Asuka's production of 'Act a Lady'is a strong one, but Toby Zinman found the play unfunny and trite.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:41PMIs it fair to have high expectations of a preview? Medium expectations? Any expectations? What if the preview ticket is full priced? Discounted?Previews live in a gray area, particularly in …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:37PM"Nevermore in Concert" is the launching pad for "Musically Human", a new Off-Off-Broadway musical theatre company. A one night event at the tiny Duplex Cabaret Theatre in Greenwich Village. …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 11:30PMRock of Ages' combination of implausible plot and unsinkable songs goes over the top so often it wears you down enough to enjoy it. Just put your brain in sleeper mode, and sway away with th…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:20PMHugh Jackman, Back on Broadway opens tomorrow night Thursday November 10 at the Broadhurst Theatre 235 West 44th Street for a limited engagement through January 1 2012. Hear him interviewed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01PMAnd... action Tonight is movie night, everyone The final 11 contestants perform live and sing songs that have been used on movie soundtracks. They are once again, competing for your votes. T…
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PRINCE OF BROADWAY, a new musical celebrating legendary Broadway director and producer Harold Hal Prince, is in development now, aiming for a Toronto production in the summer of 2012 prior t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47PMBack when Jonathan Groff toplined a revival of Hair, he was notably the only cast member in the free-love musical who didn't have to take his clothes off.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:17PMThere wasn’t a tutu in sight Tuesday night when American Ballet Theatre opened its City Center season with a gala with a contemporary accent -- a prelude to a week of Twyla Tharp, Merce Cu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:15PM‘The Blue Flower” takes place in the first third of the 20th century, mostly in Germany, against a backdrop of WWI, Weimar and the rise of Nazism. Three of the main characters are visual…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:13PMAt the start of “All-American,” a father coaches his teenager in the fine art of the quarterback sneak as his other child watches in bored silence, smoking a cigarette. As it happens, th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PMAs named by the Chicago Reader, as "One To Watch," Randall Colburn is a rising playwright who discusses his current play "Verse Chorus Verse" about the suicide of Kurt Cobain, his upcoming p…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 10:05PM“The Blue Flower,” at Second Stage Theater, is a high-minded muddle of a musical that may leave you scratching your head.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMComposer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam's opera, centering on a Mormon community in the wake of a scandal, receives a moodily stunning production.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMJim and Ruth Bauer's Weimar-era musical is lush and transporting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe director/choreographer discusses his work on Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, Cotton Club Parade, Follies, and A Christmas Story, the Musical!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMichael Sheen takes on the title role of Ian Rickson's controversial take on the Bard's classic, set in a psychiatric insitution.
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First come the strip-lit corridors, the stained breezeblocks, the locked doors; later there are restraints, drugs, needles. The time is out of joint, and we are all imprisoned in a nightmare…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:58PMReview: You wouldn't expect the Longmont Theatre Company to be the first Colorado company to stage Peter Morgan's celebrated Broadway play "Frost/Nixon," but this underdog production wins o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:37PM"... it automatically qualifies as one of the season’s most electrifying and unmissable musicals."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:24PMLegit Reviews: The catchphrase "a new musical" is hardly descriptive of "The Blue Flower," the work by Jim Bauer and Ruth Bauer at Second Stage: There are songs, story, actors and an eight-p…
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... revived by the Garage Theatre Group in a production which is quite remarkable for the richly integrated, farcical comic performances of its recruited troupe of six terrific actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:29PMWhat makes "Next Fall" fresh and alive is the richness of the quirky detail of the characters and relationships which Nauffts has created.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28PMRobin Givens, starring in Blues for an Alabama Sky at Pasadena Playhouse, gets all choked up about playing Pearl Cleage's sad and struggling blues singer in Harlem during the Depression. Dir…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:25PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company said it will bring Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress For Dinner" to the American Airlines Theatre this spring. Also, the National Theater's "One Man, Two Guvnors" …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 08:19PMGood riddance to Brett Ratner and if Eddie Murphy wants to follow him, that's fine. The dignity of my gay friends is more important than allowing Ratner to produce the Oscars in the wake of …
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KNOWLEDGE SHARING Join the #NEWPLAY community for a new open source initiative called "Knowledge Sharing" - a series that enables ANYONE who has a particular expertise or significa…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 07:57PMSeven playwrights, five directors, and four producers walk into a room… It’s not so much the set-up for a joke as it is the beginning of a fifteen-month collaboration that will ultimatel…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:39PMThe Chorus pro Musica is off to a good start for the season and can be looked to for continued artistry in the choral realm. The concert was, with my exceptions noted, a rewarding afternoon …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PMPrince of Broadway, the new Broadway-bound musical that will serve up songs and stories related to the musicals produced and/or directed by Harold Prince, will be an all-principal show &mdas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:10PMLast year, Nick Hytner's National Theatre staging of Hamlet presented Elsinore as an East European-like surveillance state, replete with security cameras and bugging devices bent on monitori…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe new works produced by Siobhan Davies Commissions are weirdly bloodless. Davies, an established choreographer, has commissioned dance colleagues to create new works, in collaboration with…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMCelebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has been all the rage in Theatreland, from the Globe's "Word of God" series to the Bush's all-day marathon Sixty-Six Books. David Ed…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMNew Haven’s Lauren Ambrose won’t be starring as Fanny Brice in the revival of the musical “Funny Girl” — at least not yet.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00PM
The first in a series of unresearched, immediate responses to things I've read in American Theater and/or other arts-related magazines.From the November '11 American Theater: …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:57PMSo much has happened on the U.S. political scene since the summer of 1988 — when Ann Richards, then Texas state treasurer, made her attention-getting keynote speech at the Democratic Natio…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMGodspell - Broadway Revival 2011 - Opening Night
Opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell! DanceOn chats with the cast, creative team and stars from the original Toronto pr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:54PMSITTING VIGIL FOR THE CENTER THEATRE GROUP, OR LIVING ON BORROWED THEATER Vigil, which was first done in Canada in 1995, is an oft-produced play, having been translated into 19 languages. At…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:50PMHunter Parrish - Dancing, Jesus and Godspell on Broadway
Hunter Parrish stars as Jesus in Broadway's first revival of Godspell! Find out about the Weeds star's dancing skills, and w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:47PMPajamas and the board book Goodnight Moon go together like milk and cookies. That’s exactly what Chicago Children’s Theatre will be serving up on three Friday nights during its musical p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:46PMStephanie Liss visited the PLO in Lebanon and the Israeli military 25 years ago, in order to research a TV movie -- which the network then turned down. Now she's turning some of the material…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:36PMAlan Rickman had a special visitor to his dressing room at the Golden Theatre Monday night: Daniel Radcliffe. The actors from the Harry Potter movies — Rickman played Severus Snape and Rad…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMHugh Jackman, Back on Broadway opens tomorrow night Thursday November 10 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) for a limited engagement through January 1 2012. Hear him interv…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:21PMPoint of Contention’s All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy transports the audience back to 1960’s and motivates them to change the world just as the characters in the play. This show is perf…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:19PMSuch buzz did Charles Isherwood's online surrender to Adam Rapp create that Riedel had him on Theatre Talk this past weekend to explain.
