The musical Lysistrata Jones is a delightful cross between Mean Girls and High School Musical featuring contemporary barbs aimed at everything from the iPhone’s Siri to Newt Gingrich. The …
SOURCE: The Daily Beast at 11:42PMSexy classic pops up as a breezy musical about babes and basketball
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 11:41PMA new musical based on an ancient sex comedy, “Lysistrata Jones” has transferred creakily to Broadway, losing its innocence along the way.
SOURCE: Business Week at 11:39PMAlot of people whine that Broadway doesn’t know how to make entertaining musicals anymore.
Happily, it turns out that Broadway still knows how to make ’em. With its catchy pop score, cha…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMFor these characters -- and the show in general -- there's usually more than meets the eye.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31PMThe Alvin Ailey company isn’t just about “Revelations.” New artistic director Robert Battle put together a program Tuesday night of four varied works — from revivals to a recent comm…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:27PMA hoops-themed musical drops the ball on Broadway.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 11:25PMMahmoud Darwish, who died in 2008 at the age of sixty-seven, was best and heroically known for his complex perspective on political and spiritual borders — as both a poet and a spokesman f…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:20PMBoston Baroque in action.Once, a generation ago, Martin Pearlman was regarded as an ionoclast, and his vision of Handel's Messiah - performed on period instruments, with light, agile forces,…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:17PMLooking at Stan Douglas’s new photographic work at the Power Plant, there’s an easy temptation to glom on to the glossy surface of awkward nostalgia. In rich black-and-whites, the images…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PM“Lysistrata Jones” is a little musical with big energy that slam-dunks a mythic saga into a current-day college basketball setting.
Led by the titular take-charge cheerleader, p…
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This is it, people- the semi-finals We have come so far, there are just 3 episodes left The top 4 will be competing live tonight for a place in the finale The contestants will be singing two…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:54PMAfter a very successful sold-out run this past summer Off-Broadway, "Lysistrata Jones" has made the leap to Broadway and let me say, it's a slam dunk! On Saturday, December 10, 2011, I once …
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 10:31PMJason Howard is a founding member of Manhattan Theatre Source andhasacted with The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Theaterforthe New City, the Ontological, EST, Circle Rep, The Oh…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:30PMThe touring production of the iconic ’60s musical that opened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre on Wednesday night is yet another reminder of how shallow Hair really is.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:06PM“Lysistrata Jones” is a throwback to the perishable good-time musicals in which peppy kids delivered of-the-moment jokes and lively dances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMThis delightful musical about college basketball and a sex strike is even more zestful on Broadway than it was downtown.
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See what some of the guests and creative team had to say as they hit the red carpet for opening night by clicking below
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Absurdly simple, yet remarkably complex, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape shows the preciousness and fleetness of life. Starring John H…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48PMThe Broadway version of “Lysistrata Jones” begins with a loud boom, a full moon, a stage full of smoke, and an intoning diva in Grecian attire. Hooded monks move down the aisles of the W…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:48PMThe Rep's production of NEXT TO NORMAL opened December 6 at the Quadracci Powerhouse in Milwaukee.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46PMOscar winner Jane Fonda will have a recurring role as corporate executive Leona Lansing on HBO's show about life at a cable news network, Newsroom, according to TVLine.com
The series, …
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Titus Andronicus is perhaps the ultimate Shakespeare morality tale – and indeed, the bloodiest and most violent – about the repayment of pas…
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SOURCE: Variety at 09:32PMFrom the overly long musical intro composed by pop star, (and one of the play’s producers) Alicia Keys, to soap opera-like revelations, Lydia R. Diamond’s new play, "Stick Fly," is a hum…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 09:32PMNEW YORK - I have seen the dark-horse hit of the Broadway season so far, and it's an out-an-out hoot called Lysistrata Jones with wild precision dancing, songs that never miss and a plot as …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:31PMLegit Reviews: This college-level "High School Musical" is layered with giddy and sometimes wicked sophistication, and its company of 12 delivers bright performances backed by energetically …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:27PMDouglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn's musical update on the Ancient Greek sex comedy has its bubbly charms, but it also demonstrates the challenges of transferring scrappy downtown stage su…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:09PMRebecca Comtois Originally from NewHampshire, Rebecca moved to New York in 2005 to escape the cold weather andpursue her degree. She is an actor,producer, and designer with Nosedive Pr…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMBebe Neuwirth at Broadway's LYSISTRATA JONES Opening Night
Watch Bebe Neuwirth at the opening night of LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway.
You'll have a ball at the blissfully funny new m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:53PMKathy Griffin, comidienne and a Broadway vet herself - having appeared in March's KATHY GRIFFIN WANTS A TONY - went to see the show. Hear her observations, airing in her all-new 'Tired Hooke…
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Watch Lance Bass at the opening night of LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway.
You'll have a ball at the blissfully funny new musical…
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Watch Hunter Parrish at the opening night of LYSISTRATA JONES on Broadway.
You'll have a ball at the blissfully funny new…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:40PMTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Andrew Lloyd Webber introduced a unique performance of the title number from the musical at this year's Royal Varie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:38PMSahr Ngaujah, an American-born son of a father from Sierra Leone and an American mother, portrays the late Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti in the Bill T. Jones-directed musica…
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You'll have a ball at the blissfully funny new musical that gives Aristophanes' classic comedy a sexy, 21st century tw…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:30PMA review of a musical remake of "A Christmas Carol" called "Bob Cratchit and Mr. Tightwad."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PMOdysseus, that larger-than-life King of Ithaca, spent 10 years fighting the Trojan War, and another 10 years in a state of serious distraction as he attempted to sail home to his wife, Penel…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:26PMConor McPherson's 2000 play is one of the Irish writer's most memorable works, and this revival comes soon after his less acclaimed latest play, The Veil, over which we shall draw, er, a dis…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:21PMTheater critic Charles McNulty names the best plays he saw in 2011.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:06PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Audiences at Wednesday's matinee of "War Horse" likely never noticed a very special actor quietly making his Lincoln Center stage debut....
