The board of directors at the Caldwell Theatre Company are considering seeking federal bankruptcy protection as one solution to persisting financial problems at South Florida’s longest run…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:58PMBroadway and film legend Ben Gazzara has died at age 81, according to The New York Tiimes.
Gazzara, who studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in Manhattan, made his Broadway debut…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:03PMToronto artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge epitomize generations of artist activism in Canada. This month, they get a much-deserved homecoming.
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The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, faced with a void left by City Opera's departure, is aiming to raise its profile as a focal point for world-class dance by bringing in companies …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:50PM“Everyone’s a little bit racist,” sing the puppets of Avenue Q. Then there’s sh*t white girls say to black girls. And what about anything comedienne Lisa Lampanelli s…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:48PMJERRYRUÍZ (Director) isa director based in NYC. Recent directing credits include Enfrascada byTanya Saracho for Clubbed Thumb, Sangre by MandoAlvarado for Summerst…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:47PMMatt Schatz is a playwright and a songwriter. His plays and musicals include Oh, Gastronomy! (HumanaFestival 2012), Love Trapezoid (Astoria Performing Arts Cent…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:35PMThe John W. Engeman Theater at Northport has announced the cast and creative team for the Neil Simon comedy, The Sunshine Boys. Previews began yesterday with the official opening on Saturday…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30PMPreviously: Mulan, The Swan Princess, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Prince of Egypt, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Tarzan, The Iron Giant Shall I tell you what I thi…
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According to Broadway vet Tony Vincent's official Facebook page, he's slated to appear on NBC's singing competition THE VOICE for its second season, which debuts this Sunday.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55PMFor this *Aida*, Lyric Opera has created a more sensual Aida; the edges are softened, the costumes flow. Even the death chamber for Aida and Radames is swathed in a soft golden tone and gen…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:54PMBen Gazzara, an intense actor of stage and film who created the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48PMToby Zinman wrote: Somewhere between a high school assembly speech, a pep talk, and a Wikipedia article, "Branch" by Walt Vail isn’t really a play at all.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:32PMHEDY WEISS: The fix is in from the very start for all five of the identity-warped characters in Ayad Akhtar’s play, “Disgraced,” now in its world premiere by the American Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:14PMBen Gazzara, who died Friday in New York at the age of 81, was an actor with a gruff voice and intense demeanor. His acting legacy, which included the films of John Cassavetes and originatin…
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`Clybourne Park' will move on to Broadway despite producer Scott Rudin's withdrawal. The cast cheered when it received the news backstage at the Mark Taper Forum on Thursday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:36PMMr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:27PMSeveral current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PM“These Seven Sicknesses,” a condensed adaptation of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PMWhat a week it’s been on Broadway. Highs and lows, ups and downs, all that jazz. There was one close call, a lot of super exciting casting news and, in our humble opinion, one ki…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:07PMShe’s been a Hair hippie and a Rock of Ages stripper and is now a high-flying Wicked witch on Broadway, but Jackie Burns isn’t your typical musical theater actress. The bubbly, b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:06PMShow People with Paul Wontorek Interview: "Wicked" Star Jackie Burns on Elphaba, "Hair" & More!
She's been a Hair hippie and a Rock of Ages stripper and is now a…
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Actor Ben Gazzara has passed away due to pancreatic cancer, according to published reports. He was 81 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:44PMOne of the foremost male pop stars of the last twenty years is undeniably Livin La Vida Loca crooner Ricky Martin, so his deigning of appearing on next weeks GLEE as a new Spanish teacher, D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMPaul Hopkins, Jilian Fargay, Jade Hassouné(photo: lucetg.com)Who says absence makes the heart grow fonder?In Absentia at the Centaur TheatreBy Richard BurnettHopes were high for Centaur The…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:27PMI am so sorry this is getting to you late.Rememember: A Double Salami is more than Eli Manning and Tom Brady sharing a cab in Texas. Find out this Sunday at the Neo-Futurarium. (and Friday …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:24PMBody by Broadway is making its way down the Great White Way! As part of our new fitness video series, we aim to inspire you to break a sweat with the sexy stars of the stage by enlisting the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:19PMThe York Theatre Company's production of Ionescopade, a rarely performed "musical vaudeville" inspired by works of absurdist master playwright Eugene Ionesco, officially opened…
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Broadway vet Bobby Cannavale has landed a role as a series regular on HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire,' according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:58PMFor its fifth intimate concert of the second season, Le Salon de Musiques program will feature Poulenc Flute Sonata with piano and Arnold Bax Elegiac Trio for Flute, Harp and Viola and Faur…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:56PMVisits Hugh Hefner's Mansion in Search of Tunes and Devices"Michael Feinstein's American Songbook" kicks off its second season on PBS tonighjt with a visit to Hugh Hefner 's pad in search …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:56PMChristian Murray, Joey Tremblay (Photo credit: Andrée Lanthier)Around CreationPeter Hinton's last season at NAC continues but ho-humby Jim MurchisonI was excited to be going to the NAC agai…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:50PMSometimes newsroom drama becomes the story. That is what's explored in Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Gabe McKinley’s drama CQ/CX, opening February 15 at off…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:38PMIn 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River — from the Headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. She made the trip mostly in a k…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:35PMSMASH will have its premiere on the NBC network on February, 6, 2012. Developed from an idea of Executive Producer and multiple Emmy and Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, SMASH explores the sub…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMMark Ford Stars as Great DaneAnd what did you do your final year at college? Oh, I played “Hamlet”.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:23PMI'm writing this while sitting on my bed, and one of the cats is sitting next to me. He is sitting just like person would on a couch, or a lawn chair. So it's weird.The super bowl is this …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 06:21PMLast night, February 2, Roundabout Theatre Company opened its new production of John Osbornes Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout Associate Artist Sam Gold. The cast features Adam Dri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMMy favorite kind of books to read are biographies. I love learning about peoples' lives, what makes them tick. Real life has always been far more interesting to me than f…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 06:14PMGabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, began preview performances Off-Broadway Jan. 25. The world premiere, produced by Atlantic Theater Company, is s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:12PMBody By Broadway: Working Out with Buff "Mamma Mia!" Star Jordan Dean
