LESLIE KINCAIDBURBY (Director) recently received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for OutstandingDirection of the 2010 WorkShop Theater Company Play in Process production ofEddie Antar'…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:57PMKelly Anne Burns is an actress/clown, writer,producer, & award-winning director. She most recently was nominated for a2011 New YorkInnovative Theatre Award for'Outstanding Actr…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:50PMShow People with Paul Wontorek: Gavin Creel of "Hair," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and More
With an easy charm and a killer singing voice, Gavin Creel has become a fan fa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:47PMAdapter/Director Eric Ting's play "Macbeth [1969]" is arresting, startling, and intellectually challenging. Sometimes bombarding one's senses, the Long Wharf world premiere production runs j…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMOn Tuesday of this week, I showed up to BikeABQ's first meeting of 2012, with no idea what to expect.Volunteering for the advocacy group has been slow-going so far. Soon after volunteering …
SOURCE: Scenes in the City at 07:41PMThis weekend, BroadwayWorld will be presenting an illuminating InDepth InterView with legendary composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber all about the enchanting new performance capture film versio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMTanya Saracho was born in Mexico, moved to Texas, went to college in Boston, settled in Chicago, and was inspired by a Russian play as she wrote El Nogalar, which is set in Mexico and is ope…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMWith an easy charm and a killer singing voice, Gavin Creel has become a fan favorite with star-making turns in Broadway musicals like Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles and Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:29PMAgreed: Mirth, with thee I mean to live.
The chorus sings these words at the exultant finish of Mark Morris’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato,” which transforms the Handel or…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:21PMThe stars aligned as Tony winner Cynthia Nixon took the stage January 26 on opening night of Wit. A-listers from the stage and screen flocked to Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:11PMBroadway Opening Night: "Wit" Starring Cynthia Nixon
The stars aligned as Tony winner Cynthia Nixon took the stage January 26 on opening night of Wit. A-listers from the stage and…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:09PMOld Friend - "Merrily We Roll Along" Stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Donnell & Celia Keenan-Bolger
There has been a resurgence of the work of Stephen Sondheim this season as N…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:07PMNora, CoventryIngmar Bergman's 1981 psychological drama, itself an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 masterpiece A Doll's House is revived here by director Patricia Benecke. Penny Layden is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMBroadway.com Word of Mouth Review: "Wit" Starring Cynthia Nixon
Margaret Edson's 1999 Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit has made it to Broadway, starring Tony winner Cynthia Nix…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:03PMNick Jonas & Michael Urie Open in Broadway's "How to Succeed in Business"
On January 24, pop star Nick Jonas and Michael Urie (TV's Ugly Betty) officially became compa…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:02PMBritish TV comedy seems like it must be a small pond, what with the same familiar performers frequently popping up in different programmes. As I recall, the BBC made an engaging documentary,…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMWrite what you know, the cliché goes, and in his new drama the playwright Chris Lee draws on his day job as a social worker to create a tense two-hander about a middle-class social worker a…
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Clips from Broadway's "Wit" Starring Cynthia Nixon
Wit, starring Cynthia Nixon, officially opens on January 26 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Broadway.com already gave you…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:49PMSee Caissie Levy, Richard Fleeshman & More Sing from Broadway's "Ghost" Musical
As the musical adaptation of the supernatural love story Ghost preps for its Broadway bow a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:47PMDespite a few solid performances and Joe Schermoly’s scenic design, which transforms Theater Wit into a British school common room, *Punk Rock* turns out to be a big disappointment. Not R…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:36PMWelcome to good times: In the realm of dance, your spring is going to heat up early and stay hot. Or at least tingly warm. There’s the brand new: Company E, a repertory troupe making a for…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:35PMViolinist Aisslinn NoskyLast weekend's Handel and Haydn concerts may have been devoted to The Four Seasons, but there was only one major change of musical season during the program - the shi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 06:30PMThis is the second year in a row that the Shaw has ended a season more than a million dollars in the red
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:25PMToday, Deadline.com revealed that the show has been greenlit by NBC, adding that the series now has a title The New Normal.
