Due to popular demand, four new dates have been added to the discussion series with Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter and Broadway producer Alicia Keys following the STICK FLYperformance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PMIn Gob Squad’s “Super Night Shot,” part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, passers-by are enlisted to appear in an instant film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49PMCan't wait until February to see NBC's new Broadway-themed show SMASH According to The Hollywood Reporter, you won't have to the pilot episode will be available for free on several media pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PM“Bunny Lake Is Missing,” adapted from a 1957 mystery, portrays a woman desperately searching for her 3-year-old daughter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:41PM“Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech,” a triptych of short plays that is being performed as part of the Under the Radar festival, is written and directed in hypnotic sty…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMThe ultra-starry cast for the upcoming feature film version of the international smash musical sensation LES MISERABLES finally got one step closer to finding its Eponine and Cossette this w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:20PMAfter just ending a record-breaking run of his one-man show this past Sunday, Tony award winner Hugh Jackman has signed on to star in the title role of “Houdini!” The Stephen Schwartz-Aa…
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I suppose you can make a case that Carrie is the greatest musical flop in history. I’ll let you decide what I mean by “greatest.” The adaptation of Stephen King’s nov…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 06:47PMThe Kennedy Center has had to scrap the centerpiece theater event of its 2011-12 season — a major, reworked revival of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical “Pal Joey” — after its direct…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMDon't Dress for Dinner - About the Show
Don't Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing), is coming to Roundabout Theatre Company and it's going…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:27PMIf you have never seen Marilyn Maye, really, what are you waiting for? She's an amazing jazz singer, a brilliant interpreter, and funny to boot. She's a delight to spend an evening with. She…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:12PMTickets are now on sale for Frank Strausser’s off-Broadway comedy Psycho Therapy. Directed by Alex Lippard, the production stars Angelica Page, Jeffrey Carlson, Jan Leslie Harding and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PMReview by Mark A. Newman
Unfortunately, I write this review with a heavy heart as only last night it was announced that Lysistrata Jones would end its Broadway run after less than a month a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:11PMTHE SOUND OF TWO BRITS KISSING Stationary sales executive Eddie and sexy casino worker Crystal fumble through their first weekend trip together in Robert Farquhar’s Kissing Sid James. This…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PMRent veteran Colin Hanlon will star as Edward Cullen (a role made famous in the film franchise by Robert Pattinson) in the parody Twilight: The Musical. He will join the previously announced…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PMAnother seven days, another 10 lessons we’ve learned about Broadway. It was a week full of secrets from How to Succeed’s newest heartthrob, Darren Criss, surprising new info abou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:08PMAdam Silver began producing theater at the age of six, and he continues at the age of 25 with the LA premiere of Adam Szymkowicz' Nerve, staged by fellow ex-Chicagoan Michael Matthews at El …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:06PMThe Gift Theatre has devised an exceptionally winning way to celebrate its 10th anniversary as a thriving storefront operation in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. It comes in the form of “…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:02PM
Welcome to THE FRIDAY SIX QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMHarvey - About the Show
Two-time Emmy® winner and Golden Globe Award® winner Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), Jessica Hecht (After the Fall) and Charles Kimbrough (The…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:59PMAriana Grande, currently starring in Nickelodeon's 'Victorious', recently released her new single 'Put Your Hearts Up' on December 20. The teen star - who was seen on Broadway in Jason Rober…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMBy Byrne Harrison
With several years experience in the domestic violence field, Zoë Flowers is the founder of Highest Good Consulting (HGC). HGC provides training and program management fo…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:51PMDerek Deane has re-organised the production with skill and an unfailing sense of popular theatre, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:51PMSir Antony Sher, who owns a distinguished acting career, tells Sarah Hemming his struggle with identity prepared him for his latest role
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 05:50PMThe Alley Theater's production of The Toxic Avenger, starring American Idol and Rock of Ages alum Constantine Maroulis alongside Nancy Opel, begins previews on January 13, in anticipation of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PM“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the seaso…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:41PMCheck in every afternoon Monday through Friday to find out about news, opportunity listings, festival and show info, new practices, and interesting conversations in the #newplay field. All…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:27PMAn apparent landlord-tenant dispute between Century and Associates, the owner of H Street Playhouse, and Adele Robey, the former owner who now leases the facility from Century and subleases …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMThe site-specific comedy/thriller It Is Done, by Alex Goldberg, will make a return engagement, playing at The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill in midtown Manhattan, January 18-24. Tom Wojtunik d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMTheatre Exile has announced casting for the Philadelphia premiere of Knives in Hens by David Harrower, February 9-March 4. Associate artistic director Brenna Geffers will direct.
