As nicely played as the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky were, I left feeling that there was something distinctly anticlimactic about the Aviv Quartet’s programming choices. I would much rather…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:47PMGeorge Clooney is throwing his considerable star power behind the fight against Prop. 8 by signing on to appear in a reading of the play "8" in Los Angeles. George Clooney is throwing his c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:38PMLegit News: West Coast premiere of Black play to benefit Prop 8 challenger -- George Clooney will star in the West Coast premiere of "8," Dustin Lance Black's play about the federal trial to…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32PMThe Boston crime scene has spent the past decade shaking Hollywood by the scruff of its neck. But even with all...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:12PMThe next time a charity or cause wants throw out originality and recycle a campaign, look to "Glee." It will have a much greater chance of topping an iTunes download list, a milestone all th…
SOURCE: simsscoop.com at 11:11PMPlaywright Michael Hollinger has composed a musical deconstruction. From the first note, his piece intrigues. Truly an ensemble piece, Brian Parry, John Ferrick, Michael Sherwin, Paul Dunck…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:11PMToo busy to shop? Nothing simpler than ordering tickets online for these great plays.
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Ralph Gardner Jr. joins 1,000 schoolchildren for a behind the scenes look at all the moving parts of a Broadway show at "Creating the Magic: Billy Elliot."
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:50PMPeter Filichia and James Marino talk with Susan Egan about her new CD, The Secret of Happiness. Also discussed: Bonnie and Clyde, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Wild Animals You Should Know, Ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:34PMNotes and links for the podcast. Panel: Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons , is …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:28PMThough “Farm Boy” is being promoted as the sequel to “War Horse,” it feels more like a gentle epilogue.Those curious about the fate of the horse Joey and his human friend, Albert, af…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PMA Public Lab production of “Titus Andronicus” is a careering pileup of gothic horrors in which great ingenuity is shown in violent murder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMJay O. Sanders gives a fine performance in the title role of Michael Sexton's often confusing and pretentious production of Shakespeare's gory tragedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTina Fey and Julianne Moore join their children for a special afternoon of theater at MMAC.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
This modest sequel to Michael Morpurgo's runaway hit War Horse is an all-too-predictable tale.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThe Broadway production of Noel Coward's Private Lives will finish its engagement at the Music Box Theatre on Saturday December 31, after 12 previews and 53 regular performances.
The p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMDick Van Dyke will present Mary Tyler Moore with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award ceremony, to be held on Sunday, January 29 and br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57PMLegit Reviews: "Farm Boy" is a sweet show, but it comes to the Brits Off Broadway festival with marketing issues.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMStage and screen star Christopher Meloni will join HBO's hit drama True Blood next season in the regular role of a powerful vampire, according to Deadline.com.
Meloni has starred as Ed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:31PMa far more low-keyed but cleverly conceived sequel Michael Morpurgo’s 1997 novel than War Horse, the play or the soon to be released movie.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:25PMStage and television star Steven Weber will guest star on TV Land's hit sitcom Hot in Cleveland, according to TVLine,com.
He will play the former fiance of the character played by Jane…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23PMLegit Reviews: Dread-filled worry generated by helmer Jeremy Herrin's spellbinding cast creates almost palpable static in the mysterious first act of Joe Penhall's "Haunted Child," when form…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMNastaran Ahmadi is a Brooklyn based playwright whose plays have been developed or produced at New York Theatre Workshop, Actors Theater of Louisville, Lark Play Development Center,The Ontolo…
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Acclaimed playwright Theresa Rebeck and cast members from her new hit Broadway comedy SEMINAR will participate in a special in-store event at The Drama Book Shop 250 West 40th Street on Wedn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:59PMPlaywright Amy Freed may have thought she was writing a pointedly witty political satire about cults of personality and the seduction of power, but "You, Nero," now on the Fichandler Stage a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36PMBroadway Bound is but one of many fine training programs for youth in theatre in the greater Seattle area, but the company definitely scored this past weekend, with the support of ACT Theatr…
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Last week I had a unique opportunity to see a pair of ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz." Not just any pair, mind you, but the pair that were used during the clos…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:09PM"It's enough to make William Shakespeare's other killfest, Macbeth, look like The Berenstain Bears Live."
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The Broadway revival of Private Lives, which co-stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, will play its final performance at Broadway's Music Box Theatre Dec. 31. The limited engagement was ori…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Christmas Thrills and High Adventure' at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:49PMOld Vic, LondonMichael Frayn must have the subtlest mind ever applied to the writing of farce. And with Noises Off, first seen in 1982 and now gloriously revived, he has created not just a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33PMAmong the more unusual holiday shows, the Troubies' A Christmas Westside Story is riotously entertaining. Atomic Holiday Free Fall! at the Actors' Gang and A Chanukah Carol at Theatre 68 are…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:32PMAndy beat me to it, but I’m going to play the “single mom for a week because Perry had to suddenly fly to Qatar(!?) to play shakuhachi for Vangelis” card in explaining why …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:26PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" is ending its run several weeks early....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:12PMThe play-within-a-play device has honourable antecedents - playwrights from Thomas Kyd and Anton Chekhov, through to Bertolt Brecht and Tennessee Williams, have flirted with it, while Shakes…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:08PMReview by Mark A. Newman
Photos by Joan MarcusIf you pass by the Broadhurst Theatre on West 44th Street and wonder why so many of the audience members light up a cigarette as they leave afte…
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Roundabout Theatre Company Artistic Director, Todd Haimes announces the theatre organizations permanent archives are now available to the general public through its online archive designed a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMIn 411 B.C., Aristophanes wrote a comedy called "Lysistrata," about women refusing to have sex with their men until they negotiate an end to the war.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:57PMAccording to the New York Times, Tony winner Casey Nicholaw will helm a stage adaptation of 'Tuck Everlasting' which is aiming to open on Broadway in the 2012 season. The show features a boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMThe strictly limited engagement of the Peccadillo Theater Company’s hit production of Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER will end its run as scheduled this Sunday, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMSeventy-some years ago, the nonstop machine-gun fire of one-liners in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” was fresh and topical. Today — in a revival at the Theater at St. Clement’s — not…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMAs part of a broader package of tax benefits aimed at helping businesses in Illinois, incentives for long-running Broadway shows passed the Illinois Senate today and on their way to the desk…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PMWhen David Korins was hired to design the sets of Chinglish, the story of an American businessman who goes to Guiyang, China, to drum up business for his sign-making company, he began with r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMTony Award-winning Book of Mormon director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw led two recent industry presentations of a new musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's 1975 children's novel &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PMJenny Greenstein received a special encore surprise when she attended the Dec. 9 performance of Standing on Ceremony. Following curtain call, her partner Dina Weisberger got down on one kne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Todd Haimes) announces the theatre organization’s permanent archives are now available to the general public through its online archive desig…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:38PMNBC hosted a special screening of upcoming musical drama series Smash for the Broadway community at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday, December 12.
