Friday January 27, 2012
In 1982, Glenn Close experienced two events that changed her professional life.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 11:58PMFriday January 27, 2012
PITTSFIELD -- New plays are at the top of Julianne Boyd’s agenda.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 11:58PMInterart Theatre Annex, Off Off Broadway
By Zak Risinger
BOTTOM LINE: A smart, dark, and edgy holiday tale with three incredible performances, rock music, dancing, hooking up and dece…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:48PMPaul M. RubensteinCharles L. Mee's "Agamemnon," presented by City GarageCity Garage, the Santa Monica-based experimental theater troupe now situated in Bergamot Station, is seeking ambiti…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:46PMIn retrospect, cultural upheavals look so dramatic. Yet we forget the day-to-day exhaustion that goes into resculpting the status quo.
New York 1967: The Joffrey Ballet does the unthinkable…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:28PMStage and television star Robert Hegyes has died at age 60 in New Jersey, according to published reports.
Hegyes' stage credits include the short-lived Broadway play, "Don't …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13PMThe title of Yael Bartana’s arresting, provocative trilogy of films that opened this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario is And Europe Will Be Stunned, but let’s start with Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:01PMA dead unwanted infant. A secret homemade grave. A spiritually bankrupt, seriously sick family.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn “Wit,” prickly English professor Vivian Bearing confronts something even more uncompromising and unforgiving than herself: late-stage ovarian cancer.
“It is not my intenti…
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This revival of Margaret Edson’s drama about a woman who has cancer is affecting yet somewhat uninspiring, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:48PMMargaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Wit” offers a lucky — and brave — actress a complex, finely detailed role that’s as demanding as it is rewarding. When the play fir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:25PMDaniel Talbott’s new off-Broadway play, “Yosemite,” starts off great. We’re in the woods, among leafless trees coated with a dusting of snow. A young man — he could be in his late …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:23PMIn London, Nicol Williamson is remembered for celebrated performances in “Hamlet,” “Waiting for Godot” and “Inadmissible Evidence.”
But around Broadway, he’ll always be remembe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:22PMSay what you will about artifice and overheated emoting, few art forms other than Harlequin novels can touch opera for depicting idealized love. What fascinates about Florida Grand Opera’s…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:19PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO & OAKLAND
Show #4: The Pink Dot Stories, SF Sketchfest, January 20.
Show #6: The Thrilling Adventure Hour, SF Sketchfest, January 22.
Show #7: The Black Ver…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:06PMFourteen years after opening Off Broadway, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Wit" comes to Broadway. The passage of time has not been kind.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:02PMSome awfully talented people are doing work far inferior to what they’re usually capable of and one is wondering just what went wrong.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:02PM"Details always matter, but in the theatre sometimes they’re more important than others."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMInto the Electronic Brothel......eyes wide open...by Gaëtan L. CharleboisThe way I have covered the Montreal Fringe is to split the venues up among reviewers; each has to cover everything, …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 10:01PMCynthia Nixon stars in Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s play about a terminally ill English professor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe medical horror story of dealing with cancer is starkly depicted on stage in the Broadway debut of Wit. Cynthia Nixon stars as Vivian Bearing, a brilliant college professor, specializing …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:00PMDaniel Talbott's underdeveloped play centers on a trio of siblings burying the body of their infant brother.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMargaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a literature professor undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer retains its power in its first Broadway production.
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The Alley Theater's production of The Toxic Avenger, starring American Idol and Rock of Ages alum Constantine Maroulis alongside Nancy Opel, opened on January 20. With books amp lyrics by Jo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMPhone Call #5: Rebecca Noon Rebecca Noon is one of the ensemble Strange Attractor. We talk about making work in smaller communities, the role of the artist in building the infrastructure, an…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:51PMDallas Theater Center presents Giant at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the ATampT Performing Arts Center through Feb. 19. Tony Award-nominated Michael Greif will direct this new musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:48PMAt the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in JuneRonnie Burkett and Wakka Wakka Productions will be the guest artists at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center 's 22nd Annual National Puppe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:40PM"Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris opens at the Mark Taper Forum.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:33PMKudos to J. Kent Barnhart and Quality Hill Playhouse for creating a show that transported a seen-it-all theater critic to a different time and place.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 06:30PMThe Lark Play Development Center and the University of South Florida School of Theatre and Dance are livestreaming a Community Round Table and Discussion with readings from Marcus Gardley&#…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:26PMWith a better sense of balance between spectacle and story, The Feast: an intimate Tempest could be a successful riff on the classic story from the point of view of its most compelling chara…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:19PMMargaret Edson’s 1999 Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit has made it to Broadway, starring Tony winner Cynthia Nixon as a strong-willed English professor facing Stage IV ovarian…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMTony Award winner Betty Buckley will teach a Song Interpretation/Monologue Workshop, presented by the T. Schreiber Studio at New York City's Chelsea Studios, February 12-15.
The actres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:01PMJulia Fletcher, founding artistic director of Pacific Resident Theatre, left the Venice company but two decades but recently returned to stage a workshop. Now she's back to directing on th…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMPhilip Brandes reviews Joe Orton's black comedy "What the Butler Saw" at the Odyssey Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMSO, Chicago will be hosting the G8 and NATO summits this Spring, but you already knew that. While it is unlikely that world leaders will be popping by your theatres, we should get ready. The…
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Broadway veterans Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Lazar, Norm Lewis, Paulo Szot, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Julia Murney as well as Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane will join The New York Pops …
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 05:59PMBroadway veterans Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Lazar, Norm Lewis, Paulo Szot, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Julia Murney as well as Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane will join The New York Pops …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:59PMJanuary 26, 2012Not a Good Timeby Howard DaiIt all started on Dec. 6, 2011, while striking after our band concert in Massey Theatre, I fell on one of the risers and left a huge open wound on…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:59PMDavid Cromer will once again direct Thornton Wilder's Our Town, which will be presented by Huntington Theatre Company in the Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:53PMMonday, February 27, 2011, 6 - 8 p.m.Goodman Theatre, 170 N. DearbornMeet and network with interns at other Chicago theatre companies. Take part in breakout groups by job discipline led by e…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:47PMDavid C. Nichols reviews J. Michael Feldman's "Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 And Over," an Inkwell Theater presentation at the Matrix Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PMThe Flea Theater has extended Sean Graney's These Seven Sicknesses through February 26. Ed Sylvanus Iskander has directed the production, which will officially open on January 29.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PM“Leakey’s Ladies,” at Dixon Place, is a drama about the primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas and their relationship with Louis Leakey.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMJokes fly and hidden agendas unfold as two vastly different generations of characters tip-toe the delicate dance of social politics, pitting race against real estate at the crux of two semin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMJordan Vineyard & Winery have announced their 4 on 4 Art Competition involving the Los Angeles Art Community. A trio of Southern California artists is sought for a chance to win up to $5…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:41PMDirector David Cromer's intimate, unsentimental street-clothes version of Our Town, a hit in Chicago and New York City, will play New England — the Pulitzer Prize-winning play'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:38PMBroadway veteran Jackie Hoffman will teach a comedy workshop for kids and teens at the acting studio, A Class Act NY, on Saturday, February 18 at Ripley-Grier Studios from Noon to 4pm.
