A FOOL-IPINO FOR LOVE Just as the “problem” of immigration continues to be debated by our politicians, so does it continue to be presented in our theaters. Earlier this year, in the spri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42PMSo I received a text at the interval of Juilliard's "Kommilitonen" that read, "urgent! spare ticket to Katy Perry now!!!". Being the total sucker I am: I dashed to Madison Square Garden to w…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 11:36PMIn Trevor Nunn's revival of James Goldman's 1966 play the chief fun lies in watching Robert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley locked in a love-hate embrace for eternity
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:26PMIn 'Seven for a Secret' the cast is tireless in their role-playing and frolics and the delight of the piece is Michael Howell's magical setting
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:26PMUnfortunately, the plot, characters and evocative setting of George Orwell's first novel have become muddled and denuded in this page to stage transfer
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:17PMMr. Pockriss, who wrote the music for midcentury pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” also worked in musical theater for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:10PMThere's a lot of expository reading you could do before seeing "In the Red and Brown Water," the first of Tarell...
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Language isn’t the only thing separating the new theatrical production of “La Strada” from its inspiration. This Spanish-language adaptation of Federico Fellini’s classic 1954 Italia…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMEvery night outside the Broadhurst Theatre, the women flock to the stage door, their pens shaking, their cameras poised, their insides Jell-O. Whether they’re middle-aged fans who fell in …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PMComplexions is the kind of company audiences love and critics hate. Audiences love it because it delivers virtuosity and full-throttle razzmatazz every time. We hate it because there’s not…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:41PMAre you ready to rock Yeah, you guessed it- tonight is rock night We are now down to the top 10 contestants who will be rocking out live tonight. The competition is heating up as they contin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37PMNate Gundy as "Banco" in Macbett.We may not have seen an actual production of Macbeth in, well, years, but two of the play's derivatives have been on the boards this season - first the …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:37PMJaygee Macapugay delivers a charismatic performance in Pan Asian Repertory's revival of this otherwise middling tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Tony Award-winning actor discusses his work in J.T. Roger's Blood and Gifts, presented Off-Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMGeorge Orwell's early novel gets an earnest story-theater adaptation.
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Hannah Moscovitch’s latest play, The Children’s Republic, opens at the Tarragon Theatre.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:57PMDay three of tech began with a warm welcome to the fans with an autograph signing this afternoon. Fans were able to meet the cast and our composer Alicia Keys. Despite the rain, we had a nic…
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 09:42PMOccupy Wall Street encampment
(First in a series)
As I write these lines, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been protesting for two months that the top 1% of Americans take home roughly …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:32PMThe Addams Family festered during its Chicago and Broadway incarnations, but now in Toronto the musical has found its bearings.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:30PM Erika Chong Shuch Bio Page Deborah Cullinan Bio Page Deborah: Erica let’s start with what first turned you onto performance? Erica: Well this isn’t necessarily what first t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:00PMTonight is a repeat of my first interview with Randy: Broadway Baby. Shortly after he joined the show to co-host. Have a great listen and show Randy some love. Candi Fox | Randy Slovacek | B…
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Michael Lasswell is a Dumpster slut. That’s what his friends in New York dubbed him, anyway. As a longtime resident of that town, Lasswell frequently poked around for interesting refuse an…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:56PM“The whole world's in a terrible state of chassis,” says Captain Jack Boyle more than once during Sean O'Casey's great play, set in 1922 and the second of his Dublin trilogy, bookended b…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:27PMThe Old Globe's 2012 summer season will feature the West coast debut of "Divine Rivalry," Michael Kramer's new historical drama about Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as the San …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:10PMNY1 VIDEO Donna Karger hosts the November 12, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:08PMRichard Eyre, the director of Mary Poppins and a slew of serious dramas from the National Theatre, talks about the genesis of his new Broadway staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:01PMIt is quite wrong to say that there is a happy ending to this production of Beautiful Thing. Rather than conclude, it simply dissolves into a star-spangled finale of kitschy live-in-the- mom…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM"Well, what shall we hang – the holly or each other?" Dad (aka Henry II) asks his assembled brood. 'Tis the season to be bitchy in The Lion in Winter, James Goldman's 1966 play, revived no…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMFor decades, Russia's ballet dancers have had one dream – to dance at the Bolshoi. With the exception of a few defections to the West during the Soviet era, the Bolshoi is the company that…
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UPWARD STAGES: Definitely one of the most
energetic events of the year, Stages St. Louis's tenth annual
"Applause!" gala raised a record-breaking $435,000+ for education
and outreach program…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:58PMYour name is Jeremy Jordan. You are the star of the Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde. You are very handsome in a weird way and sing like a dream, and have extremely shapely and appealing …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:49PMInsomnia has rarely been more fun or more fanciful than it is in “Goodnight Moon,” the giddy-making, ruckus-raising, hourlong musical by Chad Henry inspired by that popular, ever-timely …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:19PMOPENING ANOTHER NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Theatre at the Center presents Sean Grennan and Leah Okimoto’s musical about a jolly old elf, a not-so-jolly single woman and an old wish that final…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:14PMBroadway fave Andy Karl, who recently joined the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys as tough guy Tommy DeVito, is settling nicely into his new dressing room at the August Wilson Theatre. The popul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PMTimothy Edward Kane is about to singlehandedly take on a 3,000-year-old saga that originated in ancient Greece. Guided by director Charlie Newell, Kane, who normally is one of many actors on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:08PMCharlayne Woodard, famed for her autobiographical solo plays, takes on her role as surrogate mother to nieces, nephews, godchildren and other offspring of friends in her latest production, T…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:06PMInsomnia has rarely been more fun or more fanciful than it is in “Goodnight Moon,” the giddy-making, ruckus-raising, hourlong musical by Chad Henry inspired by that popular, ever-timely …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:06PM
Alan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:54PMTony Award winner Roger Bart will guest star in an upcoming episode of ABC's Revenge, according to EW.com.