By the way: Isherwood's piece only ran on the…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 06:19PMPhoto/Kristen VaughanThe Runner Stumbles, written in 1974 (and on Broadway in 1976), may be based on the true story of the murder of Sister Mary Janina back in the early 1900s (the play is s…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:16PMCONSTANT CATFIGHTS Race is a subject loaded with potential drama. This season alone, there has been a cornucopia of plays staged in New York featuring storylines involving race. They inc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:14PMYoung Vic, LondonWe approach this Hamlet obliquely. We enter the Young Vic through the back door and are led through a maze of grey corridors. We are clearly in a psychiatric institution com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14PM“It’s not you, it’s me”, “we need to talk”, “I’ve met someone else”, “we can still be friends” – these and other such cringe-worthy li…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10PMThe director's 1985 dance-theater piece stays true to its aesthetic roots, adding a humanistic sci-fi twist to a story of materialism and spirituality
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:09PMDawn Wells, perhaps best known to television audiences as Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, will star in the Chicago production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which has extended its engag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:07PMAs the basketball-themed musical Lysistrata Jones readies to score on Broadway beginning November 12, the creative team enlisted NBA great Chris Mullin to help whip Patti Murin and her co-st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMAfter a decades-long career, Cynthia Thomas only got close to performing in her home turf when she did a production of “Once on This Island” at UConn in Storrs.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00PM
Victor Garber Interview - Godspell Broadway Revival - Opening Night
Emmy nominee Victory Garber chats with Just Dance at the opening of the Godspell revival on Broadway. Find out which star…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:58PMMargo Jones
"What our country needs today, theatrically speaking, is a resident professional theatre in every city with a population of over one hundred thousand. According to the 1940 censu…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 05:49PMJordy Towers - Money Money & Don't Say It's Over - Dance Video Theater
Jordy Towers released a sneak peek of his video theater, featuring clips from his two new videos "Mon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:49PMA preview of what's in store for season one of Hustling, An Original Web Series.
SOURCE: blip.tv at 05:48PMLegit News: Program is first in U.K. to go nationwide -- Ambassador Theater Group, the U.K.'s largest owner-operator of theaters, has launched the U.K.'s biggest theater membership campaign …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PMIn Relatively Speaking, Lisa Emery plays foil to Marlo Thomas’ manic, wealthy widow in Elaine May’s George Is Dead, but this respected stage vet showed off her real-life kooky si…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PM“Pangs of the Messiah,” at the 14th Street Y, follows a family of Zionist settlers being removed from the West Bank in 2014 as part of a fictional peace treaty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:32PMFive directors nominate their favourite living artist in their fieldMax Stafford-Clark on Bill GaskillI had the good fortune, in my early 30s, to be sitting on the steps of the Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMMother/son team Nancy and Silas Botwin may have spent season seven of TV's Weeds feuding over how to run the family drug business, but real life actors Mary-Louise Parker and Hunter Parr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMVeteran TV, film and stage actor Dan Lauria , who played the father character, Jack Arnold, on TV’s “The Wonder Years” and Vince Lombardi last season on Broadway in &ld…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:23PMThe jukebox musical “Rock of Ages” is a feel-good rendering the ticky-tacky world of 1980s hair bands, an era where the meeting of sex and rock ‘n’ roll was taken to new heights. Suf…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:14PMThe Public Theater is now presenting KING LEAR, directed by James Macdonald. KING LEAR will run through Sunday, November 20 in The Public's Newman Theater and opened last night, November 8. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMLegit News: Gathering focused on Rialto's future set for Jan. 23 -- Broadway is throwing its own TED conference, with a one-day event, focused on the future of the Main Stem, set for Jan. 23…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:09PMAustralian native Hugh Jackman, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in The Boy from Oz and was later seen opposite Daniel Craig in A Steady Rain, returned to The Great White Way in h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMThe term “romantic comedy” gets a reboot in Venus in Fur, the new play by David Ives in which Nina Arianda goes head to head—professionally and personally—with Hugh D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PMConceived and directed by Tony-winner Tommy Tune and written by Mark Saltzman, FIFTY FOUR FOREVER, will receive its world premiere at The University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMDavid Ives’ Venus in Fur, which had an acclaimed and multi-extended run at Studio Theatre earlier this year, opened on Broadway last night to strongly favorable critical response. Mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00PMWoody Harrelson will join the previously reported Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken in writer/director Martin McDonagh's new film, Seven Psychopaths, according to Dead…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Alberta Ballet wants to tour the world with its show about Elton John and the reworked version now playing in Toronto is a good start
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:57PMSamuel Beckett's "Endgame," is rich is a precise delivery by Gate Theatre of Dublin. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Annenberg Center in University City.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:55PMThe Emmy-winning actor spent more than two years researching and writing her Broadway-aimed show.
