"Satyagraha", as delivered through the minds of Improbable, is a fascinating, beautiful, even mesmerising evening's theatre. The trade off is that it's so opaque that it becomes so much easi…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 11:46PMJust as history saw two youths rise to infamy with their acts of crime, Broadway ushers in two fresh talents to stardom in the new musical Bonnie & Clyde. Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan s…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 11:38PMZoe Caldwell invites you to a very disturbing tea party.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 11:37PMAccording to Toby Zinman, NOEL AND GERTIE, a musical biography of Noel Coward's friendship with Gertrude Lawrence, tries for old-timey savoir faire, but manages only old-timey.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:32PMFrank Wildohorn’s “Bonnie & Clyde” is a modest, mildly tuneful musical biography of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30PMUnder pressure to wring profits from dance's biggest moneymaker, ballets are trying longer runs, splashier effects and nuttier productions.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:29PMThis is it, everyone- the final 7 results show After tonight, we will be left with just 5 contestants We are coming down to homestretch and it is getting harder and harder to lose such great…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25PMElena Lobsanova is about to break “The Curse of Marie.”
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMHamilton’s Caissie Levy is getting ready to conquer Broadway in Ghost, the musical
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMThey did it all for love and fame.
That’s about as deep as it gets in “Bonnie and Clyde,” the nicely performed but overly tame and unsurprising musical about notorious Depres…
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Going by numbers alone, Frank Wildhorn is Broadway’s most successful composer, with six new shows in 14 years.
We’re talking quantity here. The quality is debatable.
Wildhorn’s best kn…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:59PMWednesday’s gala opening for the Alvin Ailey company was less revelation than reassurance. Taking over from Judith Jamison, Robert Battle began his first season with an astute new acquisit…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:57PMThings are moving along for a new musical that could be a winner: “Natural Woman,” otherwise known as “The Carole King Project.”
King, one of the great songwriters of the Brill Build…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMMagnetic lead shines, but doesn’t quite seem to fit with script that hasn’t aged well
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:30PMBrujajaIf you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed quite a bit of conversation going on re a particular Shakespeare production set in Cuba with two characters named...wait for it...Ju…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 10:21PMOnce again time has gotten away from me and I haven't gotten around to writing about something I meant to. This time that something is Man Ray/Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism, which…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12PMIn one of the few funny moments in “Bonnie & Clyde,” Frank Wildhorn’s seventh and best try at a Broadway musical, Clyde’s brother Buck offers his wife a confection he bought with…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:09PMSteven Boyer maintains the illusion of two simultaneous performances in “Hand to God,” as a teenager and his violent and vulgar puppet alter id.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMThis new Broadway musical about the legendary 1930s bank robbers rarely rises above mediocrity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Charlotte Stoudt reviews "Silver for Gold," a multimedia portrait of Edie Sedgwick by Bauhaus co-founder David J
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:59PMTwo weeks after the management of the New York City Opera passed on an offer from unions representing musicians and singers to perform for free in return for medical benefits and other conce…
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:48PMLegit Reviews: Boy meets girl on a deserted road in Depression-era West Dallas, and sooner than you can say "Warren Beatty," they're rolling in the hay -- or rather, the dust.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PMKen Russell is, it seems, alive and well and directing Germans in Shakespeare. Actually, no, it's outgrown theatrical terrorist Thomas Ostermeier, but it might as well be our Ken to judge fr…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:23PMBONNIE amp CLYDE opened tonight at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. BONNIE amp CLYDE has direction by Jeff Calhoun, music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black, book by Ivan Menchell and musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PM"Though one always wants to assess each Frank Wildhorn musical anew, the composer himself does not make it easy."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMA pantomime dame has collapsed and died during an amateur performance of Dick Wittington in Curdridge, near Winchester.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe papercut artist Su Blackwell is turning her hand to stage design for the first time by creating the sets for The Snow Queen at the Rose Theatre in Kingston. "It starts off with an indust…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Brandon Victor Dixon will play the role of Tom Collins in the Off-Broadway production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Rent, at New World Stages, December 1-February…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:45PMBrandon Victor Dixon, the actor who created the role of Harpo in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, joins the Off-Broadway cast of Rent Dec. 1 in the role of Tom Collins.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:44PMAs previously tipped, former Globe artistic director Mark Rylance will return to the venue next year to star in two plays - as Olivia in Twelfth Night and in the title role of Richard III.Ac…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:43PMStephen Sondheim joined Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines, and Elaine Paige and other cast members of Broadway's Follies to greet fans and autograph copies of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:40PMLincoln Center Theater has extended the limited engagement run of J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts for an additional week, through January 8, 2012, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:25PMMs TN seems unable to get her sentences together today, so let me briefly flag a couple of theatrical events that opened this week, both from Melbourne's thriving independent scene. Get thee…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 06:21PMBrandon Victor Dixon joins the cast of Rent in the role of Tom Collins beginning Thursday, December 1, and playing through February 12, 2012. Mr. Dixon takes over from Nicholas Christopher w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19PMTwo of America’s most famous criminals are currently in residence at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where Bonnie & Clyde officially opened on December 1. Word of Mouth panelists Carol, Ki…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMLincoln Center Theater has extended the American premiere of J.T. Rogers' Blood and Gifts, a new drama about a CIA agent's involvement in the 1980s Soviet-Afghan War, through Jan. 8,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17PMCelebrity presenters, judges, and participants have been announced for the 23rd annual Gypsy of the Year, which as previously reported, will be presented at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Mond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:13PMBroadway veteran and GLEE star Matthew Morrison is set to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMBroadway stars Hugh Jackman (Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway), Bernadette Peters (Follies) and Daniel Radcliffe (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) will present fund-raising aw…
SOURCE: houston.broadway.com at 06:10PMBroadway stars Hugh Jackman (Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway), Bernadette Peters (Follies) and Daniel Radcliffe (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) will present fund-raising aw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS' 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year, to be presented Monday, December 5 430 PM and Tuesday, December 5 2 PM at the New Amsterdam Theatre 214 W. 42nd Street, will …