Hoff…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:36PMMaker of Clerks, Chasing Amy broadcasts a live Q&A from the Scotiabank Theatre on Thursday.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:33PMMichael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson's musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's iconic novel Giant, a sweeping drama of love and American ambition set against the battle between Texa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, January 26, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:31PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company is to present PTC@Play, their second annual festival of staged readings, February 29-March 11 in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre.
Plays which have been selected for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMMark Swed reviews Rinde Eckert's stunningly effective "Moby Dick" theater piece, "And God Created Great Whales" at REDCAT.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:25PMcross-posted from A Head Tilt For the past two afternoons, the HowlRound office has erupted into a truly raucous lab attempting to communicate concepts such as “knowledge commonsR…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:25PMThe Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera is officially headed into its 25th year at the Majestic Theatre, where it opened on January 26, 1988. To mark the latest milestone of the …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:20PMTheatre of Note has announced casting for the world premiere of Figure 8, written by Phinneas Kiyomura, and directed by Jerry Kernion and Kiyomura. It will run February 17-March 24, with an …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMHilarious Q&A with Nick Jonas and Michael Urie, stars of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Broadway.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:11PMThe Public Theater will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare in the Park series this summer with a little Bard and a little Sondheim.
The Public said Thursday that Daniel S…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:08PMTimothy Sheader will direct and Liam Steel will co-direct Stephen Sondheims Into The Woods at New Yorks Delacorte Theater, Central Park, this Summer. This new Public Theater production will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PM
A new production of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit" debuted on Broadway Thursday night with Cynthia Nixon taking on the role of a professor who is dying of cancer.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:55PMShakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present its first musical since 2004 this fall when artistic director Bonnie J. Monte stages Man of La Mancha starring Broadway's Robert Cuccioli i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMBroadway's Ghost The Musical, headed by London leads Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy, begins previews March 15 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PMEvan Bergman’s (director)directing credits include: the world premiere of Jack Canfora’s Jericho; The Glass House with Harris Yulin, which received three ITAward nominations includi…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 04:49PMThe T. Schreiber Studio welcomes back Legendary Broadway Star Betty Buckley for a 4 day Song Interpretation and Monologue Workshop in February.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThe nasty critic in me was prepared to so not like Bring It On: The Musical, Theatre Under the Stars‘ latest offering in their 2011-2012 season.
SOURCE: The Houston Chronicle at 04:30PMDavid Cromer's increasingly famous production of "Our Town," which began at The Hypocrites in Chicago, then moved Off-Broadway for a record-breaking run, and was a recent hit in Los Angeles …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:30PMPlus Breaking Boundaries Dance Company.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:28PMWriter David Schmader's touching one-man show at Hugo House reminds us that occasionally, there's some good out there in the world, if you stop beating yourself up long enough to notice.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:23PMArtsWest Playhouse's "All Through the Night" is a detailed history of the Third Reich told through a group of women whose lives are changed by war.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:23PMShowtunes Musical Theatre's "Real to Reel" concert on Jan. 28-29 salutes musicals that made it from the stage to the big screen.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:22PMW.H. Oliver Middle School, Nashville, TN January 24, 2012 Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher Close up on an urban middle school in the hea…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:20PMThe Pershing Square Foundation has given $25 million to the Signature Theater, whose new home will now be renamed the Pershing Square Signature Center. The gift will also allow Signature to …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:17PMEiko Ishioka, a designer who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:14PMThe Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Box Office 205 West 46th Street opens on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10am for Ghost The Musical. In celebration, each customer who places an order at the box office…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMAt a press conference held at Barrington Stage Companys Stage 2, Artistic Director Julianne Boyd announced the complete season of performances that will take place in Downtown Pittsfield in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 Florida Awards This year's awards broke traffic records and we couldn't be more excited to announce the 2011 Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:08PMThe celebrated Japanese designer whose fantastical and dreamlike creations spanned the fields of graphic arts, costume design and more, has died at 73 from pancreatic cancer in Tokyo.The cel…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:07PMWhile preparing to mount it's anime-inspired production of the Mikado, next month, the Edmonton Opera took time out to announce its three-work 2012-13 season. It has a delightful blend of po…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:06PMBecoming Chaplin, a new musical depicting the life of silent film icon Charlie Chaplin, will open on Broadway during the 2012-2013 season. Directed and choreographed by Warren Carlye (Finian…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:05PMPark Square Theatre's biggest-ever production is more than just a matter of size.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:03PMRoundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThere is magic and gorgeous imagination to spare at “The Feast: An Intimate Tempest,” the newly envisioned take on Shakespeare’s play about transformation, conjuring, power games, ex…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PMThe box office at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which will soon be the home of Ghost The Musical, will open for business Jan. 30 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Ishioka, who also worked in advertising and other graphic arts, won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film “Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula.’”
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:59PMThe Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera is officially headed into its 25th year at the Majestic Theatre, where it opened on January 26, 1988. To mark the latest milestone of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMNicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe Choreography & Skorpion Show Review
Nicki Minaj's music video for "Stupid Hoe" features choreography by Alexis Boyd of America's Best Dance Cr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:58PM[Some of the content in this entry could not be displayed on this device.]