SOURCE: timeoutchicago.com at 04:48PMEmmy-winning television and film actress Holland Taylor starring in Chicago in "Ann" at the Bank of America Theatre.
SOURCE: posttrib.suntimes.com at 04:47PMBroadway and cabaret star Jason Graae will offer two additional performances of his acclaimed tribute to Jerry Herman, Perfect Hermany, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, December 7 at 7pm and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMA screening of the documentary The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical was held at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on November 8, and featured a live conversation with director Sar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMOpera star Christine Brewer will speak at her alma mater,
McKendree University (Class of 1976) in Lebanon, Illinois, for a
pre-opera "curtain talk" at the Hettenhausen Center for the Arts at…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:37PMYOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN A trip to South Coast Rep is exactly what was needed to shake off the blues of this year’s morass of over-produced and/or over-written theater. The Trip to Bountiful,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36PMNY1 VIDEO Donna Karger hosts the November 5, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:35PMTune in to watch RELATIVELY SPEAKING star Marlo Thomas visit Joy Behar for two separate segments this week on her nighttime talk show “The Joy Behar Show” nationally syndicated on HLN on…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:31PMThink Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle are offensive? Then you won't have the stomach for standup Jerry Sadowitz. Their vitriol is fake, he says: his is the real dealLong before Frankie Boyle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening of David Ives' Venus in Fur starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMChoreographer Emily Johnson and musical collaborator James Everest talk about "The Thank-you Bar" at NYLA this week
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:24PMJoey Parnes, the Broadway producer and general manager who will end his stint as interim executive director of the Public Theater this month, announced Nov. 9 the formation of Joey Parnes Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMJMI Show Kevin Massey - Part 2
Here's part two of the James Monre Iglehart interview with Memphis cast member Kevin Massey!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:22PMThe Australian Pink Floyd Show is a tribute band, but not just any tribute band. TAPFS is considered the best tribute band in the world today, a title they have defended since 1988.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:21PMShuler Hensley and Emily Skinner will star in the world premiere of John Mellencamp and Stephen King's Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, to be presented by the Alliance Theatre at the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:19PMEddie Murphy has withdrawn as host of the 84th Annual Academy Awards, according to published reports. The ceremony will be held on February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
Murphy&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMYou met her here first: Lea Michele, one of the goats living on the Pennsylvania farm owned by the family of stage and screen star Jonathan Groff, made a cameo appearance in a recent episode…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMAt 10 p.m., the Giller Award show came to an abrupt end as author Esi Edugyan was giving her thank-you speech.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:02PM
Playwright/activist Larry Kramer, playwright Terrence McNally, and director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell will be among the interview subjects featured in the new documentary, 30 Years From H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMMixed Blood Theatre festival runs through Nov. 27
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:54PMI wanted to take a moment to apologize to the folks who follow our blog via RSS. As you may know, we just migrated our site, and I had thought I had turned off the feed during the migration,…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:53PMAndrewAndrew caught a matinee of the newly opened Venus in Fur at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and agree that they've "never seen something so erotic while sitting next to so many elderly …
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 03:40PMSteep Theatre Company and Naked Angels will present two staged readings of the new play by Sarah Burgess, Earthsiege: Commence, November 15 and 16 at 8pm. Andy Donald will direct.
In the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMAt 58, and with four Tony Awards to show for his sterling career, Boyd Gaines is only now making his U.K. theater debut alongside Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMJoey Parnes, the veteran Broadway producer and general manager who will end his stint as Interim Executive Director of the Public Theater this month, announced today the formation of Joey Pa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMStage and screen star Morgan Freeman will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will be given to him at the 69th annual Golde…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMWith its images of mountains and edelweiss, The Sound of Music might not seem like a natural fit for India's maximum city, but the Bombay Chamber Orchestra begs to differ. Recruiting kids fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMMarketing. Advertising. Community Outreach. Audience engagement. Audience Development. Social Networking. Targeted Pitches. And so on. This litany of phrases are among the buzzwords common t…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 03:19PMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie opened last night, November 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMConnecticut native Kate MacCluggage, Dan Domingues, Alex Moggridge and Ariel Woodiwiss, perform in the Long Wharf Theatre production of “It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:15PMStage and screen stars Edie Falco and Oliver Platt will co-host the Gotham Independent Film Awards, according to Deadline.com. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PMNina Arianda is an actress whose star power brightened considerably a couple of years ago because of her Off-Broadway performance in the David Ives play Venus in Fur. Now the play is being r…
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:04PMForgive me for not getting this blog up yesterday, but it took me a day to recover from the fantastic opening night performance and celebration we had for Godspell on Monday night. Our incre…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:04PMLegit News: Industry vet launches Joey Parnes Prods.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMThe HD film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download Jan. 24, 2012, from Shout! Factory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMThe cast of the CW's "Gossip Girl" made a special trip to Off-Broadway's environmental spectacle Sleep No More for an episode set to air Nov. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMThe infectious pop tunes and sensitive story songs of Academy Award-winning composer David Shire — also known for his scores to the musicals Big, Baby and Closer Than Ever — will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMThe HD film of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download Jan. 24, 2012, from Shout! Factory.