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Judges and presenters for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year fundraiser performances on Dec. 5-6 were announced on Dec. 1. The shows at Broadway's New A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PMNeed a few beauty tips? The ladies of Priscilla Queen of the Desert are ready to help! On December 1 Priscilla cast members Jessica Phillips, J. Elaine Marcos and Esther Stillwell introduced…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PM1. Vulture breaks down just how gratuitous Michael Fassbender's nudity is in his new film Shame, which opens tomorrow.2. Jersey Shore star Pauly D has signed to the rapper 50 Cent's G-Note l…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 05:43PMReviews: There are two amiable area theater productions about the importance of home that are particularly meaningful at the holidays — without ever even mentioning the holidays: Ba…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:41PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, December 1, 2011 Breaking News Anything Goes, Book of Mormon and How To Succeed Are Grammy-Nominated Playbill.com – by Andrew Gans Nominati…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:37PMThe Cast of Godspell on The View
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:37PMPioneering Minneapolis architect Lisl Close, 99, forged her way in a male-dominated field with no-nonsense talent.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:36PMLegit News: L.A. dates set for music theater workshop -- The ASCAP Foundation has teamed with DreamWorks Animation for its latest round of stage tuner workshops in L.A., setting five Februar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:35PMA formal invitation, in handsome script, arrived as email. It seems that Mrs. Alice Hauptmann had extended a "cordial invitation" to an "informal gathering" at her home. The note promised th…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:31PMThe combination of a star-studded powerhouse of a cast that includes
notables from stage, screen and TV (Alan Rickman, Hamish Linklater) + a seasoned, highly in-demand
director…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 05:30PMBonnie and Clyde were real public enemies. The new Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde is really its own worst enemy.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:19PMLOOK, I MADE A HAT: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany, by Stephen Sondheim. Alfred A. Knopf, 453 …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:15PMHispanic Organization of Latin Actors has issued this statement The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors HOLA denounces the inappropriate casting of two non-Latinos in the Latino specific r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMTony Award-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane and composer-lyricist Lewis Flinn, the duo behind the new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones, will be honored during the Transport Group&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMTony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will assume the role of Tom Collins in the off-Broadway revival of Rent on December 1 while current star Nicholas Christopher is on medical leave. Dixon wil…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 05:05PMTony nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will assume the role of Tom Collins in the off-Broadway revival of Rent on December 1 while star Nicholas Christopher is on medical leave, according to the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:05PMBarbra Streisand has appeared on Broadway in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE and FUNNY GIRL. She has also received a special Tony Award. Her film work includes FUNNY GIRL, FUNNY LADY, YENTL, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMFirst announced in March, Ticketmaster last month began advertising a new digital payment platform in conjunction with American Express that will allow people to buy tickets quickly and then…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:01PM"Pinocchio," done in authentic British holiday production style, has come ashore at Centerstage in Federal Way.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:01PMGlam, new-wave sci-fi, neurotic lushness – the problem with making a preposterous 'jukebox musical' about Bowie is that he's done it all alreadyThe most intriguing pop story of the we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMJose Fructuoso is convicted of murdering Fountain Theatre's Ben Bradley. Two recently opened shows suspend performances but plan to return. Rubicon Theatre announces most of its 2012 program…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMJason Robert Brown ("Parade," "The Last Five Years") will perform Dec. 1 at ACT Theatre in Seattle, where his show "13" is being staged.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:00PM
John Cullum and Chita Rivera brought down the house in a Broadway benefit concert performance of The Visit, held on November 30 at the Ambassador Theatre. The co-production of the Acto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:56PMSierra Boggess and Tam Mutu, who will co-star in the upcoming Broadway production of Rebecca, attended a performance of Criss Angel Believe at the Luxor Hotel & Casino on Wednesday, Nove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMStage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the third time to host the merry annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons from Vien…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMPlaybill.com launches a new series featuring brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatre-going experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMPlaybill.com launches a new series featuring brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatrical experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMHunter Parrish, Telly Leung, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, Wallace Smith and the cast of Godspell were ready to share some love with the audience at TV gabfest The View on December 1. Rising br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PMIn February, the Signature Theatre Company will open its new permanent 70,000 square-foot home at 480 W. 42nd St. between Dyer and Tenth Avenues. The company's founding artistic director, Ja…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:41PMTony nominees John Ellison Conlee and Celia Keenan-Bolger will be featured in
The Play Group Theatre's sixth annual holiday benefit, From North Broadway to Broadway: Celebrating Barbar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMAlmost every journalist these days feels like their beat is the most likely to become extinct first. Is one species of journalism more endangered than another?At a panel discussion last nigh…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:35PMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced updates to its 2012 schedule.
The year will begin with Lucie Arnaz in Latin Roots (January 5-8), followed by an original cast reunion of Our …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMSo Alan Rickman is starring in this think-y play on Broadway called Seminar. It’s by Theresa Rebeck, and it’s about writers, and the notion of what it means to be a writer, which…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:32PMKerry Butler, Jackie Hoffman, Andrew Rannells, Andrew Samonsky, Alexandra Silber and Mary Testa will perform at the Transport Group's 2011 Gimme A Break!, to be held on Monday, December…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:31PMThe Sundance Film Festival has announced an initial lineup of films to be seen during the Festival's run in Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2012.
Jason Ritter will be featured in Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMThe Sundance Film Festival has announced an initial lineup of films to be seen during the Festival's run in Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2012.
Jason Ritter will be featured in Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMThe Orchard Project is a development program at which the most innovative companies and artists are invited to retreat to the Catskills in order to develop their next great work. Over the pa…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:23PMLegit News: Kirk joins 'Cities,' Urie to 'Succeed' -- Springtime casting has begun to firm up at a number of Broadway productions, including the addition of Justin Kirk to the cast of play "…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:21PMThe 40th Anniversary production and first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL officially opened at the Circle in the Square Theater on November 7. The cast just…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMLegit News: Green Day musical sussing out West End -- Green Day tuner "American Idiot" will play an eight-week U.K. tour next year.
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMKelli O'Hara will lead a reading of the previously announced musical adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County on an unspecified date in December, according to The New York Times. Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMGeorge GrigorianAnjel Dust, a dancer for more than a decade, also is an organizer of the California Pole Dance Championships.With her Lucite heels, cheeky schoolgirl pigtails and silk…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:15PMShow #115: The Glass Menagerie, Marin Theatre Company, November 29.
