A Haunting Idea
The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PMA Haunting Idea
The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM- Award winning DC playwright Karen Zacarias received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (The Sins of Sor Juana). Her works have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMLynda Carter, TV's legendary Wonder Woman, returns to the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA, on April 19, 20, and 21 with Body amp Soul, her dynamic new show featuring her unique take on c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMJujamcyn Theaters Jordan Roth, President and True Colors Theatre Company Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director have announced the judges and guest performers for the 4th Annual August Wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMWhat do we really know about William Shakespeare? We know the 37 plays and the poetry, of course, which confirm the existence of one of the greatest literary and psychological geniuses of al…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:06PM6 Characters in Search of a Director, a new play from writer/director Steven Berkoff will play the West End's Charing Cross Theatre. Performances begin May 16, with opening night set for…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMThe London laugh riot One Man, Two Guvnors made its Broadway bow on April 18, and the company of this National Theatre comedy hit is obviously overjoyed to be sharing their show with New Yor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMThe London laugh riot One Man, Two Guvnors made its Broadway bow on April 18, and the company of this National Theatre comedy hit is obviously overjoyed to be sharing their show with New Yor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMNew seasons at Geffen and Pasadena playhouses, with Lynn Nottage plays at both...New seasons for Laguna Playhouse and Musical Theatre Guild...a 20th anniversary production of Anna Deavere Sm…
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Eric McCormack is the latest addition to a discussion of the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, which will be held at The 92nd Street Y on April 30 at 8pm.
As previously r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, April 19, 2012 Breaking news: Jake Gyllenhaal to Make American Stage Debut at Roundabout ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by PATRICK HEALY A play …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:52PMThis time it's Broadway's new It Boy Josh Young, who is wowing fans and critics alike as Judas in the new revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. During their chat, Young got candid about his ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMUsher is heading off-Broadway. The Grammy winner will join the cast of "Fuerza Bruta: Look Up," the fast-paced, acrobatic and unconventional play where the audience stands as performers danc…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:42PMThe 2012 BBC Proms will present over 90 concerts, July 13-September 8.
Highlights of the series, which focuses on classical music, include a semi-staged production of My Fair Lady starring …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:39PMAcross the street from a scrap yard, Arsenale Toronto is bringing the Montreal art world to the city in a unique setting.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:39PMThe previously announced musical American Psycho, featuring music and lyrics by two-time Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will premiere at London’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:37PMIt’s almost Tony time, and let's face it: We’re obsessed! In anticipation of the 2012 Tony nominations, which will be announced on May 1, the Broadway.com editorial staff clo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMIt’s almost Tony time, and let's face it: We’re obsessed! In anticipation of the 2012 Tony nominations, which will be announced on May 1, the Broadway.com editorial staff clo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMInteractivity is so much the rage these days both in journalism and in the arts that it's starting to make things like the business of going to see a traditional play or ballet look really o…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:33PM“Mr. Broadway” is a posthumously published memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld, one of the engines of the Shubert Organization for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PMMeredith Willson's The Music Man starring the Kate Baldwin as Marian and Burke Moses as Harold Hill, plays Washington DC's Arena Stage May 11-July 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:20PMAndree Bernard, Sarah Chamberlain, Ruth Everett, Neil Stuke, Paul Trussel, and Philip Voss will star in Steven Berkoff's new play 6 Characters in Search of a Director, to play London&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMActress Featured In Premiere Of Will Eno's 'The Realistic Joneses' Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageParker Posey has me dazed a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:10PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming will be honored at Live Out Loud's 11th annual Young Trailblazers Gala, to be held at The TimesCenter on Monday, April 30 beginning at 6pm. Tony winner B.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMTony Award-winning actress Beth Leavel will star in the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma production of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam this July.
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Phylicia Rashad and her daughter Condola RashadGem of the Ocean as part of the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, to be held at the August Wilson Theatre on Monday, May 7 at 7pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:58PMHailing from the UK and having not been born when most of the events of this play take place, I entered "Magic/Bird", a new play by Eric Simonson, knowing next to nothing about what was to f…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 04:57PMAndreas Mitisek, Artistic and General Director of Long Beach Opera, will interview Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang on Saturday, May 5 at 4pm, at the Los Angeles County Museum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMAre critics divided on "One Man, Two Guvnors"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:55PMOn April 19, 1945, New York audiences watched Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan kiss under a blossomed bower for the first time when the original Broadway production of Carousel opened at the M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMSo when’s the last time you took a good look at WORKING? The script and score for the musical that opened on Broadway more than a third-of-a-century ago keeps getting facelifts. The newest…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:53PMGordon Lightfoot talks about his songs Early Morning Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, Canadian Railroad Trilogy and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:53PMI’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “OOPS! You got out-classed by Carrie White.” I’m talking to you, Bono. Befo…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 04:52PMOver the years, "The Simpsons"on Fox has engaged a few Broadway talents in guest spots -- Stephen Sondheim, David Mamet and Mandy Patinkin all have put it vocal cameos. The series even paid …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:51PMThe newly renovated Howard Theater is now a sparkling gem, brimming with excitement and glamour on an otherwise drab still-undergoing-rehab corner north of the Howard U. Metro stop. Judgin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:50PMUzo Aduba, Adam Halpin, Morgan James, Chad Kimball, Kenita Miller, Logan Marshall-Green, and Jeremy Schonfeld will be among the performers for the benefit concert, The Bridge: Where Hope an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:46PMPageant, the Musical will have industry readings presented by Shea Sullivan May 1st in New York under the direction of Christopher Gattelli. Conceived by Robert Longbottom, book and lyrics b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMBroadway Hunger Games Semi-Finals
We're down to only 6 Tributes! This is the semi-finals. After this there will be only threeee remaining. Here is Scott Alan, our Game Maker, to give yo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:40PMWhat’s it like to dance with a total stranger, night after night?
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:36PMMichael Elyanow
Hometown: Randolph, MA
Current Town(s): Minneapolis & LA
Q: Tell me about The Children.
