The spirit of Woody Guthrie is alive and well in the East Village, thanks to Ethan Lipton’s “No Place To Go,” a “musical ode to the unemployed.”
Stylistically, the 41-year-old hew…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PMThe new off-Broadway show “The Big Meal” is high-concept, to say the least. In just 90 minutes, playwright Dan LeFranc tracks Nicole and Sam over several generations — romance, marriag…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35PMIn 2006, the first Kevin Kline Awards were handed out. One for best actress went to Nancy Lewis for her performance as Maw in "Going To See the Elephant," a drama about frontierswomen in the…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:09PMIn Dan LeFranc’s play “The Big Meal” actors take turns portraying the members of a growing family across decades of life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMEthan Lipton recreates the anxieties and epiphanies of an unemployed worker in his new show, “No Place to Go,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMonica Bauer's overstuffed play feels like more of a first draft, full of intriguing ideas.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMDan LeFranc's often touching play spans the lives of four generations in just under 90 minutes.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMClifford Streit's brief play about a homosexual film star is provocative and often clever.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, is now in rehearsal and will run from March 28 - April 1 at New York City Center. Pipe Dream is bei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:55PMThe apologetic phone call from Mike Daisey was a painful one, says Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s artistic director, Howard Shalwitz. It came the day before the shattering news was made public, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:50PMSo who was Fela Anikulapo Kuti? And what was it about this hugely charismatic, politically-charged Nigerian instrumentalist, composer and singer-songwriter — the man credited with devising…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:48PMThe Folger Shakespeare Library's director on data mining and digitizing the world's third-largest collection of early English books.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:31PMPurlitzer Prize-winning *Beyond the Horizon* is one of Eugene O'Neill's lesser performed pieces due script challenges, but Eclipse Theatre has taken this play off the shelf and onto the stag…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:30PMIt was smooth sailing for the Broadway cast of Anything Goes on March 21, when Stephanie J. Block and the company celebrated the show's 400th performance at the Stephen Sondheim The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:24PMBefore he arrives at Broadway's Music Box Theatre to reprise his starring role in British smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors beginning April 6, James Corden spruced himself up on the pa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMThe national tour of Green Day's American Idiot just opened in Los Angeles on March 14 at the Ahmanson Theatre. Original Broadway cast member Van Hughes stars as Johnny, a role in which he c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PM"Pippin": It's been a Season of Schwartz — Stephen, that is. The composer of "Wicked" has had local productions in the last several months at Northlight ("Snapshots"), Circle Theatre (…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:16PMKERRY REID reviews "Tea and Sympathy" by the Artistic Home at Stage 773 ★★½ and "Hansel und Gretel" at the Building Stage ★★
"Tea and Sympathy"
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:16PMLong after that old devil Max McLean had left town, the sign for his hit show "The Screwtape Letters" remained affixed to the marquee of the Mercury Theater on Chicago's North Side. If you w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:16PMAs Jesus Christ Superstar readies for it March 22 opening night, understudy Jeremy Kushnier has stepped into the pivotal role of Judas Iscariot for press preview performances on March 20 and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PMIn the final analysis, pretty much everyone can identify the man in the stereotype: Round spectacles, neatly trimmed beard, cigar at the ready and a voice with a German accent making probing…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:10PMOPENING BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO. Neil Sedaka’s chart-topping music takes center stage in this nostalgic musical. Directed by Kevin Bellie. Previews March 29-April 6. Opens April 7. Fri-S…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:08PMAdapted from a graphic novel by the comic artist Juliacks, “Swell” describes a college-age woman coping with the death of her sister.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMDirector Marc Bruni and music director Rob Berman join forces for
Pipe Dream, the second production of the 2011-12 City Center
Encores! season. Pipe Dream was adapted by Richard Rodger…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:03PMDirector Michael Arabian, veteran Beckett specialist Alan Mandell and Land of the Tigers' Hugo Armstrong are among those waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum. Armstrong is playing Mande…
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Go behind-the-scenes with E! News to see the cast and crew of the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical JERSEY BOYS as they get ready for the show to begin. JERSEY BOYS o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:59PMThe best new show in town right now is at Lincoln Center. But I’m not talking about the mighty War Horse, which even after a year is still packing them in at the Vivian Beaumont, or …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:55PMLeave it to Encores! to attract Broadway’s best talent to their productions of seldom-seen musicals: For Pipe Dream, a 1955 tuner from Rodgers & Hammerstein, the grade-A cast inclu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:47PMWe have been running Strange Interlude this week. Our first run was last Wednesday, a week ago. We ran through it again on Thursday and another time this weekend. I am very happy with the pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:44PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:40PMStage and screen star Patrick Stewart will host the Peabody Awards ceremony, to take place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Monday, May 21.