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:07PMThe Denver Center's hit new play "The Whale" has a lot of things to say about contemporary life in America, but it makes a particularly keen point — and maybe not on purpose — a…
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As the sun sets on another week in Broadway-land, it’s hard to believe how much we’ve learned in only seven days. Kristin Chenoweth has a serious reality TV problem? Nick Jonas i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMTesla’s biggest innovation was introducing alternating current as the standard for modern electric power, breaking Thomas Edison’s monopoly on DC power. Author and monologist Mike Daise…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:57PMAt the opening of Clybourne Park at the Mark Taper Forum on Wednesday, Connie chatted with Erika Alexander, Paul Blackthorne, Tim Griffin, Aidan Quinn and, from the cast, Damon Gupton and Ch…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PMMaybe Naked Angels has the idea first? But in a Broadway season that already contains a very funny Chinese-culture play, I'm not sure why the Vineyard chose this time to mount Outside …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 05:53PMBrevity is the soul of wit but Tony winner Cynthia Nixon left a lasting impression at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on the January 26 opening night of Wit. The actress, who stars as Vivian …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:52PMEven though two high-profile projects dropped out of Washington’s spring theater season — the Kennedy Center’s reworking of Rodgers and Hart’s“Pal Joey” and Arena Stage’s tryou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:50PMMike Daisey tells the story of the Tesla’s real Dr. Strangelove moment: inventing the ultimate super-weapon, a death ray. But did it work? The government thought it might, and the Cold Wa…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:49PMGolden Age, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's new 1835-set backstage drama that swirls around the premiere of Bellini's opera I Puritani, will get its New York City de…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMGolden Age, Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's new 1835-set backstage drama that swirls around the premiere of Bellini's opera I Puritani, will get its New York City de…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:47PMSarah Jessica Parker has been cast as Gloria Steinem in LOVELACE, opposite Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard. Parker is replacing Demi Moore in the role of the iconic author and activist.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, to the Triad Theater for two February showsMonday, February 13 an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, January 27, 2012 The Friday Broadway Ticker: click on hyperlinked items for more information Andrew Lloyd Webber talks about how much he likes …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:39PMWit, which first premiered off Broadway in 1998, earned Margaret Edson the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play tells the story of a severe, perhaps cold, 47-year-old poetry professor who…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:31PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company is set to host the launch of black women playwrights' group Cyber Narrative Project, February 22.
This project will partner playwrights of color with tec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PMMary-Arrchie Theatre has announced casting for Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts, to run February 16 - March 25 at Angel Island Theatre. Matt Miller will direct the production.
The play ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:29PMThere's a little grenade of irony at the heart of "American Idiot," Green Day's rock opera currently onstage at...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:28PMArsinée Khanjian in Cruel and Tender. Photo by Bruce Zinger.Atom Egoyan's return to the stageCruel and Tender was highly anticipatedby Beat RiceLast night, the much anticipated product…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:27PMArena Stage has announced its partnerships and schedule for a two-month long Eugene O'Neill Festival, to run March 9-May 6. The celebration will feature unique collaborations with other…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMWhether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:23PMFramed by an old-style revolving proscenium with vaudeville signboard announcing the many locales, William Osetek’s staging surrounds Klea Blackhurst's Mama Rose with tailor-made triumphs,…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:18PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 16-22, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:16PMSutton Foster and Gavin Creel became overnight Broadway stars in 2002, when they teamed up as young lovebirds Millie Dillmount and Jimmy Smith in the Tony-winning musical comedy Thoroughly M…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 05:07PMSutton Foster and Gavin Creel became overnight Broadway stars in 2002, when they teamed up as young lovebirds Millie Dillmount and Jimmy Smith in the Tony-winning musical comedy Thoroughly M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMThe New Normal, the previously announced NBC pilot from Glee creator Ryan Muprhy and starring The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells, has officially been greenlit, according…
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Sarah Jessica Parker will play Gloria Steinem and
Chloë Sevigny will play the role of a feminist journalist in the upcoming film, Lovelace, about the life of porn star Linda Lovelac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:52PM In the classic 40s movie All About Eve, Bette Davis as Margo Channing utters the famous line, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” That’s pretty much the t…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:46PMBree Greig, Veda Hille, J. Cameron Barnett, Selina Martin, Barry Mirochnick, Dmitry Chepovetsky in Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata. Photo by David Cooper. Another Hit Musi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:44PMAnother night, another interesting triple from the New York City Ballet. I do wish they'd stop putting out a continuous, near unbroken stream of Balanchine, they have so much more variety in…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:39PMRavi and Asha Jains comedy about the mismatched aims of an Indo-Canadian familys visit to the homeland, a kind of parent-child dual memoir, is wry and enlightening theatre
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:30PMNBC has picked up The New Normal, a comedy project from Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler, according to Deadline.com. As previously reported, Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells will play one of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMMike Daisey tells the story of Tesla’s salons, where he played fast and loose with technology. "When he had you there, he'd show you inventions, then make you part of the inventions," Dai…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:26PMOperatic soprano and Tony-winner Patricia Neway, best known for her associations with Gian Carlo Menotti and Rodgers and Hammerstein, died peacefully in her home in Corinth, Vermont on Janua…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 04:17PMThe Arvada Center's superlative production of Oscar Wilde's timeless social satire, "The Importance of Being Earnest," proves the adage that there are no small parts:
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:17PMAdditional casting has been announced for February installments of Celebrity Autobiography, to be performed in various locations around the country.
