As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Tony Award winner Betty Buckley took to Twitter to vent her frustrations on AMERICAN IDOL judge Randy Jackson's use of too Broadway as a critique agains…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMA Steady Rain, Marin Theatre Company.
Hot off the presses: my review of Keith Huff’s noir melodrama in today’s Marin Independent Journal. So head over there to read about it bef…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:45PMDavid C. Nichols reviews the Porters of Hellsgate revival of Shakespeare's rarely produced "Troilus and Cressida" at the Whitmore Theatre. A theater review for the Los Angeles Times.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the February 4, 2012, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:31PMOne look at Tom Scutt’s meticulous design for Jeremy Herrin’s production of this savage Alan Ayckbourn comedy, and you know you’re in the 1970s. Wood veneer and faux leather lend a shi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:30PMHarold Pinter Theatre, LondonIt is fascinating to see a new generation of directors and actors discover Alan Ayckbourn. And, even if the National came badly unstuck with Season's Greetings, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30PM"Stick Fly" won't be sticking around too much longer. Producers said Thursday that Lydia R. Diamond's play about a rich black family gathering at their tony vacation home on Martha's Vineyar…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:29PMScience rocks. In the theatre, this is a subject that offers to provide powerful experiments in metaphor. Most recently, in Nick Payne’s Constellations - and most classically in Tom Stoppa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PM"Once in a Lifetime" was the first collaboration between George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. In a rare staging, at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, the farce proves to be one of the most effective …
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:00PMJoely Richardson has managed to walk into Carluccio's in Kingston upon Thames at the height of the lunch buzz and sit at a window seat, her voice raised above the hum, without causing fans t…
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Photos by Sandra CoudertIf a family came crashing down like a giant tree in the desolate winter mountains of northern California, would it make a sound? Not …
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One word can describe this majestic production: collaboration. In Elizabeth Lucas’ director’s note, she informs us right off the bat: “Our r…
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SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:42PMThe director Alan Brown redirects the “Romeo and Juliet” narrative from interfamily rivalry to intrainstitutional homophobia.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 06:34PMThere are a couple of reasons why Cindy Lou Johnson's "Brilliant Traces," initially produced nearly 25 years ago, continues to merit production. There are a couple of reasons why Cindy Lou J…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:30PMIdina Menzel's new PBS concert special, Barefoot at the Symphony - filmed in Toronto on November 17-18, 2011 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at Koerner Hall - features husband Taye Digg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMSmash, Episode 1-- To paraphrase the cliche about not judging a book by its cover, don't judge this show's future by its first episode Everybody seems to be talk…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:21PMI’ll give you one hint: One word. Two syllables. Rhymes with Modsbell! No, it’s not BobSmell. It’s Godspell! Next Thursday, February 16th is going to be one special day f…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:18PMA homage to love, Shakespeare and the symphonic form, Berlioz's symphony should be recognised as a triumph of drama, formal coherence and lyric beautyAt a time when Hector Berlioz's music is…
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Tony winner Ellen Parkin will join The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells as a star of the previously announced NBC TV pilot The New Normal, according to Deadline.com. Creat…
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:59PMDavid Blatt, Keith Conallen, Lorri Holt, Sam Henderson, Keira Keeley, Bruce McKenzie, Nate Miller, Peter Schmitz, and Ed Swidey will be featured in the Wilma Theater production of Sam Shepar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMPlanning. There is a reason that the quote " If you fail to plan, plan to fail" is so popular. Your business cannot run for very long without strategy. It is important to take the …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 05:50PMPetula Clark has fallen in love with New York audiences. And judging by the demand for tickets, the feeling is mutual. Her show at Feinsteins at Loews Regency has been so popular that her ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMThree-time Tony nominee Marin Mazzie has played the loving mother in Ragtime, the troubled mother in Next to Normal and now the misunderstood mother in Carrie. The big-voiced star stopped by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMDance USA/Philadelphia, an advocacy and service organization, has received a three-year, $950,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation, the philanthropy announced Thursday. In addition, Wi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:44PMI was tickled pink the other night when I ran into not one but two artistic directors who said they read this blog. I call it my blog, but fact is sometimes Ben is pressed into service. Anyw…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:44PMThe UK Daily Mail is reporting that Scottish rocker Paolo Nutini is being courted to write the score and possibly the lyrics to a musical adaptation of the film Nowhere Boy, based on John Le…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:42PMCelebration Theatre has announced casting for its production of The Color Purple, to run March 9-May 26. Michael Matthews will direct.
Adapted from the book by Alice Walker, the musical fea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMCouples’ therapy is usually intended for two, but in “Psycho Therapy” the relationship in question is a moving target.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PM"The Two Foscari," starring Plácido Domingo, and a joint recital performance by Renée Fleming and Susan Graham are the highlights of L.A. Opera's 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:30PMPhone Call #7: Moisés Kaufman Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project are crossing all sorts of borders in their work. They challenge many different assumptions about how the American …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:24PMLocal performer Nick Garrison does an impressive job assuming the many personae required in this multilayered one-man show that poses tough questions about survival in the face of evil.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:24PMStar of Who's the Boss? and Taxi is primed for his appearance onstage in Toronto.
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:05PMWashington, D.C. — More than 350 Washington-area school students will perform a selection of President Abraham Lincoln’s speeches on the historic Ford’s Theatre stage on two Fridays, F…
SOURCE: fords.org at 05:03PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Brilliant Traces' at the Lounge Theatre 2.
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SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:50PMTroupe revives its lunchtime talk-back series
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PMLea Michele is in talks to reprise her stage role as Wendla in the previously announced film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening, according to E! Online. McG (Charlie'…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:39PMFour shows give theatergoers a chance to immerse themselves in the community's diversity.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:38PMIn the 30 years since he started performing in Minneapolis, Bill T. Jones has become an international star. So why does he keep coming back?
