Arts | Connecticut: Marc Camoletti’s ‘Boeing-Boeing’ at Hartford Stage — Review by Sylviane Gold

Marc Camoletti’s “Boeing-Boeing,” about an American juggling three live-in stewardesses, is staged as a comedy in broad physical strokes at Hartford Stage.

Arts | New Jersey: In ‘Boeing-Boeing,’ the ’60s as a Misguided Era — Review by Anita Gates

“Boeing-Boeing” is at the Paper Mill Playhouse. The appeal of the play today is the amusing look at the peculiar customs of a misguided era.

Character Study: Shane Baker, Raised Episcopalian, Lives for Yiddish Theater by Corey Kilgannon

A 43-year-old Midwesterner raised Episcopalian is helping to keep Yiddish theater alive and well, long after its heyday in New York.

Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 1/28/2012

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 1282012.

Judy Garland at the end

"End of the Rainbow" finds Judy Garland wrestling with the legend she had created, and her own self-image.

See 'Carnage' at BU by Jenna Scherer

There are plenty of plays out there about civilized people descending into -chaos and destroying their own living...

Wit by Doug Marino

A play about cancer and dying is probably not something that is first on your uplifting winter "must see" list.  But don't click the back button on your browser just yet.  Attentio…

Los Angeles Theater Review: RICHARD III (Sacred Fools) by Jason Rohrer

CHEATED OF FEATURE The joy of watching Shakespeare in performance largely depends on the ensemble’s ability to make sense of the language.  In this regard, Sacred Fools’ new Ric…

Los Angeles Theater Review: OVO (Cirque du Soleil) by Jason Rohrer

IF THIS IS THE CIRCUS, WHERE’S MY BREAD? In 1992, Guy Laliberté gentrified the big top with Saltimbanco, offering pure spectacle at Wagnerian prices, and in the process conflating art…

Men in Motion, Sadler's Wells, London

At the start of last week, the name Sergei Polunin was barely known beyond hardcore ballet fans. On Tuesday, the 21-year-old walked out of his job as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet.

Heads Up: The Leisure Society

What are we talking about?A starry new West End production of François Archambault's satire, a dark comedy in which a yuppie dinner party spirals out of control.

The Trial of Ubu, Hampstead, London The Madness of George III, Apollo, Shaftesbury, London Shallow Slumber, Soho Upstairs, London

King Ubu is a glove puppet going psycho. In the prologue to Simon Stephens's new play The Trial of Ubu, as staged by Katie Mitchell, this miniature scabrous clown, resembling Mr Punch, zips …

Off Broadway Theater Review: YOSEMITE (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) by Thomas Antoinne

THE NATURALIST THING TO DO In the late 19th century, Naturalism emerged as a viable theatrical style in response to the artifice that had earlier been in vogue.  It was almost inevitable th…

Review: Finding Peace in This House (Erasing The Distance) by Scotty Zacher

As producers, Erasing the Distance has made a brilliant and moving production out of a tender subject matter. From this show I learned that it's okay to look people in the eye and give ackno…

Dance spotlight: New troupe debuts

Stage spotlight: 'Dial M for Murder'

MTI second pass by Broadway Blogspot

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Kingsbury Ensemble presents “The Three Sopranos”

Three gifted sopranos will put aside all rivalry and come together for a program of late Renaissance and Baroque opera and song: Jessica Heuser, Christine Johnson and Elise LaBarge are the K…

Is the three-act dead? by Tim

Is the three-act dead? By Karen McKevitt on the Berkeley Rep Blog: At a company meeting this fall, Artistic Director Tony Taccone declared, “Artists are moving away from the three-act stru…

BWW Interviews: Daniel Radcliffe Talks THE WOMAN IN BLACK by Kelly Cameron

On January 26th Toronto was abuzz with excitement as film and stage star Daniel Radcliffe arrived in the city for the first time ever, to promote his upcoming film The Woman in Black. The s…

Replacements deliver fine program in St. Louis Symphony concert

A change of artists usually means a change of repertoire. Not this weekend at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; the change involves the guest conductor and the soloist, making the retention …

Wit by StageGrade

Do critics want to go on living for "Wit"?