The Kennedy Center showed taste and maturity in (finally) bestowing one of its Honors on the sublime Broadway song…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PMPop legend Petula Clark talks about making her first New York nightclub engagement since the 1970s at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. She has sold over 70 million records since the 1950s and…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:56PMBarrington Stage Company has announced its complete 2012 season, which will begin with the previously reported Mainstage production of the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick-Joseph Stein musical, Fi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:54PMTickets for Gore Vidals THE BEST MAN will go on sale to the general public beginning Saturday, January 28th, 2012. Tickets will be available on Telecharge.com or by calling 212 239-6200. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMWhere am I Now
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:49PMI don’t have a particular reason for writing this post today, except that I’ve been meaning to write it for a while. In late 2010, I had the good fortune to see this embedded per…
SOURCE: The Critical Condition at 03:49PMIf you are a fan of Mad Magazine or National Lampoon you will appreciate the spoofs and perhaps pick up a naughty thing or two. Butch LaRue is fresh, funny, and a bawdy good time. Forget abo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:49PMTony Award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared on ABC's The View on Thursday, January 26.
During his time on the show, Webber discussed his career, including his musicals Evi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMWithout the freaks and geeks of "Glee,"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no "Smash."But NBC's eminent…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMFrom The Other Shore.
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:46PMAn Ides of March moment at the Guthrie. Plus Shatner comes to town.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:44PMA slew of Broadway's top tier leading ladies including Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone recently made their way to Washington D.C. to pay tribute t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42PMHiromi Omura (photo credit: Yves Renaud)Bugs clears the ariaThe Remount has arrivedBy Richard BurnettMontreal audiences have been clammering for a remount of Il Trovatore (The Troubado…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:42PMIf you’re expecting something provocative or magical, you’ll be disappointed. What Peter Reder’s site-specific work does deliver is a behind-the-scenes experience
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:42PMMonday night I'll be on a panel about the recent phenomenon of Tweet Seats.The panel is sponsored by Arts in America and will be held at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge. Other paneli…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 03:41PM“American Idol” runner up and stage actor Justin Guarini will offer a solo concert, From American Idol to Broadway, March 2 at 8 PM at the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washing…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMJulie Halston and Robert Petkoff have this month joined the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES as Evangeline Harcourt and Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Roundabout Theatre Company pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMAs his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 24th Broadway anniversary on January 26, famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber stopped by TV chatfest The View to reminisce about his …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMAs his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera celebrates its 24th Broadway anniversary on January 26, famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber stopped by TV chatfest The View to reminisce about his …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMTwo-time Tony nominated designer Eiko Ishioka, who recently served as costume designer for Broadway’s Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark and the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony, passed away …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMTwo-time Tony-nominated designer Eiko Ishioka, who recently served as costume designer for Broadway’s Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark and the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony, passed away …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMCynthia Nixon, best known for her glamorous role in Sex and the City, stars in a Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. Jeff Lunden talks with Nixon — and Wit's playwrigh…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:33PMCynthia Nixon, best known for her glamorous role in Sex and the City, stars in a Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. Jeff Lunden talks with Nixon — and Wit's playwrigh…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:33PMSo You Think You Can Dance Season 9 Auditions - New York City
So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) held auditions for Season 9 in New York City and DanceOn was there to chat with judges Nige…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:31PMAnn Hampton Callaway, Victoria Clark, Robert Morse, Bryn Terfel, and Jo Sullivan Loesser will take part in The New York Philharmonic's concert\, Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Son…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMThis season ArtsEmerson has explicitly stated that some of its presentations have been in a state of development. I'm not sure that's the official line on Robbie McCauley's one-woman s…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:29PMSell the Story First (by Rebecca Bromels on My Extra Hour)
SOURCE: direct address at 03:28PMTicketmaster has integrated its Facebook application with music streaming service Spotify to make event recommendations based on its users' listening habits. The integrated app could advance…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:28PMWarren Carlyle will direct and choreograph Becoming Chaplin on Broadway. The show is expected to open during the 2012-2013 season at a theater to be announced.
With music and lyrics by Chr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMWarren Carlyle will direct and choreograph Becoming Chaplin on Broadway. The show is expected to open during the 2012-2013 season at a theater to be announced.
With music and lyrics by Chr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMEiko Ishioka, a designer who worked in film and theatre, and designed the costumes for the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, died on Jan. 21 in Tokyo. She was 73. The cause was pancreat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMSarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) got its professional South Florida debut in May at GableStage. Now the play about Victorian women, their sexual repression and expression…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 03:25PMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park opened at the Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum on January 25. As previously reported, the production, directed by P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMEiko Ishioka, the celebrated Japanese designer, has died at age 73. Her work included Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai" and the movie "Bram Stoker's Dr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:24PMThe New York Philharmonic will present Anywhere I Wander The Frank Loesser Songbook, a celebration of the late legendary Broadway composer of Wheres Charley, Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMMore than 40 artists are participating.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:22PMThe former enfant terrible of the Twin Cities art scene, Frank Gaard assumes a new mantle -- elder statesman -- with a retrospective at Walker Art Center.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:21PMThere's the outrageous and irreverent, profanity-peppered parody of the once-scary saga of "The Silence of the Lambs," plus "raindrops on roses," reverence, Reverend Mother, Rodgers & Hammer…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:20PMFor this week's Answers Issue, we took on some our readers' most pressing questions about life in the District.
When we put out the call for queries last October, we were immediately impres…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:14PMBECOMING CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan Annie, The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMBECOMING CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan Annie, The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMJan. 23 was the Aquarius New Moon and Chinese New Year (year of the Dragon). It was also the 80th birthday of James Rado co-author of the legendary musical Hair. Rado celebrated this milesto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMMobbed Episode 5 - Feuding Brothers, Everclear's Art Alexakis, Ace Hood and DJ Ravi - February 1
Mobbed Episode 5 sneak peek! Check out this full clip from the all new episode and Laure…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:08PMAge & Hometown: 35; Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Lima, Peru
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Billy Flynn, the silver-tongued prince of the courtroom, in Chicago.
All I Care A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:08PMBecoming Chaplin, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, will open on Broadway during the 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMBECOMING CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, Th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:05PMThe Dancing With the Stars champion discusses his upcoming club acts, his favorite Broadway roles, and his dream dancing partners.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PMIn her dressing room at the Friedman Theatre, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has a nightly ritual: She rubs Nivea cream all over her scalp to soothe the razor burns.