The actor will play a journalist named Mason Treadwell, who has written a tel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMJERSEY BOYS, the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical, opened to rave reviews in Washington, DC at the National Theatre, on Saturday, November 12 (performances began Thursday, …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMTwo very well-known musicals from the 1970s drawn from the life of Jesus return to Broadway this season: Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ S…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:43PMFilm star and stage veteran Bradley Cooper has been named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, in its current issue, now on newsstands.
Cooper has appeared on Broadway oppo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:32PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:29PMWomen's Project has sold its former home, The Julia Miles Theatre on West 55th Street, and will begin producing at the Cherry Lane Theatre with its 2012-2013 season.
The Julia Miles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:24PMLast year, American Theatre told you about one theatre’s creative stab at sustainability in a story that prompted two responses on The Circle (here and here). Well, when it rains, it pours…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:09PMWhen an onstage family includes theatrical heavyweights Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach and Judith Light—plus Tony nominee Thomas Sadoski and TV fave Rachel Griffiths in her Broadway de…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:04PMGrammy Award-winning singersongwriter and Broadway producer Alicia Keys and cast members of STICK FLY greeted and signed autographs for ticket buyers in the lobby of the Cort Theatre 138 W. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PM
“Iron Curtain,” a musical comedy set during the cold war, is consistently good. And that’s no small praise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMThe Old Globe in San Diego, CA, has announced plans to produce the Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, as well as Michael Kramer's Divine Rivalry during its summer 2012 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMThe national touring company of Riverdance returned to Los Angeles for one final engagement before ending its run in June 2012. It will play the Pantages through Nov. 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMEmmy winner and stage veteran Julianna Margulies will be honored at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's annual "Women in the Arts" fundraising luncheon, to be held at The Chicago Cu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PMLegit News: Show selling tix through March 25 -- The Broadway transfer of "Other Desert Cities," which has played to soldout houses since previews began on Oct. 12, will continue perfs into …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:50PMFollowing the success of her October classes, three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, who was most recently on Broadway as Fantine in the revival of Les Misérables, will again offer the ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PM— “CROWNS” TAPS DIVAS: Two widely admired Chicago divas — E. Faye Butler, who earlier this week received the Sarah Siddons Society’s Leading Lady Award, and Felicia Fields (the Ton…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:40PMThe Old Globe Theatre has announced selections for its 2012 summer season.
Adrian Noble will once again serve as artistic director of the Globe's Summer Shakespeare Festival, held in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMWest Side Story - 50th Anniversary Premiere
50th Anniversary Red Carpet Screening of the 10-time Academy Award winning musical film West Side Story. Interviews with Russ Tamblyn (Riff), Rit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:35PMLast night, November 15, Tony winners David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish, as well as the cast of the 2009 Tony Award winning Best Musical BILLY ELLIOT, celebrated their three year…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMThe world-premiere production of Burmese Days, Ryan Kiggell's adaptation of George Orwell's novel about life in colonial Burma, officially opens Off-Broadway Nov. 16 at 59E59 Theater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMThe McCarter Theatre Center has announced casting for its annual production of A Christmas Carol. Adapted by David Thompson and directed by Michael Unger, the production will run December 4-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMStratford Shakespeare Festival YouTube Tour
Take a quick tour around our newly designed YouTube channel page. It is more then just videos. We also have special event announcements, savings …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:22PMThe 40th Anniversary production and first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL officially opened at the Circle in the Square Theater last week, November 7. The c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMDaily News By Joe Dziemianowicz Patti LuPone is posing for me and my BlackBerry. Yes, that Patti LuPone — the Broadway superstar who recently has become the queen of “Stop Taking Picture…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:18PMEmmy-winning actress Julianna Margulies will be the guest of honor at next year’s Steppenwolf Salutes “Women in the Arts” fundraising luncheon on March 12, 2012. More than 250 leaders …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:14PMIn Hershey Felder's new biographical one-man play, we see how young Leonard Bernstein�after being magnetically drawn to a relative's piano at a very early age�determinedly overcame the objec…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:09PMA musical based on the film “Newsies” will start a limited run on Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in March. The show will be a Disney Theatrical Production. The musical had a successful…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 04:08PM
Steppenwolf Theatre said Wednesday that the actress Juliana Margulies will be the guest of honor of its annual Women in the Arts fundraising luncheon.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:59PMIn honor of the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film "West Side Story," a group of dancers from the companies of Follies, Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages and Wick…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMNo Child... Audience Reactions
No Child... at Two River Theater Company
Nov 1 - Nov 20, 2011
Written and Performed by Nilaja Sun
Directed by Hal Brooks
