Graphenreed.
Whit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMIvo van Hove brings his stage adaptation of this Ingmar Bergman movie to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
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MamaDrama on BroadwayWorld is a new initiative that's perfect for theatre-loving parents. MamaDrama reports are here to help you decide what's worth the cost of the sitter The shows covered…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMPlaywright Amy Herzog was among the recipients of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award, which was presented to her at a ceremony at the Times Center in New York City on Tuesday, October 25.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMJustin Tanner’s Voice Lessons drops us into a strange relationship between a deluded community theatre wanna-be actress and the uptight and overeducated vocal coach she hires to make her a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:50PM“I realized that my brain was, in its own way, messed up the way his was.”
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:50PMYou would think that the world premiere of "Water by the Spoonful" at Hartford Stage would keep Quiara Alegria Hudes busy enough.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45PMHolly Gauthier-Frankel and Jamie Mac (Photo: Andrée LanthierReturn to Coley's PointDavid French goes homeby Jim MurchisonThere is a saying that “you can’t go back home”. That may be t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:42PMA Noise Within finally moves into its long-awaited new home in east Pasadena, with a Twelfth Night opening Saturday. Artistic directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott show off the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:34PMDress in pink day, singing lessons while jogging, a 'love box' messaging network … when it comes to teaching the arts, are youth groups leaving schools behind?Where do artists first discov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMThe Oct. 26 episode of "South Park" gets a bit of Broadway razzle dazzle thanks to Tony Award winner Robert Lopez, who collaborated with his fellow Book of Mormon co-authors Trey S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMWest is East is and East is West, and Sometimes in AlbertaThere’s not much happening in the Canadian theatre scene that doesn’t happen in Alberta. by Anne NothofBorders are blurrin…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:26PMNo choreographer alive knows more about getting pop songs on their feet than Twyla Tharp -- and just about everything she knows is on view in the musical “Come Fly Away.”
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMNow, Mr. Volpe, supportive, inspiring and funny, is directing the debut high school production of Spring Awakening, the Tony-winning musical that addresses child abuse, abortion, homosexuali…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:24PMHalloween is the most theatrical holiday, so it makes perfect sense that Broadway actors—who know a thing or two about rocking a costume—would embrace the spooky season. We asked…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:20PMSignal Ensemble Theatre's stunning 'East of Berlin' puts the spotlight on Hannah Moscovitch
When several shows open on the same night — a frequent occurrence in Chicago — we cri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:17PMAYT rounds up the most terrifying theatrical treats on offer in and around the capital ahead of the Halloween weekend.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:08PMLegit News: Nonprofit will develop new play by writer -- Looks like playwright-of-the-moment Stephen Karam's next play will show up at the Roundabout Theater Company, too: The Gotham nonprof…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PMRecently opened import from the West End, ‘The Mountaintop,’ starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, asks the intriguing question “what was Martin Luther King Jr’s…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 04:04PMA host of theatre favorites took part in City Center's Gala Reopening celebration Oct. 25 at the newly refurbished Manhattan venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PMWhen it comes to All the King’s Men, I have followed their burgeoning a cappella career from the group’s formation two years ago at King’s College London. Last night’s show, It’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMRoundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director has just announced a second commission to playwright Stephen Karam following his critically acclaimed first commission of Sons of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM
Mark Lamos, a resident of Sherman, Connecticut, is a director of plays, musicals and opera. The New York Times has called him "a poet of the theater," and his work receives a chapter in Samu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:59PMTony-Award nominee Sahr Ngaujah channels virile charm of rock star to play Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:55PMROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces A second commission for playwright of SPEECH & DEBATE and SONS OF THE PROPHET STEPHEN KARAM & An extension of limited engagement Through January …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:52PMI am in the lucky minority of Americans who walk to work everyday, and the commute is one of my favorite parts of the day. The exercise is nice, as is using my weathergear. (Back when I drov…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 03:52PMPeter Sellars and Toni Morrison agreed that he would stage Shakespeare’s “Othello” and that she would create a response to the work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:45PMChicago-based Luna Negra showcased works by Latino choreographers with theatrical exuberance, and was unafraid of humor.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:42PMREVIEW: This 1960s musical about a dance-hall hostess seeking love has great songs, but could use more pizazz.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:42PMHey-o! I’m baaaaack. Had to drop you a note with this update. Remember that perfect promo product I was searching for back at Day 91? (If you forgot, click here.) Well, we think …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:39PMLincoln Center Theater/LCT3 Presents
