OH, swami — gaze into your crystal ball and tell us: Whither Broadway?
Shall London simply teleport its productions, stages and all? Can we expect wrapper-free candy? Silent cellphones? An…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:58PMBLACK COMEDY AND KITCHEN SINK DRAMA: AN IRISH STEW While the horror and suspense merely simmer in The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Martin McDonagh’s 1996 black comedy – the dark humor, bl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:53PMLed by Kevin Spacey in the role of Richard III, the company features a BritishAmerican cast that includes Maureen Anderman as the Duchess of York Haydn Gwynne as Queen Elizabeth Chuk Iwuji a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49PMToby Zinman found "In the Footprint" a disappointingly dull docudrama about the legalities of eminent domain focused on the seven-year battle over building an arena in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:42PMGetting My Groove OnWhen I'm writing I usually go with music that won't distract me too much. Lately I've been listening to Amalia Rodrigues, the Queen of Fado. It's a fitting musical choice…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:39PMWARLIKE FROTTAGE The Porters of Hellsgate’s production of Shakespeare’s Trojan War essay, Troilus and Cressida, begins promisingly. A shifting tableau establishes characters an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:11PMLegit News:
'Mecca' opens on Broadway
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Yankee Stadium is getting a huge new wall this summer, but A-Rod and other sluggers don’t have to worry about hitting homers over it.
On July 6, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters i…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51PMThe Golden Dragon, by Germany playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig, is a fragmented play about a fragmented yet interconnected world.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:49PMPuerto Rico-themed One Woman Show plays limited engagement in NYCHonor & Fidelity: The Ballad of a BorinqueneerJanuary 7th – 21st at The Drilling Companywith live classical g…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:44PMTony Award nominee Andrew Rannells, currently starring on Broadway in THE BOOK OF MORMON, has signed on to a new comedy from GLEE's Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36PMJohn Logan's 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Play "Red" offers a compelling portrait of a great artist plying his craft.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMDirector Anthony Mosely succeeds in pulling us into a narrative that grows ever more fantastical as its leading anti-hero morphs from a sullen adolescent playing internet pranks into a dange…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:21PMWhen the Bridge Project began in 2009, the three-year plan was to bring English and American artists together in successive brief touring seasons.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:00PMDavid Rooney The director and star of "American Beauty" team up for the Shakespeare play, the closing entry in the ambitious international classical theater undertaking, The Bridge Project.r…
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Thank you, Deborah, for that gorgeous homage to our city and to the Bay Area’s theater community. Like you, and despite living in San Francisco for some twenty-five years, I have never bec…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 07:38PMEric Simonson’s Magic/Bird, a drama about the basketball legends Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird, will open at the Longacre Theatre on April 11. Producers Fran Kirmser and Tony P…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 07:32PMDirector David Cromer -- the talk of Chicago and Off-Broadway -- brings the longest-running staging ever of Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town to Broad Stage, opening tonight. Helen Hunt as …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:31PMAs the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into …
SOURCE: 2AMT at 07:20PMKathleen Turner strides onto the largely bare Geffen stage in her skinny black jeans, denim over shirt and props her ruby red cowboy boots onto a crowded work desk next to a manual typewrite…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:12PMArts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews "Red," a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn't like what he sees.
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Idina Menzel's new PBS concert special, Idina Menzel Live Barefoot at the Symphony, will premiered on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW on January 9. The concert - filmed in November in Toronto f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMLos Angeles Opera is the latest arts group to adopt a dynamic ticket-pricing policy. The company will announce Wednesday new pricing programs for the 2012-13 season, including a new low tick…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:39PMAlan Patrick Kenny ran a theater in Cincinnati for seven seasons. Then he became the only student in the UCLA MFA directing program that started in 2010. He's now making his debut as an LA p…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:34PMFord’s Theatre just announced that due to a private health matter, David Emerson Toney has withdrawn from the cast of the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Necessary Sacrifices. F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies, which was originally announced to arrive on Broadway in 2010, may be unmasked in the U.S. in the coming season, accord…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PMTheatermania joins the cast of NBC's Smash for the taping of a big production number at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:27PMI don’t often delve into the theater marketing discussion. Partially because others do it better, and partially because I hate the phrase “butts in seats,” which you’…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:20PMThe complete cast of the Feb. 8-19 Encores! concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along was announced on Jan. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PMGrowing old and dying are two things that haunt us all. I fear that as I get older, the person I once was will begin to disappear. I worry about the fragments of my life that I will leave sc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09PMTicket exchanges availableUpdated performance schedule to be announced
Washington, D.C.—Due to a private health matter, David Emerson Toney has withdrawn from the cast of the Ford’s The…
SOURCE: fords.org at 06:06PMWant to know what Andrew Rannells would do with Hugh Jackman’s body? Click on the latest episode of Side by Side by Susan Blackwell and watch the Tony-nominated star of The Book of Mor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:01PMAthol Fugard will celebrate his 80th birthday this year and has homage to the playwright, several of his works are being produced. The Road to Mecca, written in 1984, is the first to premier…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 06:00PM
Studs Terkel called race “the American obsession” — a persistent compulsion that is sometimes blatant, sometimes covert, but unquestionably deeply embedded in our national psyche. You …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMOPENING AMERIVILLE. Victory Gardens Theater presents performance ensemble Universes’ exploration of the American experience featuring hip-hop, song, poetry and dance. Directed by Chay Yew.…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:56PMIncredibly, E. Faye Butler and Susie McMonagle, two Chicago musical theater veterans, have never worked together. But that’s about to change with Northlight Theatre’s staging of Frank Hi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:46PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Breaking news ‘Clybourne Park’ Coming to Broadway in April| NYTimes.com/ArtsBeat Blog – by Patrick Healy A critica…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:41PMAudra McDonald & Norm Lewis perform "You Is My Woman Now" from Porgy & Bess
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis perform "You Is My Woman Now" from Porgy and Bess durin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:37PMYoung Dance to perform outdoors -- in Minneapolis in January.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:30PMIn between rehearsals for the new Off-Broadway revisal of the musical
Carrie, stars Molly Ranson and Marin Mazzie — playing the
bullied and supernaturally gifted Carrie White and her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PM360° Network, a global network of in-the-round venues, has commissioned a new production from Canadian writer/director Robert Lepage, entitled Cartes, according to the website for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMBroadway ticket sales fell another $3 million through the week ending January 15, bringing the cumulative haul to $20.9 million across 29 productions.
