When Gold Derby launches its new weekly live Emmy show in conjunction with UStream next Monday, April 9, "Derby Talk" will include three Emmy superstars:
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SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:53PMAlison Dornheggen and Megan Schemmel are skilled actresses, and do their best with what little the script gives them. There’s nothing wrong with a tragic story - but with absolutely no lig…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:49PMEugene O'Neill's play Strange Interlude was a sensation at its premiere in 1928, both for its expansive structure-in nine acts with a run time of more than five hours; the original productio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43PMThe Taming of the Shrew can be a very funny play -- and probably should be, lest one linger too long on the sexist implications that one either believes are being mocked by Shakespeare or ta…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:43PMFeeling more like a revue of singles dating and all that goes with it, ACT Theatre and 5th Avenue Theatre have wasted an excellent cast and production on a piffle of a musical called First D…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMThe Taming of the Shrew can be a very funny play -- and probably should be, lest one linger too long on the sexist implications that one either believes are being mocked by Shakespeare …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 09:36PMAny South Pacific rises or falls on the actor/singers playing out the key roles, and director Brenda Mueller, who has paced the near three-hour production as briskly as a passing island trad…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35PMMusic that’s a century old really shouldn’t seem terrifyingly contemporary to audiences today. At the same time, all music should sound fresh when it’s performed. The ensemble Eighth B…
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It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54PMThe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater arrives for its annual spring engagement at the Auditorium Theatre this week, marking the first time the internationally acclaimed company will appear …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:53PMAccording to the Washington Post, a stuntman from Broadway's SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK is considering suing the production over injuries suffered in 2010-11. Richard Kobak, claims not onl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:40PMFashions at the Kevin Kline Awards have traditionally run to black, black and, oh yeah, more black.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:29PMWhat do rapper Ice Cube, folk singer Joan Baez, country crooner Toby Keith and 18th century Irish statesman Edmund Burke have in common? The answer, as you probably guessed, is not much. But…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:26PMEven though Jim Corti, the artistic director of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, has had great success staging such classic musicals as “My Fair Lady” at the 1,888-seat theater, he is st…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:24PMAs you might surmise from the title, “Motherhood the Musical” was inspired by the daily chaos of family life that mothers know so well. But unlike most of us who collapse into a chair or…
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Graham Alexander, who played Paul McCartney in RAIN A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES on Broadway, stirred quite the attention of critics and audiences alike. With more than a decade of touring, perf…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMBroadwayWorld's Rialto Chatter was the first to break the news in January that the Regent's Park production of INTO THE WOODS was transferring to New York to play the Delacorte Theatre as pa…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 06:44PMBy, NineDaves & Lovely Linda Oh hey, this week’s Broadway grosses are out! Are you asleep yet? This weekly financial picture of Broadway is amazing in its breadth and detail, but we st…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:42PMA Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights is a regular column by Todd London. It is part of an ongoing series of tributes to contemporary playwrights. Mostly begun as speeches at New Dr…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:21PMA stuntman who claims he suffered a concussion, whiplash and two holes in his knees while performing in Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has asked producers to turn over any releva…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:11PMby: Dan Mason (@djdan1079) Leap of Faith is the stage adaptation of the little seen 1992 movie starring Steve Martin as a flim-flam, travelling preacher with an appetite for booze, women, an…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:00PMFor the first time in 5 years, RENT alums, Daphne Rubin-Vega soon starring in A Streetcar Named Desire and Adam Pascal now starring in Memphis, reunited on television live. On this morning's…
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In my job you hear a lot of curtain speeches — turn off your cellphones, subscribe now, blah, blah, blah. But in that sea of rhetorical predictability, there is one speech I will never…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56PMKERRY REID reviews "Tom Jones" by Polarity Ensemble Theatre ★★★ and "The Sweetest Swing in Baseball" by Step Up Productions ★★
KERRY REID reviews "Tom Jones" b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56PMMatt Shakman, once a Ventura kid turned juvenile TV star, grew up and became an LA theater and TV director. Best known in the LA theater world for his tiny Black Dahlia Theatre, he's about t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:55PMOn Tuesday, April 3rd, Primary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director celebrated opening night of The Morini Strad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMCall him the razzle-dazzle chameleon of the Great White Way. Raúl Esparza has transformed into some of the most memorable characters on Broadway, from the quiet and calculating Riff R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMAs comedians pursue the relatively new school of storytelling, they sometimes show that emotion can be mixed with humor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13PMThe Nutty Professor, the previously announced musical adaptation of the 1963 film of the same name, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at Nashville’s Tennessee Performing A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMCorbin Bleu is ready to paint the Great White Way red. Best known for his role as Chad Danforth in the Emmy Award-winning Disney series High School Musical, the mop-topped hunk made his Broa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMCenter Theatre Group has posted costume renderings from the upcoming production of FOLLIES on their Pinterest page. The production will star Victoria Clark replacing Bernadette Peters, Jan M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMGore Vidal's THE BEST MAN comes to Broadway in an all-star theatrical event with two time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, Tony and Emmy Award winner John Larroquette, Emmy and Golden Glo…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:09PMAs is just about theatrical custom in this town, The Washington Post got the first pass at StudioTheatre's 2012-2013 season announcement, which begins Sept. 5 with an adaptation of Ralph El…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMTheater fans anxious to see photos of Michael Grandage’s Broadway revival of Evita need not wait any longer! The Latin-influenced production, starring Grammy winner Ricky Martin, Olivi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMThe revised book of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess has been the subject of much discussion since it's debut at A.R.T. last August, and according to Patrick Healy of the New York Times, there …
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Word of Mouth Review: "End of the Rainbow" Starring Tracie Bennett
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:59PMStage veterans Gillian Anderson, Christina Applegate, David Duchovny, Calista Flockhart, and Kiefer Sutherland will be among the celebrity participants for FOX's upcoming 25th Anniversa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMThe Public Theater will welcome February House writers Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley, as well as Obie Award-winning writer-director Young Jean Lee as part of a May 7 Public Forum event.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMThe Tony Award nominated musical ROCK OF AGES celebrated three years of melting faces on Broadway last night at the Helen Hayes Theatre! After the Tuesday evening performance, the cast cel…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:50PMBroadways JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARs composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice will be featured on National Public Radios Morning Edition tomorrow, Thursday, April 5.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:45PMBecky Barta, Donna Lynne Champlin, Joan Crowe, Stephen "Mo" Hanan, Kara Lindsay, Kate Loprest, Michael Marcotte, Jill Paice, Marie Pruitt, Steve Ross, Heather Sullivan, K.T. Sulliv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:39PMTwo-time Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett brought the Belasco Theatre to its feet with her raw portrayal of Judy Garland at the April 2 Broadway opening of Peter Quilter's "End of the Rai…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:38PMCharles Dickens' literary whodunit, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," was never finished. Dickens fans have two chances in April to imagine how it could end: a Cornish College of the Arts produc…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:36PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Turn of the Screw" at First Folio Theatre ★★★
Is the governess being haunted by ghosts, or are there bats in her belfry? That essential conundrum at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMBobby Cannavale, Judith Ivey and Matthew Modine will appear in Reflecting Rabe: Readings from David Rabe's Work April 15 as part of the Dark Nights at The New Group series.