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:51PMNovember 16, 2011by Angela Marroy BoergerEducation & Community Programs CoordinatorWith Halloween and even our first snow storm of the season behind us already, the fall and winter holid…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 03:50PMNovember 16, 2011@MargaretEAtwood, may I call you Mags, now?by Gaëtan L. CharleboisThis week I had one of the highpoints of my career. Margaret Atwood retweeted one of my postings on Twitte…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:48PMYellow Sound Label will release a recording of Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller's The Burnt Part Boys for digital download and in-store purchase on December 6. Michael Croiter, in conjunc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMHershey Felder in MAESTRO: The Art of Leonard Bernstein (3 of 3)
At the Royal George Theatre. Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is the story of the legendary American composer and lon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:44PMHershey Felder in MAESTRO: The Art of Leonard Bernstein (2 of 3)
At the Royal George Theatre. Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is the story of the legendary American composer and lon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMSee RENT at New World Stages for just 60 for orchestra and front mezzanine seats.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMJohn Stark Productions has announced casting for the West Coast premiere of a new translation and adaptation of Miroslav Krieza's In Agony, to be presented at the Odyssey Theatre, Novem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMHershey Felder in MAESTRO: The Art of Leonard Bernstein (1 of 3)
At the Royal George T Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is the story of the legendary American composer and longtime mu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:40PMAfter a successful run this summer, Silence! The Musical, the hit parody of the Oscar-winning thriller The Silence of the Lambs, has found a new home at off-Broadway's 9th Space Theatre …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMThe theater fan on your list can always get tickets for the holidays — and some are suggested here — but there’s more to the New York theater community, and more ways to play Santa to …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:22PMThe Kid Thing at Chicago Dramatists (2 of 2)
THE KID THING proves that sometimes good news isn't all it's cracked up to be. When two lesbian couples, who have been best friends for …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:20PMThe Kid Thing at Chicago Dramatists (1 of 2)
THE KID THING proves that sometimes good news isn't all it's cracked up to be. When two lesbian couples, who have been best friends for …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:18PMA cast recording of The Burnt Part Boys, which was presented in spring 2010 as a co-production between Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre, will be released in digital and CD formats …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMMy Teatro Latino Conversations Interview With Carlos Manuel Now OnlineBack in June I sat down with playwright Carlos Manuel who was in the Bay Area for a visit. Carlos and I have mutual frie…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 03:13PMThis month, L.A. Theatre Works will embark on a two-week tour of China, performing "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers" by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons.This month, L.A. Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:12PMAmid a veritable forest of ficus trees and potted plants, a small orchestra bedecked the stage of the packed North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday night for the Joan Rivers show…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:12PM“One Man, Two Guvnors” will transfer from London’s West End to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre on April 18, 2012. Richard Bean’s update on Carlo Goldoni’s “Servant of Two Mast…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 03:10PMThe fifth of 17 siblings, Rochelle Duffy coaxed stories out of most of them, ultimately focusing on her conversations with one of her brothers when he was incarcerated. This material comes t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:09PMNY1 has exclusively learned that a proposal from unions that would have eliminated workers' salaries entirely for the New York City Opera 2011-2012 season has been rejected by management.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:03PMCity Opera Management has passed on an offer from the unions representing its musicians and singers that could have saved the company some much-needed cash.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:03PMKim Cattrall, currently starring on Broadway in Noël Coward’s Private Lives, is profiled in this week’s New York Magazine. Directed by Sir Richard Eyre, Private Lives opens this Thursd…
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Gabriel Byrne will direct Gerard Mannix Flynn's one-man show James X, according to a report in The New York Times. The production is scheduled to begin performances on December 6 at 45…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMGabriel Byrne will direct Gerard Mannix Flynn's one-man show James X. The production will begin performances on December 6 at 45 Bleecker Theatre in anticipation of a December 9 openin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMThe powerful singer adds sparkle and spunk to the Village Theatre production of the Irving Berlin classic.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:58PMLuke Macfarlane, who was last seen on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, is currently starring in the title role in the world premier…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMThese theatre-based books and CD sound tracks are sure to be a big hit.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 02:58PMAfter a triumphant, six-year run on Broadway, AVENUE Q moved to New World Stages, opening there on October 21 and continuing to play to large houses filled with enthusiastic audiences eight …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMPart of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius' long-lost Symphony No. 8
may have come to light.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:55PMGrammy Award-winning musician and Stick Fly Broadway producer Alicia Keys joined cast members from the new Lydia R. Diamond comedy Nov. 16 to autograph posters in the lobby of the Cort Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:53PMAs Lydia Diamond’s new play Stick Fly prepares to begin Broadway previews on November 18, producer Alicia Keys took a moment to take part in that all-important Broadway ritual, poster …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:51PMSex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will play a limited engagement at Manhattan's HERE Arts Center beginning Dec. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PM"Beauty and the Beast" special editions, "The Enchanted Christmas" and "Belle's Magical World," will hit shelves Nov. 22. Both editions include special bonu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMJOHN STRASBERG’s (writer/director) International career as actor, director,producer, designer, and writer, exemplifies and continues the artistictradition of the Strasberg family…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:43PMChris Lamb on HK Gruber's "Frankenstein!!"