January is traditionally a slow sales m…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:24PMAnything Goes star Joel Grey’s onstage home may be the cramped brig of the S.S. American, but his on-land dressing room is much roomier. Broadway.com headed to the Tony winner's ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PMNick Sandys will assume the position of artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre Company on February 1. He succeeds Timothy Douglas, who will depart the organization on January 31.
Sandys …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:15PMTimothy Douglas has resigned as artistic director of the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company after less than a year on the job.
Douglas, who succeeded James Bohnen, the theater’s founder and long…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:13PMCasting is set for the Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along. The production, starring previously announced Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Donnell…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:13PMAdventure Theatre gets Montgomery County Middle Students involved with Anti-Bullying New Play contest. Deadline to submit is Jan 30, 2012. Michael J. Bobbitt and Sang Bobbitt Hanna Many ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PMBeau Bridges on J.B. Biggley
Beau Bridges is starring as J.B. BIggley in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Broadway!
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING is a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:08PMMichael Urie on Bud Frump
Michael Urie is making his Broadway debut as Bud Frump in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Broadway!
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:08PMRose Hemingway on Rosemary Pilkington
See Rose Hemingway as Rosemary Pilkingtonin HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING.
Disney Channel icon and member of The Jonas Brothers, N…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:07PMTammy Blanchard on Hedy LaRue
See Tammy Blanchard as Hedy LaRue in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING.
Disney Channel icon and member of The Jonas Brothers, NICK JONAS, is no…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:07PMSince making her splashy, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Mimi in Rent in 1996, Daphne Rubin-Vega has been a fixture in the New York theater scene. She recently chatted with Broadway.com ab…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PMSince making her splashy, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Mimi in Rent in 1996, Daphne Rubin-Vega has been a fixture in the New York theater scene. She recently chatted with Broadway.com ab…
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Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica is currently presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Scott Short. Expanding upon a precise and highly laborious art making technique, Short’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:59PMBruce Norris' 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater on April 12.Bruce Norris' 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, will open on Broadway at the Wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:58PMPreviews have officially begun for the off-Broadway revival of John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger, and we’ve got a first look at the scorching British drama. The Roundab…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMAcademy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") will play Pozzo in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:52PMTony and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey stars in the titular role of the Sam Mendes production of Richard III, the final production of the transatlantic Bridge Project, which officially o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMCasting is now complete for the City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, to be presented February 8-19. James Lapine will direct, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has enough star power to keep Times Square burning bright through the election. The political drama, directed by Michael Wils…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:42PMThe upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man has enough star power to keep Times Square burning bright through the election. The political drama, directed by Michael Wils…
SOURCE: fortlauderdale.broadway.com at 04:42PMCasting has been completed for New York City Centers upcoming Encores production of Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along, the first New York City Center Encores production of the season. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMHello readers, Here is a link to this week’s review of JP Miller’s emotional drama from the 1960s, Days of Wine and Roses, now playing at the Lounge Theatre in Hollwyood. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:31PMBased on Stephen King’s horrific novel, Carrie the musical has not played in front of New York audiences since its infamously short Broadway run in 1988. Now 24 years later, MCC is bri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMHowlRound has kicked off their City Series — exploring theater scenes in cities around the country — with San Francisco. You can read articles and blog posts from: Deborah Cullin…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:27PMThe Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS officially opened on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre 226 West 46th Street. The cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMThe Latino Theater Company has been evicted from the Los Angeles Theater Center, according to Los Angeles Downtown News.
The City Council voted on Tuesday, January 17 to evict both the Lati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:23PMThe regional level of the prestigious opera company's tryouts are Sunday in Seattle. David McDade of Seattle Opera has been accompanist since 2006.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:20PMCourtesy Margo Leavin GalleryWilliam Leavitt's set design for "The Particles (of White Naugahyde)"
From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:18PMAfter its run at the Mark Taper Forum set to start Jan. 25, "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater on April 12, accord…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:14PMDiane Paulus, the controversial director of Porgy and Bess, now playing on Broadway, will be taking on the task of bringing themes from Shakespeare's Tempest to the new Cirque du Soleil show…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:14PMSo You Think You Can Dance champion Melanie Moore will be featured in Dance from the Heart, to be held at New York City's Cedar Lake Theater on January 23 and 24 at 6:30pm and 8:30 pm o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:14PMThe new off-Broadway musical Sistas is a nonstop celebration, and Broadway.com jumped at the chance to chat with this show's talented company. Produced by three-time Tony winner Hin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PMDirector Peter Robel has created a steam-punk English language production of the tale of a man whose name has become synonymous with “hypocrite.” This Rajit Bolt adaption is written in …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:07PMProducers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter today announced the complete cast for the North American premiere of Nina Raines new play Tribes, directed by multiple Lortel and O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PM"God's Ear," by Jenny Schwartz, opens at the Zephyr Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:03PM
Seth Rudetsky's DISASTER!, written by Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick, will play Sunday nights at The Triad, January 22-February 26. Denis Jones will choreograph and direct.
The show is des…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMIt is with great regret that I have decided to leave my little boat. In the early hours of New Years Day, I stood at a bus stop in Hackney and counted down the minutes until I could remove m…
SOURCE: Girl in the Dark at 03:56PMThe Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its plans for the 2012-2013 season.