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According to Deadline.com, Tony nominee Josh Gad will now not only executive produce NBC's 1600 Penn, but also star in it. The series is about 'a dysfunctional family that just happens to li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMBobby Cannavale is joining the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a series regular for the show's upcoming third season, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cannavale will play Gyp R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMJim Parsons, who is starring in the upcoming Broadway production of Harvey, will appear on NBCs The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, February 6th between 4-5PM on channel 4.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, February 3, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information @RTC_NYC HARVEY‘s Jim Parsons on “Ellen” t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:53PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 23-29, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:53PMThe Geffen Playhouse's world premiere production of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian has added an extra week to its run, and will now perform February 7-March 25. Tony Award winner Rob…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:51PMThe world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, will get an extra week of performances at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:47PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale will join the cast of HBO's award-winning series Boardwalk Empire as gangster Gyp Rosetti. according to Deadline.com.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER is scheduled to hit theaters on June 22nd from 20th Century Fox. The horror, thriller film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars Broadway veteran Benjamin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PM"Smash" is not exactly "Glee" for adults. It's much better than that."Smash," debuting Monday at 9 p.m. on Channel 9, is the most exciting TV pilot in years. More dramatically grounded than …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:38PMThe recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors won’t be announced until later this summer or early fall — indeed, the deliberations for who will be named are still ongoing. With t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMAt Ford’s Theatre Museum, decorous glass-cased displays and solemn recorded voices chronicle the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Whiffs of the exhibits’ earnest, tidily instructive aura a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMTony Award winner Al Pacino will lend his voice to the animated film Despicable Me 2, which is set for a July 2013 release, according to Deadline.com.
Pacino won Tony Awards for his work in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:38PMThe original cast of Danai Gurira's The Convert will continue on with the show from its world premiere co-production at the McCarter Theatre Center, when the play performs at the Goodma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMTony winner Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo are set to star in Can a Song Save Your Life, a movie musical written and directed by John Carney, accoding to the Hollywood Reporter. Carney …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PM"Awake," the new NBC detective drama featuring Tony Award winners Cherry Jones and B.D. Wong, will premiere March 1, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PM #NEWPLAY is US NEWPLAY.US : A HowlRound.com Knowledge Commons Project. Community Sourced News & Info for the #NEWPLAY World. Join a community revolutionizing the flow of knowle…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:26PMA fabulous new cast of all-stars has joined Delia and Nora Ephron’s off-Broadway hit Love, Loss and What I Wore, and on February 2, the dazzling divas hit the town. After chatting abou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMGot a case of the winter blues? Then head to sunny Los Angeles with the dysfunctional cast of Frank Strausser’s new off-Broadway comedy Psycho Therapy. Directed by Alex Lippard, the se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMArts administrator Jean Banks has died after a battle with lung cancer. She was 77.
Banks was senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI, a position she held from the mid-1990s. I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMTV icons Dawn Wells of Gilligan's Island fame and Robin Strasser of One Life to Live are among the newest Off-Broadway cast members in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, at the Westside Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:08PMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth sat down with Rosie O'Donnell on the Feb. 2 broadcast of "The Rosie Show."
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra principal cello
Daniel Lee has a slick new website: http://danielleecello.com.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:03PMJane Lanier is no longer dancing, but she's choreographing and directing. Currently she's re-creating movement for non-dancers in Jason Edwards' staging of the Johnny Cash bio-musical Ring o…
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Our theatre critic recalls other instances where controversial works were shunned, including Yichud and My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:53PMOn, then off, now it looks as is "Clybourne Park" will be back on the Broadway schedule this season, again.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:39PMKrisztina Szabó as the Pilgrim (downstage left), Erin Wall as Clémence and Russell Braun as Jaufré (both centre stage). Photo: Michael CooperConfirming Its GreatnessCOC proves its stature…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:29PMJumping Aboard: Nick Jonas and Michael Urie Join the Cast of "How to Succeed"
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Joined by Beau Bridges (a recent newcomer in the role of J.B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:17PMThe turbulent family holiday of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities will last a bit longer. Tickets to the Broadway production are now on sale through June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:13PMGivenik Ambassador | Carolee Carmello
Carolee Carmello, who is currently starring in the hit musical SISTER ACT, talks about her favorite charity: God's Love We Deliver.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:12PMIt is hard to resist snappy, interesting theater people talking trash and emoting sincerely while trying to put together a new musical for Broadway. With Steven Spielberg, NBC and creators w…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:10PMThe Cleveland Show - Dirty Dancing 3 - Dancing with the Stools Dance Scene
The Cleveland Show official dance scene from the episode "Dirty Dancing 3" (Season 3, Episode 10) where …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMBoth works show the Royal Ballet’s real qualities far better than any of the care-worn ‘classics’, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe new version of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ is the latest production to make a splash on stage, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:06PM"Rushing" to See Darren Criss, Playgoers Hope to Succeed