A: It's a re-imagining of the Medea myth, about a member of the Gr…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:35PMNOMINATE A YOUNG LEADER OF COLOR TO ATTEND TCG’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON! DEADLINE: TUESDAY MAY 1, 2012 Since 2006, we have gathered groups of young theatre professionals of color fr…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:29PMBruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a spinoff of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," is at Seattle Repertory Theatre April 25-May 13, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:29PMReviews of two productions on local stages: "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," at Ballard Underground through April 22, and "Help" at Seattle Children's Theatre through May 13.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:28PMby: Sandi Durell It’s a rare happening that a show can celebrate 25 years of sleuthing mystery as the longest running show on or off-Broadway, and celebrate it did, at the Snapple Thea…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:27PMPopsugar.com has revealed a sneak peek look at Anne Hathaway on the set of the Les Miserables film in London Hathaway is playing the troubled Fantine in the film, which is set for a Decembe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PM92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists will present Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noël & Cole, A Battle of Wits, featuring the songs of Cole Porter and Noël Coward, May 5-…
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Young artisans look to this weekend's big American Craft Council show for a career boost.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:58PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
"Encores: After the Theatre and Other Stories": Piven Theatre's founding matriarch directs an evening of short works by Anton Chekhov, ada…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:58PMOn Monday, a colleague stopped by who'd seen "Angels in America." He wanted to talk about Larry Yando's performance as Roy Cohn in the epic drama by Tony Kushner, now playing at the Court Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMKERRY REID reviews "Enfrascada (A Hoodoo Comedy of Jarring Proportions)" at 16th Street Theater ★★★ and "The Improv Play" for InFusion Theatre Company ★★★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMHow the actress became an action heroine for “Peter and the Starcatcher” There are eleven men in the cast and only one woman, but still, Peter and the Starcatcher is a boon for f…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:51PMThe Town Halls 123 West 43rd Street critically acclaimed Broadway by the Year's 12th Season continues with The Broadway Musicals of 1975 on Monday, May 14th at 8PM. 1975 was a year that brou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PM"The National Memorial Day Concert" will air on PBS May 27 at 8 PM live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:47PMThe line-up of presenters, judges, and participants for the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition will include a four-time Tony Award winner, eight Tony Award nominees and more than 200 of B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMToday is the birthday of singing single Grace La Rue (1880-1956). She got her start singing in variety saloons, tent shows and burlesque, working her way into vaudeville after performing wit…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:37PM"Sea Marks," "The Mill," "Julius Caesar" and "Deal! The Musical."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:36PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean's fresh take on an Italian classic.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMLaid off from his LAUSD teaching job while struggling to complete a play, Alan Aymie responded by writing another play, a solo dealing with educational issues. He also found his experiences …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PMA singer's grooming is more than hair, clothes and makeup.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:30PMI’ve been hearing lots of ideas and theories lately, well, I hear lots of ideas and theories all the time. One interesting thing I’ve come across in advocacy work recently has been the i…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:30PMKathie Lee Gifford is the latest celebrity to take in Tracie Bennett’s powerhouse performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow. The stage-loving Today Show host enjoyed hearing Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMPRISCILLA: "Best Night on Broadway" Commercial
Hear what real audience members have to say in this brand-new TV commercial. For more information, visit http://priscillaonbroadway.…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:28PMMelissa Errico, who was acclaimed for her performance as Dot in the 2002 Kennedy Center staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George, will take on her fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PMThe line-up of presenters, judges, and participants for the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition will include a four-time Tony Award winner, eight Tony Award nominees and more than 200 of B…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:20PMBuoyed by a ship-shape cast, the Colony Theatre Company’s “Dames at Sea” revival broadsides the 1930s movie musicals of Busby Berkeley with tongue firmly in cheek. It&rsquo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:20PMNick Jonas (How to Succeed), Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess) and Eric McCormack (The Best Man) are among the presenters set to appear at the 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Eas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank teacher Beth Morrison and Burbank PTA Council President Barbara Miller will be honored by the Burbank Arts for All Foundation at the inaugural gala e…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:19PMFOX has released a video of Broadway veteran Lea Michele and Glee stars Chris Colfer, Naya Rivera, and Amber Riley performing Whitney Houston's hit "How Will I Know" on the sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PMI’m often asked, “Where shall we go for brunch?” “It depends,” I evasively respond, clueless as to your expectations. Prefer outdoors, indoors or lavish buffet? Quick and cheap or …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMNeema Bickersteth as Adeline and Starr Domingue as Vonzia in the 2011 run at the LSPU Hall (St. John's, NL) ACT I ProblemsOil and Water takes its timeby Beat RiceI am instantly curious …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:15PMMore pictures are being leaked from the Les Mis movie. We've seen pictures of the men, and now it's time for the ladies. First up is Fantine played by Anne Hathaway. If you look closely, Ms.…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:13PMAshley Brown, Carole J. Bufford, Scott Coulter, Maya Days, Bob Stillman, and Lari White will be among the performers for The Broadway Musicals of 1975, to be held at The Town Hall on Monday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:09PMThis is a maddening play, and not in a good way, either.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:01PMConversations with an Executioner, adapted by Philip Boehm, continues through April 29, 2012, at the Kranzberg Center's black box theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:01PMJudy Kuhn will play Fosca opposite Melissa Errico as Clara in the Classic Stage Company's coming revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical drama.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:59PMJosh 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, visited Bravo's 'Watch What…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMMike Nichols talks about directing Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” He’s joined by Linda Emond, who plays Linda Loman. “Death of a Salesman” is playing at the Barrymore The…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:53PMOn April 28, 2001, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation invited Arthur Bartow, Artistic Director of the Drama Department at NYU Tisch, to moderate a conversation between Michael Lup…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMStockard Channing, Judith Light, Nick Jonas, Nina Arianda, Hugh Dancy, Lisa Lampanelli and Corbin Bleu are among the celebrities who will appear at the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMEven superheroes deserve a birthday celebration! On April 18, Reeve Carney, the title star of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, took a break from saving the world when his Broadway co-stars sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:51PMNBC has released a video from the April 23 episode of its hit series Smash featuring star Megan Hilty singing "Secondhand White Grand," a new song by Tony Award-winners Marc Shaima…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMComedian Lisa Lampanelli is best known for her foul-mouthed insults on Comedy Central's Friars Club Roasts, but the raunchy comedienne is determined to show the softer aspects of he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMToday in the historic Great Hall on Ellis Island three esteemed individuals were honored by The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. for the contributions they have made to this N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has announced the celebrity presenters, judges, and participants who will take part in the 26th annual Easter Bonnet Competition, to be held Monday, April 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMGlee will pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston on the series April 24 episode titled, “Dance With Somebody.” Just as the show has previously honored Madonna and Lady Gaga, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMThe Town Hall's Broadway by the Year concert series will continue May 14 at 8 PM with The Broadway Musicals of 1975.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMAMERICAN IDOL host Ryan Seacrest has announced on his Twitter account that tonight's show will pay tribute to the late Dick Clark. Posted Seacrest, were putting together a tribute for Dick C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMTony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will headline McCarter Theatre Center's Annual Benefit Gala, to be held Saturday, May 5.