All-American
A new play by Julia Brownell
Directed by Evan Cabnet
Playing at the Duke at 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street project
October 24-No…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMAccording to the NY Times, Yale University Press wil publish Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical, one-act play- EXORCISM. The play, which was written by O'Neill soon after a failed suicide att…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMLegit News: Gregg, Slotnick in Atlantic one-acts -- Clark Gregg ("The Avengers") and Joey Slotnick are among the thesps signed on to appear in "Happy Hour," the latest collection of one-act …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PMOriginal Spring Awakening co-stars Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele will be reunited once again when Groff reprises his role as Vocal Adrenaline performer Jesse St. James opposite the Rachel o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMTicket resale marketplace StubHub has been granted U.S. patents relating to methods of "mapping price and location" for tickets at an event venue, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:10PMCHICAGO star and former AMERICAN IDOL judge Kara DioGuardi will share her story on an upcoming episode of E TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY, beginning October 26th.Shares Her True Hollywood Story on E …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre web site on the net is proud to announce a new partnership with Rodgers amp Hammerstein. The theatrical licensing organization which represents more th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMBroadway week continued on the Oct. 25 broadcast of the ABC reality series "Dancing With the Stars." Corbin Bleu, who was seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical In the He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMWHAT 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 SUGGE…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:07PMStephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, starring Santino Fontana and Joanna Gleason, has extended its off-Broadway run at the Laura Pels Theatre by one week. The Roundabout Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMDavid Zinman on The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival
David Zinman discusses his approach to Beethoven. For more information visit http://nyphil.org/beethoven
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:03PMIt’s easy to criticize; it’s harder to do something about it.National Theatre School celebrates 50 by getting together by David SklarNTS’ (National Theatre School of Canada) 50th…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:03PMEver wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Jeremy Woodard, currently starring as Stacee Jaxx in Broadway's Rock of Ages, offers Playbil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMAtlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director has just announceD complete casting for the world premiere production of Academy Award winning film ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMRoundabout Theatre Company has extended Stephen Karam's new play Sons of the Prophet, at the Laura Pels Theatre, through January 1. Peter DuBois has directed the production.
The pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PMRoundabout Theatre Company has given playwright Stephen Karam a second commission following his first commission, Sons of the Prophet, which is currently enjoying an acclaimed run Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Tony nominee Jonathan Groff is headed back to Glee as Jesse St. James later in season three for a multi-episode arc, according to TVLine.com. Groff's days as a student are over however a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMSusan Claassen plays the designer in the one-woman show “A Conversation With Edith Head,” which opens Friday at the Odyssey Theatre,
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:57PMCameron Mackintosh, in association with Southbrook Group Limited and Stage Entertainment UK, announced today full casting for the national tour of Cameron Mackintosh's new production of Lion…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMThe Royal Court has recently welcomed its production of Jerusalem back to the West End after continual successes wherever it is homed, but how nice to see that The Royal Court has another wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMRamin Karimloo will star as Jean Valjean' in the legendary musical LES MISRABLES at the Queen's Theatre from Tuesday 29 November 2011- Saturday 3 March 2012. Ramin joins the current West End…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMThen there is the current Broadway duo of Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone. Let’s just say, these Broadway stalwarts are making an effort to stay socially relevant.
