NY1's Roma Torre reviews "Chinglish," a new play from writer David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:51PMAt 10:05 he began to let them touch him. They had been after his flesh a long while, but it is only now, after he is almost done, that he allowed them contact. His fingertips to theirs, he m…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:27PMIf miscommunication is comedy gold, David Henry Hwang has set his new Broadway show, “Chinglish,” in a veritable mine. Though he doesn’t tap the vein to its full potential, there are s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PMIf you want to score easy laughs, put a wacky dance in your play. Having characters trip on acid is another time-tested recipe.
“Better safe than sorry,” Jesse Eisenberg must have though…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:24PMSam Mendes wanted to spring a surprise on his high-calibre cast gathered at Pinewood studios for a script reading of the latest 007 adventure.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 10:22PMLegit Reviews: David Henry Hwang puts a happy face on "Chinglish," his new play about a naive American entrepreneur who crashes head-first into language and cultural barriers when he tries t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:21PMJesse Eisenberg mocks PC pieties in his smart, cringe-comedy debut.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 10:15PMLegit Reviews: Jesse Eisenberg has written himself a juicy acting role in "Asuncion" as an idealistic social reformer whose intellectual pretensions make him the exact opposite of Mark Zucke…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:13PMCHINGLISH will play at the Longacre Theatre making its Broadway premiere following its world premiere production at Goodman Theatre in Chicago this summer. The show began performances on Oct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04PMQueen of the Mist is a world premiere musical with words and music by 5-time Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Hello Again). Based on an astounding and out…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:02PMA.R. Gurney's rarely-seen play about an unhappy WASP family is too quiet to raise much of a theatrical ruckus.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMJesse Eisenberg's comedy about a clueless blogger offers considerable charms and fine performances.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDavid Henry Hwang's clever and entertaining comedy centers on the challenges faced by an American businessman in China.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIn David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish,” now on Broadway, an American businessman hoping to make his fortune in China goes through a maze of cultural confusion and linguistic blunders.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Asuncion,” a new play written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, is about the delicate mysteries of male friendship.
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Peter Sellars is an extremely articulate person. When the theatre director opens his mouth to speak -- and it doesn't matter whether he's discussing the inner workings of the US State Depart…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:53PMWelcome to "Vox PHAMILIA: Quadrapalooza" — PHAMALy's fourth annual fall comedy catharsis, an evening when 13 performers have a whole lot of fun at your expense. And their own.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:49PMLegit Reviews: What "A Mighty Wind" did for folk music and "Altar Boyz" did for boy bands, "The Doyle & Debbie Show" does for country music duos.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:48PMSTEVE COOK (Director) has been on theStella Adler faculty since 1995 where he has directed over 30 plays and iscurrently working as a movement teacher. Mr. Cook was a member of the…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:43PMAVERYPEARSON (Performer) works out of NYC and Toronto as an actor,writer, reviewer and producer. Theatre: Monster (2010soloNOVA Arts Festival at PS122), WillyNilly (2009…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:38PMLegit News: Ellington-inspired production sets cast -- Adriane Lenox, Brandon Victor Dixon and jazz vocalist Carla Cook are among the performers who have signed on for "Cotton Club Parade," …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews a mash-up of Tarantino and the Bard in "Pulp Shakespeare" at Theatre Asylum.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PMOn Tuesday morning at around 10.30am in Oakland, I became a citizen of the United States of America along with 1202 people hailing from 93 countries.I was surprisingly moved by the experienc…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 07:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #104: Desdemona, Cal Performances, October 26.
By Sam Hurwitt
Toni Morrison’s play Desdemona came out of a bargain of sorts with director Peter Sellars. The…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:14PMA COWARD IN PEACETIME [Undelivered letter to Noël Coward discovered in North Hollywood:] My Darling Noël: Sir Anthony here, writing to you from the palm-drenched regions of Los Angeles, wh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:12PMChaz Bono, the latest celebrity to be voted out of DANCING WITH THE STARS, has set his sights on a new goal Broadway.Bono told Good Morning America today that he'd love to appear on the Grea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:12PMMusic Theatre International (MRI) brings tuners to your iPhone and Salome Jens portrays Hadassah co-founder Henrietta Szold. Street rock tuner, The Playground, returns to LA while Idol …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:09PMTune in to watch RELATIVELY SPEAKING’s Steve Guttenberg visit NBC 4 “New York Live” tomorrow, Friday, October 28 in the 3:00pm half hour. “New York Live” airs on NBC channel 4 in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:06PMCurating an international arts festival, says Adelaide Festival artistic director Paul Grabowsky, isn't simply a matter of assembling a shopping list. And it's complicated. "With someth…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:01PMLike other publicly funded enterprises, Opera North is feeling the pinch, and has had to cut back on the current season. But it retains its characteristic spirit of adventure, and is mountin…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMI just wanted to write a play that told the story of the people involved in an extraordinary series of events. I am not a Stoppard or a Hare, I am neither intellectual nor political but I th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWe often hear, from dramatists and actors, about the magical togetherness that theatre can create in an audience – those special moments which are the product of a live performance meeting…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMMichael Keegan-Dolan's Fabulous Beast dance company is best known for its sense of drama. His versions of Giselle and Irish mythology turned them into lurid contemporary stories, confrontati…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMLike other publicly funded enterprises, Opera North is feeling the pinch, and has had to cut back on the current season. But it retains its characteristic spirit of adventure, and is mountin…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMMike Bartlett's ambitious new epic, 13, is set in a not-so-alternative present-day world of street protests and economic misery where Londoners repeatedly awaken from identical nightmares o…
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In “Under the Blue Sky,” David Eldridge, the gifted and prolific British playwright, demonstrates he is a master at building heated dramatic encounters between men and women. And the act…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:49PMIts ingenious premise opens the door to a large-scale production. But it doesn't have to be that way, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater shows how "Follies" can profit from being presented in a…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:44PMThe actor Stephen Pucci talks about speaking Chinese in David Henry Hwang’s new Broadway play, “Chinglish.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:40PMDavid Rooney The play was a smash in Chicago, but its charms feel a little stretched as it makes its Broadway debut, writes THR's David Rooney.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:32PMBlake Robison, who became producing artistic director of Bethesda’s Round House Theatre in 2005 and has spearheaded a repertory built on literary adaptations for the stage, announced Thurs…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMIn “Chinglish,” David Henry Hwang’s funny and timely new play, an American man declares his love for a Chinese woman in Chinese: “Frog loves to pee,” he says with feeling. That is …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:19PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning TADA! Youth Theater has announced plans for its 27th season, which commences November 18, 2011.
