BE CAREFUL THE SHARKS WILL EAT YOU, a solo show based on Jay Alvarez's life as a Cuban-American that interweaves family stories with Cuban history, is currently playing ArtWorks Theatre in H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:53PMEbony Theatre's production of Lorraine Hansberry's American classic A Raisin in the Sun, playing at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre, opened last night with performances continuin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:52PMHow much depth can you expect to find in a tango? As it turns out, there's far more than you think. How much depth can you expect to find in a tango? As it turns out, there's far more than y…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:36PMSignature Theater Company opens its new home on Tuesday, an ambitious project undertaken in the midst of the recession.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThe Newest Musical Watch: “Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!,” Has Grammy Award Winning Paquito D’Rivera: Paquito D’Rivera, the multiple Grammy Award winner, Kennedy Center honore…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:29PMOmigod, omigod you guys. What we have with “Legally Blonde” is a genuinely old-fashioned musical comedy with a totally awesome, new-fangled pop culture mentality and an energetic rock be…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:16PMThis week - it's all about The Gersin's PORGY AND BESS The show officially opened on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast is led by four-time Tony Award winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMAllison Buck as Tekmessa and Grant Harreison as Ajax, photo Laura June Kirsch, courtesy Flea Theater If you’re lucky enough to see These Seven Sicknesses, you’re in for a rich adventure.…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:14PMRobert Lepage's six-hour "Götterdämmerung," the final installment to Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle that opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday, needs to have more than a few flashes of…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:14PMThe rave reviews are in for WIT!
Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon returns to MTC's Friedman Theatre in Margaret Edson's modern masterpiece WIT, helmed by MTC&…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:09PM‘Illusionist, magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, historian, film producer, pilot, debunker.” That is the short list of “occupations” Wikipedia assigns to the man first k…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:57PM"It's like 16-year-old me is jumping up and down on his bed," actor Michael Urie tells PAPERMAG when asked what it was like to make his Broadway debut last week as Bud Frump in How to Succee…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 05:50PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Houdini Box" by Chicago Children's Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Houdini Box" by Chicago Children's Theatre ★★★ ... Before he wro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PMMcCoy Rigby Entertainment and Bill Malone of FX Arts are set to present Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, February 17 and 18 at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center. The show is d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMClassical Theatre of Harlem will present Ami Brabson, Reg E Cathey, and Suzzanne Douglas in Jean Giraudoux's Madwoman of Chaillot, adapted by Maurice Valency. Jenny Bennett will direct …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:40PMA Brief Request To Theatermakers From Isaac Butler: I can’t remember a 100 minute show that I thought wouldn’t've been better at 90 or even 80 minutes in length, nor can I recall…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:36PMReimagining Adam Guettel’s beloved song cycle Myths and Hymns is practically begging to be interpreted and reinterpreted on stage. Written by composer-lyricist Adam Guettel (The Light …
SOURCE: TDF at 05:36PMThe Weekly Howl: Join HowlRound.com for our weekly Twitter conversation. This week we are exploring “Artistic Home” blog by Kirk Lynn. Check out the article for reference! http…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:31PMThe box office for William Shatner’s Broadway show SHATNER’S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT opens tomorrow January 31. The Music Box Theatre is located at 239 West 45th Street. Tickets …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:27PMOscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine is to join the cast of Downton Abbey.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26PMCirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour will open in London on October 12 followed by European tour stops in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Spain, ac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMStephen Adly Guirgis, award-winning playwright and one of the three artistic directors of New York's hot LAByrinth Theater Company, is coming to Coral Gables to check out GableStage's smash …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:24PMFormer President George H.W. Bush and former First lady Barbara Bush paid a visit to the touring production Bring It On: The Musical at the Hobby Center in Houston Jan. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PMThe gross of $682,879 for the standard eight performances was the lowest amount for "How to Succeed" since early preview performances last March.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PMBD Wong directs actress Cindy Cheung in her solo show, Speak Up Connie, which will return to the Stage Left Studio, February 5-15.
In the piece, Cheung writes, performs, and provides origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PMSeattle Theater Writers, a group of 11 local theater writers and reviewers, have named the 2011 winners of the first annual Gypsy Rose Lee Awards. The awards recognize excellence in Seattle-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:08PMNormally I find any pop culture take on theatre to be oddly distorted. But, catching up with a recent SNL rerun this weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two very f…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 05:06PMEfforts are being made to lure prestigious, big-budget productions - and the jobs, tourism and economic spinoffs they bring
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02PMThe Pasadena Playhouse offers a brilliant production of Yazmina Reza's comedy about three friends fighting over artwork and their lives.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 13012.
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In between rehearsals for the new Off-Broadway revisal of the musical "Carrie," stars Molly Ranson and Marin Mazzie — playing the bullied and supernaturally gifted Carrie White and her ult…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:58PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Soprano Angela Meade has won the Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:57PMSoprano Angela Meade has been named the recipient of the seventh annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera.
The $50,000 award, the largest of its kind …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMGreta Oglesby will star in the title role of Caroline, or Change, to be performed in the Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, February 1-26. Marcela Lorca will direct and choreograph the pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMCasting Directors David Caparelliotis, Tara Rubin and Daniel Swee and moderator Patrick Pacheco discuss the role of the casting director; their collaboration with directors; recasting shows;…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:48PMWar Horse Toronto: The Music
John Tams is an accomplished English folk musician, and also the songmaker of War Horse. He spoke with us about the music from the show.