SOURCE: simsscoop.com at 02:51PMAn Illinois native, Ebersole escaped the Midwest for the world of New York theater after what she describes as an extremely supportive upbringing. She discusses her development.An Illinois…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:49PMMike Bartlett’s new play 13 is a piece about belief and the shaping of leaders. It looks at the connections that we, within society, have between us, but also the impact of these conn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:48PMPost #310/26/2011by Mahira KakkarI’m sitting on the train blogging and listening to Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now" as I write. I’m trying to draw a parallel but there is none. …
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 02:45PMThe email below did it. As an educator and an artist, I read the request below from another amazing Indie Theatre supporter and I made a very clear cut decision. There are currently at least…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 02:39PMAmerican performer Van Hughes, who starred in the Broadway production of Green Day’s American Idiot, will also lead the cast of the North American tour that will debut in Toronto in Decemb…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:38PMHugh Jackman wasn't the only Broadway star back on stage last night as fans have been clammoring for. The 2010 Tony winning Best Musical MEMPHIS welcomed Tony Nominee Adam Pascal as Huey Cal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMIn 2008, the media was buzzing with the story ofa pregnancy pact made by teens in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Kirsten Greenidge was inspired to write Milk Like Sugar, an engaging and enlighte…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 02:33PMTaliesin, SwanseaFew modern classics bring more challenges, in particular the burden of expectation, than Anthony Burgess's dystopian shocker. How do you stage it to give the full force of i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMMichael Grandage's production of Mozart's opera – his debut at the Metropolitan Opera – has had some stinking reviews in New York. What's happened to the golden boy of British theatre?Ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMTony Award winners and original Evita co-stars Patti LuPone (Gypsy, Company, Anything Goes) and Mandy Patinkin (The Wild Party, Sunday in the Park With George) will bring their acclaimed con…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMTony Yazbeck (Chicago, Gypsy, A Chorus Line), Kimberly Faye Greenberg (One Night with Fanny Brice, Danny and Sylvia) and Jim Brochu (Zero Hour, The Man Who Came to Dinner) will star in a one…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMAccording to Deadline.com, Broadway veteran Alexandra Socha will be joining the cast of the upcoming fifth and final season of DirectTV's DAMAGES. Socha will play the daughter of Jenna Elfma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMLiviu Ciulei, an influential Romania-born director who was artistic director of Minnesota's Guthrie Theater for five years in the early 1980s, died Oct. 25. He was 88.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMA New York novelist who found inspiration in crude oil and a Brooklyn playwright who wrote about her Marxist grandparents have been awarded the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:12PMSoho, LondonYears ago, Stuart Silver was one half of Noble and Silver, Britain's most provocative (OK, its only) art-comedy double act. Then Kim Noble went solo, with an appallingly funny do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMCuban expatriate Paquito D'Rivera headlines a concert of Latin jazz stalwarts at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx on Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. He'll be performing with his Pan…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:08PMJim Brochu, Kimberly Faye Greenberg, and Tony Yazbeck will star in a one-night-only presentation of Meredith Willson's musical version of Miracle on 34th Street, to be presented at The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMHe's back! Tony winner Hugh Jackman has returned to Broadway for his much-anticipated concert series Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway. After finishing his first preview performance on Octo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMPeacock, LondonIf there was any doubt that hip-hop had finally grown out of the street and into the theatre, then Kate Prince's new production dispels it. Technically, Some Like It Hip …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMCassie Beck, Aya Cash, Clark Gregg, Susan Hyon, Rock Kohli, Gordon MacDonald, Amanda Quaid, Ana Reeder, Joey Slotnick and Lenny Venito will comprise the ensemble cast of Ethan Coen's Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Atlantic Theater Company announced the ensemble cast for the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, premiering Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT announced today complete casting for the eight new musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, Octobe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMReady for a night of surprising, sexy fun? Head to the Broadway premiere of Venus in Fur, starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy. David Ives’ comedy takes place in a rehearsal studio whe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PMCreative Seeds kicks off Cornerstone’s Hunger Cycle, a series of nine world premiere plays spanning the next five years. We’re hosting two weeks of performances, discussions and learning…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:50PM“I really wanted to tell a story that did justice to the work of rebuilding after that kind of disaster.” -Dan Dietz, Playwright, Clementine in the Lower 9 To better tell the sto…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:49PMLincoln Center Theater's production of BLOOD AND GIFTS, a new play by J.T. Rogers, directed by Bartlett Sher, beings previews tomorrow Thursday, Oct. 27 at 8 pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMDid you miss his readings-and-chat evening with Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and David Adjmi? Good news, it's all here.