The 1971 religious rock opera remains a psychologically lite relic of its time, but it gets propulsive treatment in this energized, vocally robust revival.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:39PM"Once" is the most touching new musical to come to Broadway since "The Light in the Piazza" opened here in 2005, and it deserves to be a hit. Meanwhile, staging "Jesus Christ Superstar" is a…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:31PMThere's something so satisfying about seeing an understudy steal a show. That happened at the final press performance of Jesus Christ Superstar where the role of Judas was played by Jeremy K…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:30PMRACHAEL HIP-FLORES was born and raised in Piscataway, NJ and graduatedMason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. For her work on Anyone But Me, Rachael has received theIAWTV, Stre…
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The most passion I can muster for the flashy and mechanical new Broadway resurrection of “Jesus Christ Superstar” is qualified like.
D…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn the new production of Neil Simon’s 1991 Pulitzer-winning “Lost in Yonkers,” clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room. Those mists are gray, threatening and unmoving, just lik…
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When a new musical is engaged in the complicated process of trying to find its voice, an audience has to be willing to listen to some misplaced notes, to hear it speak and sing in a sometime…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:50PMCritical reviews of Stratford’s Jesus Christ Superstar, which opened on Broadway Thursday night, raged from the heavenly to the hellish.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:46PMDeadline reports that SMASH creator and executive producer Theresa Rebeck will step down as showrunner for the television show before it returns for its recently announced second season. Reb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44PMThe Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” employs modern dress and an arena-rock atmosphere.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:39PMA revivial of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," opens at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Michael Arabian and starring Alan Mandell, Barry McGovern and James Cromwell.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:29PMMail Online reports that Dolly Parton will take her musical 9 to 5 on tour in the UK, kicking off October 12 at the Manchester Opera House.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24PMWhile walking out of the Neil Simon Theatre, one might be forgiven for wondering: Who knew the greatest story ever told needed this much help?
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:43PMJeremy Jordan and the Broadway cast of Disney's NEWSIES performs Seize the Day and Santa Fe on Good Morning America, Thursday March 22nd, 2012.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:42PMAbraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Official Trailer #2 2012 (HD)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter's second official trailer in HD! Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov r…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:17PMby: Dan Mason (@djdan1079) We’ve cut the field down to 16. Overall, our second round matchups failed to provide a lot of drama. Aside from the #2 seed Christine Daae going down to th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 08:16PM"Next to Normal" triumphs because Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) treat the topic with sensitivity, examining the human toll in a way that is relatable, and give us chara…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMMac Wellman: Pushing Boundaries Hayley Finn quotes Mac Wellman in her HowlRound article: “Where playwrights go wrong is writing a generic play. Most of these plays have a sofa from which t…
SOURCE: direct address at 08:03PMThe new Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company has been named.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:00PMBooks: I read all the time. I recently read a big book on the nature of seeing and believing by Pylyshyn. I've also been re-reading a book that has been an influence on me: 'Frame Analysis' …
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JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR opened on Broadway tonight, Thursday, March 22. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by Des McAnuff, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR began preview…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMJust Dance - ABDC Season 7, Carrie Underwood Good Girl, Lindsay Pearce, 2012 Kids' Choice Awards
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) has selected their crews for season 7, and we have …
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:41PMYesterday, March 21, Broadway favorite Rosie O'Donnell celebrated her 50th birthday, and she got a very special birthday message from some of Broadway's biggest stars- including Chita Rivera…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14PMEver been at a play, concert, or even a musical when a audience member's cell phone begins to ring, thus ruining a moment on stage Most of us have- and in the video below, 'Rock Center with …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMAfter two years in London, Caissie Levy is back stateside to bring tear-jerking mega-musical Ghost to Broadway, and of course she celebrated her return with an appearance on Show People with…
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Broadway. Just the name conjures thoughts of glamour and bright lights. High quality entertainment is assumed to accompany a Broadway show. But in order to achieve this status, what do the a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:55PMPatrick Stewart will host the Peabody Awards: "Tony Award nominee Patrick Stewart will host the 71st annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony May 21 at the Waldorf Astoria in New Yo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:51PMTwo separate exhibitions at Yale, on the Society of Antiquaries and on Shakespeare, together illuminate a four-century British effort to discover and reinvent its past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50PMAfter two years in London, Caissie Levy is back stateside to bring tear-jerking mega-musical Ghost to Broadway, and of course she celebrated her return with an appearance on Show People with…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:45PMWhat a divine season it is for Jesus on Broadway. On one stage, nuns make a joyful noise in Sister Act. On another, he figures highly in The Book of Mormon. Yet another has him as the centra…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:43PMThe 1970s rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" is back on Broadway courtesy of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:35PMCharlotte Stoudt reviews "The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King," Andrew Dolan's drama on race and marriage now at the Atwater Village Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:31PMMore than 40 years after it premiered on Broadway (following its sensational debut in album form), Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is making a splashy return …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:30PMMusical Theatre West hosts a memorial service and starts a scholarship fund in honor of frequent leading man John Bisom, who apparently took his own life last weekend...A Mamet and a Quaid j…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:28PMElevator Repair Service has adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic American novel The Great Gatsby into a smash hit theater piece, Gatz. Now in a return—and already extended—…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:19PMYou like us, you really like us! On March 22 the Broadway.com Facebook page received its 50,000th "like" from users around the world, and the number continues to grow. Guess what: …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PMA new space, three doors from the Arden Theatre Company in Old City, will become the focus of its programs for students and children, and will house an 80-seat theater, the Arden's third. Ho…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:08PMSahr Ngaujah reprises his Broadway role as political and cultural hero of Nigeria
After "Fela!" — the Afrobeat musical based on the life and art of the Nigerian musician and political…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:01PMThe producers have just announced that added to the line-up are Tony Award winner Len Cariou, Eddie Korbich, Alex Ellis, Lindsay Nicole Chambers,Lynne Wintersteller and more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:01PMUnemployment.I am currently unemployed.Bad news for my bank balance, my mental health and my general demeanour. Good news for next year’s tax bill and my local off license.It also se…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:52PMNews broke this week that Oprah Winfrey’s network OWN has canceled Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show, which means that Broadway’s biggest cheerleader is coming home to New …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMWhile there were many moments in Goodman Theatre’s deeply disturbing and immensely fascinating production of Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real that flew over my head, one thing cer…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:47PMTony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth was a guest on ELLEN today, where she spoke about her new show on ABC entitled GCB. While she was there, Ellen revealed that Chenoweth was the victim o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMJulie Taymor's SPIDER-MAN legal battle continues to press on, as producers 8 Legged Productions, LLC have filed a dismissal of her lawsuit, which claims that much of her work was used unrigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMRosie O’Donnell may tape her soon-to-end TV talk show Rosie in Chicago, but the stars of Great White Way didn't mind coming out to celebrate the Broadway vet’s 50th birthday.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:35PMDo you love to dance? Wanna show your stuff to the world? Then join the fun and be a part of Montreal-based choreographer Sylvain Emard's Le Grand Continental this summer at The River To Riv…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:28PMI’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “OOPS! Your score is too high for everyone involved.” I’m talking to you, Andrew Ll…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 05:27PMStinkyKids the Musical Will Also Entertain the Adults: StinkyKids the Musical, is a strong contender for one of the best children’s musicals I have seen.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:26PMThe Pearl Theater Company’s sure-footed production of “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” a rustic comedy that slides into anguish, is at City Center Stage II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMChicago Shakespeare Theatre has announced casting for Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, to run April 24 - June 10. Barbara Gaines will direct the production.
