When you sit smiling for two-plus hours in a theater and don’t realize it until your face starts to ache, you know you’ve sojourned for a bit in theatrical heaven.
It’s a place theater…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:30PMIt’s got Sinatra’s dulcet cool and Tharp’s kinetic heat baked in but still this puddin’ can’t rise. Come Fly Away, a remixed version of the 2010 Broadway dance revue now at The Ken…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26PMYesterday I casually picked up a book that fell off a bookshelf. It turned out to be How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years, and is the wonderful memoir of Kaye Ballard, which I acquired in 2006 w…
SOURCE: John Simon at 10:16PMThis season there are Shakespeare productions around town that slice and dice the Bard so that no one gets hurt, but everyone gets it. Here are but a few.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:09PMA poker game provides one of the few moments approaching excitement in the torpid revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMNicole Ari Parker and Blair Underwood deliver outstanding performances in the latest Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Clybourne Park, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Peter and the Starcatcher as well as some of this week’s news.
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 09:50PMThis link will take you to a collection of all the news and reviews on A Streetcar Named Desire.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:38PMThe City Club has great potential. Of the five major factors that go into that statement - it lacks in only one area - and that one area is one that can easily be fixed. Music &…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:37PMNot quite the revisionist reworking of Tennessee Williams that its unconventional casting would appear to indicate, but a solid, atmospheric staging that favors the play's raw sensuality and…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:34PMOf all the plays currently not begging to be revived in New York, the oft-seen "A Streetcar Named Desire" must be near the top of the give-it-a-rest list.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 09:32PMThere’s no question that Tennessee Williams is one of the highest regarded and greatest playwrights in theater. He is no stranger to creating some of the most iconic characters and stories…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 09:29PMBlair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris are headlining Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, giving this American classic an A-list re…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:18PM
A Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch opened tonight on Broadway for a limited run …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57PMAt last night's 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards, Cher and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack R-CA presented the Stephen F. Kolzak Award to Chaz Bono, and Benicio Del Toro presented the Vanguard Awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:45PMTennessee William long wanted to see “A Streetcar Named Desire” cast with African-American actors, according to the director who now has brought a multi-racial production to Broadway:
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PMBlair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris star in the multiracial Broadway revival of the Tennessee Williams classic, from the same producing team behind 2008's a…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMAt last night's 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, celebrities and supporters stopped by the Ketel One Vodka Walk of Change to make their mark, and for each handprint left, Ketel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28PM
Tennessee Williams' landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire celebrates a starry revival on April 22, when Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris and Daphne Rubin-Vega take t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:59PMBlanche DuBois isn’t the only hot gal in the new Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” that opened Sunday night. Her sister, Stella, is also full-steam ahead i…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:55PMWho knew there was such a lode of priceless, unheralded Eugene O’ Neill material out there, and just under our noses? The New York Neo-Futurists found it by digging in a place some of us…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PMThe crafters of fully realized and successful artistic works in any medium have one very simple and inarguable reason for neglecting no detail in their pursuit of truth: because everything m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PMThe Pulitzer and Olivier winning new play Clybourne Park now finds itself on Broadway for a sixteen week engagement at the Walter Kerr. Taking his cue from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisi…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 06:14PMPeter and the Starcatcher has just arrived on Broadway after last year's production at the New York Theatre Workshop and it still is an absolute delight. It has a perfect cast and ingeniou…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 06:01PM
On a rainy Boston evening, I skipped with a dear, old friend of many decades and several crossings to the Paramount Theater in Boston, battling the puddles to see Peter Brook’s production …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:47PMBrian Dennehy missed the first Saturday night and Sunday afternoon preview performances of "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:39PMOur critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments belowOpening this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMToronto Dance Theatre choreographer tells The Globe’s Paula Citron about working with a pre-composed music piece
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PMFrank Wildhorn's blend of pop sounds, period tunes and Broadway bombast, along with Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes' electrifying performances, are all grandly preserved on the just-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Although Jacqueline Goldfinger penned Slip/Shot long before George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin met on the street of a gated Florida community, it’s impossible to see this absorbing drama …
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 03:48PMPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE ON ROUND 13 OF "HOT/HOTTER"!THIS IS ALSO THE LAST WEEK TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S THEATRE POLL!Jeff3.234@jkstheatrescene (Twitter); [email protected] (email…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 03:30PMToday we are kicking off BroadwayWorlds exclusive multi-part InDepth InterView series focusing on the New York Pops 29th Birthday Gala concert celebrating the music and musicals of Lynn Ahre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMMaking its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse is David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony-award nominated play Good People. Last year I spoke with Tate Donovan shortly after he wrapped the New…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:00PM