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Dancing with the Stars' season 14 week 3 results show features the 2012 Macy's Stars of Dance performance! Mac…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:17PMCate Blanchett, the Oscar-winning Hollywood star, is touring Europe in her Sydney Theater Company’s production of a German play, “Big and Small.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMGlen Hansard, half of the composing team behind the indie film Once and its current Broadway stage adaptation, is going solo. Hansard’s first solo album, Rhythm and Repose, will be rel…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:11PMThe actor becomes Perón in Broadway’s “Evita” Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Michael Cerveris has r…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:07PMBroadway star Julio Monge and Tony Award winner Michele Pawk will star in the world premiere of the musical Los Otros at the Mark Taper Forum, May 23-July 1. The production, to be directed b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMMacy's Stars of Dance 2012 - DWTS Season 14 - Travis Wall, Kenny Wormald, Misha Gabriel, Nick Bass
Dancing with the Stars' season 14 week 3 results show features the 2012 Macy's…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMThe Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita officially opens April 5 following previews that began March 12 at the Marquis Theatre. This is the first new Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMThis will be something of a post-mortem as the majority of the cast of "Seminar" departed last weekend. It was for that very reason that I suddenly panicked and slipped into one of their fin…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:03PMAdam Pascal and Daphne Rubin-Vega burned up the Broadway stage back in 1996 in their Broadway debuts, playing East Village lovers Roger and Mimi in the original cast of Rent. They&rsquo…
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We’ve teamed up with Udderbelly to offer one AYT reader the chance to have their pick of E4 Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre. Returning for its fourth year, the festival gives way t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:59PMNow. Here. This., the latest work from the gang behind [title of show], has extended its run at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre for a second and final time. The new musical, which was …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:53PMA musical version of "The Nutty Professor," adapted from Jerry Lewis's hit 1963 and starring Michael Andrew as Julius Kelp and directed by Mr. Lewis, will make its debut in July at the James…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PMWhat’s the buzz….. This “Superstar” made me a believer again. -Michael Musto, Village Voice Broadway’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’s composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:42PMThe effervescent Katherine Kingsley is celebrating her second Olivier Award nomination for the formidable style (and nasal squawk) she brings to sidelined silent movie actress Lina Lamont in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMOn Sunday, April 15 at 400pm, The New Group will present this seasons final presentation in Dark Nights at The New Group Reflecting Rabe Readings from David Rabes Work. This event features…
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Boyd Gaines and Deborah Yates lead the original Broadway company in a performance of "Simply Irresistable" at the Tonight Show.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:32PMIn OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth, a once promising novelist, returns home after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMI know that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover, nor a show by its poster, but as soon as I saw the one for Porgy and Bess, I had serious misgivings about this production. For one thing,…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:25PMHow sweet is the taste of a movie with a female heroine heralded as the top-grossing non-sequel film debut weekend of all time? And how sweet is it that The Hunger Games, the adaptation …
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:22PMThe Actors Fund's annual gala will be held May 21 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:20PMProducer Ken Davenport announced today that the new Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical GODSPELL will launch its first national tour in the 2013-2014 theater season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, legendary performer Barbra Streisand may make a rare appearance at an upcoming Hollywood Fundraiser for the re-election campaign of President Barack Obam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMComing to you live from the center of your radio dial – the most sensational show hot off Broadway to hit your Hippodrome Theatre stage – Broadway Across America presents Memphis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMEVITA might still be in previews at the Marquis Theatre, with opening night set for tomorrow, April 5, but you can get a first look at Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris, and Elena Roger as the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMThe revival of the Gershwin musical will not be eligible for a Tony award for its heavily revised book, though the reasons why are in dispute.