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The event also featured a special video message from three time Tony award-winner Carol Channing - see her message below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:59PMEmbedding the audience in a living room was crucial to the play “Elective Affinities,” but finding one was a challenge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMWrite Act Repertory continues their 2011-12 Mainstage Season with the World Premiere of playwright Michael Coulombe’s first produced drama You Can Call Me Eve A young Latina’s life takes…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:42PMGeorge Hamilton has endured a great deal of roasting for his perpetual tan and his matinee idol looks and lifestyle. But scan his resume and you will see that the actor, now 72, has been the…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:42PMThere should be a rule about how many Broadway flops you’re allowed before you receive a lifetime ban. Frank Wildhorn, I’m looking at you. And here we were thinking it would be hard to b…
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 06:40PMThis has been quite a year for Stephen Sondheim — on Broadway, in Chicago and beyond — with superb productions here of “Sweeney Todd” (at Drury Lane Oakbrook), “Putting It Together…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:38PMAn interview with Natalie Reid, who grew up in Sammamish dreaming about becoming a Rockette — and then became one.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:25PMAccording to TVLine, Jane Fonda has joined the cast of Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series- 'Newsroom.' Fonda joins previously announced Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, John Gallagher Jr., Thomas Sad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMChanticleer schmaltzes it up for the holidays with a riper soprano sound -- and it's good.The Bay Area-based, Grammy Award-winning men's vocal ensemble Chanticleer has got the holiday formul…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 06:22PMThe first thing I noticed when my husband K and I walked into the Longacre Theatre to see David Henry Hwang’s new play Ch’ing•lish was the unusually large number of Asian faces in the …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:13PMLyric Opera of Los Angeles is in need of an old fashioned telephone (40’s-60’s) with a long cord, or the ability to have one added for Menotti’s “The Telephone” and Poulenc’s �…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 06:10PMDale Heinen is a director based in London. A former Associate at SohoTheatre in London’s West End, Dale develops plays with writers and producers inthe UK and US, and has been a frequent p…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:06PMBroadwayWorld has learned that movie producers Peter Schneider, Laurence Mark and Barry Kemp are working on bringing 'Romy amp Michele's High School Reunion' to the stage. Based on the 1997 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMStephen Sachs' two-person comedy Bakersfield Mist, which had its world premiere at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, has been optioned by Tony Award-winning producer Sonia Friedman fo…
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Thomas Sadoski and Stockard Channing in a scene from OTHER DESERT CITIES on Broadway
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:59PMWith four plays here in four years, Irish playwright Enda Walsh is getting to be a regular in New York.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:57PMThe New Jersey Symphony Orchestra NJSO kicked off its first 201112 NJSO POPS concert series with Home for the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell, a festive concert program of timeless carol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMDavid C. Nichols reviews "Winter Wonderettes," the seasonal sequel to "The Marvelous Wonderettes," presented by Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation SDCF has named Alex Lippard as the recipient of its 2011 Mike Ockrent Fellowship.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:43PMToday, The Craptacular goes where it has not gone before — the dance world. Below, our special dance correspondant, Mark Panzarino, shares his thoughts on George Balanchine’s The…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:42PMRachel Griffiths and Stacy Keach in a scene from OTHER DESERT CITIES on Broadway
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:26PM“Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl”: Love dance but burned out on all the “Nutcrackers” on the boards at this time of year? This Aurora-based troupe performs traditiona…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PMThe Chicago premiere of librettist Harvey Fierstein and composer-lyricist John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair, produced by Porchlight Musicals, will feature Rebecca Finnegan as matr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:26PMIt was no accident that the revised version of "The Addams Family" started its national tour in New Orleans earlier this year. By holding its technical rehearsals and making certain other in…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:25PMMichael Morpurgo, author of the 1982 children’s book War Horse, made his Broadway debut on December 14 in the Tony Award-winning stage play based on his novel. Morpurgo joined the comp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMJim Parsons will co-host Live! With Kelly on January 3 and David Duchovny will co-host the daily talk show alongside Kelly Ripa on January 4, according to TVGuide.com.
Parsons is a two-t…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:16PMInterview: Laurence Boswell, director, talks to Dominic Cavendish about his season of premiered translations of neglected European classics at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath: The Phoenix of Madri…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 05:13PMThe New Group presents Russian Transport, written by Erika Sheffer, in a world premiere limited engagement January 17 March 10, 2012. Directed by Scott Elliott, the production features Jane…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMHere's an amazing set of resources for finding space. Excerpted from the Fractured Atlas website NYC Performing Arts Spaces Anyone who's ever worked in the performing arts can tell you that …
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 05:03PMAudra McDonald and Norm Lewis give a sneak peek at the Broadway production of The Gershwin's Porgy & Bess.
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The One Minute Play Festival at San Francisco's Playwrights Foundation will be livestreamed on #NEWPLAY TV this Sunday, December 18 at 10pm GMT / 5pm EST / 4pm CST / 2pm PST. If you are plan…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 04:54PMAn Evening with Michael Morpurgo feat. John Tams
On Mondya, December 12, War Horse author Michael Morpurgo read from his acclaimed novel, on which both the award-winning National Theatre of…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:46PMThe Road Theatre Company has announced casting for Ty DeMartino's Finding Fossils, to run January 25-March 25 at the Lankershim Arts Center. Suzanne Hunt will direct the production.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMThe Road Theatre Company has announced casting for Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge and Ty DeMartino's Finding Fossils, which will play at the Lankershim Arts Center.