The series, which details the making of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMGrammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. stars as Dr. Mark Bruckner in the newly imagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMThe Cenacle Retreat Center lies in one of the most serene areas of Long Island. It is run by the Sisters of the Cenacle, a French religious order founded by St. Therese Couderec who died in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMJack Young is pleased to re-join The Miscreants after directing Yussef El-Guindi's HOSTAGES for the company in January 2010. He lives in Houston TX where he is Head of the University of Hous…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:35PMThe Austin-based company's lauded exploration of artistic authenticity is the latest edition to the website's catalogue of high-quality video
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:34PMPeter Filichia and James Marino talk with Susan Egan about her new CD, The Secret of Happiness. Also discussed: Bonnie and Clyde, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Wild Animals You Should Know, Ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:34PMTHEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:34PMSonia Friedman Productions has signed an option to produce Stephen Sachs' play Bakersfield Mist, currently playing at Los Angeles Fountain through December 18, on the West End in London…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PMPhoto credit: Jonny Stax Presents, Inc. I’ve written enough about Alien Queen that you should know what it’s about by now, right? That it’s a rock concert performance piece…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:32PMOrganizers announced Tuesday that Christopher Ashley had been hired to direct "Leap of Faith" when it arrives on Broadway some time in the fall of 2012. Organizers announced Tuesday that Chr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:29PMAs the curtain goes down on 2011, Broadway.com is looking ahead to the new year. We’ve asked the brightest stars on Broadway to reflect on their personal highlights from the past year …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMProducers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo Lombardi will next present MAGICBIRD on Broadway, reuniting with Tony-nominated director Thomas Kail Lombardi, In The Heights and Lombardi playwright …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMIn the latest incarnation of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Jessie Mueller makes her Broadway debut as
Melinda Wells, a 1940s jazz singer who just so happens to be the past
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:20PMTodd Almond, Michael Arden, Kitty Hiccups, Taylor Mac, Andy Mientus, and Geo Wyeth will join Our Lady J for the fifth annual Gospel of Dolly, to be presented at Joe's Pub on Tuesday, De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PMName: Alex WyseHometown: Cleveland, OhioEducation: Boston UniversitySelect Credits: Lysistrata Jones (Cinesias, Walter Kerr Theater/Transport Group); Academy (Benji, Maltz Jupiter Theater/Da…
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 05:14PMNew Line Cinema has released an official trailer for its forthcoming film version of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages. Adam Shankman has directed the movie.
The musical, which focuses on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMThe New York Times has announced an updated line-up for its 11th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, January 5-8, 2012. This four-day celebration of the arts will feature TimesTalks intervie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMSPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK star Reeve Carney recently chatted with Dean-Kelly abut everything from his band Carney, to his desire to cover Britney Spears. Clck below to check out the full …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMSeminar and "Harry Potter" star Alan Rickman has been added to the New York Times' 11th annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, which will launch Jan. 5, 2012, at the TimesCenter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PMA Tony-winning actress, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play: That’s the magical combination headed to Broadway as Cynthia Nixon headlines the Main Stem debut of Margaret Edson’s 1998 d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PMThe witty and Greek mythology-obsessed stage writer Douglas Carter Beane's latest production began off-off-Broadway last summer in the basement of a Greenwich Village church. Now, just six m…
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Well it's here! The movie of the summer? Potentially. It looks like a blast with some fun performances, but I'm still bitter with deletion of three of the best characters!
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 04:58PMChelsea SuttonTroubadour Theatre Company in "A Christmas Westside Story" Troubadour Theatre Company snags this week's Pick of the Week, . with their Yuletide mashup, A Christmas Westsi…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:51PMWho better to give Dickens' famous holiday story a Jewish twist than Hoffman, the queen of side-splitting stand-up kvetch? Who indeed! After all, Hoffman's kvetching is a way of saying "Bah!…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:43PMNEWSICAL THE MUSICAL: FULL SPIN AHEAD TURNS 2 ON DECEMBER 13!