Created by Eugene Pack and developed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMTim Albery directs a sober, severe production and his vision, like Handel’s, is at its most concentrated in solo arias, writes Andrew Clark
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe originality of Fleur Elise Noble’s show lies in the fact that it plays with perception and is constantly breaking boundaries, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:06PMNICK JONAS, who is currently starring in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, visited Kelly Ripa and guest host Cat Deeley on Live! with Kelly yesterday. Watch the videos bel…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:03PMThe reliable, ubiquitous Beth Leavel pours so much physical and vocal energy into the role of Berthe that one wonders how she can possibly do it eight times a week even for this limited run.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMRoundabout 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 04:00PMBut attendance and fundraising revenue grew in 2011, its 50th anniversary season.
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Review of a show by Douglas Coupland, who, yes, does art on top of all that other stuff.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:59PMI've been looking forward to "The Enchanted Island" for ages. Fans may mock Peter Gelb for suggesting modern audiences aren't particularly responsive to four hour Baroque epics, but by and l…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 03:57PMBecause "Green Porno" and "Botany of Desire" were already taken...
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:53PMCity Garage’s controversial production of Neil LaBute’s 1989 play, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance is ongoing at their gallery-of-residence at Bergamot Station. C…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:53PMAn Argentinean tour de force about dreaming and loss closes the monthlong Out There series.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:52PMFrances Ruffelle, Amanda Seyfried, and Colm Wilkinson will appear in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, according to published reports. Ruffelle, who originated the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:47PMCasting Directors (Working In The Theatre)
Casting Directors David Caparelliotis, Tara Rubin and Daniel Swee and moderator Patrick Pacheco discuss the role of the casting director; their co…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:45PMOpera legend Placido Domingo will play the title role in Opera Orchestra of New York's presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, March 7…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PMCaroline, or Change
Tonya Pinkins of the original Broadway production performs "Lot's Wife" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:37PMAnything Goes - The Perfect Broadway Getaway!
Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award winning Anything Goes makes for the perfect Broadway getaway!
Now playing at the Stephen Sondheim …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:37PMEcho Theater Company will present a special performance of Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear to benefit Peace Over Violence, a social service agency dedicated to the elimination of sexual…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMLynne Taylor-Corbett will direct writer/performer Joanna Rush in her solo show, Asking For It at Lincoln Center at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on Thursday, March 29 at 8:30…
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:29PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening night of the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Wit starring Cynthia Nixon.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:25PMWhy doesn’t Spider-Man proclaim in its ads that it’s in its “Second Smash Year!”? Or does management feel that it can’t use that line until June, which will be the first anniversar…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:12PMColm Wilkinson, who originated the role of Jean Valjean in both the London and Broadway productions of Les Miserables, will play the role of the Bishop of Digne in the upcoming film adaptati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMMatt Bomer, who recently signed on to play Felix Turner in the film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, is in negotiations to guest star on the Fox hit series "Glee,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMTHE RECCOMENDATION is a young man’s play,
frantic with jagged urgency over choosing the right next step from the options tumbling past so swiftly. But it is we old men, who understand …
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMThe Anything Goes star discusses his new role in City Center Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
It feels odd to recommend a play where the character dies and we know that before we enter the theatre. (Come to think of it we do that all the time with Shakespeare….) Nevertheless, get …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:58PMStage and screen star David Arquette will guest star in the Season 3 finale of the ABC comedy, Cougar Town, according to TVLine.com.
Arquette appeared opposite Annette Bening in the Geffen …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMBroadwayWorld reported yesterday that when the highly anticipated movie version of LES MIS opens in theaters later this year, original cast members Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle, who c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMWhen we last left the 63 casts of students participating in this year’s Junior Theater Festival, they were off to one of seven rooms. In each, they’d perform what could be called junior …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:56PMOver the years, Julia Murney (Wicked, Lennon) has had a bevy
of unique experiences in the theatre. Whether it's an argument with an
all-too-observant fan over whether or not she was wearin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMWhen I see a play like this, once I get over the shock, I think about all the people who worked on it, how they stepped up to the plate and gave it their best. Because the one thing you can…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:47PMJohn Hurt has been named as the recipient of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, which will be presented to him at BAFTA&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:46PMPublic Talk at Yale Rep LoungeJohn Freedman , theater critic of The Moscow Times , and an expert on contemporary Russian theater, will be visiting Yale School of Drama next Thursday and F…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PMAcademy Award-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle's opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics will be inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, according to published reports.