Tickets: http://www.mi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:43PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle announced nominations and special awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County. Among th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMThis new musical features a veritable hit parade of iconic George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin songs as well as some unknown gems in their catalog. Check out the theatre, decked out with the ti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMEvery family has secrets. It’s reality. And it’s also the key ingredient when making a family drama. Daniel Talbott’s wonderfully heart-numbing new play Yosemite has a big secret, but …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 04:36PMAt 14, he was acting alongside Gwyneth. At 18, he was in a Woody. And now, after eight years as the star of Scrubs, Zach Braff has written a play. He talks to Laura Barnett about learning to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMThe soprano Angela Meade won the $50,000 prize for singers from ages 25 to 40 who have already appeared in featured roles at the Metropolitan Opera.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30PMAs previously announced, Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:23PMRachelle Rak, who was most recently seen on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can, performed I'm In, a story of strength, survival and her road to Broadway, Jan. 22-23 at Le Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMI caught a matinee of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this week, and as I watched young Nick Jonas prancing about as J. Pierrepont Finch in the current Broadway revival of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:17PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Death and Harry Houdini" by House Theatre of Chicago at the Chopin Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Death and Harry Houdini" by House Theatre of Chicag…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:17PMThe winter doldrums have set in on Broadway, although a handful of top-selling musicals continue to pack audiences in. The Book of Mormon climbed to second place, grossing an astounding $1,4…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:16PMAhh, Shirley MacLaine has signed on to the third season of smash-hit British period soap Downton Abbey! MacLaine will be playing Martha Levinson, the American mother of Cora (Elizabeth…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 04:15PMLong Beach Opera presents "Maria de Buenos Aires" at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMThe box office for William Shatners Broadway show SHATNERS WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT opens tomorrow January 31. The Music Box Theatre is located at 239 West 45th Street. Tickets are also avai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:14PMThe box office at Broadway's Music Box Theatre, which will soon be the home of the limited engagement of William Shatner's one-man show, opens for business Jan. 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMMerrily We Roll Along, the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical that famously tells its characters' 25-year history by moving backward in time, is complex enough without the added burden of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMThe Neil Simon Theatre box office opened 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 Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMBack in New York: ‘The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ By Isa Goldberg/Chief Theater Critic
Set in fictional Catfish Row, South Carolina in the late 1930s, the opera “Porgy and Bess,”…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:06PMLaura Osnes has established herself as a player in the Broadway firmament, waiting for her next big break.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:04PMThe cast and creative team for the Alley Theatre's production of 2010 Best Play Tony Award winner, Red, has been announced. Jackson Gay will direct the production, which will perform o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PM Reviewed By: Stephen Hanks During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, no two groups worked harder or more closely together to achieve equality for African Americans than Blacks and …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles 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 04:00PMSally Mayes will offer a one-night-only performance of her show Valentine at Madden Theatre at the Fine Arts Center at North Central College on February 12.
Mayes won a Theatre World Award …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Good-bye split ends, hello split personality. Constantine Maroulis snagged a Tony nomination playing a shaggy-haired rocker in “Rock of Ages.” In spring 2013 on Broadway, he’ll star as…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:57PMThe dancer appeared to hurt herself during a performance of Christopher Wheeldon's "Polyphonia" at the David H. Koch Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMThe Ball State University Board of Trustees has approved an honorary doctor of arts degree for acclaimed actress, singer and dancer Sutton Foster, in recognition of her outstanding career in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMNICK JONAS Opening Night in Broadway's HOW TO SUCCEED...
Catch the excitement of Nick Jonas's opening night in HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING on Broadway!
Music s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:54PMPop star Nick Jonas, currently starring on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will join the roster of special guests who will honor Tony Award winner Kristin Cheno…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PMReginald Edmund
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Q: Tell me about 1968: The Year That Rocked the World.
A: 1968 is a series of short plays written…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 03:51PMIan Abercrombie, a British actor of stage, film and television, died in Hollywood, CA, on Jan. 26 of a fatal heart attack. He was 77.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMDo critics feel stranded in "Yosemite"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:45PMThe RRazz Room has announced an updated schedule of performers.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMPerformers Lucie Arnaz, Janis Paige, Linda Purl, Della Reese and more are set for spring performances at The RRazz Room.
February's highlights will include comedian Donnell Rawlings (F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMIt's a quiet week on the Great White Way, with no major changes to the Broadway line-up. That wont last for long though, as this spring will welcome a ton of new, must-see productions
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMIn Juan Mayorga's bizarre fictionalized account, a German commandant struggles (with the precision of Seurat's own pointillism) to paint an idyllic, living picture of Jewish deportation in W…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:40PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) has announced nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theater for the year 2011. The award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMIt Hasn't Even Opened and Classic Stage Company’s Galileo starring Academy Award Winner F. Murray Abraham Extends: Classic Stage Company’s upcoming production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galil…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:38PMActors playing Peter and Wendy give us their takes on the new play No Rules Theatre Company is getting ready to open the world premiere of Peter Pan: the Boy Who Hated Mothers with John Evan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PM“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:34PMRobert La Fosse will direct Obie Award winner David Drake in Drake's new show My Tawny Valentine, to run February 17 - March 2 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Caf&ea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:32PMThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2011. The 43rd Annu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMNick Jonas, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, has joined the Drama League's Feb. 6 Benefit Gala, A Musical Celebratio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMIt’s a boon to contemporary society that classic plays are being produced reliably by passionate yet small local theater groups. Here, For This Theater has created a reliable, relevant pe…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:09PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, has broken the house record of Broadways Eugene ONeill Theatre for the 26th time. The show earned 1,445,407 for the w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:08PMLONDON (AP) -- Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine is joining Britain's popular television series "Downton Abbey."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:08PMThere’s about to be doctor in the house at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and it’s two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster! The Anything Goes star will receive an honorary doctor of ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1292012
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMThis is Ikey Canoy from all the way in the Philippines. When not onstage as bird-brained Scuttle, I was behind-the-scenes snapping pics of our theatrical production of Disney’s The Lit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMManhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway debut of WIT opened on Thursday, January 26 to glorious reviews. New York critics acclaimed Margaret Edson’s play as “a masterpiece” (NY1), director…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:06PMThe Drama League just announced that pop star Nick Jonas will join the roster of special guests for their 28th Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Tony and EmmyAward-winner Krist…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMMartin McDonagh has a shaggy dog to sell. But watch out, because he might be scamming you.