The Peabody recognizes excellence…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMNOW.HERE.THIS., which last year received a Developmental Lab Production at The Vineyard - is currently in previews, prior to an official press opening of March 28 at the Vineyard Theatre. Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMAmerican Blues Theater (ABT) has announced its 2012-2013 season, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
James Still's Illegal Use of Hands will open the year for the company, ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMThe Public Theater has announced a one-week extension of Elevator Repair Service's critically-acclaimed, six-hour staging of Gatz, which began its Off-Broadway return engagement March 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMThe Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock musical about the rise of the religious icon, is soldiering on without its betrayer. Actor Josh Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:28PMAndrew Chappelle, Mr. Mamma Mia, was crowned as winner of the sold out, sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant held Monday evening at Symphony Space. The event raised 75,000 to benefit the Ali…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMFor 13 years, TimesTalks events have been evoking intelligent and entertaining conversations among some of the world's most engaging speakers. Yesterday's talk featured the cast of AMC's bre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:26PMHillary Clinton Wants You to Know About Amelia Earhart: On July 7th the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart disappearance in the South Pacific will take place and Hillary Clinton wants people…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:25PMTony Vincent may best be known on The Great White Way for his roles in American Idiot, Rent and Jesus Christ Superstar, but the stage vet is now bringing his killer vocals to the masses as a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMPhilip Brandes reviews "Diary of a Madman" at Actors Circle Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:22PMDespite being nominated for nine Tony Awards, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream has not been performed in New York since its 1955 premiere. This rarely seen tuner, based on John S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMPittsburgh Public Theater is set to present Mark Brown's Around the World in 80 Days, April 12-May 13 at the O'Reilly Theater. Marcia Milgrom Dodge will direct.
Based on the stor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMBroadwayWorld has just learned that NCM Fathom Events has postponed the Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat events on Monday, March 26 and Wednesday, April 4. Donny Osmond has been …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis is the latest Broadway talent to join MCC Theater's March 26 Miscast gala at The Hammerstein Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:04PMThe March 26 and April 4 sing-along movie screenings of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond, have been postponed. Ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMLincoln Center has announced the lineup for this year's Lincoln Center Festival, to run in various venues July 5-August 5. There will be a total of 72 performances by artists and ensemb…
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On March 9, 2012 a group of “prickly, opinionated writers on the arts” gathered for lunch at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark, United Kingdom. These giants of artistic criticism…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:59PMMuch like "Legally Blonde", "Matilda" is a musical I know and love and this will be more of a reiteration than a review. If you haven't seen it already, what on earth have you been doing?A f…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:57PMThe Off-Broadway production of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-nominated drama Tribes, which opened to critical raves March 4 at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended its run through Sept. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMThere's much to appreciate about the message at the muscular heart of The Lady from Dubuque, particularly David Esbjornson's fluid staging, the ease of which only serves to cast the two visi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:49PMI had the pleasure of attending a talk-back performance of The Lady from Dubuque, in which a wonderfully cantankerous Edward Albee took the opportunity to wonder why critics today …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 04:48PMThe backdrop for “The Price,” Arthur Miller’s provocative, ever-timely play that is now receiving a first-rate production by Raven Theatre, is an attic apartment in a once grand, soon-…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:42PMNina Raine's Tribes, playing at the Barrow Street Theatre, has extended. The production, directed by David Cromer, will now play through September 2.
The play centers on a deaf man bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:39PMNina Raine’s Tribes has extended at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre. Starring Mare Winningham and Russell Harvard, Tribes was originally scheduled to run through June 2…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PMThe Lincoln Center Festival will also offer a production of "Uncle Vanya" with Cate Blanchett, and will celebrate the music of Curtis Mayfield.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMMDQ Tour Rocks Kansas City - Great Balls of Fire
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "Great Balls of Fire" at the 75th Street Brewery in Kansas City, M…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:36PMHello dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for If We Are Women, written by Canadian playwright Joanna McClelland Glass in 1993, now playing at The Lonny Chapma…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:36PMMalgorzata Nowacka’s new work is a raw depiction of a psychological meltdown
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:35PMThe NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions will present a workshop production of the new musical Pool Boy…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMTapping into their roots from the "land of poets," Somali-American youths are embracing the art and finding their voice.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:28PMAimee Rose Ranger and Alejandro Simoes ponder their twin fates. Photo: Chris McKenzieIn the past I've described Whistler in the Dark as the one company in town devoted to theatre for t…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:24PMDance Moms - Season 2 Episode 11 - Melissa Pleads The Fifth - Todrick Hall & Scott Hoying Recap
Dance Moms Season 2, Episode 11 - "Melissa Pleads the 5th"
In this FYI recap,…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:20PMThe title of the long-lived company — American Blues Theater (ABT) — says it all. This is an ensemble that works directly in the American grain, as its lineup for the 2012-2013 season un…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:18PMTalk about long commutes. For the past year, David Hallberg, the princely-looking principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre — who will partner Natalia Osipova in the company’s producti…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:14PMActor Michael Tucker was on hand at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble March 19 to discuss his latest book and debut novel, "After Annie." Co-founder and Artistic Director of S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMJoseph Medeiros and Ashley Blanchet will star in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors, which will put down poisonous roots April 20.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMRodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, will run March 28 - April 1 at City Center, with Will Chase, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Stephen Wa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:01PMCircle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim W…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PM
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my! Every arts organization in the country seems to be looking for the key to attracting multi-generational audiences to their performances. I would like to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMTony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis will appear at MCC’s Miscast 2012 gala. MCC’s annual gala features actors performing songs from roles in which they would never be cast. T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:57PMSmash - Episode 7 - The Workshop - Luan Legacy Recap
In the seventh episode of NBC's Smash, the musical is performed in front of potential investors, and Ivy's confidence is weakene…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:55PMScenes from Waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum
Two of the most distinguished interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work are together for the first time in Waiting for Godot only at th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:53PMTeresa McCormick Ertel interviews Chris Roberts, head of Stevenson University’s Theater Department, about their growing program and tackling the powerful drama, Miss Evers’ Boys. Te…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PM2012-13 Season Announcement
The announcement of the 2012-13 season, which took place February 22 and was Webcast live from The Greene Space. Participants include Music Director Alan Gilbert…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:50PM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show : Yale Repertory Theatre production of William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" at the Univ…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMThe National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS begins previews on April 6 and the official opening is April 18, 2012 at the Music Box Theatre 239 West 4…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMThe Times Square Theater, the last of the dormant legit theatres between Seventh and Eighth Avenues on West 42nd Street in the Broadway theatre district, will be renovated to house a starry,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway on March 24. In celebration of the shows first year on Broadway, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:45PMAnthony Rapp was one of many familiar faces who turned up to support Adam Pascal at Memphis’ 1,000th Broadway performance. After the curtain came down, Broadway.com asked Rapp what he …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMTwo River Theatre Company is in the midst of an extraordinary season in which it is not only providing exceptional work for its own audience, but is also nurturing and developing new works w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:43PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that it would extend GATZ, the critically lauded theatrical adaptation ofF. Scott Fitz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PM"Call Me Adam" chats with television, film, and Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat about his upcoming concert at Queens Theatre on March 24, his new album "Consider It Swung," "The Dukes of Hazzar…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 02:41PMOne of the best signs that a production really works is that you leave the theatre thinking the playwright is absolutely brilliant. George Farquhar, who wrote this play just over 300 years a…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 02:36PMRosie O’Donnell is wasting no time finding her next job now that her OWN Network talk show has been canned. I'm told the comedian is getting ready to return to Broadway, playing the iconic…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:33PMIt’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMSinger and actress Cyndi Lauper will star in WE's new reality series, Cyndi, according to Deadline.com. The show is set to launch this summer and will have a 12-epsiode run.
The series…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMThe Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre will present the world premiere of Stephen Sachs' Cyrano, April 20-June 10 at The Fountain Theatre. Simon Levy will direct the production..
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMThe Fountain Theatre and Deaf West Theatre will present the world premiere of Stephen Sachs' Cyrano, April 20-June 10 at The Fountain Theatre. Simon Levy will direct the production..
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMRed Fern Theatre Company has announced casting for Sharyn Rothstein's March, to run April 12-29 at The Theater at the 14th Street Y. Kel Haney will direct the production.
The play cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMAfter standing vacant for 20-odd years, the historic Times Square Theatre at 217 W. 42nd St. will soon become Broadway 4D — a permanent musical attraction managed by a trio of accomplished…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:24PMIndeed, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are becoming legends in the strictest definition of the word-increasingly fewer people are living who could have seen them perform live and, as they cho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:18PMThe latest installment of Broadway Rhythm and Booze will take place at 9: 45pm on Monday, March 26 at Flute Bar (40 E. 20th Street).
The show will feature Uzo Aduba, who is currently appea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PM(Generation Without Borders is an essay series created by TCG for the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day. Will Kiley’s essay is one of three winning student essays that will be pub…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:12PMName: Gayle RankinHometown: Glasgow, Scotland Education: The Juilliard School Select Credits: The Illusion (Elicia /Lyse/Clarina, The Signature Theatre); The Seagull (Nina, Brian Mertes' Lak…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:12PMFollowing the news that monologist Mike Daisey fabricated details in the acclaimed The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Time Out New York theatre critic Adam Feldman will host a panel discus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PM"The Book of Mormon" will offer a free performance on June 6, with tickets distributed via a lottery system. Entries are accepted at the box office of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:11PMJames Godwin will perform his semi-autobiographical show Lunatic Cunning at Dixon Place, April 6-21.
In the piece, the puppetry and performance art pioneer blends experiences from his own…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMThe 2009 Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages returned to Los Angeles for a limited engagement at the Pantages Theatre March 20-25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMHow do you turn Biblical text into stage imagery? Des McAnuff explains it all for you, as the former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director brings his Stratford Shakespeare Festival revival of…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:01PM
Andrew Chappelle, also known as Mr. Mamma Mia!, took home the prize at this year’s Broadway Beauty Pageant. The event raised an unprecedented $75,000 for the Ali Forney Center, which provi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:59PMODD CASTING CHOICE NEARLY SINKS SHOW There is a perplexing and ultimately infuriating casting choice in the Old Globe’s production of Anna Christie that nearly sinks Eugene O’Neill’s 1…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:54PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, actress Amanda Holden is set to host 'Superstar,' the new reality show in which Andrew Lloyd Webber will search for the character of Jesus in the JESUS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PMCatching up with some varied news from South Florida's always-busy theater scene. Producer Jay H. Harris has been named the 2012 recipient of the George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievem…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 01:50PMBy Isaac Butler The Lark is administering a brand new grant from the Jerome foundation that will pay out to winners something $40K over two years. The twist? It's for early-career writers an…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 01:47PMThe Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon, playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway with a free fan performance on Wednesday, June…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMThis masterful production seizes on Sondheim's rich, pungent musical with glee, relishing its excesses yet still savouring its delicacy, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:46PMThis masterful production seizes on Sondheim’s rich, pungent musical with glee, relishing its excesses yet still savouring its delicacy, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:46PMProducers of the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon have announced plans to offer a second free fan performance for the June 6 matinee at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMCass Morgan will headline the concert staging of the musical adaptation of Harold and Maude at the York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival series. The mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMVal Kilmer has announced new performance dates for his one man play, Citizen Twain --
which he wrote, directed and stars in -- at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMYork Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:41PMIn the interests of fairness, and because of the number of views my previous remarks on the controversy have generated here and here, I post below a complete recording of the remarks that Mi…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 01:41PMNew York Theatre Workshop has announced two selections for its 2012-2013 season: Red Dog Howls by Alexander Dinelaris, and Belleville by Amy Herzog.