Being completely ba…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PM
Award-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka has died of pancreatic cancer. She was 73.
Ishioka's work can currently be seen on Broadway in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. She received …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMBefore Nick Jonas was an international pop sensation, he was a Broadway baby, performing in Annie Get Your Gun, Beauty and the Beast and Les Miserables. Now he's back on the Main Stem in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMBefore Nick Jonas was an international pop sensation, he was a Broadway baby, performing in Annie Get Your Gun, Beauty and the Beast and Les Miserables. Now he's back on the Main Stem in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMAccording to the New York Times, Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer on January 21 in Tokyo. She was 73 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMThis is the scene in my living room, where an Italian TV crew has just set up an improvised studio...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PMWe just got the cover design for our next book, Theater Careers: A Realistic Guide, to be published by USC Press this summer. We've reviewed the copy edited text of it. Next we'll see …
SOURCE: Stage Money at 02:53PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
TV familiar Kathryn Erbe (of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent") lends wattage to the preem of Daniel Talbott's "Yosemite," but the real star of this…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMThe Signature Theatre Company has received a donation of $25 million from The Pershing Square Foundation; in honor of the donation, Signature’s new home will be named The Pershing Squa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMPlaywright Luis Alfaro has won a 2012 Joyce Award. The annual prizes, which carry a $50,000 cast grant, are given to commission artists of color to help them create new works with cultural …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMRon Bohmer, Lawrence Clayton, Sandra Joseph, Andrea Rivette, and Chuck Wagner are set to star in Neil Berg's 102 Years of Broadway, February 19 at 3pm at Marin Veterans' Memorial …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
After winning every award under the sun, including the 1999 Pulitzer, and receiving hundreds of productions in dozens of languages, "Wit" has finally ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:40PMSignature Theatre and The Pershing Square Foundation announced today a 25 million gift to Signature Theatre to fund the innovative Signature Ticket Initiative, as well as dedicating the thea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMThe New Yorker today features an article that highlights the favorite albums of Broadway veteran Alec Baldwin, which feature the musical of musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim. Baldwin …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30PMBlonde Ambition, a one-night-only concert featuring some of "Young Broadway’s favorite blondes," will be held Feb. 6 at the Triad in Manhattan to benefit Broadway Barks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMOn last night's AMERICAN IDOL auditions on Fox, 25-year-old Angie Ziederman stunned the judges with an outrageous rendition of THE PRODUCERS' When You've Got It, Flaunt It.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMThe Public Theater has announced the two works that will be produced for its 50th anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater.
Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe will star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMThe Pershing Square Foundation will donate a $25 million gift to Signature Theatre, which will name its new Frank Gehry-designed home the The Pershing Square Signature Center. The Center wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMBroadwayWorld.com reported the news exclusively on January 9, 2012 and now the The Public Theater has officially announced the line-up for the 50th Anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMThe Public Theater announced Jan. 26 the line-up for the 50th Anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMSam Breslin Wright, Katie Kreisler, Stephen Park, and Mandy Siegfried will be featured in Keith Reddin's Solitary Man. Rising Phoenix Repertory is presenting the new play as part of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMHennepin Theaters announces a 2012-13 season that also includes "War Horse," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Catch Me If You Can."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:12PM"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," says one of the angrily bewildered characters in "The Water's Edge" at the Road Theatre. Talk about understatement."Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," says on…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:12PMGolden GlobeR Award nominee Jennifer Love Hewitt will star in and executive produce Lifetime's new original one-hour series The Client List. Based on the network's hit 2010 original movie, T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMShakespeare and Sondheim are on the schedule for the upcoming 50th anniversary season of The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. The 2012…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:12PMThe Public Theater will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare in the Park series this summer with a little Bard and a little Sondheim.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:09PMShakespeare in the Park 2012 will feature the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods" as well as Shakespeare's "As You Like It," starring Lily Rabe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMJason Robinson, Kathryn Markey, Christina Bianco, Martin Landry, and Gabriella Stravelli will perform in Broadway Playhouse: Stephen Sondheim at Merkin Concert Hall on Sunday, February 5 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMNew Garage Band Musical Workshop By Joe Iconis, TooFeel like a little sex?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:00PMBarrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, revealed its complete 2012 programming, which will include the world premiere of Mark St. Germain's new play Dr. Ruth, All the Way starring De…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
They might look like ants in the photograph I snapped on my iPhone from my faraway vantage point at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Hall last night, but the people standing on the stage are today's G…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:59PMAccording to the New York Times, Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer on January 21 in Tokyo. She was 73 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMComposer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared as a guest on today's THE VIEW on ABC, wher he chatted with the ladies about why THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has been such a success, as well as bringi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMThis week, TheaterMania reports on casting for the film version of The Normal Heart, Daniel Radcliffe on Live! with Kelly, William Shatner on tour, Louise Pitre at Goodspeed Opera House, con…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMCherry Lane Theatre is set to present the world premiere of Begonya Plaza's Teresa's Ecstasy, March 4-April 1. Will Pomerantz will direct.
Carlotta's return to Barcelona has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMConversations with Arthur Kopit, featuring the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright, will be held at the Historic Asolo Theater on February 2 at 7:30 pm, as part of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMThe L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center will present a return engagement of Miss Coco Peru in There Comes a Time, March 2-4 in The Renberg Theatre .
The show, which is written and performed by C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMAmong other reasons Ron Paul would make an unlikely standard-bearer for the Republican Party is the fact that he, apparently, doesn’t think much of his party’s sainted first president. P…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:34PMNick Jonas recently returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Here, he visits “Live! With Kelly” and offers a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMSundayArts, the television showcase of tri-state arts which airs on THIRTEEN, is to relaunch as NYC-ARTS, February 2 at 8pm.