Mr. McDonagh built his reputation by writing highly off-beat character studies set in remote parts…
SOURCE: SanDiego.com at 03:00PMPatricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for her role as the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died in Vermont on Jan. 24 of natural causes. She was 92.
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The Los Angeles Drama Critics have announced their nominations for the 2011 season, with productions of "A Raisin in the Sun," "Margo Veil," "Blackbird" and "Small Engine Repair" scoring mul…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:59PMITV and Carnival films have announced that stage and screen star Shirley MacLaine will be joining the cast of the PBS period drama DOWNTOWN ABBY for its third season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMAfter the "Lobgesang"’s premiere, Robert Schumann declared this movement “a glimpse of heaven filled with Raphael’s madonnas,” and Saturday’s performance by the BSO came about as c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:47PMSeveral "associates" get their big chance at GoopdspeedCasey Hushion (associate director of Broadway’s "Elf," "In the Heights" and "The Drowsy Chaperone") is tapped to stage the reviv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:35PMShirley MacLaine will join the cast of the television drama Downton Abbey during its third season, according to a report in Variety. She will play Martha Levinson, the mother of Lady Granth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMTony Award winner Karen Ziemba will star as Charlotte Bartlett, the overbearing chaperone of Lucy Honeychurch, in the new musical A Room With a View, based on the E.M. Forster novel, getting…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMOscar winner Cate Blanchett will star in a production of Botho Strauss’ Big and Small (Gross und Klein) at London’s Barbican Theatre. The English language translation, by Martin …
SOURCE: columbus.broadway.com at 02:25PMOscar winner Cate Blanchett will star in a production of Botho Strauss’ Big and Small (Gross und Klein) at London’s Barbican Theatre. The English language translation, by Martin …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PMCasting has been announced for Rites of Passage, to be presented by Prospect Theater Company at the West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, February 11-20. Dev Bondarin wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMIf the Republicans have the House, Senate, and the presidency, I’m told that they could do an early budget vote—a reconciliation vote where you extend the Bush tax cuts out for a decade …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:21PMAmericas Best Dance Crew Season 7 Auditions LA Los Angeles America's ABDC 2012 MTV Superstars Chachi Gonzales I am Me D Trix Misfits iamme i am me Full Force Persona Neon Crews Dancing I…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:19PMUrban Stages will present the world premiere production of My Occasion of Sin by Monica Bauer, March 16-April 15, with an opening on March 21. Frances Hill will direct.
Inspired by true ev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMPerformances Begin Friday for Drama Desk Award-Winning Mint Theater’s Rutherford & Son by Githa Sowerby, directed by Richard Corley Featuring Robert Hogan (Blood & Gifts) as R…
SOURCE: David Gersten & Associates at 02:14PMClassical Theatre Lab and the City of West Hollywood will present the West Coast premiere of Neil Armfield's and Geoffrey Rush's translation of Exit the King the tragicomedy writt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Teaching moments about the evils of greed don’t come more musically majestic than “Gotterdammerung” (Twilight of the Gods), which culminates in nothing less than the end of the world.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:59PMRaunchy and real, "Bachelorette" does well in Luna Theatre Company's production at the Adrienne. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:59PMBased on user demand, BWW is taking our commitment to arts education one step further with the launch of the BWW Student Center - High School Edition. This directory features upcoming show l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMThe A.R.T. is partnering with the metaLAB at Harvard to curate an open source digital storytelling project inspired by the upcoming epic theater experience, Wild Swans. Find out how …
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 01:54PMTheater veterans Tom Hiddleston and John Hurt will co-star with Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska in Jim Jarmusch's upcoming film, Only Lovers Left Alive, according to The Hollywood Repo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMPhoto/Deborah AlexanderGiven that it recently closed after a brief run at the out-of-the-way, yet extremely charming, Secret Theater, you probably missed Mac Rogers's Advance Man. And ironic…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:42PMAnnual box office receipts for the West End have topped half a billion pounds for the third year in a row, despite a slight drop in attendance figures.
