The new musical Once, currently playing at New York Theatre Workshop, will transfer to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, beginning previews February 28, with an official opening set…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51PMThe new musical Once, currently playing at New York Theatre Workshop through January 15, will transfer to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, beginning previews February 28, with an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Roundabout's She Loves Me benefit, Vineyard's The Visit benefit, and the Follies new cast recording.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:45PMIn 2006, the intimate Irish movie “Once” conquered millions of hearts with its sincere romance between two young musicians in Dublin. The film earned back 100 times its $200,000 budget, …
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Harried, nervous, terrified producers are scurrying around Broadway desperately trying to figure out how to save several shows that are dangling above…
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SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:42PMSan Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre is launching a new annual award in January called the Conservatory Awards, honoring outstanding alumni and donors.San Francisco's American Conse…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:25PMThis is a new article published in Shareable Magazine by Polly Carl and Vijay Mathew about building a new American theater movement inspired by opensourcing and the commons - READ THE ARTICLE
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:20PMLegit Reviews: Once is not enough: "Once" is that rare kind of musical which theater lovers will want to see again.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07PMThe talented creators of “Once,” a musical inspired by the 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, faced a big problem that they’ve only partly resolved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMMemphis the musical recaptures a time of racism when a white D.J. freed forbidden black music from its bondage
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:00PMThis ravishingly moving musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film centers on an unlikely romance.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDavid Jenkins' homey play about life in a small Illinois town packs both surprising depth and humor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMJohn Fleck's only intermittently engaging solo show riffs on Judy Garland, addiction, and playing freaks.
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The 23rd annual Gypsy of the Year competition, held at the New Amsterdam Theatre, started off with a real blast from the past: A 40th-anniversary reunion of original Broadway cast members of…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:53PMAndreas Mitisek, an innovator at Long Beach Opera, takes on extra duties as the new general director here.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:20PMKreis' latest song is a wedding song, titled Just This Good. The song, written per Kreis' Twitter in celebration of our LGBT couples whose love is outlasting our country's prejudice, was rel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:13PM"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actuall…
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December 6th marked a historic day for both the city of Toronto and its theatre community as The Canon Theatre was renamed in honour of theatre impresario Ed Mirvish. Stars of Canadian thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55PMI had written director Martin Scorcese off, and never expected he had a "Hugo" in him. That he did is the among the touching things in this film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54PMThis season marks Alvin Ailey's 40th at City Center, and the company's first under the leadership of its new director, Robert Battle.
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SOURCE: Drama Book Shop at 08:50PMBALTIMORE (AP) -- A renovated theater at Johns Hopkins University has been renamed for "The Addams Family" actor John Astin....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:43PMThe St . Paul troupe said it must trim expenses to address a $500,000 budget shortfall.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 08:39PMThe big Chicago media news today is that the Sun-Times will now be using a “metered method” for views of their articles. Readers will get 20 free views before they will require a…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:34PMDavid Rooney Adapted for the stage from the 2007 feature film with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, the production makes intelligent decisions at every step.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PM"On the constantly expanding roster of unadventurous screen-to-stage musical adaptations, few rank as less predictable than Once."
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New York Theatre Workshop NYTW presents the Broadway-bound world premiere of the new musical Once, which is based on the Academy Award-winning film. Once began previews Tuesday, November 15 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMOnce, the folky Irish pop stage musical inspired by the hit independent film, will move to Broadway following its current Off-Broadway run, commercial producers announced on Dec. 6, shortly …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:36PMOnce, the folky Irish pop stage musical inspired by the hit independent film, will move to Broadway following its current Off-Broadway run, commercial producers announced on Dec. 6, shortly …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:35PMMulti-platinum recording artist Trace Adkins reprised his role alongside Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth as hosts of the second annual AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS, airing live from …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMOnce, the folky Irish pop stage musical inspired by the hit independent film, will move to Broadway following its current Off-Broadway run, commercial producers announced on Dec. 6, an hour …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:26PMThe New York Times is now reporting that even before the show has opened tonight producers have announced that ONCE will open on Broadway this Spring. The show will begin previews at the Ber…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMThe musical based on the Academy Award-winning film "Once" is falling slowly onto Broadway. Producers announced Tuesday that the show, which has been playing downtown at New York Theatre Wor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:19PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The musical based on the Academy Award-winning film "Once" is falling slowly onto Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:17PMA recent newspaper article championed the topicality of Richard II, laboriously rewriting it from camp conservatism to a politically current meditation on the “sad stories” we still tell…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:14PMBroadway's longest-running production of all time celebrates a triumphant quarter century on stage with The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, coming to Blu-ray with perfect hi-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09PMNo Shakespeare comedy depends on spontaneous romantic combustion as crucially as does “Much Ado About Nothing.” Yes, “The Taming of the Shrew’s” Kate and Petruchio must fall desper…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:07PMThe Gershwins PORGY AND BESS comes to Broadway in a stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as Summertime, It Aint Necessarily So, and I Got Plenty Of Nothing, plus a remarkable…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMAnnette Bening and Elizabeth Banks will be honored by American Conservatory Theatre , which is launching a new annual award in January called the "Conservatory Awards." In addition, the scho…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMEddie Redmayne's brilliant Richard is already installed on his throne as the audience take their seats for this marvellous farewell production by the Donmar's departing artistic director, Mi…