The play centers on a wealth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMActors' Playhouse in Coral Gables is celebrating its 25th anniversary next season, and the theater has just filled one of two blanks in its 2012-2013 schedule with a hot show: Jon Robin Bait…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:23PMAdditional casting has been announced for the previously reported If It Only Even Runs a Minute 9, to be presented at Joe's Pub on March 26 at 7pm and 9:30pm.
Each performance will fea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PMThe star of this show is, of course, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a verbal symphony, and were Scott Shepherd the only person on the stage for the entire 6 hours and 15 min…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 05:15PMMarch 22, 2012By Angela Marror BoergerEducation & Community Programs CoordinatorWhat do you get when you cross a serious love of Shakespeare with a serious talent for clowning? The…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 05:15PMI have been backstage to several Broadway shows and every time is like the first time. Walking into a Broadway theatre during tech is like walking backstage at Disney World but twice as magi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:14PMThe last 12 Minutes Max showcase of On the Boards' 2011-2012 season will be held at the Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance on April 8 and 9 at 7pm. The event will be presented b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMThe Maltz Jupiter Theatre presents Hello, Dolly! featuring music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:09PMThe answers to the universe’s greatest mysteries are ready to be revealed as Now. Here. This., directed and choreographed by Michael Berresse, heads toward opening night at off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMNEW YORK — At the top of the Broadway transfer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Jesus Christ Superstar,” there's a cl…
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Broadway Behind the Scenes: In Rehearsal with the cast of "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Recently we got a behind-the-scenes look at "Nice Work If You Can Get It" in a s…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:50PMOne of the final productions at St. Ann's Warehouse current Water Street home will be TR Warszawa's Festen (The Celebration), a theatrical feast adapted from the 1998 Danish film by …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMNeumeier’s brilliant adaptation of Chekov uses intense duets to telegraph emotional truths
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:41PMNeumeier’s brilliant adaptation of Chekov uses intense duets to telegraph emotional truths
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:41PMThe legendary Liza Minnelli will appear on The Joan HamburgShow on Friday, March 23. The Joy Behar Show airs from 1200PM 200PM EST on WOR-AM. Minnelli will discuss her upcoming area appearan…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMNBC has renewed its critically acclaimed musical drama Smash Mondays, 10-11 p.m. ET for a second season, it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24PM “A night of Lad-Sissies celebration!” The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s 43rd Annual Awards Show, took place last Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within’s glamor…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:24PMAfter missing several critics’ performances of Jesus Christ Superstar, Josh Young will perform as Judas on the show’s March 22 opening night, his press representative confirms. U…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PMMark Bruni, Will Chase, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Stephen Wallem, and Tom Wopat
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:22PMNBC's Broadway-themed series Smash, based on the production and development of a fictional Marilyn Monroe musical, has been renewed for a second season, according to TVLine.com. The…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 04:20PMNBC's Broadway-themed series Smash, based on the production and development of a fictional Marilyn Monroe musical, has been renewed for a second season, according to TVLine.com. The…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:20PMComedian Ellen DeGeneres has challenged viewers and guests to an ongoing “dance dare” contest where people videotape themselves sneaking up behind an unsuspecting person and spon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMIllustration by Ran Xia To purchase this illustration or Ran’s other Broadway pieces, click here.