I reviewed this Tennessee Williams chestnut for today’s Marin Independent Journal. So it’s all over yonder if…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:14PMArs Nova will present Shida, a new solo musical written and performed by theater actress and singer Jeanette Bayardelle. Performances are December 2, 3 and 6. Andy Sandberg will direct, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:13PMChita Rivera, John Cullum and more talk about the one-night-only Nov. 30 Broadway concert of The Visit, the dark musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander and Fred Ebb.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:10PMThe Obie Award-winning theater The Play Company, in collaboration with Mexico-city based Por Piedad Teatro, will present the U.S. premiere of Working On A Special Day at The Flea Theater Jan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:08PMMost Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights aren’t to be seen in such guises. But Tracy Letts has replaced John Mahoney in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of "Penelope." Here are the co…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:08PMI will miss Maggie Daley. I never knew her personally but her stamp was everywhere in this City. She truly understood the importance of beauty in our lives. I remember when I first moved to …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:07PM"The Santaland Diaries": David Sedaris' comic monologue about his stint as a Macy's elf, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello, returns to Theater Wit. Mitchell Fain is back for his fifth …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:06PMIf you've been staring at the huge banner of the beautiful Renee Fleming on the back of the Civic Opera House — or noting how well the Lyric Opera of Chicago finds the sex and glamour …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:06PMThe family foundation of Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg has donated $3 million to Signature Theater Company for the centerpiece stairway of its new Frank Gehry-designed home on 42nd …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMThe producers of STICK FLY have announce that beginning Friday, December 2nd the show will offer a limited number of rush seats at 35.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMSteven Spielberg has adapted War Horse into a feature length film, which is set to be released in movie theatres on December 25 and we've got a first look at the highly-anticipated show below
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Current Role: Making his Broadway debut as Mick, a dim-witted college basketball player whose girlfriend refuses to “put out” until his te…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMKlea Blackhurst and Jason Graae will star in 42nd Street Moon's The Best of Times, an 80th Birthday salute to beloved Tony-winning Broadway composer/lyricist, Jerry Herman. The company&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMBid 2 Beat AIDS, a massive annual auction of rare and autographed items from stars in music, film, Broadway, sports and television, kicked off bidding Dec. 1—World AIDS Day—at no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMWestport Country Playhouse has announced casting for a script-in-hand reading of Philip Barry's Holiday, to be offered on Monday, December 12 at 7pm. Anne Keefe will direct the perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMDecember 1, 2011Swimming to The Perfect Momentby Howard DaiIt was during the collaboration theatre summer camp by The Cultch, one instructor Vanessa told me about this master storyteller Spa…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:57PMNina Arianda and Hugh Dancy talk about their roles in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s new Broadway production of David Ives’ “Venus in Fur.” Arianda plays Vanda, a preternaturally talen…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:56PMOn the agenda: Comedian T.J. Miller comes to town, plus deets on the St. Paul Santa Pub Crawl, XYandZ's anniversary and the latest spoken-word poetry jam.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:55PMThe nominees in the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards will be announced today (2 December) during a star-studded Launch Party at Café de Paris, in the
heart of the West End.Shayne Ward, Ri…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:53PMThe National Board of Review has announced the winners of its annual awards, according to a report in Variety. The prizes will be presented in a gala ceremony to be hosted by Natalie Morale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PMNina Arianda was on the Lopate Show recently to discuss her starring role in the Broadway production of "Venus in Fur." She also revealed what her favorite comfort food is. (It's the same as…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:50PMDavid Sedaris' snarky holiday comedy, The Santaland Diaries, returns to Florida Rep for a third season of yuletide mischief, running December 14-31 in the Studio Theatre in Fort Myers.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMActor Hugh Dancy was on the show to discuss his starring role in the Broadway production of "Venus in Fur" and he revealed, among other things, that he collects hands! What have you read or …
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:45PMThe producers of the coming Broadway musical "Rebecca," based on the Daphne du Maurier novel, have cast the leading roles: Tam Mutu will play Maxim de Winter and Karen Mason will play Mrs. D…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:44PMDouglas Williams, Mireille Asselin and ensemble in Hades.What is period musical performance for?For its enthusiasts, the answer is simply the beauty of the music itself, which is most authen…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:44PMThe man who wrote a slew of catchy pop gems in the 1960s and '70s has a new project: 'Some Lovers.'— On a recent afternoon of rehearsals for his new musical, "Some Lovers," Burt Bachar…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:42PMThe Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre presented a one-night-only benefit concert performance of THE VISIT, starring Broadway stage legends and Tony Award winners Chita Rivera and John Cul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMFeinstein's at Loews Regency has announced updates to its 2012 schedule.
The year will begin with Lucie Arnaz in Latin Roots (January 5-8), followed by an original cast reunion of Our …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMExotic landscapes and rococo embellishments.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:32PMPlaybill Exclusive: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert": Glamming It Up for the Macy's Parade
It's a tradition that every Thanksgiving morning audiences pack Herald Square or …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:30PMTwo of the major luminaries of modern American musicals sit down to talk about "An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin," their first Broadway reunion since they performed (and won T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:26PMAccording the the NY Times, Kelli O'Hara is set to lead a New York workshop for a musical version of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY later this month. Featuring a a score by Jason Robert Brown…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:25PMBartender/GQ model and the Minnesota Beatles Project.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:24PMChase Whiteside: Talking About AIDS (Or Not) - Chase Whiteside: chasewhiteside:
Being that it is World AIDS Day, I thought I’d repost my column from last year now that it doesn’t have a…
SOURCE: ryanjdavis.tumblr.com at 03:23PMMichael Urie will step into the role of Bud Frump, the lazy office brown-noser at the World Wide Wicket Company, in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PMNEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Opera has declared an impasse in contract negotiations with unions for its musicians and singers and is threatening to present its abbreviated season witho…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:20PMPlus "Miss Richfield 1981" Thirty Years on the Throne"
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:19PMThe Genius of Duke Ellington Recreated in City Center's "Cotton Club Parade"
Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center team up with City Center Encores! for
"Cotton Club…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:18PMA quick catch-up with playwright/director Alan Berks on his new comedy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:17PMUgly Betty vet Michael Urie will make his Broadway debut as Bud Frump in the hit musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying beginning January 24, 2012. Urie is set for a six-mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMMichael Urie will assume the role of Bud Frump in Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, playing at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on January 24. He replaces Christophe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMMale eroticism, a Paris Metro station and some New York prints are show-cased in three Minneapolis galleries.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:14PM“Let the gore begin,” says director Michael Sexton.