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If there is any theatre on this planet that has had a stormier history, changed its name more often, or been at the centre of more Shakespearean power struggles and epic legal battles than t…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:56PMWhile interviewing RuPaul yesterday for an upcoming episode of The Rosie Show, Rosie announced during a break to her audience that she is engaged to her girlfriend Michelle Rounds. The off-c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS' 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year, which was presented Monday, December 5 and today, Tuesday, December 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, featured performances by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMEven when he's insulting everybody in the room, Bottrell's take on the human condition as "funny, hopeless and sweet" is deeply consoling. Even when he's insulting everybody in the room, Bot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:26PM... if there's one thing we can expect from this time of year, it's happy endings and heartwarming stories. Audiences will find nothing less � although there is plenty of the unexpected � a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24PMFamous, a new musical based on Hollywood's most notoriously known murder welcomes Courtney Reed In the Heights, Mamma Mia and Lauren Ashley Zakrin MTV's Search for the Next Elle Woods Finali…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMThe 23rd annual Gypsy of the Year competition, held on December 5 and 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, raised a record $4,895,253 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. A total of 53 Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:15PMAfter releasing her album Some Lessons Learned earlier this year, Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth cemented her place as a country music star by co-hosting the 2011 American Country Awards on D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:05PMWhen Harry Connick Jr. called his Broadway co-star Jessie Mueller “a super freak” in a December 5 Today show interview, he meant it in the best possible way: Connick and Mueller …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonMichael Grandage ends his dazzling tenure at the Donmar with a Richard II that has many virtues: clarity, speed, superb set and sound design.But the big question is w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino discuss Roundabout's She Loves Me benefit, Vineyard's The Visit benefit, and the Follies new cast recording.
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SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:45PMShinsai: Theaters for Japan on March 11 will mark the anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake with short performances at American theaters, designed to benefit Japanese theater arti…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:34PMDavid Dean Bottrell's popular one-man show is back for its third engagement. Margaret Gray reviews.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PMThe 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year, held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 5 and 6, raised an all-time high $4,895,253 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Since 1989, the 23 editi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:31PM*The Annoyance Christmas Pageant* is strangely literal and almost disconcertingly reverent as it pays homage to two video Christmas classics - Charlie Brown and Rudolph. Every Yule the Annoy…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:28PMThe International Institute, Edison Theatre and St. Louis
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:23PMCzech Girl’s short, unconsummated love story with an Irish lad named Guy forms the centre of this off-Broadway musical
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:22PMWinner of 35 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMThe 23rd Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR raised an all-time high $4,895,253 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, thanks to the tireless work of 53 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and nationa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:18PMFamed impresario honoured with tributes from prime minister, mayor
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:15PMTicketmaster is doubling the amount it initially set aside to settle a class action lawsuit over certain fees, after a judge rejected a proposed settlement earlier this year.
The company wil…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:12PMThere are several great holiday shows in and around New York City worth catching before the New Year, including an amped up version of the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular."
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:12PMLast night NYC amp Company held its 11th annual Leadership Awards Gala on Monday, December 5th at the New York Marriott Marquis, located at 1535 Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets in Man…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMThis year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:01PMTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Broadway production of Grease, original cast members of the smash musical reunited to perform Dec. 5-6 at the annual Gypsy of the Year competition pr…
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Literally auctioning the shirt off his back at performances of Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway helped the Tony-winning Australian native to raise a one-show record of $857,740 as part of the 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:58PMPlaywright Alfred Uhry was on the Lopate Show recently to discuss "Reaper Angels," his latest collaboration with choreographer and director Martha Clarke. He revealed his love of brisket and…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:51PMBroadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS' 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year, which was presented Monday, December 5 and today, Tuesday, December 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre, featured performances by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:40PMThis holiday season, the award-winning Peccadillo Theater Company is presenting Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman’s THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER starring Jim Brochu as Sheridan Whiteside and Ton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PM(Photo: Benjamin Privitt. Pictured: Mark Jackson and Peter Ruocco in the 2009 Shotgun Players production of Jackson’s Faust Pt1, published by EXIT Press). In the age of the internet, …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:28PMAccording to published reports, stage veteran Peter Weller is set to join previously announced Chrias Pine and Zachary Quinto in the upcoming sequel to J.J. Abrams' 'Star Trek.' Weller will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMBest wishes to the cast and crew of Howard Barker’s The Forty, directed by David Ian Rabey, which opens tonight (that is, Wednesday night; damn these time zones) at the Theatr y Castel…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:26PMReeve Carney, who stars in the title role of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Memphis cast members Dan'yelle Williamson and Kevin Massey performed at NYC & Company&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:19PMTHE HOWL Today's HowlRound.com "Weekly Howl"- Our weekly Twitter conversation on hashtag '#newplay' about New Theater - was OFF THE HOOK! Thanks to all that came to talk about 'Cre…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:13PMOn West 30th Street, The Urban Stages eclectic festival Winter Rhythms continues through December 11 ... Susan Winter is one of this week's attractive attractions at the Metropolitan Room ..…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PMVoice Afire Pocket Opera & Cabaret will present the U.S. premiere of Butterfly's Trouble, Ray Luedeke's intriguing English language adaptation of Puccini's opera Madama Bu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMMax McLean's hit, one-man version of C. S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" is return to the Chicago area. McLean said Tuesday that he will play three shows at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PMModern Family Emmy nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson got back to his Broadway roots on December 4 at Trevor Live, the annual Trevor Project benefit at the Hollywood Palladium. Accompanied by Zach…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:02PMLove was in the air on December 5 when a star-studded production of Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me took to the stage of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre for one night only! Stage and screen…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PMLove was in the air on December 5 when a star-studded production of Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me took to the stage of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre for one night only! Stage and screen…