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Confronting Andersen's lost Dryad - actually, Auguste Clésinger's "Woman Bitten by a Snake"Where to begin with Robert LePage's The Andersen Project (which closed Sunday at ArtsEmerson)? &nb…
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Tammy Amerson and Elaine Stritch lead the 1994 Broadway revival cast in "Kim's Charleston" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:58PMRobert Newman will replace the previously reported Larry Pine in Cause Célèbre and Mary J. Davis' production of Susan Charlotte's Women of a Certain Age, to r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMCeleste Holm will be the special guest at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 65th anniversary screening of Gentleman's Agreement, which will be part of its "Mond…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMThe Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical Godspell will launch its first national tour during the 2013-2014 theater season. No casting, cities or official dates for th…
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Daisy Eagan, Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker and the original Broadway company perform a medley at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:45PMThe Actors Fund will honor actor and activits Harry Belafonte, acting duo Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, and real estate developer David Steiner at their annual gala, which will take place on…
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Faith Prince, Martin Short and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the 1998 Broadway revival.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:41PMWith the arrival of the Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, which is currently in previews at the Marquis Theatre, we thought it would be a great time to loo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMA national tour of the current Broadway revival of Godspell will launch during the 2013-2014 theater season. Casting and a complete schedule will be announced at a later date.
Featuring mu…
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SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:30PMThe Vineyard Theatre has announced a second extension of its production of the new musical Now. Here. This., which will now run through April 28.
Now. Here. This. stars Hunter Bell, Susan B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMColumnists are kings in midcentury America and Joseph Alsop wears the crown. Joe is beloved, feared and courted in equal measure by the Washington political world at whose center he sits. Bu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:28PMPhilip Dawkins, Marcus Gardley, Samuel D. Hunter and Tanya Saracho have been named new Victory Gardens Ensemble Playwrights.
The writers will each have seven-year residencies with the the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMProducer Ken Davenport announced April 4 that the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical Godspell will launch a national tour in the 2013-14 theatre season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:27PMAn Essay: On Braided Sorrow My friend Marisela Treviño Orta has written a beautiful essay about the origins of her play Braided Sorrow: As a poet I avoided politics in my poetry. It felt to…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:20PMThe Metropolitan Opera is in full "Ring" mode this month as it prepares to launch the complete staging of its new, multi-million dollar production of Wagner's four-part epic, directed by Rob…
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Replacement cast member Phylicia Rashad and the original Broadway company perform "Into the Woods" and "Children Will Listen" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:16PMThree graduate student plays from the Yale School of Drama are selected for the seventh annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays , May 4 to 12 at the Iseman Theater ,1156 Chapel St,, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:16PMBerkeley Repertory Theatre has announced that its production of John Logan's Red has been extended through May 12, adding 12 performances. Les Waters directs.
In Red, the painter Mark…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMYale School of Drama will present the seventh annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 4 to 12 at the Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street, New Haven). The Festival is comprised of three ful…
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In "End of the Rainbow," wannabe manager Mickey Deans (Tom Pelphrey) withholds pills and booze from Judy Garland (Tracie Bennett), doles them out to get…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMThis Monday, April 9th, actress Uma Thurman begins a five episode guest starring story arc on the new NBC musical drama series SMASH. Thurman will play a famous and somewhat difficult movie …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMPop Theatre has announced a new series of audition and performance workshops. Its inaugural six-week workshop, running Monday nights April 16-May 21, will cover contemporary pop musical thea…
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John Miller, Michael Mark, Joseph Saulter and Ken Bichel of the original Broadway production perform "Hey There, Good Times" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:01PMNow. Here. This., the new musical revue created by and featuring the cast of Broadway's [title of show], is getting a second extra week, now to April 28, in its world-premiere run at Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMThe prolific theater composer David O discusses his dilemma when people ask "What kind of music do you write?" Writing his latest score for A Noise Within, he discovered that a tuba is as ri…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMThe event, to be held April 13 and 14, will be presented by the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council, Webster University and…
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The New Group offers this season's final presentation in Dark Nights at The New Group - Reflecting Rabe: Readings from David Rabe's Work on Sunday, April 15 at 4pm, at Theatre Row.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMTwo-time Tony nominee Bobby Cannavale, two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey and stage and screen favorite Matthew Modine will star in Reflecting Rabe: Readings From David Rabe’s Work, part…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:57PMThe Public Theater will continue its 2011-2012 Public Forum season of lectures, debates, and conversations with The Culture Capital: Is New York City Still A Home For Artists?, May 7 at 8 pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMThe long-running musical revue Naked Boys Singing has returned to Off-Broadway after a brief hiatus in a newly conceived-version at the Kirk Theatre, produced and directed by Michael and Tom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PML.A. Weekly presented its 33rd annual theater awards -- honoring the best work on local small stages from 2011-- on Tuesday, April 3 at the Avalon in Hollywood.