(New York) NEWSical the Musical: Full Spin Ahead, named Best New Musical at the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Awards, wil…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 04:26PMAbout the author:
After appearing in The New York Idea earlier this year, Joey Slotnick is reuniting with off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company as part of the ensemble cast of Ethan C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PMBroadway star and vocal power house James Barbour's Fourth Annual Holiday Concert Tour which is garnering major rave reviews and sold-out audiences opens at THE COTERIE 1775 North Highland A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMThe New York Times will hold its 11th annual Arts amp Leisure Weekend on Jan. 5 to 8, 2012. The Timess signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMAfter raising the decibel level normally heard on Broadway, a new cast is taking the rock hits of Green Day out on the road. American Idiot, the rock opera that combines the songs of the Gra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:12PMSandra Smith and Fela Kuti, when they were together in 1969-70At the time of his death in 1997, Fela Anikulapo Kuti was known by many names: Afrobeat pioneer, a political instigator, …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:05PMPlaybill.com's new series features brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via …
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Corine Cohen attended Anthony Rapp's reading of Nocturne by Adam Rapp, Anthony Rapp's brother and famous playwright. It was a brilliant play. We hope you like the inte…
SOURCE: corinescorner.com at 03:59PM"Leap of Faith" organizers announced Tuesday that Christopher Ashley has been hired to direct the musical when it arrives on Broadway some time in the fall of 2012. The musical will be chore…
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SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 03:51PMAudra McDonald (Bess), Norm Lewis (Porgy), David Alan Grier (Sporting Life) and the rest of the cast of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" give a sneak peek at songs from the famous American ja…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:46PMTony Award winner Cynthia Nixon is readying to play a brilliant poetry professor facing cancer in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. The actress, who will shav…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMTony Award winner Cynthia Nixon is readying to play a brilliant poetry professor facing cancer in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. The actress, who will shav…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:39PMFOXs hit series, Glee will present an episode exclusively using the songs of Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five on Tuesday, January 24, according to TVGuide.com.
The episode, in which Mr.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMLegit News:
West Coast premiere of Black play to benefit Prop 8 challenger
SOURCE: Variety at 03:32PMThe play does not address Hannah Arendt's rationalizations or the reasons for her dedication to Martin Heidegger, though the dramatist's title hints that it is the banal truth of the irratio…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:31PMMarc Bovino and Joe Curnutte's Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War will play the New Ohio Theatre, running January 5-21. Lila Neugebauer, who conceived the piece…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMSociety has an institutional investment in the eradication of pain and the elimination of tragedy from the sphere of art. Tragedy is inherently irrational, it affirms the limits of social ac…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:28PMMatt Walker, of the Troubadour Theater Company, will head the cast of La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment's production of The 39 Steps, to play La Mi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMTony Award winner Casey Nicholaw, currently represented on Broadway with the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon, is in negotiations to direct the forthcoming musical spawned from the "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:22PMThe Lyric Stage Company of Boston has announced casting for its production of Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, to be presented January 6 - February 4, 2012. Spiro Veloudos will direct.
Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMReview: Jackie Hoffman's "A Chanukah Charol" is a wonderful ode of Jackie's life, career, and most of all talent! With only two more shows left, I would highly suggest making "A Chanukah Cha…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 03:12PMAlicia Keys Takes Broadway Producing Debut with 'Stick Fly'
Alicia Keys and the cast of Stick Fly are interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America. Fore more information an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:11PMThe Troubadour Theater Company's irresistible "A Christmas Westside Story" at the Falcon Theatre mashes up the campy 1983 movie about a boy and a BB gun with the iconic Bernstein-Sondheim mu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:11PMWatch out, Hollywood! Rock god Stacee Jaxx is coming to town. The first trailer for the upcoming Rock of Ages film, based on the headbangin’ Broadway musical of the same name of course…
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This year's Radio City Christmas Spectacular gets straight to the point: No organ overtures or speeches. Instead, the curtain rises to the sights and sounds of the Rockettes as reindeer, the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:59PMLast-minute replacement Evan McKie has turned uneventful revival into the sensation of the season with an ideal reading of Pushkin’s hero
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:59PM*Tech-Star of Wonder, Episode 27: The Worst Noel* is a partly improvised, partly scripted BYOB sci-fi holiday spoof. It's light fare, and at $12 could be a fun way to spend an evening out of…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:57PMPlaywright Kerr Seth Lordygan turned away from his previously "twisted" and "slapstick silly" work to write a play about three seniors forced to leave their assisted living home when it sudd…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:57PMTony-nominated director Christopher Ashley and choreographer Sergio Trujillo have joined the creative team of the previously announced Broadway production of Leap of Faith. Tony-winning play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMTony-nominated director Christopher Ashley and choreographer Sergio Trujillo have joined the creative team of the previously announced Broadway production of Leap of Faith. Tony-winning play…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PM"Rock of Ages," the upcoming movie based on the Broadway musical of the same name, is scheduled to hit theatres June 1, 2012. Here is a first look at the film in the newly released…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMDina Weisberger surprised her girlfriend Jenny Greenstein by proposing to her after the curtain call of the Friday, December 9 performance of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMNews tidbits about the theatrical and cabaret scenes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMLove was in the air on opening night of the re-imagined revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever—and not just the love between a dreamy doctor and his male patient's female al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:43PMBasketball fans have a treat in store next spring: the Broadway premiere of Magic/Bird, a play focusing on the on-court rivalry and off-court friendship of NBA greats Earvin “Magic&rdq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMEver wonder about the routine of a Broadway actor on one of those grueling two-performance days? Morgan James, currently appearing in the Broadway revival of Godspell, ups the ante and offer…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMNew Line Cinema will soon release the film version of the smash hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, directed by Adam Shankman HAIRSPRAY. The film stars Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, along with D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMHamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell, Hettienne Park, and Lily Rabe, who all co-star in the Broadway production of Seminar, will join playwright Theresa Rebeck for a Q & A panel about …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMJustin Souriau-Levine, an 11-year old, plays the Little Mouse in American Ballet Theater's production of "The Nutcracker."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:22PMMike Myers is reportedly working on bringing his film franchise to the Broadway stage
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:22PMNew Years Eve is a time for celebration, self reflection, and change. You will make resolutions, and you will mean them. Then, by the time your resolutions lie broken and forgotten on the gr…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 02:22PMIt's December at last, and BroadwayWorld is celebrating the season with The Twelve Days of Christmas'- a special countdown which will include our favorite holiday-themed Broadway performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMThe producers of the new Broadway-bound musical Leap of Faith, based on the film, officially announced on Dec. 13 that Christopher Ashley (Memphis), Warren Leight (Side Man) and Sergio Truji…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMThere was never a chance I was going to enjoy the movie Shame, but I was hoping I’d at least respect it. In case you haven’t heard, Shame is the NC-17 tale of Brandon Sullivan (M…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 02:16PMThe producers of LEAP OF FAITH, the new musical based on the Paramount Pictures film, have just announced new members of the creative team for the production that will have its Broadway debu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:11PMThe new musical Leap of Faith is being planned for a Fall 2012 Broadway opening, with Tony Award nominee Raul Esparza set to play conman Jonas Nightingale.