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Punchdrunk's Sleep No More is an award-winning theatrical experience that tells Shakespeare's classic tragedy Macbeth through a darkly cinematic lens. Audiences move freely through the epic …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMThe Muppets are readying for their big comeback with the November 23 release of a brand new feature film, The Muppets. In honor of everyone's favorite puppet crew, Broadway.com is flashi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:53PMAtlanta's Alliance Theatre will produce the world premiere of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a chilling new musical with music and lyrics by John Mellencamp and book by Stephen King, as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMThe Arlington, Virginia-based Signature Theatre will hold its annual New Year's Eve party on Saturday, December 31, which will begin with a performance of Signature's production of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMIt feels like teen spirit -- and team spirit -- at the Ahmanson Theatre, where Adrienne Warren and Taylor Louderman prepare for their starring roles in Bring It On: The Musical. No, they'r…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:43PMKeane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:41PMThings got hot and heavy on the November 8 episode of Glee as several of the McKinley High couples decided to head to home base for the first time. In the episode (which was penned by Spider…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PM... with actors Sam Hack and Archie Coleman, all the little dramas of old age become great monstrous windmills, challenging their wits and nobility; and all the real monsters are (ultimately…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:34PMA new monarch took the off-Broadway throne on November 8, when Sam Waterston officially bowed in the title role of King Lear at the Public Theater. The tragic King, whose decision to divide …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak announced Nov. 9 that Eddie Murphy has withdrawn as host of the 84th Academy Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMIt's weird to be an arts person on a campus that's much more focused on business, science and sport.Only yesterday, during a workshop I was leading with the few students who serve as writers…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:25PMCreated by the Ensemble
Directed By Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Adams
Halcyon begins its Stargazer Young Audiences Series with our Summer in the Square performance on Sunday July 15th at…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:23PMThe Tony award-winning Hugh Jackman has returned to Broadway this fall in Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Jackman brings the one-man concert show to New York for a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMBONNIE amp CLYDE is currently in previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, opening on Thursday, December 1st. The show's stars, Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes, appear in the November issue o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:22PMCast member Robert J. Townsend is a man of many hats in Goodspeed's new production of the film noir musical comedy City of Angels. With help from castmates Michael Keyloun, Laurie Wells…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:21PMVenus in Fur arrived on Broadway with strong advance buzz, so it’s not surprising that a slew of celebs turned out for the November 8 opening night performance of David Ives’ sex…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMNovember 9, 2011by Chad KinsmanPatron Services SupervisorOne of the best things about our Winter at the Playhouse events is the wide variety of performances available to our patrons. It’s …
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 02:10PMI don’t know what Nina Arianda has for breakfast, but I think she must cut it with gunpowder. This is an actor that is nearly a force of nature.I saw this production in its original incar…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:08PMUrban Theater Company (UTC) is committed to the creation and exploration of urban-inspired works that convey, illuminate and empathize with the human experience.“From the streets to the st…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:07PMLegit News: New works by Penhall, Agbaje on tap in London -- Seven world premieres from writers including Bola Agbaje, Joe Penhall, David Eldridge and Nick Payne plus a new production of "Lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMRoyal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin have been spoken of as promising stage partners ever since they appeared together in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice. But while th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMWhite Bear, LondonThe Swiss playwright Max Frisch is most famous for The Fire Raisers, in which a respectable bourgeois naively welcomes three agents of destruction into his home. But what i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
Over the weekend, #newplaytv streamed three interesting, presumably unrelated talks. The first was from Steppenwolf’s First Look Festival, titled How to engage 21st Century Audiences for N…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 01:54PMThe new musical “The Blue Flower” opens tonight at Second Stage Theatre. Starring Broadway regulars such as Marc Kudisch, Sebastian Arcelus, and Teal Wicks, this show explores the rela…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:52PMThe inaugural TEDxBroadway conference, a day-long event where artists come together to discuss the future of Broadway, will be held Jan. 23, 2012, from noon-5 PM at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMCharacter Development: Is It Always Necessary? or Letting Belmira Have Her SayA month or so ago I was in workshop presenting a very early draft of The River Bride. I mentioned after the read…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:38PMThe Blue Flower, the new image-and-movement-rich musical about artists and thinkers in the first part of the 20th century, opened Off-Broadway Nov. 9 at Second Stage Theatre. Jim and Ruth Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMHello Everyone! Our Series continues Today! Off the Record today is taking you behind the scenes of a music rehearsal for this upcoming production! Hectic harmonies and memorizing music all …
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 01:32PMBilly Elliot star Emily Skinner, Tony winner Shuler Hensley, American Idol vet Justin Guarini and musician Jake La Botz will lead the the world premiere cast of Stephen King and John Mellenc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:17PMBilly Elliot star Emily Skinner, Tony winner Shuler Hensley, American Idol vet Justin Guarini and musician Jake La Botz will lead the the world premiere cast of Stephen King and John Mellenc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:17PMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley, Tony nominee Emily Skinner and Justin Guarini will be part of the world-premiere production of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the new musical thriller b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMOff-Broadway's Sleep No More welcomes plenty of celebrity visitors to its 1930s-inspired performance space. However, after an accident at the show, one star probably won't be raving …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMDarren Criss, who will soon make his Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, returned to Dalton Academy on the Nov. 8 "First Time" episode of the Fox hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMTo say there is no one in the American theater quite like David Greenspan is an understatement.To say there is no one in the American theater quite like David Greenspan is an understatement.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:06PMDe-lahay fits many ethnic variations into her drama, but what seems at first to be box-ticking is necessary to explore different vectors of racism
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:06PMThe ballet walks us through the heroine's life in Austria through to France, but the story's vocabulary is too limited to sustain the narrative arc
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:05PMTate Liverpool exhibition charts how artists have subverted the legacy of Lewis Carroll's dauntless young heroine
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:05PMSegerstrom Center for the Arts will present its first Off Center Festival, featuring a mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art, to be presented January 13 - 21.
The fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PM“I am primarily not a film actor -- that’s what’s so ironic about [this honorary Oscar]!... I’m still a novice in film work... I haven’t found that character that I can say, ‘Yea…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:01PM
Building on the concept of alternative and youth-oriented offerings, the Segerstrom Center is announcing Wednesday that its first "Off Center Festival" will run Jan. 13-21. Building on the c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:58PMA CHARITY CASE starring Two-Time Tony Nominee Alison Fraser, Alysia Reiner Sideways and Jill Shackner Les Miserables opened last week, November 2nd at The Clurman Theatre. This new play abou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMThe full cast has been announced for Bijan Sheibani's new production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, beginning performances Jan. 19, 2012, prior to an official opening Jan. 26…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMFamily occasions can be fraught affairs, as playwrights from Harold Pinter to Alan Ayckbourn have convincingly proved, but the mother of all family meltdown dramas must be Thomas Vinterberg�…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:53PMOnce a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I’ll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:45PMDrama Desk Award nominee Michael Shawn Lewis, who produced John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean Off-Broadway, will present the first-ever New York Children's Theater Festival in spring 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMToday, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets-a global, grassroots campaign to fight malaria in Africa-announced that Disney's The Lion King and the Nederlander Organization are joining the ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre has always been about giving shows that haven't had a big shot, a shot. That is why I was a little surprised to find Bloodsong of Love on this year'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:40PMTodrick Hall, Melody Hollis, James Snyder, Allie Trimm, and Jessica Snow-Wilson will be featured performers at the album pre-release concert of musical theatre songwriting team Jordan Beck a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMAudiences Confess Their Love For SISTER ACT
In the True Confessions booth in the lobby of the Broadway Theatre, fans tell us what they think of SISTER ACT on Broadway!
Visit http://www.sis…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36PMCARNAGE is coming to theaters nationwide on December 16th from Sony Pictures Classics. The drama is written and directed by Roman Polanski and stars Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMJulie Taymor’s lawsuit against the producers of “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” has some serious consequences not yet explored. It turns out her lawyers are asking for a pe…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:33PMDirected by Roman Polanski. Written by Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza. Based on the play GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza.
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:32PMThe hit Broadway musical SISTER ACT is partnering with God's Love We Deliver by outfitting runners for their 18th annual Race To Deliver on Sunday, November 20th in Central Park. The first 5…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMStacia Fernandez is currently taking a leave of absence from the ensemble of the hit Broadway musical Mamma Mia! to tackle the role of Diana Goodman, a wife and mother struggling with bipola…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMLocal theatres participate in Razoo’s first area 24 hour giving campaign If your inbox has been buzzing today like a door bell on Hallowe’en with theatres asking for small bits o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMOn Tuesday, November 8, the Broadway premiere of David Ives' Venus in Fur opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The two person cast stars Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy. Walter Bobbie …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMAcademy Award nominee Sam Waterston stars as King Lear in the Public Theater staging of Shakespeare's tragedy about a feeble monarch attempting to weather a familial storm, which officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMThe cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's holiday-season run of Irving Berlin's White Christmas offered a special preview performance Nov. 8 in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMHow Theresa Rebeck’s new play blends dark laughs and deep thoughts — It’s a comedy, sure, but there are serious questions rippling through Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, n…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:14PMA commercial producer is seeking to give a New York City life to the Jeff Award-winning production of Bruce Graham's The Outgoing Tide, starring Tony Award winners John Mahoney and Rondi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMProducers Joan Stein and Richard Frankel announced Nov. 9 that Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays will offer a special, one-night-only discount to young people for the Nov. 30 at 8…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe finalists for the first Clive Barnes Awards have just been announced. This year's awards will be presented by Frederic Franklin, CBE and Nina Arianda, last year's recipient.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMBrad Little and his wife Barabara McCulloh have been cast as Captain Von Trapp and The Baroness in Media Theatre's production of The Sound of Music, November 22-January 15.
The Sound o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMStuck for present ideas for the theatre lover in your life? A Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club Membership is the ultimate gift for anyone who loves theatre giving them access to exclusive event…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:01PMConceived and directed by Tommy Tune and written by Mark Saltzman, FIFTY FOUR FOREVER, will receive its world premiere at The University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, from November 9…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the week of October 31 - November 6. (30 productions)1. The Book of Mormon (Musical) Eugene O'Neill Theatre (1) 2. Disney's The Lion King (Musical) …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PM
Playbill.com has learned that the cast of the American Repertory Theater premiere of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess will repeat their work in the Broadway production, which will debut Dec…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe Barbican in London has announced its full slate of productions for its 2012 season, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.