Winners in major categories …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMThe cast of Naked Boys Singing is nuder than ever in their new home at off-Broadway’s Kirk Theatre, and we’ve got an unencumbered (and unclothed!) first look at the boys in actio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:46PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andr Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that it will extend the run of its critically acclaimed pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMRory O’Malley has audiences rolling in the aisles as the gay, tap-dancing Mormon Elder McKinley in the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon. The Tony nominated actor invited Broadway.com in…
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 01:43PMRory O’Malley has audiences rolling in the aisles as the gay, tap-dancing Mormon Elder McKinley in the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon. The Tony nominated actor invited Broadway.com in…
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The original Broadway company performs "Rockin' in Rhythm" at the Tony Awards.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:42PMThe Morini Strad, Willy Holtzman's drama about late violinist Erica Morini, starring Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Peil, Michael Laurence and violinist Hanah Stuart, officially opened Off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMNicky Silver's comedy THE LYONS begins previews on April 5 on Broadway at the Cort Theatre 138 W. 48 St. prior to the show's official opening on April 23. Directed by Mark Brokaw, THE LYONS…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMTony-nominated husband and wife Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise will bring their popular Triple Arts musical theater workshops for young performers to New York this summer. Nationa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PMRecipients of the 2012 Kevin Kline Awards, representing excellence in St. Louis-area theatre for the year 2011, were revealed April 2 at the Loretto-Hilton Center in suburban Webster Groves,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMSILENCE! THE MUSICALl, currently nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards including Best Musical, will celebrate its 200th performance this Friday, April 6th at The 9th Space Theatre at Perfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMFormer Broadway star and TV's The Voice contestant Tony Vincent's wife Aspen Vincent, who acted alongside him in American Idiot, Dirty Dancing's national tour and met him on the set of Las V…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMNovello, LondonThis revival of Michael Frayn's farce to end all farces was extravagantly garlanded when it first opened at the Old Vic. With two Olivier award nominations safely in the bag, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMBelgrade, CoventryLaurie Slade, who has come up with a new version of Strindberg's 1887 play, says it would be superficial to view it as a misogynistic rant. Indeed it would. But it would al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMNellie McKay: Silent Spring--It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: Nellie McKay fits into no category. You can't describe her by saying she's like so-and-so crossed with so-and-so. If you tri…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:22PMCorbin Bleu, the "High School Musical" star who made his Broadway debut as charismatic narrator Usnavi in In the Heights, will return to The Great White Way in the current revival …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMTheatre Set-Up, an outdoor Shakespeare touring company that was due to close, has been taken over by the Gloucestershire-based Festival Players.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMUnicorn, London: Captain Crow's teeth are submerged rocks which, occasionally, gleam and flash near a caravan site where Will (Alasdair Hankinson) and his family have spent their holida…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMCelebra Books, a division of Penguin Group USA, announced the acquisition of legendary film, television, and stage performer Rita Moreno's untitled memoir. Executive Editor Denise Silvestro …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:07PMLincoln Center Theater has announced that its currently running production of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which was originally slated to close on May 20, will extend through June 17 at the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMAmy Herzog's 4000 Miles will stretch on through June 17 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater Off-Broadway, Lincoln Center Theater announced April 4.
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Arrgh! Shiver me timbers! Action hero Gerard Butler knows an amazing adventure when he sees one. The buff star has flexed his muscles in fast-paced films like 300, Law Abiding Citizen and Re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:59PMThe off-Broadway transfer of Amy Herzog’s critically acclaimed drama 4000 Miles has extended through June 17 at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre. The limited en…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMBebe Neuwirth ranks as one of the greatest dancers in Broadway history, but that’s only one of the reasons she has worked steadily for three decades. Neuwirth is also a stylish singer …
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 12:53PMBebe Neuwirth ranks as one of the greatest dancers in Broadway history, but that’s only one of the reasons she has worked steadily for three decades. Neuwirth is also a stylish singer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMAmerican Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre have announced casting for Jonathan Larson's Rent, to run April 27 - June 17 at ATC, according to a report in Time Out Chicago. As…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMThe Broadway hit Seminar welcomed its new class of stars April 3. Oscar nominee Jeff Goldblum, movie star Justin Long and Broadway veteran Zoe Lister-Jones replaced Alan Rickman, Hamish Link…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMMemphis composer (and Bon Jovi keyboard player!) David Bryan had a family outing on April 3, when he took his daughter Gabby to meet Nick Jonas and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMThe work itself was flawed, but it was wonderful to encounter dance in a museum space, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMThe world premiere of Maya Parish's Lost Limbs, directed by Christopher Hall, will be presented at The Elephant Stages Studio Space Theatre, beginning April 20.
The play follows two in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThis week will go unmarked in most theatrical calendars, but it’s the 20th anniversary of the very first world festival of musicals.
We opened with the European premiere of Malty/Shir…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:34PMFalsettos - I'm Breaking Down
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:33PMInterview with Andrew Baughman and Melissa Baughman of Landless Theatre - With this interview, DC Theatre Scene is thrilled to introduce our newest writer, Joe Brack, DC area actor, teacher …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMThe all-nude musical revue Naked Boys Singing is back on the off-Broadway stage with a brand new cast of hunks. Broadway.com recently headed to the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row to chat with c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:30PMThe seventh annual Kevin Kline Awards, honoring outstanding theater in the St. Louis area, were presented in a ceremony held on Monday, April 2.
Among the winners was Broadway veteran Curti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMFalsettos - Watching Jason Play Baseball
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:27PMFour-time Tony nominee Raúl Esparza and eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken sat down at the birthplace of the Tony Award, Sardi's Restaurant, to jump into the gospel-tinged tunes …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:26PMSenior broadcasting figure Peter Bazalgette is to be the new chairman of English National Opera, it was announced today.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMFalsettos
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:25PMNewsies the Musical on Broadway!!
Interviews with cast and creators of Newsies the Musical on Broadway!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:22PMProduction photos have been released of A Long Day's Journey into Night, which opens at the West End's Apollo Theatre next week (10 April 2012, previews from 2 April) starring David Suchet a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:22PMThe April 16 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" is titled "The Movie Star" and will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMTony Award-Winner Dick Latessa, Honorary Board Chair, brings together Broadway stars to help raise funds for Creative Alternatives of New York CANY which uses drama therapy to help New Yorks…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMA working parent's job is never done, but what is life like for parents who work under the bright lights of Broadway? We take you backstage and into the lives of these hard-working, high-ste…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:17PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series today announced that Telly Leung, currently starring in Godspell, will be performing in concert on Monday, May 14 at 7pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMIt’s been a big season for remixed musicals. But while newcomers did the controversial nipping and tucking on Porgy and Bess and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, it’s the original tea…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:16PMHold On
The song HOLD ON from the Broadway Musical Lysistrata Jones!