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:37PM"Glee" star Lea Michele, who created the role of Wendla in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Spring Awakening, may re-create her performance in the film version…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PM"Glee" star Lea Michele, who created the role of Wendla in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Spring Awakening, is currently in talks to re-create her performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:36PMPaintings by two Minnesota artists explore polar-opposite states of mind and geography.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:35PM"Stick Fly," the Broadway play about an emotionally stormy weekend at the vacation home of an African-American family, will close on Feb. 26 after 24 preview performances and 92 regular perf…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30PMMore than a song cycle, but less than a play, this tribute to the genius of Leonard Cohen will be remembered for its inventiveness
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SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:25PMTony Award winner Chita Rivera will co-host the 13th annual Column Awards Gala, which honors excellence in theatre within the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Feb. 27 at the Patty Granville Performin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMA special message for Broadway Cares from Hugh Jackman, Robin Williams, Sutton Foster, Jan Maxwell, Nikki M. James, Josh Gad, and Dan Lauria. Help Broadway Cares (http://broadwaycares.org) f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:17PME Online has just revealed that Spring Awakening's original Wendla, GLEE star Lea Michele, is being courted for her old role in the upcoming film version of the show. E reports that the fil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMThis July, many of Broadways finest will head to North Carolina to participate in The Performing Arts Project Summer Intensive www.performingartsproject.com. The Performing Arts Project was …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMDarko Tresnjak Stages First Shakespeare Here As Artistic DirectorDaniel Davis, veteran actor of stage and TV, will play Prospero on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" at Hartford Stag e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:10PMOver the past few months I have been exchanging emails with an art conservator in Washington about a fascinating project she undertook a few years ago. Dawn Rogala spent two years traveling …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:08PMAndres Chulisi Rodriguez portrays two brothers in the one-man show “Growing Up Gonzales” at the Jan Hus Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMUpdated casting has been announced for The Best of Jim Caruso's Cast Party, at Town Hall on Thursday, February 23 at 8pm. The event will be presented by TheaterMania contributor Scott S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met for a second time during the 2011-2012 theater season to consider the eligibility of 13 Broadway shows: Man and Boy, The Mountaintop, Relatively …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has met for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 13 Broadway productions for the 2012 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PMThe first production of this season’s Encores! series, Stephen Sondheim and Gorge Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” comes across as oddly quaint and self-conscious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMDirector J.C. Gafford, who is neither black nor female, relates his long journey with Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf. It culminates F…
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Here's an idea for a reality show set right in your backyard: Who can watch "Old Wicked Songs" at the Colony Theatre without falling in love with John Towey?Here's an idea for a reality show…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:58PM"Carrie" is the title of Stephen King's first published novel, which is a supernatural horror story about a young girl who torments her tormenters. In 1976 &mdash two years after the boo…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:57PMAccording to Deadline.com, Legendary Pictures has officially cancelled all plans to make PARADISE LOST. Shooting for the film was set to begin in January of 2012 and was later postponed for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMRitiSachdeva is a theatre maker, dancer, and cultural worker whorecently relocated to NYC from Albuquerque. As an actor, she has worked withmidNite’s cHiLd, Kalapani, Working Classroom, Om…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 03:57PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled Feb. 9 for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 13 Broadway productions for the 2012 American Theatre Wing's Tony A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMSee the eligibility determinations of shows and performers for the 2012 Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 03:54PMNatalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, two dancers with the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, also happen to dance with American Ballet Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:53PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of 13 Broadway productions for the 2012 American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, prese…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMNew York School of Interior Design will present Theatrical By Design: A Century of The Shubert Organizations Theatre Interiors, which will be on view at the NYSID Gallery, (161 East 69th St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PM19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, will be reunited at Ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMMembers of the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along will reunite Feb. 14 to attend a performance of the current City Center Encores! production of that musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMStark Sands, most recently on Broadway in American Idiot, has been cast in the new Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMPlans for the previously announced film adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost has been scrapped, according to Deadline.com. Production on the Legendary Pictures movie, whic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PMJim Walton, a member of the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” meets the cast of the Encores! revival and talks about the contents of his “Merrily” s…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMBROADWAY ROX, a new concert event, will be presented at Queens Theatre 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park for two days only, Friday and Saturday, February 17th an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:37PMWinner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow and Best Supporting Actress - Judi Dench, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is noted playwright and screenwriter Tom Stop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThere was a telephone conversation.
In his quest to learn everything possible about Larry Bird, Tug Coker has...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:33PMVassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater will present a reading of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Abigail/1702 in the Martel Theater in the Vogelstein Center for Drama a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:26PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
"Merrily We Roll Along" rolls triumphantly back to town as the opening attraction of the 2012 season at City Center Encores! The troubled piece -- …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:19PMThe Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell at Circle in the Square Theatre will allow fans to tweet live during the 7:30 PM Feb. 19 performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:18PMIs there a more beloved, ravishingly musical problem-child than Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along"? A near-mythic failure that closed in 1981 after 16 performances, this idealistic f…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:14PMOn the February 13th episode of NBC's new musical drama series SMASH entitled 'Callbacks', Ivy Megan Hilty and Karen Katharine McPhee jump through hoops for the brilliant but temperamental d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMDavid Cote, theater critic for Time Out New York, and Joshua Bloodworth, theater critic for Dominion New York,share what they're looking forward to this late winter and spring in the t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:11PMThe Broadway production of Godspell, at Circle in the Square Theatre, will allow a limited number of patrons to tweet live during the Sunday, February 19 at 7:30pm.