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video During the last week of Darren Criss' run in Broadway's "How to Succ…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:05PMArlene Phillips will direct and choreograph a U.K. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, which will launch with an engagement at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London, running …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMArlene Phillips will direct and choreograph a U.K. tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, which will launch with an engagement at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London, running …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMFormer President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush paid a presidential visit to the cast of Bring it On at the Hobby Center in Houston. The national tour, which kicked off in Los …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMI got a weird and huffy comment this morning on yesterday's blog about "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant." Perhaps this guy was annoyed by my incessant Twittering about the Billy …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:02PMRoundabout Theatre Company recently announced the theatre organizations permanent archives, which document the companys illustrious 46-year production history. The archives are a resource fo…
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson alum Benjamin Walker is gearing up to star as yet another one of America’s forefathers in the upcoming film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The Broadway f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMCynthia Nixon was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about starring in the Broadway production of "Wit." She also told us that she's a huge fan of Garrison Keillor's. Find out what …
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:45PMJosie Rourke, the new artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, talks to Clemency Burton-Hill about legacy and an audience’s attention span
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:45PMMartin Sheen will play Theodore B. Olson in the Los Angeles premiere of Dustin Lance Black's 8, to be offered as a benefit reading at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on March 3, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMIt's been more than a year since she's taken the stage — at least in an actor's role, which is why Madi Distefano is so excited to be part of "A Raw Space," the new play by Jon Marans that…
SOURCE: www.phillyburbs.com at 03:34PMPaul Masse, Alicia Hall Moran, and Nathaniel Stampley -- who currently appear in the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess -- will perform a number from the show at the A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMEnd of the Rainbow, the Broadway-bound London stage play about the final months in the life of entertainer Judy Garland, officially opens Feb. 3 at the Guthrie Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMNEWSical has released a video which imagines a reality casting project for the forthcoming NBC series, Smash.
In the video, NEWSical cast member John Walton offers his impersonations of suc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PM"Smash," the new NBC musical drama that offers an inside look at the creation of a Marilyn Monroe-inspired musical, features a cast of Broadway and stage veterans, including Drama …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:16PMDespite an able cast, the play isnt as grand as the ideas it floats
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:15PMAudiences at Broadway's Jersey Boys have been more at home than ever since the whirlwind Jan. 8-10 installation of firmer seat cushions in the 1,250-seat auditorium of the August Wilson Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMThe entire cast of the current La Jolla Playhouse production of Richard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan José will continue in the show when it performs at Center…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMAudiences at Broadway's Jersey Boys have been more at home than ever in the past month following the Jan. 8-10 installation of firmer seat cushions in the 1,250-seat auditorium of the Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PMTony– and Emmy Award–winner Cynthia Nixon discusses her role in “Wit,” where she portrays a brilliant and exacting poetry professor undergoing an experimental treatment for cancer. A…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:10PMI dropped in to the Donmar box office at a lucky moment last week, just as they released a batch of extra tickets for one of the last performances of Michael Grandage's swansong production, …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 03:09PMMark Ruffalo will join the previously announced Scarlett Johansson in Can A Song Save Your Life?, according to a report in Variety. John Carney is writing and directing the picture.
The f…
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I recently had a chance to see a performance of Mark Morris' "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" at Washington's Kennedy Center, a piece he first presented in 1988 and that is widely co…
SOURCE: PBS at 02:59PMCome along as Seminar star Jerry O’Connell brings us on a backstage tour of the Golden Theatre, the home of Theresa Rebeck's acclaimed play starrring O'Connell, Alan Rickm…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMLast night, February 2, Roundabout Theatre Company opened its new production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout Associate Artist Sam Gold. The cast features Adam Dr…
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SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:57PMAward-winning vocalist Marieann Meringolo will bring her new show You Must Believe In Spring! The Music of Michel Legrand to Feinstein's at Loews Regency for four consecutive Sundays, F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PMArtsWest will present Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, March 7-31, starring 18 year-old actress Myra Conn. Artistic Director Christopher Zinovitch will direct.
In t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMBroadway Channel February 2012 Seg I
February is an exciting month as The Broadway Channel® takes you on a first sneak peek of Broadway's upcoming new production, GHOST THE MUSICAL …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:50PMActors' Equity Association has announced that Connie McMillan is the recipient of the 2012 Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award, which honors an individual in the theatrical community. It wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PM"Rain" not exactly theater, more like watching a really expensive cover band, writes critic Wendy Rosenvield. But it's a decent cover band, with some nice visuals.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:35PMThe pieces themselves were more showy than deep, but the dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater prove themselves among the best on the planet
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMThe West Coast premiere of Evan Brenner's one-man play Buddha – A Fantastic Journey has delayed the start of performances until Feb. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMWhen John Powers was in high school in south LA, a recent alumnus of his school was killed in Vietnam. This started a chain of curiosity in Powers that resulted in his dramatization of The P…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:27PMMobbed Episode 5 - Feuding Brothers, Everclear's Art Alexakis, Ace Hood & DJ Ravi Recap
Mobbed Episode 5 recap - Lauren Gottlieb sits down for an exclusive interview with the episod…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:21PMCritic Jim Rutter writes that Jon Marans’ theatrically ambitious but overwrought "A Raw Space," now receiving a stilted world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre, started with a solid if…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:16PMNAKED BOYS SINGING, the fifteen-song celebration of the male form, recently ended its run at New York's New World Stages - Stage 2 on Saturday January 28th after 3,069 performances.The hit s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMSteven Yuhasz has joined Shakespeare on the Sound as its new Executive Director. He replaces Emily Bryan, who is now the organization's Director of Education.