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:47PMThe pre-Broadway production of Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, directed by Richard Eyre, is currently playing Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre. PRIVATE LIV…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMTony Award nominee Sheryl Lee Ralph, who created the role of Deena Jones in the original Broadway company of Dreamgirls, recently talked with Heath Daniels backstage at the 21st annual Divas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMKevin Richardson may soon be back with the Backstreet Boys. The pop singer, who quit the group in 2006, has revealed there's a possibility he will reunite with his former boy band mates.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:45PMA preliminary lineup of participants has been announced for the Drama Desk's panel discussion Anatomy of a Breakout, to be offered on Sunday, November 13 at 8pm at Fordham's Mainst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMJohn Leguizamo has headlined three Broadway solo shows, not to mention countless movie and TV appearance, but only now is the 47-year-old performer making his London stage debut. The Colombi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMThe Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis has hired Management
Consultants for the Arts Inc. to find a replacement for Executive
Director Paul Ha. The firm, based in Stamford, Conn., has lead
ex…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:42PMWe are pleased to announce the second round of 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards! Granted to TCG member theaters across the U.S., the awards, totaling $762,000, allow 22 thea…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:40PMThe Steven Sater-Burt Bacharach musical Some Lovers, the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMFela Sizzler
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champion, he d…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:37PMOur weekend show going at BAM and the Chocolate Factory
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:35PM#NEWPLAY battles another challenger--#LUDDITE Who will be victorious?? Will #NEWPLAY be dethroned?
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:32PMTony Award winner Lea Salonga will receive the Heritage Award at the Outstanding Filipino Americans in New York Awards, held Oct. 29 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMFor the theatre nerd in us all, THEATRE RECORD, the long-serving chronicle of the English stage, is an essential resource: a fortnightly print magazine that reprints complete, unabridged nat…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:27PMAnd the latest one to go up is LOVE ME by Jason Grossman published in our latest anthology Plays and Playwrights 2011. Publishing the play on Indie Theater Now allows us to give the reader m…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 01:26PMIn David Henry Hwang’s Broadway comedy, “Chinglish,” a Cleveland sign-maker eagerly, if somewhat naively, treks to China to expand his family business.
Negotiations ensue, alo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:24PMThere’s a brand new Huey Calhoun in the deejay booth at Memphis, and it’s Tony-nominated Broadway fave Adam Pascal! As the hit musical enters its third year at the Shubert Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMThe film Anonymous falls for ill-informed Victorian prating – sadly, many still find fantasy more compelling than mere truthHowever much we may claim to be curious about hat really happen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:22PM#NEWPLAY TV - is a 'commons' aiming to free up the flow of knowledge and information in our field. It's a free, open-access, shared-resource for livestreaming any kind of event relevant to t…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 01:21PMJoe's Pub will begin a new series called New York Voices in November, which will feature critically acclaimed artists debuting original works that were commissioned by the venue.
Com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:21PMTuesday, November 8th, 2011, 7pm to 9pmGoodman Theatre Club Mezz, 2nd Floor170 North Dearborn StreetThe event will be co-hosted by Douglas Post (Chicago Regional Rep, DG) and Elizabeth Margo…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:09PME! presents "True Hollywood Story: Kara DioGuardi," premiering Oct. 26 at 10 PM ET with repeated airings continuing through Oct. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming North American tour of Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway hit called wonderfully raucous and emotionally charged…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMVenus in Fur, David Ives' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, made its Broadway premiere Oct. 13 following an acclaimed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMTheatre Communications Group 10/26/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PMComplete casting has been announced for Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere production of Happy Hour, three one act plays from Ethan Coen. Directed by Neil Pepe, the production beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PM
According to published reports, Romanian theatre and film director Liviu Ciulei passed away yesterday, October 25. He was 88 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:52PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Ethan Coen has another set of one-act plays on the way....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:48PMEthan Coen has another set of one-act plays on the way.