The season will be comprised of Sneak Peek: School of Rockwell (…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:13PMWHAT 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 06:09PMIn response to last week’s blog post, we were offered some comp tickets to attend Chicago Live! At the Chicago Theatre on November 10, see below if you want to join us – it’s a salon/p…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 06:07PMLegit Reviews: No spoiler alert is needed to accompany the observation that Wallis Simpson, the eponymous Duchess of Windsor, is onstage in Nicholas Wright's quietly fascinating new play for…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:01PMCast members of the Broadway musicals Rock of Ages and Sister Act will perform from their respective shows at the Grand Opening of Citi Pond at Bryant Park on Friday, October 28. The festivi…
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Broadway on the High Seas cruise launched its inaugural voyage in September with a 10-day trip through the Mediterranean. Entertainment onboard the award-winning Regent Seven Seas Mariner i…
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SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:52PMComedian Margaret Cho will be among the performers who will join Emmy-winning composer/songwriter Lance Horne for his First Things Last songbook release party, to be held at The Coterie on T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PMPlaywright Jordan Harrison has issues with the way technology has permeated modern life. On one hand, where would we be today without it?On the other hand, wouldn’t it be nice to live a si…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:48PMIt's 1980, and although the sun may have not yet set on the British Empire, it seems to be down to its last feeble rays in playwright Stephen Wyatt's satirical monologue, "The Standard Beare…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:47PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, October 27, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:42PMThe Beverly Hills Theatre Guild annually sponsors the Julie Harris Playwright Awards Competition to discover new theatrical works and to encourage established or emerging writers to create q…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:40PMSeattle Repertory Theatre stages Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation," a play about five people in a New England college town who turn out for a creative-drama class.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:39PMAlbie Selznick took up magic as a boy, finding solace in it after his father's death. Then he gradually left it behind in his professional pursuits, becoming a co-founder of The Mums and a w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:34PMEntire seasons have been known to fly by without a new playwright to celebrate. Now we have two.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:33PMWith wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez has written Finding Nemo The Musical and songs for Winnie the Pooh Disney feature animation, 2011. Today BroadwayWorld has confirmed that the p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMTony nominee Gavin Creel is a founder of Broadway Impact, the nonprofit group dedicated to marriage equality, and the handsome actor is using his musical talents to further the group's c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMA Connecticut court ruled this week that a defamation lawsuit filed by TicketNetwork against The Bushnell can proceed.
Secondary ticket marketplace TicketNetwork filed the lawsuit in April a…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:27PMThe problem with Martin McDonaugh's work lies with the overall tone of the piece. Directed by Rick Snyder, Behanding is largely a one-note wonder, all shrill screaming and no emotional convi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:02PM
Tony award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton talks about her work and her two pieces in Lincoln Center’s upcoming White Light Festival: “Necessary Weather” and “Spectral Scri…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:56PMIn celebration of the the 50th anniversary of the film version of Leonard Bernstein's iconic West Side Story, the Manhattan School of Music's Jazz Orchestra will hold a concert on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:45PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld's new feature, and first-ever talk show, BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE. Follow Richard as he visits Broadway's best and brightest in their Broadway dressing rooms and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMMusicals Tonight! will continue its ongoing celebration of Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies with its latest edition of At This Performance..., to play at The Lion Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:34PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company's new Washington, DC, production of Much Ado About Nothing will feature Tony Award nominees Veanne Cox as Beatrice and Derek Smith as Benedick, under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMTony Award nominee Lou Diamond Phillips will guest star in the season premiere of TNT's Southland, airing January 17, according to EW.com.
The actor, who will play a street cop named D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMJennifer Lopez got emotional at the Mohegan Sun last weekend, but it wasn't because the Connecticut casino was celebrating its 15th birthday. Apparently, the sexy superstar had past loves on…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:23PMJames Tan answers our question: What's the Future of Theatre? If you want to share your video on this blog: 1. You can go to youtube.com/my_webcam 2. Record Your Response with your webcam…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:22PM@CuttingBall:Just tried out new @Twitter feed in the lobby of the theater. Anything posted to @CuttingBall will appear real time. FOR TWEET CLICK HERE!
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:22PMThe inaugural Acting Fellowship is a mentorship program designed for Chicago-based early-career or emerging actors with limited training. FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE!
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:22PMThe Guinness Book of World Records has named Samuel L. Jackson as the highest grossing movie actor of all time with an estimated $7.2 billion gross, according to EW.com.