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:14PMOther Desert Cities star Judith Light stopped by VH1's new daily show Big Morning Buzz Live on March 30 to chat about the riveting Broadway drama. Sporting some serious heels, Ligh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:13PMLiving as we do, Tabard is sometimes shielded from the cut and thrust of the world outside. Fiscal deficits, petrol crises and television gameshows all pass us by in the blur of "not interes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMThe next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "Understudy," will air April 9 at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMRetro Productions and The Bleecker Company, in association with The Arclight Theatre, will present Milan Stitt's drama The Runner Stumbles with an Off-Broadway run set to open Thursday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMBelow is a series of digital stills I have been working on. Taken from Livestream footage by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills at an Occupy Oakland event. These police officers were violating their ow…
SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PMGeffen Playhouse's world premiere production of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, has been extended through June 24 in the Audrey Skirball Kenis The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:09PMAndrew Lloyd Webber's international hit The Phantom of the Opera will begin a limited engagement in Manila Aug. 25 at the CCP Main Theatre, according to the Really Useful website.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07PMThe Lark, founded in 1994 as a laboratory for new voices and new ideas, will hold the grand opening of the Lark Play Development Center on Thursday, April 26, beginning at 7pm.
The eveni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PM"If You Stay," the new solo album from British theatre actor Julian Ovenden, will be released in the U.S. May 1, according to Amazon.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMThe Village Voice, the nations largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced that the 57th Annual Obie Awards will take place on Monday, May 21, 2012, at Webster Hall in the East Village 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMToday CafeMom Studios debuts the first episode of “On Broadway: With Kids – Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA!,” an exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal window i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:05PMMatthew Morrison dancing on ITAS
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:04PMYou know how I feel about Broadway lore and superstitions, right? Well, if you don’t, I have an entire column’s worth of stuff for you to read about it! But, if you don’t want to read …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 12:04PMChicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has received a $10 million gift in support of its programming, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
The contribution comes from Stef…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMPlaybill's weekly recap, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC musical drama series "Smash," about the creation of a new Broadway musical about Marilyn Monro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMChicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has received a $10 million gift in support of its theater programming, according to a report in The Chicago Tribune.
The contribution comes f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S POLL AND VOTE IN THE CURRENT ROUND OF "HOT/HOTTER"! BOTH ARE TO YOUR LEFT!As this season draws to its frenzied close, I have started t…
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Clybourne Park, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and London’s Oliver Award winner for Best Play, is celebrating their Broadway arrival with the “Heart of the Neighborhood” contest. Producer Jor…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:59AMWe can’t fight this feeling anymore! On April 3, Justin Matthew Sargent, Emily Padgett, Jeremy Woodard, Genson Blimline and the cast of Rock of Ages threw a party in honor of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMWinners of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards have been announced. As previously reported, the awards will be presented in a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Monday, May…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMMolly Pope and Laurie Sutton will share a Greenwich Village apartment in the Gallery Players production of Wonderful Town, which will begin performances April 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMBroadway alum Tony Vincent and his wife, fellow Broadway veteran Aspen Vincent, welcomed baby girl Sadie Day to the world on April 3. The happy couple previously shared the stage in Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:49AMHe's been saying it was about to open for years now but he never had a theater and actual dates before! Jerry Lewis's oft-announced stage musical of The Nutty Professor opens July 24 at the …
SOURCE: News From ME at 11:48AMHe's been saying it was about to open for years now but he never had a theater and actual dates before! Jerry Lewis's oft-announced stage musical of The Nutty Professor opens July 24 at the …
SOURCE: News From ME at 11:48AMPunk rock band Green Day, whose music inspired the musical American Idiot, will induct Guns N' Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 27th annual induction ceremony, according …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMCheck out photos and find out more about the project here.
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:43AMSave up to £12.50 on the top four price bands for Monday-Friday performances of TOP HAT between 19 April-25 May 2012. Exclusions apply
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:40AMTelly Leung, who is currently co-starring in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Godspell, will go it solo at Birdland in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMNorbert Leo Butz, Cady Huffman, and Billy Stritch will join the previously announced Ann Hampton Callaway and Anita Gillette for the The Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) 2012 annual …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMToday in 1971, Follies opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 522 performances. Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMSpecial 50th anniversary airing Saturday on the USA network will be introduced by President Obama
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:36AMTony Award winning actresses Stockard Channing Other Desert Cities, The West Wing andLaura Benanti Gypsy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will star in a one-night only reading of P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMFairies, skip hence! The Classic Stage Company production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Bebe Neuwirth and Christina Ricci, begins previews on April 4. Tony S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series has announced Telly Leung, of Godspell, will be performing in concert on Monday, May 14 at 7pm at Birdland.
Leung's credits include Rent at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMDavid Tennant will star in the BBC Four's adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies Of Warsaw, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The production, written by Dick Clement and Ia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMThe Black Ensemble Theater will present Jackie Taylor's The Marvin Gaye Story (Don't Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend) beginning May 11, prior to an official opening May…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMAs announced last week, on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, the company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical GODSPELL welcomes a new leading man -- stage and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMGoing to a much-hyped play can be a strange experience, not least because it can overload your expectations. Is ignoring the critics the answer?It was during the second act of Michael Frayn'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMHear ye, hear ye! The Futurity Young Inventors' Club continues with the unveiling of a second utopian machine designed and built by the middle school STEM Club at the Murphy School.&n…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 11:20AMIn one beautifully simple statement, the violin maker in Willy Holtzman's new play "The Morini Strad," crystalizes the unlikely friendship at the center of the piece.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:20AMBroadway gross ticket sales for the week ending April 1 increased only slightly despite the addition of four new productions.