In a secl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMJoyful Noise - Maybe I'm Amazed - Keke Palmer & Jeremy Jordan (HD)
Maybe I'm Amazed performance by Randy Garrity (Jeremy Jordan) and Olivia Hill (Keke Plamer) from the musical f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:01PMIn Catherine Treischmann’s new play, the red and blue states worlds collide, with interesting results.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:01PMThe Helix Dance Project explores the knots that tie us down, and the ways we try to untangle them
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMLauded playwright and librettist John Murrell is taking to the stage, riding herd on one of Shakespeares most difficult plays
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 26, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM
Joyful Noise - Man in the Mirror - Keke Palmer (HD)
Man in the Mirror performed by Olivia Hill (Keke Palmer) and the gospel choir in the musical film Joyful Noise.
Release Date - January …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:55PMJoyful Noise Dance Scene - Mighty High - Karen Peck Gospel Choir (HD)
Opening number from the finals of the National Joyful Noise Competition. The Karen Peck Gospel Choir performs Mighty Hi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:52PMOn Twitter Watch, Debra Messing wrote I don't even have to think twice.Funny GirlRT newworldstages DebraLMessing If u could play the lead in any musical, which would u pick
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMJoyful Noise Dance Scene - From Here to the Moon - Dolly Parton & Kris Kristofferson (HD)
From Here to the Moon dance scene featuring G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton) and Bernard Sparrow (Kr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:49PMThis week on BWWUK, we've been looking back at 2011 - and looking ahead to a very exciting 2012 in the West End and UK theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMFans loved Jackie Hoffman’s backstage video blog at The Addams Family. One never knew what the zany comedienne would do next: from making friends with the Scientologists next door to r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PMThe Jungle Theater has announced the addition of Harold Pinter's classic dark comedy The Birthday Party to its 2012 season. Joel Sass will direct the play at the Lyn-Lake theater in Min…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMSignature Theatre will present the world premiere of Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo, January 31-March 25. Associate Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner will direct.
Really Really embr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMTelevision star Paul James will headline Signature Theatre's world premiere of Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo, January 31-March 25. Matthew Gardiner will direct the production
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:33PMStage stars Edie Falco, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Martin Sheen, Marisa Tomei, Blair Underwood, and Rita Wilson will be among the participants in the third season of NBC's reality show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMCorporate philanthropy meets mid-season ratings grab in a new musical-theater initiative from NBC that will target 20 underserved schools around the country.Corporate philanthropy meets mid-…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMThe much-derided Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" continued to prove its critics wrong this week when the show set a new single-week record for ticket sales.
The show grosse…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:27PMThe fist week of the new year brings us six openings from Pueblo to Fort Collins, including Colorado Springs TheatreWorks' "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," Miners Alley Playhouse"Present Laught…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:25PMCharlie is eating himself to death. And by the time audiences meet him at the beginning of "The Whale" he has almost completed the job. He's closing in on 600 pounds, his heart is failing, h…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:24PMThe Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Jonathan Carens hard-hitting drama, The Recommendation. Directed by Jonathan Munby, The Recommendation will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMLos Angeles skyscrapers & Echo Park lake from BigstockIt took me a while—about five or six years, I'd say—of trial and error to figure out where the best theater in Los Angeles was (…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:21PMTickets are now on sale for the inaugural production of Katori Hall’s Hurt Village at Signature Theatre Company’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at off-Broadway's new …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMBroadway veteran Rachelle Rak will perform I'm In at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday, January 23 at 10:30pm. Daniel Robinson will direct, with musical direction by Steven Jamail.
The autobi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:16PMA new musical-theater initiative from NBC that will target 20 underserved schools around the country. The program, which was announced Friday, coincides with the Feb. 6 debut of NBC's new se…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:06PMA group of Minnesota snow sculptors has been invited to one of the world's most prestigious international competitions.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:05PMDesigner, director, and performer Isaac Mizrahi has married his long-term partner, Arnold Germer, according to published reports. The marriage took place at City Hall on November 30, but Miz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PM
GLEE star Darren Criss started performances on Tuesday night in How to Succeed IN BUSINESS alongside Beau Bridges, who is returning to Broadway for the first time in 38 years in his first mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PM“SEMINAR” is a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, starring Alan Rickman as an imperious, domineering writing instructor. Clocking in at a breezy 90 minutes, it trades in comedy abou…
SOURCE: www.economist.com at 03:52PMNBC will team up with iTheatrics for the launch of NBC's 'Smash': Make a Musical, a philanthropic initiative that will help create sustainable musical theater programs in unde…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’s new J. Pierrepont Finch, Darren Criss, became a overnight star playing Dalton Academy Warbler Blaine Anderson on the Fox hit Gle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:43PMTheaters need actors and directors. They need stagehands, wardrobe supervisors and lighting technicians. And, of course, spectators.
