Rumors were that an “Occupy”-something group would disrupt Wednesday night’s US premiere of “Kommilitonen!” But the Juilliard Opera performance went off without offstage fireworks,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMWhen The Playground – A Street Rock Musical opens at the MET Theatre in Hollywood on November 18, it will be another step in an on-going odyssey writer/director Michael Leoni began in …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:46PMHowever fine the stars of Noël Coward's "Private Lives" may be, it's a mistake to cast actors in their 50s to star in a play about 30-ish "bright young things."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:42PMThe CAP21 Theatre Company has announced the next benefit concert in the Concerts for CAP21 series- SONGS ON FIVE. Featuring new songs from top songwriters in New York City, the one-night eng…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns to the Triad Theater 158 West 72 Street with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, on Monday, November 21 at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02PMSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra conductor laureate Leonard Slatkin
has renewed his contract with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for
another three years. The extension takes the former SLSO musi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:01PMWith his hit play, Red, opening in Toronto next week, his movie of Coriolanus coming at Christmas and the new James Bond film in progress, John Logan is at the top of his game.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PM
Legit Reviews: The Donmar Warehouse's season at the shoebox-sized Trafalgar Studios aims to shine a light on the talents of its resident assistant directors.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:50PMOh, what a fat and happy time it is to be a theater owner.
Every day you go to work, there’s a line of supplicants — otherwise known as producers — outside your door, begging, hoping, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:48PMThose critical of star-casting on Broadway should catch Kim Cattrall — the single best thing in the humdrum new revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives” that opened last night.
Best…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:42PM"Private Lives" at The Music Box, November 15, 2011
This London transfer brings Kim Cattrall back to the Rialto for the first time in 25 years, leading this production of the Noel…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 10:37PM"... a dazzling, eclectic, high-energy song-and-dance fest that demonstrates why Jackman live is only slightly less addictive than cocaine."
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:36PMLegit News: Comedy Impact Report 2011: Standup Guys -- After 15 seasons on Comedy Central, "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took Broadway by storm this year with a little sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThe Coterie executive producers Amber Cassell amp Julie Garny presented Emmy-winning composersongwriter Lance Horne in concert on November 1.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23PMDael Orlandersmith's brutally frank play about a family decimated by drug addiction, written in a beautifully composed, essentially lyrical, narrative -driven style
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:21PMPaul Gross, Kim Cattrai new Elyot is tall, dark and handsome, the sort of debonair leading man born to wear tuxedos and silk dressing gowns and he foxtrots divinely
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:19PMBelow, see Shoshana Bean singing with Melanie Nyema, Luke Edgemon, Kyle Bolden and Brandon K. Brown to Adele's Rolling in the Deep
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06PMNew York audience adores the Noel Coward play Private Lives starring Paul Gross and Kim Cattrall on opening night. American reviews were kind, too.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:06PMRichard Eyre’s revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives,” which stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, is frothier, broader and sillier than its immediate Broadway predecessor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMDael Orlandersmith’s “Horsedreams” addresses the allure, as well as the often tragic outcomes, of cocaine use.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMAfter the happy go lucky concerts of my previous two nights, "The Infernal Comedy" made for a big change. A combination of John Malkovich and Baroque Opera retelling the life of Jack Unterwe…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:02PM"Chemistry is difficult to explain, but you know the best reactions when you see them. In this Private Lives, you see them burn brightly — and, more important, you see them burn often."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMLegit Reviews: One initially assumed, when faced with the prospect of this old chestnut as its Christmas show, that the Theater Royal Haymarket had its tongue in cheek.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01PMWedded bliss doesn’t last long for two married couples in the revival of Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross play a divorced couple, both on honeymoon with their new…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:00PMDael Oerlandersmith gives a stirring performance in this often riveting play about a family dealing with cocaine and heroin addiction.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMQui Nguyen's new play is packed with action, wit, and a sizable nerd-quotient, making it a delight from start to finish.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMKim Cattrall and Paul Gross give splendidly sleek performances in this near-perfect production of Noel Coward's classic comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Tony Award-winning actress discusses her new film, Another Happy Day
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Legit News: 'Honeymoon' laffer recast as tuner -- Dan Farah of Farah Films has teamed with Hammerstein Prods. and producer Roy Gabay to develop New Line Cinema's 1992 comedy "Honeymoon in Ve…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:59PMLegit Reviews: The 79th annual edition of the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes" -- that's the full title -- has been overhauled with new technology and extensive …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMWatching Noël Coward's Private Lives is like reading that comic strip about the bickering husband and wife, The Lockhorns - but reading 500 panels.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:50PMTonight, November 17, marks the opening night for Private Lives. What did the critics think of the show Find out below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44PMHere we go again, folks- the results show Last night was rough as the contestants performed rock songs. Some shined, while others crashed and burned. Only 9 will move on to next week's live …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40PMNY1's Stephanie Simon delves further into the intriguing world of flash mobs in part two of her special report
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:38PMDavid Rooney After 25 years away from Broadway, Kim Cattrall is back playing opposite Paul Gross in the evergreen 1930 comedy by Noel Coward. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30PMThere's plenty of passion between Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross in Private Lives as a divorced couple who, after coincidentally meeting again while honeymooning with their new spouses, dec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:26PMA stage musical version of the film Finding Neverland, which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet, is being planned for the West End.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 09:07PMAs previously reported, the original play of The King's Speech by David Seidler will be brought to the stage next year in a production directed by Adrian Noble. According to The Daily Mail, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:04PMShe really isn't Samantha after all. No matter how many times an actor says that he/she isn't actually a TV character, it takes a deft star turn in something big -- this time, "Private Lives…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:00PM
Coming soon at the Ahmanson -- Fela! in place of Funny Girl. Antaeus' new troika of artistic directors announce a three-play season. LATW tours China. Holiday happenings and post-holiday p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:50PMAlmeida, LondonNeil LaBute is haunted by the American obsession with physical beauty. The Shape of Things showed a shambolic geek getting a ruinous makeover. Fat Pig attacked the idea that w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PMDNA choreographer Oliver Steele demonstrates choreography for the upcoming NY1 flash mob.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:31PMLegit Reviews: New York City was junkie heaven (and hell) in the 1970s, an era that Dael Orlandersmith views from an unconventional perspective in "Horsedreams."