Yuhasz has worked extens…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMHEDY WEISS: Awful play about sexy but self-loathing women, getting wasted and talking dirty, is like an ad for date rape.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:12PMNothing truly prepares one for the remarkable resemblance of the actors David Selby and Craig Wallace to the characters they portray, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in the world prem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:08PMStephen Eich, who joined Pasadena Playhouse as Executive Director in July 2009, will end his tenure in that position on or around February 29. He will continue to serve in a consulting capac…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMCamp Broadway, Broadways Original Summer Camp, announces its 17th annual New York City season with two five-day sessions of musical theatre programming, July 16 - 20 and August 6 - 10.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05PMOnly three days after lead producer Scott Rudin announced he was leaving the upcoming Broadway production of “Clybourne Park,” it has now been confirmed that the play will go on as sched…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 02:00PMOur technicians aren't exactly the unsung heroes of Too Much Light, because we sing about them often, sometimes even with actual songs. Each of them bring their own personalities and enjoyab…
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Horror is a tricky genre for both stage and screen. It relies, perhaps more than any other genre, on emotion – evoking a gut-level, sometimes primal terror that makes the viewer forget, ju…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:55PMTo tweet or not to tweet, that is the question facing arts organizations trying to engage audiences in a social-media-obsessed world. More and more arts troupes across the nation are setting…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:53PMLas Vegas Previews February 2012
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:52PMGeorge Gershwins American folk opera, Porgy and Bess, premiered in New York City in the fall of 1935, one year after the opening of The Apollo Theater. Both the play, and the theater, became…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:49PM“Tokio Confidential’s” unlikely combination of styles You see all kinds of theatre in New York, but you don’t see that much Noh, the classical Japanese form that uses…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:49PMXL Nightclub, Cabaret amp Lounge has announced that Broadway veteran Shoshana Bean will be performing on Mondays, February 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 8 pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PM2011 Drama Desk Award winner John Leguizamo has signed a development deal with ABC to star in and executive produce a comedy inspired by "his professional, personal and family life in N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMMCC's reworked production of the notorious musical Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, began previews this week at off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:41PMJohn Osborne's Look Back in Anger, directed by Sam Gold in an arresting physical production that conjures the squalor and straitened circumstances of a working class life, opened Feb. 2 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMThe saga of former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair gets dramatic treatment from one of his former colleagues, Gabe McKinley, whose latest play, CQ/CX, is on the boards courtesy of the A…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 01:39PMBurning Down DC (by Gwydion Suilebhan on his blog)
SOURCE: direct address at 01:37PMBurning Down A House (by Polly Carl on HowlRound)
SOURCE: direct address at 01:36PMThe National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore, next Saturday and Sunday, has become a place for young troupes to flex their muscles outside the glare of the professional arena.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMMatthew Rhys and company officially brought the tumultuous world of Look Back in Anger to life on their February 2 opening night. Set in 1950s England, the iconic John Osborne drama is the s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32PMSondheim: The Birthday Concert, Into the Woods, Company and "Evening Primrose" are now available for instant streaming on Netflix.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMThe theatre community already can't wait for the Tom Hooper-helmed big screen version of LES MIS. Newest to the cast is Samantha Barks who will play Eponine in the film. She joins the previo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:22PMTake a Backstage Tour of PHANTOM Broadway with Cast Member Janet Saia
Take a journey backstage at PHANTOM Broadway with cast member Janet Saia.
Far beneath the majesty and splendour of the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:22PMA Night in the Life of PHANTOM Broadway Cast Member Janet Saia
Spend a performance with PHANTOM Broadway ensemble member Janet Saia.
Far beneath the majesty and splendour of the Paris Oper…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:21PMThe contestants on Project Runway All Stars are going to have to "make it work" for the cast of Godspell. The revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical and Tony winn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMDanny Bryck - but which one? - with Mark Cohen in A Number.Whistler in the Dark has taken to a kind of "expanded," "Season 2.0" approach to their programming these days - works come in pairs…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:07PMBehind-the Scenes at PHANTOM Broadway with Satomi Hofmann
Get an exclusive glimpse backstage with PHANTOM Broadway cast member Satomi Hofmann (u/s Carlotta and Mme. Gyry).
Far beneath the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:05PMThe hit off-Broadway revue Naked Boys Singing will re-open on February 23 at the Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row. The nude musical closed at off-Broadway’s New World Stages on January 28 a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:03PMWell I hope you’ve been reading along as we’ve been introducing the cast of our upcoming Messenger No. 4 (Or…. How to Survive a Greek Tragedy). If you haven’t been following along yo…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:01PMWe’re currently only three years away from the 2015 “future” depicted in the second installment of the “Back to the Future” trilogy, but it is possible we could see a musical versi…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 01:00PMLast 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 01:00PMShakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank has announced further casting for its summer productions that will include Jamie Parker and Samuel Barnett, two of the original cast of…
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It's cold outside but theatre is hotting up this week with family drama The Gatekeeper in Manchester and Sex with a Stranger, starring Jaime Winstone and Russell Tovey, in LondonScotland and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMFriday February 3, 2012
It's been 35 years since Tina Packer first, and last, directed Moliere's "The Learned Ladies."