Neuwirth is currently starring in Classic Stage Company's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:34PMRobert Chafe tells an uplifting story of a shipwreck, a rescue, and open-hearted enlightenment set against the backdrop of the civil-rights struggle
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:31PMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now celebrating its 3rd electrifying year in New York and over 300 performances at New World Stages, will celebrate national “Record Store Day” wi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:30PMBob Dylan's songs are so closely meshed with Bob Dylan's voice that the idea of a cabaret chanteuse taking them on is like tomato ice cream, both odd and intriguing. Award-winning British si…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:30PMThis week, TheaterMania reports on Viola Davis receiving the Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement, Liza Minnelli receiving the the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award, Kevin Kline and Mer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMMarta Rainer(writer/performer) has performed her solo show Unaccustomed to My NameOff-Broadway, across the US and internationally since 2001 – including beingthe first American invited to …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:30PMTony Award nominee Felicia Fields, Lillian Castro and Michael Lindner star in the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray, which officially opens April 19 at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMBroadway was (prat)falling all over itself on April 18 to welcome the sight gags and slamming doors of British slapstick sensation One Man, Two Guvnors to the Music Box Theatre on opening ni…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:25PMArts Advocacy Day 2012 was a great day for the arts on Capitol Hill. TCG participated as a National Co-Sponsor as we have for many years. Joining TCG staff for Hill visits was a seasoned and…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:22PMBob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan are a father and son grappling with their past, present and uncertain future in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMAccording to published reports, stage and screen actor Jonathan Frid passed away on April 13 of natural causes. He was 87 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:19PMCast members from Broadway's Godspell will perform a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS entitled Godspell Sings Stephen Schwartz at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, May …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMIt's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:15PMThe Pushcart Players will celebrate its 38th anniversary with a fundraising event, to be held Sunday, June 3 at the Montclair Art Museum.
Titled A Royal Celebration, the afternoon will feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMRoundabout Theatre Company’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, by Nick Payne, will star Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhall in his US stage debut. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the producti…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:13PMJenniferBowen’s solo show BURNING DOWN TO HEAVEN, about the poet Anne Sexton,was produced at The Marsh Theater and Venue 9 in San Francisco and premiered inNew York City at Women's Center …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:13PMFEBRUARY HOUSE creators Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley and director Davis McCallum discuss their new musical's inspiration and themes.
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:12PMSECOND CITY KNOWS EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE Second City calls its 100th mainstage revue Who Do We Think We Are? The question is rhetorical. For more than half a century, Second City has been the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09PMIn March, the Washington Post's chief theater critic, Peter Marks, lamented that the 2012-2013 seasons of several large D.C.-area companies—among them Signature Theatre, the Kennedy Ce…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:06PMAfter watching the award-winning 1997 S. R. Bindler documentary about the endurance contest in which entrants must keep one hand on the surface of a vehicle at all times in order to win a br…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMIn Ghost The Musical, inspired by the hit film that starred Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, hunky Sam returns from the great beyond (with a little help from accidental medium…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMSomeone Else's Story is a debut solo CD from Meredith Braun ... Barb Jungr continues her association with the tales crafted and introduced by Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:00PMTo continue the focus this week on ArtsEmerson, the Commons, and the College, I have the sheer pleasure of talking with Anne Bogart. There is so much here we could have talked for hours. Suc…
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GET THEE TO BEING SHAKESPEARE There’s simply no other way to encourage your attendance to Being Shakespeare than to submit my unequivocal good word. Those who fret at comprehending Shakesp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58PMRed Bull Theater has announced additional casting details for its upcoming Monday night reading series.
The series will continue Monday, April 30 with Phil Massinger's The Renegado, fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:58PMDenver Center Theatre Company has added the world-premiere production of Sense & Sensibility The Musical, drawn from the Jane Austen novel, to its 2012-13 season. Tony Award nominee Marc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMFull casting has been announced for California Shakespeare Theatre's upcoming production of The Tempest, to run May 30 through June 24 under the direction of Jonathan Moscone.
The ense…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMGHOST THE MUSICAL began previews on Thursday, March 15th at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Set in modern day New York City, Ghost The Musical is a timeless fantasy about the power of love. Walki…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMLIVE with Kelly's upcoming guests include A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE's Blair Underwood, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT's Matthew Broderick and THE BEST MAN's Candice Bergen. See the full list of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMThe Alhambra Theatre and Dining has announced that the entire run of its upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz will benefit the Community PedsCare Program of Community Hospice of Northeast…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMAdam Chanler-Berat, Christian Borle, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Roger Rees, and Rick Elice discuss the magical new Broadway play about Peter Pan.