As previously reported, highlights include Cate Blanchett…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMINTERVIEW: NICOLAS KENT and GILLIAN SLOVO. The director and writer talk to Dominic Cavendish about The Riots, an attempt to create a rapid-reaction verbatim drama in response to the riots th…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:52AMNominees have been announced for the 2012 People's Choice Awards, which will be presented Jan. 11, 2012, at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live and broadcast on CBS at 9 PM ET. The evening will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMTaking the author's own performing version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL as a starting point, Simon Callow and director Tom Cairns have created a work of total story-telling: phantasmagoric, hilariou…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:41AMThis convoluted tale is the story of a Jon (Max Casella) who is writing his version of his family while his real family is hovering around objecting to nearly everything he is writing. So i…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:40AMBroadway's latest It-girl Nina Arianda is back in action with the November 8 opening of "Venus in Fur." The David Ives-penned drama is settled into a limited run at Samuel J. Friedman Theatr…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:39AMMichael Jackson's doctor sealed his fate when he found the heavily sedated pop icon unresponsive and failed to call 911 immediately, a juror revealed Wednesday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:39AMA conversation broke out on Twitter earlier this week, in response to a blog post (is that a squirrel chasing its own tail I see before me?), which led me here, to a small beer of a rant abo…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:35AMBroadway on the High Seas with Brian Stokes Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Christine Ebersole
http://www.playbill.com/video Broadway on the High Seas cruise launched its inaugural voyage in Septe…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:27AM"Wicked" Encore Features Composer Stephen Schwartz
http://www.playbill.com/video To celebrate its eighth anniversary on Broadway, "Wicked" allowed fans to cast ballots i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:22AMThe dress that the late singer Amy Winehouse wore on the cover of her 2006 breakthrough album ‘Back to Black’ may bring in a lot of green.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:22AMThe Circle in the Square Theatre School will present Anansi the Spider, a children's play performed by CITSTS alumni, beginning Nov. 28 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMSam Waterston rages in the storm of Shakespeare’s grand tragedy.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 11:20AMWhen Google launched its social network, Google+, in late June, the only accounts available were personal ones. G+ promised us that pages for business (think about the difference between you…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:18AMPop singer Aaron Carter returned to the New York Stage in the long-running Off-Broadway production of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks, beginning Nov. 7 at the Snapple Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMToday, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets-a global, grassroots campaign to fight malaria in Africa-announced that Disney's The Lion King and the Nederlander Organization are joining the ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMInspired 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 11:13AMMichael Ball's recent UK concert tour has been captured on film by Universal and will be released on dvd on November 14th. The 28-track HEROES LIVE' proves once again that Michael Ball, dyna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMVenus in Fur, David Ives' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actress and a controlling writer-director, opened Nov. 8 in its Broadway premiere following previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMPhilippine Development Foundation PhilDev just presented PhilDev Celebrates Broadway Suites by Sondheim, on Monday night, November 7 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City. Hea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMGraham Linehan's stage adaptation of Ealing comedy The Ladykillers opened its try-out run at the Liverpool Playhouse last night (8 November, previews from 3 November) ahead of its West End d…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:05AMStage and screen actress Tanya Clarke has signed on to make a guest appearance on the Fox hit series "Glee," according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMRoyal Court Theatre has announced the plays it will produce during the first half of 2012.
As previously reported, Dominic Cooke will direct David Eldridge's In Basildon (February 16 -…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMThere aren't many training programs for commercial theater producers. And only one is affiliated with The Broadway League. If you don't know about CTI, you should check it out. Under the lea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective will present productions of the short-lived musical A Doll's Life and the classic play upon which it is based, A Doll's House, in repertory this…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMGraham Linehan's stage adaptation of Ealing comedy The Ladykillers opened its try-out run at the Liverpool Playhouse last night (8 November, previews from 3 November) ahead of its West End d…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:47AMFor a full ill-advised minute (actually, more like ten months), I had considered being a theatre critic. And then, I realize two things: I really disliked reading my own opinions and critici…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:41AMJulieta Venegas, Lila Downs, the sixth annual Latin American Cultural Week and theater productions about two Latino icons, Antonia Pantoja and Roberto Clemente, among the top picks for New Y…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:39AMOpera Australia has started work on an opera based on the life of Julian Assange – with the Wikileaks founder's blessingThere has already been a play, a (disowned) autobiography, and some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSacked director and co-author wants more than $1m in compensation for work on Broadway's blockbuster musicalJulie Taymor, who directed and co-wrote the book for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:29AMThe cast of Gossip Girl is covering up their pretty faces with Venetian masks as they take in off-Broadway's theatrical adventure Sleep No More for the show's November 14 episode. Ch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMCumulative ticket sales for Broadway's current 30-show roster dipped ever-so-slightly to close the week ending November 6 at $21,189,810.Production gains in some places were counter-balanced…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:20AMConor McPherson’s “The Seafarer” will be the next show for the New Haven Theater Company.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:20AMProducers of the newly adapted Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess will offer special giveaways for the first 100 ticket buyers in line at the Richard Rodgers Theatre for t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMNew Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse is currently in rehearsal for Irving Berlin's White Christmas, directed by Marc Bruni, with choreography by Randy Skinner and musical direction by Steven F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMA preliminary lineup of artists has been announced for Broadway Sings For Pride: The Winter Holiday Concert, to be held on Monday, December 5, 2011 at New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bise…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMKimberley Locke, Adam Pascal, Terri White, Logo's A-List Cast Members et al. Will Sing For Pride at One-Night-Only NYC Benefit Recording Artist and American Idol finalist Kimberley Locke, To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:07AMThe nominations are in and the field has been set. And now it's time for you to get out and vote for your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Bos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMThe Voices Inside program is an inspirational inmate writing and theater program at Northpoint Training Center that uses theater arts and creative thinking to increase communication skills, …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMFOR MORE CLICK HERE! Our news is sourced from the #NEWPLAY community on Twitter who is revolutionizing the flow of information and knowledge in our field. If you have something to share of n…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AM
Audiences are following the yellow brick road over the rainbow to see Danielle Hope, winner of BBC TV's Over the Rainbow, play Dorothy at The London Palladium, the capital's home of the fami…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMLast night, November 8, The Public Theater opened KING LEAR, directed by James Macdonald. KING LEAR will run through Sunday, November 20 in The Public's Newman Theater. BroadwayWorld was on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMLast night, November 8, The Public Theater opened KING LEAR, directed by James Macdonald. KING LEAR will run through Sunday, November 20 in The Public's Newman Theater. BroadwayWorld was on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMLet's do a little housekeeping: 1. THANK YOU to the hundreds of folks that get this blog via your email or an RSS reader. Your presence is both noted and appreciated. 2. If you're in Chicago…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:56AMRaphael Miranda (NBC's "News 4 New York") and Marissa Rosen (Off-Broadway’s My Big Gay Italian Wedding) will host Broadway Sings for Pride, which will be presented Dec. 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMNo hystery mere: writer/director Tom Mallan’s purpose is to take the most powerful story in royal English history – Henry of Monmouth’s growth from a frivolous delinquent into the grea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMRoyal Family Productions will present a benefit reading of Adam Rapp's play Nocturne Dec. 12 at Symphony Space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie opened last night, November 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. BroadwayW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMThe new musical The Blue Flower, starring Broadway favorites Teal Wicks, Sebastian Arcelus and Marc Kudisch, opens at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre on November 9. Will Pomerantz …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:45AMHistory will be made this weekend on the Wagner College campus in Staten Island, New York as the student theatre group Student Run Musical Theatre is at it again. After a successful first pr…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 09:43AMThe cast of the Public Theater's production of William Shakespeare's King Lear celebrated the show's opening on November 7 with a party at Chinatown Brasserie.