The production will be directed b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMThe new film adaptation of "Paradise Lost," which was announced to star Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson leading man Benjamin Walker and Bradley Cooper, has been delayed, according to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMThe Irish Repertory Theatre has added Lans Traverse's Coleslaw and Coconut Cream Pie to its 2011 series of free staged readings. The reading will take place on December 16 at 3pm.
In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMTony nominee Emily Skinner, Tony nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Michael Arden will be part of Broadway Spectrum at the Engeman Theater in Northport, Long Island, Jan. 21, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMFirst and foremost I am speaking on a panel for TRU tonight which you can read all about below and second, you can read a bunch of great tips on networking ice breakers including my own at t…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 02:02PMONE OF MANY GENESIS STORIES TO COME Creating a fresh twist on the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve is no small feat. Unfortunately, Larry Kunofsky’s The Myths We Need – or – How t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:02PMDaryl Roth on ATW's Working in the Theatre - Producers: A Creative Approach
Daryl Roth appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Producers: A Creat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:01PMTheater and TV lovers got artsy on December 12 for a glamorous look at the first episode of NBC’s upcoming musical TV series Smash. The show, which tells the story of two actresse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:01PMDaryl Roth appearing on the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre show, "Producers: A Creative Approach" talks about if all shows belong on Broadway.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:58PMWe are excited here to unveil a first look at the first trailer for New Line Cinema's film version of the smash hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, directed by Adam Shankman HAIRSPRAY.How doe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMMiscreant Theatre has announced casting for Bridesburg, a new play by Victor Kaufold. Jack Young will direct the production, which plays the Gene Frankel Theatre, January 5-28, with an openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:54PMKate Baldwin, Heidi Blickenstaff, Tituss Burgess and Joel Grey are among the guest vocalists on Robert Creighton's debut CD Ain't We Got Fun. The album will be released by LML Mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMMike Myers will write a stage musical version of the popular film franchise Austin Powers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The show will be a prequel to the films, and be set in 1960s …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMContemporary pianist Anthony de Mare will be taking his LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano on a national tour starting January 21.
The program features 36 short solo piano piec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMTime Out New York's theater critics weigh in on the year's highlights—and lowlights.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 01:41PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
"Farm Boy" is a sweet show, but it comes to the Brits Off Broadway festival with marketing issues.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:37PMAlan Alda, the actor of stage, television and film, is also known as a filmmaker, but not as a playwright. Until now.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews Troubadour Theater Company's latest mash-up, 'A Christmas Westside Story' at the Falcon Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:29PMRoundabout Theatre Company's The Road To Mecca, begins previews on December 16 and opens officially on January 17, 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway. This Broadway premiere p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMNominations for the 2012 Critics Choice Movie Awards have been announced. The 17th annual awards will air Jan. 12, 2012, on VH1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMBroadway veteran Daniel Gerroll will head the cast of Falcon Theatre's West Coast premiere of Dissonance, written by Damian Lanigan. Crispin Whittell will direct the production, to run …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMBroadwayWorld and SEMINAR invite you to enter a Stocking Stuffer Sweepstakes to win a one-of-a-kind prize package featuring holiday wish lists from your favorite characters from SEMINAR. You…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMBroadway Week will take place from January 17-February 4. Tickets go on sale January 4. This year’s participating shows are Anything Goes, Chicago, Chinglish, The Gershwins’ Porgy and …
SOURCE: NYC & Company at 01:14PMThe family secrets come fast and furious on the stage of Stick Fly, and ABC News' Robin Roberts went inside the new Broadway show to get behind-the-scenes scoop from the cast and produce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMProduced by CATS-Eye, LLC, CATS launches a national tour this month in Savannah Georgia. With original direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Gillian Lynne, this is the CATS credited w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMProducers of the Tony-winning Broadway musical Memphis have announced that the rock tuner will now play 7 PM weeknight performances Tuesdays through Thursdays beginning Jan. 3, 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Dread-filled worry generated by helmer Jeremy Herrin's spellbinding cast creates almost palpable static in the mysterious first act of Joe Penhall's "Haun…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMThe world premiere of HIM, written and directed by Sex and the City's Clifford Streit and starring Jon Fleming, will be presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre, December 23-January 5.
In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Members of the Broadway community — including cast members from Anything Goes, Book of Mormon, American Idiot and Sister Act — were invited to attend an advance screening of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMManhattan Theatre Clubs upcoming Broadway premiere of WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow, will start previews Thursday, January 5 and open Thurs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMAm I the only one around here that is starting to suffer from Social Media Exhaustion?? Over the last few months, Google has launched its own social network, Facebook rolled out an extensive…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:53PMKerry O’Malley, one of the leads in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day, invited the the Marks & Frantz team to decorate her dressing room backstage at the St. James Theater.