SOURCE: Variety at 07:23PMReview: At Germinal Stage-Denver, what might have been another ho-hum trolley ride on "A Streetcar Named Desire" is instead a runaway train of delusion, violence and self-loathing. Rating: …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:17PMI found myself wondering whether you could draw up a top ten of Shakespeare's best jokes the other night. What I had in mind wasn't the sort of thing that an Elizabethan audience would have …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe most obtrusive – and the most questionable – feature of Howard Davies's revival of Juno and the Paycock is the monumental design by Bob Crowley. Set in 1922 during the bitter civil w…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIn its 85th anniversary year, Rambert Dance Company has plenty to celebrate. Work has just begun on a new home for the company, on London's South Bank. The dancers are in fine form, strong a…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMGallantry is as rare as flower-arranging in the world of Neil LaBute so, in a sense, hairdresser Steph should count herself lucky.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMTony winner Ruben Santiago Hudson, Dulé Hill and Mekhi Phifer are among the members of the LeVay family, who gather for a tense family weekend in Stick Fly, the new play by Lydia R. D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMLuke Macfarlane, star of the TV series "Brothers & Sisters" and Broadway's recent Tony Award-winning production of The Normal Heart, plays the title role in the world premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMOne great American resident theatre welcomes the work of another starting Nov. 18 when Arena Stage hosts the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of Bill Cain's Equivocation, fea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMBroadway favorite Cheyenne Jackson, whose television credits include "30 Rock" and "Glee," plays Carnegie Hall Nov. 18 in an evening titled Cheyenne Jackson's Cocktai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMDuke Ellington's Cotton Club Parade, a celebration of Ellington's years at the famed Harlem nightclub in the 1920s and early '30s, plays the recently renovated New York City Cent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMClass Reunion, a new musical featuring music and lyrics by Dani B. Tapper and a book by Holly-Anne Ruggiero (Jersey Boys), is presented in a New York City industry reading Nov. 18 at Ripley …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM1836 Birthday of satirist William S. Gilbert, later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produced The Mikado, The Pirates of P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00PM
The Thursday, November 17 performance of Teresa Rebeck's Seminar, at Broadway's John Golden Theatre, has been canceled due to an illness suffered by star Alan Rickman. Performances…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:48PMThe National Endowment for the Arts announced $22.5 million in grants Thursday. The average grant slipped slightly from previous rounds, reflecting recent budget cuts.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:43PMAccording to the NY Times, Broadway veteran and Emmy winner Jim Parsons is currently in talks to return to the Great White Way in a revival of HARVEY. The unconfirmed Roundabout Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMProducers Dan Friedman and Jessica Hanna discuss what happened behind the scenes at Monday's Ovation Awards ceremony. Then the two young siblings, David and Rachael Kartsonis, who streamed t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:37PMLast night, as part of OMA / Progress and The Barbican Centre exhibition, I attended a panel discussion relating to architecture, audience and the arts called Designing for the Next Generat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34PMBy Byrne Harrison
Photo by Deneka PenistonJustin Plowman is the director of the horror comedy Brew of the Dead II: Oktoberflesh, currently running at UNDER St. Marks, and its predecesso…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:29PMThe November 17 performance of Seminar has been canceled due to the illness of leading man Alan Rickman, who is suffering from "an acute respiratory infection," according to the sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMThe November 17 performance of Seminar has been canceled due to the illness of leading man Alan Rickman, according to a statement the show’s press representative released two hours bef…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:28PMEmmy winner Jim Parsons is “in talks” to play Elwood P. Dowd in a spring 2012 Broadway revival of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey, according to The New York…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMWillard Manus "Bridge," now at the Complex's Ruby Theatre, is awash in genuine fervor and sincere intention. However, when it comes to craft, it s a tad desiccated.Willard Manus "Bridge," …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:21PMTonight's Thursday 8pm performance of SEMINAR on Broadway has been cancelled due to the show's star, Alan Rickman, suffering from an acute respiratory infection. He is hopeful to return to t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:17PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Bridge' at the Complex's Ruby Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:08PMBalletX opened its fifth season at the Wilma Theater with a triple bill sparkling with surprising and lovely performances by company newcomers and more-senior members, says Merilyn Jackson, …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:06PMThe musical at the Toronto Centre for the Arts is cheerfully ghoulish, but no more substantial than a sitcom episode
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:04PMTwo River Theater has announced the full cast for its annual holiday show, Honk: A Musical Tale of 'The Ugly Duckling,' an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's story with m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:03PMA fine cast, glittering costumes, rich sets, and superior direction and choreography make the Walnut's holiday show this year a Siamese treat, says Wendy Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:01PM
By the time Ann Richards became Governor of Texas in 1991 — triumphing in a place (“larger than the nation of France”) where politics is considered a contact sport — she had done man…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:59PMThe new Boston-area theater group The Pysch Drama Company will offer an edgy twist to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Under the direction of Dr. Wendy Lippe, the play will be performed at the Bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:54PMOn Nov. 15 and 16, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performed to two sold-out houses at the fabled 1,600-seat Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. The company, which received extensiv…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:50PM(Photo: Becky Friedenberg. Pictured: Kevin E. Moore, Teresa Eyring, David Henry Hwang) (Editor’s note: Teresa Eyring’s closing remarks were given on Sunday, November 13th at our …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:46PMThe creators of the Tony-winning Broadway show Passing Strange, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, will appear live and in concert at The Space on December 1.