In Red Dog Howls, a box of old letters …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMRodgers and Hammersteins Pipe Dream, the second Encores production of the 2011-12 season, is now in rehearsal and will run from March 28 April 1 at New York City Center. Pipe Dream is being…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PM(Caveat: at the performance I saw, not one, but two, women crumpled plastic bags on and off for the whole 100 minutes. They were really annoying, and they made it impossible to concentrate f…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:37PMGatz, the marathon theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has extended its return engagement at the Public Theater through May 13. Directed by John Collins …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:34PMGatz, the marathon theater piece adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has extended its return engagement at the Public Theatre through May 13. Directed by John Collins …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:34PMThe Public Theater has extended Elevator Repair Service's Gatz through May 13. The production is directed by John Collins.
In the show, piece, every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMThe Public Theater has extended Elevator Repair Service's Gatz through May 16. The production is directed by John Collins.
In the show, piece, every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMMore often than not I try to do this blog posting, and the thing just disappears, after I've been writing something.Last week, Leah, Trevor brenda kurt and tif and jessica put in three new p…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:25PMThe Promethean Theatre presents the play The Unseen by Craig Wright. Sadly, this is the final production the Promethean Theatre will present as it will cease operations at the close of this …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:24PMThe chemistry between Chizever and Diana Rose Becker as Eliza is indeed fiery. Their disagreements are bigger and hotter than normally played on stage, but it works so well one wonders why i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:24PMConor Lovett will headline off-Broadway's Title and Deed, a play written specifically for the actor by Will Eno. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, performances begin May 8 at the Ali…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:20PMon Thirteen: Fri., March 23rd at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., March 24th at 8:30 PM Sun., March 25th at 12:30 PM and Mon., March 26th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Our favorite knight, …
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:14PMSeattle's 5th Avenue Theatre will commemorate the centennial of the maiden voyage of the Titanic with a staged concert of the Tony Award-winning 1997 musical about the doomed luxury line…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:13PMMasterworks Broadway has released Tracie Bennett Sings Judy: Songs from the Broadway Production of End of the Rainbow and Other Garland Classics. The recording is now available for both pur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMon Thirteen: Fri., March 30th at 1:00 AM on CUNY TV: Sat., March 31st at 8:30 PM Sun., April 1st at 12:30 PM and Mon., April 2nd at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM Producers Neil Meron …
SOURCE: Theater Talk at 01:12PMNEW YORK—One of the hardest tickets to get on Broadway could be yours for free—as long as you've got some luck.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:11PMLast night we attended Godspell’s Tuesday Talkback featuring the show’s star and prettiest cast member Hunter Parrish. After a rousing performance Hunter came on stage to chat with Julie…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:10PMNEW YORK (AP) -- One of the hardest tickets to get on Broadway could be yours for free - as long as you've got some luck....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:10PMOn Tuesday, March 20, the Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical celebrated a year on Broadway at the Palace Theatre.
Australian bakery Pie Face unveiled the new …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMSignature Theatre in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland will present Conor Lovett in Will Eno's new play Title and Deed, May 8-June 3 in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
On Saturday, March 17 took to the stage with the 60-piece Wilmington Symphony Orchestra at the Kenan Auditorium in Wilmington, NC. Joining her was her band including Bucky Pizzarelli guitar,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMThe Revere Hotel will open on April 18, and will have a film and live entertainment venue called Theatre 1. No specific bookings have been announced.
The hotel will occupy the space which f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:59PMThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20 at the Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMSunday evening, Arlington’s Signature Theatre revealed the world premiere of Brother Russia, a new rock musical by the creative team of John Dempsey and Dana Rowe. Chock full of interestin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PMYork Theatre Company, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casting for the next two musicals in the sprin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMMr. Grosbard’s work was divided evenly between the theater and the movies, and though his career stretched across nearly half a century, he was highly selective in his projects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52PMWith her new musical Ghost in early previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater Caissie Levy is a hard-working leading lady these days, but she got up early on March 20 to talk Broadway shop with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:51PMThe Coterie will present composer John Bucchino live in concert in An Intimate Evening with John Bucchino & Friends on March 30 at 8:30pm.
This intimate event will feature a lineup o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMConor Lovett will repeat his work in the U.S. premiere of Middletown playwright Will Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, which will begin Off-Broadway May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMMusicals Tonight continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next edition of At This Performance to be held on Monday, March 26th at The Li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMBryce Pinkham Announces Charity Night at GHOST
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Bryce Pinkham, who is currently playing Carl in Broadway's newest musical Ghost, ann…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:44PM'Peter and the Starcatcher', a new play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice Jersey Boys, directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees Nicholas Nickleby and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers Bloody Bl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMArs Nova will present a free reading of The Noise by Rachel Bonds as part of its OUT LOUD play-reading series, March 26 at 7pm. Director-in-residence Portia Krieger will direct.