Since 2008, SundayArts has provided arts lovers information abou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:30PMMs. Ishioka, who won a 1992 Academy Award in costume design for “Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’” came to be known as one of Japan’s, then the world’s, foremost art directors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:29PMPaul Osborn’s Tony Award-winning comedy Morning’s at Seven will be presented as a staged reading Feb. 13 at the Westport Country Playhouse as part of the company’s Script i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMNow is the time for any theater companies who want to produce in LA County's Winter Partnership Program at [Inside] the Ford -- next winter, not this one -- to prepare your applications. The…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:25PMFor anybody who’s ever been annoyed by some idiot texting near them in a dark theater, seeing justice done is sweet. But never more colorfully or symbolically so than at a recent performan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:18PMComposer-lyricist Neil Berg, best known for his work on Off-Broadway’s Prince and the Pauper, will bring his 100 Years of Broadway Song and Dance touring concert to Hartford’s Bu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMJust Dance - Madonna Super Bowl Halftime Show, Nicki Minaj Stupid Hoe, Nick Jonas How to Succeed
Madonna's top secret plans for her 2012 Super Bowl Halftime show! Nicki Minaj's new…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:13PM"If a blind girl won't love ugly people, who will?" That's the central dilemma in Toxic Avenger, the eye-popping, knee-slapping, sci-fi musical comedy getting its Broadway tryout right now a…
SOURCE: Dallas Observer at 01:11PMThe fabulous Zaza, as portrayed by singer/actor Christopher Sieber, is the heart and soul of La Cage aux Folles, the current revival of the smash Broadway musical now playing to packed house…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMCarnegie Hall has announced its 2012-2013 season.
Among the season's many highlights will be a special 85th birthday concert from Tony Award winner Barbara Cook (October 18), the premi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:08PMMeet the cast and creative team for new musical comedy Rated P for Parenthood! The gang got together to meet the press, answer questions and get everyone excited about the new show that begi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:07PMPreviews have officially begun for the multicultural drama Russian Transport, and we’ve got a first look at this impassioned Sheepshead Bay family. The New Group production, starring f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMThe biggest go-go bands can be like small companies: Personnel comes and goes, but the overall brand generally retains its standing. Occasionally, however, a lineup change is a Really Big De…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:03PMDavid C. Nichols reviews the L.A. premiere of Theresa Rebeck's "The Water's Edge," presented by the Road Theatre Company at the Lankershim Arts Center.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:01PMTheatres are keen to advertise their own shows, but not events at other venues. Isn't it time to pool publicity for the benefit of all?There's much talk of collaboration in theatre at the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
On October 12, 2012, The New York Pops orchestra famous for presenting popular programs with a symphony orchestra of the highest quality will launch its 30th season a Carnegie Hall series …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMToday we are talking to a star of many notable films and television shows who initially surprised many viewers with his commanding presence as the voice of the Beast in Disneys classic anima…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMBoeing-Boeing WPLJ
HIIJINKS ARE IN THE AIR!
Bernard, an American playboy in swinging '60s Paris, juggles three flight-attendant fiancées — one American, one German and one…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:55PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company's production of this great Kander and Ebb musical benefits from its theater's intimate size, says critic Wendy Rosenthal.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:54PMKirstie Alley Backstage at PRISCILLA!
Kirstie Alley visits the cast of PRISCILLA on Broadway!
For more information on PRISCILLA, please visithttp://www.priscillaonbroadway.com/
From:
Pris…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:54PMName: Elena Amelia Nagel Weinberg (Or as I was once called in 5th grade which sent me home from school crying, Elena "a million bagels" Weinberg) Where are you from originally? I was…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:53PMJazz trumpet Miles Davis and acclaimed singer Édith Piaf are the latest additions to the United States' Forever stamp series, according to The New York Times.
They join the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Nick Jonas had “the Jonas effect” on Live! With Kelly on January 26, making Kelly Ripa and guest host Cat Deeley swoon …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMKenneth Lin's "Fallow" at People's Light founders in a swamp of metaphor, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:46PMIns Choi’s play is a sold-out success.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:39PMThe highly anticipated Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along is almost here, and we've got your first look at Peter Cunningham's offi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:35PMOver the years, I've begun attaching the word invaluable to the front of Signature Theatre so often that the adjective, in my mind, has become part of the company's name.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:32PMCasting has been announced for Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven to be presented as a "Script in Hand" reading at Westport Country Playhouse on Monday, February 13, at 7pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMMr. Williamson was a Scottish-born actor whose large, renegade talent made him a controversial Hamlet, an eccentric Macbeth, an angry, high-strung Vanya and, on the screen, a cocaine-sniffin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PMMr. Farentino was a handsome actor who in his nearly 100 roles on stage, screen and television often defied the stereotype of the leading man, even though he fit the picture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PMAaron Mark's latest film, Commentary, will receive its New York premiere as part of NewFilmmakers New York at Anthology Film Archives on Wednesday, February 1 at 7:15pm.
The film docum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMThe New York Pops has announced its 2012-2013 concert season, which features a number of Broadway veterans as special guests. Music director Steven Reineke will lead the orchestra's fiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMIn celebration of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, a reception and ceremony was held Jan. 25 in New York. Among the guests in attendance were cast members from the NBC drama "Smash."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMBroadway music and stars will punctuate the 2012-13 of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, music director Steven Reineke announced on Jan. 26. Paulo Szot, Kelli O'Hara and the work of&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PMAs ITV crime drama Whitechapel's third series is about to hit our screens, Matthew Hemley talks to the show's writers and one of its stars about why the show strikes such a chord with viewers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMNorm Lewis, of Broadway's Sondheim on Sondheim and the most recent Les Miserables, is plenty of something in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PMActorR recipients Kathy Bates, Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Sir Ben Kingsley, Melissa McCarthy, Brad Pitt, Zoe Saldana, Owen Wilson and Kristen Wiig will be presenters at the 18th Annua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMName: Nick BlaemireHometown: Bethesda, MDEducation: University of MichiganSelect Credits: "The Big C" (Owen, Showtime); Glory Days (Composer/Lyricist; Circle in the Square Theatre); Cry-Baby…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:06PMTony winner Barbara Cook, a recent Kennedy Center Honoree, will celebrate her 85th birthday during Carnegie Hall's 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMAcademy Award nominations are in and some of these guys know their way around the Broadway stage. Tony Award winners Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Christopher Plummer and Janet McTeer are among …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:00PMFaustus, The Musical is a new piece written by Michael Mott and Justin Silvestri. An entanglement of various musical styles, this epic musical explores the great duality of human motivation …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
. The Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning punk rock musical lives up to the hype as a raucous and emotionally charged staging of Green Day's 2004 concept album, in the tradition of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMInspired by our adoption of Stage One as the charity for the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards,
we’re declaring this the “Year of the Producer” on Whatsonstage.com,
and are ru…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:57AMActor Ray Ficca has been well-known and well-loved in DC for many years. After an extended hiatus from our stages, he’s back in the limelight as hotheaded TV personality Max Prince in Keeg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMDesperate for a post today (prepare for an onslaught in February and March) I herewith present a little performance circa 1995-96 — me trying out some songs from my play House of Trash…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:50AMJiri Zizka, co-founder of The Wilma Theater, has died, according to a report on the theater's website. Zizka was 61 years old.