SOURCE: marks & frantz at 12:49PMThe television show that the Broadway community has been waiting for is a total SMASH. Last night, members of the Broadway industry had the first official look at NBC’s upcoming musical sh…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:44PMSergei Polunin Slave Master and The Ballet Chorus of the Opera Populaire perform the ballet from Hannibal, as seen in Cameron Mackintosh's staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMCould singing be a way to get horses to cooperate with humans?I hadn't heard of "Equine Guided Education" until I met Wendy Millet.Wendy spends half her life heading up the Woods Institute f…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:42PMBroadwayWorld recently caught up with Broadway stars Matt Cavanaugh and Jenny Powers, who gave us an EXCLUSIVE tour of the BCEFA holiday gift lounge. Click below to sample the gift options …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMBroadwayWorld recently caught up with Broadway stars Matt Cavanaugh and Jenny Powers, who gave us an EXCLUSIVE tour of the BCEFA holiday gift lounge. Click below to sample the gift options …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMCast members from the Las Vegas company of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS will perform on The Doctors this Thursday December 15.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMThe family of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, which opened on Broadway Dec. 8 at the Cort Theatre, will enjoy their Martha's Vineyard vacation a bit longer. Tickets are now on sale thr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMA rising star on the international scene, we met with the Polish director behind this fiercely intense performance in Portland when it played the TBA Festival in 2010
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:29PMSTICK FLY, written by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by Kenny Leon, and produced and with original music by Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Alicia Keys, was featured this morning on ABC's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMThe Book of Mormon star Josh Gad returned to his former stomping ground at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on December 12 to appear in a hilarious seasonal sketch as founding father Benjamin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMBroadway's Memphis will begin a new performance schedule starting January 3, 2012, which will include 7pm performances Tuesday through Thursday. Friday and Saturday evening performances wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMMusical theater is filled with thrilling moments. Not the least of these is in PETER PAN, when Peter is trying to get the three Darling children to fly and young John finally utters the wor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMFather Ted's Ardal O'Hanlon will appear alongside Andrew Nolan and John Rogan in Connor McPherson's Port Authority at the Southwark Playhouse from 27 January (previews from 24 January 2012),…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:21PMIt’s 45 years since Sooty and Sweep made their West End debuts with Harry Corbett. Their careers continued under the guidance of his son Matthew, whom many of today’s parents wil…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:21PMAre critics welcoming back "The Man Who Came to Dinner"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 12:17PMTo DoI am swamped. Have been swamped since the weekend. There is so much to do. This calls for a list:Must write a blog post tonight for TheatreFaceTry to write a blog post for the One Minut…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:16PMSamuel L. Jackson is a world famous movie star and now he's taking Broadway by storm as Dr. Martin Luther King in The Mountaintop. Life is pretty good for Jackson and he's not afraid…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's long-running hit Cats is prowling North America in a new 30th anniversary tour that launched Dec. 8 at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah, GA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMAccording to published reports, Ticketsmaster has just proposed a settlement in response to a class action lawsuit that was filed eight years ago. As a part of the settlement, Ticketmaster w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMSinger discusses experience producing her new Broadway show, "Stick Fly."
SOURCE: ABC News at 12:11PMCharitybuzz, an online auction raising money for a host of charities, features a selection of theatre packages, including tickets to Broadway shows and meet-and-greets with the stars.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMSpecial guests have been announced for the James Barbour Holiday Concert 2011, which will take place at The Coterie at The Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood on Friday, December 16 and Saturday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMComposer Alexandre Lunsqui
At the New York Public Radio studios, CONTACT! composer Alexandre Lunsqui talks about the unique attributes of the New York music scene, composing for the New Yor…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:07PMI can't wait for the chance to collaborate with three other playwrights from across the continent. Maybe David Cameron could learn somethingAs the UK drifts out into the mid-Atlantic under t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMAs opening night approaches for Lysistrata Jones, JK's TheatreScene continues its series of interviews with the stars of the show. Today, I bring you Part 2 of my interview with Josh S…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMIn the arts world Shakespeare stole the show (again) – but no one caught the eye quite like Dave St-Pierre's dance troupeFor British arts organisations, 2011 was without question a year of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMIf you are interested in being a part of an annual playwrights’ festival featuring women writers and directors, then Stone Soup’s Double (XX) Fest 2.0 is for you! For the past five years…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:00PM
The cast for the Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit met the press at Manhattan Theatre Club's rehearsal space on Tuesday, December 13.
The production will play MTC's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMAnthony Rapp and Adam Pascal, who co-starred in the original Broadway and London productions of Rent as well as in the film version and the most recent touring version of that Jonathan Larso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMDont miss Broadways smash-hit comedy, SEMINAR. ALAN RICKMAN Private Lives, the Harry Potter film series stars as Leonard, an indiscriminately relentless teacher who believes he wrote the boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMHunter Parrish - "Beautiful City" from Godspell on Broadway
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:56AMA few weeks ago, during the TCG Fall Forum, I saw an interesting Twitter conversation and felt compelled to wade in. Kristoffer Diaz had written: Disappointed at the lack of response to ques…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:56AMMike Myers will write the story for the stage production, which will act as a prequel to the movies.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:56AMComposer Rufus Wainwright will take part in a public conversation about his work and his new opera Prima Donna at at the Guggenheim on January 22 at 7:30pm at part of the museum's Works…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMCasting has been announced for Conor McPherson's Port Authority, to run January 24 - February 18 at the Southwark Playhouse. Tom Attenborough will direct the production.