Jackson is currentl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMLauren Kennedy shows off her star quality as controversial political figure Eva Peron in the North Carolina Theatre's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita Oct. 22-3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMFive years ago, Jesse Eisenberg, the 28-year-old actor best known for playing arrogant but oddly endearing nerds like Walt in The Squid and the Whale and, most famously, Mark Zuckerberg in T…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:06PMYoung Playwrights Inc. has announced the winners of its National Playwriting Competition. The prizes recognize excellence in writing for the stage by authors who are under 19 years old.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMThe award-winning York Theatre Company presents the second production of its Fall 2011 Musicals in Mufti Concert Series-the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMLast night's South Park revealed the secret meaning behind every Broadway musical: They're packed with subliminal messages encouraging female audience members to perform oral sex on their ma…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:05PMPhilip Brandes reviews Julian Sands' staging of Stephan Wyatt’s satirical monologue 'The Standard Bearer' at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:05PMMillion Dollar Quartet is Whipping Audiences into a FRENZY!
The international smash-hit musical, Million Dollar Quartet, is electrifying audiences across America
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:04PM 65 excited fourth graders from Sunny Sands School jumped onto their favorite animals and took the first spin on the Los Angeles Zoo’s handsome new carousel today. The new Tom…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:02PMCarla Cook, Brandon Victor Dixon, Jared Grimes, and Adriane Lenox will be among the featured performers in Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Parade with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Linco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PMCity committee members give a preliminary green light to new plans.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:00PMMegan Hilty, who will star in the upcoming NBC musical series "Smash," will join the Seattle Men's Chorus for Cool Yule.
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One Armed Man will present Adam Klasfeld's new play I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill's Lover, Last Night for a one night performance at the Little Theatre of the LaGuardia Performing Arts …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMComplete casting has been announced for Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Parade, a celebration of Ellington’s years at the famed Harlem nightclub in the 1920s and early ‘30s, w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMA smart new Walker Art Center show surveys recent trends in graphic design.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:53PMMolly Maher at the Cedar; best beer pourer
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:52PMIsaac's briefest manifesto ever:
The ultimate purpose of art-- particularly writing-- is not self-expression. Self-expression is, in general, what art is made out of, it's base materials…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:46PMBroadway.com suggested it first: Chaz Bono in a Broadway musical. Though our list of possible roles was written with tongue (slightly) in cheek, the newly ousted Dancing With the Stars conte…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:43PMCornerstone Theater's next big cycle will include nine plays on hunger and food-related subjects over the next five years. But first, the public is invited to two weeks of appetizers under t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:41PMIf Shakespeare did not write the plays attributed to him, who then? According to Anonymous, an airless, bilious, endless pageant of pseudohistory, it was Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxf…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:40PMQuiara Alegría Hudes' Project At Hartford Stage Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageQuiara Alegría Hudes had no plans to write a …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:39PM... a big musical on its way ... Odyssey calls itself an epic musical and it is. It has the look of a musical headed to Broadway and -- with some strengthening -- it will get there. Meanwhil…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:39PMTune in to watch RELATIVELY SPEAKING star Marlo Thomas on NBC's The Today Show tomorrow morning, Friday, October 28, in the 800am half hour. The Today Show airs on NBC Channel 4 in the New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:39PMOnly Beyonce can make trashy look glamorous. Her new music video, "Party," is set in a trailer park -- but the pregnant superstar still looks haute couture in a bunch of wardrobe changes inc…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:38PM"Seminar" and "Stick Fly" are two new plays set to open on Broadway within the next few weeks. NY1's Frank DiLella recently caught up with the folks behind both productions.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:35PMFirst DateOctober 27, 2011by Gaëtan L. CharleboisAs the play began last night - Fanny Britt's Chaque jour - I realized there was nowhere else I would rather be at that moment. I think …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:34PMTony award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton talks about her work and her two pieces in Lincoln Center’s upcoming White Light Festival: “Necessary Weather” and “Spectral Scri…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:31PMMidwestern landscapes rendered in oil.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:30PMAs the cast of Lysistrata Jones prepares to take on Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre when the musical begins previews Nov. 12, the cast hit the court with former NBA superstar Chris Mullin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMPlus "Songs for a Swan" and "Bat Boy"
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:26PMActor and Twin Cities native Ali Rose Dachis digs into a challenging role as a teenager in search of herself.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:24PM“Marlo Thomas is sublime as this fragrant but poisonous powder puff, and she perfectly captures the obliviousness that is a byproduct of overweening ego.” – Charles Isherwood, The New …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:15PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee will assemble for the first time during the 2011-2012 season the afternoon of Nov. 3, according to a Tony Awards spokesperson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:11PMCan’t wait to hear Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin join their voices in Sondheim classics such as “In Buddy’s Eyes” and “Old Friends”? Click on below for …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:10PMDavid Henry Hwang's Chicago-born play puts new spin on East-West relations
NEW YORK — David Henry Hwang's direct-from-Chicago comedy "Chinglish" arrives on Broadway amid a crowded fal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes announced today that the Ford Foundation has generously awarded The Public Theater a 2 million grant …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMAs Cynthia, a wife with a very special skill, Priscilla Queen of the Desert's J. Elaine Marcos reveals plenty of skin on stage at the Palace Theatre. So, it's no surprise that the bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:03PMThe New York Pops orchestra, under the musical direction of Steven Reineke, will celebrate the holidays with swinging seasonal favorites sung by John Pizzarelli (Dream) and Jessica Molaskey …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMTony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's new play Chinglish opens on Broadway after a sell-out run in Chicago. Author of the hit play M. Butterfly, Hwang is back…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:00PM
Theatre star Lea Salonga and GLEE star Darren Criss gave a surprise performance at Monday's BillboardHollywood Reporter TV amp Film Music Conference, serenading Oscar-Winning Composer Alan M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMToday 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 02:55PMAge & Hometown: 32; Hong Kong
Current role: Making her Broadway debut as ball-busting Chinese official Xi Yan in David Henry Hwang's bilingual comedy Chinglish.