Boyle&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMStarlight Express
The original Broadway company perform "Starlight Express" and "Light at the End of the Tunnel" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PMA look at what "Naked Boys Singing!" leaves behind when it closes Off Broadway after 13 years in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PM “My View” by Stephen Sorokoff I once called Colleen McHugh a “Cabaret Machine” because of her ability to create and perform so many different Cabaret Shows. I should really ad…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:28PMThese days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message board…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMName: Daniel Sawtelle Where are you from originally? I hail from the land Welch’s Grapes, the Brig Niagara Battle of 1812 Warship, and “That Thing You Do” – Erie, PA.…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 02:24PMCostume Designer and Visionary Eiko Ishioka Dies: "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," costumer, Eiko Ishioka, died in Tokyo at 73 of pancreatic cancer.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:22PMThom Fogarty will direct his own adaptation of Ten Tall Tales About the Men I Love, based on the short story collection of the same name by Ronn Smith, to be presented at Judson Memorial Chu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PMNew York's "other Met" offers a rare opportunity to see the Menotti's opera which actually opened on Broadway and nabbed a Pulitzer Prize as a DramaCritics Circle award for best musical of 1…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:15PMThere is nothing more thrilling than watching paint dry in Red, the riveting bio-drama by John Logan about the cerebral abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and his determined youn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:15PMThe national tour of the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon will play a two-week engagement at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, February 5-17, 2013.
The winner of nine Tony Awards inclu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMPacific Overtures
Mako and the original Broadway company perform "Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:04PMWhat’s The Matter With Henry?, featuring music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen (The Opposite of Sex) with a book and lyrics by Dan Elish (13), will be presented Feb. 2-3 in invitation-o…
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Ari Butler, Geraint Wyn Davies, Natalie Kuhn, and Liza Vann will star in Jack Canfora's Poetic License at 59E59 Theaters. Evan Bergman will direct the production, which will receive its…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMThey're Playing Our Song
Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz of the original Broadway production perform the title track "They're Playing Our Song" at the Tony Awards.
No copyri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:46PMThe Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess on Broadway is a "Crap Game:" When I read Stephen Sondheim’s critique of “Porgy and Bess,” I wondered what all the fuss was about until I witnessed last…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:45PMTony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs will debut their new comedy cabaret, Let's Pretend We're Famous, at Plays & Players Theatre, March 6-25. Owen Robbins will serve as musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMBernadette Peters, Will Chase, Michael Mayer and more joined the stars of the new hourlong drama-with-music "Smash" for a world premiere event held Jan. 26 at the Metropolitan Muse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMOn The Twentieth Century
John Cullum, Judy Kaye, Imogene Coca, Kevin Kline and the original Broadway company perform "On The Twentieth Century" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:32PMEarlier this week, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING welcomed Nick Jonas in the role of J. Pierrepont Finch and Michael Urie as Bud Frump In the video belowthe duo quizzes eac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMAfter premiering to acclaim on Broadway Feb. 24, 2011, The Book of Mormon, as previously reported, will begin its national tour Aug. 14 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, CO. It wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMWit, Margaret Edson's play about a starchy poetry professor facing cancer and mortality, premiered at the Friedman Theatre this week. And it's as big a critical hit on Broadway as it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMNew York Interart Theatre and Royal Family Productions RFP will extend Gary Duggans Dedalus Lounge, directed by RFPs Chris Henry, with original musical by Anthony Rapp and Daniel A. Weiss an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMJokes 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 01:19PMName: Megan Minto Where are you from originally? That’s a difficult question… My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around a few times. I was born in California, in the middle…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:17PMTony Award winner Andrew Lloyd Webber recently visited the ladies of "The View" to talk about his career in music, Phantom and his latest production, Love Never Dies, which current…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to present Athol Fugard’s play The Road to Mecca, starring Tony Award® winner Rosemary Harris as “Miss Helen,” C…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:12PMThe Huntington Theatre Company will present a free public reading of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, February 23 at 7pm. Liesl Tommy is directing the Huntington's u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMThere has been a resurgence of the work of Stephen Sondheim this season as New York audiences are treated to revivals of Follies, Passion, Into the Woods and the cult favorite Merrily We Rol…
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 01:06PMThere has been a resurgence of the work of Stephen Sondheim this season as New York audiences are treated to revivals of Follies, Passion, Into the Woods and the cult favorite Merrily We Rol…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe New Group's world-premiere production of Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport, with Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Oreskes and Morgan Spector, begans previews Jan. 17 prior to an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMHoney 2 - Katerina Graham Dancing - Official Dance Scene
Official dance scene from Honey 2 featuring Kat Graham dancing to Claude Racine's "Back Up."
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:00PM“The Broken Heart” and “ ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” blood-soaked dramas by the 17th-century playwright John Ford, are landing in New York in the coming weeks.