Among the season highlights will be the new staged concert presentation of Andre Previn's opera based on Te…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMThe COC team pitches the seasonThe Canadian Opera Company (COC) announced its season earlier today and it promises to be one of the most solid years in the house since the death of Richard B…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:54PMWoolly Mammoth’s theater Tweet Up causes drama with playwright (by Jessica Goldstein on The Washington Post)
SOURCE: direct address at 03:53PMBoasting a stellar cast from stage and screen, SMASH stars Emmy award winning actress Debra Messing, Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Tony Award nomine…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMJust before it goes into history, the Broadway play "The Mountaintop" has announced that it has earned back its investment.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:50PMTrundling back to New York after my London break, first on my list was the much maligned Luc Bondy production of "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera. It is indeed a weak production but it wasn…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 03:50PMThe Broadway production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, has recouped its entire initial investment of $3.1 million. Kenny Leon has direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMIt’s never too early for Broadway fans to start handicapping the Tony Awards, and the announcement that Pulitzer Prize winner Clybourne Park will open at the Walter Kerr Theatre in Apr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PM"I'm not someone who has a lot of my own ideas," the charming children's author Brian Selznick observed last week at Cullen's Bar & Grill on Southport Avenue. "Most of the things I've done h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMProducers of The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS, which officially opened on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre 226 West 46th Street, have announced a student rush policy f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMTHEATER REVIEWS: 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Festival's "American Drink Book" ★★★½ and "I Love You Permanently" ★★½
NINA METZ reviews 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Fe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PMTHEATER REVIEWS: 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Festival's "American Drink Book" ★★★½ and "I Love You Permanently" ★★½
NINA METZ reviews 2012 Rhinoceros Theater Fes…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMProducers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman announced today that their premiere Broadway production of Katori Halls Olivier Award-winning play, The Mountaintop, which is playing to sold out …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca starring Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which played its final performance on Broadway in September will launch a non-equity national tour in the Fall of 2012, presented by Troika Entertainment. A full schedul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMNew York City Opera has reached tentative agreements with the American Guild of Musical Artists and Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, and will begin rehearsals immediately, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMProducers of the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, have announced the launch of a student rush ticket policy beginning Jan. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch and Martin Sheen will join George Clooney and previously announced cast members for the one-night-only reading of Dus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 San Francisco Awards This year's awards broke traffic records and we couldn't be more excited to announce the 2011…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMKatori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, which will end its limited engagement Jan. 22, has recouped its entire initial investment of $3.1 million.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMMy View: It was classic William Finn, the quintessential teacher. The evening’s celebration of the American Songbook could have consisted solely of the marvelous Finn songbook. Instead “…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:22PMOn January 17, The Road to Mecca stars Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale had reason to celebrate: The distinguished threesome gave their opening night performance in Roundabout Thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMPorgy and Bess Choreography - 2012 Broadway Revival
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway and is filled with period appropriate choreography by Ronald K. Brown. Find out from mem…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:17PMThe Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced the resignation, effective Jan. 31, of its artistic director, Timothy Douglas, after less than a year on the job. Douglas, who succeeded James B…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:16PMPortraits of five of the dancers working with the famed choreographer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMPortraits of five of the dancers working with the famed choreographer
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMThe Broadway celebration of South African playwright Athol Fugard's 80th birthday kicked off last night, January 17, with the opening of "The Road to Mecca."
Fugard's 1984 drama focuses on …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:12PMShe turns to the work of composer John Cage to debut her new choreography
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:11PMAcademy Award nominee Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry and Russell Harvard will star in the American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes, which will be staged by Davi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMCasting is complete for the upcoming off-Broadway production of Nina Raine’s Tribes. As previously announced, David Cromer (Our Town) will direct the North American premiere, which beg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Martha Graham Dance Company wants to know: What are you thinking - or feeling?...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:07PM3-D Theatricals is set to present The Sound of Music, February 10-26 at Plummer Auditorium. T.J. Dawson will direct.
The final collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Sound of M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMSteppenwolf Theatre co-founder Jeff Perry and Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Mare Winningham will be featured in the North American premiere of Nina Raine's Tribes, to play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02PMBE SURE TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL (TO YOUR LEFT)!The Broadway Box Office Top Ten for the 33rd week of the 2011 - 2012 season (January 9 - 15; 29 productions):#9 - Rock of Ages1.…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 03:01PMGrammy winner Rosalind Elias, who plays Heidi Schiller in the Kennedy Center's current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, will not re-create that role …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Anything Goes, the shipboard musical comedy that won the Best Musical Revival Tony Award in 2011, will go full steam ahead, extending again, now to Sept. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMMichael Cerveris tells about his performance “An Idea of South,” a genre-defying recital/cabaret/hootenanny of songs ranging from the Carter Family and Johnny Mercer to Vic Chestnutt and…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:51PMRoundabout Theatre Company has just announced a new block of tickets now on-sale through September 9th, 2012. Anything Goes currently stars 2011 Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as Reno Sween…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50PMRemy Bumppo Theatre Company said Wednesday that its new artistic director, Timothy Douglas, has resigned halfway into his first season.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:49PM"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" actor Julian Sands talks about Harold Pinter. Sands is currently tackling the life and writing of Pinter in a new one-man show concluding its limited run Su…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:48PMThe Los Angeles City Council voted in closed session this morning to evict the Latino Theater Company from the city-owned Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Los Angeles Downtown News is repor…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:46PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce a new block of tickets now on-sale through September 9th, 2012. Anything Goes currently stars 2011 Tony®…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:46PMMaltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, FL, received the most 2011 Carbonell Award nominations — 25 — in the list of nominees that was announced on Jan. 15. The annual awards represent…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMBraxton is the writer, producer and star of "Did You Do Your Homework?," a semi-autobiographical solo show about a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.Braxton is th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMThe Mercury Lounge will present Fire Without a Spark: Emma and Andy Cover Springsteen on February 27at 8:30pm. The event, a one-night only Bruce Springsteen tribute concert, will feature per…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMRoy Cohn, the Communist-hunting attorney of the early '50s who died from AIDS in 1986, is the subject of Joan Beber's Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn, opening at the Odyssey. It explores the ma…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PMAmerican Conservatory Theater has announced that it will present a series of special events celebrating Lorenzo Pisoni's one-man clown show Humor Abuse, co-created with director Erica S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMThe first national tour of the Tony Award-nominated musical Catch Me If You Can, based on the Dreamworks film about a charming young con-man on the run for money and adventure, will hit the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMRoundabout Theatre Company last night opened Athol Fugard's THE ROAD TO MECCA, featuring Tony Award winner RoseMary Harris as Miss Helen, Carla Gugino as Elsa Barlow and Tony Award winner Ji…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PMThe South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present the dance company Evidence, February 18 at 8pm.