According to figures posted by The Broadway League, gross ticke…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:16AMBroadway veteran Sam Harris recently teamed with Tony winner Levi Kreis for a duet on Kries' new album titled, 'It Ain't Over.' Go behind the scenes of the recording session in the video bel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMFour-time Tony nominee Raúl Esparza and eight-time Oscar-winning composer Alan Menken sat down at the birthplace of the Tony Award, Sardi’s Restaurant, to jump into the gospel-t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMGeffen Playhouse veterans Jane Kaczmarek and Jon Tenney star in the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, beginning performances April 3 toward an April 11 opening a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMMy latest for Time Out: Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad at Primary Stages.
The takeaway: "Tuesdays with Morrie for the WQXR crowd."
By the way, forgot to mention in the review that this …
SOURCE: The Playgoer at 11:10AMSoap actor Jack Wagner is cut from the competition while Seal and Rascal Flatts provide musical entertainment on the ABC competition show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:10AMTony Award winner Harold Prince and Broadway star Robert Kelin will take part in a panel discussion on Friday, April 27 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens as part of the opening of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMIn the middle of a fantastic theatre season currently taking place on Broadway, we still have plenty of shows to look forward to opening this great season and then of course the beginning of…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:07AMTimeLine Theatre Company has announced casting for the world premiere of John Conroy's My Kind of Town, to run May 11 - July 29. Nick Bowling will direct the production.
In the play, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMAcademy Award and Emmy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum The Pillowman, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Law amp Order Criminal Intent, Justin Long Hes Just Not That Into You, The Break Up, Live F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:05AMThey lie who say that Ah, Wilderness! was Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy. Strange Interlude is funnier and more savagely incisive. Where Ah, Wilderness! was a sepia-tinted journey to O’N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AMAdam Grupper, a Broadway veteran, runs a consulting firm that uses acting techniques to help businesspeople get better at presenting themselves.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:05AM"Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander is to receive the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the Actors Fund.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMPotted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience—A Parody by Dan and Jess will play a limited engagement at off-Broadway’s Little Shubert Theatre beginning May 19. The 2012 Oliver nomine…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:04AMSymphony Space and Encompass New Opera Theatre are set to present Singing Stein, a tribute to Gertrude Stein, April 27 at 7pm and 9:30pm the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMThe industry has a lot of big negotiations coming up in the next year or two, including Local 1 (stagehands) and 802 (musicians). We’ve had a tough last decade, with both of those un…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
ROCK OF AGES, currently playing the Helen Hayes Theatre, celebrated its third Broadway birthday yesterday, April 3, 2012. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the exclusive photo op and brings you…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMTony Award winner Susan Stroman will stage a new production of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-16 season, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMThe 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards ceremony will be held on May 21 at Webster Hall in New York City. The awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:46AMThe 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards ceremony will be held on May 21 at Webster Hall in New York City. The awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:46AMDaniel Davis Stars As ProsperoSara Topham , who recently Gwendlyn in Broadway’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” with Brian Bedford, plays Miranda in the upcoming Hartfor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:44AMBroadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, got a new poison pen in the form of Jeff Goldblum starting on April 3. Zoe Lister-Jones (The Little Dog Laughed) and Justin Long (TV&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMMark Nadler will celebrate the release of his new CD Crazy 1961 with a concert at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on Wednesday, April 18 at 9:30pm.
The album features songs written in 1961, i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMMusical about Judy Garland's last days follows West End success by opening to critical acclaim in New YorkBroadway is often the pot of gold at the end of a sell-out West End run, but critica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMOn Monday, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the Fast Response Statistical Survey’s (FRSS) Report on Arts Education, based on data gathered in the 2009-2010 school y…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:37AMTony Award winners Laura Benanti and Stockard Channing will star in a reading of Donald Margulies' Collected Stories, to be presented at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Monday, May 7 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMIt's no question that following up is incredibly important, but what happens when you're overloaded with things to follow up on? I recently brought this question to one of my fellow webspinn…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThere was the usual cheerful welcome from genial director, Phillip Duggins. But the venue was an odd location for those of us most familiar with enjoying his Masquerade Theatre productions i…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 10:29AMOn the April 9th episode of NBC's musical drama series SMASH entitled 'Understudy', the show has landed a star, the mercurial Rebecca Duvall guest star Uma Thurman, but Eileen Anjelica Husto…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMEvery first Wednesday of the month, get caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:26AMCelebra Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA), will publish Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Rita Moreno's currently untitled memoir.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMThe month-long program, running from April 27 through May 27 at the Museum of the Moving Image, will honor the innovative character skits and comedy pieces of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams and…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21AMThe Tennessee Performing Arts Center will present the world premiere of a the musical The Nutty Professor, July 24-August 19 in the James K. Polk Theater. Jerry Lewis will direct the produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMVictory Gardens Theater has announced the playwrights who will contribute to The Second Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival, to be offered April 15-16 in the Zacek-McVay Theater at the V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMAmy Adams has showed off her singing chops in the movies "Enchanted" and last year's "The Muppets." Now the three-time Oscar nominee will have chance to sing for live audiences on a daily ba…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:20AMPrimary Stages celebrated the opening night of its production of Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad on Tuesday, April 3 with a post-performance celebration at 48 Lounge.