Sam …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PM“The young writer Betty Shamieh has the playwright’s most essential gift: the passion for talk. Ms. Shamieh’s rich, urgent prose will catch you up then fling you into a character’s l…
SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 04:41PMLegit News: Actor set to be honored at New York gala -- Michael Douglas has been tapped to receive the 12th annual Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
SOURCE: Variety at 04:39PMOn Tuesday, December 13, pop singer and Broadway veteran attended the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks at the Snapple Theatre Center.
The show's cast currently feature fellow…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:10PMThe Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced its selections for its spring 2012 performance season, according to The New York Times.
The season begins with Young Jean Lee's Untitled Femin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMAristophanes’ war of the sexes is played out on the basketball court of an American college in a cheerleading musical
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:05PMMatthew Dellapina, Nelson Lee, Li Jun Li and Sonequa Martin-Green have been cast in the world premiere of Zayd Dohrn's dark comedy Outside People, which will begin performances Dec. 21 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMOscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has scored a movie-star-size coup for his play 8, with George Clooney signing on for a Los Angeles reading of the thoroughly researched Pro…
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Crowds vie for the only 500 tickets that are available each day for a hot Da Vinci show in London.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:50PMThroughout the Pasadena Playhouse's recent bankruptcy, the Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse, an organization of volunteer workers, tenaciously kept the faith. They have done so since 1979, …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:44PMFloods, earthquakes, tornadoes – what should your theatre do when disaster strikes? How do you manage the initial crisis? How do you balance your theatre’s recovery with the wider ne…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:40PMTV icon Marlo Thomas is over the moon to return to Broadway, playing ditzy widow Doreen in George is Dead, a one-act play featured as part of Relatively Speaking. On December 13 Thomas sat d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:38PMGavin Lee and Steffanie Leigh, who are currently starring in Broadway's Mary Poppins, will be contestants on the December 19 episode of ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, hosted …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PM"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" film producers Peter Schneider, Laurence Mark and Barry Kemp are currently tuning up a musical based on the 1997 comedy that starred Mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMJulie Halston and Robert Petkoff will join the cast of Anything Goes in January, taking on the roles of Evangeline Harcourt and Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, respectively. Halston will hop aboard th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMAmid a good number of new plays on Broadway this fall season are two by female African-American writers. Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond recently opened at the Cort Theater; and Katori Hall’…
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:28PMNY1 VIDEO: Celebrated gymnast and actress Cathy Rigby returns to New York as "Peter Pan"! Rigby is starring in the musical, which is now playing at The Theater at Madison Square Garden thro…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:27PMNY1 VIDEO: Celebrated gymnast and actress Cathy Rigby returns to New York as "Peter Pan"! Rigby is starring in the musical, which is now playing at The Theater at Madison Square Garden thro…
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:27PMJulie Halston and Robert Petkoff are joining the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes, the shipboard musical comedy, in January 2012, Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Dec. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMJulie Halston and Robert Petkoff will join the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes in January.
Petkoff will take over the role of Lord Evelyn Oakleigh from Adam Godley on January 13, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMThe topical off-Broadway revue Newsical The Musical celebrated its first anniversary on December 13. Subtitled "Full Spin Ahead," the show lampoons current events, headlines, celeb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMThe Glee crew celebrated the holidays early on December 13 with a special episode titled “Extraordinary Merry Christmas.” Directed by Glee star and Broadway veteran Matthew Morri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:21PMOn Dec. 12 a reception honoring Des McAnuff and hosted by Canada's Consul General in New York, John Prato, was held at Canada's Official Residence on Park Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMRoundabout Theatre Company just announced that Julie Halston The Divine Sister will assume the role of Evangeline Harcourt on Tuesday, January 17th amp Robert Petkoff Ragtime will assume the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMBroadway Speaks OUT presented the third annual A Very Mary Holiday Gala, benefiting The Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBT youth, on Thursday, December 8 at Playwrights Horizons.
The even…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMToday, December 14, New York Times Chief Theatre Critic Ben Brantley released his list of favorite shows which premieres in 2011 in Ben Brantley's Best of 2011. So who made the cut
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMThe Cabin in the Woods - Official Trailer 2012 (HD)
Cabin in the Woods Official Trailer in HD.
Release Date - April 13, 2011
Choreographer/Movement Coach - Paul Becker
Five friends go to…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:13PMWho Wants To Be A Millionaire with Emmy Award-winning host Meredith Vieira will honor The Great White Way next week with Broadway Giveaway Week, airing December 19 23, 2011. Check local lis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMPlaywright Enda Walsh seems to be all over the place -- musical theater librettist, solo play in Brooklyn. . .and this at Chicago's Steppenwolf Downstairs Theater. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:03PMLegit News: Revival to close Dec. 31 -- The Broadway revival of "Private Lives," starring Kim Cattrall, will shutter five weeks earlier than producers had originally intended, with a new clo…
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on Thirteen: Fri., December 16th at 1:30 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., December 17th at 8:30 PM Sun., December 18th at 12:30 PM and Mon., December 19th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Writer Dougl…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 02:58PMThe Actors Fund presented a Special Benefit Performance of ANYTHING GOES, winner of three Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, last night, December 13. The Special Benefit Performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Margaret Edson's Wit, starring Cynthia Nixon, greeted the press with a Dec. 13 photo op.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMNYC fans of the CBS daytime gabfest The Talk may have spotted the show’s posse of female hosts around town: The ladies are in the Big Apple to tape episodes on location at Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "The Word Progress On My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True" by Trap Door Theatre ★★★★ and "Opus" by Redtwist Theatre ★★★
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:53PMThe world premiere of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, opened on Broadway on October 20 at The Brooks Atkin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMBroadway Behind the Scenes: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess in Rehearsal
Recently we got a behind the scenes look at "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess" in rehearsal which comes…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:47PMRunning from Jan. 12 to June 17, the Baryshnikov Arts Center spring season includes a range of genres and several premieres.