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CBS This Morning celebrated Phantom of the Opera’s 24th anniversary on Broadway with a candid interview with the musical's composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber on January 27. Co-host G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMCBS This Morning celebrated Phantom of the Opera’s 24th anniversary on Broadway with a candid interview with the musical's composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on January 27. Co-host Gayle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMOn Thursday, January 26, the Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre where it is set to play through March 11 with Lynne Meadow at the helm.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMPhiladelphia Theatre Company officially opened THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS last night, January 25, 2012, running through February 19 at PTCs home in the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Previews began Janua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMA great review for the Alley Theatre's production of The Toxic Avenger from the Dallas Observer:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2012-01-26/culture/gooey-love-for-toxic-avenger/
SOURCE: Dallas Observer at 12:51PMWest Side Story tour veteran Grant Gustin, who made a splash as Sebastian, Glee’s trouble-making Dalton Academy Warbler, will guest star as twin brothers on the CBS' hit …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons brought some romance to Imus in the Morning on January 27 when the cast of the hit musical Jersey Boys made a guest appearance. Jarrod Spector (Frankie) ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMAfter years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:47PMAfter the Fair, the concert version of the award-winning musical set for Jan. 30, has been postponed due to scheduling difficulties. A date for March or April 2012 will be announced at a lat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMSee Alan Rickman in Broadway's New Hit Comedy and Save Over 40
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMAtom Egoyan's return to working in Toronto theatre is cause for celebration, but his choice of play is puzzling and his wifes role is a letdown
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:45PMThe 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: Backstage at 12:44PMText: “Being realistic is the most common traveled road to mediocrity.” ~ Will Smith Image: Sound: ______________________________________________________________________ Tahirah …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:41PMColin 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 12:37PMStage and screen stars Alan Cumming and Emmy Rossum visited Andy Cohen's nightly talk show WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMWith a touring binge-drinking drama and a play about the Champions League final, theatre lets loose as February beginsScotlandThe big news in Scotland is the Manipulate festival, a feast of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMAfter reports in the Daily Mail that Frances Ruffelle and Colm Wilkinson have joined the cast of Les Miserables' upcoming screen adaptation, rumours are now rife that more original cast memb…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:34PMColm Wilkinson, the original Jean Valjean in the 1985 London and 1987 Broadway productions of Les Misérables, will play the pivotal role of the Bishop of Digne in the new film of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMMatt Bomer will guest star on FOX's Glee, according to a report on TVLine.com. He will play the older brother of the character played by Darren Criss.
Bomer recently appeared on Broad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMGehry s first project for a stage company - the new home of Manhattan s Signature Theatre - will be named the Pershing Square Signature Center.Gehry s first project for a stage company - …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:26PMWIT Clip 1
A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Cynthia Nixon.
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedman Theatre in Margare…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:25PMIf you are dying to see the brilliant interior of the Oriental Theatre, then I guess you may want to see this show. Otherwise, just go rent the mediocre movie. Spending your money on this wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:23PMThe complete cast and design team have been announced for the American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes, which will be staged by David Cromer Off-Broadway beg…
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A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Suzanne Bertish and Cynthia Nixon.
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedma…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:20PMSam Gold challenges expectations of the classic play It’s tempting to dismiss Look Back In Anger, to say, “I get it. Realism. Kitchen sink. Angry young man.” But with his c…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:19PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ ... If y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:19PMThe national tour of Broadway's The Book of Mormon has announced that it will play a two-week engagement, February 5-February 17 of 2013, at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.
The win…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ ... If yo…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:12PMThe Road to Mecca - Opening Night
Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca opened at the American Airlines Theatre on January 17, 2012.
Tony Award®, Emmy Award® and Golden Globe Award&…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:09PMComplete casting has been announced for New Feet Productions' Leave the Balcony Open, to perform at 3LD Art & Technology Center, February 5-26. Jessica Bauman will direct.
The play…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:06PMComposer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber appeared as a guest on today's 'CBS This Morning', where he chatted about JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, EVITA, and more. Click below to check out the full interview
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMWIT Clip 4
A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Pun Bandhu, Michael Countryman, Jessica Dickey, Chiké Johnson, Greg Keller, Cynthia Nixon and Zachary Spicer.
Tony Award&r…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:01PMCLICK THE "HOW TO SUCCEED" LOGO TO YOUR LEFT TO ENTER TO WIN TICKETS TO SEE NICK JONAS!TAKE THIS MONTH'S POLL (TO YOUR LEFT, TOO)!Yesterday, The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMToday in 1982, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opened at the Royale Theatre now the Bernard B, Jacobs Theatre, where it ran for 747 performances. Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMWelcome to THE FRIDAY SIX QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edit…
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JERSEY BOYS Broadway stars Matt Bogart, Andy Karl, Jarrod Spector, Quinn VanAntwerp recently performed on Imus In The Morning on the Fox Business News. The performance opens with Jarrod Spec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMWIT Clip 5
A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Michael Countryman and Cynthia Nixon.
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Frie…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:51AMLincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook has returned to the Allen Room for its fourteenth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights, the series is …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMWit is a difficult play. The lead character isn’t particularly likeable on the page, but the audience can’t merely feel sorry for her. The metaphors and deconstructions of 17th Century p…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:48AMWIT Clip 6
A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Greg Keller and Cynthia Nixon.