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:56PMBoard members of Seattle's Intiman Theatre will determine the future of the Tony-winning company next week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMAccording to Hollywood.com , filmmaker Ned Benson will be writing and directing two connected films, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Hers, which…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMDanielle Ferland -- the Original Red Riding Hood -- Returns As Baker's WifeLauren Kennedy, Erik Liberman and Danielle Ferland will be featured in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine music…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:39PMBroadway veteran Shoshana Bean will perform at the newly opened cabaret space at XL Nightclub on Mondays, February 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 8pm.
Bean has been seen on stage in such shows as Wic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMJean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, died on Feb. 2 in her Lower East Side home. The cause was lung c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMIn TimeLine’s staging of Prebble’s drama, the human faces of Enron mailroom provide a fascinating lesson in hubris and a compelling study of an economic freefall from board room to mail …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:34PMAs Joe Hill-Gibbins' version of The Changeling runs at the Young Vic Theatre in London, the deputy artistic director of the venue chats to Matt Trueman about how he approaches projects and w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMCasting has been announced for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods, a co-production to be presented at CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore, March 7-April 15, and Westport Country Pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMHaving failed to catch Kevin Spacey's Richard III at the Old Vic back in London, I jumped at the chance to see it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The hype was great and I have fond m…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 12:26PMTony Award nominee John Leguizamo has signed a development deal with ABC and ABC Studios to star in and executive produce a single-camera comedy for the network, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will reunite with the New York City Ballet for Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins Feb. 8-12 at the Koch Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMCharles Dickens created some of the most iconic novels and characters in English Literature. Nick Smurthwaite paints an intimate portrait of the writer and looks at some of the great adaptat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMA Red Orchid Theatre has announced casting for Marisa Wegrzyn's The Butcher of Baraboo, to run April 5 - May 20. Shade Murray will direct the production.
The play centers on a female …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:17PMWelcome 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMThese 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 12:07PMSee Clips of "Weeds" Star Justin Kirk, Stockard Channing & More in Broadway's "Other Desert Cities"
Get Tickets to Other Desert Cities: http://www.broadway.com/s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:03PMMy Space: "Sister Act" Star Marla Mindelle
Buy Tickets to SIster Act: http://www.broadway.com/shows/sister-act/
She isn't much of a decorator (her words), but Marla Mindelle …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:02PMBeyond Broadway: Off-Broadway's "Russian Transport" with Janeane Garofalo
Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport has taken up residence at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre on T…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:01PMIf all goes as planned, this time next year theatre fans should have three new DVDs to enjoy. Let's keep our fingers crossed that everything will come together for all three projects.C…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMHappy Birthday Nathan Lane Lane is best known for his roles as Albert in The Birdcage, Max Bialystock in the musical The Producers, Ernie Smuntz in MouseHunt, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Doll…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMBeyond Broadway: New Off-Broadway Comedy "Psycho Therapy"
Find out more about this sexy new play.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:59AMKristin Chenoweth shared an intimate moment with Rosie O’Donnell when she stopped by The Rosie Show on February 2.The normally bubbly blonde became rather emotional while expressi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMTony winner Betty Buckley has gone buck wild on Twitter and the Texas lady has some choice words for American Idol judge Randy Jackson. For years judges on the talent competition, notab…
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMDanielle Ferland, who originated the role of Little Red Riding Hood in the 1987 Broadway production of Into the Woods, will take on the part of the Baker's Wife in the Baltimore Cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMAfter an intense internal auditing process, the results are in for the 2011 Seattle Awards This year's awards broke traffic records and we couldn't be more excited to announce the 2011 Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMTony Award winner Idina Menzel, whose new CD and DVD, "Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony," will be released March 6, may be headed back to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMA double bill of David Hare’s South Downs and Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version will play the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre this spring, according to the U.K.'…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMMobbed Episode 6 - 37 Year Old Man Finally Meets His Father - February 8 on Fox
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMBarrington Stage Company BSC, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, announces the ten 10-minute plays as part of the 10X10 On North …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMThe Night of 1000 Voices returns to the Royal Albert Hall on May 6 to raise awareness and funds for the charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. The evening, hosted by Christopher Biggins …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMTony Award winner and current Oscar nominee Viola Davis has joined the cast of the upcoming film "Ender's Game," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMTony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, will be Madame Armfeldt in Ste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMThe Guardian has released a video interview, featuring Zach Braff, who discusses his play All New People, which begins previews on February 22 at the West End's Duke of Yorks Theatre. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMBroadway's new revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical GODSPELL will be featured on Lifetime Television's acclaimed reality competition Project Runway All Stars.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe double bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's South Down, seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2011, will transfer to the West End's Harold Pin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMNew artistic director Robert Battle blends tradition with the new in Sony Centre shows.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:24AMThe Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, which plays Circle in the Square Theatre, will be featured on the Feb. 16 broadcast of Lifetime Television's reality competition…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:23AMTed Loveday, managing director and custodian of Brunskill and Loveday Theatrical Scenery Archive donated £500 to the winner of our joint set design competition. AK Bennett-Hunter talks…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMComposer Stephen Schwartz will challenge the contestants on the reality competition Project Runway All Stars to put together an outfit for inclusion in the Broadway production of Godspell on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMAlmost 25 years after he played the Vicomte de Valmont in Stephen Frears's film, Malkovich directs a French-language version of Christopher Hampton's play in Paris Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMThe composer of the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, which is coming to Toronto on Feb. 7, wasn’t a typical kid in his west side Manhattan barrio.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:20AMMosaic Theatre is set to present Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, March 8-April 1. Avi Hoffman will direct.