Mama's Girl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMThree-time Tony Award-winning Avenue Q and Book of Mormon writer Robert Lopez and his wife, lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez, are collaborating on the new romantic stage musical Up Here.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMPerformers have been announced for Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays, to be presented at Beacon Theatre on Sunday, December 4, at 8pm.
At the event, Lauper will be joined by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PM'Patti LuPone A Memoir,' which was released in September 2010, will be available in paperback on beginning November 8. Chronicling her life from her childhood through her Tony-winng role in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMI guess Occupy Wall St. is on our minds, because people are tossing out all sorts of solutions, lately! Ways we can solve our problem in the arts, that is. Here is a round-up of some interes…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:21PMThe Aerosmith rocker sported a shiny black eye and bruises on his face Wednesday night when he appeared on stage during a concert in Asunción, Peru.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:20PMKerry Butler and Jarrod Spector will perform at Landmark on Main Street's Spotlight Gala '11, to be held at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on November 5.
The event will honor Leslie &a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMMeryl Streep, Kevin Kline and more reminisce about Joseph Papp, the brilliant, domineering and fiercely loyal founder of the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMTony Award winners Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin may sing their hearts out eight times a week on Broadway this season, but don't expect these artists to walk away with ad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMThe Phantom Limb Company’s “69°S.,” a sophisticated puppet show in which puppeteers are on stilts, opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:08PMWorking in theatre is fun. Apparently.I got into this industry under the impression that I would never need to rise from my bed before midday and could skip into a theatre, do some cues for …
SOURCE: Girl in the Dark at 02:04PMThe Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Some Lovers, a new musical with book and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award winner Steven Sater and music by A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMAnney Giobbe, Eric Hoffman, and Bobby Moreno will star in the world premiere of David Jenkins' Post Office, to be presented by Human Animals at The New Ohio Theatre, December 1-17, with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMThe Labyrinth Theater Company's world premiere of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory, starring Academy and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn, Max Casella and Tony winner John Gl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMThis arrived in my INBox today. First of all, I should just say up front that, I don't know playwright Thomas Higgins' work and I make no judgments about it 'til I see this play... which,...
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 02:00PM
Spider-Man has long made for a super Halloween costume, but trick-or-treaters have even more reason to dress up as the famed hero now that Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark is flying high on Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMWalnut's Independence Studio on 3 will open its 2011-2012 season with Sheridan Morley's Noël & Gertie, November 22-December 31.
The play concerns playwright/actor/com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMIn the boardroom or the bedroom, if you get mixed messages or don’t translate everything just right, you’re sunk.
And when you turn that into a cross-cultural bilingual scenari…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:46PMWest Side Story tour veteran Grant Gustin is headed to Glee to play Sebastian, a member of the Dalton Academy Warblers who has his eyes set on Blaine (Darren Criss), and it sounds like the n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMThe new Web site for theatreWashington launched today. Days before, Jane Horwitz spoke with theatreWashington’s President & CEO Linda Levy Grossman and her Director of Communication…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PMMeryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Suzan-Lori Parks and Oskar Eustis participated in a panel discussion held at the Ford Center on Wednesday, October 26. The panel was held in conjunction with an ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMThis ‘Lambs’ parody is as irreverent, filthy and funny as ‘The Book of Mormon.’ The difference is you can afford the tickets
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:42PMThe production – with a windy score by Paolo Aralla, and a voiceover by a sibyl with a standard-issue sexy-European accent – is un-Dionysian
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:37PMMDQ Rocks Rochester - Hound Dog
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "Hound Dog" at the original Wegman's in Rochester, NY
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The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "See You Later Alligator" at the original Wegman's in Rochester, …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:31PMTheaterMania contributor David Finkle will read from his just-published collection of stories, People Tell Me Things, at The Drama Book Shop on Friday, November 4 at 5pm.
Finkle will read,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMNoah Brody and Ben Steinfeld talk about co-directing and also starring in the Fiasco Theater Company’s production of “Cymbeline.” The Shakespeare drama tells the story of a beautiful p…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:27PMThe fabulous actors in David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish were speaking Justin "Squigs" Robertson’s language when he headed to the Longacre Theatre to check out their show! …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMJenni Barber, Jason Danieley, Michelle Duffy and Andrew Mueller will star in the new musical Some Lovers, featuring music by Burt Bacharach, with book and lyrics by Steven Sater . Will Frear…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMWill Frears will direct Jenni Barber, Jason Danieley, Michelle Duffy and Andrew Mueller in composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist-librettist Steven Sater's new musical Some Lovers at the O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMHarriet Washington looks at the moral and medical implications of gene patenting, and whether corporate ownership of the human genome might save lives. Tony award-winner Jennifer Tipton talk…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:16PMDarius Campbell, formerly Darius Danesh, will return to the cast of the London production of Chicago, in which he was previously seen in 2006, to star again as Billy Flynn when it resumes pe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a new weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week actor and director Curt Columbus shares pivotal moments in his theatre caree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMThe Labyrinth Theater Company has extended the world premiere of David Bar Katz's The Atmosphere of Memory, starring Academy and Tony Award winner Ellen Burstyn, Max Casella and Tony win…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghMaureen Beattie enters with her hair dripping wet. It's not a conventional way for an actor to come on, still less so when playing a would-be mother superior. As she s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMThe Pit, LondonIt's not quite magic, but there is a great deal of enchantment in this installation-cum-performance for the over-eights from Danish company Teatret Gruppe 38. The Danes, pione…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMSceptics have invited Sally Morgan to demonstrate her ability to communicate with the dead in a specially designed testA celebrity psychic who claims to speak with the dead in sellout shows …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMThis week's awesome person Thursday comes to us courtesy of Victoria Medley. She'll tell us a little about the show, and below is a cool event they are hosting.Take it away Victoria! Like ma…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 01:04PMShakespearean scholars are scandalized by Roland Emmerich's 'Anonymous,' premiering Friday, which depicts a nobleman as the secret author of the Bard's plays.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:02PMThe story is merely a hook to hang the show on. It’s the energy of the performers that makes this spectacle work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00PMYisrael Campbell’s chronicle of conversion is witty and revealing, but doesn’t really address the depth of his religious conviction
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:00PM
If anyone had told me a year ago that I'd be going to see a play half in Chinese on Broadway I might have fallen off my chair laughing. Broadway doesn't do foreign language plays, does…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 12:58PMThe premise that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare were actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is hardly new.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 12:57PMCatching up from the closing of Fighter this week...