The company …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMAs first reported on TV Line, singer and actor Nick Jonas is set to guest star on the hit new ABC series LAST MAN STANDING. On the episode, the Disney Channel star will play the role of a t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMNew Britain’s The Hole in the Wall Theater will present the premieres of four one-act comedies by wriyter Jacques Lamarre under the umbrella title “Jacques Lamarre Has Gone Too F…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:15AMThe all new Sooty, featuring TV host Richard Cadell and the Sooty, Sweep and Soo puppet trio, opens in the daytime slot at the Garrick Theatre (current home of Chicago) on 13 December.
Orig…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:00AM
No matter how talented they are, ample-bodied and strong-featured actresses like Mary Testa usually play the funny best friend or the sassy sidekick instead of the leading lady. And so…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:59AMThe nominees for the 2012 People's Choice Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on Wednesday, January 11 and broadcast live on CBS.
FOX&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMA 23-year-old man is in custody after Jack Widdowson, 19, was attacked in Cardiff and left critically ill with back and neck injuriesA man has been arrested over an attack that left a talent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie opened last night, November 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 4…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38AMAs a result of the City of Toronto’s KPMG Core Service review, and the city’s public consultation process, Council recently voted in favour of looking into selling its city-owned…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:36AMPretty but a little vacant: Andrew Murdock in Busk.Becoming a true artist requires talent - obviously.But it also requires a topic, too. A theme.And while choreographer Aszure Bar…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:36AMWhile The Elf King is not an erotic tragedy as I’ve explored that idea over the past several years, its theme does partake somewhat of the metaphysical qualities of sexuality and human…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:28AMCourt's spring–summer programme will also feature plays by Joe Penhall, Mike Bartlett, David Eldridge and Bola AgbajeStephen Mangan, Mike Bartlett and a new environment-themed project from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of VENUS IN FUR, the new play by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie opened on November 8 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Stree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:16AMConor Lovett of the Gare St Lazare Players Ireland will return to Connecticut with his one-person theatrical version of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:15AM
If your last name is an adjective, people are bound to have some fun on your behalf. For Thornton Wilder, at least, the puns are well-earned. Two of his best known plays — the quiet co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMRare are the times you will fine me gushing about mainstream contemporary pop culture on this blog, but – Is it just me or does the New York Comedy Festival look like it’s shapin…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AMToday is the birthday of the magnificent Marie Dressler, often paired on screen with the equally comical Polly Moran. (See a full profile of the former here and the latter here). Here they a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:21AMOne of my many recurring nightmares when I was Reuters chief correspondent in Paris in the early 1980s was about getting beaten by the opposition on the death of the elderly Duchess of Winds…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:13AMThe City of Baltimore has recently found itself under the harsh gaze of the Russia Today: in a 500 word piece, shaped by an hour or so of immersion in Baltimore’s one-block red zone, and m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMHusband-and-wife team Jim and Ruth Bauer's exhilarating experimental musical examining the lives and loves of four European bohemian friends during the first half of the 20th century bloom…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 9 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMLegit News: Comedy Legend & Groundbreaker: Caroline Hirsch -- Caroline Hirsch transformed a cabaret club into the premiere showcase for standups both rising and famous.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMLegit News: New York Comedy Festival 2011 -- Comedy is hard. Putting on a comedy festival in Gotham is even harder
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMLegit News: New York Comedy Festival 2011 -- This year's lineup of comedians very much favors the heavyweights
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMLegit News: Comedy Legend & Groundbreaker: Caroline Hirsch -- For comedians on way to fame, Hirsch created a pinnacle and a safety net
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM
There are many plays with just two characters, but in Atman this particular facet is more literal than most. This lean little play, around 50 minutes long, revolves around A (Lucy Griffiths)…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:55AMAs you can see in the photo above, in this case the name Pauline refers not to a lady, as in The Perils of Pauline, but to a fellah. Big time vaudeville’s premiere performing hypnoti…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:55AMFind out how to get your hands on a copy of So You Want To Go To Drama School? published by Nick Hern Books by entering our Twitter competition.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMIn the first of our new Behind the Scenes how to guides, Marése O'Sullivan gives a rundown of tips and advice designed to help you apply to drama school.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMPulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz's take on how the Cuban Revolution affected the commercial and romantic lives of individuals caught up in its fervor doesn't quite come to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:34AMThis 1956 Ethel Merman vehicle has a new star in the wonderful Elizabeth Loos, who delivers pure delight as she sturdily supports this rather flimsy, cut-rate show on her highly capable sh…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:32AMMilan Stitt's dimly remembered 1970s success is historical drama, courtroom nail-biter, whodunit, and religious meditation rolled into one, and Retro Productions mostly does it proud.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:28AMIt’s Ed Wynn’s birthday today (go here for full bio) and what an awesome find! This terrific clip is from Wynn’s short lived 1949 tv show, and his guests are The Three Stoo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:27AMThe 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency through Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:20AMToday is the birthday of Hal Roach funny man Snub Pollard, who started out in silents but whose career extended well into the talking picture era. (See full bio here). In honor of the day we…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:18AM...are fascinated by the wealthiest of themselves - buying magazines, reading tweets, watching them dance on network TV - but savor the schadenfreude when one of them implodes....think sex i…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMClumsy Kelly Osbourne, who’s nursing a head injury, also recently suffered a black eye at acclaimed theater production “Sleep No More” -- and complained to producers about her ugly shi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:05AMAfter a half-century in show business, dancer-director-choreographer Tommy Tune knows the gamut of pre-Broadway tryouts. But the process for 54 Forever that opens tonight is new for him. He …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:03AMPlaywright Tomson Highway ‘absolutely thrilled’ by Ken Gass’s use of non-native actors