The play cons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMChestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose...the holidays are here and Broadway.com is warming things up with daily festive videos featuring the brightest stars of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMOrlando Shakespeare Theater's Bard's Board Barristers are to present their 4th annual mock trial, February 21 at 5:30pm at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center.
Based on O…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMWaterwell's Goodbar, the play with music based on Judith Rossner's 1975 novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," will resurface as part of the Public Theater's Under the Radar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMThe John W. Engeman Theater at Northport announces its next special event in their ongoing Broadway Concert Series on Saturday, January 21 at 8 PM with Broadway Spectrum.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMHere now, the fifth installment in our Vaudephone series: Kyle Peterson, the Brooklyn Juggler in “Wheelin’ and Dealin’”: Vaudephone is a co-production of Travalanche/…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:48AMThe world-premiere of Zayd Dohrn's play OUTSIDE PEOPLE, directed by Evan Cabnet and co-produced by Vineyard Theatre and Naked Angels begins preview performances December 21 prior to an offic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMA new biography of National Ballet founder Celia Franca sheds light on her bright early years and later disappointments
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:43AMAccording to the NY Post, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is intereste din writing a Broadway musical. Corgan told NYP at a recent performance of Broadway's Godspell, I want to be a better s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMArtists Striving to End Poverty and Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records presented the fourth annual pop-rock and yule-flavored New York City Christmas concert Dec. 12 at Joe's Pub. War Horse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMCast members from the Las Vegas production of Jersey Boys will perform on the December 15 episode of the CBS series, The Doctors.
The musical is based on the life story of Frankie Valli and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMTony Award winners Beth Leavel and Randy Graff, as well as Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Chicago) have joined the lineup for The 4th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular, which will be hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMLast night, December 12, The Mountain Top star Samuel L. Jackson visited Stephen Colbert to talk Broadway, race and tweeting on The Colbert report. Miss the hilarity Click below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMCast members from the Las Vegas company of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS will perform on “The Doctors” this Thursday December 15. In the New York a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:22AMTony nominee and 'The Book of Mormon' star Josh Gad, who is a regular correspondent at 'The Daily Show' stopped by last night where he took art in a scit about the history of Christmas. Clic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMTony Award winner Michael Cerveris, who will star in the Broadway revival of Evita, will join rock group The Lisps for their upcoming concert Dec. 16 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMThe Museum of the City of New York MCNY, presented the special exhibition Joel Grey A New York Life, examining the enduring impact that legendary actor Joel Grey and his adopted city have m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMBonnie & Clyde may tell the story of bandits but, if you want to see some actual grand larceny on Broadway, there are two actresses doing some major scene stealing in new musicals openin…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:10AMProduction on the previously announced film adaptation of the epic John Milton poem Paradise Lost has been postponed, according to Deadline.com. Director Alex Proyas was set to begin work on…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMIn honor of the 25th anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera, former Pussycat Dolls front woman and current X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger will perform the musical's title song on the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMTony winner Casey Nicholaw is in talks to direct the previously announced musical adaptation of Austin Powers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The musical, written by the film’s s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:04AMThe Public Lab production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, starring Jay O. Sanders, officially opens Off-Broadway Dec. 13 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMThe off-Broadway company Playwrights Horizons said Monday it will produce D'Amour's "Detroit" next fall. The offbeat work was expected to land this fall on Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:01AMOne of the benefits of the Annual Broadway League meeting held every December is that you get to pick up your glossy copy of the Broadway Audience demographic study. This study is one of the…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 1262011 - 12132011.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM"Free cruise! Free 3 day weekend! Disney World Tickets! No strings attached! All that you have to do is listen to a 20 minute presentation on a timeshare!" You've all seen these of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMCharles Dickens Action Figure Stocking Stuffer
A cursory glance at last week's L.A. Weekly theater reviews reveals a typical early-December harvest of local holiday-themed shows but …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AM
The Manhattan Theatre Club said Monday that Walter Bobbie's play starring Tony Award nominee Nina Arianda and Emmy Award nominee Hugh Dancy will transfer to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre in Fe…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:59AMThe Royal and Derngate, Northampton will stage new interpretations of Euripides’ The Bacchae, Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding and Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler next yea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:54AMMichael Arden, StephanieD'Abruzzo, Sara Jean Ford, Andrew Samonsky, and Emily Skinner will perform in the concert, Broadway Spectrum, at The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport on Janu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMMichael Arden, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Sara Jean Ford, Andrew Samonsky, and Emily Skinner will perform in the concert, Broadway Spectrum, at The John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, Long …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMThe Guthrie Theater and The Acting Company will reunite to present Julius Caesar, a contemporary spin on Shakespeare’s conspiratorial political tragedy, which will run Jan. 14-Feb. 5, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMThe Royal and Derngate, Northampton will stage new interpretations of Euripides’ The Bacchae, Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding and Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler next yea…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMThe 80th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas Parade, which was presented Nov. 27 in Hollywood, CA, will be televised nationally and around the world during the holiday season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMWhat the few of us in Jordan Hall heard that night was a richly conceived and beautifully performed song cycle, mostly serious, but with some great wit in exactly the right places. It made f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:49AMMAIN STEM LEGENDS TEAM UP TO PUT ON A SHOW
By HENRY EDWARDS