Fifteen of the show&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:11PMSitting in the cozy restaurant at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, I had an intense moment of deja vu. Hanging on the walls all around me were posters of Broadway shows I’d seen…
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Lydia R. Diamond’s dark family comedy Stick Fly will play its final performance on February 26 at the Cort Theatre. Starring Tracie Thoms, Mekhi Phifer and Dulé Hill, the produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMA healthy winter box office is prompting the producers of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess to extend the sales period of the Broadway revival beyond its planned limited run. Originally anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:57PMLydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, which is directed by Kenny Leon, will play its final performance at Broadway’s Cort Theatre Feb. 26 following 24 previews and 92 regular performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMNew York's hit play FREUD'S LAST SESSION opened its second foreign production on January 25th at the famed Multiteatro in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the title La Ultima Sesion de Freud, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMAccording to Deadline.com, stage veteran Mercedes Ruehl has joined the cast of HBO's 'Luck' as a series regular. Ruehl will return as 'Julietta Caligari' in this second season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMThe Broadway production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, at the Cort Theatre, will play its final performance on Sunday, February 26. As of that time, it will have played 24 previews an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMSTICK FLY, the hit Broadway play by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Kenny Leon, will play its final performance at Broadways Cort Theatre 138 W. 48th Street on Sunday, February 26, 2012 aft…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMYale Repertory Theatre will open the world premiere of GOOD GOODS by Christina Anderson, directed by Tina Landau tonight, February 9. The production began performances on February 3 and runs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMTony Award winner Chuck Cooper, Jeff Kready, Brenda Pressley, and Margo Siebert will star in Red Bank's Two River Theatre Company's world premiere musical In This House, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:40PMImpro Theatre's Jane Austen Unscripted will play The Pasadena Playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre, March 2-April 1. Dan O'Connor and Paul Rogan will direct the show.
The wor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMWashington D.C.'s Ford's Theatre has just anounced the cast for their upcoming production of 1776. Featuring direction by Peter Flynn and choreography by Michael Bobbitt, the production will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMRobert Creighton, who currently plays the Purser in the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes, will celebrate the release of his debut album "Ain't We Got Fun!" Feb. 12-1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMMargaret Gray reviews "Old Wicked Songs" at the Colony Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:34PMLong running off-Broadway hit, Love, Loss and What I Wore will close on March 25, 2012, just hitting the 1000 performance landmark. Producer Daryl Roth announced the end of the run yesterday…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:27PMCelia Carvajal, Ashley Loren, Justin Matthew Sargent, Shelley Thomas, and Jason Wooten will star in Broadway Rox, at the Queens Theatre, February 17 and 18. Rob Evan and Rich Affannato will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMOscar and Tony Award winner Mercedes Ruehl will become a regular on the second season of HBO's drama Luck, according to Deadline.com.
Ruehl will reprise her first season guest-starring…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMPlay based on Ondaatje's 2007 novel Divisadero runs until Feb. 26 at Theatre Passe Muraille mainstage.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:24PMNBCUniversal cable networks are joining forces to create a formidable cable roadblock to promote NBC's new hit musical drama Smash from 12 a.m.-1 a.m. ETPT tonight.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMBritish-born film star says she looks forward to her 'iconic role' in Caught in Flight, based on final years of Princess DianaOliver Hirschbiegel, the German director of the planned biopic o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:21PMAccording to Billboard, Broadway favorite and GLEE star Matthew Morrison will soon release his second solo album with Adam Levine's 222 Records. Morrison's first album, which featured the ta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMMany claim it, but I did it. I saw "Carrie" on Broadway. And, yes, it was that deliriously, stupendously terrible.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:12PMStage veterans Morgan Freeman and Andrea Riseborough will join Oscar winner Tom Cruise in Joseph Kolinski's film Oblivion, according to Deadline.com.
The film takes place on post-apoca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMPeter and the Starcatcher, an acclaimed new American play by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Drama Desk Award-winner and Tony Award nominee Alex T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:09PMWow.Did you hear?The organization that has, for decades, actively ignored those within it's ranks to sodomize children, provided legal cover for child rapists, marginalized women and is a ha…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:09PMClay Aiken's newest CD, Steadfast, will be released by Decca on March 29.
The disc will feature selections from Aiken's 2010 release, Tried and True, along with a newly recorded, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMWalnut Street Theatre has announced casting for the Philadelphia premiere of God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza. Artistic Producing Director Bernard Havard will direct the production, to run M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PMThe Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess has extended its run and will now play through September 30.
Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, who play the title roles, will stay…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMAn updated list of presenters has been announced for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and aired live on ABC-TV. Tony Awar…
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The longest-running show in Broadway history, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, will celebrate its 10,000th performance on February 11 as a special benefit for The Actors Fund. Now in its 24th year,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMUpdated casting has been announced for Joel and Ethan Coen's new film Inside Llewyn Davis, which focuses on the early folk music scene in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, according to D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMHailed by John Hurt as the 'best of the bunch', Oldman is a working-class hero acclaimed for his acting and directingGary Oldman returns to London this weekend in the role of prodigal son, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMBroadway and television star Matthew Morrison will release his second CD later this year on the newly announced 222 Records, which has been formed by Maroon 5 lead singer and The Voice judge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMOn May 25th, 2011, SDC's Gretchen Michelfeld spoke with three Broadway Production Stage Managers about their experiences. Stage Managers Jill Cordle (Jerusalem), Heather Cousens (Spring Awak…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:53PMThe Gershwins Porgy and Bess is now on Broadway with a cast led by four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald Ragtime, Private Practice as Bess, Drama Desk nominee Norm Lewis Les Misrables, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:52PMArlington's Signature Theatre offers a first listen to the opening number from the upcoming world premiere musical by John Dempsey and Dana Rowe, Brother Russia, to run March 6 - April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMDavid Ferry’s use of surtitles helps flesh out the clerk’s character, too
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:48PMDavid Ferry’s use of surtitles helps flesh out the clerk’s character, too
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:48PMOff-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre has announced two world premiere plays as part of the company’s tenth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMPaul McCartney will perform live from Capitol Studios to promote his previously reported new album, Kisses On the Bottom, with the performance to be streamed for free through iTunes tonight,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMWhile protesting the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Valerie Dillman heard about the recent death of Rachel Corrie -- the American political activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Pal…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:43PMSecond Stage Theatre's tenth anniversary season of its Uptown Series of new works at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on the Upper West Side will feature the world premieres of Alena Smith'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMTony nominee Matthew Morrison will release his second solo album, this time on Adam Levine’s new label 222 Records, according to Billboard. Best known as Will Scheuster on TV’s G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:41PMThe Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess will extend its run through September 30 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, according to the New York Times. Directed by Diane Paulus and starring Audra M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PM"Steadfast," a newly packaged collection of heartfelt songs from Clay Aiken, the "American Idol" finalist who made his Broadway debut in Monty Python's Spamalot, will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMTHEATER REVIEWS:"Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline" at Viaduct Theater ★★ and "Jack's Precious Moment" at Chemically Imbalanced Theater ★★
KERRY REID reviews "Zast…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PMWithin 24 hours last weekend, I watched two artistic directors make their debuts at the artistic helm of two Chicago theater companies: Halena Kays at The Hypocrites and Chay Yew at the Vict…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PMJohn W. Long, a Vermont artist who works with wood, talks about helping to create the poster for the Broadway production of "Peter and the Starcatcher."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:25PMIt started out like a flop in 1981.