Percussionist Chris Lamb discusses and demonstrates some of the toys he'll be playing with for HK Gruber's "Frankenstei…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:41PMPop “retirements” prove to be about as reliable as political promises.
Witness the “just kidding, folks” resurrections of briefly absent stars Barbra Streisand, David Bowie …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:34PMThe first episode of "Hustling," the new web series created by and starring Sebastian LaCause, the actor-dancer who played the vascular Rocky in the 2000 Broadway production of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PM"West Side Story" film stars Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn placed their handprints and signatures in cement outside of the historic Grauman's Chinese Theatre No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMHomegrown hit displays a dark, edgy sense of humour and a big heart
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:26PMimage by Libby Levi Join the #NEWPLAY community for a new open source initiative called "Knowledge Sharing" - a series that enables ANYONE who has a particular expertise or signifi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:19PML.A. Theatre Works will embark on a two-week tour of China, performing "Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers" by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons. The play dramatizes the Washington…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:19PMThe 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 02:18PMGrammy Award-winning singersongwriter and Broadway producer Alicia Keys and cast members of STICK FLY greeted and signed autographs for ticket buyers in the lobby of the Cort Theatre 138 W. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMTony Award winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are back on Broadway, and NY1's Frank DiLella recently caught up with the celebrated duo to talk about their new show, "An Evening With Pat…
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:17PM"James X," acclaimed Irish play about abuse, will finally play in New York, with Gabriel Byrne directing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMAs Mary Poppins celebrates its fifth anniversary on Broadway, a beloved New York City landmark ensured the event would be "practically perfect." On November 15, the Empire State Bu…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 02:09PMYesterday brought the second installment of dramatist Steve Waters‘ series “Secret Diary of a Playwright” at the Guardian, a pointed reminder that, more than the creation o…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 02:08PMIt was a very happy birthday indeed on November 15, when ten-time Tony winning musical Billy Elliot celebrated its third Broadway anniversary! Director Stephen Daldry was on hand to enjoy th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PMIt was a very happy birthday indeed on November 15, when ten-time Tony winning musical Billy Elliot celebrated its third Broadway anniversary! Director Stephen Daldry was on hand to enjoy th…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 02:07PMTo those who've seen the Oscar-winning screen adaptation of WEST SIDE STORY, the recollections of George Chakiris' performance as Bernardo remain vivid. His acting is top notch, his singing …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMI've always admired the work of Michael John LaChiusa. Let me rephrase that: I've always felt that I should admire his work. I appreciate the ambition of his material choices and his uncompr…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 02:03PMJames is back. Known for his musical comedy skills, the actor takes on a heavy role in an Arthur Miller play in a Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre production.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PM
Lincoln Center Theatre has indefinitely extended the Broadway run of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, the production was originally s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:59PMLincoln Center Theatre has indefinitely extended the Broadway run of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, the production was originally s…
SOURCE: edmonton.broadway.com at 01:59PMAdele will be back to belting out her hit songs in no time. The British songstress took to her official site Tuesday to give fans an update on her status after undergoing throat surgery in B…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:53PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andr Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that it has extended the run indefinitely of its criticall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMLincoln Center Theater has extended Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, playing at Broadway's Booth Theatre, through March 25. Joe Mantello has directed the production.
In the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMWhenever I pop the disc into my Xbox and plug in the gigantic – and completely real – electric guitar that came with it, I’m taken to a strange place, one that has no bosses and no sid…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:36PMDavid Henry Hwang hosted the Dramatists Guild of America's annual Awards Night, held at the Players Club in New York City on Monday, November 14.
The ceremony recognized the works of B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMSoho, LondonPlays with songs, rather than fully fledged musicals, are very much the fashion these days, and Soho played host to a cracker in David Greig and Gordon McIntyre's blissful Scotti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMComplete casting has been announced for the forthcoming benefit concert of The Visit, featuring previously announced stars Chita Rivera and John Cullum. This one-night-only event will be hel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PMJon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, the new fiery family drama starring Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach and Judith Light, which opened to acclaim on Broadway Nov. 3, is now an open-end…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMPBS has announced its winter/spring Great Performances programming.
Among the offerings that will be seen as part of the series is Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman show that examines the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMTony Award nominee Gavin Creel, Barrett Foa, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Daniel Reichard will lead a sold-out reading of Academy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMA fairly full Byham Theater got a lesson in Chinese culture Tuesday when Beijing Dance Company -- the resident professional troupe of the famed Beijing Dance Academy -- made its Pittsburgh p…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:14PMThe play is a gag machine of mistaken identity involving identical twin brothers separated at sea.The play is a gag machine of mistaken identity involving identical twin brothers separated a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:13PMThe Directors Company presents a reading of For Nina, a new play by Robert Emmet Lunney, Nov. 16 at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMOn Tuesday, November 15, the Off-Broadway production of SILENCE! The Musical opened at 9th Space Theater at P.S. 122. Christopher Gattelli has directed the production.