But they do not need playwrights. Libraries are lousy wit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMIn just 10 short years, Washington’s theaters have undergone a transformation unlike any in the city’s history. Gleaming new palaces of drama have sprung up or been spruced up all over t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMWashington vetoed the idea of splitting the Helen Hayes Awards in two, creating separate categories for large and small theaters. In 2009, the Hayes Awards sent out surveys, created focus gr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMAssemble lovers, laughter and a South American dictatorship, add toil and pluck, and you’ve got the bones of any number of plays presented at GALA Hispanic Theatre and Teatro de la Luna ov…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMWhen the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs budget was slashed in the spring, a number of D.C. arts organizations scrambled to replace lost funds. That’s when Woolly Mammoth Theatr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMIn this city with a population that is almost 50 percent African American, there is only one full-time professional black theater company. There are no black-owned theater houses or stages i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMArt and commerce can make strange bedfellows in the world of nonprofit theater, especially in hard times.
Olney Theatre Center’s Jim Petosa knows that for sure. He has led the upper-Montg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMYou might call Washington’s small-theater scene D.C.’s off-off-Broadway, but Julianne Brienza, executive director of the Capital Fringe Festival, hopes you won’t.
“That’s so lame,�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMFrom the first moments, when three go-go window-washers bop their moneymakers across a balcony over the stage, until the last, when the whole cast starts ponying like a rock-and-roll merry-g…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PMEnsemble Studio Theatre will present Unfiltered 2012, a festival featuring four new full-length plays from EST's Youngblood playwriting group, to run January 5-February 4.
In Big Tex …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PM“NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make a Musical” Set to Launch This Month in 20 Schools in 20 U.S. Cities NBC and iTheatrics are teaming up for the national launch of “NBC’s ‘Smash’: Make…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:40PMThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts-produced revival of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, directed by Christopher Ashley and featuring a revised book by Terrence McNally, has been &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMIn the pursuit of fairness, here a list of the top grossing productions of 2011 that premiered in 2011. Of course, Spider-man performed a total of 381 shows on account of its record-breaking…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:30PMLucie Arnaz chased away Old Man Winter Thursday night at Feinstein’s at the packed premiere of her joyfully warm and superbly sung “Latin Roots.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:28PMAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian actress Fadwa Suleiman says she was drawn to a life in drama because of its promise of freedom.
SOURCE: Reuters at 03:28PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMThe Right Now Freakouts — a new band consisting of American idiot alumni Michael Esper, John Gallagher Jr. and Gerard Canonico — played a free midnight gig at downtown's Rock…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMPittsburgh Public Theater's artistic director, Ted Pappas, has extended his contract with the company through 2018, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Pappas has held his positi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMThe Repertory Theatre of St. Louis The Rep opened Sunday in the Park with George, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, on the Browning Mainstage of the Loretto-Hilt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMThe documentary will take a viewer behind the scenes of the creation of the worldwide hit musical JERSEY BOYS. Hear from the original Four Seasons including Frankie Valli, the musical's crea…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:06PMTheatreWorks has announced casting for The Sty of the Blind Pig, written by Philip Hayes Dean, to perform City Arts on Pearl in Downtown Hartford from January 20 until February 26. Tazewell …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PMElvin Roytman and Bein' It Productions will present Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil's Miss Kim, a new play about a young Korean-American woman at war with her abusers, her family and herself…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMThe discussion between The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’s leading lady Audra McDonald (playing Bess) and director Diane Paulus continues in part two of this multi-part Director’s Cut seri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:04PMDarren Criss, who recently made his Broadway debut in the revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, talked with E! about balancing Broadway and "Glee."
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Condola Rashad, Rosie Benton, and Tracie Thoms discuss the hit play, “Stick Fly.” During what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, two adult sons both choose to…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:59PM:An updated list of celebrities has been announced for Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl, which will air Monday, January 16 at 8pm on NBC, according t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMThe new NBC television series "Smash," about the making of the next big Broadway musical, is launching an initiative to implement theatre programs in 20 pilot schools across the U.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMAs first reported on TVGuide.com, Broadway veteran Janet McTeer will guest star in an upcoming episode of DirectTV channel's popular legal series DAMAGES.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMStage and screen star Barry Pearl will be featured in Joan Beber's Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn, a new fantasy play, making its world premiere at The Odyssey Theatre, January 21-March 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMNew year, new wardrobe! Things were fashionably fabulous on January 5 as Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s off-Broadway hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore celebrated 2012 and welcomed a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMAn interview with Marc Bamuthi Joseph about "Word Becomes Flesh," his spoken word piece which returns to the Under the Radar festival in New York, this time enacted by five other performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:39PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the December 17, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:39PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the December 24, 2011, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:37PMThe Oscars join forces with Funny or Die: "The Academy decided to hip it up a bit – diving right into their fears about none of the modern audiences being able to relate to someth…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:34PMTony Award winner Lillias White, Tony nominee Veanne Cox and Emmy Award winner Nancy Dussault head the Off-Broadway cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore beginning Jan. 4 at the West Side Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMDoes making you think for a long time about why you dislike something make that something good? If so, Motus is for you
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:30PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley, who was last seen Off-Broadway in the MCC Theater production of Wild Animals You Should Know, will play a series of concerts in New York City beginning Jan. 9…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMAccording to a notice from Actor's Equity, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has cancelled its planned production of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey, which was to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMThe Kennedy Center will present First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb in the Eisenhower Theater, June 8-July 1, 2012, with an opening on June 13. The production replaces the previousl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMTickets to the Denver launch of the national tour of the Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon, about two missionaires from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who take the tri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMDarren Criss sang and danced his way into our hearts on Glee, and now he's taking on Broadway as How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying's newest J. Pierrepont Finch.