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A montage of scenes from the Broadway production of OTHER DESERT CITIES, by Jon Robin Baitz, directed by Joe Mantello. Now playing at the Booth Theater.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:44PMSimon Callow delivers a one-man tribute to the classic in a voice perfectly suited to Dickens’ mix of gravitas, mystery and mischief
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:40PMon Thirteen: Fri., December 23rd at 1:30 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., December 24th at 8:30 PM Sun., December 25th at 12:30 PM and Mon., December 26th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM We are ex…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 02:37PMPart 2 of our interview with Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara is now online! Click Here to Watch!
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 02:35PMTony winner Betty Buckley, who recently played a month-long engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, will perform in concert Feb. 4, 2012, at the Sunset Center in Carmel, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMSILENCE The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell title of show, music amp lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction amp choreography by Chr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMAdditional casting has been announced for the musical Soul Doctor, which will begin its pre-Broadway run in Miami Beach at the Colony Theater, December 24-January 8, and in Ft. Lauderdale at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMLiving Thought | Stageside Shorts | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Former Stratford Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Michael Langham is remembered for his theory of Living Thought, an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:26PMAnna Maria Perez de Tagle - GODSPELL opening
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:16PMBerkeley Rep has extended the Kneehigh Theatre production's of The Wild Bride, through January 22.
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, The Wild Bride is a grown-up fairy tale that fol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMArlene Goldbard's outstanding book
I was tempted to call this "Occupy Wall Street (part 5)," but arts consultant and thinker Arlene Goldbard, author of the powerful book The New Creative Com…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:10PMPaul Rudd, Patton Oswalt, Mindy Kaling and Nick Kroll are among the actors who will take part in the "Live Read" series presentation of William Goldman's 1987 film "The Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMPatton Oswalt, Mindy Kaling and Nick Kroll are among the actors who will take part in the "Live Read" series presentation of William Goldman's 1987 film "The Princess Brid…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:08PMThe #NEWPLAY Community News & Information Sourcing Project: Twitter’s open system and hashtag searching feature enables our field’s online community to rapidly share and agg…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:08PMOur Christmas-themed title photo comes from A Molly Jolly Christmas featuring Andrea Alton as Molly "Equality" Dykeman. The photo is by Ron Lasko.
The show's final performance is Dece…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 02:05PMBad Box Office Grosses Sink Paul Gross's Broadway debut in Private Lives Considering that I've seen my share of Noel Coward's idle rich hedonists who can't live peace…
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Furious Theatre Company has announced casting for Matt Pelfrey's No Good Deed, to run January 18-Febraury 26 at [Inside] the Ford. Dámaso Rodriguez will direct the productio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMGift Theatre will stage a new play by Andrew Hinderaker in its 2012 season, the theater announced Wednesday. Entitled "Dirty" and opening in September, the play looks at an investment banke…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:59PMCatherine Zeta-Jones To Present O'Neill Center HonorOscar-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas will receive the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center ’s 12th Annual Monte Cri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:56PMPrivate Lives will finish a limited engagement on December 31, 2011 at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) after 12 previews and 53 regular performances. The production, di…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:39PMDavid Selby and David Emerson Toney will star in the world premiere of Richard Hellesen's Necessary Sacrifices, to run January 20-February 12 at Ford's Theatre. The production, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMRemember all the buzz around Lisa D'Aamour's Detroit after its Steppenwolf premiere last year? It was a Pulitzer finalist, was published in American Theatre and was being prepped for a high …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 01:38PMAcademy Award winner George Clooney will appear in the Los Angeles presentation of Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black's gay marriage docudrama 8, which will take place March 3, 2012…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"Some Lovers," the new Burt Bacharach-Steven Sater vestpocket tuner, takes its inspiration from the dual irony of O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi": Husband…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PMEn route to Broadway, Soul Doctor Journey of a Rock-Star Rabbi opens December 25th in Miami Beach at the Colony Theatre, followed by a run in Fort Lauderdales Parker Playhouse.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMFull cast and creative team have been announced for The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, to run at the Lansburgh Theatre, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMFull cast and creative team have been announced for The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, to run at the Lansburgh Theatre, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
This college-level "High School Musical" is layered with giddy and sometimes wicked sophistication, and its company of 12 delivers bright performances b…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMMonday, December 12, 2011, the Broadway community descended on New York City's glamorous Museum of Modern Art to get their first official look at NBC's upcoming new musical drama series SMAS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMON A CLEAR DAY Broadway Opening Night
The stars came out for the Broadway opening night of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER.
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE.
AN IRRESISTIBLE MUSICAL.