That’s just going with the flow when you take on “Titus Andronicus.”
His staging of Shakepeare’s notorious …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:14PMAn unusual new theatre troupe, the Groundling Theatre Company, is born, adding cheer to the gloom and doom art scene
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:13PMMike Daisey’s one-man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, currently running at the Public Theater, will return to the off-Broadway venue for a five-week engagement early in 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMThree-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, who will return to Broadway later this season in the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, will take part in a developmental workshop of the new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMBroadwayWorld has learned that Lauren Kennedy Spamalot, Side Show, Sunset Blvd., Vanities will lead readings of the new musical, The Emma Woodhouse Single Girls Guide, a stage re-imagination…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMBroadway Kids Care just hosted its first Dinner with a Director Education Series, featuring director and choreographer Kenny Ortega and young Broadway performers. Check out photos from the b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMThe producers of the 50th Anniversary production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING announced today that star of sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMPark Square Theatre has announced casting for their production of Ragtime, to be presented January 20-February 19.
Based on the novel by E. L Doctorow, Ragtime weaves a spellbinding story o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PMAny doubts that JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR is a genuine modern musical masterpiece should be banished forever by the splendid production in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse through December.
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SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMFeinstein's at Loews Regency announced its updated 2011-12 schedule, which includes performances from Linda Eder, Barbara Cook and Marni Nixon, among others.
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“Strings of street lights–even stop lights blink a bright red and green as the shoppers rush home with their treasures…” goes the unforgettable refrain of “Silver Bells”, and…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:57PMNumerous Broadway stars have donated items for the seventh annual celebrity memorabilia auction on eBay, Bid 2 Beat AIDS, which began today, December 1, in honor of World AIDS Day.
The auc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMJana Robbins, producer of the Tony-nominated revival of Ragtime, has been named guest artistic director at Stephens College’s Okoboji Summer Theatre in Spirit Lake, IA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMThe producers of STICK FLY have just announced that beginning Friday, December 2nd the show will offer a limited number of rush seats at 35. The seats will be available for purchase at 10 a.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMTony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth, who was last seen on Broadway in Promises, Promises, recently sat down with Ellen DeGeneres to talk about life outside of the theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMCasting has been announced for Berkeley Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Ghost Light, a new play conceived and developed by Jonathan Moscone and Tony Taccone. Written by Taccone a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMWolf 359 will bring their satire Righteous Money to New York City for its official U.S. premiere. The show will run January 4-7 at 3LD on a double bill with Schlosstheater Moers's Gerec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMDue to extraordinary demand, The Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that Mike Daiseys critically acclaimed THE AGONY AND THE …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMThe Big Apple can't seem to get enough of Mike Daisey's Apple-bashing. The Public Theater said Thursday that the monologist's new show about Cupertino, Calif.-based tech company Apple Inc. a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:20PMIn a vibrant mix of classic storytelling and jazzy rhythms, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever star Harry Connick Jr. has turned his holiday song “The Happy Elf” into a charming …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PMMike Daisey's The Agony And The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, which was previously extended at the Public Theater through December 4, will return to the Public, January 31-March 4, 2012. Jean-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMWhat's Hot on Broadway December 2011
WHAT'S HOT ON BROADWAY, hosted by Maribel Aber, was at the premiere of GODSPELL, one of the most enduring shows of all times by the Grammy and A…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:17PMAkira Takayama's "Referendum Project" aimed to provide a dress rehearsal for a national referendum, something Japan has never undertaken and which its constitution doesn't provide for.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMAnd besides the psychic rewards, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg have a stairway named after them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMGaston - Beauty and the Beast 3D 2012 (HD)
Gaston and LeFou perform Gaston from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Release Date - January 12, 2012
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Based on t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:05PMGodspell's Hunter Parrish on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Watch Hunter Parrish on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. More info and tickets at www.Godspell.com
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:05PMPlaywright Mark St. Germain and the stars of his hit Off-Broadway play, FREUD’S LAST SESSION, will host special post performance discussions Friday, December 2nd and Sunday matinee, Decemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMMike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, which played an extended run Off-Broadway at the Public Theater earlier this fall, will return for a five-week New York run in 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMoccupyantigone A crowdsourced emergent text contributed to by #OWS protestors, friends, allies, comrades, and fellow artists. The text will form the basis of performances to be developed…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 02:00PM
Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of CLOSE UP SPACE, the new play by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Leigh Silverman begins previews tonight, December 1 at 8 PM at MTC at New York C…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:58PMIt's been a fun ride as Telly Leung brought viewers behind the scenes during the first months of Godspell's run, but now it's time for the final installment of his video blog. Wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:55PMSex 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 American playwright. The pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMBeyonce - Dance For You Choreography
Beyonce's Dance for You video combines noir style shooting and some sexy choreography! And if you missed the release of her DVD Elements of 4: Live …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:52PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Move over Adele, Kanye West and Bon Iver. One of the livelier contests at next year's Grammy Awards will pit Harry Potter, Cole Porter and a pair of Mormon missionaries.…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:51PMIt's Saturday night at Broadway's Godspell, and the cast is almost ready for places! But not before they shower their composer, Stephen Schwartz, with a little love. Star Hunter Parrish take…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMThe Cunningham company's Repertory Understudy Group, known as the RUGs, ended performances at the Cunningham Studio.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:44PMAlec Mapa will perform his latest stand-up comedy show, Baby Daddy, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, February 9-11, 2012. All performances are at 7:30pm.
The piece chronicles Mapa's lat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMBonnie & Clyde come to a bloody end on Broadway, as they did in life, and Broadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson has penned a fitting portrait of this notorio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMThe holiday season is upon us, and Broadway.com is celebrating by making it snow throughout December with our favorite holiday-themed videos featuring Broadway stars. We're kicking off t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:40PMEdwin Judd Woldin, a musical composer best known for Raisin, an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's classic work A Raisin in the Sun, died Nov. 27. He was 86.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMDavid Rooney The connection between crime and celebrity is hammered over and over again in director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun's production.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:36PMNew World Records has released the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra's new recording of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha.
