Barbican, LondonThe good news, for fans of genuine deserve-it A-list celebrities or (more importantly) simply good acting, is that Cate Blanchett is beyond terrific. Whimperingly, blistering…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40PMOnetime screen siren Kathleen Turner talks about this new phase of her career.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:31PMDespite fine performances – not to mention Grant Sabin’s ultra-realistic set – noone can save a play in which nothing feels at stake because nothing feels real. In the end, *The Butche…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:29PMIt’s the star factor. Tickets for Big and Small, by the controversial German writer Botho Strauss, are selling fast because Cate Blanchett is in it. Her protean presence in this production…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PMApollo, London; New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Bush, LondonEugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night is a mighty work. It has a straight-from-the-heart punch, a long, allusive reach and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMJohnny Flynn on his role in the hit play Jerusalem, a troubled tour of the US and the problem of achieving a work-life balance…Hours back from a working trip to New York, hours away from a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonEighteen months ago, Chris Larner took his ex-wife to Switzerland. She was in the later stages of multiple sclerosis: her limbs barely functional, exhausted by just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTrafalgar Studios, LondonEighteen months ago, Chris Larner took his ex-wife to Switzerland. She was in the later stages of multiple sclerosis: her limbs barely functional, exhausted by just …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMDanny DeVito has had a successful career both in front of the camera and behind it. Now, at 67, he is preparing for his first West End run in The Sunshine Boys – and shows no sign of slowi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMLike many students, I read the Oresteia by Aeschylus as an undergraduate as part of a compulsory Tragedy paper. A while ago I was asked would I do a new version of the Oresteia. I’m not a …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMA month in the country could drive anyone mad, even if all appears idyllic at first. It's August 1912 and the Tyrones – namely the veteran thespian James, his wife Mary and their two grown…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMAs the world of theatre gathers tonight to celebrate its finest, The Independent on Sunday asks its unsung heroes to take a bow
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMShe can't sing, she can't act, God knows she can't dance, and she struggles with basic O-level French. So what on earth is Ann Widdecombe, the hard-line Tory ex-minister of legend, doing app…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe clown with a broken heart was already an overworked trope when Marcel Carné made the film Les Enfants du Paradis in 1939. A lovelorn acrobat in 2012, then, is hardly going to wring any …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMNEW YORK • The American theater regularly portrays outsized figures we know from history. ESPN routinely packages narratives of athletes we know from sports broadcasts. Rarely, however, do…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00PM
This is a work of total subjectivity. I want you to know that from the outset. I also want you to know that I’m not tight with Mike Daisey. I mean, I’ve met him. He sat behind me on a pl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:52PMJackie Sibblies Drury's new play *We Are Proud to Present…* isn’t pretty. It is frightening. But at a time when social consciousness needs a rude awakening, it is essential. Highly Recom…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:26PMRicky Martin is High Flying and Adored: I love “Evita,” and as I was taking the escalator to the Marquis theatre, I was telling my friend just that.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:17PMHow do critics score "Magic/Bird"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 05:06PMMagic/Byrd Seeks to Jump into Broadway: Brought by the producers and creators of last season’s “Lombardi,” Magic/Byrd jumps into the Longacre Theatre.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:02PM
Stephanie MacDonald and Jenny Munday. Photo by Janet MacLellan.The Beauty of SimplicityMacIvor conquers at NACBy Jim MurchisonThe play starts in a therapist’s office while it rains. The ra…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:34PMThe NBA became part of Broadway history this week as the new basketball-themed play "Magic/Bird" looked to court some new fans.