And despite wonderful Stephen Sondheim songs, the middling new production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” at Encores! through Feb. 19, isn’t an…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:18PM"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" has informed group-sales agents that the show will play until Sept. 30, as concerns over the production's artistic experimentation have not hurt the box offic…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14PMSecond Stage Theatre has announced the two world premiere plays which will be presented as part of the company's tenth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series at the McGinn/Cazale.
I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMThe Chicago company will dance a world premiere and revive works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp and Lar Lubovitch.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:09PMThe Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonReligion is big by the Avon this winter. Following Written on the Heart, about the King James Bible, the RSC brings us Helen Edmundson's new play about the life …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMMoya Angela, Derrick Baskin, Dionne D. Figgins, Candice Monet McCall, Marcos Santana, TAHARQA, and Daniel J. Watts will perform in D. Watts' Spoken Word Preserves: The Jam at the Clark …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMOn the latest episode of the Fox hit series "Glee," Ricky Martin, who will star as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita, guest starred as McKinley High's newest Spanis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMThe Black Studies Program and The City College of New York invite you to a Black History Month presentation by Broadway Star Ben Vereen on Monday, February 27th at 530 pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Mint Theater Company has revived its 2001 production of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford & Son, which began Off-Broadway performances Feb. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMOn the latest episode of the Fox hit series "Glee," Ricky Martin, who will star as Che Guevara in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita, guest starred as McKinley High's newes…
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The denizens of "Smash," NBC's new show about the making of a Broadway musical aren't the first -- and surely won't be the last -- to attempt to make art and/or entertainment about Marilyn M…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:55PMTony winner Laura Benanti is capping off Lincoln Center’s annual American Songbook series with an evening of concerts on February 11, and she recently gave Broadway.com some insider in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PMRoyal and Derngate, NorthamptonThere is a brilliant moment at the end of Spymonkey's spoof, an evening which proves that in every tragedy there is a comedy trying to get out. Jocasta is dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMFEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its WinterSpring 2012 season with the debut of three time Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Judy Kuhn from March 6 to March 10. Her new show,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMTony Award nominee Judy Kuhn will play Feinstein's at Loews Regency, March 6-10.
Her new show will explore themes of love and happiness, using an eclectic mix of theater and pop music …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMAge & Hometown: “The same age as John Osborne when he wrote Look Back in Anger”; Vancouver, Canada
Current Role: An off-Broadway debut as downtrodden housewife Alison Port…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMName: Philip Olson Where are you from originally? I was born in Pasadena California, just down the street from the famous Hollywood Graveyard (where Michael Jackson lives). I spent much of m…
SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:46PMThe Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre is set to present Teatro SEA's DC-7, The Roberto Clemente Story, February 14-April 8. The play is written and directed by Luis Caballero.
DC-7 is a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Unnecessary Farce" at First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Unnecessary Farce" at First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook ★★★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMAnthony Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding will tour the U.K. in the spring of 2012.
The show focuses on two gay men as they plan their wedding and the people around them, includin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:44PMNotes/Twisted Every Way
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Thirtieth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera.With Gerard Butler as The Phantom, Emmy Ro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMCelebrate Valentines Day with Broadways most romantic musical Ghost The Musical announced today a special opportunity to listen to the London original cast album on Facebook for 48 hours onl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMIn honor of Black History Month, MTI Marquee is featuring shows from out catalog that deal with the national celebration’s themes and those African American artists whose work has help…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:42PMThe Print Room, LondonMost literary adaptations set choreographers the tough challenge of reducing a complex story to a danceable structure, but with Jealousy there's no such problem. Alain …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMWandering Child
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Twenty-ninth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera.With Gerard Butler as The Phantom, Emmy Rossum …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:38PMZarkana, the acrobatic spectacle from Cirque du Soleil that debuted at Radio City Music Hall in the summer of 2011, will return to the storied venue on June 6. The show was originally writte…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMFor a quarter of a century, the music, mayhem and mystery of The Phantom of the Opera has delighted Broadway audiences night after night. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, featuri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMWishing You Were Somehow Here Again
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Twenty-eighth in a series of clips from the 2004 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Performed by Emmy Rossum …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:34PMTony Award winner Bill Irwin and Tony nominee Alfred Molina will star in David E. Kelley's TNT medical drama pilot "Chelsea General," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMTony Award winner Hugh Jackman has posted a photograph of himself with Les Miserables composer Claude Michel Schoenberg to his Twitter account. In addition, Jackman has announced he will si…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMThe dancing and other theatrical movement are the highlights of a show that is still a work in progress.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:29PMLast fall, I spent a week in residence at a university in Iowa (I’ll spare the name, no use in pointing fingers) seeing a play of mine produced, seeing another play read by a student organ…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:29PMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, who was most recently on Broadway as Fantine in the revival of Les Misérables, will offer a brand-new concert act at Feinstein's at Loews Regenc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PMNew production images have been released of Ghost the Musical cast members Siobhan Dillon and Mark Evans who took over as Molly and Sam from Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman on 13 January …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:26PMThe Phantom of the Opera has been sharing “The Music of the Night” with Broadway audiences for more than 24 years, and on February 11, Broadway's longest running show will ce…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMYale Repertory Theatre will open the world premiere of GOOD GOODS by Christina Anderson, directed by Tina Landau tonight, February 9. The production began performances on February 3 and runs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMTony Award winner Chita Rivera attended the Feb. 2 evening performance of Silence! The Musical
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMThe national tour of The Addams Family, which currently plays the Shubert Theatre in Boston, MA, will present a benefit cabaret for ASTEP Feb. 16 at Oberon in Cambridge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMBlackburn-based rental company HSL supplied Electric Fly Productions with lighting equipment for The Darkness' UK tour, working with lighting designer Nick Jevons.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMThe world premiere of Christina Anderson's Good Goods, featuring Tony Award nominee de’Adre Aziza, officially opens at the Yale Repertory Theatre Feb. 9 after previews that began F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMCherry Lane Theatre's award-winning Mentor Project will begin its 13th season with Elizabeth Rose's one-woman musical, Relative Pitch, beginning Feb. 21 at Manhattan's Cherry Lan…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06PMThe actor Morgan Spector is in another high-profile immigrant role, in Erika Sheffer’s “Russian Transport.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM"The Sty of the Blind Pig" is a well crafted and sometimes moving play enacted beautifully - despite its title.