Things which I find to be awesome:
The phrase "death by misadventure," which apparently applies to Amy Winehouse but not to, say, …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:55PMThe producers for the seven-time Tony Award-winning musical, EVITA have announced the preview dates and opening night for the new Broadway production. The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber mu…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:51PMThe National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis presented the organization's 2011 Gradiva Award for Best Stage Production to Mark St. Germain for his play, Freud's L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMTodd Alan Johnson has joined the cast of Prospect Theater Company's Iron Curtain, running November 5-27 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. He replaces Marcus Neville, who has withdr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PMChristopher Tierney, one of the actors who performs as the title character in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, posed with a group of young audience members dressed in Spider-Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMGoodman Theatre Resident Director Chuck Smith announces his cast for the Chicago premiere of Race, David Mamet's intellectually salacious Chicago Tribune portrait of prejudice and social inj…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe story that tells the relationship of a boy and his dog is a bit played out at this point. One we haven’t seen much of is a boy and his horse. Sure Hollywood in recent years has given u…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:38PM“Where are we?” In Jesse Eisenberg’s sly but slight debut play, “Asuncion,” that question looms large — banner-sized, even.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:35PMTony Award winner Glenn Close will receive the Career Achievement Award at the 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's Awards Gala, which will be held Jan. 7, 2012, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMBroadway vet Will Chase (Rent, Billy Elliot) will extend his previously reported recurring stint on the forthcoming NBC series Smash for five additional episodes, with an offer to become a s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31PMRomeo Castellucci's latest production has seen its audiences assaulted on the way into the theater and performances disrupted nightly
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:30PMYOU DON'T have to know the history of William Shakespeare or the Earl of Oxford to know that "Anonymous" is completely full of beans.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:27PMBroadway stars including cast members from Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Ben Walker, Kate Roberts, and Erin Felgar, American Idiot John Gallagher Jr., Theo Stockman, Rebecca Jones and Libby W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMI'm not quite sure what to make of You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, the latest from The Civilians, at ArtsEmerson through this weekend. But then to be honest, the sh…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:26PMPatti LuPone: A Memoir, by Tony Award winner Patti LuPone with Digby Diehl, will be released in paperback from Three Rivers Press on November 8.
In the book, LuPone recounts her life and ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PMWith Frank Wildhorn's Bonnie & Clyde set to bow at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Nov. 4, Playbill.com takes a look back at the composer's past Broadway productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM"Patti LuPone: A Memoir," the 2010 publication by the two-time Tony Award-winning actress that draws back the curtain on a life upon the stage, will arrive in paperback Nov. 8 from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMChristopher Hart, the son of Moss Hart, and Anne Kaufman, the daughter of George S. Kaufman, attended the first rehearsal of Peccadillo Theater Company's production of The Man Who Came …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMTony Award winner Robert Lopez reunited with his Book of Mormon collaborators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. This time, the Mormon team brought "South Park" to Broadway in an episode …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMThe Goodman Theatre has announced casting for David Mamet's Race, to run January 14 - February 19. Chuck Smith will direct the production.
The play centers on two attorneys, who with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMProducers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced today the official opening night and first preview dates as well as the public on-sale date for the new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Llo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMPeter Kim has joined the cast of the New York premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, to be presented by Playwrights Horizons, November 19-December 23, with an opening on December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMIf you blog about it, they will come. Or at least that’s how I feel today. In the last week, I wrote about how much I love to see behind the curtain of a show in the making and I also…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:05PMThis weekend marks the culmination of a four month programme of site-specific installations by Play on Words in collaboration with Loop Dance Company, in the form of the final installment of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:05PMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 6
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:02PMA few days ago, the Tony Award-winning regional theatre, The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia announced that the 2012 recipient of its Stephen Sondheim Award would be Patti LuPone.&n…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:02PM"Anonymous," the new movie from disaster-flick auteur Roland Emmerich, revives the age-old Oxfordian theory of Shakespearean authorship arguing that Edward de Vere was in fact the man behind…
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The next “Critics at the Cri” debate, a new monthly event at the Criterion Theatre sponsored by Whatsonstage.com, will take place on Thursday 3 November 2011 at 1.15pm, featuring…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:58AMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 5
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:57AMNorm Lewis, Kate Shindle, James Barbour and Rob Evan perform songs from Dracula, the short-lived Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black, Oct. 27 at the Upper East Side Barnes and N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMTeam LYSISTRATA JONES On the Court
Watch NBA superstar Chris Mullin coach the cast of Broadway's LYSISTRATA JONES.