Evidence Artistic Director Ronald K. Brown uses movement to acquaint audiences with t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMThe company cleared a major obstacle in its effort to forge ahead in reduced form and without its Lincoln Center home, saying on Wednesday that it had reached agreements with both of its maj…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMCarole Demas, who starred as Sandy in the original Broadway company of Grease, will bring her cabaret act, Summer Nights, to the Laurie Beechman Theatre Feb. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMThe lively musical "Memphis" pulls into town, at the Academy of Music. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:14PMBroadway favorite Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, chef and actor, David Burtka, are featured in the February issue of OUT Magazine, in which tey chat about their releationship. Harris s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMPlaywright and Oscar nominee Jose Rivera will be honored at INTAR's first annual gala, to be held at the Manhattan Penthouse on Tuesday February 7 beginning at 7pm. Maria Canals-Barerra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMAs you are likely well aware, I have been obsessed with Pinterest since September. In case you are still unfamiliar with this latest social media craze, Pinterest is an online visual inspira…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 02:02PMThe Off-Broadway company of the new musical Once gathered Jan. 17 to record a cast album of the unique ensemble-driven show based on the hit indie film. A March release will coincide wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMPolitically charged production examines plight of those trying to escape to America
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:01PMTony Award nominee Gavin Creel (Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie) and songwriter Robbie Roth recently released an original single, “Noise,” to raise funds and support for marriage …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMPolitically charged production examines plight of those trying to escape to America
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:01PMSee this? Mark Rothko rarely did this.Local reviewers have called John Logan's Red (at SpeakEasy Stage through Feb. 4) "a great work of art," "a masterpiece," and "a play of ideas…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:00PM
INTAR To Present Its First Annual Gala, Celebrating The Impact of Latino Theater Honoring Oscar Nominee Jose Rivera and US Senator Robert Menendez Featuring the Cuisine of Celebrity Chef Ma…
SOURCE: David Gersten & Associates at 01:59PMSo intense is the sheer creepiness factor in Carlos Murillo’s “Dark Play or Stories for Boys” that you might just find yourself heading home afterward for a long, hot shower. The drama…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:58PMBryan Batt and Patricia Clarkson will perform in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, at the Westside Theatre on February 13 at 7:30pm.The event will benefit The Actors Fund. Tom Cianfichi will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMon CUNY TV: Sat., January 21st at 8:30 PM Sun., January 22nd at 12:30 PM and Mon., January 23rd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM We welcome actors Patrick Page, Isabel Keatingand Mich…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:49PMAGMA and Local 802, the unions representing opera performers and professional musicians, respectively, have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement with New York City Opera, it was…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMNew Friel adaptation of Ibsen classic now at H St. Playhouse.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 01:45PMDavid Sedaris will celebrate the release of his new book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary with an appearance at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on May 8 at 7:30pm.
The event wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMThe Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is host to the Distinctively Dutch Festival Feb. 18-May 20, celebrating performing and visual arts from the Netherlands. The three-month festival will feature d…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:45PMThe 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs has just been selected for preservation on the National Film Registry’s annual list of 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically significan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMFriday, January 20th, we are preempted on Thirteen by the season premiere of Great Performances at the Met. However, for a Theater Talk fix, watch our interview with the Metropolitan Ope…
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:36PMThe Bridge Project is a unique three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street, devoted to producing large-scale, classical theater for international audiences. The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:34PMBroadway and TV star Neil Patrick Harris and his longtime partner David Burtka share their love story in photos and words as part of Out Magazine’s second annual February love issue, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMPatricia Clarkson and Bryan Batt will co-star in a reading of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters next month to benefit the Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMAaron Braxton performs the second Los Angeles engagement of “Did You Do Your Homework?,” a semi-autobiographical solo show about a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles. Aaron Braxton is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMTickets for the Broadway-to-Broadway transfer of Venus in Fur, starring film favorite Hugh Dancy and Tony nominee Nina Arianda, are now on sale. Directed by Walter Bobbie, per…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:27PMCritics’ Winter Rampage on Thirteen: Fri., January 27th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., January 28th at 8:30 PM Sun., January 29th at 12:30 PM and Mon., January 30th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 …
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:24PMIt’s been more than a dozen years since Adam Cooper stormed Broadway as the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s sexy, stylish, revisionist Swan Lake, earning a 1999 Tony nomination for Best…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:19PMThe Actors Fund, the nationwide human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment, will present a benefit reading of A. R. Gurneys classic Love Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMMama critters at the St. Louis Zoo have had a busy new
year. This year, dozens of baby bugs have been born at the zoo's
insectarium including 67 white-spotted assassin bugs. Native to
Afric…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:16PMThe Wilma Theater gets 2012 off to a terrific start with its engaging production of Annie Baker’s intelligent comedy, Body Awareness.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 01:09PMThe Fox hit series "Glee" will pay tribute to late pop legend Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five on the Jan. 31, 2012 episode.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:05PMNick Starr, Mark Cajigao, Drew Hirshfield, Rachel Cornish, Estelle Bajou, Malinda Sorci: Photo: Barry GordinThe world premiere engagement of a new play by Nick Starr, One Thousand Blinks, op…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:02PM
Our interview with ELAINE STRITCH, JOHN SIMON and BARRY DAY on The Letters of Noël Coward is now online! click here to watch!