In The Noi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMPeter Hinton, who is about to depart as artistic director of the National Arts Centre English Theatre wing, announced his final season with the company and, as expected, it is highlighted by…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:29PMRock of Ages' star, Joey Calveri, will perform on Thursday, March 22nd at Broadway Sessions. The evening will also feature performances from the cast of Non-Equity, The Musical and recordin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre will hold a public discussion in which they invite patrons to express their opinions on the controversy surrounding the misrepresentations of the truth within Mike Dai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMCasting has been announced for the Musicals in Mufti presentations of Roadside and Harold and Maude, staged as part of the The Tom Jones Festival at the York Theatre Company's Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMFunktion One has announced the launch of its new website, having undergone a complete redesign with an improved graphical interface including an extensive photo gallery and other new feature…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMThe Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midler's Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated its one-year anniversary on Broadway March 20 at the Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMWest London lighting and visuals rental company, Colour Sound Experiment, has significantly expanded its warehouse facility by handily acquiring the building right next door and, having now …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMThe playwright with 40 years' experience at the cutting edge of British theatre will be online to answer your questions ahead of his Guardian Open Weekend event on Sunday 25 MarchSir David H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMHAL IN THE HOUSE: Restaurateur Bart Saracino got a call early Saturday morning asking if he could keep his Bartolino’s Osteria open for a few more hours for a special guest.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:07PMUlu Grosbard, a Tony-nominated director who was equally accomplished in theater and film, passed away in Manhattan some time around March 19. He was 83 years old.
Grosbard was born in Ant…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMStephen Wallem's Pipe Dream vlog: Day 2
In today's installment, Stephen Wallem offers a few hints about what's in store for Pipe Dream audiences: pigeon pie, an octopus, and Sno…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:03PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO TAKE THE MONTHLY POLL AND TO VOTE IN ROUND 8 OF "HOT/HOTTER" AND ENTER TO WIN TICKETS FOR LEAP OF FAITH ALL THREE ARE TO YOUR LEFT! CL…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMTony Award winner Laura Benanti will headline The Goodman Theatre's Le Cabaret Rouge gala, to be held on May 11 at The Fairmont Hotel.
Benanti won the Tony for Gypsy, and was Tony-no…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMI was in the kitchen preparing lunch when I heard a cacophony of angry shouting, skin slapping, and one distinct frightened cry, which I knew, from experience, belonged to Gloria. My four ye…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:00PMSavion Glover’s California tour, which brings him to the Valley Performing Arts Center on Saturday, is called “Bare Soundz” and will involve two other dancers as well as elements of fl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM
Colchester-based Illuminate Design has helped one of Britain's flagship dance theatre companies move to a new creation and rehearsal space in Ashford, Kent.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMA year-long run on Broadway is something to celebrate, and the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert happily marked that milestone on March 20 at the Palace Theatre. Broadway.com got a rare …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMCafe Carlyle will present Desperate Housewives' Emily Bergl in the premiere of her new cabaret show NY I Love You, May 1-12.
NY I Love You is an evening of song and stories that explor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:59AMToday in 2002, Oklahoma opened at the Gershwin Theatre, where it ran for 388 performances. Oklahoma is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMFat Camp, the Outstanding Musical winner at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, is set for off-Broadway’s American Theatre of Actors.Directed by Casey Hushion, Fat Ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMThe Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project will present a new play about the late Italian actress Anna Magnani, Mamma Roma, written and performed by Anne DeSalvo, from April 3 to 14 at Ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMMusicals Tonight! continues its ongoing tribute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies with its next edition of At This Performance… to be held on Monday, March 26 at T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:56AMVictory Gardens Theater has announced its 2012-2013 season.
The company's first production will be Bill Cain's Equivocation (September 14 - October 14). Sean Graney will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMThe New York Post reports that The Jonas Brothers are preparing a reality show of their own. The famous family—Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas—have a development deal with E! Television and ha…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:49AMThe Juilliard School holds its 107th Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 11 AM in Alice Tully Hall Broadway at 65th Street, NYC. Juilliard President Joseph W. Polisi will read s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMSISTER ACT has played Broadway, the West End, Hamburg, Vienna, and now Stuttgart, featuring the talents of Zodwa Selele a Deloris Van Cartier. Check out a sneak peek below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMHornsea Floral Hall in Yorkshire may be saved from demolition, if proposals for the local council to hand over the freehold of the building to community groups can be agreed in the next six …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMThe Kaiser Chiefs, said to be among the country's favourite live performers, are back on the road again with a characteristically boisterous set and with a four week, sold-out, UK tour just …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMBroadway ticket sales continued their increase through the week ending March 18 with sales of $22 million, some of which may have been attributed to the opening of three productions.
Sales …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:35AMOn Wednesday, April 4, Shane D. Hudson will lead the A-ha! Leadership Webinar, The Future of Engagement: Social Media and Your Audience. This webinar is free for Member Theatres and will fea…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:35AMComedian, talk show host, producer and star Rosie O'Donnell has made no secret of her desire to play 'Miss Hannigan' in the upcoming Broadway revival of ANNIE. Now, an insider has told the H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMWhatsonstage.com has once again been ranked as a Top 10 website winner – and we’re climbing the ranks!