The Atlantic Theater Company said Wednesday that the Academy Award winner — best known in the film world as half of the prolific Coe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:47PMEclipse Theatre Company will present the 2011 Corona Award to Steppenwolf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director Erica Daniels on Sunday November 6th at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:47PMBill Cosby will be among the honorees at the 9th annual Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Awards, to be held at the Nate Holden Theatre Center in Los Angeles on Monday, November 7. Kim Coles w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMOlivier Award winner Elaine Paige, who is currently playing Carlotta Campion in the Kennedy Center's critically acclaimed production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThis week THEATER TALK welcomes actors Patrick Page, Isabel Keating and Michael Mulheren, members of the cast of the musical SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK. These uber-talented troopers, all i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:34PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "Alive" by Brikenbrak Theatre Project ★★½ and "Audience Annihilated Part One: Women Only Train" by Dream Theatre ★★
"Alive"
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:32PMAmy Winehouse died from drinking too much alcohol, a pathologist said Wednesday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:29PMTwo time Tony nominated actress Mary Testa is reprising her role as Hilda Chester in a concertreading of award winning musical theater writer Anne Berlin, and Andrew Bleckner's new solo musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMCasting has been announced for the previously reported North American tour of Green Day's American Idiot. The show will premiere in Toronto December 28 - January 15 before continuing on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PM How crowds and spaces affect PigPen Theatre Company’s work A play’s identity changes based on where you see it and whom you see it with. The same production seems differen…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:22PMROCK OF AGES, the smash-hit 80's rock musical that has been deemed Broadway's Biggest Party, will become Japan's Biggest Party when a new Japanese-language production of the show opens this …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMWith earsplitting audio effects rivaling those of the latest “Transformers” movie sequel, the Folger Theatre’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello is geared toward attrac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:22PMJeremy Herrin's revival of Ariel Dorfman's play about the consequences of torture still resonates, and
achieves white-knuckle tension
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:21PMIn April, director and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis was shot dead. Now his West Bank theatre group are back with a play about fear, intimidation and the psychological impact of occupationThe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMTony winner Robert Lopez recently reunited with his Book of Mormon co-composers Trey Parker and Matt Stone to write a Broadway-themed episode of their long-running animated series South Park…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMAn intellectual, interesting, and engaging play, Venus in Fur, by David Ives is now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Featured just last se…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:21PMRather than the previously scheduled The Addiction Diaries: Dancing with Demons,The Love Show will present the NYC debut of Sex Magic. The show has wowed crowds in Pennsylvania, New Jersey a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:18PM"Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2," featuring songs from Fox's hit show "Glee," will be available online and in store Nov. 15. The album is now available…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMTen years ago, nobody knew what ‘trending’ was. It certainly wasn’t shell suits and bum bags. You’d be considered a vandal if you wrote on somebody’s wall – and if you suggested …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:13PMTony Award-nominated Book of Mormon star Josh Gad is at work on a new pilot for NBC that takes a look at a dysfunctional family living in the White House, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMThe full list of participants in the 2011 24 HOUR PLAYS on Broadway has just been announced, according to the NY Post. Actors include Amber Tamblyn, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Cheyenne Jack…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMEthan Coen has another set of one-act plays on the way. The Atlantic Theater Company said Wednesday that the Academy Award winner -- best known in the film world as half of the prolific Coen…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PMIt's Official: I Can Now Gush OnlineIn a previous post or two I've hinted that something was in the works and now that all interested and participated parties have signed on to well...partic…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:10PMThe late Steve Jobs is the center of attention in Mike Daisey's latest play "The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs," currently playing off-Broadway at The Public Theater.