Set in an unnamed country that is, like the author's native Chile…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMAs if it needs to be said, Ricky Martin is sexy...and apparently he knows it. Get a first look at the Evita star performing the hit LMFAO song “Sexy and I Know It” on Glee. Marti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMStage and screen actor Michael Sheen will star as 1960s human sexuality pioneer William Masters in Showtime's drama pilot "Masters of Sex," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMThe following is BroadwayWorld's exclusive interview with theater, film, and TV legend, Mr. Ben Vereen...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMSaturday night, January 14, 2012. Every participant at the Junior Theater Festival has seen at least eight segments compete with MTI’s Jr. musicals. But eight is not enough. The ballroom…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:11AMFull Circle Talent Group, lead by Martha Byrne (from my hometown Mahwah, NJ!) and Mario Costabile, is looking for some talent! All the information you need is below! It's a great opportunity…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:11AMThe lesson the theatre community learned this week is, Don't mess with producer Scott Rudin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThe Time Out New York Lounge at New World Stages will present a special Valentine's Day edition of Whistling Trixies on February 11, 2012 at 10:30pm.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMNick Jonas in HOW TO SUCCEED... TV Commercial
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Now, in its second smash year, Broadway's musical comedy hit welcomes a bright new star—music sens…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:02AMBecause of Winn Dixie, the new Broadway-bound Duncan Sheik-Nell Benjamin musical about a young girl and her canine best friend, will receive a New York City developmental lab in March, accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AMIt's been talked about for years, and it looks like the new Telecharge.com is almost here! And it features 3-D seat maps, video content, and a whole bunch more. It's in Beta now, so it's not…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 232012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
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Character Study: Tony Sheldon Transforms Into Bernadette for "Priscilla Queen of the Desert"
Buy Tickets to Priscilla Queen of the Desert: http://www.broadway.com/shows/priscilla-…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:58AMNational Theatre Live is the National Theatre of Great Britains groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre direct from London to movie theaters around the world. Each pe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMComedian and two-time Tony nominee John Leguizamo has signed a development deal with ABC studios to star in a comedy television show, according to Deadline.com. The single-camera comedy will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMUpdated casting has been announced for Shakespeare's Globe's 2012 season, according to WhatsOnStage.com.
Two-time Olivier Award winner Samantha Sprio will star as Katherina in The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMGod save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Viola Davis will join the cast of Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of the sci-fi best selling novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, BEAUTIFUL …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMThe long-running hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre welcomed its newest cast Feb. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMCalliope Theatre Company will host a benefit concert for its upcoming production of Children of the Future Age Feb. 8 at Judson Church.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMValentine’s Day is all about romance, so Broadway.com decided to collect romantic stories (and ideas for celebrating the national day of love) from some of the most passionate people w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:31AMPrimary Stages just announced the first three plays of their 28th Season. In launching their season, the award-winning company will revisit collaborations with playwrights with whom they hav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMTeachout reaffirms Guirgis' Motherfucker in its Miami production; hard not to notice the surnames of the cast, as opposed to these.Sarah "Maths Geek" Benson on Soho Rep's guiding principle: …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:30AMArgentine actress Elena Roger will make her Broadway debut in the upcoming revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, which is scheduled to begin previews March 12, prior to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMLast night, February 2, Roundabout Theatre Company opened its new production of John Osbornes Look Back in Anger, directed by Roundabout Associate Artist Sam Gold. The cast features Adam Dri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMPlaywrights, directors, and actors have been announced for Barrington Stage Company's 10x10 On North, a new play festival to be presented at BSC Stage 2, February 16-26.
The program wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMThe acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.The acclaimed production will move to Broadway despite a well-publicized spat.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:23AMBarb Anderson in Bounty of Lace.
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:18AMOK, not really. Scott Rudin doesn’t even know who I am, I imagine. But it would be great if you would join our conversation on Facebook and Twitter, even without a threat. If you want …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:17AMOnce a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I’ll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:16AMFull dates have now been announced for the UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe's 1984 musical Starlight Express which, as was previously reported, will tour from the New Wimbl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:16AMThe Old Vic's acclaimed production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off is set to transfer to the West End's Novello Theatre for a limited run, March 24-June 30. Lindsay Posner dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMClara Andersson is an actor, producer and
founder/director of Borealis Theatre, whose latest production, Purge
by Sofi Oksanen, opens at the Arcola Theatre on 22 February.Here, she asks wh…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:15AMTrap Door Theatre has announced casting for Peter Handke's They Are Dying Out, translated by Michael Roloff, to run February 16 - March 24. Max Truax will direct the production.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark, who will be seen in the upcoming Los Angeles engagement of Follies, will host Backstage at Encores!, a Studio 5 at City Center event, Feb. 6 at 6:30 PM at C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMDespite the years spent visiting theatres in and around London, this is the first time I’ve stumbled across the Tabard. Above a pub of the same name and a minute’s walk from Turnham …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:05AMEUROPE/WINTER TOUR 2012: Alan Gilbert, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Beethoven 02/02/2012
An hour before they take the stage at Germany's Kölner Philharmonie, Alan Gilbert and the Ne…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:05AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Johnson and Dean were a husband-wife dance team who bridged the era between minstrelsy and vaudeville, and are best known for devel…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AMAn American Express presale for the multi-racial revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire will begin Feb. 6; tickets will go on sale to the general public Feb. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMThe Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMTony Award winner Victoria Clark will once again host the previously reported "Backstage at Encores!" series, which will have its latest installment at Studio 5 at City Center, on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
