The terrific opening number is a harbinger of things to come in the John W. Engeman Theater’s production of “42nd Street.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:51PMFollowing the amazing success of The SPACE Tour, internet sensation Team StarKid announces a second national tour APOCALYPTOUR, featuring a cast of StarKid veterans performing hits from the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMJames Corden, in a war of choice with himself.
There's something about being in the presence of performers who will do anything to make us laugh—whose sole aim is to tickle us—that is a…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:12PMRupert Goold, who directed the play Enron, says his new trailer can exploit the reach of social mediaOne of British theatre's foremost directors is pioneering the use of Facebook to reach ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMRadical art, especially in live performance, can only be
shocking once. Thereafter, it's a piece of history – interesting,
bracing even, but a thing that no longer holds surprises.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIs Cate Blanchett hallucinating? In the opening scene of Big and
Small – Botho Strauss's radically fractured play from the 1970s,
aka Gross und Klein – her Lotte slurps a tangerine cockt…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Today, BroadwayWorld.com is thrilled to exclusively present the third installment of CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this hilarious new edition, Randy catches up with Ricky Martin,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMToday is the birthday of the great Tin Pan Alley songwriter Paul Dresser (1857-1906). The brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, he famously gave his name to singer Louise Dresser so a little…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:35PMDon’t Dress for Dinner -- and don’t see this show either. I went because I read somewhere it was really funny. It is, for about ten minutes. But the rest is an uninspired cliche -- thoug…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:35PMToday is the birthday of English music hall drag king Hetty King (1883-1972). Her father Will King had a one-man band act in the music hall. She herself started performing at age six. She be…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:32PMEl Barto was the stage name of magician named James Barton (not to be confused with singer/performer/actor of the same name). Born on this day in 1859, he was an oprhaned and homeless teena…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:28PMDonna Vivino #BroadwayHungerGames Semi Finals
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SOURCE: YouTube at 03:26PMA REFRESHING RAIN When reviving an oft-produced play like N. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker, the hope is that the director will somehow put a new spin on the production so that the piece doe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PMToday is the birthday of Beatrice Kay (1907-1986) best known for repopularizing songs of the Gay 90s long after the fact. She got her start in vaudeville, radio, and Billy Rose’s Diamo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:10PMIn The Company of FoolsShakespeare's Interactive Circus and Algonquin are a happy marriageby Jim MurchisonI went to the Algonquin Theatre School not quite knowing what to expect. A Company o…
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The Real JungleBaobab will please parents as much as their childrenby Ryan HurlIn the heart of the urban jungle, at the base of the Calgary tower, an ancient tale pushes up toward the sky in…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 02:56PMThe National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed comedy One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the Music Box Theatre on, Wednesday April 18. BroadwayWorld was on hand inside the after party to spea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMShakespeare’s Coming Home, boasts the strapline of a highly ambitious strand of London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad. Between now and 9 June, 37 productions of the complete canon by Shakespea…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:04PMI’ve been thinking about Melanie Wilson’s Autobiographer which I reviewed here during the week. It would perhaps be fair to say that I didn’t give it a glowing review, and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:00PM
What a total pleasure. Good writing. Spot-on directing. Glowing performances. Excellent design team. Funny how that works. And to think it almost never made it back to New York. Clybo…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:57PMYOU’RE GONNA STAND UP… Sometimes in the theater, all you need are four chairs and four actors and a director who knows how to move them around so that everything they do is as natura…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:36PMPERFECT CRIME, Warren Manzis long-running funny, romantic thriller, celebrated its 25th anniversary Off Broadway last Wednesday, April 18, 2012, with performance number 10,233. PERFECT CRIME…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Don Gregory will present the new Broadway production of Mary Chases Harvey starring Jim Parsons Elwood P. Dowd, Jessica Hecht Veta Louise Simmo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMIn rehearsal last night, the line that most struck me wasn't one of my own. In addition to my work as an artist in residence with Halcyon, I am a founding member of Strange Bedfellows Theatr…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:15PMI must admit, I had reservations about how an intimate show like Peter and the Starcatcher would play on Broadway. It was a perfect fit (though not a perfect show) at the New York Theatre Wo…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:04PM
Howard Shalwitz is Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Since 1987, he has been nominated 8 times for direction, and received the Award in 2011 for Clybourne Park.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:51PMFEELING A LITTLE BLUE In 1992, a friend insisted that we see Blue Man Group: Tubes at the tiny, cramped Astor Place Theatre in New York City. At the time, people were calling it a new genera…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:38PMWelcome to theatre, in widescreen. Wild Swans is a historical epic that spans 30 years of China’s history in an hour-and-a-half. The stage has been stretched to fit it all in. Taking c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:17PMCeleste Fraser and John Irvin as Blanche and her brother.Right now is a very good time for opera in the Hub. I just got back from a truly hilarious operatic satire at Boston Lyric, The…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:06PMThe Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire will open at the
Broadhurst Theatre on Sunday, April 22. Emily Mann has directed the production.