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:45PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley, who was last seen Off-Broadway in Wild Animals You Should Know, has released a new music video entitled "Beautiful Eyes."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:43PMAndrea McArdle, Broadway's original Annie, joins Tony-nominated actor Constantine Maroulis Rock of Ages, American Idol and Justin Matthew Sargent Rock of Ages, Bonnie amp Clyde for the April…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
The sheer length of Victor Hugo's doorstopper of a French Revolution saga didn't stop "Les Miserables" from being a stage sensation. Charles Dickens' simi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:40PMOn the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs, the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The program is co-hosted for the seventh ye…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMAll aboard! On a journey to discover the Neverland you never knew, Christian Borle, Adam Chanler-Berat and Celia Keenan-Bolger are moving full steam ahead in the whimsical play Peter and the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:37PMCasting has been announced for the Alley Theatre production of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against, a new dark comedy about a female architect who hits the workplace glass ceiling…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMThe free Broadway's Future concert series — presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul (in association with N and N Productions ) — continued April 16 in the Bruno Walter Audi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:33PMThree-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn and Tony nominee Melissa Errico are set to star in Classic Stage Company's previously announced revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PMThe Chicago production of Mark St. Germain's play Freud's Last Session will mark the 156th birthday of the titular psychoanalyst with post-performance celebrations on Sunday, May 6…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMDennis Kelly’s play emerges as a taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies that explores equivocation, Sarah Hemming writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:23PMDennis Kelly's play emerges as a taut, compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies that explores equivocation, Sarah Hemming writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:23PMCasting has been announced for the Alley Theatre's world premiere production of Theresa Rebeck's new play What We're Up Against, to run May 11 through June 12, on the Neuhaus …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22PMOne Man Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s adaptation of the 18th-century Italian farce by Carlo Goldoni, requires two directors, one just for the physical comedy. The slapstick production evokes…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:21PMYesterday, April 18, Reeve Carney celebrated his 29th birthday at the Foxwoods Theatre. As a gift, the Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark house crew compiled a video retrospective of the star's j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMMelody Madarasz in Café Variations The music of George Gershwin is a good thing; a very good thing. Which is a very good thing for director Anne Bogart, as it repeatedly saves he…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:13PMAge & Hometown: 41, New York City
Current Role: Doing double duty as 1950s housewife Bev and 21st-century real estate agent Kathy in the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitze…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMONE HIT, TWO GUVNORS Once upon a time, you could attend theatre by Americans and watch actors who had worked together for decades. Long rehearsal periods to explore classical texts were co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:06PMGhostlight Records this week went into the recording studio with the cast of Carrie, to record the first-ever cast album. Release dates for the album will be announced at a later time. The c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMOh my, my, my. There is Joy in Mudville once again. And more than that, there are moments in this play that are so funny you don’t just laugh, you bark. There are a few things at which …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:02PMRafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the New York Philharmonic performances of selections from Manuel de Falla's Atlántida, and Carl Orff's complete Carmina b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMThe April 23rd episode of NBC's musical drama SMASH will be paying homage to 'Bollywood', the colorful movie genre of India. The episode will include an elaborate dream sequence, set to the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner announced today that acclaimedawarding winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Meliss…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMOur BBB Video of the Week is an actual music video from Norah Jones which prominently features ANYTHING GOES star Colin Donnell. Here’s the video for “Happy Pills” from Jon…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:56PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Charlie Frasier shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the arts ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts announces an all-star summer line-up set to kick off in June. The summer will feature the legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, jazz songstr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMMagic Mike - Official Trailer 2012 - Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey (HD)
The official trailer for Magic Mike in HD starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Mat…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:55PMHard to believe but the end of the 2011-2012 school year is mere weeks away If you've been following BWW's Student Center, you'll know we've had a fun time this year showcasing theater progr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMThe first class of Doris Duke Artists—an unprecedented new initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which awards artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidiscip…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, today announced that Multi Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMJoseph Alsop, the imperious political commentator, is the subject of “The Columnist,” a new play by David Auburn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMNorth Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced the musicals, celebrity concerts and children's shows that will comprise its upcoming season.
Lorna Luft will star as Dolly Gallagher Lev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMThe next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "Publicity," will air April 23 at 10 PM ET. Here is an early look, with potential visual spoilers.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMI may have seen as many as two dozen exhibitions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts over the years, and this one is without a doubt the best one I’ve seen. Entitled…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:39PMBlair UnderwoodTennessee Williams’ sultry drama, A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Emily Mann opened at The Broadhurst Theater on April 22, 2012. A Streetcar Named Desire is set agains…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:36PMTony Award winner Harriet Harris will appear alongside La Tanya Hall, Jeff Harnar, Edward Hibbert, Colleen McHugh, and T. Oliver Reid in Mad Dogs and Educated Fleas: Noel and Cole a Battle o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMOPENING DELIVER US FROM NOWHERE: TALES FROM NEBRASKA. Tympanic Theatre Company presents 10 short plays inspired by a different song from Bruce Springsteen’s album “Nebraska.” Opens Apr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:36PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who is currently represented on Broadway with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will be inducted into the New York Foundation for the Art…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the world premiere production of Bad Jews by Joshua Elias Harmon and directed by Daniel Aukin for the fall season. Bad Jews will begin preview p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced that movie star Jake Gyllenhaal will be making his American stage debut in If There Is I Havent Found It Yet, a comedic drama by Nick Payne at the Ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThe Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg offers a well-acted but inertly staged production of Anton Chekhov's classic drama at BAM.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMWhen is a rope not a rope? Answer: When it is a doorway, a window, an ocean wave, a ship’s rail and oh, yeah, when it is used to tie up hostages. I guess it is a rope for the latter, but…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:29PMOn April 12, 2012, Groupon announced that its GrouponLive website would be launching "G-Pass," a new feature that will allow users to bypass box office and will call lines.
Groupon, the onli…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 12:27PMYesterday, April 18, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now playing at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street, celebrated the beginning of its 3rd electrifying year in New York and the 3…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMThe first act of the Shakespeare play looks a lot like “Othello,” but the second half is a rustic comedy.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:25PMFlorida Theater On Stage Brad Hathaway reviews CD/DVDs of People in the Picture, Spider-man Turn Off The Dark, Oscar Hammerstein - Out of My Dreams, A Connecticut Yankee,
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:22PMDrum, PlymouthThe world ends with a bang not a whimper in this latest show from the Belgian experimental theatremakers Ontroerend Goed, which succeeds in squeezing billions of years into jus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMJake Gyllenhaal will make his American stage debut this summer Off-Broadway in “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” the Roundabout Theatre Company announced on Thursday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:21PMPan Asian Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of Mayank Keshaviah's Rangoon at the Clurman Theatre from May 25 through June 17, with an opening set for May 31. Raul Aranas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMIndustry readings of the Off-Broadway musical Pageant will be presented May 1 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMAfter a successful 2011 Off-Broadway run at the New York Theatre Workshop, "Peter and the Starcatcher" takes flight at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre under the direction of Alex Timbers …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:16PMThe first Broadway revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" is now playing at the Marquis Theatre, in a production headed by Grammy winner Ricky Martin, Olivier Award winner Ele…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:14PMAlice Ripley will play a concert at the Metropolitan Room on Sunday, May 27 at 7pm.