The opera focuses on the Reconstruction era African-American experien…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMStanding On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays offered a special discount to young people for the Nov. 30 performance of the acclaimed production at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMAENY-El Puente, with the support of the Spanish Consulate of New York, will present the world premiere of Wearing Lorca's Bowtie. Josh Hecht and Ignacio García-Bustelo will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMEveryone knows that Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist. But most people don’t know that she was also the silliest and most hilarious scientific boffin that ever existed! Okay, so maybe …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 01:20PMSome entertainers need no introduction — especially when they’ve been in show business for more than 40 years. And so it goes for Donny and Marie Osmond. With their megawatt smiles and e…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:17PMThe Araca Group will present the return of AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings celebrating new work for the theatre, Dec. 5-9 at Ars Nova.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMThe fairytale is given a Disney makeover, with the heroine becoming a Hollywood hopeful after a producer crashes a plane on her doorstep
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:13PMA guide to performances of the classic Christmas story all around New York City.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:13PMHere are three very different musicals which have in common the theatrical conceits and conventions of putting their often dramatic dramatis personae right in the spotlight's golden glow or …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMBroadway favorite Michele Lee attended a preview of Off-Broadway's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER starring Jim Brochu and Cady Huffman this past Tuesday, November 29th. The celebrated stage & fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMTom Bower has been announced to replace Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning actor-playwright Tracy Letts in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Sam Shepard's Buried Child.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMThe cast recording of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING received a nomination for the 54th annual Grammy Awards in the Best Musical Show Album category yesterday. Check out th…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:01PMWhen last I reviewed Barbara Cook I posited the question – can a person be named a National Treasure or is it just those pesky pieces of property. Well it turns out that this weekend Ms. …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:00PM
Praxis Theatre Presents Jesus Chrysler by Tara Beagan Directed by Michael Wheeler Produced by Aislinn Rose Starring Jeffrey Wetsch, Margaret Evans and Aviva Armour-Ostroff Location Theatre P…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:59PMIn the explosive “I Kissed a Girl” episode on Glee, fans were shocked by huge revelations and game-changing plot twists. Broadway.com asked readers which moment they found most s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week managing director Michael Maso shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMLynn Von Eschen has held various leadership jobs at Ordway Center.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:49PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsWe're facing six years of austerity and a wave of public sector strikes. So what better way to dispel the gloom than with a stirring dose of Annie, the musical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the forthcoming Broadway production of Rebecca, starring the previously announced Sierra Boggess in the leading role of “I.” M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the forthcoming Broadway production of Rebecca, starring the previously announced Sierra Boggess in the leading role of “I.” M…
SOURCE: baltimore.broadway.com at 12:47PMSome entertainers need no introduction — especially when they’ve been in show business for more than 40 years. And so it goes for Donny and Marie Osmond. With their megawatt smiles and e…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:42PMName: Laura RamadeiHometown: Silver Spring, Maryland and Evergreen, ColoradoEducation: Denver School of the Arts; NYU, Tisch, Stella AdlerSelect Credits: Keep Your Baggage With You At All Ti…
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 12:42PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin announced a $5 million gift Thursday to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to mark its 40th anniversary and suppo…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:41PMErin Halloran, principal dancer with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, is retiring after 20 years with company.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:36PMWith nine Tony Awards under its belt, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Broadway's The Book of Mormon is also among the nominees in the Best Musical Show Album category f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThe Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre presented a one-night-only benefit concert performance of THE VISIT, starring Broadway stage legends and Tony Award winners Chita Rivera and John Cul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMThe role of Eponine in the upcoming screen version of “Les Misererables” is very desirable and several entertainment stars are in the running. At the top of the list is country music sen…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:25PMLiving legend Stephen Sondheim returned to The Colbert Report on November 30 with another must-watch segment for musical theater fans. Sondheim chatted with Colbert about his new book Look, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMLiving legend Stephen Sondheim returned to The Colbert Report on November 30 with another must-watch segment for musical theater fans. Sondheim chatted with Colbert about his new book Look, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMThe following article originally appeared in “Behind the Scenes” – the official Newsletter of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS… “Seasons of Love,” Jonathan…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:23PMOn Wednesday, November 30, The Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre presented a one-night-only benefit concert performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Visit, starring Tony Award w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMAs Kristin Chenoweth readies to return to TV with her new series GCB, the bubbly Tony winner stopped by The Ellen Degeneres Show on November 30. Sporting a fashionable hairdo she refers to a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMThe full cast is set for the previously announced West End production of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, starring Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally and Olivia Colman. Directed by Ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMLiving legend Stephen Sondheim returned to The Colbert Report on November 30 with another must-watch segment for musical theater fans. Sondheim chatted with Colbert about his new book Look, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMSierra Boggess will be in good company at the mysterious estate called Manderley in the Broadway musical Rebecca in spring 2012. Producers announced Dec. 1 that the principal cast includes K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMSierra Boggess will be in good company at the mysterious estate called Manderley in the Broadway musical Rebecca in spring 2012. Producers announced Dec. 1 that the principal cast includes K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMI AM THEATRE: Michael Maso
Michael Maso (Managing Director, Huntington Theatre Company) has led the Huntington's administrative and financial operations since 1982, producing more than …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:09PMTis the season, so let’s kick off December by giving you the present of a theater news round-up: We have a winner! The recipient of two tickets to see An Evening with Patti LuPone …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:05PMIn the Broadway show "Bonnie and Clyde," which opens tonight at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, the costumes also play a starring role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PMMr. December 2011The Athens University Men's Basketball TeamWHY THEY ARE MR. BROADWAY: It's hard enough to have a 30 year in a row losing streak, isn't it? But to have a cheerleading s…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMCheck out playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis ' full response to the controversy regarding his criticism of the casting process and of artistic director and theater founder Steve Campo in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMThe Puffin Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from emerging artists in the fields of music, theater, and photography whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PM