Three-time…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:24PMBridesburg, a new play by Victor Kaufold and presented by Miscreant Theatre, will begin performances Jan. 5, 2012, at Off-Broadway's Gene Frankel Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMAs 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 01:22PMAs 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: austin.broadway.com at 01:22PMThe Eugene ONeill Theater Center will present its 12th annual Monte Cristo Award to legendary film actor and ONeill alum Michael Douglas in recognition of his monumental achievements and con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMWeekly Webmail with Philip Wm McKinley (Director)
For show information and tickets, visit us at: http://www.spidermanonbroadway.com
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:16PMAn extraordinary post by Ta-Nehisi Coates, urging us to take account of our own ordinariness when contemplating moral quandaries, happens to include a resonant illustration from my area of c…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:09PMJust call me The Critic Who Came For Appetizers. Shortly into the second act of what seemed to be shaping up as a very enjoyable mounting of the Kaufman and Hart comedy classic, The Man Who …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMWritten by Theresa Rebeck (Seminar) and with Broadway and film producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("Chicago," How to Succeed...) steering the course, the upcoming NBC series &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMIt wouldn't seem like December if there weren't any Christmas shows. Pipe Dream Theatre brings the New York premiere of 3 Ghosts, a "Steampunk Musical" based on Charles Dickens' A Chri…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:05PMExpectations can make all the difference in how you experience a show. I was expecting Bonnie and Clyde to be a disaster and I ended up liking it. I was all set for Lysistrata Jones to be my…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:05PM
The playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movies based on her plays, was encouraged by director Roman Polanski and a stellar cast.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMWatching this week's episode of "Glee" and seeing its rendition of the classic '80s charity song, "Do They Know It's Christmas," brought to mind the debacle that was Bob …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:50PMThe final six performances of Peccadillo Theater Company’s hit production of Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER are sold out. The last remaining available ticket wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMAccording to EWonline, Jason Reitman, the filmmaker behind such recent hits as 'Up in the Air' and 'The Young Adult', has been performing live readings of some of the most beloved films such…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMDates have been announced the 2012 GLAAD Media Awards.
The New York ceremony will be held on March 24; the Los Angeles ceremony will be held on April 21; and the San Francisco ceremony will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMSo… The Artist: It’s a lovely silent movie about silent movies themselves, following George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a superstar who’s distressed to realize he has no plac…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 12:45PMCasting has been announced for the opera French Lessons, to be offered January 25-26 at The Kaye Playhouse. Susan Gonzalez will direct the production.
The piece, based on Eugene Ionesco&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMShe will perform her play, "Hand in Hand" in January in Latvia and Lithuania.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:33PMIn rehearsal at The Opera House
http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com
Fifth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. With Simon Callow as Andre, Ciar&aacu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:29PMStage play Necessary Sacrifices (World Premiere) Debuts at Ford’s Theatre January 20-February 12, 2012
Film Screening of Slavery by Another NameJanuary 30, 2012
Center for Education and Le…
SOURCE: fords.org at 12:17PMHannibal rehearsal
http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com
Fourth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. With Minnie Driver as Carlotta, Victor McGuire as…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:16PMThe Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has announced casting for Stephen Sondheim and Geroge Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, to run March 3-31. John Doyle will direct the production.
Thi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMRussell Tovey, best known as one of the original stars of Alan Bennett's The History Boys at the National, on Broadway and on film and for TV's "Him and Her" and "Gavi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe Road to Mecca - About the Show
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:09PMStage and screen star Paul Rudd will play Westley in Film Independent at LACMA's reading of The Princess Bride, written by William Goldman, to be held at 7:30pm on Thursday, December 15…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMSoho Rep brought us the US premiere of playwright Debbie Tucker Green with BORN BAD, a lyrical, hour-long "poem" of a play what was solidly acted by a terrific and dedicated ensemble of five…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:07PMSubmissions Accepted Through Feb. 1Composers, writers, get those applications ready.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:05PMThe Los Angeles Master Chorale wraps its holiday programming with a “traditional” concert version of Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 18, 2011, 7 pm, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. �…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMIt'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 12:00PMThe Broadway productions of FOLLIES and RELATIVELY SPEAKING will host special, additional performances to benefit The Actors Fund in January, 2012. FOLLIES will play an nineth weekly show at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMJosh Segarra and Lindsay Nicole ChambersTonight, Broadway's newest musical, Lysistrata Jones, opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Before those festivities, and in the midst of previ…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PM
GCB is premiering on CBS on Sunday, March 4 from 1000-1100 p.m., ET. The soap opera format returns to Dallas in this deliciously fun, wicked new drama that shows that you can go home again..…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMON A CLEAR DAY Speculation, Sept. 30, 2011:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:49AMStage and screen star Russell Tovey will co-star with Jaime Winstone and Naomi Sheldon in Sex With A Stranger, a new play by writer and comedian Stefan Golaszewski, to begin performances on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMAmbassador Theatre Group, the UK's largest theatre owning and producing company, is partnering with Tony Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch a new …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMBroadway's bottom line saw a $1.2 million uptick through the week ending December 11, bringing the Main Stem's 33-production cumulative to $25 million.
Attendance also increased across the G…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:43AM The “War Horse” sequel finds the power of a good yarn This month, children’s novelist Michael Morpurgo may be the most prominent author in New York. The stage adapta…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:38AMThe Old Vic's revival of Noises Off opened last night (13 December, previews from 3 December 2011) to critical acclaim.
Michael Frayn's multi-award winning 1982 comedy has a cast which incl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:36AMJerry Mitchell will serve as creative director for Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd's new formed production company that will bear his name.