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Here's the news about the year. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" may have gotten the most headlines -- OK, the most headlines of all the shows together for maybe the last 11 years.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:59PMThe original Broadway cast of Grease reunited for a special 40-year anniversary tribute during the opening number of the 23rd Annual Gypsy of the Year presentation Dec. 5-6.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMIn style and content “The Jazz Singer” is undeniably a period piece, schmaltzy and partly calcified by some dated dialogue. But its core themes endure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMI hated history in high school. At the time, I thought this was simply because the subject didn't interest me, but I eventually came to understand that it was because my history teachers wer…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 03:50PMI pay my cable provider to supply me with TV. # Since I don’t want to watch on my cable provider’s schedule I pay for Tivo. Since my cable provider doesn’t have all the mov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49PMStephen Sondheim discusses the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:47PMThanks to huge ticket demands and countless rave reviews, On Stage Touring, producers of ‘Elvis Lives’, has just announced an expanded itinerary for its upcoming tour, with the schedule …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:44PMChoreographer Martha Clarke and writerAlfred Uhry discuss their latest collaboration, the dance/theater/music piece “Angel Reapers.” The work is suggested by the life of Ann Lee, founder…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:42PMAre critics looking twice at "Once"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:40PMFlamenco Festival 2012 Promo
City Center's 2012 Flamenco Festival, celebrating the tradition of great female flamenco choreographers, will showcase four of today's best: Rafaela Car…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:38PMOn Sunday, December 4, 2011, the Trevor Project presented Trevor Live, a high-profile event to benefit the life-saving work of The Trevor Project. The evening featured moving performances f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMSignature Theatre's new Arlington, VA, production of Hairspray — starring national radio host Robert Aubry Davis, of WETA's "Around Town" and Sirius/XM Radio, as Edna…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:33PM Newly released on DVD is an astonishing travel documentary about the jewel of the Pacific – the garden isle of Kauai. Geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands, Kauai is …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:31PMPeter Weller has been confirmed to play a starring role in the sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek reboot, according to EW.com.
He will join fellow stage veterans Chris Pine and Zach…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:26PMAs the holiday season gears up, Radio City Music Hall is taking firm hold of TicketNews' exclusive venues rankings, beating all rivals once again for the week ending Sunday, December 4.
Thi…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:26PMIt's getting to look a lot like next year and, all autumn long, there hasn't been a new musical to gift wrap and celebrate beyond the New Year. But wait. Just under the wire comes "Once," a …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:25PMThe Acting Company will present a staged reading of CHARLEY'S AUNT on December 12. The event will take place at 7pm at the Mainstage Theatre. Written by Brandon Thomas, the reading will be d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMDownstage Center Preview
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:18PMWICKED Hair and Makeup: Monkeys
The Flying Monkeys are the most iconic animals in all of Oz.
Meet the designers, craftspeople and performers who create Chistery's
transformation &mdas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:07PMPenumbra Theatre Company has announced changes to its 2011-2012 season and a new business plan which will be launched in the 2012-2013 season. This new business plan aims to ensure the organ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMNews broke this week that the Arsenal footballer Emmanuel Frimpong and rapper Lethal Bizzle are to launch a Judi Dench-inspired fashion label. Can this be true?It seemed, for a split second,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMIt's almost curtain time at A Christmas Story, The Musical!, and cast member Kirsten Wyatt is back to give Playbill an exclusive look at what happens behind the scenes while the show is bein…
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Legit News: Broadway revival gets spring run at Ahmanson -- The Broadway production of "Follies" has booked a six-week spring run at Center Theater Group's Ahmanson Theater in L.A.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMOff-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company opened the world premiere of Happy Hour, a collection of three one-act comedies by Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Dec. 5 following previews from…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMSon David recalls his dad enriching the culture of TorontoOne of Toronto’s major cultural landmarks changed its name today to honour one of the city’s most beloved citizens.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:53PMThere’s a new nanny hitting the road! Megan Osterhaus has joined the national tour of Mary Poppins as the magical caretaker who changes the lives of the Banks family. Osterhaus assumes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PMPop the champagne cork! On December 5, Oscar-winning playwright Ethan Coen and director Neil Pepe celebrated the opening-night performance of Atlantic Theater Company's Happy Hour w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews Urban Theatre Movement and the Latino Theater Company's powerful revival of Miguel Piñero's 'Short Eyes,' now extending at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:45PMThe original Off-Broadway cast recording of Silence! The Musical — billed as the "unauthorized parody of 'The Silence of the Lambs'" — is now available for onli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PMThe Fox hit series "Glee" has seen appearances ranging from a multi-episode arc with Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth to a cameo appearance from musical theatre legend Patti LuPone. P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMThe Fox hit series "Glee" has seen appearances ranging from a multi-episode arc with Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth to a cameo appearance from musical theatre legend Patti LuPone. P…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:37PMA.C.T. graduates Elizabeth Banks and Annette Bening will be honored at the theater's Conservatory Awards luncheon, to be held at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel on Tuesday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMSpider-Man Turn Off the Dark, currently playing at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, features a rock score by Bono and The Edge and Reeve Carney in the title role. Here, Carney joins YouTube …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMCulture fans, brace yourselves: Twitter is poised to invade live performances in a major way as arts groups across the country entertain the idea of reserving sections of the house for peopl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMBONNIE amp CLYDE opened on Thursday, December 1, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. As of today, it appears the producers have taken tickets off sale through Telecharge.com past December 30, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMBilly Elliot cast members Joseph Harrington, Briana Fragomeni and Tade Biesinger sang the National Anthem at the Nov. 27 New York Jets vs Buffalo Bills game.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMThe Acting Company will present a benefit staged reading of Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt Dec. 12 at 7 PM at the Mainstage Theater (Playwrights Horizons).