Casting is complete for the upcoming Broadway production of Porgy and Bess. As previously announced, four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, and David Alan Grier will star in the r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the forthcoming Broadway musical Rebecca. Co-directed by Michael Blakemore and Francesco Zambello, the show will begin previews at the Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the forthcoming Broadway musical Rebecca. Co-directed by Michael Blakemore and Francesco Zambello, the show will begin previews at the Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the upcoming new musical REBECCA, based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier novel, opening on Broadway Sunday, April 22 at The Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMStage and screen actor Taye Diggs (Wicked, Rent) and singer Michael Bublé are among the celebrities who will join Kelly Ripa as co-host for WABC-TV morning talk show "LIVE! With …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMThe Actors Fund and the Vineyard Theatre's one-night-only benefit concert performance of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s The Visit played Broadway's Ambassador Theatre, current home…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMIt may be the holiday season, but there are a surprisingly large amount of really great concerts this month, some of which are free. By Susan Miron Lots going on this month: if you can only …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:48AMTony nominee Robert Cuccioli will headline the December 18 at 3pm and December 30 at 9pm performances of the musical revue, Jacques Brel Returns, at the Triad. Created by Dan Whitten and Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMIn observance of World AIDS Day Thursday, December 1 the Theater District Shake Shack will offer The Red Ribbon, a special concrete with all proceeds benefiting Broadway CaresEquity Fights A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMComplete casting has been confirmed for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, a new vision of the classic American folk opera, which will arrive on Broadway Dec. 17 at the Richard Rodgers Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMJane Austen's famous literary matchmaker Emma is slipping into boots and a miniskirt for a new musical that relocates the 1815 British novel to 1964, the time of women's lib, the pil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMAccording to published reports, actress Judy Lewis passed away on November 25 from cancer. She was 76 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMGlee may soon play host to another exciting guest star: Just a day after it was reported that Evita’s Ricky Martin may appear as McKinley High’s new Spanish teacher, EW.com repor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMComplete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Directed by Diane Paulus, the production will run Decem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMLast night, 130 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers headed to the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue to see the premiere production of Graham Linehan's stage adaptation of Ealing comedy The Lad…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:32AMThe Book of Mormon took home a whopping nine Tony Awards back in June, and the hit musical continues to score accolades, including a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Cast Album. Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMWeeds star and theater vet Justin Kirk will assume the role of Trip Wyeth in the Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities on January 10, 2012, replacing Thomas Sado…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that Justin Kirk will assume the role of Trip Wyeth in it…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMJustin Kirk will take over the role of Trip Wyeth in Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, beginning January 10.
He will be replac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMJon Robin Baitz's crackling family drama Other Desert Cities will welcome a new member to the steely Wyeth clan of Palm Springs. "Weeds" star Justin Kirk will take on the role …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMTeo Castellanos is a creative chameleon. Playwright, director, actor, dancer and artistic director of D-Projects, the multifaceted artist is also a compelling teacher, one who mentored and h…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:24AMStockard Channing did not let knee surgery keep her away from the set of “Other Desert Cities.” Broadway.com reported she was back to work after just four days. Channing showing she is q…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 11:24AMKatori Hall's Olivier Award-winning The Mountaintop, the acclaimed Broadway play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King's life, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AM"Glee" star Darren Criss readies to make his Broadway debut replacing current star Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In this promotional photo shoot, Cris…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMGolden Globe winner Sally Hawkins will co-star with Rafe Spall in Constellations, a new play by Nick Payne at Royal Court in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Michael Longhurst will direct the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMMike Daisey, who currently stars in Off-Broadway's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and members from the Off-Broadway theatre company The Civilians will participate in Occupy Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMHello everyone! Forgive my lengthy absence. Life has gotten wild recently. But I’m back today with Roommate Joe to discuss last night’s announcement of the Grammy nominees. Take …
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 11:19AMThere's just 4 weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Philippines Awards and here is the latest update Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMThe comic was rumoured to have been put up for sale by Nicolas Cage.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:16AMLast night, I spoke to two-time Tony-winner Katie Finneran all about her new Fox sitcom I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, co-starring Jaime Pressly, which premiered yesterday at 930 PM. Additional…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMJust Dance - Justin Bieber Rockefeller Tree Lighting 2011, Beyonce Dance for You, Glee, Smurfs
The 2011 lighting of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center on NBC featured great performanc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Broadway favorites Nathan Lane and Cheyenne Jackson are set to star in a comedy pilot on USA from Douglas McGrath. Lane will also executive produce the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMRon Elisha's Man in the Middle, about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, will make its European premiere at Theatre503 in London, January 10-February 4. Lucy Skilbeck will direct.
The p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMThe producers of The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS have just announced the complete cast of the show, which begin previews on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 and opens on Thursday, January 12th, 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMMadame Tussauds London has transported their intricately fashioned wax sculpture of William Shakespeare to the lobby of the Sidney Harman Hall, where he appears, outside the main floor gift …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMA rehearsal fragment from our upcoming reading of Beach Blanket Bluebeard at Coney Island USA December 8. In this, Esther Crow as Johnny Guitar tells us how to “Shuck the Clam”.
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AMTony Award-nominee Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Les Misrables will headline the December 18th at 3pm and December 30th at 9pm performances of JACQUES BREL RETURNS...The Music of Brel, Bl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMJennie Berman Eng
Current Town: Rockville, MD
Q: Tell me about Exit Carolyn.
A: Exit Carolyn is a play about two best friends (Julie & Lorna) whose friendship struggles af…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:01AMLythgoe Family Productions’ A Snow White Christmas, with Lindsay Pearce of "Glee" and Erich Bergen, opened at El Portal Theatre Nov. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for December 2011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMWell, well, well, would you look at this! The House of Reps down in DC passed a bill recently that's near and dear to my heart called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. In what is being…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe stars of the film “Once” and those of the stage musical discuss what is similar — and what is not — about the two versions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM
Panto season is upon us and this year the Lyric Hammersmith is offering an 'East meets West (London)' version of Aladdin, which opens tomorrow (2 December 2011, previews from 19 November).