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM
‘Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” opens tomorrow. Broadhurst Theatre. Best human ever to interview is Hugh Jackman. A) He’s easy. B) A pro. C) Won’t burble “Can’t think of one,”…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:59AMThe Silver Palm Awards, founded four years ago to spotlight theatrical excellence in South Florida, will be presented to 17 individuals on Dec. 5.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:58AMLondon's Barbican Centre has announced plans for its January-September 2012 season, being held under the umbrella title Barbican Theatre and Dance. It will include Cate Blanchett returni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53AMLondon's Barbican Centre has announced plans for its January-September 2012 season, being held under the umbrella title Barbican Theatre and Dance. It will include Cate Blanchett returni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53AMThe Barbican has announced full details for its newly named Theatre and Dance season for January to September 2012, its 30th birthday year, which, as previously announced, will feature perfo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43AMDiane Ragsdale asks if arts organisations should be charging patrons for works in progress and what allowances that gives to amateur critics and bloggers
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AM
Mariska Hargitay is just one of many actors giving back—both with their dollars and with their time—to the places where they studied the craft.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:57AMI spent Monday afternoon in Stratford-upon-Avon, mooching round town in the drizzle and catching up with some work in the welcoming bosom of the Swan's Nest Hotel on the other side of the ri…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:48AMThe Royal Court's new season, running January-June 2012, will include premieres of plays by David Eldridge, Joe Penhall, Nick Payne and Bola Agbaje amongst others, with actors that…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48AMThe latest 'Theatre Local' adventure of the Royal Court is in a small former factory (weapons, cricket bats, sweat shirts) on several floors on Rye Lane, Peckham, where designer Ultz has tra…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:14AM
Bringing one of the most acclaimed works of musical drama ever captured back to movie theaters nationwide this fall, NCM Fathom and Turner Classic Movies TCM are presenting The West Side Sto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMKathy Griffin, the comedienne who played Broadway in her limited run of KATHY GRIFFIN WANTS A TONY earlier this year, will return to New York City for the New York Comedy Festival.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMApropos to my post yesterday about standards for arts marketing personnel is today’s a review of arts organizations’ online marketing efforts. Drew McManus unveiled his 2011 Orch…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:17AMThe New York Times 11/09/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01AMCNN’s Erin Burnett talks to David Henry Hwang, writer of the new Broadway play, Chinglish. The Broadway comedy takes on the mangling of Chinese and English and explores the barriers be…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AM
ThisIsMoney.co.uk 11/06/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:55AMThe Globe and Mail (Canada) 11/08/11
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:51AMAnother big Broadway bow: Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda pretty much stole the week, and it’s only Tuesday. They opened the Manhattan Theater Club’s fall season with a wild renditio…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:38AMWho is d.bi. young anitafrika?A gorgeous short-form profile.Read the CPC review of her show, The Sankofa Trilogy, now at the Tarragon
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe world premiere of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, shining a light on the conflicts in the life and work of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, opens Nov. 9…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMichael Sheen, last seen on the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Frost/Nixon that subsequently transferred to Broadway, opens in the title role of a new production of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMJoanne Woodward and Laurence Olivier star in a 1977 TV version of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba: (This is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMAnnaleigh Ashford and MJ Rodriguez of Off-Broadway's Rent, Jennifer Damiano of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark and Josh Grisetti of Off-Broadway's Enter Laughing are amon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the film adaptation of West Side Story, NCM Fathom and Turner Classic Movies re-release the film in movie theatres nationwide Nov. 9 for one night o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDark Sisters, the new opera by Sons of the Prophet playwright Stephen Karam and composer Nico Muhly, which explores the world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Blue Flower, the new image-and-movement-rich musical about artists and thinkers in the first part of the 20th century, opens Off-Broadway Nov. 9 following previews that began Oct. 14 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater presents the world premiere of Horsedreams, a new play written by and featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith, beginning Nov. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMultiple Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Tommy Tune (Nine, Grand Hotel, The Will Rogers Follies) has been in residence with the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn case you're looking to cast a new musical that would benefit from one of theater's iconic voices, Patti LuPone wants you to know that she's open to original work. The Tony Award winner fo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