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMAbout the Author:
Comedian, playwright and actress Mo Gaffney has appeared in three off-Broadway shows opposite her friend and writing partner Kathy Najimy, including The Kathy and Mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:13PMWhat happened to Herman Cain is what the Democrats intend to do to whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be. They know they can’t win a debate on the economy or on President Obama’…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:08PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Once is not enough: "Once" is that rare kind of musical which theater lovers will want to see again.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
It's not just George Dennis' threatening soundscape that whips up the compelling sense of foreboding that clings to the mysterious opening scenes of "Foxf…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PMThough innocent of the crimes committed by their onstage counterparts, the stars of the new shoot-'em-up Broadway musical, BONNIE AND CLYDE, which opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre on Decembe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMProducers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced that Megan Osterhaus assumes the title role in the North American tour of Mary Poppins &nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMFellows work one-on-one with our artistic director and staff to bring their work from a rough draft to a production-ready work through a process of monthly review and revision in a challengi…
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While John Hurt continues his run at BAM in the Gate Theatre’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, those who lack the wherewithal to attend this production (t…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 01:56PMGlee star Lea Michele makes her film debut in Garry Marshall’s latest holiday-themed romantic comedy, New Year’s Eve, which opens December 9. Like Bette Midler and Barbra Streisa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PMTwitter is poised to invade live performances in a major way as arts groups across the country entertain the idea of regularly reserving sections of the house for people to tweet during show…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:53PMAs the holiday season kicks into full swing and choral music concerts abound, I am invariably reminded of why it is that the genre has so little street cred.Here are the problems as I percei…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:46PMChristmas will be white in Omaha and Philadelphia this year when The Broadway Dreams Foundation presents White Christmas, a celebratory holiday cabaret featuring performances by Broadways br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMLisaun Whittingham relates the process of understudying -- with three guaranteed performances -- the woman's role in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre. She had never read the…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:30PMPeccadillo Theater Company celebrated the opening of its production of The Man Who Came to Dinner with an after-party at Sardi's on Sunday, December 4.
In Moss Hart & George S. Kau…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMLegit Reviews: While it could use a little tightening, "God's Plot" is one homegrown Shotgun hit that might well take root in other venues.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PMIn the audio clip below, Broadway veteran and GLEE star Lea Michele sings 'Auld Lang Syne,' as featured in 'New Year's Eve.' The movie premieres in theatres on December 9.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMRecently, I took my nephew to his first Broadway show. This straight 19-year-old experienced the magic of live theater watching witches and monkeys fly in the long-running production Wicked.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:23PMThe world-premiere staging of Tony Award nominee Liz Swados' La MaMa Cantata, based on the life and words of late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart, will return for two encore engagements in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:23PMRELATIVELY SPEAKING star Marlo Thomas will sit down live with WOR Radio host Joan Hamburg for her “Live from Sardi’s” broadcast tomorrow, Wednesday, December 7 at 1:30pm. “The Joan H…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:21PMThe Tony Award winning revival of the Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman 1971 Broadway classic ‘Follies’ will be staged at the Ahmanson Theatre for a month-long spring-summer run from Ma…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:13PMThe ovation for Kelli O'Hara's rendition of the musical-comedy coloratura classic "Ice Cream" was still going strong when Josh Radnor made his entrance — prematurely,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMKevin Spacey has won praise for a series of in-character attacks as Richard III on unruly audience members in Sydney, including a cutting rebuke of the owner of a ringing mobile phone.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 01:06PMThe current Broadway revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, which began at The Kennedy Center, will transfer to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for a six-week run…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe current Broadway revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, which began at The Kennedy Center, will transfer to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for a six-week run…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMLi Jun Li, Matthew Dellapina, Nelson Lee and Sonequa Martin-Green will star in the Vineyard Theatre's previously announced world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's Outside People. Directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMDespite a life of wealth and privilege, the LeVay family has had its up and downs. In Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, Dule Hill and Mekhi Phifer star as brothers who bring their signific…
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Taking A MomentSo often after a project I have to rush into what's next on my to do list (i.e. rewrites on The River Bride), but I want to take a moment to fully appreciate and reflect on my…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:54PMAlthough the Kennedy Center’s highly regarded revival of “Follies” closes on Broadway on Jan. 22 after a 4 ½-month run, the production isn’t going into retirement just yet.