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Joshua Henry is one of Broadway’s brightest up-and-coming stars. The 27-year-old actor already has four Broadway credits, including In the Heights, American Idiot and a Best Actor Tony…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMTony nominee Tom Wopat and Will Chase have joined the Encores! cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream alongside previously announced star Laura Osnes. Directed by Marc Bruni, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMAdam Cooper may have been a principal dancer at one of the world's most famous ballet companies, but when he first started working with the Royal Ballet in the 1990s, Tabard hears he went ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMTuesday, February 28, 2012, 5:30-8:00 pmChicago Artists Coalition Gallery, 217 N Carpenter St. Chicago, ILTickets: $10Are you a member of a Junior or Auxiliary Board? Would you like to impro…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:52AMHow Soho Rep and The Play Company joined forces When they decided to partner on a production of The Ugly One, Soho Rep and The Play Company didn’t realize they were dealing with such a…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:51AMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Sunil Vishnu K shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the arts mat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMTom Wopat and Will Chase have joined the previously announced Laura Osnes in the New York City Center Encores production of Rodgers and Hammersteins Pipe Dream, running March 28 - April 1. P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMGather up idiots for the Tony Award winning and groundbreaking musical ‘American Idiot’ heads to San Diego in summer 2013 for a week-long run at the Civic Theatre from May 28 to June 2. …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:44AMTony Award nominee Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Catered Affair) and Will Chase are among actors who will join the previously announced Laura Osnes in the New York City Center Encores! pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:41AMThe thrilling Broadway phenomenon ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ comes at a no better in San Diego this year. This contemporary Frank Wildhorn masterpiece will bring the chilling and mind-twisting su…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:40AMAurora Theatre Company has announced that its critically acclaimed production of Annie Baker's Body Awareness will extend through March 11. The run was originally scheduled to end on M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMSue Fabisch's Motherhood the Musical will play the Royal George Theatre, beginning performances March 30, in anticipation of an official opening on April 12. Lisa Shriver will direct an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMFlying high to San Diego this fall is ‘Peter Pan’, the beloved young boy who can soar through the skies without growing a year older and without leaving his own shadow. Tony Award nomine…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:36AMAccording to Deadline, Broadway veterans Alfred Molina and Bill Irwin, will star on TNT's 'Chelsea General,' based on Sanjay Guptas 'Monday Mornings.' Molina will play 'Dr. Harding Hooten, t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMIt is shaping to be a glorious summer in San Diego as the Broadway smash hit ‘Sister Act’, the musical adaptation of the ‘90s comedy film starring Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg,…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:33AMCirque du Soleil's Zarkana, the acrobatic spectacle that premiered last summer at Radio City Music Hall, will return to New York beginning June 6 for a limited engagement through Sept. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMWill Chase and Tom Wopat will join the previously reported Laura Osnes in the New York City Center Encores! production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1955 musical Pipe Dream, to run March…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMWhat’s more romantic than a genetically altered spider that bites a teenage boy, turning him into a crime-fighting super hero? Nothing, according to Spider-man Turn Off the Dark. The recor…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:31AMBefore Michael Urie was taking coffee breaks as Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he played the scheming assistant to Wilhelmina Slater, the fashion magazine edi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMProfiles Theatre has extended Deirdre O'Connor's Assisted Living, playing at The Second Stage, through March 18. Joe Jahraus has directed the production.