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 04:14PMThey’re back already. Naked Boys Singing, the musical celebration of the male form, resumes performances March 22 at Theatre Row’s Kirk Theatre. The show played its final off Broadway pe…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:13PMFans of Mark St. Germain's one-act "Freud's Last Session," as well as the Bellevue psychologist acting as adviser to the local production, are drawn to the play's articulate exploration of F…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:11PMJESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR opens on Broadway tonight, Thursday, March 22. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:07PMF. Kathleen Foley reviews 'The Illusion' at A Noise Within.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:02PMREVIEW: A smart, vivid exhibit depicts the "thaw" in Soviet society, as the Communist state developed a more human face.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:01PMTony Award-winning shows mark the next Fox Theatre season.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:00PMJosh Young will perform the role of Judas as scheduled for the opening night performance of the Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Neil Simon Theatre tonight, March 22.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:59PMBroadway vet Tony Vincent last month made his first appearance on NBC's singing competition THE VOICE, where he performed his on rendition of Queen's We Are the Champions. The rocker is now …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMThe next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "The Coup," will air March 26 at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMJosh Kornbluth and I have made a bunch of pieces together over the past fifteen plus years. He’s created 10 monologues and made four films based on them—all of them autobiographical. I w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:55PMCarlyle Brown wrote a memory play about a mixed marriage from the civil-rights-era South. Then he was cast to act in it.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:55PMJustin Matthew Sargent will assume the role of Drew in Broadway’s Rock of Ages beginning March 26. Sargent will succeed Dan Domenech as the bartender-turned-rock star in the ‘80s jukeb…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 03:42PM"Smash," the hour-long NBC musical drama series about the making of a Broadway musical, has been renewed for a second season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMNew YorkNo Place to Go- The financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe’s Pub with Ethan Lipton’s funny personal ode to the unemployed. . . .The Big Meal- Though Thornton Wilder is very…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 03:38PMThe playwright Amy Herzog, whose “4000 Miles” is being remounted at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, draws on her family history and especially her grandmother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMHave you ever felt so many contradictory emotions that you wished you had more than two sides of your face from which to talk?
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 03:32PMThree time Oscar winner and four time Grammy award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz joined the 275 singers of San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in two performances of his celebrat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMAcademy Award winner Liza Minnelli will appear on "The Joan Hamburg Show" March 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:28PMOn Saturday, March 17th, New Yorkers were treated to a one night only performance by Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Alan Cumming. The intimate musical evening, hosted at XL Nightclub amp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:27PMToday we are continuing BroadwayWorlds extensive coverage of NBCs hit musical drama series SMASH with a new entry in our ever-expanding collection of interviews with the cast, creative team …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMJeremy Jordan and cast members of the new Disney musical Newsies appeared on ABC's Good Morning America on March 22.
The show, which features a score by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMComplete Look at Encores! PIPE DREAM in Rehearsal
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, the second Encores! production of the 2011-12 season, is now in rehear…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:16PMAct II Playhouse has announced the productions set for their 2012-2013 season, which will be Tony Braithwaite's first season as producing artistic director with the company.
The seaso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMIts such a pleasure to see news when a good friend gets a great job. When a good friend gets the job of his life its even better. So today Gregory Doran is rightly applauded by staff, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:14PMBerkshire Theatre Group and Artistic DirectorCEO, Kate Maguire have just announced programming for Summer 2012. BTGs Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PMBerkshire Theatre Group has announced programming for Summer 2012, which will include a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMNBC has ordered a second season of its musical drama Smash, according to Variety. No other details have been announced.
The series, which looks behind the scenes of the making of a Broadwa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMIn the new promotional poster for Roundabout Theatre Company's forthcoming Broadway revival of Harvey, Emmy winner Jim Parsons seems like a well-dressed, average guy...with the shadow of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PMAs previously reported, Josh Young, who is starring as 'Judas' in Broadway's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR after originating the role in both the Startford and La Jolla productions of the show rece…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMProject, DublinWhat can 25 short plays tells us about Ireland? Fishamble Theatre Company held an open submission last year for mini-plays that address aspects of contemporary Ireland in 600 …
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More thoughts about the controversy surrounding "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" and the issue of truth in documentary theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:59PMNew York Theatre Workshop's four-show 2012-13 season will include the New York City premiere of Amy Herzog's Belleville and Alexander Dinelaris' Red Dog Howls, the downtown compa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMIn 2001, five directors in the "Directing Shakespeare Symposium" sat down with moderator and set designer Ming Cho Lee for a unique experiment regarding the relationship between director and…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMRising Phoenix Repertory will present favorites, a new play by Charlotte Miller, as part of the company's Cino Nights series March 25 at the Seventh Street Small Stage in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMDiana (Kerry A. Dowling) ponders her private cast of characters.While I was watching Next to Normal (at Speakeasy Stage through April 15), I unexpectedly found myself reminded over and over …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:49PMDid JFK's assassination have at least somewhat accidental roots? That's the idea behind The Magic Bullet Theory at Sacred Fools. Writers Terry Tocantins and Alex Zola, plus director J.J. May…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:48PMGuildhall theatre, DerbyIt has been estimated that if bees disappear, man has no more than four years left to live. Bee pollination accounts for a third of our diet; yet the sudden and inexp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44PMStage and screen star Ciaran Hinds will join Carla Gugino, Sebastian Stan, Sigourney Weaver and James Wolk in USA's six-hour drama series Political Animals, according to The Hollywood …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMTickets are now on sale for February House, the new musical inspired by a real life artistic commune that fostered some of America’s greatest talents. Davis McCallum directs the piece,…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 02:38PMTickets are now on sale for February House, the new musical inspired by a real life artistic commune that fostered some of America’s greatest talents. Davis McCallum directs the piece,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:38PMMAMMA MIA! Broadway cast member Andrew Chappelle has been crowned the winner of the sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, the annual event benefiting New York’s Ali Forney Center. The even…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:38PMCenter Theatre Group celebrated the opening of its production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Mark Taper Forum, on Wednesday, March 21.