The Experian Hitwise UK Top 10 Awards celebrate the most successful UK web…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:32AMRiverside Center Dinner Theater presents Cabaret - a darkly decadent Tony award-winning musical with a fabulous score by John Kander and Fred Ebb – about the quiet rise of the Third…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMThe Juilliard School has announced the artists who will receive honorary doctoral degrees at its 107th Commencement Ceremony, May 25 at 11am in Alice Tully Hall. Degree recipient Athol Fuga…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMWe’re back with more tickets to give away! Are you excited? I am. I absolutely love giving tickets away, it’s one of my favorite parts about being BroadwaySpotted. But enough abo…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:30AM- For Washington Improv Theater, the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is the biggest event of the year. With 58 teams vying for the comedy crown this year — that’s a record-setti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Seminar) and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas (The Stendhal Syndrome, Race) will announce the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
"Sweeney Todd" is subtitled "A Musical Thriller" -- which perfectly describes Jonathan Kent's electrifying new production.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:25AMThe Times Square Theatre, which has been vacant for over 20 years in New York’s famous theater district, will be renovated to house a four-dimensional Broadway extravaganza, according …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMOn Monday, March 19, The Town Hall hosted THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1950, as part of the 12th season of The Town Halls acclaimed Broadway By The Year series, created, written and hosted by Sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMIn a packed rehearsal room a few floors above the massive stage at Radio City Music Hall, 13-year-old Alyssa Casson walked to a spot in front of a panel of judges and paused, preparing to si…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:19AMGoodman Theatre and Teatro Vista have announced casting for Cándido Tirado's Fish Men, to run April 7 - May 6 in the Goodman's Owen Theatre. Edward Torres will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMCasting has been announced for the new Off-Broadway musical, Fat Camp, to play the American Theatre of Actors beginning April 12. Casey Hushion will direct, with choreography by Kelly Devine…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMNEW YORK (AP) -- In a packed rehearsal room a few floors above the massive stage at Radio City Music Hall, 13-year-old Alyssa Casson walked to a spot in front of a panel of judges and pa…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:16AMThe actor tackles old-time politics in Broadway’s “The Best Man” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create the…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:15AMLegit News:
Second fan performance set for hit musical
SOURCE: Variety at 11:14AMUnion Theatre, London: Written in 1966, Roger Milner's screwball comedy How's The World Treating You? makes an amiable comeback at the Union Theatre. It's an odd play but none…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMSteve Kazee and Cristin Milioti spends their evenings in an onstage Irish pub as the stars of Once, the Dublin-set musical romance that just opened on Broadway. So life was imitating art for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMFour of Chicago’s most gifted and innovative Off Loop directors (Sean Graney, Seth Bockley, Dexter Bullard and Joanie Schultz), along with artistic director Chay Yew, will stage the five p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:12AMTune in to see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR lyricist Tim Rice on TheaterTalk this Friday, March 23. Tim talks with hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about the return of his JESUS CHRIST SUP…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:09AMLast night, March 20, Priscilla Queen of the Desert celebrated the musicals landmark one year anniversary at the Palace Theatre before the show with the stars cutting the Priscilla Pink Pie …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMThe current revival of “The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess” will launch a national tour beginning in the fall of 2013, according to Playbill. “Porgy and Bess” first appeared on Broadway…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMSpring has arrived and so has the first play of our reading series! As you know (or maybe you don't, if you're a new subscriber), we get a lot of submissions here at the office, so three tim…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBy Gaëlle Villedary, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of art and nature programs in Jaujac, France. See more at Street Art Utopia. (via Street Art Utopia)
bonus: a video following th…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM
Broadway’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which opens tomorrow night (Thursday, March 22) at the Neil Simon Theatre, is in the news. ASSOCIATED PRESS Tim Rice By Mark Kennedy This spring, Tim Ric…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:58AMCasting is complete and rehearsals have begun for The Blank Theatres world premiere production of Sukie amp Sue Their Story by Michael John LaChiusa, directed by Kirsten Sanderson. Developed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMAt this point, we might as well rename Arts Desk the Daily Daisey.
Today's bit of Mike Daisey news: In a statement today, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company says it still plans to stage a summer…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:55AMI didn’t think the National’s production of One Man Two Guvnors could be bettered. I am delighted to say I was wrong: the new incarnation at the Haymarket surpasses the comic h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMGreetings from the edge of the world. Buy tickets to MTC's world premiere REGRETS and save over 40
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMTelevision magician and mind control expert Derren Brown brings his latest live stage show Svengali back to the West End this summer, playing a 27-performance run at Novello Theatre from 17 …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:46AMFat Camp, the new coming-of-age musical about a group of misfits at a summer camp for overweight teens, will play an Off-Broadway commercial run beginning April 12 at the American Theatre of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMGerman director and composer Heiner Goebells has won the International Ibsen Award, according to published reports. He will receive the honor at a ceremony to be held at the International I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMBroadway 4D Theaters, LLC today announced it has entered into a long term lease for the Times Square Theater with The New 42nd Street, Inc., the nonprofit cultural organization responsible f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMBroadway 4D Theaters, LLC has entered into a long term lease with The New 42nd Street, Inc for the Times Square Theater, located on 42nd Street, and will undertake a full renovation of the t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMTony nominee and Seminar star Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas will announce nominations for the 62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards on April 23 at the Friars Club. The Outer Critics Circle …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:37AMI wasnt sure what to expect as I rounded 48th street towards the Walter Kerr. This time was different from every other trip I had taken here. This time I was going to be privy to the inner w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMSir Patrick Stewart, Peabody Award-winning star of stage and screen, Shakespeare plays and science-fiction blockbusters, will be the host of the 71st Annual George Foster Peabody Awards cere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMWhen I think of people who have influenced my childhood, teens, and now adult life, George Lucas is at the top of my list and here's why: His stories enchanted me as a child so I went to see…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMGotta Dance: Poloma Garcia Lee
This week, Broadway.com's Gotta Dance! series showcases Paloma Garcia-Lee, a graceful ballerina in The Phantom of the Opera ensemble. Garcia-Lee, who made…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:28AMLegit News:
Lincoln Center Festival sets slate
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMToday is the birthday of English music hall “coster singer” Albert Chevalier. (See his full bio here). Here he is performing the touching “My Old Dutch”. (Dutch is sh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:25AMWith a Broadway resume that includes Elphaba in Wicked and Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley in The Pirate Queen, it’s no wonder Stephanie J. Block laughingly declares, “Peopl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:24AMIsrael was a serious player at the recent Academy Awards and film festival ceremonies thanks to Tel Aviv-based screenwriter and director Joseph Cedar. His newest film, Footnote, was an Oscar…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:22AMThe new musical comedy Nice Work if You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara begins previews on Broadway March 29, 2012 and officially opens on April 24, 2012. Kelli O'Hara…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:21AMIt’s 50 years since A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess’ seminal dystopian novel, was published.