Figures released today (31 January 20…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:41PMMarti Gould Cummings and Kelly King will present a special Valentine's edition of Whistling Trixie Feb. 11 at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMJazz singer Marilyn Maye, Tony Award winner Ben Davis (La Bohème), Dameka Hayes (The Lion King) and Jessie Mueller (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever) have joined the lineup for Town…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMNaked Boys Singing!, the 15-song celebration of the male form, played its final performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages Jan. 28 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMAs a heterosexual woman, I was most definitely not this play’s target audience (whatever the title might suggest). About a straight man (Lee) being propositioned by a gay one (Stanley) on …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMWe love a good deal here at A Younger Theatre which is why we love even more this special offer to see Freedom at the Arcola Theatre. Check out the below and see the offer code at the bottom…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:28PMWeeds star Justin Kirk assumed the role of Trip Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed play Other Desert Cities on January 10, joining a starry cast that includes Stockard Chan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PMThe Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical based on the novel by E.M. Forster with book by Marc Acito, music and lyr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMPort Authority is a play about love, but not the play you expect. Many things about this nimble, eminently subtle piece are unexpected. In one of Conor McPherson’s most sophisticated and h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:19PMMatthew Broderick is gearing up to star in the upcoming Gershwin tuner Nice Work if You Can Get It this spring at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, but until then, he’s playing Hollywoo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMLauren Blackman, Colin Hanlon, Jay Armstrong Johnson and Patti Murin will be featured on a studio recording of Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham's musical Next Thing You Know. Michael…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMCasting has been announced for the world premiere musical adaptation of A Room With a View, based on the novel by E.M. Forster with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
A Passover Seder dinner provides the premise for a free-swinging discussion of politics and religion, including the Middle East, in Lisa Loomer's often …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMSUBMISSIONS ONLY, Broadways favorite behind-the-scenes webseries, today was designated Brilliant by New York Magazine's The Approval Matrix, a quick guide to what's worth paying attention to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
What's this? A thoughtful, well-written domestic drama with something original to say about immigrant families living by old world values in a new …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:06PMAtlantic Theater Company’s CQ/CX is scheduled to resume performances on the evening of February 1, according to a press rep for the show. Gabe McKinley’s CQ/CX canceled two perfo…
SOURCE: minneapolis.broadway.com at 01:03PMAtlantic Theater Company’s CQ/CX is scheduled to resume performances January 31, according to a press rep for the show. Gabe McKinley’s CQ/CX canceled two performances on January…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMAtlantic Theater Company’s CQ/CX is scheduled to resume performances January 31, according to a press rep for the show. Gabe McKinley’s CQ/CX canceled two performances on January…
SOURCE: columbus.broadway.com at 01:03PMTwo Sunday Reviews ago, I wrote about the long history of “Porgy and Bess” as a prism through which African-Americans have viewed their own history. I am a relatively recent devotee of w…
SOURCE: nocera.blogs.nytimes.com at 01:03PMTarget Margin Theater will present 0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab, which will explore the Russian avant-garde in early 20th-century Russia, aiming to find the literary hooligan in us all. TMT…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The Town Hall 123 West 43 Street has signed Award-winning Jazz singer Marilyn Maye, Tony Award winner, Ben Davis Baz Luhrmanns La Boheme, Dameka Hayes, Audelco Award Nominee for It Aint Noth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:58PMAmerican Idol's Jordin Sparks sat in as guest co-host with Hoda Kotb on the fourth hour of NBC's TODAY this morning while host Kathie Lee Gifford had the day off.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMThe Tony Awards and Glenn Weiss Wins Directors Guild Award: Glenn Weiss and the directing team of the 65th Annual Tony Awards, have been honored with a Directors Guild award in the category…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:56PMAccording to the Daily Mail, Oscar winner Danny Boyle, who will serve as the artistic director for the upcoming Summer Olympics, has plans to give the opening ceremony a Shakespearean theme.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMLet's play a word-associationgame. I say, "Petula Clark." And you say?My guess isthat you say--no, sing--"Downtown." Or perhaps, "Don't Sleep inthe Subway, Darling." On the other hand, …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:51PMUpdated casting has been announced for The Broadway Musicals of 1946, to be presented at Town Hall on Monday, February 13.
Ben Davis, Dameka Hayes, Marilyn Maye, and Jessie Mueller will joi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:49PMJan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Joel Grey, the Academy Award winning actor currently featured in the Broadway musical, "Anything Goes," discusses his career. Grey talks with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hay…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 12:46PMGlenn Weiss and the directing team of The 65th Annual Tony Awards were honored with a Directors Guild Award in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety. The awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMGlenn Weiss and the directing team of the 65th Annual Tony Awards, have been honored with a Directors Guild award in the category of Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:41PM Scott C. Sickles received his MFA in dramatic writing fromCarnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He is proud to have studied, thereand elsewhere, with Arthur Giron, Kathleen Georg…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:41PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2011 pop-rock-infused production of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night gets a cinematic release March 10 and March 22 at Cineplex Entertainment t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMStage and screen star David Tennant was named Best Actor at the first BBC Audio Drama Awards, according to a report on the website for the UK magazine, The Stage.