Zizka was born in Prague and became co-artistic director…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMOn the cover of this week's City Paper is The Answers Issue, in which we take a whack at our readers' most pressing queries. Therein, you'll find lots of questions and answers related to art…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:42AMNick Jonas has just joined the cast of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING asJ. Pierrepont Finch. Jonas, who began his career on stage at age 8, returns to Broadway for the firs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMLIZA VANN. From early days at La Mama, Liza’s favorite New York creditsinclude Mary Shelley in The Frankenstein Affair, Marietta Corsiniin Machiavelli, and most recently, her much acclaime…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:40AMLive With Kelly fans were seeing double on January 25 when Kristin Chenoweth joined bubbly blonde Kelly Ripa on her morning show as co-host for the day. After discovering they’re both …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMLive With Kelly fans were seeing double on January 25 when Kristin Chenoweth joined bubbly blond Kelly Ripa on her morning show as co-host for the day. After discovering they’re both a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Clybourne Park is getting a pre-Broadway run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the production has just released video clips that preview storyline…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AM... pre-vintage Shaw ... Shaw’s early play, The Philanderer of 1893, is a romantic comedy that’s as focused on the ideas of Henrik Ibsen as it is on love, and with good reason: for Shaw …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:25AMThe Tony nominated musical ‘The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ is on tour and is coming home to the Lone Star state in summer 2012. Grab your best buds and besties and romp, stomp, who…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:25AMThe Ukranian prodigy's resignation has shocked the ballet world – but the clues were there that something wasn't right Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMIdina Menzel's new PBS concert special, Idina Menzel Live Barefoot at the Symphony, premiered on Chicago's PBS affiliate WTTW on January 9. The concert - filmed in November in Toronto featur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMGet a glimpse of the secretive and proud Wyeth family in the new TV commercial for Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed play Other Desert Cities. The new commercial offers a preview of the dram…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AM‘Wicked’ comes to San Diego this summer for the third time after breaking box office records in 2006 and 2009. This Tony and Grammy Award winning musical is slated for a month-long run a…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:22AMSteve Waters in the Guardian sings the praises of the short play:
So what is a short play, exactly? Is it simply defined by its length? I ask because as a form it's under-discussed and und…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:22AMSummer will surely sizzle in San Diego as the Tony Award winning musical ‘Chicago’ will not only relive the hype, the drama, the suspense and all that jazz this musical is known and well…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:18AMPop singer Nick Jonas has been punching the clock at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre since his big opening night as J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ear…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM"Grosse Gefühle" - "Great Feelings" - is the tagline for the
Zurich Chamber Orchestra’s latest advertising spot, a one-minute
roller coaster ride along a musical score's first violin line.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:18AMThe Nederlander Theatre box office opens for Newsies Monday, January 30th at 1000am. Tickets will be available for purchase through NewsiesTheMusical.com, by calling Ticketmasters Disney on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMTo the cemetery
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Twenty-seventh in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. With Gerard Butler as The Phantom, Emmy Ross…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:17AMThis is one woman you don’t want as an enemy. On NBC’s highly anticipated musical drama Smash, Oscar winner Anjelica Huston channels her inner diva as a legendary Broadway produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMOne boy’s journey to find his true passion and artistic calling translates to a grand musical celebration that has earned multiple acclaims in both West End and Broadway and has broken box…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:14AMCritics are raving about the emotional three-way battle between Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino and Jim Dale in the Broadway mounting of The Road to Mecca, so Broadway.com resident artist Just…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMLin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Donnell, Betsy Wolfe and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star in the upcoming City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMThe Phantom of the Opera will celebrate the 24th anniversary of its opening night on January 26 at the Majestic Theatre. The production, which officially opened on January 26, 1988, bec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMThe Phantom of the Opera will celebrate the 24th anniversary of its opening night on January 26 at the Majestic Theatre. The production, which officially opened on January 26, 1988, bec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMWith Noises Off receiving an acclaimed revival at the Old Vic and a dedicated season of his work coming up at Sheffield Theatres, it appears playwright Michael Frayn is entering something of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:10AMManhattan Theatre Club presents Tony winner Cynthia Nixon
in Wit, Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an exacting
poetry professor battling terminal cancer. The shoe is on t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThank your agent, Mom and Harvey Weinstein because it’s Oscar nomination week. And just because we’re devoted to the “theatah,” it doesn’t mean we can’t g…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:09AMRussell Brand, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Reggie Watts and the bands Coldplay and Mumford & Sons will be among the performers at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMThe Phantom's story
http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com
Twenty-sixth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. As told by Miranda Richardson as Madam…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:08AMThe Tony Award nominated musical ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ is coming to Tampa this fall. It is slated for a week-long run at the Carol Morsani Hall of the Straz Center from October 23 to 28, 201…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:07AMThe box office at The Nederlander Theatre, soon to be the home of the new musical Newsies, will open for business Jan. 30 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMComing to Tampa in early 2013 is the most anticipated musical adaptation of the season, ‘Flashdance – The Musical’. Based on the iconic 1983 film of the same name, this inspiring and e…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:04AMYou will definitely follow this “ridiculously fun” (New York Times) musical wherever it goes, so saddle up and head down south to Tampa this December as ‘Sister Act’ rejoices with a …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:01AMA friend of mine wrote a book. Wait, that’s not entirely accurate. A friend of mine made it look like he wrote a book. The truth is, he had it written by someone else. A ghost. (Insert spo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
‘Come Fly Away’, the Broadway phenomenon that showcases the well-loved and most romantic hits of Frank Sinatra along with the smooth and graceful choreography from the renowned Twyla Tha…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:58AMMasquerade/Why So Silent
http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com
Twenty-fifth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Performed by the Company, with Gerard…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:56AMThe Cole Porter classic ‘Anything Goes’ sails and lands in Tampa right in time for spring next year. This Roundabout Theatre Company revival is scheduled for a week-long run at the Carol…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:53AMStage and screen actor Colin Hanks has signed on to appear—as himself—in an upcoming episode of the ABC series “Happy Endings,” according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMDue to insistent public demand and after a previously sold-out and record-breaking run, Broadway smash hit and “cultural phenomenon” (Variety) ‘Wicked’ returns to Tampa for an extens…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:50AMHonorees have been announced for ESSENCE's Black Women in Hollywood luncheon, to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel on February 23.