To mark the occasion, Volcano Theatre Company are bringing their stage productio…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:19AMIt’s Flo Ziegfeld’s birthday. For my full run-down on him, please go here. In honor of the day, we share this AMAZING clip. It’s a 1929 filmed version of Ziegfeld’s M…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMBERLIN - A new documentary is shining light on Germany's neo-Nazi music scene and the role it plays in cultivating a violent far-right subculture.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:18AMBelgrade Theatre, Coventry: With the greatly anticipated London Olympics being the highlight of this coming summer, Stars in the Morning Sky exposes the darker secrets of such high profile e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMI Love Lucy Live On Stage will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, running September 12 - November 11, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune. The show, as previously re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AM ‘Once” She Done Him Right By: Isa Goldberg/Chief Theater Critic“Old Martin” meets broken down Hoover. That in a nutshell, is the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:10AMI was a huge fan of the musical Spring Awakening, but I always thought the show should have ended before the closing song "The Song of Purple Summer." I mean, what is a purple summer? Steven…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:05AMTax breaks for TV drama production are to be introduced, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced during his budget speech today.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMStage Dooring. This is a serious point of contention for many people, performers and audience members alike. There are fans that appear at the stage door after every performance they see reg…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMToday, March 21, Broadway favorite Rosie O'Donnell celebrates her birthday, and we at BroadwayWorld want to send a big 'thank you' to a woman who has continuously supported the Broadway comm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThe touring stage show “Batman Live” first premiered last Summer in the U.K., and now producers have announced a North American tour for later this year. Billed a “crime-fighting arena…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMThis tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson at Feinstein's at Loews Regency doesn't do justice to its subject matter.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
This week, Broadway.com’s Gotta Dance! series showcases Paloma Garcia-Lee, a graceful ballerina in The Phantom of the Opera ensemble. Garcia-Lee, who made her Broadway debut in the And…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AMMcCarter Theatre Center has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
Opening the season will be a McCarter commission, Christopher Durang's new Chekhov-inspired play Vanya and Sonia a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58AMMcCarter Theatre Center has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
Opening the season will be a McCarter commission, Christopher Durang's new Chekhov-inspired play Vanya and Sonia a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58AMThe Blank Theatre has announced casting for its world premiere production of Michael John LaChiusa's Sukie & Sue: Their Story, to run April 21-June 3 at the 2nd Stage Theatre. Kirs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:51AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Ulu Grosbard has died at N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center earlier this week, according to The New York Times. He was 83.
Grosbard received Tony nominations for his …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:46AMThe new basketball drama Magic/Bird, starring Kevin Daniels as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird, official bounces onto Broadway on March 21. Penned by Lombardi …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:45AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For March, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:40AMCutting Ball Theater is set to present the world premiere of Annie Elias' documentary theater piece Tenderloin, April 27-May 27. Elias will direct.
Tenderloin brings Cutting Ball&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:31AMThe West-End production of SWEENEY TODD, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, opened last night, March 20, at the Adelphi Theatre, following its sell-out success at the Chichester Fest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AM'Book of Mormon' on Broadway
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Winner of nine Tony Awards, seeing The Book of Mormon on Broadway is one of the hardest tickets in town to acquire. So the producers are giving bac…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:23AMLily Tomlin and her longtime partner, Jane Wagner, were honored with the 345th star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on Friday, March 16. Among the many well-wishers on hand to congratulate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMWhat’s so special about Oklahoma!? Seventy years ago when Oklahoma! premiered on the New York stage, it singlehandedly changed musical theater forever. Well, I say “singlehandedly,” bu…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 09:20AMThe West-End production of SWEENEY TODD, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, opened last night, March 20, at the Adelphi Theatre, following its sell-out success at the Chichester Fest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:11AMVictory Gardens Theater has announced its 2012-13 season, the first under new artistic director Chay Yew and featuring several directors making their debuts at this long-standing Chicago com…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:09AMMy recollection of the TV series Robin's Nest is that the character played by David Kelly (obits, March 15) was named Enda, not Arnold.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AM
More stage actors have signed up for this season's television pilots, according to Deadline.com.
Former Jersey Boysstar Erich Bergen will co-star with Amber Stevens and Craig Horner in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:58AM“I Love Lucy Live On Stage,” a new musical stage show adapted from the long-running, beloved television program, will have its Midwest premiere in Chicago, Sept. 12-Nov. 11 at the Broadw…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:56AMCast members from the hit AMC series Mad Men previewed the upcoming fifth season of the drama with a Times Talks discussion at the TimesCenter, held Tuesday, March 20.