SOURCE: NY1 at 12:07PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced final casting for the previously reported eight musicals that have been selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMWell, I'm not full of myself enough to think that anyone from TV reads my little slice of the blogosphere, but I am glad that something I hoped for came true this week on Dancing with the St…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMThere’s a new set of Idiots, and they’re coming to a city near you. Van Hughes will star as Johnny in the national tour of American Idiot, joined by Degrassi: The Next Generation…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMThere’s a new set of Idiots, and they’re coming to a city near you. Van Hughes will star as Johnny in the national tour of American Idiot, joined by Degrassi: The Next Generation…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PM
Tony Award-nominated Rent star Adam Pascal, who created the role of Roger in that Pulitzer Prize-winning production, joined the Tony-winning musical Memphis Oct. 25 at the Shubert Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMVan Hughes, the standby for the trio of broken buddy roles in Broadway's American Idiot, will play Johnny — also known as Jesus of Suburbia — in the national tour of the Gree…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMColumbia Pictures will be releasing its highly anticipated dramatic film, Anonymous on October 28, 2011. Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, Anonymous speculates on an iss…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:55AMFela! Opening Night
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champio…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AMTony Award nominee Cathy Rigby has taken her green tights out of storage to reprise her role as the title character, also known as the boy who wouldn’t grow up, in the national tour of Pet…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMOne-man show Circumcise Me! Traces the voyage of Yisrael Campbell from nice Catholic boy to orthodox Jew
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:52AMThe box office for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN is now open at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street. Tickets also available through Telecharge.com (212-239-6200).…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:46AMMike Bartlett’s hotly-anticipated follow up to last year’s Earthquakes in London (currently on a UK tour), 13, premiered in the NT Olivier last night (26 October 2011, previews f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:46AMAnother Disney musical is headed to Broadway. "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to the story of Peter Pan, will open on Broadway in spring 2012, its producers said last week.
Disney The…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:43AMJoseph Douaihy knows about pain. So do the people all around him, the region they live in, and the country his family is from. Yet in Stephen Karam’s “Songs of the Prophet,” all this p…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:39AMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that the musical BARE is officially getting a new lease on life, beginning with two industry readings next week, October 31 and November 1. The Damon Intrabartolo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMThe 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 11:39AMThe choreographer, known for his radical updates of classic works, is to create a new version of Tchaikovsky's ballet in which the princess will wake up in 2011 – and not fall in love at f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Mary Testa will reprise her role as Hilda Chester in a concert reading of Howling Hilda and the Brooklyn Dodgers, at Joe's Pub on Monday, November 21 at 9:30…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMMalcolm X presents his closing remarks in a debate at Oxford Union, a special all university organization as part of Oxford University billed as “the world’s most…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:35AMPlaybill.com has learned that due to the vocal demands of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice score, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger will play six of the eight weekly perf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMEvery fourth Wednesday of the month, the “VIP Access” column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:33AMLast week I wrote about the fact that Boston often seems to be ahead of the national curve, theatrically - even ahead of New York (or at least neck-and-neck). That doesn't mean we're n…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:28AMThe Broadway League announced today that actor and musician Nick Jonas will serve as the 2012 KIDS' NIGHT ON BROADWAY National Ambassador. Jonas, who began his career on stage at age 8, retu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMSignature Theatre will host a wine and cheese reception to celebrate the release of Matt Conner's holiday CD, Snow, to be held in the theater's lobby on Sunday, November 6 from 5pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMBroadway Week on Dancing With the Stars continued on the October 25 episode, in which Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth showed off her country roots by singing her newest single “Lessons L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMFrom FiveThirtyEight:
Below are the Republican and Democrat’s endorsements as a percentage of the total endorsements given out that cycle:
Oh, I see... the "left wing media bias" is "R…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:19AMThe box office for AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN opens today, Wednesday, October 26 at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street. Tickets also available through Telecharg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMAn exciting evening of song featuring a pair of stage superstars is headed to Broadway: Tickets are now on sale for An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which reunites the friend…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMTony Award-winning Light in the Piazza composer-lyricist Adam Guettel will host "Behind-the-Music-al Wants You," a concert of contemporary theatre songs, Nov. 21 at the 92YTribeca.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AM"Live From Lincoln Center" will present New York Philharmonic: New Year's Eve Gala, celebrating the music of American twentieth-century composers Leonard Bernstein and George G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMRock of Ages will launch a tour of Japan with an engagement at the Tokyo International Forum, running October 28 - November 6. Katsuhide Suzuki has directed the production, which, with musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMI have produced exactly one movie, so far, but I still get lots of movie pitches and screenplays. I don't mind them, actually, because I'm sure I will stick my toe in the water again soon wh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
This item from David Johnston (Playing With Canons) Blue Coyote Theater Group and Playwrights for Pets present a reading of excerpts from David Johnston’s new full length play, CONEY o…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 10:59AM- This play will probably always be part of the dramatic canon, because it tells a story that seems to repeat itself as often as summer rain. From Socrates to Christ, to Jan Hus, to Dreyfu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMFela! Opening Night
FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose soulful Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champio…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AMA new Japanese-language production of the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages will begin performances Oct. 28 at the Tokyo International Forum.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMThe London dance theatre edges into loss and warns that financial pressures threaten to curb future experimental projects
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:49AMThe London dance theatre edges into loss and warns that financial pressures threaten to curb future experimental projects
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:49AMPop star and Broadway actor Nick Jonas will serve as the 2012 Kids Night on Broadway National Ambassador.
Running February 5-9, the popular program lets kids ages 6 to 18 in to see Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMPop star and Broadway actor Nick Jonas will serve as the 2012 Kids Night on Broadway National Ambassador.
Running February 5-9, the popular program lets kids ages 6 to 18 in to see Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMCharles Dickens himself would be proud of the bold theatricality of this version of "Oliver Twist," his saga of an orphaned boy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:46AMThe above was our half-joking working title at American Theatre for this great new feature by David Cote, which surveys 12 of the nation's most influential theater critics about the state of…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:46AMJohn Lam in a stellar performance.The fall season is now at its height, so the week is overflowing with openings and premieres. Last night I caught You Better Sit Down, a meditation on…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:43AMIn an otherwise flat week for Broadway ticket sales, the season's newer productions remained the box office's standout performers.
The week ending October 23 drew a cumulative $21,527,954 in…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:38AMCasting is now complete for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals, which will run Oct. 27-28 at New World Stages. John Treacy Egan, Megan Lawrence, Ryan Du…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMIs it nostalgic to constantly revisit the history of the royal family? In this new play by Nicholas Wright, which opened last night, we travel back in time to 1980 when the aged Wallis Simps…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:36AMThe 92Y Tribeca has announced its lineup of theater-related offerings for November and December.
Performers will include The Story Pirates (November 9 at 7pm), which delivers sketch comedy …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMOn Tuesday, October 25, New York City's historic City Center officially reopened its doors following a historic renovation and modernization. The renovation, designed by Ennead Architec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AM“You unfurl the wings of time and to both tips you tie all the threads that weave my name. You take a handful of the earth that covers me and infuse each speck with a breath of eternit…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:32AMThe New Group's production of Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, starring Tony nominee Hunter Foster, begins previews at the Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row on October 26. New Group artistic di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMThe actor previously shot down rumors of an album, though he has contributed musically to the "Twilight" and "How to Be" soundtracks.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:22AMThe Scottish Ballet made its Minnesota debut at the Orpheum in a performance anything but traditional.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:21AMSome of Hollywood’s biggest names will once again be teaming up with six writers and directors to put together one of Broadway’s most extreme rites of theater.
The Post has exclusively l…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:21AMPlaygoer throws down the gauntlet to the Oxfordians, gets a reading list.Matthew Freeman gets precisely one response to a bleg for critics people like.Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker are almost…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:20AMVeanne Cox and Derek Smith will star as Beatrice and Benedick in The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, to run November 25- J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMActors/Actresses: Amber Tamblyn (Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee for Joan of Arcadia)
Billy Crudup (Tony Award Winner for Coast of Utopia)
Carla Gugino (Watchmen, Entourage, Desire Under the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14AMHappy Birthday, Matthew Morrison!