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedman Th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:47AMThe Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University's newest building devoted to the arts, is going to be an exciting addition to the west coast music scene when it opens in January 2013. The Kronos …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:46AMBroadway saw Darren Criss do J. Pierrepont Finch, now watch him take on the King of Pop. In the January 31 episode of Glee, simply titled “Michael,” the New Directions perform th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMThe original 2010 Off-Broadway company of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park — the drama about race and change in an American neighborhood — reunites for a Los Angeles engagem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMTony nominee Adam Pascal (Rent, Memphis), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Addams Family, [title of show]) and Julia Murney (Queen of the Mist, Wicked) have been added to the lineup of the secon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMLooks like Glee’s resident heartthrob Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) is getting an equally hunky branch added to his family tree. Matt Bomer is in negotiations to appear as Criss&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMIf you haven't yet entered in Pataphysical Science's contest for free Godspell tickets, you still have until 6pm today to do so. But if you're not the winner, here's another shot a…
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 11:32AMJust three days into rehearsal toward a Feb. 8 launch at New York City Center, the principal trio of Merrily We Roll Along — played by Celia Keenan-Bolger (Mary), Colin Donnell (Frank) and…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:25AMClutter – MadKap Productions at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave, is offering $15 industry tickets for Thursday and Friday night 7:30 performances through March 11. For r…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:25AMFOX has released a promotional video featuring Darren Criss and the cast of Glee performing "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."
The sequence in the video will be seen on th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:24AMDedalus Lounge, currently performing at the Interart Theatre Annex, has added two performances, and will now conclude its run on Thursday, February 2.
Chris Henry has directed this play wit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMI know that as I reflect on important moments in my life when I truly learned something, most of them didn’t happen sitting silently at a desk. Most of them were experiences, conversations…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:19AMWIT Clip 8
A scene from Margaret Edson's WIT featuring Cynthia Nixon and Carra Patterson.
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedma…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:17AMRising Phoenix Repertory will present Solitary Man, as part of the company's Cino Nights series, Jan. 29 at the Seventh Street Small Stage in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMTony nominee Adam Pascal currently starring in Memphis, Heidi Blickenstaff The Addams Family, title of show, Julia Murney Queen of the MistWicked, join Rock n Roll Hall of Fame legend Darlen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMNow on stage at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, the company’s production of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s classic 1951 musical The King and I is a remarkably effective revival of thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMTony nominee Adam Pascal -- currently starring on Broadway in Memphis -- Heidi Blickenstaff and Julia Murney are the latest additions to the cast for the second annual Broadway Belts! for PF…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:10AMManhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Margaret Edson's Wit — the Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut — opened Jan. 26 following performances …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe Alley Theater's production of The Toxic Avenger, starring American Idol and Rock of Ages alum Constantine Maroulis alongside Nancy Opel, began previews on January 13 and officially opene…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMThe Alley Theater, under the artistic direction of Gregory Boyd, opened its production of the new musical The Toxic Avenger opened on January 20. Featuring book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMWIT Montage
Tony Award® and two-time Emmy® Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedman Theatre in Margaret Edson's Wit, helmed by MTC's award-winning Artistic D…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AMTony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will join the cast of the CBS legal drama "The Good Wife," according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMCasinos have a lot on the ‘line’, which is why there is a lot to learn from everything they do. I stumbled upon a simple little trick that I’ve started using for my shows already, and …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM“Becoming Chaplin,” a new musical about the life of film legend Charlie Chaplin is set to premiere on Broadway during the 2012-2013 season. The production will feature music and lyrics b…
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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 just opened in Houston, Texas. With books amp lyri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMOne may be in line for new owner while other could get an overdue facelift.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:56AMAs first reported on EWonline, star of stage and screen Bebe Neuwirth will be appearing in a recurring role on the CBS drama series THE GOOD WIFE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber has responded to public criticism about his newly announced Jesus Christ Superstar reality casting show, Superstar, from his collaborator Tim Rice.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMTickets for Broadways LEAP OF FAITH go on sale this Monday January 23 at www.telecharge.com, or 212 239-6200.