Michael Arabian directs the product…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMFor the first time in more than two decades, Mogadishu's National Theatre in Somalia re-opened on Monday to stage a play centred on the future of their nation.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:32PMThe Marquis Theatre is packed with fans eager to see Ricky Martin's Broadway return as Che in director Michael Grandage’s revival of Evita. The Latin superstar, who last appeared o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMCavalia, the magical company which combines horses and humans in an inspired staging, will be presenting a brand-new production in May.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:29PMRhapsody in Blue, a 1945 film version of the life of George Gershwin, is out for the first time on DVD. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says it's a fascinating mixture of real facts, p…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:24PMStephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along takes on new musical depth in an actor-musician staging by John Doyle.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMLA Stage Alliance is to present LA Stage Talks, a series of free panel discussions exploring the creation of performing arts in Southern California, moderated by CEO Terence McFarland.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMAnthony Heald, urged by his Silence of the Lambs director (Jonathan Demme) and the film's star (Jodie Foster), attended last night's performance of the Off-Broadway smash SILENCE! THE MUSICA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMYoung Vic, LondonLike the Donmar, the Young Vic's Maria is a space in which there is nowhere for the actors to hide, and which requires absolute truthfulness. The only lies exposed in Natali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMArt is a lie that brings us nearer to the truth. Pablo Picasso said that, or something close to it.Mike Daisey is a brilliant storyteller. Period. He made a mistake. I cannot say that put in…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 02:15PMStars Christian Borle, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Adam Chanler-Berat were joined by directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, as well as playwright Rick Elice, to talk about play-with-music "Peter…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:09PMBarbican, LondonIt is not quite true to say that Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, written between 1928 and 1940, is unadaptable. I saw a famous production by Yuri Lyubimov in Moscow in 1983, and Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMBroadway "Phantom" Gets Video Visit From London at 10,000th NYC Performance
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video The Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Th…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:08PMSchool of Rock and "Rock of Ages" Ready to Roll Against Cancer
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:07PMTony Award-winning composers and musical theatre legends Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber share a wealth of common ground: Both have written long-running Broadway sensations, taken h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMYesterday, March 21st, Roundabout Theatre Company celebrated the 400th performance of their hit revival of ANYTHING GOES, now starring Stephanie J. Block and Joel Grey through April 29th. Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05PMJohn Lithgow and David Auburn Rescue "Columnist" Joseph Alsop From Obscurity in New Broadway Play
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:04PMBritish actor Andrew Malkin has died of a heart attack, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. He was 49.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMAlways Wanted To Write But Didn’t Know Where to Start?This Spring: Become a Playwright at Chicago DramatistsA national leader in playwright training, Chicago Dramatists offers a variety of…
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Alan Cumming is best known for his Tony-winning portrayal of the Emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret, but on March 17, the Broadway vet revealed his inner pop diva. The actor performed …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMCaesar's Palace's Absinthe ringmaster The Gazillionaire has announced that Lijana Wallenda, seventh generation member of historic circus family the Flying Wallendas, will join Absi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:57PMYesterday, March 21st, SEMINAR partnered with Givenik.com for a special post-performance reception for audience and cast members at Glass House Tavern 252 West 47th Street. The evening helpe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMIt’s Mach 22, the birthday of two legendary Broadway composers: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Once upon a time, the two came together to celebrate theater producer Cameron …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:55PMThree time Oscar winner and four time Grammy award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz joined the 275 singers of San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus in two performances of his celebrat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMJoshua Hopkins as Figaro, Sandra Piques Eddy as Rosina (photo credit: Tim Matheson.)Lights, camera, Figaro!Vancouver Opera seduces with Rossiniby Angela DescalziIf you watched the …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:46PMThink you can't be hypnotized? If you like horses at all, Cavalia may put you in a trance.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:45PM'The Today Show' just featured a special segment in which correspondents Jenna Bush Hager and Sara Haines visited Costume World of Pompano Beach, Florida. While they were there, they checked…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMROCK & ROLL CAMP The cast of Rock of Ages is riotously hell bent on making you have a good time. They beat you into submission with energy, wide smiles, and hair—lots and lots of great…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41PMOn Wednesday, March 28th, Givenik.com will partner with the new Broadway show Ghost The Muscial for a special post-performance reception for audience and cast members at The Paramount Hotel …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:34PMBrian Dennehy and Nathan Lane took part in a panel discussion about Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre on Tuesday, March 20. Rick Kogan and Chris Jones mode…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMHow classical Indian dance can speak in today's language without being wrenched from its foundation. By Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:30PMHow classical Indian dance can speak in today’s language without being wrenched from its foundation. By Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:30PMFoster ChildAnother comedy by our king pleases the crowd at OLTby Jim MurchisonLast night as the final strains of Oh Canada rang out, a gentleman in my row leaned forward and literally crack…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 01:30PMAs Shakespeare’s Globe readies its summer 2012 season, including its ambitious Globe to Globe project, which will see all 37 Shakespeare plays performed by 37 different international c…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:24PMJosh Young, who is making his Broadway debut as Judas Iscariot in the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, will return to the production for the musical's March 22 opening night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:16PMThe cast of the new touring production of Starlight Express that begins performances at New Wimbledon Theatre May 11 will feature several performers with long associations with the show, inc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMIn a show that sets a new bar for innovation, insight and breathtaking equality — the Buntport ensemble has figured out a way to let everyone, and no one, star in "Tommy Lee Jones Go…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:09PMI am in New Orleans during one of its very few "quiet" periods. Quiet is a relative concept, especially in The Big Easy, where music and booze flow every night of the week, working life be h…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:08PMSara Fitzpatrick is the Director of Interactive for SpotCo, a leading full-service entertainment advertising and branding agency, working with Broadway and film productions to oversee the de…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMMost theater artists would agree that tech rehearsals can be incredibly boring. They are repetitive and slow and tedious. You might go over a single moment once, or twice, or five times, or …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMCarpenter Performing Arts Center has announced plans for its upcoming 2012-2013 season, which will offer dance, music, theater, and more.
The season's highlights will include Holly Hug…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:58PMOscar winner and stage veteran Cate Blanchett will be one of the directors of the new Australian film, The Turning, based on Tim Winton's novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMPlaybill.com has learned that the Tony Awards Administration Committee will assemble for the third time during the 2011-2012 season the afternoon of March 29, according to a Tony Awards spok…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMIt takes divine inspiration to bring the greatest story ever told to life in art, and that’s exactly what Broadway.com’s resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson had…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52PMNewly appointed RSC artistic director Greg Doran is a true Shakespearean, fit for the challenges aheadWhen Michael Boyd's departure from the Royal Shakespeare Company was first announced las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMFull casting has been announced for the UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe's 1984 musical Starlight Express which, as was previously reported, will tour from the New Wimbledo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:49PMThe international hit play FREUD'S LAST SESSION has a new TV commercial which is set to begin airing next week. Check out a sneak peek below!
Winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award …
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"ONCE is as unabashedly romantic, funny a passionate as you dreamed it would be." -New York Post
For more information on ONCE, visit http://oncemu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMBroadway vet Adam Pascal appeared on 'New York Live' to talk about his current role as Huey Calhoun, in the Tony Award-winning musical MEMPHIS as well as his other roles he has performed on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PM92nd Street Y's Lyrics amp Lyricistst series The New York Times calls whip-smart presents a show conjuring up the hip sounds and tight harmonies heard in Broadway sensations like Jersey Boys…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe 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 12:41PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Joanna Sherman shares pivotal moments in her theatre career and why the arts mat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMReviewed by: Russ Weatherford Tom Vaughn ‘s cabaret show Trail of Cheers opened Tuesday evening, March 20th, at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in Manhattan. The Missouri native was inspired…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:21PMHow do you celebrate a day that welcomed not one but two legendary Broadway composers into the world? In this case, we’ll let these two talented fellows do it themselves. Stephen Sondh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMSister Act’s sweet-hearted cop “Sweaty Eddie” has a tough job looking after Deloris Van Cartier, and Broadway.com recently headed into actor Chester Gregory’s dressin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMNewsies, the new Disney musical that began performances March 15 at the Nederlander Theatre, visited "Good Morning America" March 22 to perform the first-act finale, "Seize th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:17PMRoyal Shakespeare Company's Chief Associate Director, Gregory Doran, is to succeed Michael Boyd as Artistic Director, taking up the role in September.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMThe Sydney Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Uncle Vanya, starring Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett; Ireland's Druid Theatre Company; and Tony winner Alan Cumming in a one…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMChief associate director Gregory Doran has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Doran will succeed Michael Boyd, who served as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMDirector Christopher Zinovitch (also the ArtsWest Artistic director) showed good judgment in slotting the show for the company's 2011-2012 season, and has found a cast and star capable of ma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09PMThe meaning of "hot" in show business terms could currently be a synonym for playwright/screenwriter John Logan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:08PMTelevision network WE has given the green light to a new reality series chronicling the life of singer-songrwriter Cyndi Lauper, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:08PMThe third time around for the tour of the Abba songbook smash "Mamma Mia!" may seem a bit frayed to the critical eye, but Chiquitita, the opening night embraced it like a long lost friend.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:07PMNewsies, the new American musical, began performances last week, March 15, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 W 41st St for a limited run. Kicking off their limited run, the Broadway comp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMNEWSIES, the new American musical, began performances on March 15 at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a limited run. Kicking off their limited run now extended through August 19, the Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMSource Festival is set to present 24 new works by playwrights from across the U.S., June 8-July 1.
The festival will include three full-length -plays, 18 ten-minute plays, and three artisti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PMAndrew Malkin, an ensemble member in the cast of The King's Speech who was also understudying the role of Lionel Logue, has died of a heart attack aged 49, just days before he was due to mak…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMAge & Hometown: 27; Rochester, New York
Current Role: Getting the scoop—and scooping up hearts—in her Broadway debut as female reporter Katherine Plumber in Disney’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMThe title is both titillating and clever. The source material, an independent documentary, is the stuff of legend. Its subject matter couldn't be more American. And now it …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMSondheim is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laur…
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It took eight years, but I have finally returned to England. It started in the fall when I couldn’t stop listening to the cast album of Matilda, and I found myself clamoring to see th…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 11:57AMIn the Beginning
Though the iconic Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” became a fixture in teenagers’ basements and church youth groups alike in the early 1970s, creators…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AMArtists such as Beck, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, and Silver Alert will contribute to a new CD celebrating the work of Philip Glass.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMNext week on SMASH, the team deals with the aftermath of the workshop. Ivy Megan Hilty remains in the dark about her fate, while Derek Jack Davenport recruits Karen Katharine McPhee to help …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMAcademy Award winner and stage actress Patty Duke has signed on to guest star on Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva," according to TVGuide.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMAs if you hadn't already seen the headlines, Disney's beloved movie musical Newsies is finally making its way to Broadway. The show not only features rising star (and hunk) Jere…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMThe Argentine Elena Roger stars in the Broadway revival of the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Evita.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43AMTony Award nominee Patrick Stewart will host the 71st annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony May 21 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMMikhall Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, an epic novel which tells of the Devil visiting Moscow and interacting with its inhabitants, is considered to be one of the best novels of …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:34AMThe Tony Award-winning Best Revival of Anything Goes celebrated its 400th performance on Broadway March 21 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMWhile I know the author would like me to get what The Big Meal is, I must say there is more than one species of big meal in this play.Played to perfection by this cast, this is the story of …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:32AMEver wonder how the Gospel would have spread if Jesus was on Twitter? To test that theory and to combat the pesky usage of cell phones during Broadway shows, Godspell producer Ken Davenport …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMAs narrative ballets go, The Seagull is worth the homework required to appreciate its full richness.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:31AMTen years after he first applied for the job, Doran becomes only the fifth artistic director in the RSC's five-decade historyGregory Doran has been named artistic director of the Royal Shake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMWhere do Broadway costumes go to retire? In keeping with a grand New York tradition, they head to Pompano Beach, Florida. Today Show contributing correspondents Jenna Bush Hager and Sara Hai…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMA little belatedly some recommendations for your dance viewing pleasure
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:26AMTickets are now available for the Broadway transfer of Nicky Silver’s The Lyons. Directed by Mark Brokaw, the play stars Tony winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa and features Michael …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMBroadway veteran Seth Numrich will be featured in the cast of Charlotte Miller's favorites, the 15th play in Rising Phoenix Repertory's Cino Nights series, to be presented at the S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMOur casting cup runneth over this week with theater news featuring big doings from big casts: The blockbuster gang at The Book of Mormon is ignoring their Momma’s advice and giving it…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:21AMMasterworks Broadway has announced the release of "Tracie Bennett Sings Judy: Songs from the Broadway Production of End of the Rainbow and Other Garland Classics."