Tennant, who also hosted t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMA FEAST FOR THE SENSES (LEAVE YOUR MIND BEHIND) Chicago’s Redmoon Company is famous for its work in puppet theater. The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is the preeminent classical theater in t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35PMMichael Scott Moore, the writer who preceded me as chief theatre critic of SF Weekly (Mike gave up the post at the end of 2004 to move to Berlin and I held it from then until the fall of 200…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:33PMAfter the big announcement of this year's Academy Award nominations, Broadway.com asked readers which Best Picture contender would make the best Broadway show. The results are …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31PMAfter the big announcement of this year's Academy Award nominations, Broadway.com asked readers which Best Picture contender would make the best Broadway show. The results are …
SOURCE: columbus.broadway.com at 12:31PMMercury Musical Developments (MMD), an organisation dedicated to developing the craft of composers, lyricists and book-writers working in musical theatre, will present a musical song cycle e…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:29PMTax credits from New York City are the final piece of financing needed for the construction of El Barrio's Artspace (PS109), a development of housing and work spaces for artists planned for …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PMPhilip Ridley’s first play The Pitchfork Disney:: L01990425927 is currently being revived at the Arcola Theatre (opens 1 February, previews from 25 January) to mark its 21st anniversar…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:27PMREVIEW: James Valenti owns the show as a tragic poet in Minnesota Opera's staging of Massenet's "Werther."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:23PMCelebrity Autobiography, the Drama Desk Award-winning show that plays in New York City and around the world, has announced casting for February performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMThis adaptation sets the action in rural Iran, replacing Lorca’s Spanish Catholic backdrop with a Shia Muslim one
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:14PMMichael Cantwell, James Gillan, Claire Moore, and Niamh Perry will perform in A Song Cycle for Soho, at Soho Theatre, February 27-March 3. Simon Greiff will direct, with musical direction fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMThe theatre community can't wait for the premiere of the new Broadway-based series, SMASH, and to ease our pain from waiting, NBC last week released the pilot episode on multiple platforms i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMMatthew Broderick pulls out all his old tricks for Honda
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:10PMDerek is one of Broadway's most brilliant director-choreographersand one of its most seductive bad boys. But even Derek's award-winning genius is strained by the demands of bringing an untes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMThe 64th annual Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, will be presented July 5 - 27, in multiple locations -- many of them open-air -- in and around the picturesque ancient Provençal c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMThe directors and choreographers for Goodspeed Musicals' season at Goodspeed Opera House have been named. Ray Roderick, Rob Ruggiero and Casey Hushion will direct Mame, Carousel and Some…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMIf the much-anticipated revival of Carrie fails as its original production did, it certainly won't be because of a lack of talent on both sides of the footlights. After reviewing the c…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMChristie Brinkley will return to Broadway in April to revisit the role of Roxie Hart in “Chicago.” After a limited three-week engagement, the supermodel will head out on the road with th…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 12:00PMTony DeLap, "The Big Wave," 1989 Stainless steel, Plexiglas sculpture. Wilshire Boulevard at Franklin
It's been over 20 years since artist Tony DeLap built one of the first public art…
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MAMET CONFRONTS RACISM David Mamet’s Race looks at the racial situation in this country and sees an unbridgeable chasm between blacks and whites in our society. It’s a bleak vision, fort…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:59AMLook below to see what Broadway shows are playing on each night this week. Want to know what Broadway shows have Sunday evening performances Which Broadway shows have Wednesday matinees Just…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMHappy Birthday Norbert Leo Butz Butz made his Broadway debut as Adam Pascal's replacement as Roger Davis in Rent in 1996. Additional Broadway credits include Thou Shalt Not Camille Raquin, 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMOscar-winning director Danny Boyle will base his opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, according to the London Daily Mail.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMTickets are now on sale for the new Disney musical Newsies, starring Jeremy Jordan as rebel newsboy Jack Kelly. Previews begin March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre, with an official opening n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMFriends Always Creating Theatre will present The Mermaids' Tale, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1911 novel "The Sea Fairies," beginning March 3 at The Great Room, part of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe national tour of David Seidler's The King's Speech - the world premiere of the play which inspired the multi award-winning film - kicks off from Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on 10 F…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:52AMThe festival and Melbar Entertainment Group plan to screen the music-filled comedy at Cineplex theatres in Canada on March 10 at 12:45 p.m. local time, and on March 21 at 7 p.m.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:44AMSeeing Some Theatre, Writing Some TheatreI had a really good theatre weekend. Saturday I saw Little Brother at Custom Made Theatre (a theatre I had never been to before). Little Brother is a…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:41AMDallas 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 11:41AMThe West End revival of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, will play the Savoy Theatre beginning April 27. Directed by Thea Sharrock, The Suns…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMThe West End revival of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, will play the Savoy Theatre beginning April 27. Directed by Thea Sharrock, The Suns…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMThe New York Philharmonic's April 2011 concert version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company will arrive in cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland March 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMLast night, January 29, the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was simulcast live coast-to-coast from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. Below, we take you backstage to the wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMThere comes a time in every entrepreneur's life when they realize that they need to bring on someone else to manage the work. After the insanity of last week, I have realized that the time i…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 11:35AMSupermodel Christie Brinkley will return to Chicago as Roxie Hart from April 6 through April 27 at the Ambassador Theatre. Brinkley will also join the musical's national tour during its …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMThe non-profit, off Broadway Signature Theatre Company is set to open its new permanent 70,000-square-foot home on Manhattan's West Side Tuesday. Frank Gehry designed the $66-million Pershin…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:30AM"American Idol" alumnus Constantine Maroulis will star in a Broadway revival of the musical "Jekyll & Hyde." Constantine Maroulis and "Jekyll & Hyde" will first tour the country starting in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:30AMArtistic Director Andy McKim is creating a “theatre beyond walls” for its fall 2012 season that’s one of the most exciting things to hit this city in years.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:30AMAs Trip Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, Justin Kirk does what Justin Kirk does best, walking the tightrope between providing comic relief and serving as the unlikely vo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMINVISIBLE MAN IS DIFFICULT TO SEE Invisible Man is a complex, panoramic, symbolic novel that’s an unlikely candidate for adaptation to the stage. It’s a sprawling work crowded with chara…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:22AMAs TV series go, "Smash" does a smashing job of abstaining from the usual: no courtrooms, no operating rooms, no interrogation rooms.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:19AMWith the Broadway production of Rebecca now postponed, the musical's leading lady Sierra Boggess will head to off-Broadway's Love, Loss and What I Wore. Alexandra Silber, Quincy Tyle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMAtlantic Theater Company canceled its two Jan. 29 performances of the play CQ/CX due to water damage on the play's set following a Jan. 28 fire that occurred in the building above the th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AMOceania Cruises, in conjunction with Royal Theatrical Productions, will feature Now and Forever -- The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber on board its Riviera cruise ship beginning May 2012.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMTim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webbers legendary seven-time Tony Award-winning musical, EVITA, will feature Christina DeCicco Glinda in Wicked, Sister Act as the 'Eva Peron' alternate when the sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AM"The Ghost Light Sessions Live," a sneak peek at musical numbers from Broadway's upcoming Ghost, was recently held at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Here is a look at the Jan. 19 s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMJennifer L. Nelson is the Director of Special Programming at Ford’s Theatre, and the director of their most recent production, Necessary Sacrifices. This new drama — the fourth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMUpdated casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, playing the Westside Theatre.