Alice Ripley's Daily Practice will feature the Tony Award-winner on vocals and guitar, along with he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMThe 2012 Commemorative Tony Program will be distributed to the guests at the Beacon Theatre and for the first time, more than 25,000 copies will be made available to Broadway fans outside of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMJane Lynch, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman will host a benefit engagement of Jason Robert Brown's pop musical The Last Five Years May 4-6 at the Third Street Theatre in Hollywood.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce two new premiere productions at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. If There Is I Haven’t…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:10PMGhostlight Records recorded the cast album of MCC Theater's production of Carrie on April 17. The show's composer Michael Gore, along with Joel Moss, serves as producer. A releas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMThe hit musical has been touring North America since it began in Seattle in 2007. Dancap Productions is bringing it to the Toronto Centre for the Arts July 10-29.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:09PMIt takes a lot to impress master magician David Copperfield, but the new Broadway musical Ghost features the work of one of Copperfield’s most talented pals: illusion designer Paul Kie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PMJudy Kuhn and Melissa Errico will star in John Doyle's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion to begin performances at Classic Sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMAfter a celebrated London run, U.K. Tour and a U.S. debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, "End of the Rainbow" opens at Broadway's Belasco Theatre. Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:06PMCardiff High School, WalesBradley Manning, as most people know, is a 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret cables and logs about the Iraq and Afghan wars to WikiLeaks. W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMTHE CONTENT OF TODAY'S BLOG MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED WORK SAFE!These days theatres are full of shows that have just opened or are deep into previews. Even a show with 22 seasons of perfor…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMFederico Castelluccio will play the title role in a reading of Richard Vetere's play Caravaggio Tuesday, April 24 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The reading is part of The Barefoot Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Fulfilling the dream of playwright Tennessee Williams himself (and using script revisions made when the author originally conceived of the desegregated version of the show), director Emily M…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:59AMToday in 2001, The Producers opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 2502 performances. The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMGhost leading lady Caissie Levy stopped by ABC’s What’s The Buzz on April 11 to chat about the new jaw-dropping musical, opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 23. Le…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:57AMThe Oscar-nominated actor will make his American stage debut next fall in British playwright Nick Payne's comic drama "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:56AMSongs transposed from pastoral setting assume a powerful irony
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:54AMSteve Martin, Idina Menzel, and Stephen Sondheim are among the artists who will take part in the summer concert series at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
Taking place in Reynolds …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:54AMStephen Sondheim will be joined by Christine Ebersole and Brian Stokes Mitchell for a special evening of story and song July 14 at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:53AMby Pip Bradford Subject: Byron Laviolette Date: Friday, March 16th, 2012 I met Byron several years ago, at the Fringe when he was with a Morro and Jasp show. This is the record of a day we s…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:52AMReviewers were tripping over each other to find superlatives to praise Corden's hilarious performance
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 11:52AMWhen Soulpepper Theatre presented Ins Choi’s play, Kim’s Convenience, last January, everyone loved the script, the cast, the direction, but most of all, they loved the set.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:52AMDo you recall the old scientific brain teaser: “What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?” Well, you can find an excellent illustration of it this summer at the …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:52AMToday, April 19, David Garrison A Day in Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, Titanic, Torch Song Trilogy will make a guest appearance at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't Tell Mama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMMasters of the outdoor concert, British band set to rock Toronto
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:51AMClothes may make the man, but they glorify the woman.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:50AMNumerous stage stars will be represented in the films premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival, to run May 16-27.
Edward Norton stars in the festival's opener, Wes Anderson&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMEach of them has a career independent of the other, but John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey often appear together, to the delight of their fans.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:47AMROCK OF AGES will open in theaters on June 15, 2012. The film stars Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, along with Diego Boneta as Drew, Julianne Hough as Sherrie, Russell Brand as Lonny, Alec Baldwi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMActor Jonathan Frid, who gained fame as Barnabas Collins on the television serial Dark Shadows, has died of natural causes, according to published reports. He was 87.
Frid's Broadway c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:46AMJake Gyllenhaal is set to star in an off-Broadway play from the Roundabout Theatre Company. The Oscar-nominated actor will appear in the ensemble comedy-drama "If There Is I Haven’t Fo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:46AMOn Wednesday, April 18, the Broadway production of Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre with Nicholas Hytner at the helm.
Opening Night guests included J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMClassic Stage Company, under the leadership of artistic director Brian Kulick and executive director Greg Reiner, announced April 19 that award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn and Melissa Errico…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AMThe team behind the new musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT recently sat down to talk about the process of bringing some of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's most beloved standards b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMDisco is back and better than ever! On the “Saturday Night Glee-Ver” episode of Glee, the McKinley gang took on some of the most famous toe-tapping tunes from the '70s. Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMPublished in 1940, the title of a Thomas Wolfe novel suggests “You Can’t Go Home Again.” But perhaps you can. It was a homecoming of sorts at the recent 10th anniversary Tommy Tune Awa…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 11:41AMLack of radio play for jazz means she writes for musicians who will tour the music
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:40AMTabard has always felt there is something missing from the Olivier Awards, and this week it finally became clear what that something is.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMIt will take more than 12 hours for pianist Stewart Goodyear to play all of Beethoven's sonatas in Luminato marathon June 9 at Koerner Hall
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:38AMFrom one Chicago to another now as we take you on a whirlwind adventure to that toddlin' town (a Frank Sinatra reference - if you didn't get it, shame on you). This month the mayor of the Am…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMThe Oscar-nominated actor will make his American stage debut this year in British playwright Nick Payne's comic drama "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:35AMCulturebot contributor Zhenesse Heinemann offers this report from QMAD's ITINERANT Festival
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:34AMCritics sing praises of star James Corden as Richard Bean's Brighton-set farce opens at New York's Music Box theatreAmerican theatre critics have – perhaps fittingly, given the play's high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire presents W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, which officially opened April 13. The limited engagement at the Marriott continu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the Roundabout Theatre Company's If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, a comic drama by Nick Payne. Directed by Michael Longhurst, the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMThe Chichester Festival Theatre double bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's companion piece South Downs transfers to Harold Pinter Theatre from 24 April (previews…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:30AMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will star Off-Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. Michael Longhurst will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMFountain House, an internationally recognized non-profit organization located at 425 West 47thStreet and dedicated to bettering the lives of people living with mental illness, has announced …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMSoon you can hear Nick Jonas crooning your favorite How To Succeed tunes whenever you please!