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMThe ten recipients of the second annual Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, which bestow grants to educators whose work impacts students in a meaningful way, were a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMNatalie Abrahami's Young Vic revival of Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie opened last night (21 March, previews from 15 March 2012) with Game of Thrones and The Tudors star Natalie Dormer in…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMThe most recent set of Broadway stats had international tourists at about 14% of the entire Broadway audience. While not a majority, it's still a good chunk (and it was actually down this pa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMAndrea Marcovicci will now offer workshop presentations of her new show, Smile, at The Gardenia in West Hollywood, March 22-25.
Shelly Markham will serve as musical director and accompanist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMAppearances by the performance artists known as the "NEA Four" will be among the highlights of the new 2012-13 season at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The season, which…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTheir current show Home/Land has been extended through April 28. You can get tix here.
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Two-time Tony nominee Anthony Heald attended the Wednesday, March 21 performance of Silence! The Musical, currently performing at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122.
With a book by Hunter Bel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMTony Award-winning playwright Athol Fugard, Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones, Tony Award-nominated choreographer Peter Martins and Grammy-winning singer Nancy Wilson will receive ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMStage and television star Hank Azaria will take part in the Film Independent Live Reading of Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski, to be held at 7:30pm on Thursday, March 29 at the Lo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMThe multi-faceted Mikhail Baryshnikov, who famously left the Soviet Union in 1974, returns to the theater to perform for the first time in his mother tongue in the Dmitry Krymov Laboratorys …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMThe new production that Ben Brantley calls “A smart, lively and beautifully acted new play that asks us to hear how we hear, in silence as well as in speech,” has extended its run at the…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:43AMEthan Lipton has part-time work on a full time basis. He is an information refiner. He has a desk, and he knows where everything is on that desk. He has a place to go in the morning, and …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 10:42AMLONDON (AP) -- The Royal Shakespeare Company says it has appointed Gregory Doran as its new artistic director....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:42AMSydney Theatre Companys STC acclaimed production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Andrew Upton and directed by Tams Ascher whose staging of Ivanov for Katona Jozsef Theatre was cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMChristopher Durang’s new play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a McCarter Theatre Center commission, will make its world premiere in the McCarter's Berlind Theatre Sept. 7-Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMShattered Globe Theatre has announced casting for Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin, to run May 3 - June 3. Roger Stuart will direct the production.
Set in London 1913 during the Su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMCasting has been announced for Red Bull Theater's presentation of Jean Genet's The Screens, part of the company's Revelation Readings series to be held at Theatre at St. Cleme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMThere will be a fundraiser for HartBeat Ensemble 's co-founder/co-artistic director Gregory Tate on April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Mark Twain House & Museum on Farmington Avenue in Hartford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:35AMRiverside Studios, Hammersmith: Tete a Tete's willingness to experiment means you can't always rely on the quality of their work, but you can pretty well guarantee an operatic curv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMBroadway Backwards 7 Finale: I Am What I Am
From Broadway Backwards 7, the inspiring, gospel-fueled finale of "I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles triggered a rapturous standi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:34AM"How would you communicate to the world who you are in a single quote? What words would you choose?" were the questions Kate Winslet posed to 100 A-list celebrities for her upcomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMA one-man MACBETH will be performed by Alan Cumming, July 514, at the Lincoln Center Festival. Tony Awardwinning actor Alan Cumming returns to Lincoln Center Festival with a virtuoso perform…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMIf you are a member of the Indie Theatre Community you have no doubt heard about this amazing organization. In the earliest stages of my producing career, they made it possible for me to sec…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMNCM Fathom Events has postponed its sing-along screenings of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond, which were scheduled for March 26 and April 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMNow. Here. This., the new work from the creators and cast of the cult-hit musical [title of show], began previews for its world premiere at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre on March 7 pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AM Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest love stories ever told. For one night only the Royal Ballet will be performing this classic ballet to thousands of people around the world as it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:26AMAh, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's depiction of American family life at the turn of the 20th century, launched the Eugene O'Neill Festival March 9 at the Arena Stage at the Mead C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMI AM THEATRE: Joanna Sherman
Joanna Sherman is Artistic Director of Bond Street Theatre. As director, choreographer, musician and actor, she has participated in company performances and pro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:17AMI Love Lucy Live on Stage, the musical stage show adapted from the long-running television program that starred Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, will play Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Wat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMThe Classical Theatre of Harlem is to present a reading of excerpts from Detroit '67 and Q and A with playwright Dominique Morisseau, March 24 at 6pm at The Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMAs the Coalition government continues to tighten the taps on the poor and loosen the belts of the rich there is a reminder of more hopeful, egalitarian times in the Young Vic’s new pro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:07AMRodgers and Hammerstein's brilliant evocation of wartime love, heroics, black market dealings and racism has one of the best scores in musical theatre.
Every song in South Pacific is a winn…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:07AMProspect Theater Company founding member Peter Mills will world premiere a song at the company's one-night-only concert performance celebrating April Fool's Day, Fools for Love, at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMThe Claque is set to present Quick and Dirties (QuaDs): ideas are sexy, its second annual play development series, April-May at The Tank.