October 30, 2011 - Matt's fans from all over the world get together to wish him a great 33rd birthday!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:13AMOn this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA, Robin Roberts had a chance to speak with DANCING WITH THE STARS pro Maks Chmerkovskiy to ask him about the latest controversy between himself and the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMNick Jonas, who will return to Broadway Jan. 24, 2012, in the acclaimed revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, will serve as the National Ambassador for the 2012 Kids&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMThe award-winning actress talks about her role in the Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMIvo Van Hove serves up a devastating adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film about a dying artist.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
There’s an audience for Milk Like Sugar, the new play by Kirstin Greenidge that’s currently playing at Playwrights Horizons. But it's clearly not for everyone. About half way through thi…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:58AMIt's ironic to say this given what I do for a living, but I think we focus way too much on the mix of artistic and business skills. Don't get me wrong, understanding how to create work, prom…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:55AMNew Diorama, LondonWhy would a young Swedish woman, Susanne (Jessica Claire), suddenly abandon her husband and one-year-old child, catch a flight to Israel and turn up at the offices of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMGrammy-winner emerges from audience of British theatre company's Sleep No More to sing duet with cast memberImmersive theatre company Punchdrunk are renowned for treating intrepid audiences …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AME! will run the TV special, True Hollywood Story: Kara DioGuardi, on
Wednesday, October 26 at 10pm, with repeated airings scheduled through November 1.
In the show, the famous songwriter …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMLainie Kazan attended the late show of Zumanity - The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil at New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 25.
Kazan received a Tony nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMLainie Kazan attended the late show of Zumanity - The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil at New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday, October 25.
Kazan received a Tony nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMTo celebrate Barbara Cook's 2011 Kennedy Center Honor, Feinstein's at Loews Regency will rollback prices to when the club opened in 1999 for Cook and Feinstein's upcoming cabaret…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMPerformances began last night for Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th Street. Everyone remembering the stage door frenzy at his previous two Broadway bows …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMFilm and stage director Liviu Ciulei has died, according to a report in Variety. He was 88.
Ciulei began his career as an actor in his native Romania and later turned to directing. He wen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMDirected by Alan Souza, the revised "A Christmas Carol the Musical"" will have new costumes by Bottari and Case.
SOURCE: littlerock.broadwayworld.com at 09:31AMRight on the heels of her Disney Legend citation that had recognized her iconic vocal recordings for two Disney Princesses Mulan from MULAN and Jasmine from ALLADIN, Lea Salonga, born and ra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMA benefit reading of A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room will be presented Nov. 2 at the New York Society of Colonial Dames in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMToday is Ned Harrigan’s birthday. Since my original post on Harrigan and Hart concentrates mainly on the team’s vaudeville days (then ends before their true fame even truly begin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AMHappy Birthday Hockadoo The 2010 Tony winning Best Musical MEMPHIS welcomed Tony Nominee Adam Pascal as Huey Calhoun, beginning performances on Tuesday, October 25th and the show celebrated …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:25AMWhen the Westfield shopping centre opened at Shepherd's Bush, I marked an opening at the old Bush Theatre by paying a visit en route. So it was only fair I should do the same on my first vis…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:23AMStacy Francis, who starred as Rusty in the Broadway company of Footloose, is among the Top 12 Finalists of the new Fox singing competition, "The X Factor."
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AMWomen School is ginormous wigs, sauciness, really tight pants, and a great baguette beat down to boot. Highly Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:15AMA coroner says Amy Winehouse died as the unintended consequence of drinking too much alcohol.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:06AMThis droll, tuneful and thoroughly winning burlesque bears little resemblance to the New York corpse whose sole virtue was comic genius Nathan Lane in the lead as Gomez.Taking the show for t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:00AM 