A four-time Tony nominee, Stew leads, al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMFresh off the release of his debut EP Daylight, Matt Doyle will return to Joe's Pub for a concert on November 28. Doyle's concert will highlight songs from Daylight as well as hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMCole Porter's "You're the Top," a number from Roundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes, will be performed during the television broadcast for CBS' Thanksgivin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMCole Porter's "You're the Top," a number from Roundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes, will be performed during the television broadcast for CBS' Thanksgivin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMCole Porter's "You're the Top," a number from Roundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes, will be performed live in Herald Square during the television broadcast for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMAnything Goes stars Stephanie J. Block and Colin Donnell will perform the Cole Porter classic “You’re the Top” on CBS' coverage of the 2011 Thanksgiving Day Parade, joi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:31PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, November 17, 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 05:30PMWynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center team up with City Center Encores! for
Cotton Club Parade, an exploration of the history and legacy of the
famed Harlem nightspot of the 1920s and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of CLOSE UP SPACE, by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Leigh Silverman will begin previews Thursday, December 1 and opens Monday, December 19 at MTC…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Anything Goes, will perform the Cole Porter classic You're the Top on the CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade between 900AM-930AM on channel 2 next Thursday
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:25PMSITI Company will celebrate the 70th birthday year of Robert Wilson with the revival of the Obie Award-winning one man show, Bob, set to run at New York Live Arts January 19-29, 2012. The p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMFood Stories: "Pleasure is pleasure", a world premiere of short stories by T.C. Boyle and Alice McDermott, will play Theater Artaud in San Francisco. The production, presented by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PMRoundabout Theatre Company’s Anything Goes, will perform the Cole Porter classic “You’re the Top” on the “CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade” between 9:00AM-9:30AM on channel 2 next Thu…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:15PMRed carpet footage from the VENUS IN FUR Broadway opening at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:13PMHannah Moscovitchs latest play explores work of a pediatrician who ran a unique childrens home in the Warsaw Ghetto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:09PMHannah Moscovitchs latest play explores work of a pediatrician who ran a unique childrens home in the Warsaw Ghetto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:09PMThe Ahmanson Theatre will now host the touring production of Fela! from December 13, 2011-January 22, 2012, rather than its previously scheduled spring engagement, according to The Los Angel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMA preliminary lineup of performers has been announced for CAP21's benefit concert Songs on Five, to be held on November 21 at 8pm. Tim Drucker will direct the event, which will have mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMTaking the Audience Through the Creative Process of "Macbeth 1969""Macbeth 1969," Long Wharf's Theatre upcoming adaptation of Shakespearean tragedy frames the haunting tragedy of ambition an…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:01PM
Charlotte Stoudt reviews writer-performer Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show about adopting an African, 'Who's Your Daddy?' now at the Little Victory Theatre in Burbank
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PMThe Los Angeles-based classical theater ensemble The Antaeus Company has announced its three play season for 2012. This will be the first season under the leadership of newly appointed inte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMNew social ticketing company FanFueled.com this week announced that it raised $1 million in venture funding, as the company looks to grow its profile in an increasingly competitive market.Li…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:54PMKristen Schaal will guest star in a multi-episode arc of NBC's 30 Rock, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details for her character have not been released.
Schaal appeared Off-Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMOn November 15, the 2009 Tony Award winning Best Musical BILLY ELLIOT, celebrated their third Broadway birthday. Original Billys and Tony winners David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMShow #112: A Man, His Wife, and His Hat, AlterTheater, November 12.
I reviewed AlterTheater’s commissioned world premiere of a Lauren Yee play in today’s Marin Independent Journ…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:48PMTanglewood, one of the world's most beloved music festivals and the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, cele…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMHello Everyone! Off the Record, our new series profiling the student production of High Fidelity form beginning to end, continues today on the blog! Promising to bring you the real deal behi…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 04:45PMBond's BundleAfter some bumps Ryerson pulls the audience inby Jessica WeiCaptivating, that was Ryerson's production of “The Bundle” by Edward Bonds. From the audible gasp from the a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:44PMJoin Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX) for A workshop presentation of a new play "The Story of Jacob Murakami, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Realized Sacred Cows Make The Fi…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:43PMArena Stage is proud to announce Theater Beyond Twitter: A Discussion Between Peter Marks and Howard Sherman in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for American Theater, Sa…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:40PMUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA NOW ACCEPTING PLAY SUBMISSIONS FOR ITS 5TH CYCLE OF THE STAGE INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT COMPETITION - $10,000 PRIZE TO BE GIVEN FOR BEST NEW PLAY ABOUT SCIENCE AND TECHNO…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:36PMWith its roots in the McCarthy Era Blacklisiting, over the past 35 years the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has provided a unique Southern California home for Shakespeare and the classics in…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:35PMOn November 16, nine Playwrights' Center writers created a new play LIVE online. THE WRITING TEAM FOR THE COMPLETE TEXT CLICK HERE!
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:33PM2012 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 04:19PM(Cross-posted on Nonprofit Finance Fund’s Social Currency) Attendance at the TCG Fall Forum on Governance is comprised of primarily executive directors and board members, with a spri…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:19PM2012 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 04:15PMPressing Question "FAVORITE SONG" from LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway
Here's the cast of LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway answering a pressing question from 3-time Tony-nominated wr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:12PMJulian Acosta first read Short Eyes as an undergraduate, directing a scene from it in class, but he had to recruit staff members to act in it because his fellow students refused to tackle th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:11PMRELATIVELY SPEAKING stars Marlo Thomas and Steve Guttenberg sat down live in studio on WNYC Radio’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” this afternoon. Now listen to the complete segment online:…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:08PMIn pondering buzz, I've realized something that surprises me I often have a better time at shows that have been reviewed as bad or mediocre than I do at productions that have been called the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMAre critics ready to commit to "Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:00PM
Just Dance - Twilight Breaking Dawn, American Music Awards, Happy Feet 2, Madonna 2012 Tour
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 choreographer Paul Becker gives you a sneak peek at the dance scene…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:57PMPlus Zenon Dance and Big Dance Theater.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:53PMPeter Land, Elena Shaddow, Jim Stanek, and KT Sullivan will perform in Cecil Beaton: The New York Years, A Broadway Musical Cabaret, to be presented at the Museum of the City of New York on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMEmmy-winning composer/songwriter Lance Horne celebrated the release of his songbook, First Things Last, at an event at The Coterie on Tuesday, November 1.