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 12:55PMNow. Here. This., the latest work from the gang behind [title of show] has set dates at off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre. The new musical, directed and choreographed by Michael …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMThe German playwright Marius von Mayenburg specializes in dramas about brutality. His piece “The Ugly One” is having its New York premiere at Soho Rep.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:44PMIf you have not watched the January 17 episode of Glee, read no further! We assume the rest of you are still reeling from the surprising show, which had not one, but two people pop the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMToday in 1998, Ragtime opened at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts now the Foxwoods Theatre, where it ran for 834 performances. The musical garnered four Tony Awards including Best Boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMTony Award-nominated "Glee" and South Pacific star Matthew Morrison will host "Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams," a new film tracing the legacy of the late T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMIf It Only Even Runs A Minute 8 was the eighth edition of this series of rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales, and inspiring photos from Broadway musicals that may not have been fully appreci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMFashion maven, funny lady and Broadway vet Joan Rivers left behind the red carpet to take in the sights and sounds of Catfish Row. On January 17, Rivers stopped by the Richard Rodgers Theatr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMThe San Francisco Opera, the second largest opera company in North America, has announced productions and preliminary casting for its 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMA new, streamlined version of Broadway's Jane Eyre will have its regional premiereat Atlantas Legacy Theatre on January 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMThis week theatermania reports on Clybourne Park moving to Broadway, Laura Osnes in City Center's Pipe Dream, Diane Paulus at the helm of Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna, Children of Ed…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMThe 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama by Bruce Norris will open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater on April 12.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PMJanuary 18, 2012By Angela Marroy BoergerEducation and Community Programs CoordinatorSome of my most treasured memories as a child in New Orleans include seeing live theater with my parents a…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 12:27PMOn Tuesday, January 17, Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca opened at the American Airlines Theatre.
Opening night guests included Becky An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMBroadway grosses continue to take a hit in what is the traditional wintertime slump. The week ending 1-15-12 saw grosses fall even further, with only five shows making their way into the Mil…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:26PMName: Nikki Renee DanielsHometown: Atlanta, GAEducation: BFA in Musical Theater from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)Select Credits: Recent Broadway- Anythin…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:22PMBoasting a stellar cast from stage and screen, SMASH stars Emmy award winning actress Debra Messing, Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston, Katharine McPhee, Jack Davenport, Tony Award nomine…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMWhy are you excited about "Carrie"- Gary Adler
Writer Gary Adler (Altar Boyz) shares why he's excited about "Carrie" at MCC Theater. Click here to view other entries…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:16PMIn The Life Media has released "Make Some NOISE," featuring Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel discussing the previously reported benefit single, "Noise," which he co-wrote w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMBroadway's Aaron Tveit (Catch Me If You Can, Next to Normal) is to be student rebel-leader Enjolras in the coming film musical version of Les Misérables.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMAbout halfway through the first act of Matilda the Musical, which is currently playing in London at the Cambridge Theatre, I had a sacrilegious thought: This show is way too good for Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:11PMThe January 17 episode of Glee had a seriously surprising ending. The episode, entitled “Yes/No” centered on Will (Matthew Morrison) finding the courage and (of course!) the righ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMThe January 17 episode of Glee had a seriously surprising ending. The episode, entitled “Yes/No” centered on Will (Matthew Morrison) finding the courage and (of course!) the righ…
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 12:10PMSoon after I wrote this Forum Theatre post on the Bechdel Test, the question arose: what might be a similar test for LGBT characters? Being both gay and up for the challenge, I gave it a try…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:05PMYesterday, November 29, film stars Liam Neeson and Joe Carnahan visited TimesTalks for indepth conversations with the New York Times' Melena Ryzik and Dave Itzkoffat. BroadwayWorld was on ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMEbony Repertory Theatre’s highly successful production A Raisin in the Sun, is being handsomely re-mounted at the CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. At the helm of this p…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:00PMThe Broadway premiere of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, his three-actor play about an expressive, inspirational South African artist, played by Rosemary Harris, and the forces that wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
ONCE, the new musical based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, will play Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this spring. Previews will begin Tuesday, February 28, 2012 with opening ni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMThe Encompass New Opera Theatre will hold a gala concert entitled Music for the Soul and Mind at 44 Gramercy Park North on Sunday, February 5 at 4pm.
The event will celebrate the company&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMNEW YORK TIMES January 17, 2012 Those Who Seek to Make Art Often Find Themselves Alone By BEN BRANTLEY As Rosemary Harris says the word, “darkness” is a thing with tentacles that clutch …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:54AMRoundabout Theatre Company's Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne, directed by Sam Gold is currently in previews. The cast features Adam Driver as Cliff, Sarah Goldberg as Allison, Charlotte …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMDance Moms - Season 2 Episode 2 - Return of the Candy Apples
Dance Moms Season 2 Episode 2 - "Return of the Candy Apples." In this episode of FYI, Todrick Hall recaps everything y…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:46AMThe Geffen Playhouse has extended the West Coast premiere run of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, which will now perform through Sunday, February 19.
Kathleen Turner stars …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMThe beloved screen transfer of the legendary Broadway musical won 10 Oscars in 1961, including best picture and best director for Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AM"The Woman in Black," starring Daniel Radcliffe, will be released Feb. 3.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMThe new NBC series Smash will feature tons of show-stopping choreography from Josh Bergasse. Here Josh chats with us about how much dance you can expect to see in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMIn The Life Media today released Make Some NOISE, a web-exclusive making-of short in which actor and Broadway Impact Co-Founder Gavin Creel Hair, Fame, Spring Awakening speaks about his new …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMMonster Mash: Brian Stokes Mitchell on 'Glee'; another Liz auction
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:36AMDid anyone else see the new Rebecca Broadway poster and think of The Pirate Queen? Because, I did. I’m having a hard time thinking they aren’t the same “type” of mus…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 11:35AMVince Valentine will star in Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman, to run February 29-March 4 at Bristol Riverside Theatre.