BWW TV: WIT Celebrates Opening Night- Cast Interviews! by BroadwayWorld TV

WIT 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 …

Inside the Roundabout Archives Day 3- THE HOMECOMING by BroadwayWorld

Roundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource fo…

People You Should Know . . . Eddie Antar by Zack

EDDIE ANTAR(Playwright) began his career in theatre working with the Indie theatre company TheArt & Work Ensemble, appearing in many of its productions including JosephHeller's We Bombed…

Met Opera Star Retires After Nearly 45 Years

Metropolitan Opera star Paul Plishka is saying goodbye to the stage after nearly 45 years and 1,642 performances.

'Ragtime: The Musical' is beautiful soundtrack to history

Review: This expansive and glorious metaphor on the American Century is given beautiful treatment at Park Square Theatre.

Before Closing Night, Snapshots of 'Naked Boys Singing' - NYTimes.com by Erik Piepenburg

The Naked City will become a little more modest this weekend when “Naked Boys Singing!,” the all-male, all-nude musical revue, closes on Saturday night after an almost 13-year run in New…

Getting to the ‘What’ of it by HowlRound

Last Monday I was fortunate enough to be able to attend TEDxBroadway at New World Stages in New York City. With no direct experience, but a keen interest, in the Broadway scene, I was excite…

Art in the Parking Space: Performance Art Partying in the the Standard Hollywood's Garage

Tova Carlin, Ania Diakoff, and Katerina Llanes' Sub-Standard installation​If Los Angeles is a car culture, then the parking garage of the Standard Hollywood represents that beastly rea…

Occupy Wall Street movement inspires series of short plays by David Ng

"Occupy Heart" is a collection of short plays that will run at the Little Casa Theater in downtown L.A. from Feb. 10-26.

Weekend Agenda: Extra-Long Edition by Lucky and The Mick

Wow, a lot happened this week, you guys! Here’s the rundown… The musical Rebecca? So not happening, says all the people who refused to pay for it. Incoming instead? A revival of …

Artists and Presenters Public Dialogue by Maura Donohue

Maura's moderating another panel for The Field's Economic Revitalization in the Performing Arts program on Monday 1/30 at 6:30 at Joyce Soho about "How Artists and Presenters Works Together.…

Jack Black, Kevin Kline Among Cast for Frank or Francis Film by Brian Scott Lipton

Principal casting has been announced for Charlie Kaufman's upcoming film, Frank or Fraancis, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elizabeth Banks, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carel…

Shameless Plug: Exposure by Michael Block

Tonight at 7:00pm, DreamStem Productions presents Dreams on the Page: Exposure by yours truly, Michael Bradley. Directed by Leah Benavides, the cast includes Kyla Blocker, Corey Camperchioli…

JKTS INTERACTIVE: HOT and HOTTER: Round 1: Dueling IDIOTS by JK

Recently, I Tweeted all of my Twitter followers asking them: Darren Criss and Jeremy Jordan are cute guys!  BUT which Broadway Boys do YOU think are HOT, that others might not?  Ac…

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 1/28- MACBETH by Stage Tube

Today in 1982, Macbeth opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it ran for 21 performances. Written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shak…

Parade Productions’ Brooklyn Boy Is Mildly Funny, Mildly Moving But Flawed Evening by Bill Hirschman

Avi Hoffman’s performance as a troubled writer, struggling to deal with success but escape his past, is one of the virtues in the promising but flawed inaugural offering from Parade Produc…

Wit Review: Cynthia Nixon Breaks The Nixon Rule by Jonathan Mandell

The Nixon Rule is named after Cynthia Nixon, who is starring as a literature professor dying of cancer in the Broadway debut of “Wit” 13 years after it opened Off-Broadway and won the Pu…

Tony Award Winner Patricia Neway Dies at 92 by BroadwayWorld

Tony Award winner Patricia Neway has passed away, according to published reports. She was 92 years old.