The discussion, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:56AMAward-winning actors Lily Rabe and Richard Thomas will announce the Outer Critics Circle Award nominations at The Friars Club on Monday, April 23 at 11am.
In addition, Jerry Stiller and Ann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:46AMBroadway in Chicago said Thursday that "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" will be staged this fall at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, playing from Sept 12 through Nov. 11.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:46AMThe new issue of The Eugene O’Neill Review, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, has just been released; it contains my review of the Neo-Futurists’ 2001 product…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:45AMAustralian theatre producer John Frost today announced he had joined forces with the producer of the award winning Australian film RED DOG, Nelson Woss, to explore developing the Red Dog sto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:37AMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to report that Multi A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AMEquity has received an official apology from the Home Office after one of the union's members was told he was not able to serve as a passport counter-signatory because "acting is not a prope…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMOpera Holland Park is vying to become an independent company after more than 15 years of being run by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMJonathan Kent's Chichester Festival Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd opened last night (20 March, previews from 10 March 2012) at the West End's Adelphi Theatre. The sho…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:14AMInfinity Theatre Company Monday, March 26 in Washington, DC. Equity Principals auditions for Sisters of Swing and Dames at Sea for Infinity Theatre Company’s summer productions. Rehears…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMStage and screen actress Jessica Biel will join Tony Award winner Scarlett Johannson and Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren in the film Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:03AMA former government official reminisces about performing in an Oscar Wilde play. That starts him waxing rhapsodic about his encounters with Nikolai Lenin, James Joyce and Tristan Tzara, fath…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses his work on AMC's Mad Men, wanting to be on Smash, and returning to Broadway.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM"My Occasion of Sin," Monica Bauer's drama of strained race relations in 1960s Omaha, at Urban Stages, suffers from a bad case of split personality.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
A double bill from the pen of Martin Crimp is currently gracing the stage of The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond: Play House and Definitely the Bahamas, directed by Crimp himself - the fir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:51AMAdelphi, London: There could not be two more different musicals than Singin' in the Rain and Sweeney Todd but the current West End productions of these shows leave no doubt that Chiches…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe cast and crew of Sweeney Todd, led by Michael Ball as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Imelda Staunton as Mrs Lovett, were joined by guests including Tom Jones, Rosemarie Ford, Rober…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:31AMThankfully, Gov. Corbett has called for arts funding to stay level in his proposed budget for next year. Regrettably, however, the Republican-controlled legislature seeks to cut funding for …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:19AM...that, once in a while, the best method toward reframing your present tense and seeing your future through a fresh perspective is to make a drastic but overdue change. The new scenery and…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Jon Fleming about his stage debut in Clifford Streit's "HIM" the play at the Soho Playhouse in NYC, starring in Here's "Dante's Cove," his recurrin…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
by: Dan Mason (@djdan1079) Round 1 of musical madness is in the books. While 11 lower seeds were victorious, only 5 of those could be considered big upsets. Perhaps the most shocking resul…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 12:33AMThere is no joy at Lincoln Center — mighty Paul Taylor has struck out. America’s senior modern-dance genius showed three new works in the first week of his company’s New York season. A…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:33AMBroadway and film director Ulu Grosbard died in Manhattan early this week. Known for his direction of Broadway productions like David Mamet's American Buffalo and films like True Confessions…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04AMDirector, Artistic Director, Writer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? First, my colleagues. Not only the amazingly talented collaborators – actors, writers, choreog…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThe Tin Pan Alley musical Hello! My Baby, featuring book and lyrics by Emmy-winning "Cheers" writer and Tony-nominated Sister Act co-librettist Cheri Steinkellner, begins performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn the opening moments of Crisis in the Credit System, a bitingly funny, deliberately flummoxing miniseries of sorts by the young Canadian, London-based artist Melanie Gilligan, a kindly you…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn January of this year Humboldt, Saskatchewan, lost the Sutherland Theatre to demolition. Here is a poignant slide show of what the housemeant to the community.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMRe-imagine Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" as a cross between Cinderella and A Star is Born, throw in the Big Bad Wolf as an agent, and tensions between a carnivore underclass …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMMy Occasion of Sin takes place in Omaha during the race riots of the late 1960s, and places us as witness to events in the lives of the characters portrayed here. Luigi Waites was a real per…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAcademy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") is Pozzo in Mark T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKathleen Turner reprises her Broadway role of a no-nonsense nun in High for a San Francisco engagement of Matthew Lombardo's drama starting March 21 at the SHN Curran Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Chicago premiere of Mark St. Germain's two-character drama Freud's Last Session, about a meeting of opposite forces C.S. Lewis and Dr. Sigmund Freud, features the play's orig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe hunt for actors good enough — and tall enough — to play basketball icons in Magic/Bird led to Kevin Daniels as Magic Johnson and Tug Coker as Larry Bird. They're making t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York City premiere of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, a play that spans 80 years in the life of a family — over the course of many mealtimes, both joyous and contentious &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMagic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, begins previews at Broadway's Longacre Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Sharon McNight (Starmites) hosts the fourth annual RRAZZiversary, a gala celebration and benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, March 21 at San Francisco&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDating Depression and Dirtbags: A Love Story, a solo show written by and starring Elza Zagreda, begins performances March 21 at Stage Left Studios in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHim, which played the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre in December 2011, officially opens in its return engagement March 21 at the Soho Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is back on Broadway. Esteemed movie and theater director Mike Nichols directs the revival, which features retro sets and music, and young actors playing…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AM 