In the fall of 1979, when the Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice pop-rock opera "Evita" debuted on Broadway, it brought with it a pa…
SOURCE: Broadway Bulletin at 10:48AMImprobable's The Devil and Mister Punch will receive its UK premiere at the Barbican Pit, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Created and directed by company co-founder Julian Crouch, the wo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:46AMSurflight Theatre, the long-time summer theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, on Long Beach Island has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to mount a 63rd season beginning in April 2012. Expe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMDEBATE: HAS THEATRE GONE TOO FAR? Panel discussion chaired by Paul Warwick of China Plate Theatre with participants Steve Marmion (Artistic Director Soho Theatre), Simon Stokes (Artistic Dir…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:36AMDetroit will make its New York debut off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons instead of going straight to Broadway next fall. The play made its debut last year at Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:34AMUpdated casting has been announced for upcoming presentations in Red Bull Theater's Revelation Readings series, which offers one-night-only performances of both neglected classics and n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:28AMIndividuals who purchased tickets through Ticketmaster over the past decade received encouraging news this week when the corporation announced a credit for customers following a class action…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMThere's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Cleveland Awards and here is the latest update Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMCasey Nicholaw, who co-directed "The Book of Mormon," is in talks to direct the planned Austin Powers stage musical. A Dutch design firm has apologized over plans for a pair of towers that r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:17AMThe Reduced Shakespeare CompanyOkay, folks, it's back to our regularly scheduled programming here at the Hub Review. When I heard that the Reduced Shakespeare Company (you know, the gu…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:12AMStage, screen and recording star Marie Osmond served as the Grand Marshal of the 80th Anniversary Hollywood Christmas Parade Benefiting Marine Toys for Tots, presented by The City of Los Ang…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMActor Steve Guttenberg was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Monday, December 12th. Guttenberg, star of many films including Police Academy, and now starri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05AM“Oh my God. Who do you think got 32?” – Lynn Nottage, I AM THEATRE When I watched Lynn’s video, I groaned in sympathy. Anyone studying anything to do with biology has to take org…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:03AMA.C.T.'s New Performance Space: The Costume Shop Beginning this season, The Costume Shop, a new, versatile downtown venue located across Market Street from Civic Center's UN Plaza, will be h…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 10:00AM
Second Thought Theatre has announced its 2012 mainstage season, which will run February 3-July 15. Performances will take place at Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys Campus in Dallas.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMWere you transfigured by Michael Sheen's The Passion, blown away by Tender Napalm or tickled by One Man, Two Guvnors? It was a deficit-defying year in theatreTo be honest, I think it's a mit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMThe 2011 Royal Variety Performance, which was filmed Dec. 5 at The Lowry in Salford, will air in the U.K. Dec. 14 at 7:30 PM on ITV1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMDon Reed's new show, The Kipling Hotel, will transfer from The Marsh, to The Marsh Berkeley, running January 7-February 12.
The Kipling Hotel chronicles the true story of Reed's c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMThis is part of a little series of post-Thanksgiving mini-posts I’m doing about items you might want to consider as Holiday gifts. I can’t recommend this book highly enough! One of t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:51AMMorgan James, who can currently be seen in the first Broadway revival of Godspell, makes her Jazz at Lincoln Center debut at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola with an "After Hours" set De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMToronto's Kelly Nestruck writes up Robert Lepage's innovative idea to publish his latest play as a comic book:
Instead of publishing the script of his recent play, The Blue Dragon, Lepage'…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 09:39AMWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, featuring David Tennant and Catherine Tate as Benedict and Beatrice, respectively, is available to watch online or download beginning Dec. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMAnd in his current tour de force in the comical and touching Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol at Actors’ Playhouse, Ken Clement reaffirms his ability to single-handedly mesmerize an audien…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AMUpdated casting has been announced for the fourth annual Joe Iconis Christmas Spectacular, to be presented at Ars Nova, on Friday, December 16 at 8pm, Saturday, December 17 at 7pm and 10pm, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMThe Caldwell Theatre Company is offering a rare look behind the scenes Wednesday Dec. 14 during a free open house from 1 to 8 p.m. that will feature backstage tours of the facility, perfor…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:26AM"American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta and stage and screen star Michael York are featured in "Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir," which airs in the New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMAs first reported on Deadline.com, Legendary Pictures has delayed filming of the upcoming film PARADISE LOST. Shooting for the film was set to begin in January of 2012. Alex Proyas is to d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMNominations for the Critics Choice Movie Awards have been announced.
The film Hugo received 11 nominations, including for Tony Award winner John Logan for Best Adapted Screenplay, Martin Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:18AMAfter the Three Dialogues, Samuel Beckett tended to embed his aesthetic statements within his drama and fiction themselves, and central to his postwar aesthetic was the “revelationR…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:02AM
Review by Byrne Harrison
Molly "Equality" Dykeman is a slightly bewildered, pill-popping, mullet-sporting, Cheetos-munching, lesbian security guard/poet, who wants nothing more than to put …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:57AMStephen Sondheim’s second volume of “Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany” titled “Look,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMRoyal & Derngate has announced its 2012 Made in Northampton season. The theater is approximately one hour from London by train.
Highlights include a trilogy entitled Festival of Chaos, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54AMThere's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 DC Awards and here is the latest update Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMWell, it's official. The show that Broadway and BroadwayWorld.com has been eagerly anticipating is officially a SMASH On December 12, 2011, the Broadway community descended on New York City'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMRudolph is a transvestite. Santa is a perv. Mrs. Claus is a booze-hag. The elves are circuit slaves. This is not your normal Christmas story! Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:44AMTADA! Youth Theater has announced their upcoming production of The History Mystery, which will run for a limited engagement January 20-February 19.