Broadway Records will release an EP of Nick Jonas performing five tracks from the smash hit mu…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 11:29AMNew York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:29AMThe sixth season of Roundabout Theatre Company's Roundabout Underground program of new works by emerging writers will launch Oct. 5 with the world premiere of Bad Jews, a comedy by Joshu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMOscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, the film actor known for such pictures as "Love and Other Drugs" and "Brokeback Mountain," will make his American stage debut starting in l…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMOn the April 23 episode of the NBC musical drama SMASH, Megan Hilty will perform an original song by composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The tune is a tribute to Marilyn Monroe's most …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:27AMHow would you like to see some of your favorite Broadway stars live (including Donna Murphy, Marc Kudisch and recent Tony-winner Nikki M. James), singing original songs by Stephen Sondheim, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:22AMHeadlong Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season, which will include the world premiere of the new musical American Pyscho. With music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Ag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMHeadlong Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season, which will include the world premiere of the new musical American Pyscho. With music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and a book by Roberto Ag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMTheatre bloggers are at loggerheads over whether to support productions that play it safe or relish those that take risksStrap yourselves in. Pop on a crash helmet. Theatre bloggers have reo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMAfter 30 years, the Theatre Alliance calls it quits and spreads out its programs to the Walnut Street and Wilma theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:14AMAre you a Broadway Baby BroadwayWorld invites you to enter the 'Follies' Broadway Baby Contest for a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles and two tickets to 'Follies' at the Ahmanson Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMGoodspeed Musicals' dream of building an Artists Village is finally a reality. Seventeen new homes to be used for actor housing on the Goodspeed Campus in East Haddam, Conn. are complete. Th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:12AMI didn’t feel very good after seeing this show, and I have struggled to find the right word to describe how I was feeling. Abandoned. That’s the word. This is a story about a supremely …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:11AMCasting has been announced for The Hard Boiled Egg and the Wasp, a new musical about the life of English music hall star Dan Leno, to run May 22-June 10 at The Giant Olive Theatre at the Lio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMThree-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara is back on Broadway this season in the new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, which co-stars Tony winner Matthew Broderick.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThough not for everyone, this world premiere musical has some good dialogue and lyrics, makes excellent use of the space available, and is generally entertaining. Recent college grads will f…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:07AMThe Carol Burnett Show will receive its long-awaited retail DVD release from Time Life on September 25.
The CBS series debuted in 1967 and ran for 11 years, receiving 25 Emmy Awards and fiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:02AMI found myself in a very intriguing conversation earlier this week with the creator of a new theatrical piece based on movement (actually three different kinds of movement, which is what mad…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Tony Award winner Viola Davis and Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain, who both starred in the Academy Award-nominated film "The Help," are among "the most influential people in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMAMERICAN IDOL host Ryan Seacrest paid tribute to his personal idol, Dick Clark immediately following the end of last night's show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — will celebrate the Academy Award winner's upcoming 70th birthday April 24 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMOn April 26-29, beginning at 7pm during sunset, 30 artists from many disciplines – dance, movement based theatre, live music – will come together in a portion of Washington Navy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMGoodspeed Musicals MAME Begins Tomorrow!
STAR OF BROADWAY'S "MAMMA MIA!" IS MAME
Sparkly, Exciting, Joyful, Stylish, Worldly and so much more -- that's MAME
"Feel al…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:51AMOur Vaudephone taping schedule is officially on hiatus as I work on my new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube. We will be resuming with a whole…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:49AMCharing Cross Theatre, London: I didn't have the best of times watching a new musical version of A Tale of Two Cities, but I also didn't have the worst. Perhaps this Dickens story …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMEastgate Theatre, Peebles: Ed Robson has created a fine new touring version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic yarn for Cumbernauld Theatre.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse has announced casting for Elliot Davis and James Bourne's new musical Loserville, according to WhatsOnStage.com. Steven Dexter will direct the production, which…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:38AMWatershed High School Minneapolis, MN Reported by: Marty Johnson, Director of Education, iTheatrics April 2, 2012 INTO THE WOODS JR, is often considered to musically be one of the most diffi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:37AMYou will find yourself in your parents’ house and you will think: how strange to be in a place in which every object evokes memory.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:37AMJacksons Lane, London: With their thrilling hand-to-hand number, Lauren Hendry and Kaveh Rahnama were two of 2007's outstanding Circus Space graduates. But their first show, The Hot Dot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMCharlie Frasier was recruited by Portland Center Stage to be Director of Development in April 2006. Now in their 23rd season, PCS is among the top 15 professional regional theaters in Americ…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:33AMThe National Theatre of Great Britains acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre last night, Wednesday April 18. Check out coverage of the theatre arrivals below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMEagan High School graduate Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA program, have been cast to play Cinderella and the Prince.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:30AMThe Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite — opened April 18 followi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMThe National Theatre of Great Britains acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre last night, Wednesday April 18. BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the premiere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMChad Beckim is a New York City based playwright whose writing credits include …a matter of choice, `nami, Lights Rise on Grace (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 NY Int’l.Fringe Festival; F…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:27AMBroadway Studios, London: This early trio of short plays from Barrie Keeffe examines a microcosm of dissatisfied youth in south London in the mid 70s. Brimming with all the angst of any youn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne: Alan Plater's celebrated 1968 play of the North East miner's struggle was based on stories by his friend and mentor Sid Chaplin. The play has b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMCasting has been announced for the newest installment of The Thalia Follies, entitled, Race for the White House, to play Symphony Space, May 17-19.