The Descendants by Jill Dolan

Woodley, Clooney, Miller, and Krause, on the beach in The DescendantsWriter-director Alexander Payne’s films—if About Schmidt, Sideways, and now TheDescendants are any indication—are s…

St. Louis Art Museum reinstalls 18 galleries

The new wing of the St. Louis Art Museum won't open for another year, but the museum has reinstalled 18 galleries in the original Cass Gilbert building. The galleries feature 12 new acquisit…

London International Mime Festival: No Fit State Circus by TheatreVOICE

MIME FEST SPECIAL Postshow discussion with No Fit State Circus hosted by Dick McCaw about their show, Mundo Paralelo, performed as part of the 2012 London International Mime Festival, at the…

Vpstart Crow’s new season announced, and calls for directors by Tim Treanor

First look at what lies in store for us in the 2012-2013 season comes from Vpstart Crow Manassas-based Vpstart Crow Productions yesterday announced that its 2012-2013 season would feature f…

London diary: ‘Crazy for You’ and ‘Ghost the Musical’ by Bob Bullen

Sharon D Clarke in “Ghost the Musical” While my primary purpose in London was work-related, I carved out some time for a two shows. Lucky for me, the TKTS booth was just a five …

Maybe plays pay more interest than banks?!. . . by Elyse Sommer

Delia Ephron's   funny but, sadly, all too  true, Op-Ed  piece Banks Taketh, but Don’t Giveth  in  the  January 27,  New York Times,  credits h…

Review: Götterdämmerung by David Finkle

The Metropolitan Opera concludes Robert Lepage's misconceived version of Wagner's "Ring Cycle."

BWW TV: In Rehearsal with Seth Rudetsky and Cast of DISASTER! by BroadwayWorld TV

Were you like Seth Rudetsky in the 70's Not just overweight with a Jewfro, but also obsessed with POSEIDON ADVENTURE, AIRPORT '75, EARTHQUAKE, THE SWARM etc...AND obsessed with Casey Kasem's…

SLSO French hornist finds beauty in art songs

"The Horn in Song." Tod Bowermaster, horn; James Howsmon, piano. (Available at the Powell Symphony Hall boutique, Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, iTunes.)

Tony Award Winner Patricia Neway Has Died by Brian Scott Lipton

Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for her role as the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, died in Vermont on January 24 of natural causes, according to reports. She was 92. Her many o…

Review: Josie Long: The Future is Another Place by Tristan Pate

Josie Long’s comedy has something of a DIY mentality. Introducing herself from the side of the stage in full view of the audience, then chastising people in the crowd for looking at her an…

Review: The Bee by Jake Orr

In Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan’s The Bee, a collaboration between Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Soho Theatre in association with NODA MAP, two men push the limits in a dangerous game…

Feature: Paul Downs Colazzo Is Really Excited by Brian Scott Lipton

The talented playwright discusses the Signature Theatre production of his provocative new work, Really! Really.

A "Richard III" That Just Limps Along by Jan Simpson

People have been going to the theater to see stars since Thespis broke out of the chorus in the 6th century, barnstormed the cities of ancient Greece and gave his name to the acting professi…

"God of Carnage" in Sarasota by Bill Oser

The play does not make any strong technical demands on a theater, and Asolo has put forward a perfectly adequate production.

"The Recommendation" Old Globe World Premiere by Bill Eadie

"The Recommendation" ... making its world premiere at The Old Globe through February 26, goes in the direction of interrogating the influence of class differences and upward aspirations on …

Review: Miss Julie by Ryan Sullivan

Expectations are dangerous things. Walking into the New Diorama again to see another part of The Faction’s rep season, I was greeted by revellers humming the conga. The party was in fu…

Theaters open 'the thinker's slot'

Deanna Jent calls it "the thinkers' slot."