As the centennial year of The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building comes to a close and the next 100 years begin, it's a good opportunity to journey through the history, …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:58AMThe current Old Vic production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off, where it runs through March 10, will move immediately to the West End's Novello Theatre beginning performances March 24,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMNatalie Dormer will star in the title role in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, to run March 15 - April 14 at The Young Vic, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Natalie Abraham…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMThe double-bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's new play South Downs (written in response to Rattigan's play), which premiered last year at Chich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMAfter losing its lead producer Scott Rudin earlier this week, the Broadway production of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is on track to open at the Walter Kerr T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:47AM"You've Cott Mail" today is all about "the need to fail." I'm with Adam Thurman on this one: "I've had to learn (the hard way) that the only failures that move us forward are the ones where …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:45AMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which as previously reported will play the Broadhurst Theatre, has announced production dates. The show will play a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMThe full cast has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Robert Holman's 1987 triptych of plays Making Noise Quietly, which begins performances April 19 prior to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMThough Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara, is set in Leenane, Ireland, it’s hard not to think of a front yard in Hampden during Halloween. In Todd Rosenthal’s set for CenterStage,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMWriter's Theatre has announced casting for Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music, to run May 1 - July 8. William Brown will direct the production, which will ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMTony Award winner Deanna Dunagan will play Madame Armfeldt n Writer's Theatre's production Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's A Little Night Music, to run May 1 - July 8. Wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMThis year's annual The Night of 1000 Voices concert that celebrates the world of musical theatre at the Royal Albert Hall is to be held May 6, with a company that is due to include Kerry…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMStrictly Come Dancing dancers Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace opened Midnight Tango at the Aldwych Theatre earlier this week (31 January, previews from 20 January 2012).
Having dazzled tel…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:36AMThe previously announced Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris and Daphne Rubin-Vega, will begin previews April 3 at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:34AMWith the premiere of NBC's new critically acclaimed musical drama series SMASH, NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and Columbia Records will make select songs from each episode availa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMElevator Repair Service will perform Gatz at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre, to run June 8 - July 15, according to a report onWhatsonstage.com. The engagement will follow the compa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMMusical comedy was the forte of Billie Love, although her theatrical ambit spread far wider.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMDavid Whitaker's death at the age of 81 saw the Kingston-upon-Thames-born composer, songwriter and arranger hailed as "a genius" in France, where he was regarded as an all-rounder of conside…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMEntertainer and pantomime star Dave Lee died, aged 64, of pancreatic cancer on January 12.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMNEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's famous Algonquin Hotel has permanently shuttered the Oak Room, its fabled supper club that helped launch careers of many top-shelf jazz and cabaret stars…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:17AMFor the generations of Irish singers that followed her, Bridie Gallagher was a flag carrier, a pioneer, and, to many of them, a veritable saint.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMAccording to the Toronto Sun, Adam Lambert has just confirmed that he will be joining the legendary band Queen as it's new lead singer for an upcoming tour this summer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:14AMBasil Payne was 48 by the time he gave up his day job as a health insurance administrator to become a full-time writer in 1971. By then he was established as a poet, with two international p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMFor many of the greatest singers of the last century, Martin Isepp was, professionally speaking, 'the other half', accompanying great names such as Janet Baker, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisab…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMTwo time Olivier Award-winner Samantha Spiro will star as Katherina in the Globe's forthcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew, which opens on 23 June.
Spiro, whose recent credits Com…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:13AMThe cast and crew of the York Theatre Company's production of Ionescopade! A Musical Vaudeville celebrated their opening night on Thursday, February 2.
Inspired by the works of Eugene …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMFOX has released a video featuring Ricky Martin, promoting his previously announced guest star appearance on Glee. Martin is slated to play a Spanish teacher on the February 7 episode of th…
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Despite the loss of lead producer Scott Rudin, who abandoned his plan to produce Bruce Norris' play Clybourne Park on Broadway this spring, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama will make its…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AM“I consumed massive amounts of opiates religiously.” “Having waited my entire life to get an award for something … anything … I now get awards all the time for being mental…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMOver the past week or so I have been near the center of exchanges about theatre and social media that feel alternately like discussions, vent sessions, and policy ponderings. Social media an…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 08:51AMA political battle rocks Hungarian theatre – while New York debates the delicate etiquette of praising shows you don't likeHungarian theatre has hit the headlines in recent months, after G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMApropos of yesterday’s post, the British (and Germans) are stepping in where U.S. critics and publishers fear to tread. I am informed that Methuen is planning a survey of American play…
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On cusp of film's 30th anniversary, creatives target Rialto
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Producer and Jujamcyn Theater executive has issued a statement that
Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will play Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre this season,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:15AMIs Randy Harrison getting typecast? For the third time in his professional career, he’ll portray a visual artist. This time, he’s Ken, a fictional assistant to famous painter Mark Rothko…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AMLook Back in Anger- Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism . . .Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudeville- The return of…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:03AMOne of the few concrete tidbits we learn about German dance choreographer Pina Bausch over the course of the new 3-D documentary “Pina” is that she was a woman of few words. As should ri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:02AMIt’s ironic that John Osborne’s classic drama Look Back in Anger is now as much of a period piece as the “well-made plays” it was attempting to usurp. This work--whic…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 07:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Director Sam Gold takes a stylized, super downsizing approach to John Osborne's "kitchen sink" realism
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:55AMLegit News:
Ives also on 2012-13 slate
SOURCE: Variety at 06:54AMhe return of the wild and wacky vaudeville-styled revue that Robert Allan Ackerman conceived in the mid 1970s to celebrate the absurdist canon of Eugene Ionesco is sure to win new fans for t…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:52AM“Music is the rhythm of life” says our narrator/guide and, if that’s the case, Umoja is the most life affirming musical ever.