Kerry Washington, who starred on Broadway in Race, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMAs the infamous musical Carrie — based on the Stephen King novel — prepares for its first-ever New York revival at MCC Theater, we look back at the original UK and NYC production…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMMake way Tampa for the most fabulous and most glamorous dilapidated bus hailing from the land down under. ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ goes on a road trip leading to Tampa’s Straz C…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:46AMThe new Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire," starring Blair Underwood, will open this season, filling the slot left by the musical "Rebecca," which has been postponed. The Smithso…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AMNo drama has ever touched audiences so great by virtue of its heartwarming tale about a special friendship that transcends time, distance, and the rubbles of war and highlights the finest qu…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:42AMMichael John Garcés has been the artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company, a community-engaged ensemble based in Los Angeles, since 2006.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:40AM‘Burn the Floor’ will sizzle and heat up the Straz Center this spring. This international and Broadway dance phenomenon will do the cha-cha, tango, jive, samba and many more for a whole …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:38AMToday in 1988, The Phantom of the Opera opened at the Majestic Theatre, where it has played for 9980 performances and still running. Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart, the mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMBroadway veteran Sebastian Stan will guest star on the ABC series, Once Upon a Time, according to TVGuide.com. The episode will air in late March or early April.
The series revolves around…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMChristmas comes early this year in Tampa as the Broadway box office hit ‘Elf’ spreads the Yuletide cheer via a week-long run at the Carol Morsani Hall of the Straz Center from November 2…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:32AMIn its ninth star-studded year at Birdland, Jim Caruso will bring his celebrated Cast Party back to the big stage at Town Hall for a second year. The Best of Jim Carusos Cast Party will take…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMThe Tony Award winning rock musical ‘American Idiot’ storms its way to Tampa’s Straz Center for a weekend run at the Carol Morsani Hall from May 17 to 19, 2013. This groundbreaking mus…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:25AMIn anticipation of the series premiere of Smash on February 6, NBC and Columbia Records have released, for streaming and free download, one track from the pilot episode: Katharine McPhee&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMDramaturge Bill Coco, playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie, and director Jesse Berger will participate in Red Bull Theater's Jacobean Genet, to be held at PicNic Cafe' (2665 Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMTickets for the critically acclaimed revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff, are now on sale. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera will begin previews …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMThe Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Wit, Tony and Emmy-winning actress Cynthia Nixon, opens January 26 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The first Broadway produ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AM"Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony," which was filmed in November 2011 in Toronto, will be released on CD and DVD March 6, according to the actress' official website.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMOn Tuesday the Washington Area Music Association announced the nominees for the 26th annual Wammies, which take place Feb. 19 at the State Theatre. It’s no secret that I and others have lo…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:02AMJulia Roberts, Alec Baldwin and Jim Parsons have all signed on to appear in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming film adaptation of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart.” Mark Ruffalo will play Ned We…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AMHaven’t been able to get tickets to 2011’s Tony Award winner for best musical? Don’t worry. You’ve got plenty of time to see the show that has had everyone raving. The Book of Mormo…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMMel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s Tony Award-winning musical “The Producers” will be presented at the Hollywood Bowl for three days this summer as part of the venue’s summer season. The…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMThe company's colorful performances are based on "historical
perspective."
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AMThe popular actress discusses her new show at Primary Stages and rerturning to the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Broadway veterans Stephanie J. Block, Linda Lavin, Liz Mikel, Julia Murney, and Paulo Szot will be featured in The Best of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, at Town Hall on Thursday, February 23…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMLegit News:
Coin from Pershing Square extends low-price ticket initiative
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51AMA special edition of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, which will benefit The Actors Fund, will be presented Feb. 23 at 8 PM at Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AMA bottle of wine, a comforting hug, a shy kiss which led to more: Rob might have made a mistake. He’s not sure. He and his best friend had sex last night. They’ve known each other for ye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:47AMColin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Betsy Wolfe in photos play four friends at different points in their lives, in Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along, the first …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMJulia Mattison will be joined by several of her Godspell co-stars for A Sexy Valentine's Day Massacre! Feb. 13 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMLegit News:
Kurt Peterson, Victoria Mallory join event to fight AIDS
SOURCE: Variety at 09:36AMPosted in Branding/Personal Branding Before we tackle the age old question of “How to Get People to Pay Attention to You,” I have to ask you a few questions and please take a minut…
SOURCE: theartsentrepreneur.com at 09:32AMBen Brantley sees "The Mousetrap" in London for the first time to see how the longest-running play in modern history is holding up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30AMWho would have thought double homicide could be so, well, dull? In fairness, the murders are carried out off-stage, before the action of this play starts, but playwright Emily Mann has still…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMHouston Chronicle review of "Bring It On."