L…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:49PMThe stars of Off-Broadway’s hit play FREUD’S LAST SESSION proudly unveiled the brand new dessert treat, Freud’s Last Sundae, this past Friday, December 2nd at the Times Square Tasti D-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMHere now, the fourth installment in our Vaudephone series: Theé Baron Parker á Pinot, The World’s Only Wine Comedian, a droll chap who looks suspiciously like Jonny Cigar, and whose …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:49PMBette Midlers production of the Tony Award winning hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT will perform a medley of dance-floor hits featuring the PRISCILLA Diva trio at todays annual New …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMThe Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical has been added to the Ahmanson Theater's schedule in the spring, after its New York run finishes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PMActor-director John Manzelli, a Barry University theater faculty member, has been with City Theatre and its popular Summer Shorts program for four years, last season serving as the festival'…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:42PMTony Award-nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane and composer-lyricist Lewis Flinn, the duo behind the new Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones, were honored during the Transport Group'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMJennifer Holliday - Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph, is offering 2 for 1 tickets to spend the holidays with Broadway’s original “Dreamgirl” in a one-night-only perf…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:33PMEric Schaeffer's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies will play the Ahmanson Theatre, running May 3 - June 9. The production will fill a slot in the venue'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMFive-time Tony Award winner José Ferrer and legendary nine-time Tony-winning director-choreographer Bob Fosse will be honored by the United States Postal Service on 2012 "Forever…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMWith the unveiling of the comprehensive Playbill Vault–a fully searchable and procrastination abetting online database of shows, actors and theater history–we’re going to …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:28PMCasting has been announced for playwright Alexandra Wood's adaptation of Wild Swans, according to WhatsOnStage.com. The work will premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PMCasting has been announced for playwright Alexandra Wood's adaptation of Wild Swans, to premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 11-March 11, to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PMThe 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 of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe LA Times is reporting the breaking news that Center Theatre Group announced Tuesday that it would import the production now on Broadway that originated in May at Washington's Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMI bet Ethan Coen was a champ at giving the other kids in grammar school wedgies. He probably did it without pausing as well, so that he was nearly past his victim by the time the kid realiz…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:14PMJoy to the world, the holidays are here! Broadway.com is celebrating by gifting readers with some of our favorite star-studded seasonal clips. In 2009, War Horse's Matt Doyle took part i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMHelena Blackman will launch a U.K. tour of Journey to the Past with a performance at London's The Pheasantry on January 21.
Other performances will be held in Maidstone (January 27),…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PMTransport Group,'s 2011 Gimme A Break benefit honored playwright Douglas Carter Beane and composerlyricist Lewis Flinn last night, December 5 at the Asia Society and Museum. Gimme A Break be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMWhen I was about ten years old, inspired by the 1953 Houdini bio-pic I’d watched on tv, I went to the library to find a book on the great escape artist. What I found looked a little cl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:11PMAccording to published reports stage veteran Sandra Bernhard will guest star on ABC's upcoming comedy series, GCB. No word yet on the character she'll be playing. The series will premiere on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMThe Public Lab production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, starring Jay O. Sanders as the famed Roman general, began performances Nov. 29 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMThe critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which began life at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has at least one more stop on i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMThe Awkward Squad, a new 'state-of-the-nation' comedy by BAFTA winning Emmerdale writer Karin Young, will run at the Arts Theatre in March following its premiere in South Shields.
The play…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:01PMBonnie and Clyde. Review of the Saturday, December 3 evening performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. 2 hours, 30 minutes including intermission. Starring Laura …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMNow Accepting Composer Applications through Jan. 13, 2012 The New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, presented in cooperation with Nautilus Music Theater, is designed to provide an oppor…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PMThe current Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical, "Follies," will come to the Ahmanson Theatre in May. It fills a gap in the Ahmanson season created when a planned …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMOn Stage Touring, LLC, in association with Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., has announced an expanded tour schedule for the new theatrical concert experience Elvis Lives. The addition of eig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
YouTube sensation Keenan Cahill already showed off his lip-synching skills alongside famous faces like Darren Criss and Katy Perry, and now the charming 16 year-old has recruited a Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMRoundabout Theatre Company opened the music box of a dear friend on Dec. 5 with a benefit concert performance of She Loves Me, a title that ushered in Roundabout's expanded mission to in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMDavid Burtka, last seen on Broadway as Tulsa in the Bernadette Peters revival of Gypsy, has secured a deal with the E! Entertainment Network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThe theater cites budgetary prudence for the cancellations.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:37AMBette Midler’s production of the Tony Award® winning hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT will perform a medley of dance-floor hits featuring the PRISCILLA “Diva” trio at today�…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:33AM“I’d see the next play he [August Wilson] was working on come to life in front of me as he started talking about the characters in his head and what they were saying and what he was disc…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:33AMStage and screen actress Sandra Bernhard has signed on for a guest appearance on ABC's upcoming "GCB," according to TVGuide.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMChristmas is about Jesus and children. The new musical adaptation *The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey*, by David Gregory and Michael Mahler, focuses on both. Provision Theatre captures…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:31AMOn Monday, December 5, Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer Linda Lavin celebrated the release of her new CD, Possibilities Sh-K-BoomGhostlight Records by gathering a few g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMThe brilliant "bank run" scene from Capra's classic.I took last Saturday night "off," as it were, and let the performing arts fend for themselves - and instead curled up at home before…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:24AMThe MTI Musical Finder is an interactive mapping program that lets you search for an upcoming MTI show based on specific criteria. Online – MTIShowSpace.com/productions You can access …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:21AMOn Monday, December 5, the Roundabout Theatre Company presented a one-night only benefit performance of Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick's musical comedy, She Loves Me, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AMBritish stage stars Sienna Miller, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton, and Penelope Wilton will star in Julian Jarold's BBC2 drama The Girl, according to Deadline.com.