SOURCE: NY1 at 03:24PMThe Hub Theatre’s production of John & Beatrice is riveting. The play is funny, poetic, suspenseful, and deep. A young woman advertises that she is an heiress who has never loved anyon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMWe're pleased to bring you Seth's latest candid chat with Broadway favorite Melissa Errico. After a sold out previous appearance at JOE'S PUB, Melissa Errico Back for More returns to the fam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:09PM
With all of the discussions about the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we decided to make our video of the week the opening number from TITANIC on “The Rosie O’Do…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:34PMSeattle's Spectrum Dance Theater stages a mobile "Petruchska" that works better in its parts than as a whole. 7:30 and 9 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 6:30 p.m. Sundays through April 22.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:28PM"Titanic in Concert," a rendering of the Maury Yeston-Peter Stone show, continues at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle April 14 and 15.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:21PMAs the New Play Institute transitions to Emerson College as the new Center for the Theater Commons, we celebrate the accomplishments of the previous year with our annual report. This report …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM
Once
Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the original Broadway production.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:55PMCarrie
Molly Ranson, Marin Mazzie and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the 2012 Off-Broadway production.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:29PMWhile you’re enjoying the last waning hours of life that you won’t spend thinking, talking, or dreaming about The 2012 Tony Awards, we thought we’d give you some conversati…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:26PMDonald Margulies' trenchant play, now at the Guthrie, explores the tension between finding hope in our private lives and the need to confront ugly reality.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:21PMSalonen in action with Philharmonia.I confess that after Missa Solemnis a few weeks back, followed by a good-but-not-great "German Requiem," I felt like giving up on the BSO. I also didn't …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:05PMBonnie & Clyde
Jeremy Jordan, Laura Osnes and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the original Broadway production.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:04PMToday in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCulturebot Contributor Jessica Williams shares some thoughts about "On The Beach" - the recently concluded performances of work by emerging artists created in response to "Einstein on the Be…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:00PM
York Theatre Company, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, presents the third musical in the spring series the New York …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMJosh 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, returned to the production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMMovies and plays in which actors impersonate more famous celebrities aren’t my favorite form of entertainment. And yet I had really looked forward to seeing End of the Rainbow, the new mus…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 11:39AMIn opening this review, I take note that I cannot find a show banner icon that does not have Raul Esparza's name atop the title. Clearly the producers are hanging t…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 11:38AMThree cheers to the Farrelly Brothers for getting the most important aspect of their long awaited Three Stooges feature right. The fidelity to the Stooges’ comic style is really as tru…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:37AMTeam StarKid, a youth-led theater company best known for its Harry Potter musical theater parody A Very Potter Musical starring Darren Criss, released its latest spoof Holy Musical Bman last…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMWhen Barbara cook sings, she takes a small golden arrow from her quiver and shoots it directly into your heart. This is all done sleight of hand. You don’t see a thing, but you feel the …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:22AM
Broadway musical singer and stage actress Emily Skinner dazzled the crowd at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre Friday evening, April 13th, for a scintillating set of 13 songs inters…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07AMMore than anything, when I see something I think could or should be a show, I love to speculate about who would play what roles. I love the way casting works and I love sticking my favorite,…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMAt La MaMa, Poor Baby Bree, a comic waif with a nose for Tin Pan Alley's dustbin, makes vaudeville strange, bizarre, and captivating all over again.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
"Fairness and Freedom" is a cultural/political/social history of the United States and New Zealand in one volume. To the general reader’s likely question, “Why would anyone put the two i…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMLondon's highest theatre honor is named for one of the 20th Century's finest actors.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMSlow Burn Theatre Company’s current production of Into The Woods is a solidly delightful and enthralling evening that should not be missed by lovers of musical theater in the region – an…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:46AMThe Designers: Colin K. Bills, David Ghatan, and Matt Rowe Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first reaction? C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AMAs we frequently do, Times Square Chronicles loves to get two different takes on a performance artist. Here’s a second one for Barbara Cook. Barbara Cook *photo Stephen Sorokoff My V…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:27AMTony Rodriguez has rocketed from "who" to "who else?"