Packed with the sights and sounds of the Rai…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:42AMAaron Lazar and Kate Baldwin on Good Morning Texas perform a song from Michael John Lachiusa's GIANT.
SOURCE: WFAA at 06:31AM“He’s horrifyingly odd and exciting,” one character says of another in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. The same could be said of the current revival of Osborne’s landmark 1956 w…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:17AMFred and Adele Astaire set the gold standard for brother-sister showbiz teams -- but she retired very early, leaving him to become a star on his own. Today, we have two super-talented pairs …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:15AM'Clybourne Park'
© Clybourne Park
Jordan Roth of Jujamcyn Theatres issued a statement today stating that the dark comedy Clybourne Park will open on Broadway after all.
Between the sens…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:07AMWow.Forty-fucking-six years old today.And I am NOTHING like I thought I'd be.I wish I could say that I had plans on what 46 would be but when I was in college, I simply KNEW I would be dead …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMWithout Warning has a brilliant location, but takes a while to make the most of it.
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:01AMAs BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, lead producer Scott Rudin has backed out of producing the Broadway production of Bruce Norris's CLYBOURNE PARK, which was due for a Thursday, April 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AM
All the world is a madhouse at the Young Vic lately.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:57AMTaking a note from Vidal's 1960 drama about a presidential convention, the event was held like a press conference with cast member Donna Hanover, a reporter and TV host as well as an actor…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:44AMActor Zach Braff, who played nervy doctor JD in hit US show Scrubs, tells Kate Abbott about his play All New PeopleKate AbbottLindsay PoultonMary Douglas-HomeCameron Robertson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMZach Braff might be best-known for playing the nervy, nerdy doctor JD in hit US show Scrubs, but he's also trying his hand at writing drama. Braff tells Kate Abbott about his play All New Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMDo dogs go to heaven? This, and several of life’s more serious questions, are poured over in this 1923 Sutton Vane star vehicle, revived in a handsome production at the Finborough The…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMAdepero Oduye as Alike in Dee Rees's PariahDee Rees’s debut feature film is a terrific studyof a teenaged girl who identifies as a lesbian, even though she lives under theheterosexual enfo…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:37AMThe Chichester Festival Theatre double bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's companion piece South Downs will transfer to Harold Pinter Theatre from 24 April (prev…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:10AMKevin Spacey, currently starring in The Bridge Projects Richard III at BAM, will be a guest on Theater Talk on Friday February 3 at 1 AM on Channel 13 in New York. Theater Talk subsequentl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM
“Meeting Pina was like finding a language,” gushes one of the dancers in Wim Wenders’s extraordinary homage to the late Pina Bausch. Wenders must have felt the same way about the rever…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42AMJordan Roth, the 36-year-old head of Jujamcyn Theaters, was working the phones like an old pro yesterday in an effort to salvage “Clybourne Park,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that, a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMJohn Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” opened in London with a huge bang in 1956, upending staid British theater and helping usher the era of “angry young men” — smart, educated, wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMFriday February 3, 2012 NEW YORK -- As TV series go, "Smash" does a smashing job of abstaining from the usual: no courtrooms, no operating rooms,
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:05AMFive Reasons Why The Friday Five Is Always Fiveby Kyle Gatehouse of Matt and Kyle and Matt1. A regular room has six surfaces, the ceiling, the floor and four walls. The stage of a theatre ha…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMPerforming Arts Administrator / Consultant, International Projects in the Arts New York, New York USA While working at The Laura Pels International Foundation, I was introduced to the distin…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AM"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," a new feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, arrives in theatres in New York and San Francis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMToday's Wall Street Journal drama column is devoted in its entirety to the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Look Back...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, inspired by a scene in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Look Back...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMIn addition to being a great artist, Pat Metheny is also a very nice person. If you work in the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMThis week I'm posting five films made by Charles and Ray Eames. Today's installment, Powers of Ten, was made in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom." Edward Sapir, Fashion...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"Pump Boys and Dinettes" was a unique show when it opened on Broadway just over 30 years ago and it still is - an amiable, slap-happy revue that pokes fun at our rural roots and country cous…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 12:00AMThe New York City premiere of Leslye Headland's Assistance, about those in service of nightmare bosses, begins performances Feb. 3 with a cast that features Tony Award nominee Bobby Steg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEric Ankrim, Alexandra Zorn and Kyle Scatliffe forge a "brand-new state" in the 5th Avenue Theatre production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!, which begins perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Christina Anderson's Good Goods, featuring Tony Award nominee de’Adre Aziza, opens up shop Feb. 3 at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEmmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lonny Price, who originated the role of Charley Kringas in the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along, is aligning with som…
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 12:00AMOne of Broadway's all-time biggest flops is back in New York, with a makeover. Director Stafford Arima and stars Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson explain.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLovesick or Things That Don't Happen, a new Valentine's Day-set anti-romantic musical, begins its world-premiere engagement Feb. 3 Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe George Street Playhouse's production of the Tony-winning John Logan play Red officially opens at the New Jersey venue Feb. 3 following previews that began Jan. 31.
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