Casey Childs di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMWhen photographer, Anna Shteynshleyger, was a little girl growing up in Moscow in the late 1970s and early 80s, she never imagined the life that would await her in a quiet suburb of Washingt…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:18AM"It never gets any easier," Edith Lowy said, her eyes welling up with tears, her voice trembling ever so slightly. Lowy had just finished speaking to about 150 students, staff and …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:16AMGore Vidal's "The Best Man" is back on Broadway with an all-star cast.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:15AMCheck out this behind-the-scenes video from NEWSIES, hosted by Andrew Keenan-Bolger who plays Crutchie in the show. It shows Broadway opening night traditions including the Gypsy Robe, plus …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMIt’s a miracle this play exists. The Oscar-winning 1954 movie On the Waterfront, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, has reached iconic status as a Mob violence fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMLegit News:
Musical to premiere in Tennessee
SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AMMichelle Carwardine-Palmer has been appointed director of administration and development for National Theatre Wales, meaning she is to leave her post as executive director as Salisbury Playh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMABC Family has released a promotional video for the pilot episode of Bunheads, starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and Tony Award winner Kelly Bishop.
The show, created by Am…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMJulian Ovenden's solo CD If You Stay will be released by Decca on April 23, according to a listing on Amazon.
The 13-track album will feature such songs as "Up, Up and Away,&quo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:02AMThe DVD of Del Shores: My Sordid Life is now available for download.
On the DVD, Shores separates the fact and fiction on which his career has been built, sharing real life stories that ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01AM
Hello, Friends of Halcyon. I'm sorry it took so long to update the Halcyon Blog about my weight loss challenge. I swear I was spending that time dropping pounds.
Week one was tough. …
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 09:54AMMt friends from Charred Oak Films start shooting their new film The Widowers next month, written by and starring Richard Lovejoy, who was in my play Willy Nilly and whose Dark Heart of Meteo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:52AMThe free Broadway’s Future concert series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul (in association with N and N Productions ) — will continue April 16 at 6 PM in the Bru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMFrom Sundance Channel's "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys," "Call Me Adam" chats with television, film, and stage actress Rosebud Baker about her Off-Broadway debut in Urban Stages' product…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:44AMBlack Ensemble Theater has announced casting for The Marvin Gaye Story (Don't Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend), to run May 11 - July 29. Jackie Taylor has written and will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMCast members from Rock of Ages celebrated the musical's third anniversary week on Broadway with a pre-performance celebration Tuesday, April 3 at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
Justin Matthe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:33AMThe Nutty Professor, a new musical based on the famed 1963 Jerry Lewis film of the same name, will make its world premiere July 24-Aug. 19 in Nashville at the Tennessee Performing Arts Cente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMJennifer Lawrence in her iconic pose as Katniss in The Hunger GamesHow sweet is the taste of a movie with a femaleheroine heralded as the top-grossing non-sequel film debut weekend of all ti…
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 09:27AMIn this video, Ramin Karimloo performs an acoustic version of 'Constant Angel' in his dressing room for LES MISRABLES in London.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMJustin Bartha, Tracee Chimo, Hugh Dancy, Topher Grace, Grace Gummer, Eric McCormack, Michael McKean, Jonathan Pryce, Lily Rabe, and Juliet Rylance will be among the presenters for the 57th a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23AMChicago's Museum of Contemporary Art said Wednesday that it has received a $10 million gift from retired Apollo Plastics Corp. executive Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, both longtime supporter…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:16AMI was talking to my friend Kenny a few weeks ago and he told me about a co-worker named Grace whose son Kyle Carter was in the tour of In the Heights. Since In the Heights is one of my all-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMCharles Edwards stars as King George VI in the original stage version of The King's Speech. The role of Australian therapist Logue is played by Jonathan Hyde and the £29 ticket offer applie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AMThe King’s Speech, currently playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, is offering AYT readers discounted tickets to see the show. Normally £52.50, you can get tickets f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AMThe Village Voice has announced that the 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards will be held May 21 at Webster Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMReal live theatre is a generous art form. It brings so many things together. Lights, characters, action! People have come to the show having never set foot in a theatre before and have loved…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:00AM
Manhattan Theatre Clubs world premiere production of THE COLUMNIST, by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan begins previews tonight, Apr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMMost people entering TV talent shows do so in an attempt to launch a singing career. Or, maybe unwittingly, put an end to any hopes of a career there and then, with the added embarrassment o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMBelasco Theatre, Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: A phenomenal performance by Tracie Bennett in the touching tale of legendary Judy Garland near her end.