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:15AM
Today is the birthday of Flournoy Miller of the team of Miller and Lyles. For a full article on the team, go here. Here’s some audio of them in action from 1921 courtesy Okeh Records: …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:53AMTwist's staging makes all the difference, as a six-member team of puppeteers manipulate his dizzying, frequently bawdy theatrical designs (just because it's a puppet show does not mean it's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMSynetic's adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, now at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, manages to blend psychological insights with the physicality of the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50AMPulitzer Prize winning playwright -- and New Haven resident -- Donald Margulies will premiere his latest, "Coney Island Christmas" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles Nov. 20 to Dec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:36AMIt’s a theatrical legend that Anthony Hopkins reads a script more than 250 times before starting work on a character. Whether this is entirely true or not, it throws up an interesting deba…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:26AM By: Susan Hasho On Wednesday night, Barbara Cook moved slowly through the room, observing each table with a smile and accepting the audience’s enthusiastic applause. S…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:22AMAlice (in La La Land) takes us on a heady trip Moments before last night’s world premiere of ALICE (in wonderland), Septime Webre bounced onto the Eisenhower Theater stage as he has done s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe late Chairman of the Shubert Organizations' autobiography is a captiving must-read.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" gets an excellent ride at Theatre Horizon. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Norristown.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:53AMIn “Alice (in Wonderland),” Septime Webre’s trippy, dazzling new production for the Washington Ballet, the title character is not only a kid with a fantastic imagination — she’s al…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36AMMUSICAL STRIKES A UMBILICAL CHORD Motherhood the Musical doesn’t break any new ground in taking on the joys and tribulations of motherhood, nor does the 100-minute revue deliver any surpri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:14AMThe revival of “Red” by John Logan focuses on the relationship between the artist Mark Rothko and a fictional assistant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09AMThis is about the best revival of a play that you will see this season. Immensely entertaining. Funny. Frightening. And so prescient.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMThe show starts off great with actual newsreel footage of Eva Peron’s funeral and the Requiem and then in flashback proceeds to go downhill.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
By Byrne Harrison
Miriam Kulick, an actor, playwright, director and teacher, first performed "Open Hearts" at the 2011 Washington D.C. Fringe Festival where it was named Pick of The Fring…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:13AMIn an almost-solo revue, Maureen McGovern, best known for her Oscar-winning theme songs in two 1970s disaster movies, reminisces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMDirector / Artistic Director of HERE New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? All around this awesome city every day. What’s your favorite cocktail? A glass of Argentinian…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMDON'T FORGET! ENTER TO WIN TICKETS TO SEE JEFF GOLDBLUM IN SEMINAR! CLICK THE ICON TO YOUR LEFT! WHILE YOU ARE OVER TO THE LEFT, VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S THEATRE POLL, TOO! &nb…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01AMIN DEFENSE OF CHARLIE BROWNjoel fishbaneYears ago a friend who shall remain nameless (hint: she’s part of the current cast of CMT’s The Singing Bee) gave me the script to You’re a Good…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame holds it 27th annual induction ceremony April 14 in Cleveland. Punk rock band Green Day, whose music inspired the musical American Idiot, inducts Guns N' R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMatthew Broderick punches the clock opposite Kelli O'Hara in the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, his first Broadway musical since The Producers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLa MaMa presents Poor Baby Bree in I Am Going to Run Away, a one-woman musical conceived and performed by Bree Benton, which officially opens April 14, following an April 13 preview, at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe London run of Sydney Theatre Company's production of Botho Strauss' Big and Small (Gross und Klein) officially opens April 14 following an April 13 preview for a run th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West End runs of The Ladykillers, Absent Friends and The Pitmen Painters all end, as scheduled, April 14, at the Gielgud, Pinter and Duchess theatres, respectively.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Several new plays show promise, talent
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMLegit News:
Disney tuner passes 'Phantom' as top-grossing Rialto show
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMJoe DiPietro, the Tony Award-winning librettist and co-songwriter of Memphis, gets in touch with his screwball-comedy passion for Broadway's "new" Gershwin musical Nice Work If…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that One Man brings British farce back to Broadway… Peter and the Starcatcher captures your inner child (you know, the one who would neve…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCarnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute presents Jim Henson's Musical World, family concerts featuring The New York Pops and music director Steven Reineke, April 14 in the Stern Audito…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of April 1–7, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKelly Ripa hosts the tenth annual TV Land Awards, which will be filmed for future broadcast April 14 in New York City. Michael McKean, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander and Penny Marshall, for…
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