While there often tends to be a sense of skepticism when speaking of Broadway’s future, TEDxBroadway was more about thinking positive, and brainstorming for the sake of live theater. Bazad…
SOURCE: simsscoop.com at 02:57PMAn upcoming Modern Art & Design Auction will include over 100 works from an important Santa Barbara collection, featuring fine art and sculpture by George Rickey, Chuck Close, Roy Lichte…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:51PMOn February 26, 2012 the life of a young son, friend, student, and football player was taken away in Sanford, Florida. We now know him as Trayvon Martin. On that same day a criminal justice …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:24PMHello, ladies and gentlemen. I know I missed last week's update, and there is a reason for that. I was out of town for 4 days and didn't have access to a scale last weekend. So, rather…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 02:09PM
Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards honored several celebrities and projects yesterday, April 21, including Chaz Bono, Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson, the film Beginners and ABC's Modern Family.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMConductor Andrew Litton, pianist Stephen Hough open up the repertoire with Bridge, Elgar, Rachmaninoff too.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 01:30PMCandido Tirado's new play opens on five of the regulars in this corner of the park: three hustlers, one casual player, and one who never plays but watches and hangs on anyway.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:30PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
The physical beauty and sexual magnetism the stars bring to these iconic characters would surely delight Tennessee Williams.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMWe’re already at blog post number 6! This means if you’re seeing this for the first time you’ve missed a lot of posts. Definitely make sure you read the previous posts befo…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 01:00PM
- George Fulginiti-Shakar received his first Helen Hayes Award in 1994 for Sound Design. He has since had 8 nominations for Musical Direction, and received 2 Awards; in 2007 for Cabaret an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:41PMUnder St. Marks, Off Off Broadway
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: A talented cast and director evoke plenty of laughter from a clever script, despite an eventual loss of momentum.
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SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:35PMPulitzer Prize-winning play CLYBOURNE PARK, by Bruce Norris, directed by Pam McKinnon, opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre last night, April 19. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMThe Overcoat describes itself as “this modest but warm hearted story”, and in many ways this is an accurate description. This performance is nothing if not modest: economically t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:26PMThe Magic is introducing (in this country) Linda McLean's bold new play Any Given Day, a portrait of modern, urban life and the transitory nature of love and happiness.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:14PMAn-Ting Chang and her company AT ConcertTheatre are pioneering a new genre of performance. The clue is in the name. In its own words, ConcertTheatre is ”a combination form of concert …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:11PMAs someone who hasn't read Jung Chang's memoir, I came to this stage version with an open mind. I was bowled over by Sacha Wares's production, jointly presented by the Young Vic, American Re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMToday in 2004, Assassins opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 101 performances. Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
It launched the careers of some of Britain's biggest stars, including Dame Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Jude Law. Doctor Who's Matt Smith honed his acting skills there, and it was where Da�…
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 11:58AMOpera Lively has interviewed face-to-face outstanding Polish-Brazilian baritone Paulo Szot, currently in Manon at the Metropolitan Opera House alongside Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala. OL's…
SOURCE: operalively.com at 11:33AMThis series from ROH2 represents a pot-shot that should be, if not a success, at least an interesting failure, Richard Fairman writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:18AMA new artistic director steers the company away from populist Latino cliche and towards fertile new ground, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:18AMThe Royal Ballet of Flanders dances with vivid assurance but Forsythe’s piece is too clever for its own good, Clement Crisp writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:17AMThe Royal Ballet of Flanders dances with vivid assurance but Forsythe's piece is too clever for its own good, Clement Crisp writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:17AMThere are clever touches in this RSC production, but the 20th-century setting raises more problems than it solves, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:17AM"Giant Yves Klein All Out Attack" - Dan Safer, Mike Mikos wrestling in paint at Exit Art as part of Culturebot's "Ephemeral Evidence" project.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:10AMLive, NewcastleA journalist once had cause to ask why Frank Sinatra was sitting backstage without any trousers. The singer pointed at the hack's crumpled suit and replied: "So I don't go out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThe Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards were presented on Saturday, April 21 in Beverly Hills. Celebrities on hand included Cher, Benicio Del Toro, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Mike Mills, and Jason Mra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMEver since the infamous line, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” was uttered in The Wizard of Oz, people have been trying to take a peek behind the curtain. And w…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Guildhall School of Music and Drama at The Pit, Barbican
Neither straight play nor musical recital, an event as
idiosyncratic as this dramatised biography of Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) could
…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:53AMWhat do critics read in "In Masks Outrageous and Austere"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 10:52AMLiverpoolLondon had its Sultan's Elephant in 2006, and Liverpool had its spider, La Machine, in 2008. Merseyside has clearly developed a taste for street theatre and decided that outsized pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AMJoe DiPietro always wanted to write a show just like the plays and movies of the '20s and '30s, especially the screwball comedies. But how (and why?) would he write something full of illicit…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:30AMCheck out production footage from A Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch - opening t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMDiego Prieto and Brad Oscar were married on April 16 at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C., according to The New York Times
Molly Smith, a Universa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMGivenik.com Celebrates Earth Day with the BGA!