…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:58AMRoundabout Theatre Company’s (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Anything Goes has received a 2012 Grammy Nomination for Best Musical Theater Album! Best Musical Theatre Album Anything Goes S…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:57AMPatti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who are currently sharing Broadway's Ethel Barrymore stage in An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, appeared on WNBC-TV's "New York L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMUNAPPRECIATED MASTERPIECE OR ABJECT FAILURE? Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began the Golden Era of Broadway with two musicals that reimagined the previous form of musical comedies �…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:55AMView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Watch Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin on WNBC-TV’s “New York Live.” Patti LuPone co-hosted the hour-long show with regular hosts Jane Hans…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:50AMStage and screen actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, his "Modern Family" co-star Eric Stonestreet and former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell will be featured on this year'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMTwentieth Century Fox Consumer Products and Stage Entertainment Touring Productions have announced the launch of Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure. The show is set to premiere November 2012…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
"The Second City's Dysfunctional Holiday Revue": A touring company of the comedy empire provides a dyspeptic diversion. From ugly sweaters…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:49AMPETER PAN Starring Cathy Rigby is at THE THEATER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN from December 14 - December 30. Buy now to discover the magic of Peter Pan this December and SAVE up to 27 on tickets
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMFans are praying for a movie version of the musical about two mismatched Mormon missionaries assigned to spread the word in Uganda.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:46AMPatti LuPone co-hosted the hour-long show with regular hosts Jane Hanson, Sara Gore and Jacque Reid, and Mandy Patinkin appeared as a guest to talk about Broadway's AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUP…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMAward-winning composer/lyricist made a guest appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report on November 30.
During his conversation with Stephen Colbert, Sondheim discussed the comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMSeven-time MAC, Backstage Bistro, and Nightlife Award Winner, Natalie Douglas, will present two New Year's Eve shows at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre on Saturday, December 31 at 7:30pm and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMHey, readers, here is your monthly recap of what posts you were the most engaged with over the past 30 days. The most read post of the month: Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . The most c…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMGetting married? Having a baby? Adopting a child?
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMThe cast recordings of Anything Goes, The Book of Mormon and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying have received nominations for the 54th annual Grammy Awards, which will be prese…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMActress Judy Lewis, who was the daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, has died at age 76, according to The New York Times.
Lewis, who didn't learn of her true parentage until she …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMTo be my age and a nerd (there, I said it) is to have been a big fan of The Muppet Show during its initial run (1976-1981). Though he is seldom categorized this way, I think Jim Henson ough…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:15AMBroadway veterans Barry Bostwick and Julie Hagerty will be featured in the TBS comedy pilot BFF, according to Deadline.com.
Jay Malone will star as Mark, a family man who quits his day job …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMOff-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company unveiled 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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:05AM"Hairspray" and "Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman will direct a new screen adaptation of the holiday classic "The Nutcracker" for New Line Cinema, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMDirectors 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 10:01AMThe four-time Tony Award nominee discusses co-starring in the Roundabout Theatre's benefit concert of She Loves Me.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMSingers channel Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
for holiday music and laughs.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
Theatrical treatment of the life of Julian Assange gets its European premiereA play about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will have its European premiere in London next year.First seen at t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:59AMTwo-time Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Andrea Martin will join the previously reported Cheyenne Jackson and Nathan Lane in a USA Network comedy pilot, according to a report on Deadline…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMLaura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan are taking their official Broadway bows as America’s most infamous outlaw couple on December 1, when Bonnie & Clyde opens at the Schoenfeld Theatre. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMNominations have been announced for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out in Los Angeles on February 12 and aired live on CBS.
The nominees for Best Musical Theater Album…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMThe Sundance Film Festival has announced the lineup of films to be seen during the Festival's run in Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2012. Numerous theater veterans will be appearing in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMAdam Shankman will direct a new version of The Nutcracker, to be written by Darren Lemke, according to Deadline.com.
The film, to be released in 2013, will be based on the original 1815 bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AM"American Idol" runner-up and former Wicked star Adam Lambert will release his new solo recording, "Trespassing," in early 2012, according to Entertainment Weekly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMTop Price seats (usually £58.50) just £37.50 for Monday - Thursday performances of Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndhams Theatre
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:35AMPlaybill, the most recognized brand in the theatre for over 127 years, unveils Playbillvault.com, the most comprehensive searchable database of Broadway history on the web, Dec. 1. The new w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMIn celebration of Playbill’s new site, Playbill Vault, we offer a month-long theatrical treasure hunt! Playbill Vault offers an interactive treasure trove for theatre fans, students, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMKritzerland is set to present a new Broadway Cast Recording of THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMIrving Elman, a Broadway playwright and a writer and producer for movies and television, died Nov. 22 in La Jolla, CA, of cardiopulmonary arrest. He was 96.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMTom Bower has replaced the previously announced Tracy Letts in L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Sam Shepard's darkly comic family drama, Buried Child, to run December 8-11 at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMFull casting has been announced for the new production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever, beginning performances Feb. 9, 2012, at the Noel Coward Theatre for a run through June 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMThis is part of a little series of post-Thanksgiving mini-posts I’m doing about items you might want to consider as Holiday gifts. Frank Cullen is the author of the indispensable Vaudevill…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:08AMFull casting has been announced for the West End revival of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, to run February 9-June 2 at the Noel Coward Theatre. Howard Davies will direct the production.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:08AMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British writer and director Nick Willing has always been fascinated with the story of "Peter Pan," but it took decades before he summoned the courage to put his own v…
SOURCE: Reuters at 09:03AMAs reported on the Chicago Tribune's Theater Loop blog: According to Theatre Facts 2010, the annual research snapshot released by the TCG lobbying and support organization, subscription inco…
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 09:02AM
Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall will star in Nick Payne's Constellations, beginning performances at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs Jan. 13, 2012, prior to an official …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Viola Davis will be honored as Outstanding Performer of the Year at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The ceremony will be held at the historic Arlington Theatre on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:53AMNow available from NoPassport Press, Popular Forms for a Radical Theatre, edited by Caridad Svich and Sarah Ruhl, reprints several essays that first appeared in an August 2006 special issue …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:49AMSharon Gless was reunited with her Cagney and Lacey co-star Tyne Daly at last night's opening of the West End transfer of A Round-Heeled Woman, which has moved from Riverside Studios to the …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:49AMAt its core, romance is the same at any age: an exciting, gut-wrenching roller coaster of blessed highs and crushing lows. The only thing that changes as the years go by is the volume of emo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:47AMOn PBS' "Great Performances: Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park,” the Italian tenor performs classical favorites and his popular signature songs.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:45AM“I’d say we’re a cross between the Sonny and Cher show meets the Muppets. On acid.” That’s how Scott Bradley, one-half of the creative genius behind The Scooty …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:42AMTheatre 503’s new season will feature the European premiere of Australian playwright Ron Elisha’s Man in the Middle, centring on WikiLeads founder Julian Assange.