The QuaDs aim is to provide emerging playwrights wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AM"Theater Talk," the PBS chat show co-hosted by Michael Reidel and Susan Haskins, will welcome lyricist Sir Tim Rice March 23 at 1 AM ET on WNET/13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMDid you love last week’s interview with Ellyn Marsh the super swing over at Priscilla Queen of the Desert? If you missed it, definitely click HERE! Watch that before moving on to this …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:59AMOn this day in 1930, a musical theatre legend was welcomed into the world. Music Theatre International would like to wish composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, a very happy birthday! As w…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:58AMThe messiah comes back to the Great White Way on March 22, when the latest revival of Jesus Christ Superstar officially opens on Broadway. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice rock opera began p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMWhat’s the connection between vaudeville and horror, you may ask? Believe it or not, there are many, and I’m all too eager to tell you about them, so please come see me and the i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:51AMOur good partners at Time Out have come up trumps for Theatreland this week. The new issue of Time Out magazine, out today (22 March 2012), is the “West End Rules!” issue.
The w…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:49AMJosh Young, who has been playing Judas since the show opened at Stratford in June, 2011, fell ill and missed the last previews.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 09:49AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue March 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AMWilly Loman is something no American wants to be – average. It is something his wife recognizes about him: “A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man,” Linda tells their two …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:39AMGregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no sur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:37AMLegit News:
Company veteran takes reins in September
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32AMTony Award winner Jane Adams will guest star alongside Martha Stewart and Tony Hale in an upcoming episode of NBC's Law & Order: SVU, according to TVGuide.com.
Adams will play the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:32AMThey didn't keep their clothes on very long. Naked Boys Singing!, the 15-song celebration of the male form, which played its final performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages Jan. 28, r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMThe financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe’s Pub with Ethan Lipton’s funny personal ode to the unemployed.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:29AMBroadway veteran and Emmy Award winner Doris Roberts will guest star later this season on ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to TVGuide.com.
Roberts appeared on Broadway in such sho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMAcademy Award winner and stage veteran Patty Duke will guest star next season on Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva according to TVGuide.com. She will play Rita O'Reily, a career floor-gree…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMOh yes We've got a red carpet video for the opening night of SWEENEY TODD, which opened on the 20th on the West End. The video features interviews with stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMHockadoo The 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical MEMPHIS just celebrated 1,000 performances on Broadway yesterday, March 14th at the 2pm matinee performance. Memphis stars Montego Glover, C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AM
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SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:58AMDerren Brown will reprise his show Svengali, which was recently nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, for a season at the West End's Novello Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:58AMThe Walter Kerr Theatre was a house of excitement this spring afternoon at the first official meet and greet for Broadways new show, Clybourne Park. The afternoon began as proud producer Jor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMGuildhall, Derby : You wonder in the opening minutes where Tyrone Huggins' two-hander is going. It doesn't immediately grab. But it becomes wholly absorbing, a beautifully crafted …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AMThere's a lot packed into Nilaja Sun's play that garnered Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World and Obie Awards when it opened Off-Broadway in 2006.The title of the play is a r…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:56AMGregory Doran has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), succeeding Michael Boyd, who, as previously reported, had announced his plans to step down from the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:46AMI fell in love with Sherman Yellen’s musical The Rothschilds when I was a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY. I was thrilled when I heard that his musical Josephine Tonight was about to o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMYou dream the impossible dream watching Complicité’s stage version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s amazing phantasmagorical novel: director Simon McBurney achieves a remarkable cons…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:28AM10 Teachers Receive National Award for Excellence in the Program’s Second Year (WASHINGTON, D.C.)—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the 2012 winners of Kennedy…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:28AMWAM’s Chamber Music Series is a model for what chamber music performance ought to be: excellent musicians performing in a small space with a rather informal air to the proceedings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMSpare a thought for the hardworking wardrobe folk working behind the scenes in the West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMStephen Wallem's Pipe Dream vlog: Day 3
In this installment: Bringing back the sauciness, reflecting on the original production, and a look at the glamour of the rehearsal room.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:14AMGreenway Arts Alliance has announced casting for Cody Henderson's The Bewildered Herd, to run April 12-May 6 at the Greenway Court Theatre. Laurie Woolery will direct the production.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:14AMIt's double portions of One Man, Two Guvnors this week. We have long fancied ourselves as some kind of theatrical soothsayers. We predicted the rise of the likes of Cats and Les Miserables b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on March 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe award-winning actor discusses making his Broadway musical debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which staged a production of Mike Daisey’s monologue The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs last March and has rescheduled it for this summer, yesterday issued…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMReinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass ," scheduled for May 26 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford , has been cancelled.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:54AMGregory Doran has been appointed the new artistic director of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. He will succeed Michael Boyd and formally take up the post following the company's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:42AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
Michael Arabian's stunning revival never wears the play's international reputation on its sleeve. The result? It's difficult to imagine a funnier or mor…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:32AMNeil Simon’s Pulitzer and Tony winner, “Lost in Yonkers,” holds up nicely after 20 years, even in director Jenn Thompson’s underpowered production for TACT.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMLike a good Russian novel or play, this rock musical has a complicated plot and goes on too long. However, it's also very well produced and highly entertainin
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:25AMFor theatergoers who aren't fans of punk-influenced rock, the Ahmanson considerately offers ear plugs. I recommend the unmuffled experience. Most every song lands.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:23AMRiley, Leeds: A new era has opened at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, in Leeds. Janet Smith, the greatly respected former artistic director of Scottish Dance Theatre and a Leeds n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMMonica Bauer's play at Urban Stages speaks not so much to the Omaha riots that inspired it as to the attitudes that led to racial strifea. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:22AMThough Thornton Wilder is very much an unseen ghost hovering over Dan LeFRanc's play, it's not a copy-cat Our Town but the Real Deal: An innovative, intelligent, entertaining play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:20AMDes McAnuff delivers a flashy but empty staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera about the last seven days of Christ, from Stratford.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid is fighting to save Northumberland Theatre Company, which will lose its core funding from Arts Council England at the end of this month.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMI'll be interviewing the playwright and screenwriter live on stage at the Guardian's Open Weekend on Saturday 24 March. What would you like to know?If you had to pick the greatest new Englis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMD'Oyly Carte Opera Company is to be revived ten years after it suspended its producing activity, The Stage can reveal.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMYoung Vic, London: Natalie Dormer does a good line in doomed, haughty young women. She played Anne Boleyn in the lavish TV show The Tudors and here raises her game to an even more acute pitc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMDreamthinkspeak's The Rest is Silence is to extend its run at Brighton Festival in response to high ticket demand.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Helen Edmundson's new play for Shared Experience takes Mary Shelley away from the creative frenzy of the Villa Diodati and instead examines the influenc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM'Jesus Christ Superstar'
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The time has finally come to see what's the buzz on Broadway -- and it's a tale larger than life.