Among the performers and guests w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:46PMART REVIEW: Minnesota artists are featured in shows at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:45PMSuperstar choreographer Alexei Ratmansky delivers both excitement and pathos in National Ballets new production of an old favourite
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:43PMWikimedia CommonsWhat makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
True, in …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:37PMSeinfeld, beer and "Transmission."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:36PMHistory Theatre stages a play that has been described as an American "Christmas Carol."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:30PMThe Shakespeare Society is pleased to announce that Ralph Fiennes will be receiving The Shakespeare Society Medal at a benefit at the Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th Street on Friday, Decemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMPlantation's Mosaic Theatre and GableStage in Coral Gables both have hit shows at the moment: Eric Simonson's Lombardi, about legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, at Mosaic, and…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:15PMThe New York Times reports that Bernadette Peters and Martin Short are in talks with producers about co-starring as Agnes Snow and Michael Snow in a revival of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMOne minute Private Lives stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross are madly in love with each other; the next, they at each other's throats! As Amanda and Elyot, the duo play ex-spouses who hav…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMPressing Question "FAVORITE DANCE STEP" from LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway
Here's the cast of LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway answering a pressing question from 3-time Tony-nomina…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:05PMLegit News: Alan Alda-written play runs through Dec. 18 -- "Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie" has been given a one-week extension in its current run at the Geffen Playhouse.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:05PMA co-production of Heiner Müller's Macbeth after Shakespeare, presented by the Mini teater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Novo kazaliÅ¡te Zagreb (Croatia), will make its North Ame…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PMThe touring musical "Fela!" will play at the Ahmanson Theatre starting Dec. 13, moved up from its previously announced April opening. The change provides flexibility for finding a show to re…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00PMThe talented choreographer's newest work, at BAM's Next Wave Fest, starts with a lot of promise, but then seems to lose its way before an unsatisfying end
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:00PMThis past weekend 520 arts marketers from around the country including more than a dozen from Chicago area theatres travelled down to Louisville, Kentucky for the National Arts Marketing Con…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:00PM
The 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 02:52PMVENUS IN FUR - "All The Hype is True"
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:51PMThe show "I Do! I Do!," the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt musical, has never been revived on Broadway since it was first produced in 1966.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMKathryn Graf's carefully layered drama about a family in delicately poised denial, though slow to cohere, rewards forbearance. Kathryn Graf's carefully layered drama about a family in delica…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMMirror Mirror - Official Trailer 2012 (HD)
The official trailer for Mirror Mirror, an exciting re-imagining of the classic Snow White fairy tale!
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Choreographed…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:49PMThe Opera is alive once again in Los Angeles! The company is happy to announce a fall performance. The Burning Opera: How To Survive the Apocalypse is returning to Los Angeles for one night…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:48PMDirectors rarely get the opportunity to spend time and share ideas in a room with other directors. This new one-on-one conversation series was conceived by director Thomas Kail to give himse…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:45PMRalph Fiennes has been named as the recipient of The Shakespeare Society Medal, which will be presented to him at The Shakespeare Society's benefit at the Rubin Museum of Art on Friday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:45PMLive Action Set will present an encore performance of the Ivey Award-winning The 7-Shot Symphony, at Loring Theater on December 5 at 7pm.
Live Action Set's mash-up of seven myths from …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMMarlo Thomas and Steve Guttenberg talk about their roles in “Relatively Speaking,” three one-act comedies by the writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, directed by John …
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:38PMCasting has been announced for the 10th anniversary production of Regina Taylor's Crowns, to be presented at the Goodman Theatre, June 30-August 5, 2012. Taylor will direct.
In this go…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMAcademy Award winner and stage veteran Ellen Burstyn will give an open master class for BFA acting students at Kean University. The event will be held in the University Center Little Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMPyscho Clan, the producers of Nightmare, one of New York's most horrifying haunted houses, will present Nightmare (Before Christmas): The Experiment, Off-Broadway at the Los Kabayitos L…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMDavid C. Nichols reviews Kathryn Graf's new play "Hermetically Sealed," a Katselas Theatre Company production at the Skylight Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PM
Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy will present Misters and Sisters - A Love Story in Song and Dance, a new dance theater cabaret by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMEmmy Award winner Jim Parsons, who made his Broadway debut last season in the Tony-winning The Normal Heart, is currently in discussions to star in a spring 2012 Broadway revival of Harvey, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PMThese three singular singers, who came together not long ago on Broadway for "Sondheim on Sondheim," sound convincingly deep into their material.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:50PMScott Walters, over on his Theatre Ideas blog, publishes the first in what he is promising to be a multi-post series called "Occupy Lincoln Center."His first post is a comparison of the inco…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:46PMAge & Hometown: 20; San Jose, CA
Current Role: Making her Broadway debut singing “Day By Day” in the first Broadway revival of Godspell.
Disney Days: Perez de Tagle fel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMWolf & William Productions announced that Joshua Levine will join the cast of the Off-Broadway comedy Channeling Kevin Spacey at St. Luke's Theatre.
In Channeling Kevin Spacey, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMThe Nov. 17 performance of Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMAs 'Chicago' celebrates 15 years on Broadway, we profile its longest-running cast member.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMHere's an update in the film version of "Four," the London and off-Broadway play by Hartford-born and Wethersfield-raised playwright Christopher Shinn .
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:30PMHarold Prince directed the original productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me, Company, Follies, Candide, Pacific Overtures, Evita, P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMJerry O’Connell (Crossing Jordan, Stand by Me and more) is a charmer. He shakes your hand with a 10,000 watt grin on his face. He tells self-deprecating stories with a tumbling ease. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:24PMFrom the ALL-AMERICAN LincTix after-party on November 1, 2011. Learn more about ALL-AMERICAN http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=206
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:23PMPerformances for MCC's Wild Animals You Should Know began November 3, 2011 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and opens this Sunday, November 20 Production shots have been released and Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMOn Twitter Watch, Jeremy Jordan wrote So chances are I wont be a part of Newsies seeing as how BampC will be a smash hit. Sad to see my Newsies without me, but so happy for themNope. Strict…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMMikado at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (4 of 4)
HOT MIKADO is an enchanting musical comedy adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado, by David H. Bell.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:14PMNoel Coward's 'Private Lives'
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 01:14PMMikado at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (3 of 4)
HOT MIKADO is an enchanting musical comedy adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado, by David H. Bell.
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:12PMLindsay Mendez - Godspell on Broadway
Lindsay Mendez chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Ga…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:12PMThe Broadway Boys will return to the Westport Country Playhouse for the group's annual concert of Broadway show tunes and holiday favorites, to be presented on Saturday, December 17, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMPaul Gross and Kim Cattrall in the Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” at the Music Box Theater. (Video courtesy of the production.)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:11PMIn “Horsedreams,” a play about addiction and race at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through Dec. 11, a long strand of white fluorescent tubes cuts across the cracked gray set. It lo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:10PMSex, Violence and Intimacy Explored in Provocative PlayThe East Coast premiere of Wallace Shawn 's rarely-produced play, "A Thought in three Parts," will be presented tonight through Satu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PMJulia Mattison - Godspell on Broadway
Julia Mattison chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Ga…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:09PMMikado at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (2 of 4)
HOT MIKADO is an enchanting musical comedy adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado, by David H. Bell.