The solo show focuses on such topics as contemporary feminism…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMThe actor, known for his work Broadway's "Next to Normal" and "Catch Me If You Can," has signed a deal to join the cast of Universal and Working Title's big-screen adaptation of the classic…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:31AMAdditional casting has been announced for the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black's 8, to be offered as a benefit reading at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, according to a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMShakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn “I’ve never worked with Klingons before and I figure, after all these years, it’s about time.” - STC Artistic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMIn Smash, Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty portray New York City actresses Karen Cartwright and Ivy Lynn. Watch as the series choreographer Josh Bergasse talks about working with these tripl…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:28AMIn a filing Tuesday, Taymor is blamed for the show's troubles as producers say they made "superhuman efforts" to save the production. "The show is a success despite Taymor, not because of …
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:26AMTony nominee and Glee star Matthew Morrison will host the PBS special, Oscar Hammerstein II - Out of My Dreams, to premiere on PBS stations beginning March 3.
The one-hour film celebrates t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMMatthew Morrison, Jane Lynch and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are among the actors who will join Academy Award winner George Clooney in the March 3 Los Angeles reading of Dustin Lance Black's do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMIt may have taken nearly three seasons, but Rachel's (Lea Michele) gay dads will finally make an appearance on Fox's Glee.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:23AMOn Thursday, January 12, The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Broadway Beat was on hand for exciting opening night party to chat with the cast and company an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMMatthew Morrison will host a brand-new PBS special celebrating one of America's greatest theatrical geniuses. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II: OUT OF MY DREAMS is a celebration of the most acclaimed …
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 11:20AMThe biennial Dancemakers Presents (DMP) Festival features TWOBYFOUR — A Festival of Duets, which showcases four dance works that rely on the duet to express human relationships
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:12AMFour-part work will be mounted at 13 theatres around the world between now and 2015.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:11AMIt’s not just that I’m a Wikipedia junkie. It’s more than that. Although I am a Wikipedia junkie. At 12:07 this morning, I reflexively went to the site to look up some rand…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 11:09AMA star-studded group of A-listers will help George Clooney perform in the Los Angeles premiere of the gay marriage play "8."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:09AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is returning to the reality television world to find Jesus. The composer has announced his latest reality casting show Superstar, which will cast the male lead in a Briti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMThe New York City Opera and the union representing its orchestra have reached a tentative contract agreement.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:07AMLL Cool J will host the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out in Los Angeles on February 12 and aired live on CBS.
Performers at the ceremony will include the Foo Fighters, T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:05AM"The Glee Project," the Oxygen Network reality series, will return for a second season this summer. The show features young performers competing for a multi-episode guest-starring …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMAndrew Lloyd Webber today (18 January 2012) announced that he's embarking on his latest television talent search - this instalment seeking the leading actor for a forthcoming stadium tour of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:01AMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre has announced casting for its benefit reading of Noel Coward's Semi-Monde, to be offered on Monday, February 6 at the Scholastic Auditorium. Scott Alan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMYou've probably seen more of Bradshaw Smith's work than any other actor, director or producer in town. But you also probably didn't know his name. He was just "Bradshaw" to most an…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTony Award winners Elaine Stritch and Tammy Grimes will be part of the Feb. 13 Love n' Courage benefit at the National Arts Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AMThe groups Broadway Impact and American Foundation for Equal Rights say Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, Yeardley Smith, George Takei, Matt Bomer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and several others will…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:00AM
Titus Andronicus: The Making of a Production | Stageside Shorts | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Director Darko Tresnjak and members of the cast and artistic team provide insights into brin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:59AMPBS announced today that OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II - OUT OF MY DREAMS will premiere on PBS stations beginning March 3, 2012 check local listings. Hosted by Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominated …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMNo wonder no one can rain on Rachel Berry's parade. The pint-sized Glee diva, played by Lea Michele, has Tony winner Idina Menzel for a mom and Broadway veterans Brian Stokes Mitche…
SOURCE: fortlauderdale.broadway.com at 10:57AMNo wonder no one can rain on Rachel Berry's parade. The pint-sized Glee diva, played by Lea Michele, has Tony winner Idina Menzel for a mom and Broadway veterans Brian Stokes Mitche…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57AMThe latter half of January brings several underground music shows to Boston. For those looking for more shows than the few I highlight each month, here are some resources: - The Boston Count…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AMNow. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], will get its world premiere by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre starting March 7 prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMThe Vineyard Theatre has announced performance details and the creative team for Now. Here. This. The show will begin previews on March 7 and its official opening will be March 28.
The sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMTwo benefit performances of the Stephen Sondheim revue Putting It Together will be presented Jan. 24 and 31 at 8 PM at the Ovation Showroom inside Las Vegas' Green Valley Ranch Resort an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMNOW.HERE.THIS. -- which last year received a Developmental Lab Production at The Vineyard - will be given a fully staged, world-premiere production with previews beginning March 7 prior to a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMAthol Fugard, South African playwright, had been writing plays for 20 years when The Road to Mecca was first mounted in 1988. Clearly a personal diatribe against the platitudes inherent in s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMLibra Theater Company will present Songs You Should Know, a concert of new and rarely performed songs by some of todays most prolific music theater writers. Hosted by Jeremy Morse Drama Desk…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMLibra Theater Company will present Songs You Should Know, a concert of new and rarely performed songs by some of todays most prolific music theater writers. Hosted by Jeremy Morse Drama Desk…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMWant to put your two cents in about the Connecticut Office of the Arts , formerly the state’s Commission on Culture and Tourism — but down-classified when it became part of th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:40AMMusic from the Tony Award-winning drama War Horse, featuring members of the original London cast, will be available on disc in the U.S. Jan. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMArtistic director Nicholas Hytner says War Horse will prove more profitable for his theatre than it will for the film director's studioGiven the choice between a hit West End play and a succ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMRelationship Dating From 1990 Continues With Global Representation of Irving Berlin Brand and Grand Rights, and On-Going Music Publishing Representation in North America
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 10:30AMSo I'm not sure about everyone else, but I get really annoyed when I go to a coffee shop and cannot find a seat. After being displaced from my usual haunt and forced to deal with the concept…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMBroadway favorite Erin Davie offers a peek behind the scenes at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMTony Award winner Donna McKechnie, recently seen in Ten Cents a Dance at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, will head the cast of TheatreZone's upcoming production of Little Women: T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe producers of the Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark have filed a counterclaim against Julie Taymor, the show's former director and her company LOH, Inc.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMAnd now, here’s a classic routine by the great Hilary Chaplain, the next installment in ourVaudephone series. Hilary is on my very short list of favorite clowns, so I am pleased as pun…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMThe nominees for the 2011 Carbonell Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 2 in the Amaturo Theatre of the Broward Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMThe high profile, pro gay marriage play “8” is set make its way around the country in the upcoming months to promote gay rights and support the legalization of gay marriage. The play is …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMIt's a trendy thing to talk about failure. In the arts world we are always discussing the need to take risks, try new things, etc. Of course you can't discuss those things without considerin…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AM
The San Francisco Opera has announced productions and preliminary casting for its 2012-2013 season.
The company's 90th season will open on September 7, with a gala performance of Giuse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMBased on Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Gleam hits a glorious stride at Centerstage in Baltimore, mainly because of the well-tuned script by …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMThe Ticket Summit® conference and trade show begins its 2012 winter conference this afternoon, January 18, at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York, NY. Today's schedule includes a TicketNetwo…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:55AMThe hit Fox reality series "American Idol," which is often a stepping stone to the Broadway stage, begins its 11th season with a two-night event Jan. 18-19 at 8 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMThe Pajama Men have won so many awards it was only a matter of time before they finally made it to the West End; and so 45 theatregoers made their way to the Charing Cross Theatre last night…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:48AMTheir identities have finally been revealed. The two actors who will play Rachel's (Lea Michele) adoptive parents on the hit Fox series "Glee" are stage and screen stars Jeff G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMAndrew Lloyd Webber has announced that he will search for the star of a new U.K. arena stage production of Jesus Christ Superstar via a new reality TV program entitled "Superstar,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMSir Andrew Lloyd Webber will be teaming with ITV for a new reality talent search show, entitled Superstar, according to Deadline.com.
The winner of the television program contest will star …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMT. Schreiber Studio and Theatre Terry Schreiber and Peter Jensen, Co-Artistic Directors announced that it will host an Alumni Celebration, commemorating the grand opening of the studios new …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMYou might know her as the old lady in the Spider-Man movies, but theater aficionados have long treasured Rosemary Harris as the Tony winning presence from The Lion in Winter, Heartbreak H…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:27AMLegit News:
Bernstein tapepd for theater reopening
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AMConfirming earlier speculation, Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park will transfer to Broadway following its Los Angeles run. The play will begin previews on an as-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:20AMConfirming earlier speculation, Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park will transfer to Broadway following its Los Angeles run. The play will begin previews on an as-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:20AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will play Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, with an opening date set for April 12. Pam MacKinnon, who directed the play at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMFollowing a bitter contract dispute that resulted in the cancelation of several rehearsals, the New York City Opera and its orchestra union have reached a tentative agreement on a contract.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:13AMCLYBOURNE PARK, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris, will open on Broadway on Thursday, April 12 at the Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street in a production directed by Pam M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will open on Broadway April 12 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. First preview performance will be announced shortly.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AMLegit News:
Broadway play recoups costs
SOURCE: Variety at 09:09AMSimG Records will release a studio recording of the musical My Land's Shore on February 6.
With music and lyrics by Christopher J. Orton and a book and lyrics by Robert Gould, the show…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMThe Theatrical Event That Everyone Has Been Waiting For Is Just A Month Away New York City Center Encores Presents MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AM
Marlo Thomas and Lisa Emery share the stage in Broadway's "Relatively Speaking" (an evening of one-acts written by Elaine May, Woody Allen, and Ethan Coen). In the Wing's latest "Downstage C…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:58AMThere's nothing more exciting than the opening night of a hit Broadway musical, except maybe what happens getting there. While Wicked and The Lion King pack audiences in on the Great White W…
SOURCE: Apple at 08:51AMRoundabout Theatre Company last night opened Athol Fugard's THE ROAD TO MECCA, featuring Tony Award winner RoseMary Harris as Miss Helen, Carla Gugino as Elsa Barlow and Tony Award winner Ji…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMRoundabout Theatre Company last night opened Athol Fugard's THE ROAD TO MECCA, featuring Tony Award winner RoseMary Harris as Miss Helen, Carla Gugino as Elsa Barlow and Tony Award winner Ji…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMHoward Barker’s Blok/Eko, produced last summer by the Wrestling School at the Exeter Northcott Theatre and directed by the author, “is a large-scale drama about death and its sta…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:34AMAs a part of P.S. 122's Coil Festival, Temporary Distortion presents a rather unsettling but realistic look at the New York Police Department, Newyorkland. Using both live action and v…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 08:30AMScientific research and subjective domesticity clash in a race to find a cure for an epidemic in Matthew Maguire's deadly play, whose stakes, public or private, aren't high.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMDeborah Hedwall steals Joel Drake Johnson's generally intriguing play in a powerhouse performance as a mentally unstable woman coping with loss.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMI came late to the party, having just seen Harry Connick Jr. in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever this past weekend. But after reading a recent rather harsh New York column regarding that…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 08:01AMThe star of NBC's Smash discusses her return to New York, her favorite musicals, and the part that got away.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Michael Riedel writes in today's New York Post that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber will be screening the filmed version of the Australian production of LOVE NEVER DIES to theatre executives in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59AMMy good friend Andrea recently came to New York for the first time in four years and, of course, she wanted to see a Broadway show. After some research— reading the Times and talking…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AM Brooklyn kid Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky on this day in 1913) started out in small time vaudeville and Catskills resorts at the tender age of 13. After many summers working as …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:47AMStage critic Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stages
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AMPow! Thwack! Bam! The behind-the-scenes battle at “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has turned nastier than an irritated Green Goblin. Producers of the $75 million comic-book musical filed…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:32AMWhile announced in multiple spots online last month, the ink is now dry on his contract and Broadway star Aaron Tveit is now officially Enjolras in the upcoming film of LES MISERABLES.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32AMKevin Spacey is a fit candidate for the Royal Hospital for Overacting in a way-over-the-top interpretation of Shakespeare's blackest villain. Luckily, Sam Mendes' muscular production compe…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For January…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:25AMAthol Fugard is deservedly revered for having proved again and again that the pen can indeed be a mighty weapon against injustice. However, despite a stellar cast, this revival illustrates h…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Ken Howard will appear on CBS' daytime drama The Young and the Restless, beginning in February, according to TVGuide.com.