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Alexandra Silber, and Zuzanna Szadko…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMTickets are now on sale for the musical Ghost, based on the hit 1990 film starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. The show’s London headliners Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman repris…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMYesterday it was announced that Constantine Maroulis will star in the dual title role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde in an upcoming national tour and Broadway production of “Jekyll &#…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 11:00AMLegit News:
Attendance down a bit in 2011
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMIf you follow me on the Facebook or the Twitter, then you know I am currently halfway around the world checking out the Japanese production of Altar Boyz. I had never been to Tokyo before (a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Honda has today officially announced that actor Matthew Broderick, star of the 1980's classic film FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, will reprise his movie role for a TV spot to air on this Sunday's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMLiza Minnelli took a moment out of her busy schedule to speak with BWW about her upcoming concert, her favorite Broadway memories and the real story behind those 'wild nights' at the legenda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMLONDON (Reuters) - A theatre in east London is staging new play "Guantanamo Boy" this week, focusing on the U.S. detention camp as it marks it 10th anniversary and engaging local Muslims in …
SOURCE: Reuters at 10:53AMChristina DeCicco, who as previously reported is the alternate/standby for the role of Eva Peron in the new Broadway production of Evita, will perform the role at Wednesday evening and Satur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMProducer Daryl Roth announced Jan. 30 that Obie Award winner Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Ruined), Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid) and Alexandra Silber (Master Class) as well as Love, Loss, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMI know he's been busy putting together TEDxBroadway, but how did the industrious blogger at Producer's Pespective miss Jonah Lehrer's interesting piece about collaboration, in last week's Ne…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:49AMSTEP UP 4 - Exclusive Announcement Piece (HD)
STEP UP 4 is the next installment in the worldwide smash Step Up franchise, which sets the dancing against the vibrant backdrop of Miami and fl…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:46AMIn an unprecedented move for a Broadway musical, Facebook users were offered exclusive access to Ghost The Musical through the show's special event, The Ghost Light Sessions on Tuesday, Janu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending January 29, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $618,894 7,000 85.28% $88.41 CHICAGO $424,654 5,806 6…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
At the end of each scene of Bijan Sheibani's production of "The House of Bernarda Alba" there's a loud sting of sound and a stab of light snapping to blac…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:44AMKLEA BLACKHURST IS QUEEN OF THIS GYPSY Gypsy is a musical theater biography of striptease performer Gypsy Rose Lee; but it’s really about Gypsy’s mother, Mama Rose, immortalized by Ethel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:43AMWith rehearsals now underway for the new Broadway production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webbers legendary seven-time Tony Award-winning musical, EVITA, the Marquis Theatre Box Office 1535 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMFull casting has been announced for the upcoming revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. Directed by Lindsay Posner, previews begin Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:37AMFull casting has been announced for the upcoming revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. Directed by Lindsay Posner, previews begin Marc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:37AMSupermodel Christie Brinkley will once again play Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, April 6-27. She will then headline the national tour of the mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMThe box office for the upcoming Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, which is scheduled to begin previews March 12 with an official opening April 5 at the Mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMIn an unprecedented move for a Broadway musical, Facebook users were offered exclusive access to Ghost The Musical through the shows special event, The Ghost Light Sessions on Tuesday, Janua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMClassic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, has extended by one week before beginning previews on February 1. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:31AMIf New York, New York is a town so nice they named it twice, then I like to think that the format for two upcoming benefits, Broadway Backwards and Broadway Miscast, is an idea so zen they…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:31AMAfter her critically acclaimed stage debut as Roxie Hart both on Broadway and in London's West End last year, Christie Brinkley, one of the world's most successful supermodels, returns to Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMMike Bartlett’s Chariots of Fire, a film adaptation of the 1981 film of the same name, will make its world premiere at the U.K.’s Hampstead Theatre this spring. Helmed by Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AMMen in Motion, a celebration of male dancing arranged by Ivan Putrov, was upstaged before the curtain went up.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:27AMRosette C. Lamont, a renowned theater critic, eminent author, distinguished teacher and leading authority on the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, died on January 5, 2012 in Falmou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMThe musical biography of Argentine First Lady-turned-politico Eva Peron is on its way to Broadway! Tickets are now available for the eagerly awaited revival of Evita, starring Elena Roger in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMProducer Daryl Roth announced today that Obie Award-winner Quincy Tyler Bernstine Ruined, Sierra Boggess The Little Mermaid, Alexandra Silber Master Class, Love, Loss, and What I Wore alumna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMSupermodel Christie Brinkley will return to the cast of the long-running, Tony-winning Broadway revival of Chicago in April.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMThe Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, former home of the Grand Ole Opry, is getting a new stage for the first time since 1951.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:23AMBijan Sheibani's mesmerically haunting and handsome production of this 1936 Lorca classic is performed in one hundred interval-less minutes.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:23AMBrent Barrett, Jenn Harris and other cast members from Silence! The Musical will perform excerpts from the show at Barnes & Noble's upper east side location on 150 East 86th Street …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMThe Fox hit series "Glee" will pay tribute to late pop legend Michael Jackson and The Jackson Five on the Jan. 31 episode, which is entitled "Michael."