The show, with a book…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMFurther casting was today (16 November 2011) announced for Gary Lloyd's international production of 1968 Broadway musical Hair which kicks off the British leg of its tour from Liverpool's Em…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:02PMRebecca Faulkenberry took her premiere bow in SPIDER-MAN on November 10 and last night, November 15, Christina Sajous made her SPIDEY debut.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Thousands of fans packed in for three blocks. Some had camped overnight. The lucky ones waited for a chance to meet Bronx-born Romeo Santos. Others simply waited for a glimpse.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:59PMThe Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre has just announced complete casting for their upcoming one-night-only benefit concert performance of THE VISIT, starring Broadway stage legends and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMCasting is now complete for The Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre's one-night-only benefit concert performance of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit, which is scheduled for Nov. 30 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMFull casting has been announced for the one-night-only benefit concert performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Visit, which will be presented at Broadway's Ambassador Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:57PMActor John Malkovich spoke to students at Fairfield University Tuesday afternoon, prior to his evening performance of the touring music-theater event, ""The Infernal Comedy: Confessions o…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:50PMRELATIVELY SPEAKING stars Marlo Thomas and Steve Guttenberg will be interviewed live in studio on WNYC Radio’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” at 12:40pm tomorrow, Thursday, November 17. “…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:49PMEnsemble Studio Theatre has extended its production of Robert Askins' Hand to God through December 18. Moritz von Stuelpnagel has directed the production.
The play is set in a Christi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMFitting for a show about a cannibal and a serial killer, “Silence!” isn’t golden. Much of the time, it’s dimly lit.
But even in shadows, this lewd, lyrical and laugh-your-butt-off m…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:48PMStephen Daldry, who directed the Tony-winning Best Musical Billy Elliot, made a surprise appearance at the Nov. 15 performance of the acclaimed musical at the Imperial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe competition is heating up on Glee now that two singing groups, New Directions and the Troubletones, are at McKinley High. On the show's November 15 episode, rival teachers Mr. Schues…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:46PMCabaret favorite Andrea Marcovicci, who has been spellbinding audiences at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room for more than two decades, is currently celebrating her 25th season at the famed…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMKim Cattrall and Paul Gross are going head to head as a former couple (who haven't quite gotten over each other) in the Broadway revival of Noel Coward's classic farce Private Lives.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMBette Midler made her Broadway debut playing Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof. Thereafter, she began singing in clubs around town including at the famed Continental Baths where she developed t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMSpooky Action Theater, a small company which has faced misfortune in the past, has become the recipient of a bequest valued at $1.6 million, Spooky Action’s Artistic Director Richard …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PMEquipped with coffee, running shoes, a bright scarf, and endless enthusiasm for traipsing up and down flights of steps with little children in tow, Brielle Hart is organizing her tiny minion…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:26PMWhat I’m about to say next will probably not shock, or come as a surprise to you: Social Media moves fast. Over the last couple of years, I have discovered more breaking news through m…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:21PMSome of the West End's biggest names have spoken out in recent days against Westminster Council's plans to introduce evening and weekend parking charges.
Andrew Lloyd Webber told the Evenin…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:18PM(Photo: Laura Roudabush) iCritic™, an initiative, developed as part of ‘Barrington Stage 2.0’, got its genesis from TCG’s New Generations Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:17PMThe American Foundation for Equal Rights AFER and partner Broadway Impact just announced a special college preview of Academy Award-winning director Dustin Lance Black's play 8, an unprecede…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMJeff Award winners Hollis Resnik, Geoff Packard and Larry Yando will be part of the Court Theatre production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, which will spread its wings in Chicago b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMAvant-garde director Robert Wilson and playwright/actor Charles Busch have been named to Out Magazine’s 2011 “Out 100,” joining previously announced Broadway actors Rory O&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMShannon Lewis has been one of our favorite Broadway dance stars since her attention-grabbing turn as the "I Gotcha" girl in the original cast of Fosse, so it was only natural to as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:09PMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, will continue Nov. 28 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New Yor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMRichard Bean's update of Goldoni classic starring James Corden will visit the Music Box theatre next year after West End runThe National Theatre's acclaimed production One Man, Two Guvnors w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMGet ready for a new batch of fresh faces from Jersey. The hit musical Jersey Boys will launch its second national tour, kicking off in Philadelphia on December 6, before hitting the road. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMI haven’t been an actor in a long time. I had spent most of nearly three decades (I was a very, very young child actor…) working on one show or another before finding myself torn between…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:01PMWith Christmas Week just around the corner, please take note of the special holiday playing schedule for Broadway shows. All information is subject to change without notice. Check with the b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the week of November 6 - 13 (32 productions):#2: Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway1. The Book of Mormon (Musical) Eugene O'Neill Theatre (1)2.…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PM
Uzo Aduba - Godspell on Broadway
Uzo Aduba chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Gattelli
Mus…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:58AMNick Blaemire - Godspell on Broadway
Nick Blaemire chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Gatt…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMBallet Theatre Company of West Hartford will present its "Nutcracker" Dec. 15 to 18 at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, featuring a cast of more than 60 performers.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:55AMAs Mary Poppins celebrates its fifth anniversary on Broadway, a beloved New York City landmark ensured the event would be "practically perfect". On November 15 the Empire State Bui…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMMorgan James - Godspell on Broadway