After a sold-out downtown run, the new musical from this four-time To…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:53AMJustin Bartha, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, David Cross, Billy Crudup, Rachel Dratch, Jesse Eisenberg, Megan Fox, Greta Gerwig, Carla Gugino, Cheyenne Jackson, John Krasinski, Jack McBrayer, Trac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMIts just a jump to the left…and then a step to the right! Are you ready for a Time Warp? Yes, ladies and gentlemen…it is THAT time of year again! As Halloween 2011 approaches, a…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:52AMPRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL's Tony Award nominated star and original Australian leading man Tony Sheldon sat down live with NBC 4 Weekend Today in New York anchor Pat Battle th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMWhen Robert Lopez teamed up with his Book of Mormon collaborators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the October 26 episode of South Park, the team decided to take aim at Broadway. Patriarch Rand…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMWhen Robert Lopez teamed up with his Book of Mormon collaborators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the October 26 episode of South Park, the team decided to take aim at Broadway. Patriarch Rand…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMI became aware of Fitz James O’Brien rather recently, while doing research for my new play about Adah Isaacs Menken. He and she both were part of the literary scene around Walt Whitman…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:51AMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 4
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:49AMSeminar, Theresa Rebeck’s new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, played b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMI've never really paid the sort of attention I suppose I should have to arguments about Shakespeare's identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMEvita isn’t arriving on Broadway until next spring, but theater lovers are already clamoring for news about the A-list revival. With a cast led by Grammy winner Ricky Martin as Che, Ol…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMGodspell Flash Mob in Times Square - Official Video
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:41AMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has just announced the full company of You, Nero by American Voices New Play Institute resident playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AM"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took satirical aim at Broadway on Wednesday with ample profanity and wall-to-wall sex jokes.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:32AMAt a press conference at Sadler's Wells yesterday, he announced that he would create a new "Sleeping Beauty" for Christmas 2012.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 3
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:30AMThe Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 12, 2012 with an opening set for April 5. Michael Grandage will dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMInspired by our adoption of Stage One as the charity for the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards,
we’re declaring this the “Year of the Producer” on Whatsonstage.com,
and are ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:26AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes announced today that the Ford Foundation has generously awarded The Public Theater a 2 million grant …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMWishing a happy opening to the cast and crew of Chinglish on Broadway, as Christine makes her Broadway debut tonight.
Pic from the Goodman Theatre production of Chinglish. (center) Zhao (Chr…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:25AMFilm and television star Jerry O'Connell, who is currently making his Broadway debut in the world premiere of Seminar by Theresa Rebeck, is developing a CBS sitcom in which he will star,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMShow #100: In the Maze of Our Own Lives, The Jewish Theatre, October 20.
Show #102: Crimes of the Heart, Cinnabar Theater, October 22.
I reviewed both TJT’s swan song and Cinnabar’s Sout…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:21AMLOPEZ JOINED TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE FOR LAST NIGHT’S EPISODE OF “SOUTH PARK” CLICK HERE TO WATCH “BROADWAY BRO DOWN” Robert Lopez, co-author of THE BOOK OF MORMON with “South…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:20AMThe Ford Foundation has awarded the Public Theater a $2 million grant to complete work on the $40 million renovation of its Lafayette Street home, which is aiming for a summer 2012 completio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThe 23rd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival PSIFF will present five-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close with the Career Achievement Award at its Awards Gala. This is the firs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 2
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of miscommun…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:18AMAlone on stage, Christopher Piper shows us the wonder of puppetry from the very beginning when he creates a puppet right before our eyes – a plucky finger puppet Marybelle, who takes o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17AMHalloween 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 11:15AMPerforming arts institutions can now apply for exemption from government plans to make universities compete over students with the highest A-level gradesDrama schools could be made exempt fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMChinglish on Broadway - Preview 1 (Montage)
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From the producers of August: Osage County comes CHINGLISH, a new comedy about the misadventures of…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:07AMH. Russell Wakefield (1890-1964) was an English fiction writer known mostly as a master of the ghost story. His published works include They Return at Evening (1928), Old Man’s Beard: …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:07AMAsuncion, a new play written by and starring Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland) officially opens at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre on October 27. Directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMA regular feature of theatrewashington.org, Why Theatre Matters owes its inspiration to Howard Shalwitz, the Artistic Director at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and remarks (a portion of wh…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:05AMMedvedev and Putin to preside over gala opening of historic Russian theatre following work to restore pre-Soviet opulenceIt has been a renovation marred by endless delays and allegations of …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:00AMThe revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre, current home of the acclaimed revival of Follies, March 12, 2012, with an official ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMRecognize that squiggly little square to the right, which has sometimes been referred to as "robot vomit"? Its technical name is QR code, or "Quick Response" code. It's a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue Oct. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMGet discounted £12.50 tickets for SHOWSTOPPER at the Criterion if you book by 31 October for performances on 4, 11, 18 November 2011 at 10.30pm
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:51AMAn exciting new play described as “a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse” is on tap at Lincoln Center Theater. Performances of J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts begin on October 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMASUNCION DESCENDING Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that after you get an Oscar nomination, for the next five years everyone will return your phone calls. It seems Jesse Eisenberg ha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:47AMOscar nominee Anne Hathaway will star in and produce the upcoming Paramount Pictures film "Puzzler," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Priscilla Queen Of The DESERT THE MUSICAL’s Tony Award® nominated star and original Australian leading man Tony Sheldon sat down live with N…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:37AMOscar winner Jennifer Hudson, Jill Scott, Jessie J, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson, Florence and the Machine, and The Roots will be among the acts participating in VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMRamin Karimloo will join the West End cast of Les Miserables as Jean Valjean on November 29 at the Queen's Theatre. Karimloo previously made his West End debut in the production playing …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AM"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took satirical aim at Broadway on Wednesday's episode in the way that they know best -- with ample profanity and wall-to-wall sex jokes. They…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:35AMAt its 2003 Symposium SDCF invited Scott Elliott, freelance director and Artistic Director of The New Group, to give a keynote speech on directing in multiple mediums, running a theatre comp…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:34AMThe Public Theater has received a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation for the theater's Going Public capital campaign, which is being used to renovate the theater's longtime …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMThere's no need to cry any more. Producers of "Evita" announced Thursday the first preview dates and opening night of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on Broadway.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:27AMDarius Campbell will return to the West End production of Chicago as Billy Flynn when the production reopens at the Garrick Theatre on November 7. Campbell will star opposite previously anno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMAt 4:59 pm on Tuesday afternoon, I received a text message from my friend MrTylerMartins inviting me to the first preview of Hugh Jackman's one man show on Broadway. How could I pass t…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 10:26AMI AM THEATRE: Curt Columbus
Curt Columbus became Trinity Repertory Company's fifth artistic director in January 2006. His directing credits for Trinity include THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, H…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:25AMZach Braff will guest star on an upcoming episode of ABC's Cougar Town, according to a report on TVGuide.com.