The film will chronicle…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMIn the video below, YouTube sensation Keenan Cahill teams with SPIDER-MAN star Reeve Carney to take on Bouncing Off the Walls.' Click below to check it out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMVictoria, B.C. – The global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! breaks The Royal and McPherson Theatres previous box office record, for most tickets sold, reports Box Office Manager, Meliss…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:10AMJane Prowse’s frank yet tasteful stage adaptation recounts a retired teacher’s memoirs of seeking sexual fulfilment
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:10AMThe film adaptation of Leslye Headland's dark comedy Bachelorette will premiere as part of the Sundance Film Festival's out-of-competition screenings in January 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMToday on BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE, Richard brings you onstage at the Cherry Lane Theatre, where he caught up with ASUNCION scribe and star Jesse Eisenberg Academy Award-nominee for The S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMEmmy Award winner Rosie O'Donnell is engaged to corporate headhunter Michelle Rounds, according to People magazine. A wedding date has not been set.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMThe New York City premiere of Jordan Harrison's Maple & Vine, about a community of modern Americans choosing to revert to a simpler 1950s lifestyle, began Nov. 19 in an Off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 11292011 - 1262011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMEvery few months or so, someone rings the death knell for Broadway, and for theater in general. Antiquated, archaic . . . and a few other "A" words are bandied about by those who t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Elizabeth Swados' new oratorio, The La MaMa Cantata, honoring the late La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart, will receive two encore performances at La MaMa, December 29 and 30 at 7:30pm. In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMThe Marriott Theatre, in Lincolnshire, IL, will kick off its 2012 season with the seven-time Tony Award nominated musical Legally Blonde, which will play January 18-March 25, with an opening…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMThe authors and director of the new musical A Separate Peace gathered in Manhattan on Dec. 5 to explore material in the coming-of-age drama tale inspired by the novel by John Knowles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMHarry Potter’s Katie Leung will play the character based on Jung Chang in the first ever stage adaptation of Wild Swans, which runs at the Young Vic from 20 April (previews from 13 Apr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMRaphael Miranda (NBC's "News 4 New York") and Marissa Rosen (Off-Broadway’s My Big Gay Italian Wedding) hosted Broadway Sings for Pride, which was presented Dec. 5 at New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMAnthony Lane's pans can be a joy to read, though I think they leave him open to the common charge of shallowness and snark. I much prefer his raves and appreciations, because they require hi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:47AMTransport Group honored playwright Douglas Carter Beane and lyricist Lewis Flinn at their annual benefit Gimme A Break!, held on Monday, December 5 at Asia Society and Museum. The pair are t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMJill Paice, recently seen Off-Broadway in Death Takes a Holiday, will take part in a by-invitation-only reading of Paganini, a new play by Tony Georges, Dec. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMMabou Mines founder Lee Breuer, Elevator Repair Service artistic director John Collins, Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd and playwright Annie Baker have received $50,000 each as part…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe other day I was speaking to a financial planning firm about networking and we came upon the topic of follow up. Following up can be very tricky. If you have a service you provide or if y…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMArtist Martin Boyce has won the Turner Prize, Britain's top contemporary-art award. Lea Michele of Fox's "Glee" said she's still interested in starring in "Funny Girl."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:29AM"Physical presence, the sound of a voice, gestures, the way people sit or walk can be more telling than writing. It is easier to tell a lie in writing because one can hide behind prose. Gest…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:27AMYesterday, December 5, The not-for-profit Clive Barnes Foundation announced Rent's MJ Rodriguez the winner of the 2011 award, which celebrates the work of young dancers and actors. The cerem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMMJ Rodriguez, who plays the role of Angel in the Off-Broadway revival of Rent, and American Ballet Theatre soloist Isabella Boylston were recipients of the Clive Barnes Foundation's se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMMoonshadow, a new musical by Yusuf, featuring the music and lyrics of Cat StevensYusuf, will make its World Premiere at the Princess Theatre in May 2012. This 5 million production will featu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMMy latest for Time Out: Peccadillo's revival of Kaufman and Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner. (Online only.)