Created by Symphony Space Founding Direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:15AMLegit News:
Osnes, Fontana set for fairy tale musical
SOURCE: Variety at 10:09AMOn the April 23rd episode of NBC's musical drama SMASH entitled 'Publicity', Karen Katharine McPhee finds herself seduced by the glamorous life of new BFF Rebecca Duvall special guest star U…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMCasting has been announced for the transfer of David Harrower's A Slow Air from Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre to the Tricycle in Kilburn. The production, which was a hit for the Traverse at l…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:08AMToday is the birthday of vaudeville child star Sylvia Froos (for my full article on her go here). Now here’s a clip of her singing “Snuggled On You Shoulder” (1932) lovingl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AMThe Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the 21 performing artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidisciplinary work who have been named as the inaugural Doris Duke A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AMFiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music amp Art and the Performing Arts is proud to announce the world premiere of Life Of The Party, a light opera for dark times. Following the huge succ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:03AMIt’s time for the next installment in our Swing/Understudy series! This time, James the Intern spent some time in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre with Book of Mormon’s Jared Ger…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMStep right up folks! Be among the first to discover Amaluna, the matriarchal circus partially inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, wherein 75% of the 52 performers are women and a specta…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AMFollowing the success of his 2010 and 2011 U.K. tours, singing actor John Barrowman will perform at four open-air venues this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMProducers Steven C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones recruited composer Terence Blanchard to score the show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
Life’s not easy if you’re young prince Telemachus. You miss the dad you barely remember, people think you are too young to take over for a king and demigod like Odysseus, your moth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMMekhi Phifer and Phylicia Rashad will star as Dr. John Prentice and his mother Mary Prentice, respectively, in True Color Theatre Company's production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinn…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMIt’s open house at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 19, when the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris’ drama Clybourne Park officially opens on Broadway. Pam MacKinnon directs the P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AMRobert Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company has issued a statement on the passing of industry legend Dick Clark
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMHere's how busy I've been: I completely forgot to pass the word that Shakespeare & Company's production of Satchmo at...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:38AMLegit News:
Melissa Errico also joins Off Broadway cast
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29AMA semi-staged production of My Fair Lady and a celebration of the music of Ivor Novello form part of the line up of this year's BBC Proms.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMThe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced the last venue on its four-concerts-in-four-days European tour in September. As anticipated, the first concert on the tour will be performed in…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:27AMHeadlong, the U.K. touring company of which Rupert Goold is artistic director, has announced a slate of five world premieres, including The Effect, a new play by Lucy Prebble whose Enron Goo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMLarry Hart's Praise: An Irreverently Reverent Gospel Experience will be presented April 22 at 6 PM at Middle Collegiate Church.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMAfter reading your article on 'legal ticket touting' (page 2, March 29), I can suggest a solution to the problem.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMI was interested to read Tony Smith's letter regarding Gypsy at Leicester's Curve (April 12).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMPlaywrights working for the National Theatre, the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company are to benefit from an increase of just under 8% on their total minimum fee.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMTo its CEO Daniel Lamarre, the Cirque du Soleil is still just a modest Quebec enterprise that somehow manages to survive in spite of all odds — and tsunamis.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:00AMBBC arts commissioner Jan Younghusband has blamed the Corporation's lack of marketing for a perceived shortage of cultural programmes on its channels.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSandi Toksvig has joined Sprout Pictures, the independent production company co-founded by Stephen Fry, as a director.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM"Open Call" 9 p.m. Thursday, KCET: 100 Voices: A Journey Home: Hosted by mezzo-soprano opera singer Suzanna Guzman, "Open Call" features a wide variety of productions from profiles of artis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM
Loserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, will begin performances at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds June 18, prior to an official opening Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:55AMAs the breakfast DJ on the first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, Tom Lodge helped to change the way in which rock music was broadcast in Britain.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMI read with interest your articles on West End ticket prices (April 12).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThe Brewery, Bristol: There is much fun to be had in this ludicrously hammy Victorian spoof concerning an allegedly gifted medium who travels the country with her two sisters showing off her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMWhen you walk into an auditorium to see a backdrop full of speakers you know you’ve come to a play with something to say. Since it’s coming from the mind of Kate Tempest, you know it…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:33AMJoel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first reaction? Brianne: I was with my mother sailing into New York Harbor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMWith Dennis Kelly’s recent successes bringing him increasingly into the public eye, it’s hardly surprising that DNA has been chosen as a set text for schools. The play explores the desol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:27AMYour West End ticketing special (April 12) made very interesting reading and throws light on the problems that affects London theatregoers. I have often been lucky with day tickets but, if y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AM"An Accident of Hope" is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22AMIt's Bev Sheehan's show, and it's a hit.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMIn Richard Caliban’s “MoM: A Rock Concert Musical,” at TBG Theater, suburban moms form a rock group and vent, but the show is more concert than musical.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM"Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' era-spanning satire on race, comes to Broadway with its original cast intact and a Pulitzer Prize, but it's still weak tea.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMJust last week I added a new antique theatre to my lifelong collection—a stately 6,000 seat Roman stage in Merida, Spain, a town which was founded in 25 BC as a retirement situation for so…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 19 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award-winning actor discusses his role as a dying husband in Nicky Silver's new Broadway play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Criterion, London: With quite a few of this year's Mountview BA MT graduates already agent-signed and rehearsing for professional work, this showcase intrigues with promise right from t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMCasting has been announced for West Yorkshire Playhouse's forthcoming production of new British musical Loserville with Aaron Sidwell, Gareth Gates and Lil' Chris joining the cast of Elliot …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:51AMLegit News:
Musical take on Bret Easton Ellis novel to bow in U.K.