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMWatch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Watch the stars of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS perform on “Imus In The Morning” on the Fox Bu…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:48AMKurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory, cast members of the original Broadway production of Follies, will reunite for When Everything Was Possible, A Concert (with comments) April 29 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMCurtains rose last night, January 26, on the opening night of the first-ever Broadway staging of "Wit." The limited engagement premiere, starring Cynthia Nixon, plays at the Samuel J. Friedm…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:45AMCirque du Soleil has returned to the Santa Monica Pier with its critically-acclaimed OVO. The production opened on Friday, January 20, 2012 fand will run for a limited engagement through Mar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMGustavo Dudamel will conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony at Carnegie Hall next season. The Public Theater in New York said its two Central Park productions this year will be Shakespeare's "As…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AMNo one can exactly accuse Federico Garcia Lorca's 1936 play of falling into neglect. From Howard Davies's National Theatre revival to this latest reclamation by the Almeida, The House of Ber…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:44AMThe cast of the 10th Annual Nightlife Awards reaches critical mass with the addition of Tony Nominee and Nightlife Legend KAREN AKERS and nightlife and recording sensation NELLIE McKAY. They…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMTwo-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth has landed a recurring role on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, according to EW.com. Neuwirth will play Judge Friend, a stern yet sexy woman who doe…
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 10:41AMTwo-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth has landed a recurring role on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, according to EW.com. Neuwirth will play Judge Friend, a stern yet sexy woman who doe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:41AMTony nominee Colm Wilkinson and Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, who both starred in the original West End and Broadway casts of Les Miserables, have joined the cast of the musical's upcomi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:31AMAdditional 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 10:30AMRoll out the red carpet and blow the trumpets, this week’s theater news round-up is flush with Broadway royalty… Tony-winner Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) looks to be adding a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:29AMCirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, currently stopping in Los Angeles January 27-29 at the Staples Center, will now return to the venue August 14 and 15 for th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:24AMRupert Friend will star in the first major London revival of Dennis Potter’s controversial play Brimstone and Treacle, which opens at the Arcola Theatre on 4 May 2012 (previews from 2 May)…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:18AMYesterday, I bought a new pair of shoes. That, in and of itself, is not much of a shocker. I don’t even bother to try to hide my shoe obsession. What I did, however, after buying the s…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:16AMWe've unveiled a Non Equity Auditions section of the site which now contains free listings for audition opportunities around the country with all the same features that our Equity center inc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMToday is the birthday of Will Marion Cook (1869-1944). He was emphatically not a vaudevillian, although there’s nothing about a serious musical training (he studied with Dvorak among…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:09AMThe League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton, Coronation Street's Katherine Kelly and Oliver Award-winning actress Sophie Thompson star in the National Theatre's new revival of Oliver Goldsmith…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:08AMJames William Productions and Stephenie Skyllas will present Broadway's Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory in When Everything Was Possible, A Concert (with comments), April 29 at 7:30 p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMActor nominees Berenice Bejo, Glenn Close, Bryan Cranston, Viola Davis and Shailene Woodley will be presenters at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMFrank Gehry's next building, the new home of New York's Signature Theatre, will open Tuesday. It's being named the Pershing Square Signature Center following a hedge fund's $25 million gift …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01AMWe’re in the age of social media and, in an effort to keep current, many theatres are turning toward trend. Live tweeting, which, as described by Twitter is “to engage on Twitter for a c…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:00AMProducers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and INFINITY Stages announced that tickets for Gore Vidal’s The Best Man will go on sale to the general public Jan. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMLife we go easier if you accept the following: 1. You will always be conflicted about the interaction of art and commerce. 2. You will never find a perfect balance between giving your audien…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 10:00AM
the Doyle & Debbie show has extended through June 24 at The Royal George Cabaret.
The show centers on Doyle Mayfield, an old-guard country star with a handful of hits back in the 70s …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMItalian writer Niccolò Ammaniti usually writes with an unadorned style about moral predicaments of the young in small-town Italy. "Me and You," a slender effort in all respects, covers this…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMEarlier this week, the 2012 Oscar nominations were announced and, as usual, several Broadway veterans (Viola Davis, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Christopher Plummer and Janet McTeer) will vie …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:56AMErica Sheffer’s new family drama Russian Transport opens January 30 at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. The New Group production, helmed by artistic director Scott El…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:49AMBérénice Bejo, Glenn Close, Bryan Cranston, Viola Davis and Shailene Woodley are the most recent additions to the line-up of presenters for the 18th annual Screen Actor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMIf you’ve gotten anywhere near the Circle in the Square lately, you know that the lovely Lindsay Mendez is blowing the roof off eight times a week in Godspell. We caught up with her ba…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:48AMTony Award winner Betty Buckley, who recently played a critically acclaimed, month-long engagement at Feinstein's, will offer a four-day Song Interpretation & Scene Study Workshop in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMTony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will be a recurring guest star on CBS' The Good Wife, according to EW.com.