Morgan James chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Gattel…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:54AMThe first act tries to be too clever for its own good, but eventually "Plaid Tidings" delivers its nostalgia fix.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:53AMLegit News: Director to replace Nicolas Kent -- Indhu Rubasingham has been appointed a.d. of the Tricycle Theater taking over from Nicolas Kent, who will leave in May after 28 years in post.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:52AMAriel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, currently playing at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, will close on December 31, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Jeremy Herri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:52AM(And now, we’re in love.) Last night was Blogger Night at Seminar on Broadway. We’ve been looking forward to Seminar for months—It’s about writers just like us! It stars Alan R…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:50AMIn Development: New Songs from New Shows, presented by The New Voices Collective, will be offered Dec. 12 at 8 PM at Peter Norton Symphony Space.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMHershey Felder will return to the Pasadena Playhouse with a trio of musical solo plays exploring Abraham Lincoln, Frédéric Chopin and Leonard Bernstein, which will begin perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMt was announced today that Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMAfter a successful recent reading, a musical adaptation of Honeymoon in Vegas may be headed to Broadway in the 2012-13 season, according to the New York Post. The stage version, based on the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMCasting has been announced for the second national tour of the hit musical Jersey Boys, which will launch with an engagement at Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre, December 6-January 14, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AMAndy adds his $.02 to Jeremy's response to Michael Kaiser's HuffPo essay.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:37AMCreative Guru and Director Robert Wilson and Playwright and Actor Charles Busch have been named to the OUT100. Prolific avant-garde director Robert Wilson, 70, is known to be radical and opa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AM"Legends of Broadway," Masterworks Broadway's weekly series of newly produced video podcasts, premieres Nov. 16. New videos will debut every Wednesday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMLegit News: Global tour is part of the Bridge Project -- Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes are taking their stage production of "Richard III" to Qatar, where the show will play for two nights at t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35AMChristina Sajous (Baby It's You!, American Idiot) joined the cast of Broadway’s Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in the role of Arachne beginning Nov. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMThis week’s picks: THEATER: Sixty-one years after being in the cast of the first staging of “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” in Puerto Rico, the veteran Boricua actress Lydia Echevarria, 80,…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:25AMIn honor of the 5th anniversary of Mary Poppins on Broadway, Mary Poppins Steffanie Leigh, along with a crew of Chimney Sweeps flipped the switch and lit the world-famous Empire State Buildi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AM2012 Playbill: Henry V | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
General Director Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director Des McAnuff and Director of Communications David Prosser discuss the Stratford Sh…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:17AMChoreographer and director Donya Feuer has died of ulcerative colitis, according to a report in The New York Times. She was 77.
Feuer's theater credits include creating choreography f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AM2012 Playbill: 42nd Street | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
General Director Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director Des McAnuff and Director of Communications David Prosser discuss the Stratfor…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:16AMBertie Carvel made his name across London’s not-for-profit sector, winning raves at the Almeida (Rope), Royal Court (The Pride) and Donmar Warehouse (as Leo Frank in Olivier-nominated …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AM2012 Playbill: Overview | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
General Director Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director Des McAnuff and Director of Communications David Prosser discuss the Stratford S…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:14AMCasting has been announced for Susan Eve Haar's Sex In A Coma, to run December 1-11 at HERE Arts Center. Lee Breuer will direct the production, which will have original music by Eve Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMA New York holiday tradition continues, as The Radio City Christmas Spectacular celebrates its 79th opening night on November 16! The legendary variety show stars the world-famous precision …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AMA hit in London's West End, the play will open at Broadway's Music Box Theatre on April 18, with preview performances to begin on April 6.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:11AMJohn Fogerty knows a perfect song when he hears one.
“It has its own doctrine,” he says. “It’s very compact. It’s not spontaneous. And you better be damn sure it can be l…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:08AMTHEATER REVIEWS: "An Interrogation Primer" ★★★ and "Twentyone" ★★½ at the Side Project
KERRY REID reviews "An Interrogation Primer" ★★★ and …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05AMDisney Theatrical Productions said Tuesday that the show will begin a limited run at the Nederlander Theatre beginning in March. It had a critically acclaimed debut in September at the Pap…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:02AMBroadway Unplugged returned for its 8th season in a row with yet another all-star line-up on Monday, November 14. Musical theater history was revisited when these great Broadway singers perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMYep. Finish it with me . . . Why not a play club . . . or a musical club. Right? My mission as a theater professional is to amplify the conversation about the theater. More people talking ab…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Katori Hall became the first African-American woman to win the Olivier Award for Best New Play when The Mountaintop, her meditation on the last night in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, play…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:59AMCasting has been announced for the Philadelphia return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. JERS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMLike so many New Yorkers making the move from Manhattan to Queens, the Theatre Development Fund was after one thing: closet space.That's a serious concern when your wardrobe includes 75,000…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:57AMBroadway Sessions with Ben D, the weekly musical theatre-themed evening at The Midtown Theater at the Ha! Comedy Club, will continue Nov. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe Go-Between, a new musical adaptation of LP Hartley's 1953 romantic novel, could be London-bound following its current run at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton.The show is written by …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:56AMBecause of cutbacks in federal funding two premieres have been postponed from the 2011-2012 season at Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, both involving writers with Hartford connections.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:55AMStreet artists are suing AEG in a dispute over lost artwork in a penthouse in downtown L.A. The musical "Leap of Faith" appears headed to Broadway in the fall of 2012, with a substantially r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50AMCasting has been announced for the Philadelphia return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, which will launch a new second national tour at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Gray Girl" by Factory Theater ★★