In the piece, audiences will meet Martin …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:33AMTHE BARDY BUNCH was The Brady Bunch vs The Partridge Family vis a vie Shakespeare. Marcia Brady as Juliet. David Partridge as Romeo. Jan as Ophelia. Mrs. Brady as Lady Macbeth. And on and…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:24AMImprobable's The Devil and Mister Punch will receive its UK premiere at the Barbican Pit on 7 February (previews from 2 February 2012), 350 years after the puppet made its first recorded app…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:13AMWhen the call is for a smart, elegant, sophisticated woman who knows how to slip in a punch line, the answer is Holland Taylor. The star of stage, film and television found her match in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMThis new take on the ugly duckling story has an anti-bullying message
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:54AMFlorence Moore (born this day in 1886) is best known to posterity as the first female emcee at the Palace. Born in Phillie, she started out in stock companies with her brother Frank. Her f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:34AMThere's just a few 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31AMAt first Michael Sexton's production of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy seems like a confusing visit to the ancient Roman Home Depot, but just before the end of the first act it takes off lik…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMThis largely charming and touching 70-minute two-person stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's sequel to "War Horse" nevertheless doesn't transcend its origins as a children's novel.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMBilled as a “darkly comic retelling” of the 1990 Christmas classic starring Macaulay Culkin, The Wardrobe Theatre’s first in-house production often feels as though it’s g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25AMSay Goodnight Gracie will launch a national tour at Orlando's Abbey Theatre on January 11.
Written by Rupert Holmes, Say Goodnight Gracie takes audiences on a tour through an American…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:25AMLegit News: 'Stick Fly' opened Thursday on Broadway -- This Broadway season, Kenny Leon has gone from helming two-hander "The Mountaintop," with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, to the …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMLegit News: 'Clear' opening night party took place Sunday at the Plaza -- It seems like it's been a lifetime since director Michael Mayer first had the idea to do a major gay narrative overh…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Andrew Lloyd Webber will introduce a unique performance of the title number from the musical at this years Royal Va…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54AMAs 2011 draws to an end, Nick and Lisa discuss the shows that have made their merry way around the UK including Grease, Mamma Mia, Dirty Dancing, Jekyll and Hyde and many more.
SOURCE: musicaltalk.co.uk at 06:51AMI just read about a cat on a college campus with a gun robbing people of their iPhones. We know from the story that it is exclusively iPhones because two Blackberry users were held up,…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AM"Adaumbelle's Quest" welcomes Andrea Marcovicci, who has been dubbed "The High Priestess of the American Songbook" by The New York Times. Andrea is celebrating 25 years of performing at The …
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 06:01AMFaking spontaneity is a lot tougher than faking sincerity, but Blue Man Group has it down to an art form.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 06:00AM
I asked the Naked Cowboy in Times Square what was the best theater of 2011. “Les Miz,” he replied, while he posed in the cold with tourists. Since the revival of “Les Miserables” clo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:51AMIt wasn't just the bright new national-tour cast of Jersey Boys up on the Forrest Theatre stage, bowing to wild enthusiasm at the curtain call for Friday's opening in its very first stop.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:03AM"I think it’s come around at the right time. I feel like I’m old enough. I’ve certainly lived enough of life, and seen enough and suffered enough. I’m finally …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½ ... Romantic hopes spring eternal in many…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMSamuel L. Jackson , star of the Broadway play The Mountaintop, paid a visit to Stephen Colbert to talk Broadway, race and, of course, twitter on The Colbert Report. If you were unable to see…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMNEW YORK - Anyone who caught the Irish guy Glen Hansard and the Czech girl Marketa Irglova playing their gorgeous song "Falling Softly" on the Academy Awards telecast has a sense of both …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMTuesday, November 29th 2011, was a “totally rad” moment for Broadway. That night, ROCK OF AGES joined the list of the top one hundred longest running shows on Broadway.
SOURCE: www.rockofagesmusical.com at 01:00AMChinglish,the new Broadway comedy by David Henry Whang, which was recently named the number three show out of the Top 10 Broadway shows of the year by TIME Magazine, has announced that the…
SOURCE: 1982 at 01:00AM
Had enough Sugarplum Fairies to last you a lifetime? Tired of seeing the Rockettes kicking up their heels again? Bah, humbug, indeed.
Hey, this is New York City, so no problem. There’s pl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMI may be beating a long dead horse here but last week the National Endowment for the Arts linked to a NY Times article from their Twitter account asking what people thought. The article in q…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:09AMOpera DeiIt's not all that difficult to likeBy Gaëtan L. CharleboisIn an episode of the late great Malcolm in the Middle, Dewey, the ten year old, a musical genius, is bored and decides to …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTony Award winner Alice Ripley, currently offering her solo show Daily Practice at the Beechman Theatre through Dec. 16, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backsta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSome things you don't get over. My old friend Nancy LaMott died sixteen years ago today. That's a long time,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Grief is the price we pay for love." Queen Elizabeth II, message to the mourners at a 9/11 memorial service...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe first major New York City revival of Shlemiel the First, the Klezmer musical based on the play by Isaac Bashevis Singer, begins performances Dec. 13 at the Jack H. Skirball Center for th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe story of Albert and his beloved horse Joey, which has captivated audiences in the Tony-winning hit War Horse, continues in the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's sequel, Far…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmas Musical Theatre presents free staged readings of Burly-Q! A Gay Burlesque, as part of the Amas Musical Theatre Lab series, beginning Dec. 13 at the Players Theatre.
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 12:00AMJonathan Coy, Janie Dee, Robert Glenister, Jamie Glover, Celia Imrie, Karl Johnson, Aisling Loftus, Amy Nuttall and Paul Ready star in the Old Vic's new production of Michael Frayn's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNEW YORK -- In Wednesday's reviews of "Seminar" and "Chinglish," I ventured that the best, most demanding of the four new Broadway plays I just saw is "Venus in Fur," and that the one we're …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