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
This Ubu's a boo-boo. The impulse behind Simon Stephens' new play is complex: He puts the titular tyrant of Alfred Jarry's infamous 1896 play "Ubu the K…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:19AMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 Toronto Awards. This year's awards broke traffic records with more than 12,000 votes and we couldn't be more excit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMPanto season is still with us. The Strictly Come Dancing live tour is a re-enactment of the television series, with everybody playing themselves. The cheesy training videos, the judges’ co…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:14AMThe run of Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, has been been extended by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMClassic Stage Company has announced that its production of Galileo has extended by one week, and will now run February 1-March 11, with an opening on February 23. Brian Kulick will direct.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMJingoistic jamboree or anti-war drama? The bracing thing about Henry V is that it is both.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:08AMWith theatres developing a new sense of purpose and identity, London's off-West End theatre is more vibrant than everWe could start with several arguments. First, about what actually constit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMNick Jonas is the latest J. Pierrepont Finch in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Hirschfeld Theatre. Though you may know him as 1/3 of the Jonas Brothers, he got his s…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AMNext Thing You Know, a new musical from the Drama Desk-nominated team of Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (I Love You Because), will be recorded at Yellow Sound Lab Feb. 3-4.
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When it comes to the future of the arts, especially the industry I work in - the live performing arts, I am very optimistic. I see the wide range of work being produced, from sold out theatr…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:57AMCole Porter's "Longing For Dear Old Broadway" and "When All's Said and Done" will receive their world premiere recordings on bass-baritone Wilfried Van den Bran…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMThe number of votes in the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards has passed the 55,000 mark (56,015 to be precise), just hours before voting closes at midnight on 31 January 2012.
Whatsonstage.com h…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:49AMFull casting has been announced for Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, to play the Menier Chocolate Factory, March 2-April 21 and Theatre Royal Bath, april 23-28. Lindsay Posner will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMOne more struggling production has ended its journey to Broadway after failing to raise the necessary funds.
Last week, the producers of "Rebecca," which was to begin previews on March 27, p…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:44AMThe 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented Jan. 29 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMRigoletto is the third Florida Grand Opera production this season with much to admire, even a few moments of technical artistry that you can describe as thrilling. But it’s admiration from…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:30AMPlans for Hampstead Theatre's 2012 season have been announced. Among the highlights is artistic director Edward Hall helming the world premiere stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire, wri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMGoodspeed Musicals has added Something's Afoot to its 2012 season. Directed by Casey Hushion, the production will run October 5 - December 9 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:28AMMeredith Braun's debut solo album, Someone Else's Story will be released by Stage Door Records on March 26. Paul Bateman has served as musical director and arranger for the projec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMLondon's Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for its new production of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, beginning performances March 2 prior to an official opening M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMDanny DeVito and Richard Griffiths will star in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys, to run April 27 - July 28 at the West End's Savoy Theatre. Thea Sharrock will direct the production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMAmongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are:
OPENING TONIGHTOur Country's GoodMONDAY 30 JANUARY 2012 Aden Gillett and Phillip Whitchurch star in a…
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Posted in Branding/Personal BrandingHere’s what we know: We know that if you want to get people to pay attention to you in the arts or business, you have to be specific and define the uniq…
SOURCE: theartsentrepreneur.com at 08:54AMThe new season at London's Hampstead Theatre will lead with the word premiere of Mike Bartlett's stage adaptation of the film "Chariots of Fire," a story of British athleti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMThe new, previously announced production of Neil Simon's 1972 vaudeville comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, has set its West End dates and theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:42AMDanny DeVito is to star in a West End production of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys alongside Richard Griffiths later this spring.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMAs re-envisioned by Sean Graney this heaping serving of Sophocles' dramas makes for a vitally alive experience . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:35AMThere's a moment you know you're seeing something special. In Pittsburgh Musical Theater's "Spring Awakening," it comes when Logan Williams hits all the right notes as Melchior in the second…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 08:31AMJust announced is official word that Thea Sharrock is set to direct Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths as the ageing vaudevillian team Willie Clark and Al Lewis in Neil Simons award-wining c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMHer New York City engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, running through February 4th, finds her in fine form, connecting strongly with her appreciative audience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:27AMLegit News:
DeVito, Griffiths to star on West End
SOURCE: Variety at 08:20AMIt makes no sense to me that the arts are not embraced more emphatically by politicians these days.