End of the Rain…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:30AMIn this production of Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, playing in the intimate Old Red Lion Theatre, audiences are crammed in tight and asked to be forgiving of the warm atmosphere. But it̵…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMColiseum, LondonBoris Eifman is very clear that Tolstoy is only the starting point of his 2005 version of Anna Karenina. The choreographer has edited out the subplots and most of the Russian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMDrawing from Jonathan Safran Foer’s dreamy and evocative fiction extract The 6th Borough, the young circus company Collectif and then… has devised a fascinating, inventive and occasional…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:08AMWe're less than a fortnight away from the 2012 Olivier Awards, so we're looking back on previous ceremonies and winners, beginning with last year
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 4 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Emmy-nominated actress returns to the stage in the Geffen Playhouse's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
You have to hand it to the folks in marketing at Disney Theatrical. They started by playing it safe with their new musical Newsies by initially announcing it as "101 performances onl…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 06:51AMI was intrigued to read in your Reviews section (15 March, page 16) that Blanche Marvin is directing The Seven Year Itch at Salisbury Playhouse.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMSince you published our two Shakespeare United 2012 letters (March 1 and March 8), we have received loads of letters and emails from Stage readers and Equity members from all parts asking fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMIt is very important that Ed Vaizey, minister for culture at the Department for Culture Media and Sport, should take time out of his hugely busy life to write to us, via The Stage, to tell u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMLondon Coliseum: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1873-77) is a giant of Russian literature that choreographer-director Boris Eifman has turned into a ballet. The novel tracks the romantic comp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMThe bus - a Leyland which was formerly used as a car transporter - was purchased by Skylight Theatre last year. It opened out at the back to provide a performance space and also provided acc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMWhen I read Natalie Woolman`s report on the Live Music Bill (page 5, March 15), I was disappointed to see that she had made no mention of the part played by Equity in the campaign.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMLeading composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir have signed an open letter accusing contemporary music organisation Sound and Music of failing the secto…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMI was interested in the two letters published from Nicholas Prosser (March 29) and Roy Radford (March 15) discussing the possible changes of the two organisations that cover the stage manage…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMBoris Eifman's dancers launch themselves into tortured poses, hauling each other through lifts or folding into gymnastic knots. There's certainly a lot of angst, but this version of Tolstoy'…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:39AMIn New York, the musical has long been king. But given just how many of them are routinely playing, there’s a lot of competition for audiences and a show usually needs to have an extra new…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMNBC's "Smash" partners with iTheatrics to create sustainable musical theater programs in underserved schools nationwide.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:24AMThe Abrons Arts Center presents BLOOM! Dance Collective the U.S. debut of Budapest/London-based BLOOM! Dance Collective, April 27–28, 2012, at 8pm.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:18AM...that the act of claiming a space as your own has a power over your sense of well being that cannot be underestimated....that "victim status" is a losing hand; it hands the keys to equity …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMTom Bird is the festival director of Globe to Globe, an ambitious project that will see all of Shakespeare’s plays performed in a different language courtesy of 37 visiting internation…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:03AM
And Essay: On Braided SorrowI was asked by a student whose class is reading my play Braided Sorrow if I'd contribute to her study guide. Following is the essay I wrote for the study guide.On…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:59AMEugene O’Neill, as Stephen Sondheim has written, was an experimental playwright whose theatrical ambition soared far above his literary accomplishment, which often remained earthbound. Str…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AMChicago Opera Theater has announced the productions for its 2013 season, with performances taking place at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.
The season will open w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMRod Serling's Patterns, starring Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, and Richard Kiley, originally telecast on NBC's Kraft Television Theatre in 1955....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms (trans. Franz H. Mautner and...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThis Mensa Society-type musical revue is heady. At times funny. At times tuneful. But would benefit from a sharp red pencil to make some beneficial cuts.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMIn this series, Broadway’s Best Shows highlights the illustrious careers of the leading cast members of this star-studded revival!
SOURCE: Broadway's Best Shows at 01:00AMThe Radio Arts Foundation-St. Louis hopes to be on the air with a new FM station in early June.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AM
Nashvilles Tennessee Performing Arts Center TPAC will play host this summer to the world premiere of The Nutty Professor, a new musical comedy directed by the King of Comedy himself, Jerry L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48AMThe world premiere of David Auburn’s The Columnist begins previews April 4 at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the play stars two…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47AMHarry Potter Has Never Been So Funny...Potted Potter: Whether you camped outside a bookstore for three days awaiting the release of the Deathly Hallows or you don’t know the difference bet…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:37AMOn April 1, I became eligible to upgrade from my then-current phone, an HTC Evo 4G. I had many problems with the Evo, including its battery life, small hard drive space, tendency to put apps…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:37AMWhen I was growing up, I would watch every award show, every televised concert, everything that included music that I could get my parents to let me watch. And inevitably, when I would watch…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:25AMAmy Adams to Play The Baker's Wife and Oliver Platt in the Park This Summer…Free: Beginning June 5th New Yorkers and tourists are invited to the free performances at the Delacorte Theater …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:22AMHow refreshing that the mismatched leads of “4000 Miles” don’t look or act like one of the odd couples we’ve seen a million times.
Vera — the extraordinary Mary Louise Wilson, who …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMChristian Spuck's new three-acter for Stuttgart Ballet is a murder mystery in the style of William Forsythe, Laura Cappelle writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:19AMChristian Spuck’s new three-acter for Stuttgart Ballet is a murder mystery in the style of William Forsythe, Laura Cappelle writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:19AMOn the Spot! Andrew Keenan-Bolger
We caught Andrew Keenan-Bolger of Newsies on Broadway sippin' some awesome green juice from Juice Generation on 45th and 9th.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:03AMMemoir: MY MEMORIES OF LA MAMAIntimate Apparel brings with it the ghost of a quintessential theatre personby Byron TobenMarch 27 was the 50th anniversary of International Theatre Day an…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMTheatre Producer New York, New York USA The first play I saw when I was very young was Cyrano De Bergerac starring Jose Ferrer. It made me fall in love with the theatre. My favorite line in …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMSia, the Matthew Mackenzie play now at Factory (and from Cahoots theatre in Alberta), was not born like Venus, rising from the sea on a half shell, it began with the playwright's g…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMLegit News:
Potter spoof confirms U.S. premiere
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThe Gore Vidal play The Best Man was a somewhat sardonic look at political types when it first appeared on Broadway in 1960: A scrupulous candidate fights for his party’s nomination agains…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMArin Arbus returns to Theater for Arin Arbus returns to Theater for a New Audience to give us a thoroughly delightful production of The Taming of the Shrew, one that yet again proves how th…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley, Tony nominee Emily Skinner and Justin Guarini are part of the world-premiere production of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the new musical thriller by ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late conservative journalist Joseph Alsop, gets its first performance …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Anthony Heald and performance artist and songwriter Taylor Mac are among the troupers joining Tony winner Bebe Neuwith and Christina Ricci in the woods outside Athens for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production of Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera's Massacre (Sing to Your Children) begins performances April 4 Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire presents W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance beginning April 4, prior to an official opening April 13. The limited engagement …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwie…
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