From:
HeronPu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:09PMHot Mikado at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace (1 of 4)
HOT MIKADO is an enchanting musical comedy adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado, by David H. Bell.
From:
Her…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:09PMEugene Levy - Godspell on Broadway
Eugene Levy chats with us at opening night of Broadway's first revival of Godspell!
Director - Daniel Goldstein
Choreographer - Christopher Gattelli…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:08PMThe Pearl Theatre Company has announced a preliminary lineup of performers for An Evening with O. Henry, to be offered on December 4 at The Players Club. The proceeds from the event will he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PM
Hugh Jackman, currently starring in the record-breaking hit show, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, will be a guest on Anderson Cooper's syndicated talk show Anderson tomorrow Friday November …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMKim Cattrall gazes out in character as Amanda on the Playbill for Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” her head cocked back, nose pitched at a high angle, her face softly kissed in a glamoro…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:50PMCast members from the Disney musical Newsies, which was recently announced to move to Broadway in Spring 2012, will perform the number, "King of New York" live in Herald Square dur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMHunter Parrish and the cast of Godspell were in high spirits on November 7, when the revival of Stephen Schwartz's classic musical opened on Broadway. After their performance, the tightk…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:46PMBONNIE amp CLYDE is currently in previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, opening on Thursday, December 1st. Bonnie amp Clyde stars Laura Osnes 2011 Drama Desk nominee, Anything Goes and J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of Molly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space met the press at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studio on Thursday, November 17.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMGet Me To The Church On Time! And by that we mean the theatre! Wagner College Theatre is at it again and this time they are on to the classics! From rocking out with Jesus Christ Superstar t…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:39PMSteve Carell and Natalie Portman take part in a sold-out reading of Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" Nov. 17 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMElaine Paige, the first lady of British musical comedy, is back on Broadway in the revival of “Follies,” singing an anthem of show-biz survival “with a galvanizing fierceness.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMIt starts with the voice—a combination of purr and growl that can be sinister or suggestive, depending on the context. We’re talking about Alan Rickman, who is currently starring…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMIt starts with the voice—a combination of purr and growl that can be sinister or suggestive, depending on the context. We’re talking about Alan Rickman, who is currently starring…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMon Thirteen: Fri., November 18th at 2:00 AM (Note Special Time) and on CUNY TV: Sat., November 19th at 8:30 PM Sun., November 20th at 12:30 PM and Mon., November 21st at 7:30 AM, 1:30 …
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 12:29PMon Thirteen: Fri., November 25th at 1:30 AM (Note Special Time) on CUNY TV: Sat., November 26th at 8:30 PM Sun., November 27th at 12:30 PM and Mon., November 28th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM &…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 12:28PMNunya Productions will present a revised version of Neil LaBute's acclaimed play Some Girl(s) at the American Theatre of Actors' Sargent Theatre, December 8-17. The production wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMThe Public Theater production of King Lear, with Sam Waterston, Michael McKean, and Bill Irwin and directed by James Macdonald, closes this weekend after a run which received lackluster revi…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:17PMThe Sound of Music at Drury Lane Theatre- Oakbrook Terrace (2 of 2)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC is the enchanting story of Maria, a spirited young nun who leaves the convent to become a governess fo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:16PMThe Sound of Music at Drury Lane Theatre- Oakbrook Terrace (1 of 2)
THE SOUND OF MUSIC is the enchanting story of Maria, a spirited young nun who leaves the convent to become a governess fo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:14PMThe Inis Nua Theatre Company in Philadelphia will host a staged reading of British playwright Torben Betts' The Error of Their Ways at First Baptist Church on Monday, November 28 at 7pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMBilly Crudup, Kirsten Dunst, and Mark Ruffalo will star in a film adaptation of Adam Rapp's Pulitzer-nominated play, Red Light Winter, according to IndieWire.
The plot of the play focu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMDespite the postponement of the world premiere of his "Mary T. and Lizzy K." due to federal funding cutbacks for the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., director-writer Tazewell Thopmspon …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:10PMWrestling With FeedbackMy latest TheatreFace blog post is about how I'm wrestling with prescriptive feedback. What's prescriptive feedback? It's when the feedback comes in the form of sugges…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:07PMA lot of buzz on the internet around the bills being debated in the House and Senate (with broad, bipartisan support) that would allow the Government to issue take-down notices to websites, …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:05PMA lot of credit should go to Vernon Poitras, the director (and, in effect, the Enchanted Rose Theater personified), for assembling a very capable cast and crew, for putting on a good show, a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:04PMI am always looking for a Broadway fix between visits to the Big Apple. I've come across three sources of material on the Internet to satisfy (to varying degrees) that need.Submissions…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:02PMStephanie J. Block, who joined the Tony Award-winning revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes Nov. 4 for a limited engagement as Reno Sweeney while Sutton Foster, who won a Tony Award for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PM
Tony winner Ruben Santiago Hudson, Dulé Hill and Mekhi Phifer are among the members of the LeVay family, who gather for a tense family weekend in Stick Fly, the new play by Lydia R. D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMThe Addams Family on Tour- TV Spot
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:52AMLa Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts will present Posada Mexicana: A Mexican Holiday Spectacular on December 17, 2011 for two performances only. The holiday event will feature the tale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMJesus Christ Superstar at Theatre at the Center (3 of 3)
The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:46AMJesus Christ Superstar at Theatre at the Center (2 of 3)
The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:44AMInspired 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 11:43AMGhost the Musical will play Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in August 2013, according to a report on the website for the UK magazine, The Stage. Matthew Warchus will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:43AMKim Cattrall and Paul Gross star in Noël Coward’s Private Lives on Broadway, opening tonight at The Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) following sold-out runs in London and Toronto.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:42AMJesus Christ Superstar at Theatre at the Center (1 of 3)
The first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be performed on the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:40AMMichael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway transfer of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s biographical play about the last days of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMMichael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway transfer of End of the Rainbow, Peter Quilter’s biographical play about the last days of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMMDQ Rocks Milwaukee - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" at Milwaukee Public Market.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMMDQ Rocks Buffalo - Blue Suede Shoes
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "Blue Suede Shoes" at the M&T Bank in Fountain Plaza in Buffalo, NY
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:29AMRaul Esparza, Laurie Metcalf and the Reprise Theatre production of Kiss Me, Kate took honors at the 2010-2011 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards ceremony Nov. 14 at The Orpheum Theatre in Lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AM3-D Theatricals, the newest professional theater company in Orange County, has announced its line-up of productions for 2012.