The hotly anticipated Broadway r…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:28AMGregory Doran has been appointed to succeed Michael Boyd as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMBarbican Theatre, London: In the National Theatre's current production of John Hodge's Collaborators (which transfers from the Cottesloe to the Olivier from April 30, to launch thi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMAndrew Lloyd Webber
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Not satisfied with just reviving a couple of his Broadway musicals in 2012 -- while The Phantom of the Opera is still going strong, Sir .…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 06:12AMI'm going to suspend the blogging until next Monday.Lots going on - check out "Nothing to See Here" for updates on live appearances.Gots to give the brain a break.She and I just didn't work …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer John Walton West about starring in the hit Off-Broadway musical "NEWSical the Musical" and other details of his life and career!
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMDiana Krall, the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning musician with an unprecedented nine 1 Billboard Jazz chart debuts, will begin her biggest year of touring since 2009 on March 22. After multip…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00AMNewsies, the new American musical, began performances on March 15 at Broadways Nederlander Theatre for a limited run. Kicking off their limited run now extended through August 19, the Broadw…
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The Royal Shakespeare Company has appointed its long-serving chief associate director, Gregory Doran, to succeed Michael Boyd as artistic director.
Doran, who told Whatsonstage.com that Bo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:51AM'Death of a Salesman'
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 05:40AMYou dream the impossible dream watching Complicité’s stage version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s amazing phantasmagorical novel: director Simon McBurney achieves a remarkable cons…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:38AMFluid and often funny, yet fragile in its sad, glorious ending, this Cyrano succeeds as both swashbuckling adventure and tragic love story. The Arden's production has what Cyrano calls "pana…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:36AMIn 1888, the extremely weird Swedish playwright and novelist August Strindberg, radical lefty son of a shipping merchant and a housemaid, wrote a play called Miss Julie about the conflict be…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34AMSam Shepard, America's playwright and poet laureate of the modern West, is in his best form in Curse of the Starving Class, a searingly funny-sad take on family dysfunction. Curse dates from…
SOURCE: City Paper (Philadelphia) at 05:32AMThe Media Theatre is going populist for 2012-2013. This season, Artistic Director Jesse Cline chose a novelty, the musical version of Arthur Kopit’s play, “Wings,” and the controversia…
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The Stratford Shakespeare Festivals hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festivals Artistic Director Des McAnuff,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMI'm flying out to Smalltown, U.S.A., to see my mother, who is feeling poorly. I expect to be back on...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean fingernails." John Mortimer, A Voyage Round...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMAdam Pascal talks about his role in MEMPHIS and his many roles on Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMHugh Dancy Returns To Broadway CBS 2’s Dana Tyler sits down with one of the stars of “Venus In Fur”.
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMKerry Butler chats with Broadway's Best Shows in an exclusive interview about Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN, her performance as Mabel Cantwell, and the experience backstage and in rehearsal.
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:00AMBeginning March 27 at the Booth Theatre, the role of Trip Wyeth in the Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz's acclaimed play Other Desert Cities will be taken over by Broadway veteran Matt…
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMRAVEN-SYMONÉ (“That’s So Raven,” “The Cosby Show” and more) joins the cast of SISTER ACT beginning March 27th. Get her thoughts on the smash-hit show and…
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In the hands of The Artistic Home and director David New, *Tea and Sympathy* becomes a nuanced story in capable hands; it is neither heavy-handed nor saccharine, and raises questions that ar…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:28AMPlaywright; artist; producer; eco activist New York, New York USA I look to re-writing for inspiration. Anywhere near the matchless sound of geese or wildlife inspires me, too. Favorite book…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIn 1988, a girl with telekinetic powers caused a ruckus at the prom
and on Broadway, when the pop musical Carrie arrived on
Broadway in a high-profile production that lasted only 21
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMEmily Cooper knows how to capture a play as she does herein her brilliant little vignette from The Importance of Being Earnestat Vancouver's Arts Club (in photo: Ella Simon and Charlie …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAs part of its ongoing exploration of Broadway history, Playbill Vault — the most comprehensive internet database of Broadway information — introduces a two-part series looking a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMeet Broadway newcomers Josh Young and Paul Nolan, who starred as Judas and Jesus, respectively, in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Jesus Christ Superstar and reprise their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMargaux Williamson is the Art Gallery of Ontario’s current artist-in-residence, and it’s a position she’s taken literally, given the tangle of unmade bed sheets and sleeping bag splaye…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMI have a hard time considering Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers a neglected, rarely seen classic. But Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bittersweet comedy apparently has not had a production origin…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMFans of the music of Jesus Christ Superstar will not want to miss the new Broadway revival; theater fans in general will likely be thrilled by Des McAnuff's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMI'm a strong believer in listening for signals from the Universe--not fate, exactly, but rather a receptiveness to opportunities that await you as you make decisions, big or small, about you…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock oratorio Jesus Christ Superstar gets a 21st-century makeover from Tony-winning director Des McAnuff in the critically acclaimed Stratford Shakespe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in TACT/The Actors Company Theatre revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers, opening March 22 following p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Underbelly Diaries, a solo show written by and starring Aaron Berg, is presented Off-Broadway beginning March 22 at the Studio Theatre on Theatre Row.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBrandt Johnson's Just Sex, which played a sold-out run at Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival earlier this season, returns to Theater for the New City for a limited Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Herzog, Dinelaris plays set for Off Broadway
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