NINA METZ reviews "The Gray Girl" by Factory Theater ★★ ... Two newspaper reporters get wind of some shady dea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:48AMThe Tony Award-winning Disney musical The Lion King celebrated 14 years on Broadway Nov. 13 at the Minskoff Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMIndhu Rubasingham has been appointed the new artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre. She will take over in May 2012 from Nicolas Kent, who leaves after 28 years in the post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AM(PHILADELPHIA, PA) – November 16, 2011 – Casting has been announced for the Philadelphia return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the st…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:37AMWhoopi Goldberg will join Tony Award nominee Patina Miller and the cast of Broadway's Sister Act for the unveiling of the Macy's Herald Square Christmas Windows Nov. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMLast night, I attended a blogger night of the new Theresa Rebeck play Seminar. I'll wait until the show officially opens to post my review, but I can tell you about the meet and greet with J…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:36AMThis Friday the New York Pops journeys back to a fancier era, where men were men and the women wore beautiful clothing Carnegie Hall will be transformed into a Mad Men inspired wonderland fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMLast month, I went to the first preview of Hugh Jackman's one man show "Back on Broadway." Last night, I had the opportunity to go again with my college roommate Robin and my friend Ka…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 10:35AMOn Tuesday afternoon Nov. 15, Google reported Playbill.com as having a few pages possibly infected with malware (malicious software).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMLast week marked the official, one-year anniversary of BroadwayWorld Jr. I took a moment to look back on the first few shows I took my kids to see last year. My daughter, then six, was you…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMThoughts from the stars of “Wild Animals You Should Know” Now that they’re in their twenties, the stars of Wild Animals You Should Know feel prepared to play teenagers. &…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:18AMAt The Acting Company's Masquerade Gala, Nov. 14 at Capitale, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Joseph Benincasa, chairman and president, respectively, of The Actors Fund, accepted the Joan Warb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMOn Monday night, the Dramatists Guild of America hosted its annual Awards Night at the Players Club in New York City. The ceremony was hosted by David Henry Hwang and recognized the works of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMArena Stage artistic director Molly Smith announced Nov. 16 that the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, presented by special arrangement with Daryl Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThey’re back where they belong, singing together on Broadway: Performances begin on November 16 for An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which reunites the Tony-winning sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMOn Monday, November 14, Sonnet Repertory Theatre hosted its Tenth Annual Benefit and Cabaret. The event brought together a diverse and talented group of performers and composers at Joe's Pub…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMOnly a few organisations have demonstrated the knack of staying afloat through poverty and plenty. How do they do it?Why do some arts organisations survive and thrive while others wither and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AMDeath and the Maiden has posted closing notices at the Harold Pinter Theatre for 31 December. The production, which stars Thandie Newton in her stage debut, had previously been booking until…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:08AMSo a guy with a relatively high profile in the little world of the arts writes an article for the Huff Post. In the article he talks about the "death" of traditional arts criticism and the g…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AMResources - Ongoing Calls for Plays Overview This page is an extension of our Theatre Funding Newsletter. It contains calls for scripts from theatres accepting submissions on an ongoing basi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMThe Tony-winning star shows off her strong interpretive skills in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Two's Company join Soho Theatre in bringing Rob Young (book and lyrics) and Ross Lorraine's (music) Ex - A Play with Songs to the stage. Also confusingly billed as a "shamelessly romantic Br…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:57AMYesterday, Broadway Beat's Richard Ridge sat down at Sardi's with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin for an emotional and wide-ranging interview that talked about their relationship, about EVIT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMHartt School actor training students present Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts," directed by guest artist Terry Layman . November 17 to 20.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:55AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For Novembe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:54AMRide The Cyclone is quickly becoming a Canadian indie theatre legend. Exploding onto the Toronto stage at SummerWorks, it is already selling out houses at Theatre Passe Muraille with a show …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:54AMIndhu Rubasingham will assume the position of Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre in May 2012. She succeeds Nicolas Kent, who, as previously reported, will be stepping down from the p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMCould Broadway Get Any Better? That question has been answered. In a hot theatre season filled with revivals and a few new works planned, the 2011-2012 season got ten times better last nigh…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 09:41AMAaron Tveit, who was chased by the FBI on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can, is moving to the right side of the law: The popular young actor has been tapped for one of two leading roles in an …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMThe 2011 Tony Award-winning revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart will launch a national tour with an engagement at Arena Stage, running June 8 - July 29. George C. Wolfe, who sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:32AMSome have been hidden in storage for years, but finally the wonderful Old Masters collection and sculptures from the Tanenbaums are on display.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:29AMA rare Spider-Man comic book valued at $15,000 has been stolen from a home in Lincoln, Neb.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:20AMBreaking news: the Flux Family Feud has moved locations, from our previous home at the Cabanas to the sweetly swank (and swankly sweet) Fonata's, located at 105 Eldridge Street (between Gran…
SOURCE: Flux Theatre Ensemble at 09:14AMAs a group, the actors of the Street Tempo Theatre cast are cocky. As singles, they are vulnerable. And like sex, adding a partner(s) adds to heightened gratification. Throughout this raunch…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:09AMThe cast of Billy Elliot the Musical celebrated the production's third anniversary on Broadway with a post-performance party at Sardi's Tuesday, November 15.