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:16PMDarren Criss sang and danced his way into our hearts on Glee, and now he’s taking on Broadway as How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’s newest J. Pierrepont Finch. Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:15PMFull cast and creative team has been announced for South Coast Reperory's production of Molly Smith Metzler's new play Elemeno Pea, to run January 27-February 26. Marc Masterson wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMRaymond J. Barry's Awake in a World That Encourages Sleep attempts to explore economic inequity, war, power and other global themes through a three-character one-act. Barry, who also directs…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:09PMTony Award-winner Alice Ripley Next to Normal Side Show will play a series of concerts in New York City later this month, it was announced today. Alice Ripleys Daily Practice, which features…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMSilk Road Rising is set to present a free staged reading of Israeli playwright Motti Lerner's Paulus, February 17-19 at The Historic Chicago Temple Building's Pierce Hall. Daniell…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley and Elliot Norton Award winner Paula Plum will be honored at SpeakEasy Stage Company's 21st Annual Benefit Gala and Silent
Auction to be held Tuesday, Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMColin Hanlon, who was seen on Broadway in Rent, Off-Broadway in I Love You Because and in the first North American tour of Wicked, has joined the cast of the upcoming reading of Twilight: T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Tony Award winner Alice Ripley will perform more of her acclaimed solo concerts, Alice Ripley's Daily Practice, in New York this month.
She will appear on Mondays, January 9 and Janua…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:57PMLa MaMa will be hosting the New York City premiere of Theatre Y's I Killed My Mother from February 10 to March 4 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre.
I Killed My Mother tells the story of a R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMThis month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:55PMIt’s Friday, so let’s do a quick round-up of some of the theater stories people are talking about his week: Golden Globe Nominee and “It Girl” Jessica Chastain (The H…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:53PMNBC's SMASH, which will be premiering on Monday, February 6th from 10-11 p.m. ET, is a musical drama that celebrates the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater as it follows a cross-s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMScarlet Maressa Rivera will star in Irondale and Scenes' American premiere of An Arab in My Mirror, February 1-11 at Irondale Center. Philippe Vincent will direct.
Written by Riad Cah…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMVeanne Cox, Nancy Dussault, Katie Lee, Eve Plumb, and Lillias White joined producer Daryl Roth to celebrate their opening night in the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMNBC is funding an initiative to create musical theater programs in U.S. schools in need of arts education.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:40PMThe soldier who returns to find that he's a stranger in the country he fought for is a familiar figure in drama (one thinks of Simon Stephens' recent Motortown), as is the absconding father …
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:39PMCirque du Soleil has a highly successful formula that surrounds strong, polished circus acts with bombastic glitter and vaguely uplifting sentiment.
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:31PMBroadway grosses are up—likely due to dynamic ticket pricing. These ten shows fared best amongst an elite group. Of course, most of these shows had an unfair advantage. Shows like Wicked a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:30PMThere are many plays set to open in 2012 which guarantee all star casts, street cred and classic stories. So many, in fact, that it was difficult to select the most buzzed about, the most pr…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:30PMThe nine-time Tony Award-winning hit The Book of Mormon may be the next tenant of London's Prince of Wales Theatre in 2013, according to the Daily Mail.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMFinborough, LondonThis 80-minute play is the product of an unusual partnership between an emerging young actor, Toby Wharton, and a veteran of feminist theatre, Tash Fairbanks. The result is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMAccording to the New York Times, Broadway producing team Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller decided to end their partnership to produce independently. The duo, which has been working together…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMBroadway composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz will perform at the A.R.T. Ever After gala, to be held at The Plaza Castle on Monday, February 13 at 6:30pm. Jared Bowen of WGBH will serve as emc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:25PMOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever star Harry Connick Jr. will appear in a four-episode arc on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Connick will play Execut…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMOn a Clear Day You Can See Forever star Harry Connick Jr. will appear on a four-episode arc on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Connick will reportedly …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMfirst reported on The Hollywood Reporter, recording artist Harry Connick Jr. is set to appear in a multi-episode arc of the hit NBC drama LAW amp ORDER SVU.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMIn The Heights' Lin-Manuel Miranda can’t get enough of his hometown! Known for bringing gritty city tales to life on the Great White Way, the Tony Award-winning composer is pa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:23PMThe buzz surrounding the premiere has been deafening, and we have just gotten our hands on the first official full-length clips Click below for a SMASH, episode 1 preview
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMKicking off 2012 on the racism front, we have this video, "Shit White Girls Say . . . to Black Girls"And then we have this post at A Poor Player, which prompted 99Seats to write "Shit White …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:20PMTony Award winners Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller are dissolving their company, The Producing Office, according to The New York Times.