The actor will play George, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:23AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 18 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Translunar Paradise is a show about death and memory. A hit at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, it comes to London as part of the London International Mime Festival. Direc…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:50AMJeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell will guest star on the February 14 episode of FOX's Glee as Hiram and LeRoy Berry, playing the adoptive parents of Rachel, the character played b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:45AMLove, Loss and What I Wore at the Parker Playhouse is a gently funny and knowing celebration of clothing not as fashion per se, but as talismans, totems and souvenirs that instantly summon a…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:35AM,Aaron Tveit will play Enjolras in the musical film adaptation of Les Miserables, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Academy Award winner Tom Hooper will direct the film, which will be rel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:32AMOlney Theatre Center has announced the productions set for its 2012 season, beginning in February.
The family-friendly musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (February 22-March18) wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:28AMAndrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is to be revived for an arena tour later this year, with casting for the title role being held through a new ITV talent show.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMFictional nannies tend to range from the magical Mary Poppins ("practically perfect in every way") to the Nanny from Hell who arrives nursing secret dreams of a twisted takeover.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:04AM...that, when someone on the Beltway says something outrageous to get media attention and CNN goes on to cover the statement nationally, well...c'mon guys......that a couple of recent films …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:00AM
The plays of Athol Fugard often require heavy lifting on the part of an audience. That’s particularly true of his 1987 drama The Road to Mecca, now being given its Broadway premiere in…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 04:54AMLegit News:
Four-part show commissioned by 13 venues
SOURCE: Variety at 04:46AMJacques
Lecoq is a name that the devised theatre community have no problem
taking in vain. Put 'Lecoq-inspired' in your marketing material and
you've got yourself a licence to swan around wi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:45AMThough the acclaimed revival of Follies will end its limited engagement on January 22, the landmark production has produced a staggering cast album, recorded by PS Classics and is without q…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 04:36AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and ITV have confirmed they are teaming up for a new series titled Superstar, to hunt for an actor to play the lead role in a forthcoming stadium tour of Jesus Christ Sup…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:33AMIrish playwright Nancy Harris wrote the very good adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata now playing at the Gate. Our first chance to see her own work, pure and unadulterated, as …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:05AM
The play reading, which is expected to raise $2 million, also shines a light on the fundraising needs of an organization that is waging an expensive and ongoing court battle.The play reading…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41AMDallas Theater Center previously announced the cast and design team of Giant, a co-production with The Public Theater, which runs at the Wyly Theatre Jan. 18 - Feb. 19, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMEach week in Curtain Raisers, we invite a local theater artist to attend a show of his or her choosing and discuss the results. Last Wednesday, playwright Lynn Nottage opted to see "The Gers…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:12AMCharPo has lucked into first-person articles by three directors presenting the same work: Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad. Read the articles by director Kelly Thornton (Nightwood Thea…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMDramatist / Director / Producing Artist (Twinbiz) New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Inside. Meditation is a good tool for tapping into one’s creativity and inspir…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIt's coming! Stratford's 60th!AD Des McAnuff and General Director Antoni Cimolinodiscuss the upcoming season
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMLeopold Stokowski leads a studio orchestra in his arrangements of Bach's "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" and "Little" Fugue...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMPorgy and Bess has returned to Broadway for the first time in many years. The show has probably spent more time in recent decades in the opera house, but this new production is a homecoming,…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMHow the death of the leader of Apple changed Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, the Public Theater hit returning to Off-Broadway this winter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCreation Production Company presents Instinct, a new drama by two-time Obie Award winner Matthew Maguire, which officially opens at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre Jan. 18 following previews …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJodie Langel and Mark Sanders co-star in the Actors' Playhouse production of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which begins its South Florida debut engagement J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey stars in the titular role of the Sam Mendes production of Richard III, the final production of the transatlantic Bridge Project, which officially o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJasmine Guy, Keith Randolph Smith, Crystal Fox and Geoffrey Darnell Williams star in Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning comedy God of Carnage, which officially opens Jan. 18 at Atlanta's Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Hartford Stage production of Marc Camoletti's Tony Award-winning comedy Boeing-Boeing, starring Tony Award nominee Denny Dillon as omnipresent maid Berthe opposite Ryan Farley as a b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin, Aaron Lazar and P.J. Griffith are at the heart of a generation-spanning love triangle in the musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's sweeping Texas-set novel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Marc Camoletti's Boeing-Boeing begins performances at the New Jersey venue Jan. 18 prior to an official opening Jan. 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMINDIANA, Pa. -- Festival, they call it. Not the festival, and certainly not a festival, but just Festival, as in, "we do it this way at Festival." It's a noun, sometimes an adjective and may…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