The current cast, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:08AMTrevor Nunn's revival of The Lion in Winter by James Goldman opened to critics last night (15 November, previews from 5 November) at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, the final production in Nunn…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:03AMAbruzzo has a firm grasp on the drive and tunnel-vision determination that were part of the nature of Lombardi. He blusters and bellows mightily.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01AMShakespeare's Globe brings "The Comedy of Errors" to the Broad Stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMINKtank is Rising Circle’s 12-week playwriting intensive for emerging writers of color. This year, the lab will be facilitated by playwright Sevan Greene. Playwright Melisa Tien will join …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 09:00AM
Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas," returns to Hartford Stage for its 14th season. wiuth some new and old faces.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:55AMGet 50% off top price seats to Million Dollar Quartet at the Noël Coward. Season ends 14 January 2012. Valid for Monday - Friday performances at 8pm, Thursday matinees at 3pm until 13 Janua…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:39AMI’ll be there, and how! For more on the film’s director Todd Browning, go here. Him Moore, of course, is my collaborator on Vaudephone.
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:38AMElizabeth Inghram was recently hailed by the NewYork Times for "breathing life" into her performance as the comicPolly and her ability to "elevate the material"; and as a “…scenestealing…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:08AM"Nina Doesn't Care" off of Susan Egan's new CD, The Secret of Happiness, was co-written by Susan and famed comic and rock guitarist Brian Haner. The video was animated by former Disney anima…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:03AMAfter a lethargic first act, this revival of a musical that premiered in 1997 wakes up and delivers almost enough heartfelt performances to make us forget its tepid first hour.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWriter-director Ryan Kiggell tries hard to make this adaptation of George Orwell's first novel theatrical, but the results make for a pretty tough slog.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWe will select 3 full-length new works to have staged readings at the 3-week festival running from April 17 to May 6th, 2012. The selected plays will have one stage reading each week of the …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 08:00AM
Artistic Director Molly Smith has announced that the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, and directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AMIn a drastic move for a major regional theater, Arena Stage is dropping one of the spring plays from its current season, an action prompted by the anticipated cancellation of $500,000 in fed…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:21AMWE NEED YOU BELIEVERS!
The whatsonstage.com awards are open! There's many a category that Ghost are up for including Best Actress, Actor, Director, New Musical & Best West End Show, so plea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:15AMThe Normal Heart will replace Like Water for Chocolate in season’s lineup; Mary T and Lizzie K is postponed The Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13AMShould we print his name as anthony zerbe? That might be appropriate just this once — for in his latest endeavor, the actor is portraying that upper-case-phobic poet, e.e. cummings, in “…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 16 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
When The Post’s theater columnist Michael Riedel was notified by NBC he’d been axed from a planned appearance on the network’s upcoming series about Broadway, “Smash,” sources spec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:51AMMosaic Theatre's Lombardi starring Ray Abruzzo brings an intimacy to the game of football as well humanity to a legend. Don’t miss it.
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:44AMBy the time you read this, publisher Samuel French will have begun offering 400 plays for download, sold through Apple's iBookstore.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:32AMTrevor Nunn's final production as artistic director of the Theatre Royal Haymarket opened last night (15 November 2011, previews from 5 November), a revival of
James Goldman’s 1966 pl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:11AMThe time is coming round for list and gifts and, if you've already ticked off my own definitive critical biography, Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, you'll want to know about the other best th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:01AM
Theatre is unquestionably a lot of fun. It’s live, it’s inter-active, it’s immediate, it’s sexy. Audiences love going to it. It stands to reason that a lot of people want to be part …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47AMThe facile and sophisticated pose would be to sneer at the sentiment and, yes, manipulative facets of the new tour of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast gracing the Broward Center for the Perfo…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:32AMThe brilliant Daniel MacIvor in This Is What Happens Next at Citadel
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM"A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMKirsten Flagstad and Wilfred Pelletier perform an excerpt from Wagner's Die Walküre. This clip comes from The Big Broadcast of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe 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 — find…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company unveils the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Nov. 16 at the Peter Norton S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClassic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's tragicomic classic The Cherry Orchard, featuring John Turturro as Lopakhin, Dianne Wiest as Ranevskaya and Daniel Davis as G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEmmy winner Holland Taylor, who is part of the cast of the much-in-the-news TV series "Two and a Half Men," stars in Ann, a one-woman play about the life of the late Texas Governor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Paper Mill Playhouse's holiday-season run of Irving Berlin's White Christmas plays the New Jersey venue Nov. 16-Dec. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFor the first time since they dazzled audiences in the original Broadway production of Evita, Tony winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin share a Broadway stage in An Evening with Patti LuP…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPaging through "Look, I Made a Hat," the second volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected and annotated lyrics. Here's everything from Sunday in the Park With George to Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIf the dance scene were a fairy tale, choreographer Kyle Abraham would rank among its most revered characters.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWhere in the world is Illyria? It's such a pretty name it seems Shakespeare must have invented it. Which, in a sense, he did, reviving a name out of Roman antiquity and occasional later usag…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