Review: Mayday Mayday by Edward Franklin

In his new, skilfully told solo show at Bristol Old Vic, Tristan Sturrock performs the story of his own brush with death; a tumble from a wall in 2004 that left him with a broken neck. Sturr…

Want to write? Interview with singer-songwriter Emma O’Reilly by Marése O'Sullivan

23-year-old Irish singer-songwriter Emma O’Reilly is well on her way to establishing a thriving career in the music business. She read English Literature and Music at Trinity College Dubli…

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess – starring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier and the entire ensemble by Oscar E Moore

In a word.  Go!  PORGY AND BESS, the 1935 iconic and revered four hour folk opera by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward has undergone a “nip and tuck’ procedur…

Opportunity: Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012 by A Younger Theatre

Applications are now open for young writers to take part in the Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012. This year’s festival commemorates Liverpool’s links with the Titanic. We want …

Opportunity: Resident Assistant Director at Theatre503 by A Younger Theatre

Here is an excellent opportunity for emerging directors to work with Theatre503: Theatre503 welcomes applications to our six-month Resident Assistant Director scheme. Resident Assistant Dire…

'Smash' Stars An 'Interesting Tribe': Theater People by NPR Staff

NBC's new drama, Smash, plumbs the drama behind the curtain. The series is the story of a Broadway musical — from the first idea, to auditions, rehearsals and the big premiere. Theresa Reb…

'Backstage With' Fred Willard And Martin Mull

Martin Mull and Fred Willard are comic partners in many minds. They helped create Fernwood Tonight in the late 1970s, and while they went on to solo careers in films and stage, they were reu…

'Backstage With' Fred Willard And Martin Mull

Opportunity: Your Play Performed at the Finborough Theatre by A Younger Theatre

This is an excellent chance to have your play performed at one of London’s top Off West End venues, the Finborough Theatre. Working in partnership for the second year running the Papat…

BWW's On This Day - January 28, 2012

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

SAG Awards Announce Complete List of Presenters by Andy Propst

A complete list of presenters has been announced for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will will be held on Sunday, January 29 in Los Angeles and aired live on TNT and TBS. …

Everyone Can Have [Figurative] Balls by Don Hall

I just caught this via Facebook -5 Feminist Demands She Wants You to IgnoreandAmanda Rountree's Response...and it occurs to me that all the stereotyping we do each other stems from gender (a…

Little Miss Muffet's Monster-Sitting Service by Lisa Jo Sagolla

Visually striking yet kinetically static, this hourlong marionette musical is driven by an intelligent, humorous script that is probably better appreciated by middle-aged moms than little …

Growing Up Gonzales by Ron Cohen

Overflowing with colorful detail and smartly observed anecdotes, this one-man show is an affectionate, funny, and spicily authentic collage of growing up Puerto Rican in the Bronx of the 1…

Oh, That Wily Snake! by Marc Miller

Martin Dockery's two-hander about the dire consequences of fooling around is deliberately vague and cryptic, and on those terms it's pretty diverting, with fine chemistry between Dockery a…

The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess by Carey Purcell

The living ain’t easy on Catfish row in the new rendition of Porgy and Bess, currently playing at the Richard Rogers Theater on Broadway. Minimalistic, passionate and violent, filled with …

Götterdämmerung (Metropolitan Opera) by Robert Walport

Did no one tell Robert Lepage that Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" ends with the fall of the gods and a renewal of the world? It's certainly not clear from the utterly inept finale that he has …

'Doubt,' the opera, and other coming attractions

World premiere of "Doubt" headlines the Minnesota Opera's 2012-13 season. Notable for its absence in the announcement is "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis."

AVA reclaims Verdi's first opera

The overture promises Verdi at his more dire - Rigoletto, only bloodier. And then his first-ever opera, the rarely performed Oberto, written in 1839 when the composer was 26, unfolds like a …

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess – starring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier and the entire ensemble by Oscar E. Moore

Gritty and passionate and powerful with classic songs that are gorgeously sung charged with the varied emotions of love, loss and revenge. The casting is perfection.