The production st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMToday in 1977, Annie opened at the Alvin Theatre now the Neil Simon Theatre, where it ran for 2377 performances. Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
Robert Cushman: There’s an extraordinary scene in the second act of Oil and Water — extraordinary in a good way
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:30AMby: Sandi Durell A cleverly orchestrated show title by one of today’s top interpreters of song lyrics, Gillett most assuredly would be the right choice to invoke the master’s (Ste…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:21AMThe Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde is now available for purchase on iTunes. The CD will be released April 24 on the Broadway Records label. The musical ended its short run on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMSince I had to give away my giveaway on Thursday this week, I thought I’d take today to give you an update on the cool seminars we have coming up at DTE. One of the things I love the m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMRori Bergman on casting "Nancy, Please," a new film that will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:00AM
- James Kronzer is a multiple Helen Hayes Award recipient, with, by our count, 20 nominations since 1990, and taking home 7. - I am in theatre because of the importance of storytelling. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMAs we’re beginning to shape the language and vision for the new Center for Theater Commons at Emerson College, we’re thinking a lot about what we do and how we deliver it. Every platform…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:23AMNeither protagonists nor antagonists, the haunted trio at the center of A Measure of Cruelty are desperately seeking compassion and redemption for their separate sins when all they can find …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:22AMMore 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 10:00AM
Company puts its own spin on popular story.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:30AMhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2012/apr/20/touts-pushing-theatregoers-out
SOURCE: John Morrison at 08:26AMAticklish question: How to critique the Helen Hayes Awards process on the eve of the ceremony without smearing the accomplishments of the 153 nominees?
It may not require such finesse. The i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMNEW YORK — The move to Broadway proves to be an entirely felicitous visibility upgrade for “Clybourne Park,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about race and class that had a virtuall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMThe “Puro Tango” program Thursday at GALA Hispanic Theatre tugged at the heartstrings and fielded sophisticated musicianship. The program of famous tangos from the 1920s through the 1970…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMSharks rarely swarm onto theater stages. But darned if some Great Whites (or approximations thereof) haven’t torpedoed their way into the delightfully irreverent stunt occupying the Arlene…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:20AMThe Young Vic together with American Repertory Theater, Boston have taken on a huge challenge in staging the lengthy yet gripping memoir by Chinese writer Jung Chang that became an instant s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:00AMTimberlake Wertenbaker's 2003 retelling of the Cinderella story, "The Ash Girl," is getting a mixed-bag production from the young Pipeline Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 21 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe glamorous star talks about her new autobiography, her experiences on Broadway, and the end of Desperate Housewives.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
New Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets off to an astonishing start with his directorial debut production of Matthew Lopez’s mesmerizing play The Whipping Man. Atmospheric…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMcreated and performed by Trey Lyford & Geoff Sobelle directed by Aleksandra Wolksa Kingsborough College, Brooklyn - Saturday April 21st, 8:00 – tickets and information HERE - and E…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:32AMShe listened to me outline things systematically. Elements in my life that had been gradually sapping my enthusiasm for my days, causing me get surly, angry, self pitying and not just a lit…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:12AM
Adapted by Richard Tulloch from a Guus Kuijer novel, "The Book of Everything" proffers the most worthwhile 135 minutes you are likely to spend in a theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:27AMA new multiracial Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire is opening and stars Blair Underwood as Stanley Kowalski. Underwood talks to Weekend Edition's Scott Simon about portraying the…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:25AMJessica Wilson speaks to Amy Letman, Associate Producer of West Yorkshire Playhouse's exciting and innovative TRANSFORM festival happening this weekend and next.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:13AMWhoever said Russians are cold-hearted creatures hasn’t seen The Three Sisters. The new staging from the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg, Russia, which can be seen at the Harvey Theat…
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 06:08AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Drama Desk nominee Jen Cody about starring in Charles Busch's hilarious new show "Judith of Bethulia" at Theater for the New City, "Taboo," performing at Theater fo…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMThe performing arts are desperate to win new audiences, but when they show up, they don’t always behave. Does the download generation need to clean up its act? Or is it time to take a s…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AM
Matt is an Idiot (on tour)! #4
Have you ever wanted to know what REALLY happens when a Broadway show goes on tour? No, I'm not talking about what kind of reviews they get or if audience…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:26AMProducer, General Manager New York, New York USA Where do I look for inspiration? I find inspiration in all that surrounds me that I can integrate into my life. The collaborative process of …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMRISE OF THE PUPPETS joel fishbane“We all have strings holding us together,” says Pierrick. “But it’s whether or not the strings pull you or push you that makes you a marionette …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSongs by theatre lyricist Tim Rice — the wordsmith of "I Don't Know How to Love Him," "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAmanda Nedham is a young Toronto artist having a moment, with a dazzling new show and a commission from British fashion designer All Saints.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMOh, the treasures one can find on Youtube.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that Blair Underwood heads a new Desire… Ghost haunts Broadway… the fourth time's a charm for John Lithgow and journalists&hel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMChristopher Charles Wood, Chryssie Whitehead, Hans Altwies, Patti Cohenour and Nancy Anderson are on the team for the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Damn Yankees, which begins performances…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNathan Lane stars as Theodore Hickman in the new Robert Falls-directed production of Eugene O'Neill's epic The Iceman Cometh, beginning previews April 21 at the Goodman Theatre in Ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith the all-new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which stars Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega at the Broadhurst Theatre, Playbill.com …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA host of composers from the worlds of jazz, classical, musical theatre, pop and film are represented in Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano, which plays Symphony Space's Pete…
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 12:00AM1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. Noel Coward's comedy describes two wives who get drunk while trying to get even with their husbands …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Broadway revival grew from past collaborations
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'Wicked' and 'The Lion King' top the list
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Process values independence, but secrecy shrouds jury's verdict
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Hit requires balance between choreography and improv
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThe work of Mr. Howard Philips Lovecraft lends itself naturally to claustrophobic readings, being as it was so largely unappreciated in his own lifetime. It's not hard at all (if perhaps sli…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMAn outstanding cast creates magic in Peter and the Starcatcher, making its Broadway transfer to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Rick Elice's script, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Rid…
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