To celebrate Earth Day, learn how your favorite shows have gone green. These are things you can do yourself as well!
Givenik.com is the only …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:04AMWe're pleased to bring you Seth's latest candid chat with Broadway favorite David Garrison. In this edition, Garrison tells stories about his time in A DAY IN HOLLYWOODA NIGHT IN UKRAINE, pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMHave 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 audiences show up to see a scandalous show…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMNeil Armfield's terrifically smart and uplifting production at the New Victory is a wonder-filled stage adaptation of a unusual children's book set in 1951 Amsterdam.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Adam KraarHometown: I was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and grew up in Brooklyn, Virginia, India, Thailand and Singapore. Current Town: Brooklyn, New York Q: What are you wor…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:38AMTomorrow morning (4/23/12) starting at 6am on TCM, a bunch of silent Laurel and Hardy shorts! 6am: Do Detectives Think? 6:30am: Putting Pants on Philip 7am: You’re Darn Tootin’ 7…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:34AMTheatre Matters especially today because it offers people the opportunity to interact with others; to collectively share experiences of exhilarating joy, profound loss, dramatic mystery, epi…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 09:00AM
Having performed in more than eighty plays to date – I’ve been so happy to have had many, many curtain calls and some of them have been more memorable than others … like this o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28AMThere are certain characters in literature that, for whatever reason, capture the imagination, whether for good or ill. Miss Havisham, with her decaying wedding dress and moldering wedding f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:20AMAuthor Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AM1.
“Clybourne Park”
(Walter Kerr Theatre)
. A zinging, stinging …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMFor much of the past decade, Tamara Braun has been one of daytime drama's most beloved leading ladies, having played mob wife Carly Corinthos on General Hospital, Reese Williams on All …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
It's unprofessional of me, I know, but at a certain point in Clybourne Park, I stopped taking notes. I was just so enjoying Bruce Norris's overlapping dialogue -- lines that would be content…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:42AMIt's unprofessional of me, I know, but at a certain point in Clybourne Park, I stopped taking notes. I was just so enjoying Bruce Norris's overlapping dialogue -- lines that would be co…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:41AMVariety previously reported that the revival of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE will open tonight, April 22. The show, which has been hunting for a theatre since this past summer, will take Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAdditional principal casting has been announced for the upcoming new musical REBECCA, based on the classic novel by Daphne Du Maurier novel, opening on Broadway tonight, Sunday, April 22 at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe explosive Broadway hit American Idiot will be presented in Los Angeles next spring as part of Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre's 2011-2012 season at the Los Angeles Music Center. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTriple-platinum recording artist Aaron Carter, originally scheduled to complete his run as Matt in The Fantasticks on January 22, 2012, will remain with the production through April 22, 2012…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMST. LOUIS • Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce has spoken to thousands of victims of assault, rape, burglary and other terrible crimes during her tenure as St. Louis' top prosecutor. Still, s…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AM
Back when Marlon Brando brayed “Stel-llla!” in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” chances are no one in the audience yelled, “I’m over here!” And when he — and a succession of other…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMNominees Vishal Vaidya, Dan Van Why, Alan Wiggins, and Rachel Zampelli. Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AMDonna Vivino Sabotages Nick Adams
The Hunger Games gets really Hunger
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named …
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAt Hand Theatre Company presents the third annual Earth Day concert, Broadway Recycled, which benefits At Hand and the Broadway Green Alliance, April 22 at Joe's Pub.
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SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMWho says a play needs to be about one thing? Well, lots of people do, and yet often the most exciting theatre transcends its ostensible theme in favor of ambitious storytelling that eschews …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMSomewhere along the line I must have missed the story about how the Avenue Q song "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" was adapted into a two-act straight play with enough chops to win the 2011 …
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