Theater Review: Kathryn Erbe in ‘Yosemite,’ at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater by Jason Zinoman

In Daniel Talbott’s new play, “Yosemite,” a family tries to deal with a baby’s death.

Behind the Scenes: Making a PSA by Memphis The Musical

Behind the Scenes: Making a PSA Get a behind the scenes look at the making of the fantastical Memphis PSA! From: MemphisTheMusical Views: 3 0 ratings Time: 01:02 More in Entertainment

Theater Review: A Wit That Still Crackles by Scott Brown

Wit is in good health for its age (fourteenish, an awkward time for a revival) and risk profile (star-driven, midwinter Manhattan Theatre Club production).

“The Scottsboro Boys” Is a Theatrical Triumph by Aaron Mettey

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production—the first since the show closed on Broadway—hits perfect notes from beginning to end.

George Clooney, Meryl Streep Win AACTA Award by Brian Scott Lipton

Winners of the first Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards were announced in Los Angeles on January 27. The Artist was named Best Film, with its director, Michael Hazaniv…

Michelle Haines by League of Professional Theatre Women

Advertising/Marketing, Directing New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Inspiration usually finds me in unexpected ways. I feel it’s one of those things that you can’t…

Theatre For Thought, January 28, 2012 by The Charlebois Post

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: Carmen Aguirre and Blue Boxjoel fishbaneEven the briefest of chats with playwright / actor / novelist Carmen Aguirre can be a refreshing experience. “I do not write for…

THE WEEK AHEAD, Jan. 28-Feb. 3: Closing Night Comes for Clear Day, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish; Carrie Returns! by Blake Ross

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you that On a Clear Day You Can See ('til Sunday)… there will be no more Speaking (of Chinglish or otherwise)… and the new Carrie …

A LIFE IN THE THEATRE: Actor Alvin Epstein's Journey From the Bronx to Broadway and Beyond by Mervyn Rothstein

Octogenarian actor Alvin Epstein, recently of Off-Broadway's The Cherry Orchard, has worked with Orson Welles, Bert Lahr, Robert Brustein and more in a lifetime of roles around the world.

Tix for Broadway's Starry The Best Man Go on Sale Jan. 28; Box Office Will Open Feb. 14 by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Tickets for the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man go on sale to the general public Jan. 28.

Christopher Plummer Receives Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Modern Master Award Jan. 28 by Michael Gioia

Tony Award winner Christopher Plummer receives the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Modern Master Award Jan. 28 at the Arlington Theatre.

CHART TOPPERS: Most-Read Playbill.com Stories, Week of Jan. 15–21 by Judy Samelson

Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan.15–21, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.

Theodore Bikel Takes On Title Role in Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green, Beginning Jan. 28 in Toronto by Michael Gioia

Tony Award nominee Theodore Bikel (The Sound of Music) stars in the title role in the Toronto premiere of Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green beginning Jan. 28, prior to an official opening …

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With How to Succeed and "Ugly Betty" Star Michael Urie by Michael Gioia

Michael Urie, also known as Marc St. James from the ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty," takes on his first musical — not to mention, his first Broadway credit — by stepping into t…

Naked Boys Sing for Final Time at New World Stages Jan. 28 by Andrew Gans

Naked Boys Singing!, the 15-song celebration of the male form, plays its final performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages Jan. 28 at 8 PM.

STAGE VIEWS: Mary Poppins and Grinch Star Ed Dixon by Andrew Gans

Playbill.com's new series features brief chats with Broadway actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via …

THE SCREENING ROOM: Our Favorite Harry Connick, Jr. Performances (Video) by Playbill Staff

This season Broadway audiences had the chance to see and hear Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's On A Clear Day You Can See Forever from a whole new perspective, with a new twist from dir…

Charlie Owens Is A Man of No Importance at the Gallery Players, Beginning Jan. 28 by Adam Hetrick

Charlie Owens leads the cast of the Gallery Players production of A Man of No Importance, the Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty-Terrence McNally musical about a man struggling with his sexuality …