Meet the Cast of A Room with a View
Meet the cast and creative team for the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical based on the novel by E.M. Forster with book by Marc Acito, m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:48PMThe entire entertainment world is reeling. We have lost one of our most iconic pop, RampB and soundtrack performers this evening Whitney Houston was just reported dead at the age of 48. Havi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44PMBroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 2112012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30PMThe beauty of *Barnum* is that, despite the magnitude of its subject matter, it’s a relatively small-scale show, and is an ideal fit for small but mighty Quest Theatre Ensemble. Despite so…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:28PM
Six-time GRAMMY winner Whitney Houston was one of the world's greatest pop singers of all time who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack spanning the past three decades. Her powerful voi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52PMHouston just recenty filmed the remake of the 1976 film 'Sparkle' playing the role of Jordin Sparks's mother in the film, which will feature the original score from composer Curtis Mayfield.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45PMGrammy Award-winning singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at age 48, according to reports. No cause of death has been announced.
Houston appeared in such films as The Bodyguard, Wait…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34PMGrammy Award-winning singer and actress Whitney Houston has died on Saturday, February 11 at age 48, according to reports.
She was found in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. No cause o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34PMWe reached out to producer Craig Zadan and he tells BroadwayWorld.com that Neil Meron and I worked closely with Whitney on the TV production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and the m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24PMMultiple Grammy winner Whitney Houston, who was arguably the voice of her generation, died Feb. 11, according to CNN. The singer was 48.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: WALNUT CREEK
Arms and the Man, Center REPertory Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
It’s clear as soon as you enter the theater at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts that Cent…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 09:18PMWe reached out to Frank Wildhorn upon the news of the singer's death today at age 48, and he tells BroadwayWorld.com that it's So sad and tragic...she was such a big part of my life in the l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17PMEddie Antar's smart and enjoyable comedy focuses on a man whose GPS gives him more than driving directions.
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Stage veteran and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch will co-star in the new film A.C.O.D., according to Deadline.com.
The actress will play a down-on-her-luck therapist in the comedy, which will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:59PMStage veterans Allison Janney, Tony Shalhoub and Aya Cash will co-star in the NBC pilot Friday Night Dinner, according to Deadline.com.
The series, based on a British television show of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:57PMActor Philp Bruns has died at 80, according to reports.
He performed on Broadway in The Deputy, King Henry V, Blood Red Roses, and Lysistrata, and appeared on numerous television series an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:50PMA CRIMINAL SCRIPT OF AN EVIL STORY Lucy Prebble’s play Enron tries to dramatize the Enron financial scandal, one which serves as a poster child for everything greedy and immoral and corrup…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:37PMWhitney Houston's first television performance was on the Merv Griffen show April 29, 1985 singing 'Home' from THE WIZ.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:34PMA rep for singer Whitney Houston has announced tonight to the Associated Press that Houston died this afternoon at age 48. No location or cause of death has yet been revealed.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19PMBryn Terfel will play the role Leporello in the Tony Award winner Michael Grandage's production of Verdi's Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera on March 7, 10, 14 and 17.
He wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:16PMTony Award winner Glenn Clse was named Best International Actress for her work in Albert Nobbs during the ninth annual Irish Film and Television Awards to be held in Dublin on February 11.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Phantom of the Opera" is making musical history on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:50PMNo tenors, no arias, no orchestra pit, no plot. Can “You, My Mother” really be called an opera?
Yes, it can! Despite the lack of traditional trappings, this new work by downtown troupe T…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 07:45PMA TEPID DISCOURSE ON SEX AND RELIGION IN THE HEARTLAND Hesperia is the name of a small Midwestern town, home to a number of devout Christians. Young Claudia fled here from Los Angeles in spi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:32PMThe richly entertaining and engrossing "Veronica's Room" is a tricky and complexly plotted play that is very difficult to fully realize.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMIt is a wonder to behold the plethora of ideas and the depth and complexity of characterization that playwright John Logan has managed to encompass in "Red," a ninety minute, one act, two ch…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMFame and loneliness led the Gavin & Stacey star to go out drinking every nightJames Corden was "so lost" at one point in his late 20s that his Gavin & Stacey co-stars, Ruth Jones and Rob Bry…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMBritish acting family will appear together at a restored venue built by their talented forebearMembers of the Fox family, one of Britain's most glamorous theatrical dynasties, are to appear …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMRoyal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonFollowing Sergei Polunin's abrupt departure from the Royal Ballet, last Monday's opening night of The Dream saw Steven McRae assume the lead role of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMDavid Cronenberg analyses the pioneering work of Jung and Freud in this engrossing and thought-provoking dramaDavid Cronenberg has long been recognised as a prime exponent of the psychologic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTrafalgar Studios 2, LondonA Saturday-night pull is the starting point for Stefan Golaszewski's new play, bleakly funny business when presented as forensically as this: a Lynx Africa-scented…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMA Jacobean tragedy can be difficult to relate to, because it was written so long ago and the language can be so florid but this production was realised in such a modern and emotional way tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMBarbican, LondonOne murder, according to the puppet-master Mr Harvey in this gleefully nasty piece of work from Improbable, is committed every 1.56 seconds. To help us understand this ghastl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMNuffield, Southampton; Young Vic; Vaudeville, LondonI watched Romeo and Juliet in the company of several Southampton school parties – bracing myself for a noisy night ahead. But Headlong, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMWhat are we talking about?A festival of work by playwright Michael Frayn, across Sheffield's three theatres (the Crucible, Lyceum and Studio). The programme includes major revivals of Copenh…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMA large clock projects on to the front curtain at the start of Absent Friends, its second hand spinning.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMEvery February for the past nine years, the Sadler's Wells Flamenco Festival has endeavoured to beam some Spanish sun into chilled, grey souls. In the early days the components were predicta…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Broadway producer Jordan Roth was sitting in a downtown Los Angeles hotel lobby late Friday afternoon, laughing and giving a broad wave of his hand at the suggestion that he’d stumbled upo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:47PMFIRST FOLIO MOVES THEIR BLOOMIN’ FARCE INTO HIGH GEAR Unnecessary Farce is that rarest of theatrical birds: a farce that is actually funny. Sure, it’s silly to the max, but it makes the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:20PMJason Grote: How I got a job on ‘Smash’ My twitter pal and fellow Friend of Tom has an article in the LA Times: “Playwrights have years of experience developing characters …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:14PMLiterary Heirs The NYTimes highlights some cool literary magazines: What distinguishes these 10 is that they’re not only intello-chic statements for your side table. They’re also really …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:07PMFor playwright Tracey Scott Wilson, whose "Buzzer" premieres this week at Pillsbury House Theatre, "postracial" is a new American dream.
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A blockbuster musical shows why it's been panned, and a star-filled dramedy proves entirely buzz-worthy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:57PMIn Glenn Close's latest film she stars as Albert Nobbs - a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some twenty years after donning men's clothing, she fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMThe producers of the show now known as The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess announced this week that their controversial remix of the classic musical about lovers in a poor black fishing co…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:25PMThough a disturbying story, Scenic Designer Scott Davis and Projections Designer Mike Stanfill create a fairytale-like feel. Branches hang from the ceiling. Kaleidoscope imagery on the bac…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:23PMThe Slave Theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, once a hub of civil rights activity, is mired in a bitter battle over ownership rights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PMThe Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the
Opera — already the longest-running show in Broadway history —
reached
another milestone at the 2 PM matinee on F…
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Philip Glass’s vision of hell has Orpheus and Eurydice being grilled about their love life by judges holding tea cups; it looks a lot like marriage counseling.
This probably wasn’t the p…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:43PMThe conflict in Galileo is iconic: freedom of ideas vs. censorship. Brecht peppers his play and his character of Galileo (1564-1642 ) with some Marxist views which are anachronistic but the …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:37PMMIST OPPORTUNITY I was troubled after the opening of the West Coast Premiere of Chicago playwright Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain at Marin Theatre Company. I couldn’t shake the feeling that …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:37PMAdam Szymkowicz: I Interview Playwrights Part 426: Josh Koenigsberg: If someone elected me “President Overlord of All Off-Broadway Theater” I would immediately double the amount …
SOURCE: direct address at 04:24PM"All drama is about lies," writer David Mamet has said. His play
"Race," which opened on Friday at the Repertory Theatre of St.
Louis, makes that point vividly as it takes on two topics Amer…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:20PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Jesus in India, Magic Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Playwright Lloyd Suh made a big impression in 2009 with American Hwangap, his hilarious world premiere comedy at M…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:18PMThe Romeros, known as the Royal Family of the Guitar, have been
performing as a quartet in one configuration or another since 1959,
touring the world and making well-received recordings sinc…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:15PMThe longest-running show in Broadway history, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, offered its 10,000th performance today at 2 PM as a special benefit for The Actors Fund. PHANTOM star Hugh Panaro, cur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PM"The Phantom of the Opera" will celebrate its 10,000th performance Saturday.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:08PMJosh Koenigsberg
Hometown: Greenwich Village, New York City
Current Town: Park Slope, New York City
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Well I recently got hired t…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:05PMNEW YORK • The morning after a recent rehearsal of "How I
Learned to Drive," Elizabeth Reaser looks over a sheet of paper
listing the things her director thinks she needs to work on next
t…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:00PM
Former "American Idol" contestant and Tony-nominated star of Rock of
Ages, Constantine Maroulis leaves his bad boy rocker image behind to
play science nerd Melvin Ferd who, when covered i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMThough you’d never know it from the weather, February is well under way. So this weekend, while mother nature tries valiantly to make some snow happen, we’ll be seeing some Encor…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:17PMToday in 1979, They're Plaing Our Song opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1082 performances. With a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMName: Jake BoydHometown: Tuscaloosa, AlabamaEducation: BA in musical theatre from the University of AlabamaSelect Credits: Xanadu (Sonny, Cape Rep Theatre); Oklahoma! (Will, National To…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:00PM
This production of Top Gun! The Musical at Empire Stage suffers from Shoulda Woulda Coulda Syndrome: It shoulda been cast with performers who could actually sing and act. It woulda had a sh…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 11:57AMDurang-Oby Jim MurchisonIt has been a while since I have been part of a college production so I was excited about seeing two clever one act plays at the Algonquin campus. The studio theatre …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 11:53AMBroadway stars Nick Jonas and Wesley Taylor will be featured on the February 27th episode of NBC's SMASH. The episode is entitled 'The Cost of the Art' and will air at 1000 pmET on the NBC n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMCheck out singer and songwriter Matt Von Roderick's music video for his new single Let the Trumpet Talk. The video is directed by the Tony nominated director of ROCK OF AGES, Kristin Hanggi.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMStage veterans Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Kyra Sedgiwck will co-star alongside Daniel Radcliffe Kill Your Darlings, according to Deadline.com The film will be directed by Au…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMStage and screen actor James Wolk will co-star in USA's upcoming drama series Political Animals, according to Deadline.com.
Wolk will play Doug Barrish, the son and chief of staff of E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMTony Award and Emmy Awad winner Blythe Danner has been cast in the ABC drama pilot Gilded Lillys, according to Deadline.com.
The series is set in 1895 New York City and focuses on the openi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMCollaborations among artistic disciplines can yield more than
the sum of their parts. Next weekend's collaboration between the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
p…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:15AMI saw the Lincoln Center reunion performance of Merrily We Roll Along in 2002. It was a joy to be in the room, to hear the score sung live. But the book and concept (going backward in time)…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:14AM
The longest-running show in Broadway history, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, will offer its 10,000th performance today at 2 PM as a special benefit for The Actors Fund.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMTime to order a double-double. The show called The Double is based on a Dostoevski novella of the same title, concerning one Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin. Or rather two Yakov Petrovich Golyadki…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:30AMThe announcement came in yesterday, but I didn't open it till this morning. Jim Petosa of BU, who helmed the New Rep's recent success Three Viewings, and also directed Opus there, has …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:22AMAccording to WENN, Broadway veteran Hugh Jackman is launching a chocolate line, expanding his and his wife's fair trade coffee company Laughing Man. The company will now offer organic and ko…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AM
59E59 Theatres, Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: The dark humor of this play’s jaded takes on romantic love makes it a perfect Valentine’s Day outing for the broken-…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:57AMHere, we bring you fabulous highlights from Paige's first show on February 10th which nearly 'blew the roof off' at the Allen Room, receiving well-deserved rapturous applause and multiple st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMDominique Eade’s two greatest gifts are her clarity of musical thought and her courage as an improviser. She does not try to be a cabaret-style interpreter or a ring-a-ding-ding swinger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:35AMThe legendary actor talks about his long-awaited return to Broadway in Shatner's World: We Just Live In It.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMA GPS device turns out not just to be aggressively helpful but also clairvoyant in Eddie Antar's clever, cautionary comedy about our tech-dependent era.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Sean Holmes tells Eleanor Turney about Filter Theatre's forthcoming production at the Lyric Hammersmith and unveils the planning, designing and complete chaos that goes on backstage.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMThis post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. The Four Step Brothers were a team of dancers, “brothers” in name only, with an ever shifting line-up. The original cor…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:53AMToday is the birthday of boxer Max Baer. Read about his vaudeville and show biz connection here. And here’s Baer and Joe Louis being interviewed by that famous sports journalist Lou Co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:46AMToday is the birthday of the Mills Brothers dad and manager John Mills (not to be confused with the English actor!) My full article on the family act is here. And now here they are singing…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:41AMBERLIN (Reuters) - Drug dealers, a Mafioso and a murderer are cast in the roles of Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and others in "Caesar Must Die," a docu-drama about inmates at a tough Italian pris…
SOURCE: Reuters at 07:31AMAs we look into the basic effectiveness of the immediate protest and reversal of the Komen/Planned Parenthood funding decision, it merits a bit more examination as to why it worked when so m…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on February 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Way back in 2008, we started hearing and then talking to Renée Fleming about the possibility that she would sing "Ariadne" in Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos.
Last year it was finally con…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 12:54AMSunday, January 15th, was one of the coldest days we've had in New York City in a long time (and subsequently hasn't been as cold since). I think the windchill was around 4 degrees far…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 12:17AMNew York City Ballet featured two big, glitzy spectacles at Wednesday night’s mixed bill, but only one pulled its weight. A return engagement of last spring’s “The Seven Deadly Sins”…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:13AMPlaywright, Translator, Songwriter, Editor South Gate, California USA Where do you look for inspiration? Politics, poetry, music, film, literature and human experience What’s your favorite…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AM“Jitney,” one of August Wilson’s 10 plays about the 20th-century African-American experience, is at the Two River Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AM“Sty of the Blind Pig” at Hartford Theaterworks is a solid, poignant production that feels like a tableau vivant of saddened people left behind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AM“The Sunshine Boys,” by Neil Simon, is onstage at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport through March 25.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AMAn Open Letter to the Board of Directors of Stratford Shakespeare Festivalfrom joel fishbaneDear Stratford Shakespeare Festival:I am writing with great concern over the way you have chosen t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAlumni of the 24-year Broadway run of The Phantom of the Opera are expected to be sprinkled among the audience of the history-making 10,000th Broadway performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Phantom celebrates a milestone… Elaine Paige closes out the American Songbook Series… and the Signature Theatre Company's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Jan. 29–Feb. 4, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSan Jose Repertory Theatre's artistic director Rick Lombardo has announced San Jose Rep's 2012-13 season, which begins Aug. 30 with the world premiere of Jonathan Marc Feldman's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson performs at the Family Equality Council's 2012 Los Angeles Awards Dinner Feb. 11 at Universal Studios' Globe Theatre in L.A.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSamantha Barks, the young lady who'll play unrequited lover Eponine in the film musical of Les Misérables, is not a household-name pop star, but an actress who earned her role the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStage and screen actors Michael E. Knight ("All My Children") and Robin Riker ("The Bold and the Beautiful") star in Blank Theatre's production of Jon Marans' The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Red Bull Theater's workshop of Olivier Kemeid's adaptation of The Aeneid, featuring music by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik, is presented Feb. 11-12 in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJames Houghton, founding artistic director of Signature Theatre Company, talks about the expanded mission of the Off-Broadway company now that it has a new three-venue complex on West 42nd S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLAST 2 DAYS TO ENTER THE CARRIE TICKET CONTEST! VOTE IN IN THIS MONTH'S POLL, TOO! (CLICK THE ICONS TO YOUR LEFT)For the first time in the HOT/HOTTER "tournament," the two guys g…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00AMNearly 1,000 students, grades 4-12, strutted their stuff at the Pittsburgh Public Theater's this week in the preliminaries of the 18th annual Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM 