The paper is reporting that the decision between th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMEmmy and Grammy Award winner Harry Connick, Jr. will join the cast of NBC's Law & Order: SVU, according to a report on TVGuide.com.
Connick will play a prosecutor who is assigned…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMI love doing the Chicago Theatre Off Book podcasts with my friend Katy Walsh and her partner in podcasting crime, Josh Volkers. This go round, Katy, Kris Vire (theatre editor of Time Out Chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 01:10PMSouth Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center is to present the Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama, Twelve Moods for Jazz, February 23 at 8pm.
The piece is an original work conceived by USC Pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMCharacter actor William Duell, a veteran of 14 Broadway shows and over 20 films, passed away from respiratory failure at his home in Manhattan on December 22, according to the New York Times…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
GO TO THE DEVIL Within the manifesto of Kneehigh – an avant-garde, world-class theater company based in Cornwall, England – is a simple but mighty statement: Kneehigh tells stories. By…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:58PMBroadway veteran Taye Diggs recently released a childrens' book titled Chocolate Me. In the video below, Diggs visits 'The Talk' where he chats about the book, his youth, and more Click belo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMKevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller, the producing team who ushered the Off-Broadway musicals Rent, Avenue Q and In the Heights to Tony-winning runs on Broadway, have announced plans to move f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMTickets for Signature Theatre’s Blood Knot, starring Tony nominee Colman Domingo (Scottsboro Boys) and Scott Shepherd (Gatz), are now on sale. The show will begin previews on January 3…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34PMThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts-produced revival of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, directed by Christopher Ashley and featuring a revised book by Terrence McNally, has been &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:31PMTickets for Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good) are now on sale. Devised and performed by German-British artists collective Gob Squad, the show will begin its …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMAccording to Deadline.com, Tony-award nominee and 'American Horror Story' actress Frances Conroy has been cast in the upcoming NBC futuristic drama BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThe Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts-produced revival of Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey, directed by Christopher Ashley and featuring a revised book by Terrence McNally, has been canc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMAll I Ask of You
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Twenty-second in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Performed by Patrick Wilson as Raoul and Emm…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:24PMMatthew Dellapina plays a Yankee adrift in China Theatre is full of men and women mystified, rattled, and even paralyzed by alien surroundings. From Agamemnon to Blanche DuBois, from Nick an…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:20PMWestport Country Playhouse Informercial Spoof
Recently, a number of Westport Country Playhouse staffers created a spoof of the great infomercials we all know and love. No ShamWows here, bu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:19PMThe original cast recording of SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, starring Brent Barrett and Jenn Harris, is set to be released in stores and through Amazon.com this Tuesday, January 10th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMPanto season isn't quite 'behind you', so it's all quiet everywhere apart from the West End front. Nevertheless, here are this week's ones to watchIt's still very quiet outside of London as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMGlee got a whole lot hotter this week when Ricky Martin arrived on set to film his upcoming episode. As previously reported, the Evita star will appear as McKinley High’s substitute Sp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMIn Young Jean Lee's "Show," naked performers smash and mash-up ideas about gender.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:10PMSee Dame Edna in DICK WHITTINGTON at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 10 January 2012 and enjoy a question and answer session with Barry Humphries after the show, all for £25
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:10PMThe tenth annual Modfest, at Vassar College, has announced its lineup, with all events taking place on the Vassar College campus, January 18 - February 4.
The festival is celebration of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMThe holidays were still in full swing at the Imperial Theatre on January 4, when Billy Elliot’s annual holiday door-decorating contest got underway, and The Today Show’s Kathie L…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMAlfredo Narciso, Lisa Joyce, Steven Boyer and Andrew Garman will take on a host of characters in the New York premiere of Marius von Mayenburg's satire The Ugly One, which will begin per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 Connecticut Awards This year's awards broke traffic records and we couldn't be more excited to announce the 2011 B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThese days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message board…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMThe Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the 30th week of the 2011 - 2012 season (December 19 - 25; 34 productions):#9 - Other Desert Cities1. Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway (…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMToday in 1963, Oliver opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 774 performances. Oliver is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is base…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMJeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, the producing team behind "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "In the Heights," are amicably ending their professional partnership after 21 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PMPerhaps it seems unexpected for Beau Bridges to be tackling a Broadway musical at this stage of his career, but for him it's the logical next step.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
The New York Times kicked off its 11th annual Arts amp Leisure Weekend yesterday, January 5. The Timess signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMAfter touring around North America, Cirque du Soleil’s Totem is back at the Royal Albert Hall for a limited run. Cirque are known for creating visually astounding shows that keep the a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:52AMTickets for The Public Theater’s return engagement of Gatz, the epic theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are now on sale. The show will begin previ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMThe Broadway star who turns down a project a week and the composer who once said he'd never write a musical again have decided they want to work again — and together!