Photo: Carol Rosegg
The current lead, Jim Brochu, is fine. But as you'll see…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 10:09AMThough fully prepared that pantomimes are by their very nature camp, this production thoroughly exceeded all expectations. I have always been very wary of any production that trades on sexua…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMStar of The Wizard of Oz Danielle Hope discusses her love of musical theatre and shares some tips for aspiring young performers.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMEvery year, we honor 50 of America’s finest artists with fellowship awards of $50,000 each. The new USA Fellows for 2011 represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AMThe Town Hall's 91st anniversary season will feature performances from Tony winners Lea Salonga and Jane Krakowski as well as singer-songwriter Judy Collins.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
The cast and writers of Elf the Musical reunited Monday, December 5 to perform and sign copies of the musical's newly released cast recording at the 86th Street Barnes and Noble.
Cast …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMYoung choreographers show new work at HT Chen's series, but I question the value of academia's stress on old-school comp versus risk-taking investigation.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:53AMLast night, December 5, the Roundabout Theatre Company presented a one night only benefit performance of SHE LOVES ME at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The romantic musical comedy features a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMNumerous stage and screen stars turned out to pay tribute to Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep Dec. 4 at the annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMNumerous stage and screen stars turned out to pay tribute to Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep Dec. 4 at the annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMAre critics coronating "Richard II"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:42AMLanguage is something that, when I focus on a theatre production, I seem to forget amongst the excitement of the live actor before me. When reading Tim Crouch’s Plays One, comprising h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:40AMJordan Harrison's fantastic new play, Maple and Vine, being produced at Playwrights Horizons this season is storytelling at its absolute best! Are you a tired, stressed-out, overworked…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:34AMAtlantic Theater Company celebrated the opening of Ethan Coen's Happy Hour on Monday, December 5 at Pio Pio.
This evening of one-act comedies tells the stories of an embittered barfly;…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMHere is some great video of the newly revived Menken/Flaherty musical directed by Alan Souza with costumes by Bottari and Case
SOURCE: vimeo.com at 09:31AMNot a Broadway season goes by without a soap star dipping their toe in the Chicago pool at the Ambassador Theatreso well oiled is that bare-bones revival that it was able to survive the plac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMWith Marietta Kirkbride’s Sitting with Thistle, Theatre West’s ‘Picture This’ Season at the Alma Tavern comes to an end. Though the project might not have dazzled with its consiste…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation will present White Christmas, a holiday cabaret featuring performances by Broadway artists and talented local BDF performers, in both Omaha and Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMThe Broadway Dreams Foundation will present White Christmas, a holiday cabaret featuring performances by Broadway artists and talented local BDF performers, in both Omaha and Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMIn the approach to Christmas it’s time for drama school showcases to really get going. I’m currently involved in a one of Shakespeare’s “comedies” (I use speech…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:20AMWhen HBO and Comedy Central’s Lauren Weedman decided to take her comedic sensibilities to the jailhouse and teach a writing workshop, her good intentions were tinged with a sense of nobles…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMThe wonderful Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, is currently showing Mervyn Peake’s one and only play written for children, Noah’s Ark. Peake, who taught at Camberwell College of Ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:20AMCheck it out – Jesus Chrysler has its own video game: Save a Pinko! Inspired by the time Eugenia “Jim” Watts’ spent as an ambulance driver during the Spanish Civil Wa…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:10AMCarrie FIsher will star in Hallmark Channel's Caroling, a modern-day take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to air in 2012, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMTheaterMania reviews 20 new CDs, including the latest Glee soundtrack, and solo efforts from James Barbour, Adam Lambert, Linda Lavin, and Bebe Neuwirth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
"Tom Sawyer," her innovative and charming adaptation of the novel everybody knows even if they haven't read it, had its inception at Hartford Stage a year ago. The current production started…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52AMSomehow, with Christmas exploding in the stores all the way back around Halloween, it only seems right that Frank Capra's classic 1946 movie should be boiled down to a lively 75-minute on-st…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AM“Once”–do you remember this fine indie film from 2006? It went on to win the Academy Award for Best Song (“Falling Slowly”). The movie won the Indie Spirit Awar…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:50AMImagination Stage’s new musical production of Dr. Dolittle combines two stories, the traditional Dr. Dolittle tale and the story of its origins in letters written home by Hugh Lofting whil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMThere's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Atlanta 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 08:42AMThe miracle is not Christmas, but that we come to it at all. For eleven months, we snap and tear at each other like ravening dogs, foot soldiers in the war of all against all, but on Christm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMIt's that time of year again. Oh yes it is! And, as ever, Whatsonstage.com has compiled its annual pick of the pantos and family shows to help you navigate the verdant jungle that is Christm…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:08AMThough drag royal Lady Bunny's sense of humor is as sharp and as vicious as ever, her one-woman show lacks the dynamism and original material to sustain a full evening.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMDavid Jenkins' play's message doesn't get beyond the decline of the American mail service, and director Josie Whittlesey relies on too much shouting.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Hit BBC comedy series Gavin & Stacey could be transformed into a stage musical, the show's co-creator Ruth Jones has said. The Welsh star, who wrote 20 episodes of the romantic comedy with J…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:57AMEd Mirvish Theatre: Prime Minister Stephen Harper
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SOURCE: YouTube at 07:32AMA contortionist and acrobat Harley Mankin was known for “[Doing} What No Other Man Kin”, i.e., acting like a frog. Dressed in a frog costume, he’d leap and bound around t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:25AMThis intimate musical adaptation of the Academy Award–winning movie of the same name makes for an offbeat but moving look at wounded lives redeemed by love and music.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMLegit News: Actress to star in MTC premiere -- Adriane Lenox has signed on to appear in "Regrets," the play opening Off Broadway in March in a production from Manhattan Theater Club. Carolyn…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM
As Guys and Dolls returns to London at Above the Gatehouse in Highgate, Thos chats to two of the principles about this classic musical - and then discusses the musicality of Frank Loesser wi…
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 05:57AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
While it could use a little tightening, "God's Plot" is one homegrown Shotgun hit that might well take root in other venues.