SOURCE: Variety at 07:45AMThe man who wrote Saved, with its infamous baby-stoning scene, has not mellowed. After working abroad for the best part of 25 years, Edward Bond is back in London to oversee a trilogy of his…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:41AMAfter its run at the Young Vic, I decided to direct a short film inspired by Edward Bond's Bingo, starring Patrick StewartEdward Bond's play Bingo, which focuses on the last months of Shakes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMInspired by the Young Vic theatre's recent production of Edward Bond's Bingo, Epithet tells the story of a contemporary poet with a dubious background, and contains violent language and imag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMAfter directing Edward Bond's Bingo at the Young Vic, with Patrick Stewart in the lead, I decided to make a short film inspired by the play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMThis is an interesting revival of a play which came first out of two thousand entries in a new stage writing competition run by The Observer in 1957 and organised by Kenneth Tynan. Set in Tr…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:33AMThe Chair Plays By Edward Bond Following the success of Saved last October, the Lyric presents the UK premiere of Edward Bond’s The Chair Plays. Domestic family life struggles to survi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMLandmark on Main Street will host Two-Time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole for a performance her critically acclaimed show The End of the World Cabaret as a special Mothers Day weekend …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31AMAs Judi Dench's Bond days come to an end, a return to London's could stage ensue.
Her character, M, is killed off in the latest film Skyfall, leaving Dench extra time to turn her focus to …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:27AMDavid Bedella and Sara Kestelman have been cast in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMGareth Gates and Lil' Chris are to star in the premiere of new musical Loserville at West Yorkshire Playhouse later this year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMWembley Arena, London: After seven series, ITV1's Dancing On Ice is probably not at the peak of its popularity, but there is still enough interest to sustain an arena tour, giving audie…
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National, London: Cillian Murphy came to prominence when Enda Walsh cast him as the teenage tearaway Pig in his 1996 breakthrough play Disco Pigs. A decade and a half later, Murphy's pe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMRycote, the Gloucestershire-based manufacturer of microphone windshields and shockmount systems, has scheduled another of its open days.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe Association of British Theatre Technicians and the Stage Management Association held this spring's open Production Managers Forum meeting at the PLASA Focus trade show, Leeds, on April 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMBlackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, HSL, recently supplied lighting equipment and LED screens to the first production tour of one of the UK's newest boy bands, One Direction…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMBBC drama Sherlock will compete against Channel 4's Fresh Meat for the YouTube Audience Award at this year's British Academy Television Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMFrank Galati's epic adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel at Steppenwolf.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:20AMsilence may be golden but in Bret C. Leonard's play it's overdone . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:18AMTed Nugent4008 West Michigan AveJackson MI 49202Dear Nuge,I transferred, as a Sophomore in college, from a private Quaker college in the middle of the Heartland to a State University smack d…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:16AMAmerican audiences get an A-class taste of British humor via Richard Bean's coup-de-farce .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:15AMCasting has been announced for West Yorkshire Playhouse's forthcoming production of new British musical Loserville with Aaron Sidwell, Gareth Gates and Lil' Chris joining the cast of Elliot …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:00AMWicked has been dazzling audiences with its stagecraft for over five years. Just how do they do it? Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the magic behind one of the West End’s most beloved…
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" chats with singer/songwriter/actor Matt Zarley about his latest album "Change Begins With Me," starring on Broadway, being People Magazine's first openly gay bachelor, and oth…
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Formidable actor stars in overly pat show
Had Simon Callow arrived in lawless Chicago a century or more ago, like one of those famous traveling British Shakespeareans of yore, proudly pros…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50AMRegular readers of this blog will know already just how much I bang on about the high cost of theatre tickets and the sorts of ways, both devious and more transparent, that theatre producers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:46AMCirque du Soleil's latest touring show, Amaluna, will premiere in Montreal on April 19, 2012, followed by Quebec July 25, 2012 and Toronto September 5, 2012. Diane Paulus will direct the pro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Tisch School of the Arts at New York University announced today a distinguished list of alumni will attend their annual gala, Ordinary Miraculous Celebrating Vision, on April 19th at the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe humor in the new Broadway farce “One Man, Two Guvnors” is so broad, you could drive an 18-wheeler through it — which the actors gleefully do, at 100 mph and without seat belts.
Pra…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:22AMAngel Corella looks like a man who’s finally come home. American Ballet Theatre’s beloved Spanish principal recently announced his retirement in June — focusing his energy on running t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:22AMThe opening line of “Ninth and Joanie” is “It’s dead out . . . there’s nobody nowhere” — and boy, is that the truth. The characters in Brett C. Leonard’s suffocating drama ar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:22AMDue to the crush of Broadway openings this week and next, I'm filing several extra drama columns for The Wall...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Who Do We Think We Are?" at Second City ★★★½
Of the previous 99 mainstage revues at the Second City, almost all have offered the audience a chance to sho…
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Earlier this month, Thomas Cott’s You’ve Cott Mail had some stories about dealing with divas. While there are a few divas I have had to deal with, I actually feel like I have enc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AMWriter, Lyricist Montauk, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? … I don’t really look. Ideas seem to find me. What’s your favorite book / movie / play ? I’m an ominivor…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMDuncan Sheik is still knee-deep in theater projects. The Tony-winning composer is getting ready to mount the first staged production of his new musical The Nightingale this June in San Diego…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:01AMSometimes a theatre photo is just right, as is this one from Bruce Monk. It is for MTC's Next to Normal with Jonathan Cullen and Steffi DiDomenicantonio and it captures perfectly that moment…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMBruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, will open at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on Thursday, April 19.
Pam MacKinnon directs the play, which examines how a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01AMOn today’s show: Director Mike Nichols and actress Linda Emond discuss the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Lynn Sherr talks about why we swim and wh…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury is honored during the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards April 19 on the historic Ellis Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFood For Thought Productions kicks off its 2012 season with a staged reading of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes April 19 at the company's new home, the Beckett Theatre at Theatre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClybourne Park, Bruce Norris' humor-flecked play about racial and economic changes in a neighborhood over a 50-year period, opens on Broadway April 19 following previews from March 26. W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMiriam Kulick's one-woman show, Open Hearts, a poignant and comedic journey about love of self, the acceptance of family and the courage to move forward, begins performances April 19 in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith an "adolescent need to piss people off," Bruce Norris may have reached his zenith with the success of the Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park, now on Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Rebeck among scribe to develop new plays
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMIf you just happened to meet Laura Wingfield one day, would she know that her glass menagerie was a symbol of her own fragility and uniqueness? This is one of the potent ideas in Steven Fech…
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