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMTony Award nominee Frances Conroy has signed on to the upcoming NBC pilot "Beautiful People," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMHey all, This week Ryan Scott Oliver is here to tell you all about his latest project. Take it away Ryan! Ryan Scott Oliver here! I’m the composer and lyricist of Disney’s upcoming Freak…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:41AMBroadway vet Taye Diggs is more than just a singing and dancing machine, he’s a writer, too! On January 5, the Wicked and Rent alum stopped by The Talk to chat with Sharon Osbourn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMOk all, I'd love your feedback. On of the things we'll be doing as part of our upcoming Nest workshop is reading a play a week. I've been trying to put together a list of works that we shoul…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:33AMIN THE HEIGHTS opened on Broadway to wide critical acclaim on March 9, 2008, and continues to play the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In addition to winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMSingers Will and Anthony Nunziata will release their debut CD, Make Someone Happy, on February 9 at Barnes & Noble Upper East SIde, with a special signing event. Digital download of the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMOk, first shamless plug of the year! Take a quick second and visit http://shortyawards.com/category/blogger/1 and nominate yours truly for Best Blogger in Social Media. Thanks all around!
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:27AMThe original cast recording of Silence! The Musical, which is currently playing at The 9th Space Theatre at Performance Space 122, will be available in stores and through Amazon.com beginnin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMBloody Bloody Andrew Jackson star Benjamin Walker has joined the cast of the Red Bull Theater's Jan. 9 reading of Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Pirandello's Henry IV.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMThe After Party for NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman will be held on Wednesday, January 11 at 5:30 pm at Iridium.
The show will feature appearances by Sheila Jordan, Bill Nolte, Charles West, La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMMario Lopez and Courtney Mazza, who shared the Broadway stage in the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line, became engaged over the New Year's weekend, according to Extra.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMCasting has been announced for German playwright Marius von Mayenburg's social satire The Ugly One, to be co-presented by Soho Rep and The Play Company, at SoHo Rep, February 1-26. Dani…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMThe previously reported West End production of The Book of Mormon is eyeing a home at the Prince of Wales Theatre in early 2013, according to the The Daily Mail. The prod…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 11:07AMThe previously reported West End production of The Book of Mormon is eyeing a home at the Prince of Wales Theatre in early 2013, according to the The Daily Mail. The prod…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMIn the following video, cast members, directors, playwrights, and Roundabout Theatre Company staff members discuss each show for the new season in-depth and give fans a good idea about what …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 162012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMI woke up yesterday morning to Senator McCain endorsing Mitt Romney for President (and I'm sure looking for a VP nod as well). Since this is an election year, there will be more endorsements…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMDavid Henry Hwang's new comedy Chinglish celebrated 100 performances on Broadway Jan. 5.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMLin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-award winner for “In the Heights,” has a lot on his plate, including a performance of “The Hamilton Mixtape,” a rap telling of the founding father’s li…
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People's Choice Awards 2012 - MissP's Predictions
The 2012 People's Choice Awards will award the best of the best in 43 different categories live January 11th at 9:00PM on CBS. …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:57AMStage veteran and Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch will appear in a benefit for the Afghan Women's Writing Project, to be held at Magic Futurebox, in Brooklyn on January 22 at 4pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMAaron Carter, who is currently playing Matt in the Off-Broadway production The Fantasticks at the Snapple Theatre Center, will perform two upcoming concerts; at Showcase Live in Foxboro, Mas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMOn Twitter Watch, Lea Michele wrote He's seriously the sweetest and such a great fit for our showCheck out the photo she tweeted below Broadway-bound Ricky Martin will travel to GLEE's McKin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMUpdated casting has been announced for Red Bull Theater's offering of Pirandello's Henry IV, in a new version by Tom Stoppard, on Monday, January 9, at 7:30pm at Playwrights Horiz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:45AMPakistani-Canadian actor Zaib Shaikh is shifting into high gear as Little Mosque on the Prairie winds down.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:41AMThe longlist for the 2012 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) has been released. The shortlist of nominees will be released on January 17 and the winners will be announced at the Orange Br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMJoyce Friedmann, former president of Friedmann Theatrical and director of Press, Publications and Advertising, Yale Repertory TheatreYale School of Drama, has joined OampM Co., it was announ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMTony Award-winning actress Alice Ripley and Boston artist Paula Plum will be honored at SpeakEasy Stage Companys 21st Annual Benefit Gala and Silent Auction to be held Tuesday, March 27, 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:31AMQueens Theatre in association with Theatre 167 will present Jackson Heights 3 AM, a new play conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith, beginning Jan. 13 at PS 69 in Jackson Heights.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMThe Ensemble expands its repertoire in anticipation of a 2013 relaunch.