The season will include: The Sound of Music(February 10-26)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:26AMAs New Directions and the Troubletones went head to head for a mash-up competition on the November 15 episode of Glee, Broadway.com asked readers to vote for which musical combo number was t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMMGM Grand Hotel & Casino's Studio 54 nightclub will close its doors to the public on January 8, 2012 after 14 years on the Las Vegas strip. The iconic club will host one final bash…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMAt the 10th annual “24 Hour Plays” on Monday, one of the six shorts in this always entertaining celebration of on-the-fly theater works are written, rehearsed and performed within a day…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:21AMJames Rickards discusses the currency wars that are rocking the global financial system. Marlo Thomas and Steve Guttenberg on their roles in “Relatively Speaking,” a trio of one-act come…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:20AMGrace Gummer will play the daughter of Anjelica Huston and Michael Cristofer on NBC’s Broadway-centric series Smash, according to Variety. The guest-star spot could possibly become rec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMTony nominee Gabriel Byrne will direct the U.S. premiere of James X, written by and starring Gerard Mannix Flynn. Produced by Byrne, Liam Neeson and Culture Project, the play begins performa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMPlaywright Adam Bock has penned a lyrical allegory on life and death... the stuff in-between and the stuff after. Immediate Theatre, under the careful direction of Peter Cieply, has created…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:19AMBritish comedian Ricky Gervais will once again host the Golden Globe Awards, which will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012. The ceremony will be televised worldwide…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMToday, OUT unveiled four separate covers of its highly anticipated OUT100 issue. Celebrating the issue's 17th Anniversary, the four covers feature comedienne and LGBT ally, Kathy Griffin act…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThe Flavor Graveyard, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.On the tour of the Ben and Jerry's Factory they told us that the worst flavor disaster might be Sugar Plum, which was so bad that dist…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:07AMThe She I'm talking about is Mary Birdsong. And if you have never had the pleasure of seeing her perform or meeting with her, you are missing out. Mary and her friend Matt are producing a sh…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:06AMMichael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell will join the previously reported star Tracie Bennett in the Broadway production of Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow, which will begin pe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMThe Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture (COTC) continually reaches out to the media on behalf of Chicago's cultural and community partners and in a few short weeks they will be issuing a r…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:06AMKathleen Turner will reprise her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Ft. Lauderdale, FL, engagement of the national tour of the three-character play Hi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMTony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters will join the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart for a special July 8, 2012, concert at the Tanglewood Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMSince putting down her last cosmopolitan in the second "Sex and the City" movie, Cattrall has politely been trying to shake off Samantha and remind people that she's also a veteran theater…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:03AMThe Museum of Broadcast Communications presents:A Saturday Morning Salute to Roy LeonardSaturday, December 3, 201111 a.m. - 1 p.m.360 N. State. St.Tickets: $20RSVP at www.museum.tv or call 3…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:01AMCraig SchwartzWhen director-choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler signed on to turn the movie Bring It On into a big, splashy musical-theater event, now premiering at the Ahmanson Theatre…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMOne of the greatest gifts Twitter has given brands is the ability to electronically eavesdrop on conversations about their products. "@XXX airlines sucks! Waited for three hours on tarm…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
BroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a new weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week playwright Nilo Cuz shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMNews tidbits about the theatrical and cabaret scenes.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMAccording to published reports, Broadway composer passed away on November 14 in his Connecticut home. He was 87 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMHugh Jackman, currently starring in the record-breaking hit show, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, will be a guest on Anderson Cooper’s syndicated talk show “Anderson” tomorrow Friday N…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:53AMProducers Lee Dean, Laurence Myers and Joey Parnes announced today that the complete cast of the Broadway premiere of End of the Rainbow, a new play with music, is in place. Michael Cumpsty,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMWAR, BUT NO PEACE John Andert so captivates the audience in Sinan Ünel’s play A Mad Person’s Chronicle of a Miserable Marriage that you don’t want the play to end. Whether he is the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:50AMAcclaimed multimedia theatre company Forkbeard Fantasy, a victim of the recent Arts Council funding cuts, has announced a ‘farewell tour’.
The Bristol-based company, which was …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:48AMThe Black Ensemble Theater is celebrating its 35th anniversary and the Grand Opening of the New Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center! A local treasure, a national wonder and an internation…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 10:43AMWendy Artin is not just about representation. Her paintings bring up all sorts of questions about the complexities of beauty. How do we build up beauty from matter? What happens to beauty ov…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:40AMStage and screen legend Liza Minnelli will perform at Stamford Center for the Arts' benefit gala on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8pm.
Minnelli's most recent Broadway show, Liza'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:40AM"End of the Rainbow," a hit London drama-with-music about Judy Garland's final months, will play in New York this spring at the Belasco Theater, one of the last Broadway houses to announce i…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMProspect Theater Company, by special arrangement with Fireboat Productions, presents a limited Off-Broadway run of Iron Curtain, winner of the Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMa #neverbedark approach to making more art Three years ago, at Sycamore Rouge, we built six acting cubes, and it not only changed the way we rehearsed- it changed the way we opened the doors…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:34AMIt's official, NBC's new Broadway-filled series SMASH will premiere on February 6 at 10pm, and Grace Gummer has joined a long list of theatre veterans who willl guest star onthe show, accord…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMThe closet is, at last, wide open. No more need for gay characters to parade around pretending to be women, which was the game played in the mid-nineteenth century. When even a hint of the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMI cannot recount a time when a critic decided that seeing a play was a necessity of life' said Culture Project's Allan Buchman, but that is exactly what Finton O'Toole suggested in the Irish…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMKirsten Dunst will join Mark Ruffalo and Billy Crudup in a screen adaptation of Adam Rapp's Pulitzer finalist play "Red Light Winter." The Intiman Theatre in Seattle is launching a $1 millio…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:23AMSteppenwolf has just announced that Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Julianna Margulies will be the guest of honor at the third annual Steppenwolf Salutes WOMEN IN TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMThe Broadway revival of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, opens on November 17 at the Music Box Theatre.