Braff's play All New People was seen earlier this year at Second St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMJennifer Coolidge will join the cast of CBS' hit comedy series 2 Broke Girls, according to a report on TVGuide.com.
She will play Sophie, a neighbor of the lead characters, a pair of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMChinglish, the new comedy about business, love and clashing culture by Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, opens at the Longacre Theatre on October 27. Leigh Silverman, who helmed a s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:02AM
Stage and screen star Kerry Washington has joined the cast of the film Django Unchained, according to published reports. Quentin Tarantino is writing and directing the project.
The movie …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMIf you watch the documentary extras on the DVD of Todd Browning’s Freaks you will find that one of the talking heads is our old buddy Todd Robbins. Todd is there of course because he i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:56AMTHIS FAIR IS JUST THAT: FAIR Science Fairs are an opportunity for students to apply scientific methods to an experiment and present them at a competition. The best way to take first prize fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:46AMINTERVIEW: JOHN BLACKMORE The executive director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton looks back on his forty-plus year career, during which he saved the Octagon and the Liverpool Everyman and P…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 09:43AMOne game I love to play is what I call “vertical analysis” — essentially tracing some narrative property through its various media iterations, e.g., book, stage-play, silen…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:43AMJerry O'Connell has developed a family sitcom about new parenthood, according to a report on Deadline.com. The show, written by Jeff Astrof, has been bought by CBS and it will be produ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMStage and screen star Alan Rickman is set to return to Broadway for the first time in a decade on October 27, when Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar begins previews at the Golden Theatre. This …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:41AMRicky Martin, who will return to Broadway later this season in the revival of the Tony-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, will perform on the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY® A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMPraxis puts Section 98 on the internet in 2010 – Photo of Melissa Hood by Hugh Probyn by Aislinn Rose Later today, I will be joining NOW Magazine‘s Glenn Sumi, The Globe & Ma…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:37AMAt the end of Ivo van Hove’s interminable stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s film “Cries and Whispers,” we are rewarded with a breathtaking image: A video of a woman making angel w…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:28AMCape Rep Theatre in Brewster will present the Massachusetts regional premiere of the Tony-winning Best Musical Avenue Q.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMI first encountered the name Dr. John Polidori in the 1973 television movie Frankenstein: The True Story. I was eight years old at the time and this film was one of the few times I have been…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:27AMCape Rep Theatre in Brewster, MA, will present the regional premiere of the Tony-winning Best Musical Avenue Q.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMStage and screen star Anne Hathaway will star in and produce the new film thriller Puzzler, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hathaway's stage credits include Twelfth Night, Carni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMRobert Lopez, co-author of THE BOOK OF MORMON with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, joined the Writer's Room for last night's episode of South Park. The episode, entitled B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMThe music-filled TV series "Glee," which airs Tuesday nights at 8 PM ET on Fox, has reached another milestone: 300 musical performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMThree-time Tony Award winner and five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close will be honored with the Palm Springs International Film Festival's Career Achievement Award in a ceremony to be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMWhat makes one opinion better than another? (Some opinions have been challenged more than others. Tested opinions are worth more than untested ones.) Can't one enjoy an aesthetic experience …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMThe Old Globe has announced complete casting for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, to run November 19 - December 31. James Vásquez will direct the production.
Wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:04AMThe film and television star talks about tackling the role of Luke in the Geffen Playhouse's production of Next Fall.
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Schoenberg + Teletubbies = early Halloween fear candy. (via Daniel Capo on Vimeo.)
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:57AMRamin Karimloo will assume the role of Jean Valjean in the hit musical Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre, November 29-March 3, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.
The comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54AMThe Great White Wayback Machine now takes you on a brief tour of Morgan's career, to see better how history and musicals come together.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMDale Howard, Marcus Patrick, Alex Reid, and Danny Young will play themselves in Wildboyz, which will launch a U.K. tour with an engagement at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage on April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:47AMOn “Great Performances: Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine and Tharp” the ballet troupe performs a trio of works by George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AMDarius Campbell formerly Danesh will return to the smash hit musical CHICAGO when it re-opens at the Garrick Theatre on Monday 7 November to reprise his role as Billy Flynn opposite Emmy, Go…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMDarius Campbell will play the role of Billy Flynn opposite the previously reported America Ferrera's Roxie Hart in Chicago, when it resumes performances at the West End's Garrick T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:34AMThe studio's artistic director Tom Oppenheim, Adler's grandson, took over the school 15 years ago with a mission to bring vibrant, professional-level theater to the studio.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:10AMHere is a production with a large cast but only one real character; at its heart, in fact, a one-man show. It’s an audience-pleasing, even audience-baiting, piece of work that can also lan…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Foundation puts $2 million toward renovation -- The Public Theater has scored a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation to put toward the ongoing renovation of the legit compan…
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In this clip of a detached duet from Wayne McGregor's Chroma you can clearly see the classical roots beneath his modern styleLast week we watched a clip of Yuri Soloviev, the Kirov dancer, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMDarius Campbell (formerly Danesh) will return to the West End for the first time since Gone With the Wind to star alongside America Ferrera in Chicago, which reopens at the Garrick Theatre o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:23AMMarch, 1999The Matrix blew minds, South Park made a movie, The Sopranos begin their epic journey (remember the duck?), there were still VHS tapes used, and the introduction of the iPod was s…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT announced today initial casting for the eight new musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMBarnes amp Noble welcomes a slew of Broadway performers to presentations throughout October.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMBroadway's THE ADDAMS FAMILY, the ideal Halloween musical, will spend the rest of October presenting several Halloween events.
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This week saw the return the London stage of Death and the Maiden, a play that began life at Royal Court’s tiny Theatre Upstairs back in 1991, before transferring to the West End, then see…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:45AMEver since the movie Moneyball came out, I have been thinking about whether similar system can be applied to the arts. I mean a system by which baseball teams with small budgets were able to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AMNEW YORK - As deliberate as Audra McDonald is about picking songs for her concerts, what she says in between singing them is anything but considered.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:03AMPRINCETON - In the dark, enticing, world premiere production of Phaedra Backwards, which is evermore galvanizing as it unfolds on the main stage of Princeton's McCarter Theatre, myth seems s…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:03AM"Dialogue should be logical, but it doesn't have to be banal." Lanford Wilson (quoted in the Cincinnati Inquirer, May 6,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThursday, October 27, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - CHINGLISH, a new play by Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, officially opens tonight at the Longacre Theatre.
SOURCE: 1870 at 01:00AMTweet any of the phrases below to be automatically entered to win two (2) free tickets to Relatively Speaking on Broadway!
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMBILLY ELLIOT is the spectacular show with the heart, humor and passion to be called “THE BEST SHOW YOU’LL EVER SEE” by the New York Post and honored with ten 2009 Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMThursday, October 27, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - Broadway’s Best Shows is proud to announce the addition of another great Broadway show to our website: AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MAND…
SOURCE: 1869 at 01:00AM
In spite of the few risque lines, and looks, there is no doubt that "The Addams Family Musical" is a family show and a Broadway show. You will tap your toes, smile, laugh out loud, even at…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 12:54AMThe Romanian-born Mr. Ciulei was best known in the United States for leading the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and for productions at Arena Stage in Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52AMLegit News: Cosby, Martinez, Mo`olelo among those feted -- Bill Cosby, actor J.R. Martinez, San Diego's Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company and disability advocate and dancer Zina Bethune have …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:03AMDavid French and the Mercersby Howard DaiA month ago, I asked one of my theatre friends for a good dramatic monologue for me, he told me without any hesitation – “Go read ‘Of the Field…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMThe Fartiste, billed as a "musical comedy for all ages," will now officially open Off-Broadway at Sofia's Downstairs Nov. 4 rather than the previously announced Oct. 27; previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAll the drama of Ibsen's Ghosts in Sian Richardsterrific production shot. At Soulpepper.(Joseph Ziegler, foreground, and NancyPalk and Gregory Prest)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTony Award winner David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, a comedy about an Ohio businessman selling his goods in China — where there is mutual misunderstanding of language and busines…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCold War defection ... Adultery! Sexual awakening ... Nudity! Religious revolution ... Crucifixion! Jilted blonde ... Revenge! Sounds like R-rated fare at the local cineplex and not what you…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AMThree prominent Canadian writers file suit claiming copyright infringement in Gold Mountain Blues
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMEminent Canadian painter Tony Scherman takes on the Trudeau myth and legend with "Black October," a show revolving around the FLQ October crisis.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThe TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of A.R. Gurney's Children, an early work from the author of Love Letters and The Dining Room, opens Off-Broadway Oct. 27 following previews fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSeminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, played by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals, featuring Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Pregnancy Pact, notes to MariAnne and WATT?!?, begins Oct. 27 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLincoln Center Theater's American premiere of J.T. Rogers' Afghanistan-set political drama Blood and Gifts, starring Michael Aronov, Jeremy Davidson, Robert Hogan and Jefferson …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStella Adler Studio of Acting's production of Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum, which marks the studio's first Off-Broadway production in its 62-year history, begins performances Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Karen Ziemba portrays Gretchen, the German fiancée, in Riverside Theatre's production of Boeing-Boeing, which plays the Stark Stage in Vero Beach, FL, Oct. 27-No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production Asuncion, the world-premiere political comedy by Academy Award-nominated playwright-actor Jesse Eisenberg, officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Fartiste, billed as a "musical comedy for all ages," officially opens Off-Broadway at Sofia's Downstairs Oct. 27 following previews that began Oct. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGhetto Klown, the solo show conceived by and starring Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo that played its final performance at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre July 10 following 25 previews and 95…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Ligonier Valley Writers will set the mood for Halloween when they read scary short stories Saturday at Red Barn Books in Greensburg, beginning at 7 p.m. The six original stories are priz…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIf you've never heard Seth Rudetsky deconstruct the vocal qualities of past and present Broadway greats, it's about time. Get ready for some attitude, backed with expertise and laced with sa…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn 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, along with snags. …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AM"The Slasher Kings," a rock musical that runs through Nov. 6 at the H&R Block City Stage at Union Station, is based on a novel concept: What if Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" seri…
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