The play focuses on a wo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMFor a whole month in summer 2013, the Tony Award winning and breakthrough musical ‘Wicked’ flies down to Houston’s Hobby Center, running at the Sarofim Hall from July 10 to August 11, …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:29AMPreliminary casting has been announced for the Film Independent Live Reading of Quentin Tarantino's crime drama Reservoir Dogs, to be held at 7:30pm on Thursday, February 16 at the Los …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMBook by 17 March and get top price tickets for THE DUCHESS OF MALFI at the Old Vic for only £35. Valid for all performances from 17 - 30 March.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:28AMSummer will not only be the cause for celebration as Broadway hit ‘Sister Act’ will give fans more reasons to rejoice as it stages a week-long run at the Sarofim Hall housed at the Hobby…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:26AMThe boys from the Garden State are returning to where it all started. After a blockbuster world debut in Houston in 2008, ‘Jersey Boys’, the hard-hitting and highly acclaimed musical abo…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:23AMFirst produced on Broadway in 1964, winning ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Hello, Dolly will open at the Alhambra on February 29. Hello, Dolly has become one of the most enduring m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMRaven Theatre has West Stage (55 seat) rental openings. Available 4/15/12 through 7/22/12, 7/30/12 through 9/9/12 and after 10/21/12. Rent includes Box Office & Front of House Services, …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:22AMThe hit Broadway adaptation of the 2002 blockbuster Steven Spielberg film of the same title comes to Houston in February 2013 for a week-long run. This is ‘Catch Me if You Can’, slated t…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:20AMLET’S NOT NOT TALK ABOUT ITBY BRAD FRASER(Written for The Charlebois Post)I can’t claim to know Michael Healey particularly well. I know of his great success as a playwright, of cou…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 11:20AMCirque Du Soleil's acrobatic spectacle Zarkana will begin its previously reported return engagement at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, June 6, and play through Sunday, September 2.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMSimon Stephens claims people's theatre tastes have shifted over the past three years 'towards the commercial and the accessible'British theatre audiences have become more conservative since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMA new production of ‘Les Miserables’ in celebration of its 25th year anniversary is coming to Houston this fall for a week-long run at the Hobby Center’s Sarofim Hall from November 6 t…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:16AMPulitzer Prize nominee Kenneth Lonergan will direct the world premiere of his new comedy Medieval Play at off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company. The production begins previews May 1…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:16AMITV is to expand on the storylines of characters in Emmerdale, by creating content that can only be accessed online.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMHugh Jackman has announced on Twitter this week that he is singing a new song written for the film version of the musical "Les Miserables." Jackman, who plays the lead role of Jean Valjean,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15AMComing to Houston this summer is the Disney and Broadway smash hit and one of the longest running musicals in the Great White Way, ‘The Lion King’. Simba, Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki and even …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:12AMZarkana, the surreal acrobatic spectacle by Cirque du Soleil, will return to New York this summer beginning performances Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at the legendary Radio City Music Hall for a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMA musical adaptation of Oscar-nominated writer/director Susan Seidelman’s film Boynton Beach Club will receive a developmental reading at the Park Vista Theatre in the show's names…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMMulticultural Social HourKonak, 5150 North Clark StreetMonday, February 20th, 6:30pm-8pmRSVP to [email protected] READY FOR THE NEXT SOCIAL HOUR? WE ARE!The Multicultural Social Hou…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:09AMThe Disney and Broadway romantic smash hit ‘Beauty and the Beast’ comes to Houston this fall for a week-long run at the Sarofim Hall of the Hobby Center from September 25 to 30, 2012. It…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:07AMChad Rabinovitz
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Q: Tell me about Bloomington Playwright's Project.
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SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:07AMThe London original cast recording for Ghost the Musical will be streamed for free on Facebook from Monday, February 13 at Noon ET through Wednesday, February 15 at Noon ET at www.Facebook.c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMDirectors Emma Rice, Josie Rourke and Bartlett Sher will reflect on their careers and discuss the way they work as part of BBC Radio 3's The Essay series next week.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMUnless your name is Rumpelstiltskin, then you know that Facebook is poised to be one of the biggest public online companies since Google. Think about it. If we all followed the Peter Lynch p…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Don't Dress for Dinner - About the Show
Don't Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing), is coming to Roundabout Theatre Company and it's going…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AMKenneth Lonergan's new work this spring for Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company is called Medieval Play, "set against the classic comic background of late 14th century eccl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMValentine’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 10:48AMTabard has often thought that one cannot get enough of a good thing. Supping on champers and chocs after a three-courser at the Ivy before the liqueurs come round, we have pondered whether '…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMI thought George Hall's obituary for David Blewitt was absolutely spot on (The Stage, February 2, page 45). I knew him from the early 1980's when I was beginning my career in the chorus of O…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMThe OBIE Award-winning Off-Off Broadway theater company New Georges will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a benefit Birthday Bash at 3LD Art & Technology Center, to be held on Friday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMForgive my tardiness in replying to Michael Walters' strange letter (Stage Talk, December 15, page 7) questioning my use of "fulsome" in relation to your obituary of Sir Jimmy Savile.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMBroadway alum Alfred Molina will star in the pilot of TNT medical drama Chelsea General along with Tony winner Bill Irwin, according to Deadline.com. The pilot, from producer David E. Kelley…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMIt is good to see Matthew Hemley highlight the general dissatisfaction there is regarding the showing of credits on TV programmes, especially dramatic ones (The Stage, February 2, page 4).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMI am delighted that Equity is finally biting the bullet and now seriously considering reducing the number of council members (The Stage, February 2, page 5). Having previously been on counci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMDoremy Vernon (Stage Talk, February 2, page 8) points out that there are some 35,000 actors and actresses advertising in the Spotlight casting directories.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMSignature Theatre will present the world premiere of Medieval Play, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, to be performed in the End Stage Theatre of the company's new Signature Cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AMI AM THEATRE: Sunil Vishnu K
Sunil Vishnu K is a founder of India's award winning theatre entrepreneurship, EVAM. Sunil is a graduate of the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:26AMSigns of renewal include a premiere by Donald Byrd, and a ballerina's memorable debut.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:26AMRegional house managers are part of the Theatrical Management Association. But when house managers in the West End approached TMA they were told that they could not join. So West End house m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMStrong stuff at the Theatre by the Lake, whose annual audience has risen from 20,000 to 130,000 over the last decadeKnives in Hens was the Scottish playwright David Harrower's first play, wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMAdditional presenters have been announced for the 84th Academy Awards, which will be hosted by Billy Crystal.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMFaction of Fools Theatre Company is set to present Quattro Scenari: Four Scenes of Foolery in celebration of Commedia dell'Arte Day, February 25th at 3pm and 8pm at The Corner Store.
C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMWith Glee paying so much attention to the staff of McKinley High (including guest star and Evita leading man Ricky Martin) in “The Spanish Teacher,” Broadway.com asked…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:15AMJohn Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, has been staged in London on the West End and subsequently on Broadway - both to a rather cool, if not frigid reception. Movie versio…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:15AMTechnical Marketing has been appointed to plan and implement a marketing campaign to promote the ABTT 2012 Theatre Show, which takes place June 13-14 at The Old Truman Brewery in London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMThis week online, a row in Australia begs the question: when bloggers slag off theatre is it trolling or fair dinkum?Quite a brouhaha in Australia this week, where theatre bloggers have not …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMPlaywright and comedian Stefan Golaszewski presented his new play, Sex with a Stranger, at Trafalgar Studios 2 earlier this week (6 February, previews from 1 February 2012).
The play is abo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:04AMFormer Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel has signed on to appear in the premiere of Matt Charman’s “Regrets” when it opens at New York City Center Stage on March 27. Previews will begin March…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 10:00AMIn London the stages are filled with rulers who are mad, bad and dangerous to know, from Richard II to King Ubu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMNanette GonzalesCannibal! The Musical performed by students at Cortines High School's Theatre Arts AcademyThe first two rows of the black-box theater at Ramón C. Cortines High School…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:00AMMany of our most enduring love songs and lyrics came from
musical theater.
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Stefan Golaszewski's new play Sex with a Stranger opened this week (6 February, previews from 1 February 2012) at Trafalgar Studios 2 where it plays a limited West End season until 25 Februa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:57AMMaddie Corman, Maria Tucci and Jonathan Walker will star in the upcoming world premiere of Michel Wallerstein’s Flight, which begins performances at Off-Broadway’s DR 2 Theatre o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMSpecial program, on until Feb. 11 at Winchester Street Theatre, pairs choreographers with more experienced mentors.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:55AMJessie Cave will play the title role in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose, to be presented by DogOrange Theatre at Studio 3, Riverside Studios, March 28-April 28. Matthew Parker will direct.
The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMTonya Pinkins is always on the lookout for big career challenges. “I have this incredible curiosity and I get bored easily, so I want to do something different,” says the Tony-wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMI labored long and hard* (and happily) on the liner notes for this new album, my second for Archeophone Records (the first was Nat M. Wills). Van and Schenck were BIG, man — they were …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AMEncores! kicks off its 19th season with Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, which examines the lives of three artists whose friendship is tested by time, events,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Ulysses S. “Slow Kid” Thompson (1888-1990) was the husband and manager of Florence Mills from 1921 until her death in 1…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:46AMStage and screen star Peter Gallagher will share his life through songs and stories in a one-night-only performance at the Geffen Playhouse March 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMStage directors Mark Brokaw and Michael Grandage will participate in a special program and reception co-hosted by The BritArts Committee of The St. George's Society of New York and the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:42AMHollywood and Broadway award-winners Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, and Lee Roy Reams are to star in DOIN' IT FOR LOVE a Broadway-style tribute to the standards and the stories behind th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMMaddie Corman, Maria Tucci, and Jonathan Walker will star in the world premiere of Michel Wallerstein's Flight, to be presented Off-Broadway by Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan in a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMAC Entertainment Technologies' video and lighting divisions are to hold exclusive UK open days later this month and early March in conjunction with Green Hippo and PixelRange.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMAfter 26 years with stage set fabricators Brilliant Stages, John Gittins has branched out as a consultant, offering his design and project management skills on a freelance basis.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMBradford-based audio and lighting rental specialists Stage Management Company will again join up this summer with theatre company Punchdrunk, Manchester International Festival and the BBC to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMIn the 1990s and 2000s, a hustler in the northeastern United States exploited his own ethnic roots and his own winning style to bilk hundreds of people from his own ethnic community out of m…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:25AMAlchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan in association with Playwrights’ Playground NYC will present the world premiere of Michel Wallerstein's Flight at the DR2 Theatre Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMAlan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, a 1974 play by the famed playwright, officially opens Feb. 9 at the Harold Pinter Theatre following previews that began Jan. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:12AMToday is the birthday of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, star of the legitimate stage, who would occasionally condescend to perform in vaudeville in exchange for very large checks. For my previous ar…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:09AMThere is some fantastic acting to be seen on British stages, but why is it the barnstorming performances that are most admired?It's been an excellent few weeks for acting: David Haig triumph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05AMWilliam Congrave’s Restoration comedy The Way of the World is vibrantly brought to life in a fun and frolicsome production by Lyndsey Turner for the Sheffield Crucible. Everything about th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AMKurt Peterson amp Victoria Mallory, of the original casts of Follies and the Lincoln Center Revival of West Side Story, will sing songs from shows they were very much a part of, including We…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMAfter just last week announcing that Sierra Boggess and Quincy Tyler Bernstine would be among the new cast members of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” over the next two months, producers ha…
SOURCE: broadway.me at 09:00AMMy nostrils received a vigorous work-out during my recent theater-going binge in London, especially in more intimate theaters.
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Siobhan Dillon and Mark Evans have joined the West End cast of Ghost The Musical to play Molly and Sam in Matthew Warchus stage musical version of the Academy Award winning film and we've go…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMWe’ve got a special ticket offer for AYT readers to see Missing at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Written by Barney Norris who regularly contributes to AYT, Missing is the perfect play to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:50AMCity Center Encores! offers an extremely satisfying version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's problematic musical that charts the course of three friends backwards in time.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50AMLegit News:
Meeting is second of four for season
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47AMTim Vine won joke of the year at the Lafta awards yesterday for his gag "Conjunctivitis.com – that's a site for sore eyes" (Daily Telegraph). No point attempting a pay-off line after that,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMFilm star Robert Redford will star in J.C. Chandor's new film All Is Lost, according to published reports.
The work, to be written and directed by J.C. Chandor, follows one man's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:36AMI have found that surviving as an artist in our free market world is a life-long challenge. To make sense of it I have to resolve two questions for myself: What is an artist’s responsibil…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 08:35AMJessie Cave, best known for her role as Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts 1 an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AMLove comes naturally to the actors in Love Letters For the busy theatrical couple Nigel Reed and Valerie Leonard, Valentine’s Day is more than a once a year affair. It’s nearly the defin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMEight years ago, in their excellent Spanish Golden Age season, the RSC presented the English premiere of House of Desires, a surprising event on several levels.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:30AMTBG Theatre, Marvell Rep, Off Broadway
By Alan J. Miller
BOTTOM LINE: A highly theatrical and thought-provoking production of an early (and long neglected) play dealing with anti-Semi…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:15AMThe first in a series of videos showing comedian Simon Amstell's progress in the world of social media, helped by his friend, actor Jessie Cave
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMWhen I first met comedian Simon Amstell, I found it ridiculous and upsetting that he was not on Twitter. Or YouTube. And so began my project to get him connectedI met Simon Amstell in 2011 w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMIn the Heights won the 2008 Tony for best Broadway musical and, unlike some other recipients, it deserved to. It also introduced a newish musical sound to Broadway and, again unlike some oth…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMThe popular star discusses her work in the Geffen Playhouse's world premiere of Beth Henley's new play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
44th Street, Feb. 8, 7 p.m. In case the photo doesn't speak for itself.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:43AMThe terrific film make Heather Quinlan is having a screening/ fund-raiser tonight for her work-in-progress If These Knishes Could Talk: A Film About the New York Accent. I’ve seen clip…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:40AMLegit News:
Broadway play will shutter later this month
SOURCE: Variety at 07:36AMPunctuated by generic pop songs by Tony Biancosino, Lia Romeo's evening of short plays feels like a romantic fling. It's fun for a while, but when it's over you're left feeling empty.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMWhat if Shakespeare’s contemporary and occasional collaborator Christopher Marlowe was a bitter rival, whose bitterness has only increased over the centuries as Shakespeare’s sta…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:28AM"The George Furth–Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along is known today for many things"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26AMDennis Hall, chief executive of the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, is to retire after 26 years in the post.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMGatz – an eight-hour, full-length version of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – is coming to the West End. Performed by 13 actors, the play delivers each and every word of Fitzgeral…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMAmid the flood of current anniversaries, Improbable are throwing one more into the mix - the 350th birthday of Punch, the club-wielding puppet synonymous with pier ends and gratuitous violen…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 9 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AM
Dancers working for English National Opera are calling for an overhaul of pay conditions, claiming their rate of less than £10 an hour is "disrespectful and absurd".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMEquity vice president Jean Rogers has called on the theatre sector to follow the example set by broadcasters and take steps to address the lack of opportunities for older female performers.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTraverse @ Barony Bar, Edinburgh: Sharply visceral, Grid Iron's revival of its tainted interpretation of Charles Bukowski's short stories sways and saunters back and forth along th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMChannel 4 commissioning editor David Williams is to join the BBC as the creative director of its entertainment department in the north.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMTara, London: Sean Burn's latest play takes the audience into the ward of a psychiatric hospital where we are introduced to three young women. Under the care and friendship of Zee, a st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMCourtyard, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Waiting for Godot may still famously be "a play in which nothing happens, twice" (in the words of literary critic Vivian Mercer), but th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMSwan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Helen Edmundson's new play for the RSC is based on the life of Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun who was also a poet and playwright. Si…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMLenny Henry makes his National Theatre debut in a new production of Shakespeare's comedy. Extra members can get top price tickets for £35Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse in The Come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AMThe first of these talkbacks will be tonight Thursday, February 9th and the topic will be dance. MEMPHIS welcomes The Ailey School to the show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AM
New beginnings often contain built-in excitement, but there was an extra note of promise in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s program Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54AMAn offhand reference to wild ducks is the closest you get to Chekhov’s brilliance in “Chekhovek,” an ill-advised adaptation of the Russian master’s short stories. Like “The Sneeze,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:51AMTry as you might, you won’t find a directing credit in the program for “Psycho Therapy.” Watching it, you won’t find any evidence of a director, either. Frank Strausser’s alleged c…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:48AMPoor Meena. The harried heroine of Kate Fodor’s new play, “Rx,” is in a funk, and no wonder: A published poet, she works in a soulless gray office as the managing editor for piggeries …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMMadonna Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance 2012 - Set List and Choreography
Madonna's 2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance featured LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A. and Cee Lo Green. S…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:44AMMadonna - Give Me All Your Luvin Choreography - Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.
Madonna's official music video for "Give Me All Your Luvin'" features Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. and i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:42AMLast month, MarketingProfs presented the results of some research that showed Gen Y consumers won’t make purchasing decisions without consulting user generated content (UGC). Interesti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:14AMThe house for Pieter Wispelwey was only about two-thirds full last Friday night at Celebrity Series - I suppose because Yo-Yo Ma is the only cellist people have heard of in these parts.Ah, b…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:12AMPerformer / Writer / Director New York, New York USA I am inspired by everything that happens around me. I love storytelling and I see stories in everything that touches my life. The plays…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMKrisztina Szabó as the Pilgrim (centre) and Russell Braun as Jaufré (above) in the Canadian Opera Company production of Love from Afar. (Photo: Michael Cooper)
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMHelena Bonham Carter, the actress who created a frisky Mrs. Lovett in the film musical "Sweeney Todd," will play craven Madame Thénardier in the movie version of the interna…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMApropos of absolutely nothing, here's a list of the ten American novels I most wish I'd written. Note that I...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AM"The music started off at Bach's typical quick trot, a pace which, being uniform and neither fast nor slow, the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMOn the unnamed college campus that forms the setting for Maya Macdonald's Leave the Balcony Open, they've stopped counting the deaths. Over the course of a year, the student body has faced u…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWhen it comes to love, I'm still a romantic and an optimist, even though--like my friend Bob says--lately I can't seem to give it away. Nevertheless, that's me. So, I went to see Lia Romeo's…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM"Elder Hostages," a trilogy of one-acts tells the stories of people coping with the indignities of aging, takes the stage for its first full production after an acclaimed reading in 2010.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMAlec Mapa, the comic actor seen on Broadway in M. Butterfly, returns to New York with his new solo show, Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy, which plays the Laurie Beechman Theater beginning Feb. 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Christina Anderson's Good Goods, featuring Tony Award nominee de’Adre Aziza, officially opens at the Yale Repertory Theatre Feb. 9 after previews that began F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West Coast premiere of Evan Brenner's one-man play Buddha – A Fantastic Journey, directed by Tony and Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly, begins its West Coast engagement Feb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMusical Mondays Theater Lab's February Festival of New Musical series continues Feb. 9 at 5:30 PM with The Suicide, A Musical Comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMALL WEEKEND 'Hattie' on the Horizon New Horizon Theater's "Hi Hat Hattie" stars Shaunyce Omar in a musical biography of Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award. T…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