Jerry Mitchell Productions will develop, create…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMYeah, baby, yeah! Mike Myers reported to be working on a stage prequel to Austin Powers: International Man of MysteryStage shows don't come more swinging than Hair, but it could be toppled b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMMichael Sexton’s Public Theater production takes full advantage of Shakespeare’s bloody script
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:23AMArdal O'Hanlon, best known for his TV appearances as the star of Channel 4's "Father Ted" and BBC's "My Hero," will star in a new production of Conor McPherso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMWhen A Playwright Speaks UpMy latest blog post on TheatreFace.com is up. In it I reflect on how responding to national theatre issues is something I feel compelled to do, even if I find step…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:22AMThe Public Lab production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, starring Jay O. Sanders, officially opened Off-Broadway Dec. 13 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMThe Fox hit series "Glee" will pay tribute to late pop legend Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five on the Jan. 24, 2012, episode, according to TVGuide.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMThe Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd ATG, the UKs largest theatre company, with 39 venues in the UK, including 13 in the West End, announced today that it has partnered with Tony Award-winner Je…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMLegit News: Director partners with ATG for new outfit -- Broadway helmer-choreographer Jerry Mitchell is hanging out his own shingle, launching Jerry Mitchell Prods. in partnership with U.K.…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:19AMPop stars and singers have been crossing over into theater more and more these days, from Shayne Ward (Rock of Ages) and Duncan James (Legally Blonde) in London to Harry Connick Jr (On a Cle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMA musical adaptation of beloved children’s novel Tuck Everlasting may hit Broadway next season, according to the New York Times. Tony-winning director Casey Nicholaw is in talks to hel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMA musical adaptation of beloved children’s novel Tuck Everlasting may hit Broadway next season, according to the New York Times. Tony-winning director Casey Nicholaw is reportedly in t…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 11:15AMThe Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has announced casting for the exciting new revival of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. The John Doyle-helmed production, in wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMUp in Arms’ staging of Winterreise is a fraught and evocative slow-burner. Schubert’s song cycle, based on Wilhem Muller’s poems, is lent an unusual dimension through puppetry and an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:12AMLysistrata Jones, the pop-rock musical comedy that takes Aristophanes' 411 BC comedy about a sex strike and dunks it into the world of college basketball, made the move to Broadway's Walter …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMBy Byrne Harrison
On December 17th, Hunter Auction Galleries will be holding an auction made of the items from various estates. Included in the auction are items from Rue McClanahan's…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:11AMLegally Blonde the Musical director Jerry Mitchell has partnered with the Ambassador Theatre Group to form a new production company.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMGeorge Clooney will star in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The one night only event will be held at Los Angeles’ Wilshir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:10AMGareth Jandrell’s new play deftly and daringly tackles the issues and stigmas attached to mental illness. Winner of the Tobacco Factory’s Script Space 2010, the writing is snappy and h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:10AMNominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performances in 2011 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for outstanding act…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThis is a lovely place to be on a Wednesday morning--especially after having eaten a perfect breakfast in front of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:09AMBeauty and the Beast's Sarah Litzsinger stars as Diana, a mother battling depression and bipolar disorder, in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThe only thing better than reading a play like Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage” is reading it aloud with people you like. What plays would you enjoy reading with friends?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMThis is a charming and welcome tale for so many reasons. First of all it is a tale of men who connect when they are separated by two generations. It is a tale of commitment to the earth as …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:06AMRock of Ages - Official Trailer 2012 (HD)
Rock of Ages 2012 Official Movie Trailer in HD.
Release Date - June 1, 2012
Director/Choreographer - Adam Shankman
Choreographer - Mia Michaels
…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMThe actor takes a strong position in favor of marriage equality by joining the cast of "8" for a one-night showing in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:02AMWritten by Theresa Rebeck (Seminar) and with Broadway and film
producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("Chicago," How to Succeed...)
steering the course, "Smash" has a pedigree that spells s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMGuest artistic director Robert Kimball will inaugurate the 92nd Street Y's 2012 Lyrics & Lyricists season with Makin’ Whoopee: Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn and the Jazz Age.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
A Western-style theater scene is booming in China as part of a national drive to bring modern theater to smaller cities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMA Younger Theatre has joined up with the Young Poets Network to run an exciting competition: Poet, playwright, librettist and novelist Glyn Maxwell has set a special challenge for readers of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:57AMBook for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Tabard Theatre and pay just £15 (usual price £19).
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:56AMIts official. Julianne Moores polka-dotted optimist is back in New York after a successful run at New World Stages. Shes been gone since last Spring and weve missed her rosy cheeks and cri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMChristine Andreas, Jason Graae, Howard McGillin, Wililam Bolcom and Joan Morris, and Vince Giordano will take part in Makin' Whoopee: Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn and the Jazz Age, to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMStage and screen actor Christopher Meloni has signed on to join the cast of HBO's "True Blood," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMGrammy Award winner Fantasia Barrino has given birth to a baby boy, Dallas Xavier Barrino, according to People.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMThe play, which stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, began previews on Nov. 6 and intended to run through Feb. 5. But producers, citing poor ticket sales, said Tuesday that it will close on …
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:48AMThe NEA has announced the first round of funding for FY12 totaling $22.543 million to support 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. This round of funding is …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:47AMCelebrated crooner Harry Connick, Jr. is back on Broadway, this time starring in the 1960s revival of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever".