The play, which runs …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:37AMWe need the humanities because we need imagination that works outside the narrow channels where the sciences succeed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMWhen I was six years old, tragedy struck. Tantrum-throwing, heart-wailing, tragedy. My beloved VHS copy of Annie had been “accidentally destroyed,” (the circumstances of which are still …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMRoger Q. Mason draws on magical realism and his interracial family's "hidden histories " in 1870s Texas in his new play Onion Creek, directed by June Carryl. It's produced by Padua Playwrigh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00AMThe six-character, one-set black comedy comes to Women's Theater Company in Parsippany.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMThe production of 'River,' at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, runs too shallow.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM'The Book of Mormon' creators Trey Parker and Bobby Lopez are naturally thrilled with their Grammy nomination. 'The Book of Mormon' is up against "Anything Goes" and "How to Succeed in Busin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMSamuel Brett Williams' new play offers the dynamics of destructive behavior in a work that is not so much over-the-top as up the next hillside.
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If musical theatre is not your thing, then this big, in-your-face, unashamedly ridiculous show is not the one to change to your mind, but if you like a bit of razzle dazzle then this deliver…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:55AMQuick warning: The Drifters is not a piece of theatre. The Icons Tour is what you’d expect from 1950s doo-wop sensation, a pop-fuelled jaunt through their greatest hits. The show was d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:40AMThe Tony Award-winning production of American Idiot will tour the UK in 2012, opening in Southampton in October next year and tour across the UK and Ireland, before closing at London's Hamme…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:39AMThe story of the WI Calendar Girls is probably one with which most of us are familiar. The sentiment and sincerity behind the tale has me on side from the word go, before I even step inside …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:34AM“Before I turn 67 – next March – I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.”
So read the ad in the pers…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMOn a typical day Ms. Caplan may train Nikki M. James, a 2011 Tony Award Winner for "Book of Mormon"; Hunter Parrish, now starring in "Godspell"; or even Stephen Colbert.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:20AMOvalhouse presents a showcase of new work by emerging writers and performers who script their own material. Following Ovalhouse’s 2010 sell-out Writers’ Rave, the event returns …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AMAccording to the Theatre Communications Group, the subscription ticket to nonprofit theaters are going the way of the album and the newspaper - no longer the dominant method of consumption b…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:14AMRosy Banham profiles Bristol Old Vic's Young Company and their thriving South West arts programme.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMGreen Day's musical American Idiot is to hold its British premiere in autumn 2012.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThe Green Day musical American Idiot will receive its UK premiere in Fall of 2012, featuring an "American tour cast." The tour will kick off at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AMThe Broadway stage version of Green Day's American Idiot will receive its U.K. premiere, launching a tour in October 2012 that will begin at Southampton, before going on to Ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00AM
I'm taking an immediate break from my new task to find what I love to do in order to tell you why Breaking Dawn was the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life. That is not a hyperbole…
SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 12:59AMAndrea Marcovicci is celebrating 25 years of entertaining audiences with her beautiful vocals at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room in NYC. On November 29, 2011, I had the honor of attending And…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 12:51AMThe four-time Tony winner shines. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from the Kimmel Center.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:41AMThe Denver Center Theatre Company will bring a reading of a new musical based on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," two fully produced main stage world premieres and a multimedia worksho…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:35AMBONNIE amp CLYDE is currently playing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The show began previews on Friday, November 4th and opens tonight, December 1st
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMOur unfunny world has provided plenty of material for this funny company's spoof of the news and views—just the ticket when the real stuff gets you down, says Toby Zinman.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:15AMWhat is that man of mature vintage thinking as he sits in the stark rectangle of light, staring out at us with those wistful, hooded eyes? The miracle of superlative acting is that an audien…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:15AMThere are at least three Wizard of Ozes playing in Canada this season. This one is at St. Jacob's Country Playhouse. l-r Nick Settimi, Amy Wallis, Jonathan Whittaker …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMDecember 1, 2011I Don't Need No NobelBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisPlaywright Steve Galluccio, come awards season, loses his mind on Facebook and Twitter. He doesn't like them. And it's a sincere …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMA funny thing happened on the way to the comedy "Fat Beckett" making its way to the stage tonight. There wasn't a whole lot of waiting after the play jumped from Point Park University to a B…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AM"The quality of the artist depends on the quality of the man and no one can excel in the arts...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMScience buff, actor and filmmaker Alan Alda has turned to playwriting to bring one of his heroes to life.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Playbill Leading Men columns this month focus on the disciples of Broadway's Godspell. Telly Leung chats about his relationship with Stephen Schwartz, the Godspell creative process a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMolly Smith Metzler's Close Up Space, a new comedy starring Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce as a harried book editor, begins previews Dec. 1 in a Manhattan Theatre Club staging at Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, plays a limited engagement at Manhattan's HERE Arts Center beginning Dec. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines, Elaine Paige and other members of the cast of the critically acclaimed revival of Sondheim and James Goldman'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBonnie & Clyde, the new musical with songs by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black, telling the story of the Depression-era American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, opens Dec. 1 followin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Chicago premiere of Enda Walsh's Penelope, the absurdist-flavored take on the tale of the Trojan War wife who waits for her soldier husband and is courted by unsuitable suitors, begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWalnut Street Theatre presents Noël and Gertie, the celebration of a friendship that became part of show-business history, opening Dec. 1, following previews that began Nov. 22, at Waln…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNational Theatre Live, an initiative to broadcast live performances from the National Theatre's stages to cinemas worldwide, continues its third season with Collaborators, which scr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMContinuity and a fresh start characterize this year's Black & White Festival. For one, this is the eighth year the small but vigorous Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre has presented a festi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