She will be playing Judge Friend, who is described as "a sexy woman with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:35AMSave on tickets to Roundabout Theatre Company's production of THE ROAD TO MECCA
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMThe New York Philharmonic will present Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook, a celebration of the late Broadway composer, March 26 at 7:30 PM at Avery Fisher Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMSubmissions Only, Broadways favorite behind-the-scenes sitcom, continues in its second season with special guest stars Kristen Johnston, Michael Urie, Hunter Foster and more in Episode 5. Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AMKaren Akers and Nellie McKay are the latest additions to the lineup for the 10th annual Nightlife Awards, to be held at The Town Hall on Monday, January 30 at 7pm. Lucie Arnaz and Bill Irwin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:26AMKurt Peterson & Victoria Mallory, Of the Original Casts of Follies and the Lincoln Center Revival of West Side Story, Reunite On the NY Stage for the First Time in 40 Years: When …
SOURCE: David Gersten & Associates at 09:25AMLast night was the World-premiere of NBC's highly-anticipated drama series SMASH, held at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber were among the celeb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMAhead of next week's UK premiere of Brendan Cowell’s dark comedy Happy New at the Old Red Lion, cast member Josie Taylor, recently seen on stage in My Name is Rachel Corrie and on scre…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:14AMThe potent Wit is the only play Margaret Edson wrote, and you could say she quit while she was on top of her game. Her story of a callous, didactic scholar battling stage-4 ovarian cancer wo…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:09AM
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SOURCE: Variety at 08:57AMIn the below excerpt from the 1984 BBC series Sea of Faith, presenter Don Cupitt discusses the role of Eastern religion in Arthur Schopenhauer’s thought and quotes from the conclusion …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:53AMMargaret Edson is that rare bird, a playwright whose first play, Wit, earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. That alone makes her unique, but she becomes more so when we realize that she has n…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49AMWe talk with Louie Magic, Dennis Diamond, and Daryl Hannah, if that be their real names. The Elephant Room isn’t really a play and it isn’t really a magic show. In fact, it’s a little…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AMIn 1992 the Halifax-based theatre company, Northern Broadsides, founded by Barrie Rutter, staged its first production, Richard III. Rutter (b 1946), an established actor who had worked with …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:33AMWIT by Margaret Edson, directed by Lynne Meadow and starring Cynthia Nixon opened on Broadway last night, January 26 to rave reviews at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and BWW was there to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:20AMThe theatre community has lost another member. We are sad to report that Lance Hayden Kump, Marketing Manager for Studio Theatre and a gifted visual artist, died suddenly January 20, 2012. A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05AMTony winner Chuck Cooper is starring in a production of the late August Wilson's '70s-set drama in Red Bank.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AM
Margaret Edson has just written one play in her life, the brilliant Wit, now receiving its Broadway premiere a mere seventeen years after it was first produced and went on to win nearly ever…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:58AMI don't often miss a first night for a party, but I made an exception for Paul Sidey, the retiring editor at Hutchinsons and Random House, who was given a special send off at the Polish Hear…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:53AMWhatsonstage.com Award-winning West End long-runner Wicked officially welcomed its new cast last night, watched by raft of celebrity guests including Abi Titmuss, Russell Grant, Patsy …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:24AM‘Tis the Season Pembroke Pines Theater of the Performing Arts has roughed out its 2012-2013 season, although exact dates are still being finalized. The company will present the musical Ann…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:22AMSometimes, That Guy Needs a Punch in the Fucking GobI realized a long time ago that there are only a few Liberals and Lefties that really like a dustup with the obnoxious, revisionist asshol…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:06AMSimon Stephens' updating of Alfred Jarry's absurdist classic The Trial of Ubu opened on the Hampstead Theatre’s main stage this week (23 January 2012, previews from 18 January) directe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:01AMThe Coterie Theatre and the UMKC Theatre Department have joined forces to produce a remarkably well-acted revival of "The Wrestling Season," a taut one-act play by Laurie Brooks about intens…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 06:00AM
FIVE THINGS TO DO WHEN A BLACKOUT OCCURS DURING A PLAYby Matt Raudsepp of Matt and Kyle and MattGive someone near you the middle fingerWe've all been there before... you arrive at the theatr…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMEditor, Writer, Producer New York, New York USA Collaboration is the key to working and being successful in this industry, and perhaps that’s what makes the theatre world so attractive to …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review the Broadway premiere of Wit and the Florida premiere of The...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"But all the authorities, it is pleasant to know, report that the final scene, though it may be full of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMAthol Fugard's The Road to Mecca stars Tony winner Rosemary Harris, Carla Gugino Tony and DD winner Jim Dale. It takes a while for the sparks to fly in this revival, actually makin…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AMDaniel Talbott's Yosemite, which is premiering at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a sad, lyrical play about three lost children: how they got that way, and, perhaps, how we got that way …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAmerican Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Richard Montoya's new work about a U.S. citizenship test and echoes from American history, plays La Jolla Playhouse starting Jan. 27. Jo B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmerican Theater Company presents the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, an examination of a modern Muslim-American struggling to define his identity, beginning Jan. 27, prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPittsburgh Public Theater continues its season with a new production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, officially opening Jan. 27, following previews that began Jan. 19, at the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire) returns to Buffalo, NY, Jan. 27 to read Clifford Odets' The Big Knife in a benefit for Road Less Traveled Productions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMichael 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 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Robin de Jesus and Drama Desk Award winner Javier Muñoz, who co-starred on Broadway in the musical In the Heights, reunite for the Shakespeare T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM