NEW YORK — Here are two things I learned from “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It”: William Shatner thinks George Takei can’t stand him. And Captain Kirk talks to his dog in the s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45PMIt’s a nasty drop from the warm and fuzzy Darling family of the popular Broadway musical version of “Peter Pan” to the suffering brood of dramatist Michael Lluberes’s new adaptation,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:45PMA DRESS THAT’S ALREADY OUT OF STYLE The two-character romantic play typically follows a set pattern. A man and a woman have just met. They are very different in lifestyles and initially th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:37PMThe Director's Company, 59E59 Theatres, Off Broadway
By Alan J. Miller
BOTTOM LINE: A terrific new play which explores the blurred line between plagiarism and mutual cooperation; the …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 11:24PM"Call Me Adam" chats with playwright and SNL Props Master Rob Ackerman about his latest play "Call Me Waldo" which plays through March 11 at the June Havoc Theatre in NYC, being the props ma…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 11:14PMBefore he choked to death on a bottle cap at the Hotel Elysée in 1983, Tennessee Williams hoped to stage a comeback with a new play called “Masks Outrageous and Austere.”
He’d written…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PMWilliam Shatner makes most screen actors look like puppets with too many media-training classes.
It’s not as if he’s a great thespian like, say, Christopher Plummer — for whom Shatner…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:08PMAthol Fugard’s 1961 drama “Blood Knot” does the exact opposite of what writing manuals advise.
Forget about setting the tone and the plot early on to capture the audience’s attention…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:04PMThere’s not much art but plenty of commerce in “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It,” which opened last night at the Music Box Theatre for a limited run.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIs apartheid thicker than family? That’s the terrible question throbbing at the heart of “Blood Knot,” a poky but ultimately persuasive 1961 drama by Athol Fugard, which premiered on T…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM
You have to hand it to William Shatner, by his own admission, there have been very few projects to which he has said no. His latest frontier is Broadway. With his new one-m…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 10:25PMNominations have been announced for the 25th annual Nickolodeon Kids Choice Awards, will air live from USC's Galen Center on Saturday, March 31 at 8pm. Will Smith will host the ceremony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25PMStockard Channing, Rachel Grifiths and Stacy Keach, co-stars of the Broadway play Other Desert Cities, had their caricatures unveiled at Sardi's today, February 16. Joining in the celebratio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17PMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company (Carl Forsman, Artistic Director/Damon Chua, Executive Director) presents John Cunningham, Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Turnbull in Tina Howe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14PM70 contestants still remain at the start of tonight's AMERICAN IDOL episode, and they'll be headed to Las Vegas to sing the music of the 1950s and 60s in groups for a chance to be one of the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09PM"... those taking in Shatner's World will undoubtedly have an excellent idea of what to expect upon entering the theater."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:05PMEven if it's frequently obscured, history is always lurking around the Signature Theatre's production of Blood Knot.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PM“Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It...,” a one-man show at the Music Box Theater, includes William Shatner’s stories of his acting career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMWilliam Shatner displays a curious mix of self-deprecation and self-aggrandizement in his entertaining Broadway solo show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMPowerful performances from Colman Domingo and Scott Shepherd enliven Athol Fugard's searing Apartheid-era drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Signature Theater Company’s revival of Athol Fugard’s “Blood Knot” is more intellectually stimulating than emotionally engaging.
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Richard Maxwell, once an intern for the Wooster Group, is now directing the group’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Early Plays.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMThe director Richard Maxwell narrates a video about the new collaboration between the Wooster Group and New York City Players, two experimental theater companies. (Video: Zbigniew Bzymek)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:39PMGERAINT WYN DAVIES has played many leading roles on major stages across NorthAmerica and Europe including London and New York, has starred in numeroustelevision series and films, has directe…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:35PM In its West Coast Premiere at the Odyssey Theatre, Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s two-act drama mines the prickly and uncomfortable terrain of a mother and daughter relatio…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:15PMThough watered down for the non-equity national tour, Rodgers and Hammerstein's soaring *South Pacific* still has staying power.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:06PMA slavetrader is at the mercy of a recent sale in the Abingdon Theater Company’s production of “Lost on the Natchez Trace.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMWe took the last bus, the last bus of the evening, so no-one would see us." So begins Beside the Sea, an extraordinary, intense novella by the French playwright Véronique Olmi that the youn…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMTheatre: The last play I saw was Arnold Wesker's 'The Kitchen', at the National Theatre. Watching such a physical, and yet realistic, production, I couldn't help thinking about how far theat…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
As a former Austinite who now lives in the Bay Area, let me just say that this is so goddamn awesome. The greatest movie theater in the world, planning to open up at the New Mission. Yes! (v…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:58PMThe contest is open to high school students in grades 9-12 who want to express themselves on issues of bullying and teen violence. Students are invited to submit creative videos two to five …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:45PMJust when the winter doldrums threaten to kick in, along comes FRIGID New York to bring a jolt of energy and excitement to the NYC theater landscape. A production of Horse Trade Theater Grou…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 06:44PMWith an African-American Jud Fry, and erotically charged choreography that has turned a few heads, the current production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Oklahoma!" has proven…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:37PMIt's no novelty for playwrights to toy with classical musical structures as the basis for drama. It's no novelty for playwrights to toy with classical musical structures as the basis for dr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMActors Emily Aston and Kelsey Brookfield introduce the company's 20th anniversary production of Love's Labour's Lost and how the company is keeping things northern.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:15PMMany of Wilson's plays are ensemble pieces, and this one is very much so. Each of the seven actors in the company seem to become part of a small community of friends and associates with a sh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11PMRichard Chamberlain will play Dr. Sloper in Pasadena Playhouse's new production of The Heiress, also featuring Heather Tom as spinster daughter Catherine and Julia Duffy as Aunt Lavinia.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMTwo cancer survivors, Ruth Pennebaker and Jen Singer, see the play “Wit” and share their experiences of their illnesses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMZina Bethune killed by hit-run driver...A season of premieres at the Colony, plus details on seasons at LA Opera and Musical Theatre West...KPFK to air LATW radio plays...Richard Chamberlain…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:09PMA new stage adaptation of the popular Disney musical Newsies will arrive on Broadway on March 15. The show features a cast of energetic up-and-coming Broadway actors including Jeremy Jordan,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:05PMREVIEW: The company's newest revue shows that it still has its satirical mojo.
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On Wednesday, February 15, the Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere production of Gabe McKinley's CQ/CX opened at Peter Norton Space.
Opening night guests included Jeffrey La…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:56PMThere can be no doubt but that Marsha Norman has written a play with a smooth, poetic flow of language.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:54PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, February 16, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:44PMJim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the reality television stars of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, took off from Mommy and Daddy duty (to Joshua, 23; twins Jana and John-David, 21; Jill, 20; Jessa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMMELISSA GAWLOWSKI hails from Hell, Michigan andcurrently resides in Brooklyn. Her New York credits include: TheFrankophile (City Attic Theatre), The Incredible Journ…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:28PMGeorge Dvorsky, Michele Ragusa, Glory Crampton and newcomer Sadie Sink will star in the Theatre Under The Stars production of Annie, which will begin performances March 20 in Houston, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:22PMDirector Gary Griffin paces *Midsummer Night's Dream* for non-stop laughs. The merrymaking ensemble swirls and twirls through the madcap romances. This show charms with frolicsome fun! Hig…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:20PMPhase-In Of the Elimination of Earmarks Now ProposedFile this under: "The Devil Is in the Deatils"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:19PMPlus Bill T. Jones and "Reeling Over Love."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:16PMJust Dance - SNL Zooey Deschanel, M.I.A. Bad Girls, In Living Color Fly Girls, Wendy Williams
Zooey Deschanel hosts SNL, and Oscar-nominated actor Jean Dujardin of The Artist stops by to st…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:08PMAdam Chanler-Berat, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Christian Borle and the original off-Broadway cast of Peter and the Starcatcher are set to return to the show for its upcoming Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMRicky Martin and Nicky Minaj appeared on the syndicated talk show Live! With Kelly on February 15 as the newest spokespeople For M·A·C Cosmetics' VIVA GLAM Campaig…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PMPasadena Playhouse has announced casting for The Heiress, to run April 24-May 20, with an opening on April 29. Dámaso Rodriguez will direct.
Adapted from the Henry James novel Wa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PMThe New York Theater Workshop hit Peter and the Starcatcher is getting some old faces back for its Broadway bow. Adam Chanler-Berat and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return in the roles of Boy an…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:04PM"Shatner's World: We Just Live in It" brings the "Star Trek" star to Broadway in an endearing one-man show.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:02PMNew Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, which last year brought us such productions as the Broadway-bound Newsies, Boeing-Boeing, Damn Yankees, and more has just realease a visual tease for their…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:01PMAn homage to Fritz Scholder.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:00PM
Christian Borle, Adam Chanler-Berat, and Celia Kennan-Bolger will all reprise their Off-Broadway roles in Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway.
As previously announced, the show, co-dire…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:59PMThe American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston have announced the programming planned for the third annual Emerging America Festival…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:58PMFull casting has been announced for Reginald Rose's
Twelve Angry Men, to run March 13 - April 8 at George Street Playhouse. David Saint will direct the production.
The play centers o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:58PMWe’ve teamed up with the Royal Court to offer one lucky A Younger Theatre reader a Festival Pass to see as much of the Young Writers Festival as they want (except workshops). The Royal…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:57PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'Dissonance' at the Falcon Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:57PMAthletics-themed photo show is a winner.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:55PMImagine trying to cram the 3,000 pages of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga into a 70-minute live performance. Seem impossible? Not only have Daniel Clarkson and Jeff Turner imagined it, they…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:53PMWhat’s the buzz? On Broadway, it's all about Jesus Christ Superstar, that’s what. Word of the forthcoming revival has been spreading for months, since show creators Andrew Ll…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMThe Hypocrites' production of "The Pirates of Penzance," as adapted and directed by Sean Graney, is headed to Boston.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:50PMThe Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, the new "Peter Pan"-inspired play by Rick Elice (Jersey Boys), will star its original Off-Broadway cast, including Lucille Lor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMLatest Video News: Jeff Goldblum in Seminar, The Book of Mormon wins Grammy and Tweeting at Godspell
This week, TheaterMania reports on Jeff Goldblum joining the cast of Broadway's Semi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:47PMAs I'm sure most of you have heard by now the City of Chicago is in the process of developing a new cultural plan and we'd like to encourage every one of you to attend at least one townhall …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 04:44PMThe producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, a new play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice Jersey Boys, just announced that the cast of the acclaimed Off-Broadway production will reunite for th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMPlaywright Paula Vogel, Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz, and Elizabeth Reaser talk about Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “How I Learned to Drive.” The play explores the complex…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:34PMBorn a boy, dancer and choreographer Jin Xing is now one of China's most prominent women in modern dance.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:32PMM.I.A. Bad Girls Offical Music Video Review - iBeShucks
M.I.A.'s new music video for "Bad Girls," with choreography by Catherine Ematchoua! Check out Ricky's review of th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:30PMAfter an acclaimed world premiere at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, the Disney musical Newsies arrives on Broadway on March 15. The new musical, based on the 1992 film chronicling …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:28PMView more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com. MAMMA MIA! Broadway Dancing Queen Catherine Ricafort, Los Angeles native and former contestant on the series “The Sing Off,” is featured wi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:18PMGinger Commodore's in command. Plus Bon Iver finds Grammy gear to suit him.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:17PM This year’s nominees for the L.A. Weekly’s annual theatre awards, as voted by yours truly as part of the L.A. Weekly theater critics team, have been announced. On April 2, the L.A…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:14PMLast month, ITV1 and Andrew Lloyd Webber announced 'Superstar,' described as a brand new show that will give the British public the chance to choose the countrys next major rock star. The sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10PMPhone Call #8: Philip Bither I have been trailing around after Philip Bither for a decade at this point—ever since I first heard him thinking out loud at the New Works New Ways gathering i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:10PMIn every play you need, or hope for, a protagonist and an antagonist to butt heads. The person who wants something vs. the person who is in the way.As far as I can tell, and I am not certai…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 04:08PMWorks by new or little-known playwrights are attracting most of the right attention in Off-Broadway theaters around town. Here are five I recently got to know.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 04:07PMOnce, in the lobby of the Public Theater, I was introduced to a New York playwright as being from Minneapolis. The fellow playwright’s response was, “Why?” with a tone I can only descr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:06PMThe world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), officially opened Feb. 15 following previews that began Feb. 7 in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," which airs weeknights at 12:35 AM ET on NBC, will once again feature a Broadway Week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Actors Dulé Hill and Mekhi Phifer -- currently starring on Broadway in Stick Fly -- attended the Wednesday, February 15 performance of August Wilson's Jitney, at Two River Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:56PMLes Miserables will hit the big screen later this year, featuring an all-star cast including Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe tasJavert, Sacha Baron Cohen as Thernardier, Eddie Re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMThree shadowy figures stand on a scaffold high above the stage, looking down on a tangle of eight foot strings and contorting themselves in and around each other to bring inanimate blocks of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:47PMTony Award winner Leslie Uggams has joined the Encores! cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream as Fauna, alongside previously announced stars Will Chase, Laura Osnes and Tom Wopat.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:47PMCasting is complete for the Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite. As pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMGeffen Playhouse celebrated the opening of its world premiere production of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian on February 15. Tony Award winner Robert Falls directs the production, which as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMIn flagrant disregard of its own name the L.A. contemporary dance company, is racing ahead, as though on a congestion-free commute across the Santa Monica Freeway. In flagrant disregard of i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:37PMWith only two episodes aired, it’s difficult to say where exactly Smash, the new NBC series about backstage Broadway lives, will take us. Executive produced and so far written by playwr…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:35PMMichael Arden, the singing actor who has played leading roles in Broadway's Big River and The Times They Are A-Changin', has been cast in the new Charlie Sheen series "Ange…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMAfter enduring its share of offstage drama, Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is headed to Broadway on March 26. This racially charged dark comedy charts the fat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PMNewsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Don Gregory, is thrilled to announce the full company for the new Broadway production of Mary Chase’s Harvey…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:23PMStage veterans Kevin Earley, Orlagh Cassidy, Sebastian LaCause, and Colleen Zenk will be among the presenters at We Love Soaps' 3rd Annual Indie Soap Awards, to be held at 8pm on Tuesda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMPlaywright-director Athol Fugard's staging of his Blood Knot kicks off the Signature Theatre Company's 2012 "Residency One" season devoted to the works of the South African dramatist. The pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:19PMTony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will play the role of Fauna in the New York City Encores! production of Pipe Dream, to run March 28-April 1.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1955 mu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMTony Award winner Leslie Uggams has joined the cast of the City Center Encores! production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream, which will be presented at the New York City venue M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMTony Awardwinner Leslie Uggams has joined the cast of Rodgers and Hammersteins Pipe Dream, to be presented by New York City Center Encores series, March 28 April 1. Ms. Uggams will play Fau…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMMabou Mines, The Living Theatre, PS 122, HERE Arts Center, the Amoralists and the Tectonic Theater Project are among nearly 50 Off Off-Broadway theatre companies that have aligned to help es…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:05PMOK., this and this is making me angry. Listen, I am glad that the President has requested more money for the NEA -- not enough, of course, because we are so far behind the eight ball as far …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 03:00PMComplete casting has been announced for the upcoming Broadway transfer of One Man, Two Guvnors. As previously announced, James Corden will reprise his starring role as Francis Henshall in th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PMFull casting has been announced for the Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors, at the Music Box Theatre. Nicholas Hytner will direct the production, which will begin previews on April …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Bob Boyett has announced the full Broadway cast for the National Theatre of Great Britains acclaimed production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS. Previews begin on April 6 and the official opening is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMStage and screen star Steven Pasquale will star in the NBC drama pilot Do No Harm, according to Deadline.com.
The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (Pasquale), a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMActor Anthony Zerbe is set to present his one-man show It's All Done With Mirrors, March 4 at 7pm at The Abingdon Theatre.
In It's All Done with Mirrors, Zerbe will perform the po…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMAge & Hometown: 22; New York City
Current Role: Getting even with classmates as the bullied girl with telekinetic powers in MCC Theater's off-Broadway revival of Carrie.
I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMLate Night With Jimmy Fallon will host its annual Broadway Week February 20 through 24, featuring a musical number from one Broadway show each night. The late night talk show airs weeknights…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMYou read reviews anyway, why not strengthen American Theatre while you’re at it? The New York Times Critic Watch survey at nytcriticwatch.com takes 5 minutes and adds your voice to th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:54PMThe sessions — Feb. 18, 19, 25 and 26 and March 5 — will give audiences and others a chance to talk more about racial conflict in 1907, when "Oklahoma!" is set, and in the arts today.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:52PMStage and television star Michael Urie has landed one of the leads in CBS' half-hour pilot Partners, according to Deadline.com.
The comedy centers on two lifelong friends and business …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:51PMAccording to Deadline.com, HOW TO SUCCEED star Michael Urie has signed on to star on CBS' 'Partners' pilot. Directed by James Burrows, the pilot is about 'two lifelong friends and business p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:44PMCalifornia's TheatreWorks 2012-2013 season will include a solo show by Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo; Being Earnest; the latest musical by Jane Eyre writer Paul Gordon; and the regio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMThe producers of “Spider Man: Turn off the Dark” have finally caved in. They’ve settled with director-creator Julie Taymor on basic financial issues. They’ve agreed t…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:41PMWhy Are So Many Literary Writers Technophobic? (by Nathan Bransford on his blog)
SOURCE: direct address at 02:40PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Michael Urie will star as a gay business partner in the new CBS half-hour pilot Partners, according to Deadline.com. The new multicamera…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMComing to Baltimore for a limited engagement this fall is the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival and Broadway’s most glamorous and most fabulous musical, ‘La Cage aux Folles…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:35PMIt’s a tribute unlike any other. ‘Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles’ takes you back to the Beatles’ famed Ed Sullivan Show appearances and Abbey Road recordings, the birthplace of ma…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:31PMRicky Martin, who will star as Che in the upcoming Broadway revival of Evita, recently visited "Live! With Kelly" to talk about rehearsing for his return to Broadway as well as his…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMDaniel C. Gerould, a professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at CUNY's graduate Center who held the Lucille Lortel Chair in Theatre, died in his sleep in the early hours of Feb. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe sticky legal battle between producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and director Julie Taymor has been settled — nearly a year after her firing from the hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:28PMThis week, TheaterMania reports on Jeff Goldblum joining the cast of Broadway's Seminar, a Grammy win for the original cast recording of The Book of Mormon, tweeting at Godspell, Newsie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMThe nominations for the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 2 at the Avalon in Hollywood.
Re-Animator…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMThe Tony Award winning musical ‘Memphis’ goes to Las Vegas this summer for a week-long run at the Reynolds Hall of the Smith Center from July 18 to 22, 2012 as part of its ongoing nation…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:15PMRiverside Studios, London"We want it swept clean. Totally sanitised," says an American diplomat, plotting the forced depopulation of the Chagos islands to allow the construction of a co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMSin City will be serenaded this summer as the four icons of rockabilly and rock n’ roll music come together for a night of great music, nostalgic and charming laughter, sweet memories, and…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:11PMMulti-time Tony Award nominated musical ‘The Color Purple’ comes to Sin City to spread the colorful and universal messages of hope, courage and love with a week-long run at the Reynolds …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:08PMJon Steinhagen's world premiere *Danting Walter Dante*, a take on the still-unsolved Drew Peterson case, isn’t scary, sexy or strange enough to carry off its mission. But then Rob Lowe cou…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:05PMDisney and acclaimed producer Cameron Mackintosh presents one of Broadway’s most fascinating musicals featuring the world’s most amazing nanny, ‘Mary Poppins’. Summer will be more co…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:04PM
Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have agreed to pay the hit Broadway musical’s former director Julie Taymor royalties as part of a settlement that ends one chapter in the t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:59PMThe winners of the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards - the only major UK theatre awards to be voted for entirely by the theatregoing public - will be announced on Sunday (19 February) during a st…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:58PMBraultThe Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) is hosting the annual meeting of The Association of Performing Arts Service Organizations (APASO), in April. The announced speakers …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:56PMStage and screen actor Steven Pasquale has been cast in the leading role in the upcoming NBC pilot "Do Not Harm," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMProducers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have agreed to pay the hit Broadway musical's former director Julie Taymor royalties as part of a settlement that ends one chapter in the two sid…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:54PMJustin Kirk, who currently stars in Broadway's Other Desert Cities, will be part of the upcoming eighth season of the Showtime comedy "Weeds," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMThe 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on January 27, 2013. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.
The ceremony wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMAthol Fugard's 'The Road to Mecca' is a play about an artist making her last stand for free expression in apartheid South Africa. The artists from this production tell us what artists inspir…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:46PMThe complex legal battle has taken a significant step toward resolution, but many legal issues remain unresolved.The complex legal battle has taken a significant step toward resolution, but …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:44PMDirector Sam Gold & Matthew Rhys of Look Back in Anger will be interviewed tomorrow from 12:00PM-12:20PM on “The Leonard Lopate Show”. The show airs on 93.9 FM and AM 820.
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:43PMKevin Spacey's audience-devouring turn as the title character in "Richard III" has leapt to the top of my list of shameless performances I have no shame in admitting I enjoyed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMFollowing its critically acclaimed, sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre, Jonathan Church's new production of Singin' in the Rain opened last night, Wednesday 15th February at the Pal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:43PMNickelodeon announced today the nominees for the milestone 25th ANNUAL KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS, helmed by international superstar Will Smith and airing live from USC's Galen Center in Los Angele…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMScreen stars and Broadway veterans Chris Rock and Ben Stiller have been added to the list of presenters for the 84th Annual Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 26 at the Kodak The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMNEW YORK - Producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have agreed to pay the hit Broadway musical's former director...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:38PM"Spider-Man" producers announced Thursday that they have reached a settlement in its arbitration with the union that represents Julie Taymor -- the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PMThe producers of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark have reached a settlement with the show's original director/choreographer Julie Taymor and the Stage Directors and Choreographers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PMThe settlement between the producers and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society union does not affect separate litigation in federal court where Ms. Taymor and the producers have sue…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:29PMTobacco Factory, BristolThere is a sentimental myth abroad that if we could only minimise the role of these pesky directors with their quirky concepts, we could see Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMStage and screen actor Benjamin Walker is in talks to join the cast of HBO's "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight," a film about the boxer's fight with the Supreme Court, acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMGate Theatre has announced the productions set for its upcoming season, the theater's first season with new artistic director Christopher Haydon, according to The Stage.
The first prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" and a trade association representing the show's former director, Julie Taymor, have settled their legal di…
SOURCE: Reuters at 01:25PMCAST CARE: Cast members from the national
touring company of "Bring It On: The Musical," will perform in a
one-night-only benefit for the St. Louis chapter of the Juvenile
Diabetes Research …
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:24PMThe Presto from Vivaldi's Summer concerto.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:24PMTheatreWorks has announced the productions set for its 2012-2013 season.
TheatreWorks will kick off their season with the world premiere of Laura Schellhardt's Upright Grand (June 5 - …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMNBC's Broadway series "Smash" is getting some company. HBO has picked up another Broadway-related property from "NewsRadio" creator Paul Simms, according to Deadline.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMIt's been a long and hard — not to mention spooky and ooky — road to get "The Addams Family"musical first to Broadway and then on tour. The national road company opens its one-we…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:13PMMalloy Plan Giveth Modestly And Taketh Big TimeI attended two events Wednesday in Hartford about arts funding in Connecticut and taken together they speak of new -- and troubling -- ways the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:12PMCasting has been announced for Kenyetta Lethridge's Innocent Flesh, which will begin performances on March 1 at the Actors Temple Theater, in anticipation of an official opening on Mar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMActress and comic Janeane Garofalo is making her legit stage debut — in Off-Broadway's Russian Transport — after 20 years of appearances in TV, radio, film and clubs. What to…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMWith her first and only play, “Wit,” in revival on Broadway, Margaret Edson makes it clear that she doesn’t feel any need to try playwriting again. She prefers the classroom stage.
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As the stern disciplinarian Inspector Monroe in ITV's long-running The Bill, Colin Tarrant was a familiar television face for more than a decade, appearing in nearly 600 episodes of the poli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMAll the excitement of the Broadway stage will be broadcast into viewers homes when Broadway Week returns to LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON 1235 a.m. ET on NBC February 20-24 featuring a new mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMCaldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, FL, is "reviewing various options of reorganization" in light of its mortgage lender's $6 million foreclosure lawsuit, artistic director…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMGabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, officially opened Off-Broadway Feb. 15 following previews that began Jan. 25 at the Peter Norton Space on West …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMA piano virtuoso, Robert Lockhart turned to writing music after finding the rigours of live performance to be overwhelming. His talent for arranging and conducting in the studio led to many …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMForget the bridezillas, ‘Mamma Mia!’ gives you the kind of pre-wedding jitters and drama with more than a dash of comedy plus ABBA’s unforgettable songs all wrapped in one feel-good mu…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:49PMProducers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have agreed to pay the hit Broadway musical's former director Julie Taymor royalties as part of a settlement that ends one chapter in the two sid…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:49PMIt’s a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious spring when the world’s most fascinating nanny, ‘Mary Poppins’, flies to Baltimore for a two-week run at the Hippodrome Theatre at the Franc…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:46PMThe world premiere of Mark Snyder's As Wide As I Can See, about an emotionally explosive backyard barbecue, will begin performances Feb. 23 at the HERE Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMBlast up that radio this spring for one of Broadway’s most energetic, most passionate and most entertaining musicals of 2010 heads up east to Baltimore for a week long run at the Hippodrom…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:43PMLegit Reviews:
Producers are wise to be wary of scribes who want to direct their own plays -- unless that scribe happens to be Athol Fugard.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:42PMThis week's Awesome person is the talented, funny, and social media savvy Mary Dimino. I had the pleasure of working with Mary on her one woman show Scared Skinny during FringeNYC and we hav…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:41PM‘The Addams Family’ is just as alive as they are dead when they hit Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center this spring. This all-new take on the cl…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:40PMHarrily We Roll Along.Against the paranoid style in criticism.So Godspell is doing Santorum jokes now?1-800-Flowers epic fail (I post because it happened to me, dear readers).Spacey: Ham wha…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:40PMIn “And God Created Great Whales,” Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on “Moby-Dick.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38PMFollowing the success of the autism-friendly performance of Broadway's "The Lion King" last October 2011, the Theatre Development Fund, a non-profit organization that focuses on creating acc…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 12:37PMYesterday morning on 'Live with Kelly' EVITA star Ricky Martin appeared alongside Nicki Minaj as the newest spokespeople For MAC Cosmetics' VIVA GLAM Campaign. While they were there, Martin …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMIf you think furs, Fabergé eggs, ballet when you think about 20th century Russia, Les Justes is here to remind you that for every lithographed Russian noblewoman traipsing around St. Peters…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PMA settlement has been reached between The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the producer of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, currently pl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMFirst Ricky Martin was living la vida loca, now he’s living la viva glam. Currently rehearsing for what he calls “the most beautiful show on Broadway,” the Evita …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMFirst Ricky Martin was living la vida loca, now he’s living la viva glam. Currently rehearsing for what he calls “the most beautiful show on Broadway,” the Evita …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMAs previously announced, Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMSadler's Wells: Companies formed and led by a single figure - such as those of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham - often loose their drive when the leading figure passes away. The material …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMThose who attend The State Theatre’s production of *Crowded House*, hoping for a somber evening filled with the Bard’s affecting prose, are in for a disappointment - it's not for everyon…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:23PMBroadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson took a trip South in the racially charged 1950s to groove to the bluesy sounds of Memphis, where love and music dare to cro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMSingin' in the Rain splashed down at the West End's Palace Theatre last night (15 February 2012, previews from 4 February).
The production, which premiered last year at the Chichester Festi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:20PMJames William Productions and Stephenie Skyllas will present Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory in When Everything Was Possible, A Concert with comments, for one night only, Sunday April 29t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMAbraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Official Trailer 2012 (HD)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter official trailer in HD! Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov reinvent the time-…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:18PMTheatre can turn around a piece on topical issues quicker than most art forms – but, asks the blogosphere, what's wrong with a bit of critical distance?The last shop window had barely been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThe Stage Directors and Choreographers Society SDC and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the Producer of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, have reached a settlement of all pending litigation between the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMThe real-life plagiarism drama that rocked The New York Times is coming to life on stage in Atlantic Theater Company’s off-Broadway premiere of CQ/CX, written by former Times staffer G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMNew Repertory Theatre has announced the line-up of plays set for its 2012-2013 season, which will begin in September.
The Kite Runner (September 9-30), an epic story of friendship, family, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMProducers of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark announced Feb. 16 that they have reached a settlement with The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (“SDC”).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMNew musical Newsies, set to begin Broadway previews March 15th at the Nederlander Theatre, has announced plans for a cast recording. The album will be recorded March 3rd-5th in New York City…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:11PMSTOMP, the international sensation, recently invaded Cat Greenleaf’s Brooklyn brownstone and made a little noise on the street on TALK STOOP. Watch at that link, or here: http://www.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:10PMOn the eve of Britain’s entry into World War II, Sigmund Freud, a Jew exiled to London from Vienna, is plagued with oral cancer, fast approaching death, and remains as avowedly unconvinced…
SOURCE: www.argentinaindependent.com at 12:09PMBack in May 2008, THE LITTLE MERMAID actor Adrian Bailey, a member of the cast's ensemble, fell over 20 feet through an open trap door during a matinee performance. Bailey subsequently brok…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMThe Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American tragedy Death of a Salesman began performances Feb. 14 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMMeryl Streep will play cancer-ridden, pill-poppin' matriarch Violet opposite Julia Roberts as confrontational daughter Barbara in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMThis contemporary-ballet company presented choreography that was beautiful but lacked the sensuality of passion, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:04PMProducers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have agreed to pay royalties to the hit Broadway musical’s former director Julie Taymor, as part of a settlement to end a bitter legal disp…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:04PMThe cast and creative team behind the upcoming Broadway production of Newsies met the press on Thursday, February 16 at the historic Liberty Theater on 42nd Street.
The event opened with a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMWeekend PlansThis is going to be a full three day weekend. Saturday I'm going to see a preview of Tontlawald at Cutting Ball Theater. I'm so looking forward to this. I haven't seen a Cutting…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:02PMActors will play mother and daughter in film adaptation of Tracy Letts's Pulitzer prize-winning play, to be directed by John WellsMeryl Streep and Julia Roberts are to play mother and daught…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMReview of the First National Tour of American Idiot. At the Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina. Starring Larkin Bogan, Jake Epstein, Scott J. Campbell, Joshua Kobak, …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PM
Comic duo Rubberbandits have been commissioned to make a 30-minute pilot for Channel 4, following their appearance as part of the broadcaster's online talent initiative Comedy Blaps.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMThe deal calls for Mr. Koolhaas's firm, OMA, to transform a former tennis center in Hudson, N.Y., into the Center for the Preservation of Performance Art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:58AMIn the Valentine’s Day-themed episode of Glee, Mercedes (Amber Riley) stole the show with her soulful rendition of the Whitney Houston classic “I Will Always Love You.” Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AMTony Award nominee Mary Beth Peil, Michael Laurence and violinist Hanah Stuart have been cast in the New York premiere of The Morini Strad, Willy Holtzman's drama about late violinist Er…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMOn a recent episode of 'The View', Tony winner Sara Ramirez stopped by and chatted about an upcoming GREY's ANATOMY concert that will benefit the Actors Fund. Click below to check out her ap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMOh! The Fucking WeekWhen seven days can be as exhilarating as it is frustratingby Gaëtan L. CharleboisHave you ever had one of those weeks where, while running errands on a gray, rainy day,…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 11:48AMIn this rebroadcast from 2010, the musical theater legend talks about writing the lyrics and music for several of his productions, including the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, which is …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:48AMMichael Laurence and Mary Beth Peil will star in Primary Stages' production of Willy Holzman's The Morini Strad, to run March 20 - April 28 at 59E59 Theaters. As previously report…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMKatharine McPhee and Megan Hilty as duelling Marilyns in SmashWith only two episodes aired, it’s difficult tosay where exactly Smash, the new NBCseries about backstage Broadway lives, will…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 11:45AMCardboard Citizen’s current production at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith tells the story of one man, Prosper (Ansu Kabia), discovering his history and a sense of identity. Left in a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:43AMDael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman is a story of black-on-black bigotry, parental abuse, internalized self-loathing, and alcoholism. In other words, just another fun night at the theatre. Ke…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMBenjamin Walker is close to joining the cast of the HBO film Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, according to Variety. The film, directed by Stephen Frears and written by Shawn Slovo. chron…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AMOn the Monday, February 20th episode of NBC's SMASH entitled 'Enter Mr. DiMaggio', the search begins for a Joe DiMaggio to play opposite Marilyn-but everyone's first choice, Michael guest st…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:32AMName: Jeff RonanHometown: Holmdel, NJEducation: BFA from Kean University and a semester abroad studying with the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.Select Credits: Seven Homeless Mammoths W…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:30AMMusic star and American Idol runner-up ADam Lambert recently paid a visit to New York City, wher he made a pit stop at Broadway's PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT. Check out what he had to say …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMAfter nearly a year of previews throughout the U.S. and Canada, LIAISONS Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano featuring contemporary pianist Anthony de Mare comes to New York Citys Symphony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMNewsies cast members Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Tommy Bracco, Kyle Coffman and Ephraim Sykes will take part in a live chat Feb. 16 at 6:30 PM ET at youtube.com/disneyonbroadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week managing director Michael Robertson shares pivotal moments in his theatre career…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMStephen Sondheim will take part in a public conversation about his work in conjunction with the previously announced April 21 performance of LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim From the Piano at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMPrimary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director concludes its 27th season with the New York premiere of The Morini …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AM'She drowned and I was not told!' is the monstrously self-centred response of Shelley on learning of the suicide of his abandoned wife Harriet in Howard Brenton's 1984 play, given a vigorous…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 11:15AMThe national tours of Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can and American Idiot will play the Busnhell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMTony Award winner Kelly Bishop has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC Family show, Bunheads, according to EW.com.
As previously reported, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will star in the s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMProduced by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, Broadway Rox, a new concert event, will be presented Feb. 17-18 at Queens Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMDancer Mark Morris doesn't miss a beat in his 1989 production of Dido and Aeneas – combining masculinity, femininity and musicality in one astonishing performanceDido and Aeneas is one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMElizabeth Morgan as Googie Gomez in Circle Theatre’s “The Ritz” There comes a point in Circle Theatre’s production of Terrence McNally’s The Ritz where you real…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 11:00AMJohn FlynnCorryn Cummins and Sam Anderson in Blackbird, nominated for multiple awardsOn April 2, L.A. Weekly will honor the best work on our small stages from 2011 at the 33rd annual …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMLegit News:
Tour heads to London stage
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMA friend of mine who stays up on the latest in all sorts of technology sent me a link the other day for a projection-like company called ViXen, which is marketing a "visual performance …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMStephen Sondheim's 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along is in the middle of a two-week run at the New York City Center as part of an Encores! Production. Portions of the interview running toda…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:00AM
Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee is celebrating its two-year anniversary on Saturday, February 18th in a special 4pm performance at the Actors Temple Theater. The acclaimed play tra…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:59AMThe Moth, a New York City-based not-for-profit dedicated to the art of storytelling, is among the recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. The awards go t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMTony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown will by joined by Shoshana Bean for a one-night-only concert Feb. 25 at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMKim Wayans, once one of the very funny cast members on In Living Color with brothers Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Msarlon Wayans, had a not-so-amusing problem in real …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 10:51AMEddie Peabody (born today in 1902) was known as the “King of the Banjo” and the “Happiness Boy”. A Massachusetts native, he broke into vaudeville after being released…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:49AMOh, gentle reader, what a long journey we have been on together. On September 27, 2009, I wrote my very first blog post on The Art of the Business. I had been guest-posting on Simon Ogden…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:48AMSchool #11: Stroud High School Stroud, OK Reported by: Marty Johnson, Director of Education, iTheatrics February 2, 2012 Stroud, Oklahoma lies about 40 minutes outside of downtown Oklahoma C…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:43AMHappy Birthday, John Tartaglia Tartaglia created and puppeteered the roles of Princeton the recent college grad and Rod the closeted Republican investment banker in the Tony Award-winning Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMSteven Pasquale has landed the dual lead roles in NBC’s latest pilot Do Not Harm, according to Deadline.com. Tony-winning director Michael Mayer, who recently helmed the pilot of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMConfirming earlier reports, Academy Award winners Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts have signed on to star in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play August…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:34AMTabard couldn't help being feeling a little bit, well, surprised (and baffled) by the casting of Russell Grant as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz. After all, he replaces Michael Crawford, who…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMLove was very much in the air at the State of the Arts conference. It was Valentine's Day and every speaker reached for some lovers' quip to honour the date. Tabard doesn't mind telling you …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AMThe Seattle Repertory Theatre production of Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife has extended its engagement, and will now close on March 10.
The winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Price for Drama …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMBlood Knot, written and directed by Athol Fugard, opens on February 16 at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at off-Broadway’s brand new Pershing Square Signature Center. The revival …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMTony winner Kelly Bishop will be joining her former Anything Goes co-star Sutton Foster in the upcoming ABC Family TV series Bunheads, according to Entertainment Weekly. Bishop will pla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMArtists known for graphic style on view.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:18AMAlso, three films will be screened as part of the celebration of the British writer.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:18AMDiscussion rages in a blog post started by Cory Hinkle at Howlround.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:18AMThe Q Brothers will collaborate with Chicago Shakespeare Theater creative producer Rick Boynton on Othello: The Remix. The show will be presented as part of the previously announced Globe …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMThe Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returned with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, at the Triad Theater for two shows on February 13, 14 and 15. Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMThe Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs—performer Mike Daisey's monologue about where Apple gadgets are manufactured and who they’re manufactured by—will return to Woolly Mammoth …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:06AMLooks like 9-5 employed adults are finding it just as hard there as here to get a decent theatre ticket discount:
While young people have access to youth ticket discounts (and so they shoul…
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 10:06AMSolo performer Mike Daisey will bring back his critically acclaimed show, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, July 17-August 5. Jean-Michele Gregory di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AMBy Isaac Butler Claudia La Rocco has a new blog post up pushing the ball a little bit further forward in talking about politics, representation and art, specifically w/r/t Seminar on Broadwa…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 10:01AM“The King’s Speech,” the film that picked up the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture, has been adapted into a play that currently is touring England and will likely transfer to West En…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMBethany Knox of Telsey + Company is casting the project, which runs March 10-April 12 in New York City.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AMVoca People, Off-Broadway's intergalactic new musical, begins performances Feb. 16 at New World Stages. The production transferred from a limited engagement at the Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Today is the birthday of the great ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (see here for his full bio). In honor of the day we share with you his 1936 Vitaphone short subject “Nut Guilty”. No…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:59AMMichael Robertson is currently the Managing Director for the Lark Play Development Center in New York City where he oversees finance, fundraising, board development, and strategic planning f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:56AMThe Labyrinth Theater Company announced Feb. 15 that Max Casella, Ethan Hawke and Chris Rock are among the 14 new artists to join the Off-Broadway company effective immediately.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMGift Theatre has announced the lineup of plays that will comprise its 2012 season.
The company's first offering will be the U.S. premiere of Rodney Ackland's Absolute Hell, to run…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMCelebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter hosted a special performance at The Triad on Wednesday, February 15 to benefit SLAM (Sobriety, Learning, and Motivation), a group dedicated to the c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMRetrop Productions and Emerson College's RareWorks Theatre Company are set to present the world premiere of Ryan Scott Oliver and Brett Ryback's Darling, A New Musical, March 1-2 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMLegit News:
'Peter,' 'One Man' lock in ensembles
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46AMThe Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita will begin previews March 12 with an official opening April 5 at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMCasting has been announced for Tennessee Williams' In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, to run March 7-31 at 292 Theatre. Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff will direct the production, which w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMShoshana Bean, who has appeared on Broadway in Wicked and Hairspray, will go it solo Feb. 29 at the Ars Nova.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AMJulia Roberts and Meryl Streep will co-star in the film version of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, according to The Hollywood Reporter. John Wells will direct the film.
The Pulitze…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:33AMWilliam Shatner’s one-man Broadway show, Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, opens February 16 at the Music Box Theatre. Directed by Scott Faris, the limited Broadway engagement…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:32AMPerformances begin for Nina Raine’s Tribes, starring Mare Winningham and Jeff Perry, at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre. Directed by David Cromer, the production is set t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:31AMKate Budgen will direct Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, to run May 16 - June 9 at Southwark Playhouse. Jean Chan will design the production, which will have lighting design by Ric…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
The onstage rain that drenched the London and Broadway casts of the Donmar's "Mary Stuart" came as a shock: Who knew 18th century Schiller loved special e…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AMChristopher Haydon has announced that his inaugural season as artistic director of London's Gate Theatre will be focused on the themes of revolution and rebellion.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMThis story brings new meaning to the phrase Poetic License, and once all the marbles get rolling there is some very fine acting available to get the eight ball in the side pocket.Katherine (…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 09:22AMBroadway's Future @ Lincoln Center (formerly The Songbook series), which is presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, will continue Feb. 27 at 6 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMWith British regional theatre facing tough questions, WYP's new artistic director – announced today – will have his work cut outWhat are the biggest jobs in British theatre? Obviously he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective will present a one-night-only staged reading of Larry Grossman's 1975 musical Goodtime Charley March 25 at the Joria Productions Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective will present a one-night-only staged reading of Larry Grossman's 1975 musical Goodtime Charley March 25 at the Joria Productions Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMJames Brining will succeed Ian Brown as artistic director of the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMArts on TV: 'Michael Feinstein; Woody Allen; Isabella Rossellini
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMMegan Hilty (playing actress Ivy Lynn auditioning for the role of Marilyn
Monroe in "Smash"'s show-within-a-show Marilyn) and Will Chase
(playing actor Michael Swift auditioning for the Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Our friends over at Soho Theatre have offered A Younger Theatre readers half price tickets to Third Angel’s newest show What I Heard About the World. We can’t wait to see the sho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:57AMBest avaliable tickets for ABSENT FRIENDS at Harold Pinter Theatre just £35 for all performances until 10 March.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:53AMThreepeater: Dischord had added 25 more concert recordings—its third installment—to the Fugazi Live Archive, including a show from Glasgow in which a group of 15 or 20 women "too…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:43AMAfter an acclaimed sell out run at Chichester, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN brings the glamour of the MGM film to the Palace theatre in Spring 2012. Our hosted Whatsonstage.com Outing on 22 Februar…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:40AMFrom February 2011, and I find that it resonates more clearly (and Kraus’ words contain more wisdom) with the passage of time in this 21st century. I live in an era of decline and inha…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:32AMCheck out this new video of begind the scene of BRING IT ON. It features the creative team talking about the concept of the musical, the nature of cheerleading, and how they brought both to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19AMArtistic director of Dundee Rep James Brining will replace Ian Brown as artistic director of West Yorkshire Playhouse (WYP), taking over the reigns of the Leeds venue later this summer.
Bro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:15AMMary Zimmerman, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient whose adaptations of Candide and The Arabian Nights played here to critical acclaim and box-office success, will bring Metamorphoses, her…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMEd Sanders was a key member of one of the seminal rock bands of the 1960s, The Fugs, and the author of The Family, one of the best books about the Manson Family, and one of my many sources f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:05AMThe Tony Award-winning actor returns to the stage in his unsuual new play An Iliad.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWilliam Shatner discusses "Star Trek," Priceline, and other career highlights in his one-man show on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre through March 4.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Fry will play Malvolio in the Globe's summer production of Twelfth Night – his first role since walking out of a West End production in 1995Seventeen years after he famously deserted a Wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMAccording to a post by Variety.com, Benjamin Walker may be playing in HBOs MUHAMMAD ALIS GREATEST FIGHT, a made-for-TV movie about the conflict beween the famous boxer and the Supreme Court.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46AMLegit News:
One lawsuit between director, musical resolved
SOURCE: Variety at 06:42AMLong-standing attempts to create a new 'skills-based' pay agreement for technical staff in the West End have been put on hold, after BECTU and the Society of London Theatre failed to reach a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMBirds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are penning a new BBC drama set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which they also plan to bring to the stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMSenator Mitch McConnell317 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactFormDear Senator McConnell,First, let me wish you an early …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:17AM,em>The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:16AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: It couldn't have been a more appropriate date. I saw Terry Hands' yearningly romantic production on Valentine's Day. And what a fine production it is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMPalace, London: Chichester Festival Theatre is now the number one regional house to transfer its productions to the West End. After London seasons for its revivals of Stoppard and Caryl Chur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMThe behind-the-scenes action around Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, an ingenious homage to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, has been drama-filled, to say the least.
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Travelling Light On Tour
The National Theatre's production of Travelling Light goes on tour from 13 March.
Nicholas Hytner Directs Nicholas Wright's new play: a funny and fascinati…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:59AMTobacco Factory, Bristol: When Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory launched on an unsuspecting Bristol public with this self-same tragic masterpiece at the turn of the millennium, there were …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Louise Rennison's witty, well-observed tales of teenage life make a winning transition to the stage care of Ryan McBryde's lively production.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMStephen Fry is to return to the stage in Twelfth Night opposite Mark Rylance at Shakespeare's Globe this summer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMWit on Broadway
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The Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Margaret Edson' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, will now run until March 17, 2012.
Directed by Lynne Meadow, the …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:42AMWhen Jonathan Church's production of Singin' in the Rain opened in Chichester last summer it brought the reviewers out in a fevered rash of five star raves.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:42AMThere was a veritable storm of celebrities on Shaftesbury Avenue last night, as Singin' in the Rain opened to critics at the Palace Theatre.
The production, which is directed by Jonathan Ch…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:22AMFilm producer Working Title is at the centre of yet another dispute over extras' pay, with union BECTU claiming the company is underpaying performers working on the big screen version of Les…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMMayor of London candidate Ken Livingstone will link West End theatre ticket deals with Oyster card usage, if he is elected.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMOnce on Broadway
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Once, another film-turned-musical, will be recorded for posterity as a Broadway original cast album (OCR).
A surprise hit from the recent New York Theatre Worksh…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:13AMBroadway'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 05:00AMOn Thursday, February 16, 2012, the company of Broadway's revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL will welcome the musical director and conductor of the original Broadway product…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMManhattan Theatre Club, in collaboration with the intimate, state-of-the-art venue The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, continues its popular discussion series with After…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMBarrington 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 05:00AMBroadway and NYC cabaret legend Julie Wison will join MAC, Bistro amp NY Nightlife Award Winners Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano for 'Three for the Road' at the Triad, Thursday, February 16…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMOn Thursday, February 16, Andrew Lloyd Webber will be featured on PBSs NYC Arts, airing on THIRTEEN from 8-8.30pm EST, and again on Sunday 19th February from 12-12.30pm EST. The interview wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMFreedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide, will host a Valentines Day fundraising event with the Interbank Roundtable called Get Engaged at XL Nightclub on Thursday, February…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00AMAfter announcing this morning that he will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this summer, Patrick Stewart has also announced that he will be returning to the Young Vic next year. He w…
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When the narrator of “A Map of Virtue” turned out to be a bird statue, the play stopped working for me. Sadly, that was in the first few minutes.This latest effort, presented by the play…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMIt had all the elements of a great thriller. A con man abuses the trust of his friends and colleagues at a big newspaper, lies about everything from his upbringing to his résumé to his sou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMAs delicate as a cherry blossom, “Tokio Confidential” transports us to 19th-century Japan. This lovely chamber musical about a Civil War widow whose life’s transformed by a tattoo arti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMDirector / Choreographer / Actor New York, New York USA When I was eight, my parents took me to see a production of Oklahoma – I was smitten. I especially remember a dancer in the show who…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMPlaywright-director Athol Fugard's staging of his Blood Knot — launching the Signature Theatre Company's new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMShatner's World: We Just Live in It, featuring Emmy-winning actor William Shatner, who is best known for his work on TV's "Star Trek" and "Boston Legal," official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMarilyn Koop's magnificent art for Beckett: Feck It! at Canadian Stage
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMALL WEEKEND Monsters of the midway The clean sheet of ice gets covered up and the Consol Energy Center gets down and dirty this
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:01AM"The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00AMPittsburgh Public Theater's 2012-13 season will feature titles under the umbrella of "Made in America," sheltering works "by American writers and composers and set in citi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated play Tribes, about a young deaf man and his dysfunctional family, begins Off-Broadway previews Feb. 16 at the Barrow Street …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThree by Three in Rep, world-premiere plays by Curt Columbus, George Brant and Deborah Salem Smith, begins performances Feb. 16 at the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOn Feb. 16 the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell welcomes "Late Show with David Letterman" musical director Paul Shaffer, who was conductor of the original Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA half-dozen theaterworks that were born in the USA, starting with the Garson Kanin comedy "Born Yesterday" and including the return
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMWunderbaum theater company has played everywhere from an outdoor plaza in Tehran to railway stations in Flanders, Belgium.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMThe Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will open its Distinctively Dutch Festival Saturday at the Byham Theater, Downtown, with the U.S. premiere of Dance Works Rotterdam's "ANATOMICA" -- a piece in …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMHartford's Restructured Bated Breath Has New Artistic Director Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDaniel Davis , veteran actor of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMChris Harcum is an actor and playwright. Over 20 of his works have been seen on NYC stages. He has performed in many of his own works and has worked as a teaching artist. With director Aimee…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMBricken Sparacino is a performer, writer, and director. She has collaborated with several solo performers to help develop and to direct their shows. Bricken has written numerous comedy sket…
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