SOURCE: Variety at 05:29AMThe stifling languorousness that so often afflicts contemporary productions of Chekhov is thankfully nowhere in sight in this Classic Stage Company’s revival of The Cherry Orchard. Dir…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:18AMIn a sensuous and disturbing one-woman show that largely manages to avoid the perilous trap of self-reflectivity, Raïna von Waldenburg channels three stories that confront the taboo t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:16AMMoonshadow, a new musical written by Yusuf Islam, featuring the music and lyrics of Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens), will make its world premiere at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley will perform solo concerts titled Alice Ripley's Daily Practice on December 6, 9, 11 amp 16 at 1030pm at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, a cabaret space downstair…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM
If Lauren Weedman is an acquired taste, I’ve acquired it. She’s a gust from the satiric jet stream, blown east from Los Angeles for an 18-day stand at Studio Theatre. Imagine the agitate…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:57AMBy Peter Filichia –
In my recent book Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010, I gave awards that baseball annually bestows but theater doesn’t: Most Valuable Player, Comeback Player of the Y…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:35AMDue to overwhelming demand across North America, the producers have announced a second touring production of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMThanks to Ken Davenport’s post on the subject, I discovered the bill to facilitate crowdfunding I wrote about at the end of October is nearing approval. The House (H.R. 2930) approved …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:23AMEthan Coen’s new show may be titled “Happy Hour,” but by the time it finally ends, you may have renamed it “Two Miserable Hours I’ll Never Get Back.”
The movies Coen and his brot…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMThere’s an intense, otherworldly quality to Cillian Murphy. Maybe it’s the Irish star’s memorable, piercing-blue eyes. Maybe it’s the way in which he disappears into his roles, wheth…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMThe Year That WasThe Five Stories of the YearBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisWhen the year comes to an end, arts writers like to make lists. Yes, part of it is laziness, but I assure you there was n…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe East Village stage of New York Theatre Workshop, where Rent was born, has taken the form of a Dublin pub — complete with booze bottles, smoky mirrors and sepia-glowing incandescent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMJenn Harris, reprising her acclaimed performance as Clarice Starling in Off-Broadway's Silence! The Musical, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCanadian film, television and stage actor Paul Gross, star of the cult-hit TV series "Slings & Arrows," has slipped into the sleek evening jacket of Elyot to make his Broadway …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM"I knew what it was, or thought I did. Something about the dreadful simplicity of true goodness, the infuriating innocence...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMKathleen Turner reprises her Broadway turn as a tough-talking nun who counsels a young drug addict in a Boston engagement of Matthew Lombardo's drama High, Dec. 6-11 at the Cutler Majest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHonk: A Musical Tale of "The Ugly Duckling," an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story with music by George Stiles and book and lyrics by Anthony Drewe, plays Two…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Philadelphia return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical Jersey Boys, which launches a new second national tour at the Forrest Theatre, plays Dec. 6, 201…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley, currently Off-Broadway in Wild Animals You Should Know, offers Alice Ripley's Daily Practice Dec. 6, 9, 11 and 16 at 10:30 PM at The Laurie Beechman …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA cast recording of The Burnt Part Boys, which was presented in spring 2010 as a co-production between Playwrights Horizons and Vineyard Theatre, is released in digital and CD formats by Ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFour-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh takes her turn as Rose in the Arthur Laurents-Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy, which begins performances Dec. 6 at the Bristol Riverside…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGerard Mannix Flynn's solo drama James X, tracing the journey of one child through Ireland's abusive institutional system, begins previews Off-Broadway Dec. 6 at the Culture Project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn 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 12:00AMIn "The Mask of Moriarty," the late playwright Hugh Leonard has played upon the comic potential of iconic characters, influenced as much by Benny Hill as he is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The th…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMFat isn't a word you associate with Samuel Beckett. Try angular. Wry. Spare. But "Fat Beckett," a new comedy by Gab Cody in collaboration with Rita Reis, isn't actually Beckett. The world pr…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIt's always rewarding to watch a young company take a quantum leap forward. Such was the case with Staycee Pearl dance project, just halfway into its second year and unveiling "OCTAVIA" at t…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