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:42AMAccording to TheInsider.com, American Idol winnerr Fantasia Barrino has given birth to a healthy baby boy. The baby, named Dallas Zavier Barrino, was born yesterday afternoon at Presbyteria…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMRichard Eyre’s production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives ruled the box office in Toronto, but ticket sales have lagged in the Big Apple
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:39AMYes, "Titus Andronicus" is a Shakespearean tragedy. But that's sort of like calling the Titanic sinking a boating mishap.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:34AMJulie Halston and Robert Petkoff sign on to join the cast of Anything Goes. Halston will join the cast on January 17th and Petkoff will join on January 13th. The two join a cast that already…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:33AMSmashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan has set his musical sights on Broadway. The rocker recently told the New York Post he is interested in writing songs for musical theatre. He also sta…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:32AMMike Myers is looking to resurrect Austin Powers on Broadway. Myers is looking to turn his character Austin Myers from the movies to a stage musical. Austin Myers won’t be starring in the …
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:31AMGeorge Clooney will star in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The one night only event will be held at Los Angeles’ Wilshir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AMGeorge Clooney will star in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The one night only event will be held at Los Angeles’ Wilshir…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 10:30AMTony Award nominee Malcolm Gets, Daniel Jenkins and Becky Ann Baker will be "Old Friends" in Tony-winning director John Doyle's actor-musician staging of Stephen Sondheim and G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMPussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger will perform selections from "The Phantom of the Opera" on a 25th anniversary celebratory telecast honoring the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMTo 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 year's Royal V…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMActor Jason Alexander will be appearing as a guest star in tonight's episode of HARRY'S LAW on NBC. In the episode, entitled, 'Bad to Worse', Harry Kathy Bates represents Richard Cross Alex…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMActor Jason Alexander will be appearing as a guest star in tonight's episode of HARRY'S LAW on NBC. In the episode, entitled, 'Bad to Worse', Harry Kathy Bates represents Richard Cross Alex…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMWS "Fluke" Holland will join the cast of Million Dollar Quartet at Chicago's Apollo Theater, during the show's encore on December 15. In addition, he will take part in a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMThe new movie based on the hit Broadway musical promises a blast of '80s nostalgia in the form of hair-metal band favorites by such acts as Journey, Pat Benatar, Styx, Twisted Sister and Bon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:21AMPatricia Clarkson, Clarke Peters, Michael Cerveris, Amy Ryan, Francois Battiste, Roy Blount, Jr., and Henry Butler will take part in Selected Shorts: NOLA: Jazzy Tales from the Big Easy, to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMJonathan Church's new production of Singin' in the Rain is to transfer to the Palace Theatre following its critically acclaimed, sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Church's product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMThe critically acclaimed revival of Follies and the triptych of one-act plays, Relatively Speaking, will both offer special performances to benefit the Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMLast year when the Met's season schedule was released and my favorite mezzo soprano Susan Graham wasn't on it, I immediately made up my mind that I would see Susan in an opera somewhere, som…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 10:19AM RELATIVELY SPEAKING star Marlo Thomas sat down with the ladies of ABC’s “The View” yesterday to discuss her critically acclaimed return to Broadway. The world premiere of RELATIVELY…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:18AMKelly Bensimon, Aaron Carter, and Alyssa Campanella, Miss USA 2011, Danielle Doty, Miss Teen USA 2011, and Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011 joined CitySights employees in delivering 2,000 toy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMGrammy 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 10:14AMGlenn Close, Viola Davis, Janet McTeer, Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh have been nominated for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be presented Jan. 29, 2012, at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThe Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, will close on December 31 at the Music Box Theatre. The limited engagement was originally sched…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMThe Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, will close on December 31 at the Music Box Theatre. The limited engagement was originally sched…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMThe Broadway revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, starring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, will close on December 31 at the Music Box Theatre. The limited engagement was originally sched…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 10:11AMA new production of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O'Hirson's 1972 Broadway musical Pippin, with a cast that includes Matt Rawle (Leading Player), Harry Hepple (Pippin), Tony winner Fran…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMWhat happens when you take the song cycles of Schubert, throw in some live operatic singing, and add puppet? Well you’ll just have to find out by getting yourself to see Winterreise at…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:08AMComedian Louis CK on how he got the authority and freedom to due his well respected sitcom: "I got it by demanding it and refusing to do the show any other way at all and by having the lever…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AM
Peter Pan, the new production of the classic musical which stars Cathy Rigby as the title character, opens December 14 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. The limited engagement ends it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AMSean Prpick, a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, came to my apartment earlier this year to interview me at...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:56AMThe 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 09:49AMBroadway Sessions with Ben D, the weekly musical theatre-themed evening at The Midtown Theater at the Ha! Comedy Club, will continue Dec. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMBROADWAY SESSIONS will offer its 4th Annual Holiday Concert on December 15th at 1100pm doors open 1030pm THE MIDTOWN THEATRE at the HA Comedy Club 163 West 46th Street Between 6th amp 7th A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMLysistrata Jones began preview performances Saturday, November 12th at the Walter Kerr Theatre and opens officially tonight, December 14, 2011. Written by Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMRussell Tovey, Jaime Winstone and Naomi Sheldon will star in Sex With A Stranger, a new play by writer and comedian Stefan Golaszewski which comes to Trafalgar Studios 2 from 6 February (pre…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:34AMSay Goodnight Gracie, penned by Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer Rupert Holmes and staged by William I. Franzblau, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway’s St. Luke’s …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMNominations have been announced for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be handed out January 29 in Los Angeles and aired live on TNT and TBS.
Stage veterans nominated fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AMAs the Occupy and Tea Party movements attest, this is a time in America of social action and political upheaval -– not to the degree that we see in "Battleship Potemkin," but significant n…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMRobert Creighton, who currently plays the Purser in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes, will release his debut solo recording in February 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMThe Hollywood Reporter has revealed this morning that George Clooney will lead Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 play, 8 in the show's LA premiere at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, 2012. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMOscar winner George Clooney will appear in a benefit reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8, to be offered at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, according to a report in the Los Angeles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMJazz trumpeter and Broadway composer Terence Blanchard will be among the performers at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, to be held April 27-May 6.
Among the many oth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11AMGrammy Award winner Fantasia Barrino has has given birth to a baby boy, Dallas Xavier Barrino, according to People.com.
The singer and actress already has a 10-year-old daughter, Zion. She …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMAccording to TVLine.com, actor Steven Weber is set to appear in an upcoming episode of TV Land's new hit comedy 'Hot in Cleveland'. The actor will play the role of the former fiance of Jane…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AM"Rock of Ages," the new movie based on the hit Broadway musical, promises a blast of 80s nostalgia in the form of hair-metal band favorites by Journey, Pat Benatar, Styx, Twisted Sister, Bon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
With such irresistible raw material as the Irving Berlin songbook, Broward Stage Door’s production of I Love a Piano can’t help but be mildly entertaining and this edition finally emits …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 08:49AMDrake Bell, Damian McGinty, and Lindsay Pearce joined Erich Bergen for his new show, A Holiday Party, at The Coterie at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel on Monday, December 12.