I...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:05AMThe acclaimed actor discusses the appeal of this new hit film The Grey.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMThe acclaimed actor discusses the appeal of this new hit film The Grey.
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As previously tipped, Hollywood star Danny DeVito will make his West End debut appearing alongside Richard Griffiths in a new version of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys.
The productio…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:51AMAs previously tipped, Hollywood star Danny DeVito will make his West End debut appearing alongside Richard Griffiths in a new version of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys.
The productio…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:48AMFrances Ruffelle and Colm Wilkinson will join Hugh Jackman and Taylor Swift in Tom Hooper's film of classic musicalOriginal cast members from the musical Les Misérables are to be reunited i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMEdward Hall is to direct a new adaptation of Chariots of Fire written by Mike Bartlett as part of Hampstead Theatre's spring season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMThink back to that oddball uncle who always showed up at your birthday party with a trick up his sleeve. You remember him. Loud blazer, toothy grin, something not quite right about his hair.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMThe dynamic duo behind the web series "Submissions Only," which takes a loveable look behind the scenes of the New York theater scene, turn their audition room mishaps into comedy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:11AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on January 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMErika Sheffer's drama about a Russian-American family contains some snappy dialogue, but the novice playwright gets bogged down by familiar plot twists and structural flaws.
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The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, presented back in November, are now a distant memory, and the Olivier Awards have slipped back to mid-April (but last week announced a transatlantic init…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55AMThe 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 01:30AMEx American Idol Constantine Maroulis is About to Take Over Broadway With the Revival of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde: “American Idol” is about to start singing “This is the M…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:24AMNEW YORK - This is how the Metropolitan Opera's new Ring cycle production ended - not with a scenic blowout characterizing the end of the world, but with some red lights and white statues of…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:03AMOn this week's episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast, Tom Williams talks with actor Patrick Clear who is currently appearing in Race at the Goodman Theatre. He talks about the play …
SOURCE: www.theatreinchicago.com at 01:01AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Time Stands Still" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Time Stands Still" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★★ ... Those who…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMChristie Brinkley, one of the world\'s most successful supermodels, returns to Broadway this spring to reprise her killer role in the six-time Tony Award-winning musical smash hit CHICAGO fo…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMTickets for Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN have gone on sale to the general public beginning Saturday, January 28, 2012.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMNot one but two cute pooches roam the circular hot-pink landscape of the Marriott Theatre's "Legally Blonde," the much-maligned Broadway musical based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon movie abo…
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Mickle Maher’s 2001 play *The Hunchback Variations* has been transformed by Maher and composer Mark Messing to create a new iteration; *The Hunchback Variations Opera*. It's as entertainin…
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U.K. production to coincide with London Olympics
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12AMRetired Arts Administrator, former Co- President of the League of Professional Theatre Women, 30th Anniversary Co-Chair New York, New York USA Always inspired by the work of other women and …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMMikado in EdmontonOkay, yes, you've seen other pictures of them here but we can't get enough of Deanna Finnman's magnificent anime-inspired costumes for Edmonton Opera's new production of Mi…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMI don't care for air travel, but long experience has taught me to tolerate it, and on occasion it can...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThis week I'm posting five films made by Charles and Ray Eames. Today's installment, House: After Five Years of Living,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMA rare film clip of Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson singing the blues with Cootie Williams' band in 1943: (This is the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"No steps backward." Horace, Epistles...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal 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, which officially opens Jan.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Hangar Theatre’s Pilot Reading Series in NYC continues with a reading of The Drama Department, a new play by Mary Poppins actor James Hindman, Jan. 30 at The Black Box Theatre on T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Signature Theatre Company presents the Signature Center Opening Gala Celebration Jan. 30 at the company’s new home, the Frank Gehry-designed Signature Center in Manhattan, which wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, continues Jan. 30 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New Group's world-premiere production of Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport officially opens Jan. 30 at The New Group at Theatre Row following previews that began Jan. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office at The Nederlander Theatre, which will be the home of the new musical Newsies, opens for business Jan. 30 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award winner Estelle Parsons hosts The 41st Annual American Theater Hall of Fame ceremony, which is held Jan. 30 in the Gershwin Theatre's North Rotunda.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, which will soon be the home of Ghost The Musical, opens for business Jan. 30 at 10 AM ET.
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The poet Billy Collins reads from his latest book, “Horoscopes for the Dead.” (Broadway at 12th St. 212-473-1452. Feb. 2 at 7.)
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn 2008, nine years after Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for her rookie play, “Wit,” she addressed the graduating class of Smith College, her alma mater. She spoke about h…
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City Center’s “Encores!” series presents lively concert versions of oft-forgotten and cult-favorite musicals. The season begins with St…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMPlease note that the use of any recording equipment to capture this film is strictly forbidden, including: camcorders, cameras, cell phones, charcoal, ink, paint (oil or water-based), and th…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMRachel Dratch, one of the finest comedic talents going, has the eyes of a woman who can’t believe what just happened really happened, and it might happen again, so she prepares for it …
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Playwrights Horizons presents a new play by Le…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMA Doll’s Life, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Larry Grossman’s musical sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, flopped on Broadway in September, 1982 after a run of 18 previews and …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMErika Sheffer develops rich, idiosyncratic people in her new compelling drama, Russian Transport. Each carries his or her weight in the unfolding story of a noisy, irreverent immigrant famil…
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