Notable guests expected to att…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMThe Broadway revival of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, opens on November 17 at the Music Box Theatre.
Notable guests expected to att…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMFor the next installment in this series, creator Jason Reitman has selected Billy Wilder's The Apartment 1960. Set to take part in the reading is Broadway veteran Natalie Portman, who will p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMI AM THEATRE: Nilo Cruz
Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, Nilo Cruz is best known for his play ANNA IN THE TROPICS, which won the Steinberg award, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:16AMFor a current interview in the New York Times, Olivier Award winner Elaine Paige, who is currently playing Carlotta Campion in the Kennedy Center's critically acclaimed production of Jam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMThe newest edition of this venerable extravaganza blends state-of-the-art technology with old-school theatricality.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMGet a free glass of champagne with every booking in December to see The Ladykillers at the Gieldgud Theatre. Book before 22 November
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMRamin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess starred in the 25th anniversary production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera as the Phantom and Christine, respectively. Here, Karimlo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMAaron Tveit will star in a USA Network pilot, according to a report on Deadline.com. The as-yet-untitled show is being developed by Jeff Eastin.
The show will center on agents from various…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
The high-flying original musical comedy Bring It On The Musical launched its national tour earlier this month and is now playing in Los Angeles with a six-week engagement at the Center Theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49AMOnce upon a time, long, long ago, there was an English Colony called Burma. In 1926 there were about 4,000 Burmese and 7 Brits. The center of this universe was the European Club. It was a…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 09:48AMPutting a new spin on a beloved story is never easy and always risky. The House Theatre’s magical production of *The Nutcracker* is daring, imaginative and makes a true artistic statement …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:48AMThe 2011 Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards (known as the "VIV") were presented in a ceremony held at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall on Monday, November 14.
The awards promote and cel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMComposer Lee Pockriss has died, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 87.
Pockriss' theater credits include the score for the Broadway musical Tovarich, as well as the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AMThe Broadway-bound musical Newsies has been added to the lineup of performers in the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The production will perform the show-stopping tap number &ldqu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AMThe cast of the Broadway-bound musical Newsies has been added to the lineup of performers in the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The production will perform the show-stopping tap …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AMThe cast of the Broadway-bound musical Newsies has been added to the lineup of performers in the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The company will perform the show-stopping tap num…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AMTony winners Bernadette Peters and Martin Short, who co-starred in the Broadway musical The Goodbye Girl, may share the stage again in a revival of the 1966 musical I Do! I Do!
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMThe New Group production of Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, starring Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Andrew Garman, Danny Mastrogiorgio and Evan Johnson, plays Off-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMBring It On the Musical, which recently launched its national tour at the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, will likely preserve its hop-hop and pop-flecked score o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMAaron Tveit, who was seen on Broadway in last season's Tony-nominated musical Catch Me If You Can, is set to star in USA Network's untitled hour-long pilot from creator Jeff Eastin, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMGrace Gummer will guest star on NBC's forthcoming musical drama series Smash, according to a report in Variety. She will play the daughter of characters portrayed by Angelica Huston an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMNatalie Portman will portray Fran Kubelik in a live reading of the 1960 Billy Wilder film, The Apartment, according to New York Magazine. The reading will be presented at the Los Angeles Cou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMHoliday Light Spectacular, Paper Mill Playhouse
Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the Millburn, new Jersey theater's 2011 Holiday Village and Animated Light Spectacular. More t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:04AM
Lee Pockriss, the theatre and pop composer whose musicals include Broadway's Tovarich and Off-Broadway's Ernest in Love, both with lyricist Anne Croswell, died Nov. 14 at his home in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AMCecil Beaton: The New York Years—A Broadway Musical Cabaret, celebrating Tony-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton, will be presented Nov. 19-20 at the Museum of the City of New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMTony Award winner Mandy Patinkin returns to the Broadway stage Nov. 17, alongside his original Evita co-star, in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Playbill.com offers a look b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMTony Award winner Mandy Patinkin returned to the Broadway stage Nov. 16, alongside his original Evita co-star, in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Playbill.com offers a look …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMMorris Meyerfeld (born Moses this day in 1855) was sort of the Keith to Martin Beck’s Albee in the real creation and expansion of the Orpheum Circuit, which ruled the Big Time west of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:35AMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the union that represents professional stage directors and choreographers, has announced results of its executive board elections.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:28AMIn A Madea Christmas, the newest stage-to-screen project from
Tyler
Perry, the actor-mogul once again takes the stage as the no-nonsense
Madea,
a big-hearted grandmother with a take-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:22AMNoted thespian and master theatre and film director Kenneth Branagh has found himself at a career peak in 2011, excelling in both entertainment arenas with his striking, visionary blockbuste…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMDoes performance matter? Rebecca Felgate investigates the power of Live Art and the questions it makes us ask ourselves.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:20AMIt was an event too good to be true Chocolate and Broadway coming together as one The 14th Annual Chocolate Show, which opened Wednesday November 8th and ran through Sunday November 13th, f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMPioneer Theatre Company will present the Tony Award-winning musical Annie, beginning Dec. 2, for a limited engagement through Dec. 23, at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:15AMRobert Lindsay and Joanna Lumley give fine performances in Trevor Nunn's lumbering production of James Goldman's historical drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:15AMViewers from across the country will get a preview of the eagerly anticipated new Broadway musical Newsies during the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The cast of Newsies wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13AM
Today is the birthday of the much-loved and much-hated Frank Fay, much emulated by generations of stand-up comedians and emcees (For a full bio go here). Also featured with him the documenta…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:59AMBill Raymond, who has played Scrooge in Hartford Stage's "A Christmas Carol" in 12 of the last 14 annual runs, is featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg film, "Lincoln," based in par…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMRecipients of the 39th Annual Vivian Robinson/Audelco Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre, for work in New York City, were announced Nov. 14 at a ceremony in Harlem.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:50AMTony Award nominee Gabriel Byrne will stage Gerard Mannix Flynn's solo drama James X, tracing the journey of one child through Ireland's abusive institutional system, which will be p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:46AMCast from the national tour of Jersey Boys will stage a benefit concert on November 28th at D.C. Improv to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the local charity Food & Friends.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMThe Boston Jewish Film Festival saves one of its best films, "Mabul," for last, and some final thoughts on this year's line-up of movies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:40AMTotalTheater Productions, in association with the University of Northern Colorado's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will present a developmental staging of Shalom Dammit! An Eveni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:33AMWhile @westendproducer poses as an impresario, many producers don't even know what Twitter is, still less have the time. Might a resting actor be to blame?Thanks to an article in the Observe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM59E59 Theatres, Off Broadway
By Regina Robbins
BOTTOM LINE: A gripping, disturbing period piece, based on a novel by one of the twentieth century's most important writers.