SOURCE: www.29-95.com at 09:24AMAdditional presenters have been announced for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Jan. 29 at 8 PM ET from the Shrine Exposition Center …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AM42nd Street: Marquee Sign | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
With over 300 individual welds and 500 lights, the 42nd Street Marquee will surely dazzle the eyes when it makes its grand entranc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:15AMLookingglass Theatre Company has announced a series of post-performance panel discussions to be held in conjunction with its production of Ed Schmidt's Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting, runni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMKathy Bates, Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Sir Ben Kingsley, Melissa McCarthy, Brad Pitt, Zoe Saldana, Owen Wilson and Kristen Wiig are the most recent additions to the line-up of presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMLIVE at Center Stage Theater in Fontana on January 27 and 28
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:08AM“Great Performances” 9 p.m., Friday KOCE; 8 p.m., Tuesday KVCR: Tony Bennett: Duets II: Tony Bennett sings his greatest hits with contemporary artists. Performers include Amy Winehouse (…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Full casting has been announced for Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea, to run February 23 - March 17 at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, and star, as previously announced, Joely Richardso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57AMCamp ANCHOR is a year round camp for the mentally and physically handicapped. It houses it’s summer camp in Lido Beach, Long Island, but is in need of a building to run out of year ro…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:45AMCheck out BroadwayWorld TV's Around the BroadwayWorld for 126 featuring The Sims RENT, The Sims So Much Better Legally Blonde, The Sims Lily's Eyes The Secret Garden, The Sims Popular Wicke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31AMLegit News:
Bio-musical aimed for 2012-13 berth
SOURCE: Variety at 08:07AMMarcia Murdock Gardner, an actor, educator, dramaturg, casting director and literary manager most frequently associated with Signature Theatre, died January 20 at her Alexandria home after a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05AMUnder Pedro Pascal's studied, overly deliberate direction, Daniel Talbott's opaque play keeps its audience at such arm's length that we finally throw ours up in exasperation.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMCynthia Nixon successfully challenges the memory of Kathleen Chalfant's original cast performance in a sterling revival of Margaret Edson's unflinching drama about a frosty academic facing…
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Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talent Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMRichard Eyre, Simon Callow and Tilda Swinton are among the names lined up to curate work for a new online video on demand service screening plays, dance productions and concerts alongside ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMI have, somewhat belatedly, just come across the letters regarding the loud sound levels in the West End musicals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMI feel it is a great shame that the Music Theatre Academy should have been awarded School of the Year in the Stage 100 Awards 2012 (The Stage, January 5, page 19), as it is an organisation t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMAs Josie Rourke and Kate Pakenham begin their new jobs at the Donmar, they talk to Alistair Smith about how they intend to make their marks at the Covent Garden venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMAs director Christopher Luscombe's version of The Madness of George III runs at London's Apollo, he talks to Al Senter about why he felt it was time for a revival of the play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMI refer to The Stage online news story, dated January 4 2012: "ASA censures Castingallstars.com for misleading ad". The advert appeared in this newspaper back in July 2011. It will come as n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMQuoting Matt Hemley in his interview with Samuel West (The Stage, January 12, page 20): "He heard South African actors complain they had been in things they did not like, prompting West to a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMI really welcome Jo Caird's article (The Stage, January 19, page 10) challenging the industry to find ways to help raise more women into top jobs in the arts.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMThe ballet world is spinning after one of the art's brightest stars walked away from Britain's Royal Ballet without explanation, days before he was due to take the lead in a new production.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:29AMLegit Reviews||Los Angeles:
The Pulitzer Prize winning play is a coruscating exploration of how we talk and think about race in America.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:25AMLegit News:
World premiere among summer shows at Barrington Stage
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21AMPelecanos Makes D.C. Go Round: Largehearted Boy taps local noir writer George Pelecanos to soundtrack his latest novel, What it Was (read our review here). The 10-track list is mostly funk a…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 07:15AMGet a 30% discount on your digital copy of Josie Rourke's Much Ado About Nothing, performed at the Wyndhams Theatre last year. Valid until 30 January
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:09AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
NBC had previously announced that actor Kelsey Grammer will guest star on 30 ROCK's January 26th episode entitled 'Idiots Are People Three'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30AMInterAct Theatre Company gives to wacky "Microcrisis" a once-over. Is this satire about the financial crisis as goofy as it seems? Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:18AMThe cofounder of the modern Wilma has died, a banner across the site announces.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:15AMDowntown choreographer David Dorfman gets his groove on — with a lot of help from Sly and the Family Stone. “Prophets of Funk” is a trip back to Dorfman’s funk and disco roots, but i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:09AMThe Wilma Theater posted a banner across its website late Wednesday to announce that Jiri Zizka - a cofounder of the modern Wilma on Broad Street and a major force in Philadelphia's evolutio…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:07AMPlaybill.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 12:02AMActress, Singer, Producer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? The beach What’s your favorite book / movie / line from a play / pop culture guilty pleasure / cocktail?…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThree Little Maids like you've never seen thembefore in the anime-inspired Mikado withcostumes by Dianna Finnmanat Edmonton Opera
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 12:01AM"Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace." John Cowper Powys, The Meaning of Culture...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIn Menders, playwright Erin Browne imagines a repressive society where a medicated populace no longer dreams and poetry and storytelling have become lost, banished arts. A prologue sets the …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Daniel Talbott's Yosemite, featuring Tony Award nominee Kathryn Erbe, Seth Numrich, Noah Galvin and Libby Woodbridge, officially opens Off-Broadway Jan. 26 at the R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Neil Simon Theatre box office opens Jan. 26 at 10 AM for the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, which will which begin previews Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway's The Phantom of the Opera, already the longest-running show in Broadway history, hits another milestone Jan. 26. It's the 24th anniversary of its opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Recommendation, Jonathan Caren's provocative play about friendship, featuring Jimonn Cole, Brandon Gill and Evan Todd, opens Jan. 26 following previews from Jan. 21 at The Old Globe&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDenver Center Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Lisa Loomer's Passover Seder-set comedy Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg, ope…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArena Stage's Washington, DC, engagement of John Logan's Red, produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, where this production bowed last fall, opens Jan. 26 followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — opens Jan. 26 following performances f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGabe McKinley was on the scene during the Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times. His new Off-Broadway play, CQ/CX, has the story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Faith Prince and Jason Graae celebrate the music of Tony-winning composer Jerry Herman Jan. 26 in The Best of Times for 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArt can be risky or risque, classical or contemporary, or all of those at once, as in the case of "Spring Awakening." The risque part caused the initial buzz when it clocked into Broadway, a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMALL WEEKEND Hot Wheels On this off weekend for football -- aside from the ceremonial Pro Bowl -- the David L. Lawrence Convention Center will be home to cool cars, a wrestler, a swamp person…
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