American I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:47AMA few upcoming events to consider for your calendar: Next Monday, 19 December, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center offers an all-day symposium called “The Legacy of Reza Abdoh,” t…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:42AMThe city should find a way to unload the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and stop subsidizing its operations to the tune of more than $1 million a year.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:42AMLegit News:
Actor set to be honored at New York gala
SOURCE: Variety at 08:39AMJon Fletcher, Larry Gatlin and William Michals will headline the December 15 edition of The Broadway Hootenanny, the new weekly show to be offered at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:29AMRuss Tutterow
Hometown: Straughn, Indiana
Current Town: Chicago
Q: Tell me about Chicago Dramatists.
A: Chicago Dramatists is a producing theatre and playwrights' workshop. …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 08:20AMIn
July 2009 I reviewed a show called Mincemeat for
this website. It impressed me so much that I gave it a five-star
write-up and immediately signed up to support the inspiring work that
the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:14AMIt takes a tough man to be a tender drag queen. And local television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis does Edna Turnblad’s cha-cha heels and bazooka-sized bra proud in Signature Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMGeorge 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. The play, by Oscar-winning scree…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThe show returns to McCarter Theatre Center with familiar and new faces.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM
Today is the birthday of Spike Jones (see full bio here). Now, here’s Spike’s band performing that television variety perennial “The Sabre Dance” To find out more abo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AM Herschel Henlere (born this day in 1890) wrote songs (such as the famous one above), was an accompanist for the likes of Anna Held and others, and had his own big time novelty piano act …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:35AMToday is the birthday of Morey Amsterdam (full bio here). In honor of the day, we present a clip from the short lived 1950 show the Morey Amsterdam Show featuring Art Carney: To find out mor…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:34AMWorkShop Theater Company will revive their award-winning production of Eddie Antar's The Navigator, February 9-March 3. The production will be directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby.
The pie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:32AMMerrimack Repertory Theatre will present John Van Druten's The Voice of the Turtle, January 5-29. Carl Forsman will direct.
The play is a romantic comedy about single life and sexual y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:28AMPeter Filichia lets us know what's going on where
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:09AMLegit News:
Revival to close Dec. 31
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03AMLegit News: Musical targets Broadway in fall 2012 -- The tuner version of 1992 Paramount film "Leap of Faith" is targeting a fall 2012 run on Broadway under a new creative team that includes…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on December 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMThis nifty little musical update of Aristophanes' classic comedy makes the leap from off Broadway to on without missing a funky step. It's a sassy, sexy, funny treat.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
You may have read Kurt Andersen recent piece in Vanity Fair noting that fashion, art, design and culture in general hasn’t really changed much in the last twenty years. Or maybe like m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:25AMIt's game time for Patti Murin, Josh Segarra and the cast of Lysistrata Jones as the new musical is set to officially open December 14 at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. Directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15AMAdopt-a-School program gets second-graders at Airport Elementary
in tune.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:05AMBeginning January 3, 2012, Broadway's MEMPHIS will have a new performance schedule.
SOURCE: 1985 at 01:00AMIt has been announced that the Broadway revival of PRIVATE LIVES, co-staring Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, will close on December 31.
SOURCE: 1986 at 01:00AMAfter beginning previews on November 12, Broadway's new musical comedy, LYSISTRATA JONES, officially opens tonight at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: 1988 at 01:00AMThe playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movies based on her plays, was encouraged by director Roman Polanski and a stellar cast.The playwright, who usually doesn't favor making movi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
Whether they are crooning a love ballad to Chipotle’s burritos or asking the essential cosmic questions, such as “How come all the addicts on ‘Intervention’ have better apartments th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:22AMIt's been an exciting year in theater all over NYC! Did you have a show that moved you tears? A show that brought you excitement that you couldn't stop smiling for days? Maybe even a show th…
SOURCE: Theater in the Now at 12:06AMThis last week the Canon Theatre in Toronto was renamed the Ed Mirvish Theatre - watch this mini-doc and you will understand why
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMCome celebrate the holidays with award winning composer/lyricist and fellow "Adaumbelle's Quest" participant Bobby Cronin and some of his talented friends in a fun and laid-back holiday conc…
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 12:00AMPeter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Britten's arrangements of Purcell's "I attempt from Love's sickness to fly" and "Man is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThe Playbill Leading Men columns this month focus on the disciples of Broadway's Godspell. Wallace Smith chats about his handful of Broadway credits, his aspirations as a songwriter and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStanding on Ceremony's panoply of talent tackles marriage equality in a collection of short plays.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe "Live From Lincoln Center" premiere of the New York City Ballet favorite, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, airs on PBS Dec. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAfter swearing she was retiring her green tights for good, Cathy Rigby flies back to New York City in her Tony Award-nominated role as Peter Pan Dec. 14-30 at The Theater at Madison Square G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA Christmas Story, The Musical!, which launched a five-city U.S. tour in November, arrives at the Chicago Theatre Dec. 14 for the final stop of its 2011 engagement. A future New York life is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAn American Express pre-sale for the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It begins on Dec. 14. The Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBasketball. Cheerleaders. Sex. Show tunes. The stately Walter Kerr Theatre is the home court for all of that in the new Broadway musical comedy Lysistrata Jones, opening Dec. 14 following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAshley Brown, who originated the title role in Broadway's Mary Poppins, joins Peter Nero and the Philly Pops in Holiday Pops!, beginning Dec. 14 in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, his "Modern Family" co-star Eric Stonestreet and former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell are featured on this year's &q…
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 12:00AMNEW YORK -- This year, Radio City Music Hall has a new way of putting the spectacle in its Christmas Spectacular. The venerable institution unveiled an updated version of its 79-year-old pro…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe Post-Gazette's early spring Critic's Choice theater tour to London, a tradition of more than two decades, will fly March 4-11, just in time for London's early daffodils and magnolias.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