Before ach…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:11AM'Other Desert Cities'
©Lincoln Center Theatre
Lincoln Center Theatre has announced that its limited-run hot ticket, Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, will now play an open-ended r…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on November 17 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMLegit News: LuPone, Patinkin out for 'Evening' -- The stars of "An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin" insist the spring's Broadway revival of "Evita," starring Ricky Martin, "has …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMIn true community theater, nobody gets paid. But some theater groups in the Kansas City area dwell in a zone between amateur and professional, because although the actors aren't paid, someti…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 07:00AMDirector Richard Eyre's insistence on naturalistic acting rooted in emotional truth pretty much does the current Broadway production of Noël Coward's archly delirious comedy in.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMDungeons & Dragons role-playing serves as the backdrop for Qui Nguyen's sweetly earnest show, which often feels like an ABC Afterschool Special that's been heavily laced with specializ…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMActor-playwright Dael Orlandersmith delivers a fascinating word picture of an African-American nanny, but the world of her drug-addicted white boss is two-dimensional.
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Tom Burke has returned to the Almeida Theatre to star alongside Billie Piper in Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty, which opens tonight (17 November 2011, previews from 10 November).Reasons …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:58AMThis is a show that displays its faults as boldly as its strengths, and in which the strengths win, but only in the last furlong.
It's 1952 and we are in a rundown burlesque theatre ‘…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:39AMGrace Gummer, who was seen on Broadway last season in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, has signed on to guest star in the upcoming NBC musical drama "Smash," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:13AM“Stories With Piano #3” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency features Bebe Neuwirth in her illusion-breaking mode.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11AMThe Bridge Project's final production, Richard III starring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, will play Qatar in December prior to its final stop at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:10AM...Dictates the Way You Respond to the WorldThis week I had a number of conversations about the direction of the United States.I had a conversation with a friend who fully believes the count…
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Judy Garland's final days will play out at the Belasco Theatre when the hit End of the Rainbow makes its Broadway debut there March 19, 2012. Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59AMUntil recently Philadelphia’s theater community seemed mired in edgy plays about alienated 30-somethings in dysfunctional families. But four recent productions— all intelligent, challeng…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:51AMComic reveals first live comedy appearance since 1995 with shows at Bloomsbury and Soho theatres Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45AMTony Award winner Roger Bart has signed on to guest star on the ABC drama "Revenge," according to EW.com.
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If you're traveling to the Big Apple and want to see a Broadway show, then you're in luck! With the change in seasons comes several holidays and a changes in the reg…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:33AMThe National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors is to transfer to Broadway, it has been confirmed.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMAn Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which marks the first time the two Tony winners have shared a Broadway stage since they dazzled audiences in the original Broadway production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:23AMMel Sagrado Maghuyop, who played the Engineer in Walnut Street Theatre's Miss Saigon, returns to the Philadelphia venue to star as the King of Siam opposite Broadway's Rachel York as…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21AMBurlesque is a clever and moving new musical from Adam Meggido (who also directs) and Roy Smiles, which deserves a rip-roaring production. While this one had its moments – of both brillian…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMManhattan Theatre Club continues its popular discussion series at the intimate venue of The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR with After Words Venus in Fur on Thursday, Nov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMAustin has emerged as more than just a base for music. In fact, it has become a mecca for theatrical and visual arts as well. So what makes the city such a bastion of creative energy?
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THE LONG TERM RELATIONSHIPS OF SINAN ÜNEL AND LEO TOLSTOY Cheryl King’s intimate Stage Left Studio on Manhattan’s West 30th Street specializes in showcasing one-to-two-person plays. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54AMBen Cameron Wicked, Aida, Footloose is the host and creator of BROADWAY SESSIONS at THE MIDTOWN THEATRE at the HA Comedy Club TC l4 163 West 46th Street every Thursday night at 1100pm. Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMIn Theatre Exile’s fine production Director Deborah Block has found exactly the right funny and tender and troubling tone. Toby Zinman found the two actors, Keith Conallen and Charlotte …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:03AMThe monumental Linda Laplante inLe Trident's Médée (photo: Vincent Champoux)(Read the CharPo review)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMImagine you are seated in a smoky cafe in 1950s New York, ready for a night of same-old, same-old as a young man and three-piece band perform a cabaret act of popular music. The city outside…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AM"Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe L.A. Theatre Works production of Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, about plans to build the atomic bomb, starring Tony nominee Alfred Molina, David Krumholtz and Sh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael Sturminger's The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer, starring Academy Award nominee John Malkovich as Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger, begins performances Nov…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Zoe Caldwell welcomes audiences for tea, sandwiches and lady fingers at an Upper East Side townhouse in the site-specific staging of David Adjmi's Elective Affinities, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRichard Eyre, the director of Mary Poppins and a slew of serious dramas from the National Theatre, talks about the genesis of her new Broadway staging of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Notables, Carnegie Hall's membership and ticket program for music enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s, present a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters Nov. 17 at Zankel …
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 — which officially op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFor the Record, the "one-of-a-kind Hollywood" musical revue conceived and directed by Chris Bratten and Shane Scheel, continues with a showcase of the movies of John Hughes in Holi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNoel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives, featuring that other famous balcony scene of the theatre, opens on Broadway Nov. 17 following previews from Nov. 6. Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross s…
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