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:28AMOn Monday January 9, Red Bull Theatre will hold a staged reading of PIRANDELLO'S HENRY IV, a new version of the classic play written by Tom Stoppard. Jack Obrien will direct the reading, whi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMVariety reports that actor Joel Edgerton has officially signed on to join the cast of Kathryn Bigelow's currently untitled Osama Bin Laden movie. It had been rumored that Edgerton, best know…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMRicky Martin, who will return to Broadway later this season in the revival of the Tony-winning Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, will appear on an upcoming episode of the hit Fox s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThis week - it's all about FOLLIES Time is running out to see this beautiful production, which closes at Broadway's Marquee Theatre on January 22. Featured in the artwork below is Bernadette…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMReports on Sontag: Reborn, Super Night Shot, and Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMIn the comments to the post below, Scott Walters weighs in: When I read Tom's essay, I knew it would be controversial, and allow a lot of people to thump their breasts in outrage. But it am…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:15AMThe first 15 minutes of Infinite Abyss’ Snow White Trash is a delightfully zany spoof that imaginatively reinterprets the fairy tale as a crass, royal blue hoot in which Disney’s sweet b…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:10AMA mix of comic books and radio-style entertainmentIs there room on stage for a conmic book experience? (Besides "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," that is.)
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM
Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Farewell To The Theatre, to run March 1 - April 7 at the Hampstead Theatre. Roger Michell will direct the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMFrances Conroy has joined the cast of the NBC pilot Beautiful People, according to a report on Deadline.com.
The show, which is written by Michael McDonald, is set in a future society where…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMA Special Masterpiece Event One Simple Chicago home inspired two landmark plays written nearly 50 years apart. Each is a celebrated masterpiece. Together An epic theatre experience you won't…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMFrom seafood to dim sum, a look at top dining experiences in the bustling, beautiful city of Hong Kong.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:44AMI started writing this article as a retrospective of Baltimore theatre in 2011. But I couldn’t help thinking a little bit about what Baltimore is looking at in 2012. In Baltimore, thanks t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMTony winner Idina Menzel, whose new PBS concert, "Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony," will debut in Chicago Jan. 9 before airing around the country in March, will make he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMThe Broadway production of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys is currently offering a Winter Weather Guarantee for all tickets purchased now through March 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMDear Valued Praxis Reader/Patron/Engager, No Seriously. It would help. We have been around since 2004 making ten original plays and blogging since 2006. We have no government operating fundi…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:33AMNBC's highly anticipated drama SMASH will be premiering on Monday, February 6th from 10-11 p.m. ET. The show is a musical drama that celebrates the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMThe extraordinary intensity the ensemble achieved at soft dynamic levels and their very natural sense of the movement’s pacing were both quite impressive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AMThe U.K. trade paper The Stage has named Britain's National Theatre as Producer of the Year, and also honored the Bush Theatre (London Theatre of the Year), Chichester Festival Theatre (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMThe U.K. trade paper The Stage has named Britain's National Theatre as Producer of the Year, and also honored the Bush Theatre (London Theatre of the Year), Chichester Festival Theatre (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMLYSISTRATA JONES may be giving its final performance on Sunday, January 8, 2012, but as revealed last night at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox, an original cast album is on its way Upon closing, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMRicky Martin has posted a picture of himself and the cast of the hit FOX series Glee to his Twitter account. As previously reported, Martin is slated to play a Spanish teacher when he guest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:18AMActor William Duell has died of respiratory failure, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 88.
Duell's credits include the original Broadway production of 1776, as well …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:11AMWilliam Duell, a small, thin-faced character actor who was a familiar presence to generations of television, film and stage audiences, died at his home in Manhattan on Dec. 22. The cause was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AM
The Wild Project, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: An inventive and important work of poetic theatre that's smartly contrived and incredibly affecting.
You know what su…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:44AMCo-writer and director Hideki Noda illustrates his misogynistic belief in man's inherent unkindness to man in this unsettling but arresting play of feverish theatricality and escalating gr…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:41AMIn this quirky and surprisingly funny play, Japanese writer-director Toshiki Okada portrays the quiet malaise of his country's young office workers caught in an economic downturn.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:33AMA sign of the times: one of the first things that film critic J. Hoberman did when he was laid off from the Village Voice earlier this week was to start a blog. Hoberman was one of those cri…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:17AMBen Chaplin will return to the theatre to play playwright Harley Granville Barker in the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Farewell to the Theatre, beginning performances March 1, prior…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AMThe dreaded duologue showcase is a staple of most drama schools, and a favourite of the casting crowd. It is the smallest big chance you’ll get to show how talented you can be, with a …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:05AMThanks to Whatsonstage.com Awards adopted charity Stage One, 20-year-old theatregoer Lauren Paine got the thrill of a lifetime on New Year’s Eve when she joined the cast of West End sm…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:04AMNorthlight Theatre has announced casting for Ten Chimneys, to run March 9-April 15. Artistic Director BJ Jones will direct.
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher, Ten Chimneys tells the story of Broa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:04AMWhat could be more festive than a show opening at The Wyndhams Theatre entitled Christmas with the Rat Pack? To the many in the audience this would be the perfect start to celebrating the se…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMThe award-winning actor discusses playing Sir Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
The New York Neo-Futurists are relaunching their long-running hit (like a decade long) Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at the Kraine Theatre tonight, and reviving their more recent hi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AMThis haunting collaboration between Croatian performance artists and former members of Goat Island is a first-rate love song to what we can't touch—in each other, in our art, and in …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:44AMThe dreaded duologue showcase is a staple of most drama schools, and a favourite of the casting crowd. It is the smallest big chance you’ll get to show how talented you can be, with a …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:40AMDanny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz on this day in 1912) was a Lebanese-American comedian and singer, best known for his long-running tv show Make Room for Daddy (a.k.a The Danny …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:39AMBen Chaplin, Tara Fitzgerald and Jemma Redgrave will star in the Hampstead Theatre production of Richard Nelson’s new play Farewell To The Theatre which runs from 7 March 2012 (preview…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:36AMMichael Riedel reports in today's New York Post that both LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE and LEAP OF FAITH are considering making Spring bows on Broadway as they evaluate both potential available thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33AMA cardboard puppet questions his existence in this screamingly funny and achingly sad Beckettian piece from Britain's Blind Summit Theatre that combines whimsy with pathos.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:17AMIntellectual giant Susan Sontag gets the solo treatment from actor-adapter Moe Angelos and director Marianne Weems. An intense performance and imaginative video design partially rescue a s…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:06AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is set to launch a new musical theatre talent search series on ITV1 to cast a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
“It is not enough merely to love literature, if one wishes to spend one’s life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of wri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15AMThis "live concept album" based on Judith Rossner's bestselling novel has a few effective moments but fails to evoke pathos for its desperate heroine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:10AMA Nice Way of Saying "Go Fuck Yourself, Mitch..."I nominated Richard for this job last summer. And yet, for almost half a year, Republicans in the Senate have blocked his confirmation. They�…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:06AMGreat albums demand serious attention. But what if the disk we’re talking about earns much of its brilliance from pure whimsy?
That’s how recording engineer Rob Christiansen vie…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThis unusual story set in a much-transformed United States leaves audiences wanting more.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00AM
Friday January 6, 2012
NEW YORK -- After seeing "The Mountaintop" on Broadway, Laurence Fishburne went backstage, stunned.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:04AMFriday January 6, 2012
NEW YORK -- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual five-week winter season at City Center is always a
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:04AMFIVE REVIEWS OF WILDSIDE FEST SHOWS BASED ON THEIR TITLE (I HAVE NOT YET SEEN THESE SHOWS)I'm not even going to read the previews, or any captions or descriptions of the shows. I'm simply go…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMDramaturg, Playwright, Educator Quakertown, Pennsylvania USA I once asked Judith Malina what she does when she’s not working, and she answered, “I work”. I feel like I take the same ap…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I report on a revival of Gypsy at Pennsylvania's Bristol Riverside Theatre in which Tovah...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about Wolcott Gibbs' career as a drama critic. The occasion is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"People always complain about muck-raking biographers saying 'Leave us our heroes.' 'Leave us our villains' is just as important." Alan...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMDirector Diane Paulus sits down with star Audra McDonald for a conversation about their new Broadway production of the Gershwin-Heyward classic Porgy and Bess.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIt's been 32 years since Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin shared a tense waltz together on Broadway in Evita, nabbing Tony Awards for their electrifying performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Storm Theatre Company, under the artistic direction of Peter Dobbins, presents the New York and North American premiere of George Lillo's The London Merchant beginning Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBen Crawford, Alexandra Silber, Sara Jean Ford and Christopher Fitzgerald join the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for two concert presentations of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManners evaporate when parents sit for coffee and dessert in the Huntington Theatre Company production of God of Carnage, starring feature Brooks Ashmanskas, Stephen Bogardus, Johanna Day an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1768 Birthday of John Durang (1768-1816), identified by scholars as one of the first American-born professional dancers and actors. Known for his "Dwarf Dance," "Sailor's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGhost Light, a co-production of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre, begins performances Jan. 6, prior to an official opening Jan. 11, on Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTed Pappas and Pittsburgh Public Theater have solidified their future together, with the producing artistic director agreeing to stay on through 2018 and an eye toward new artistic endeavors…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM