Ben may be in the throes of terminal cancer, but his wife, Rita, is determined to know what he thinks about redoing their living room.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMDrama League Awards has announced its Twitter Contest, which allows one lucky Twitter follower the chance to win two tickets to the 78th Annual Drama League Awards. Submissions begin TOMORRO…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57PMToday the Presidents Committee on the Arts and the Humanities announced the launch of a new artseducation initiative to help turn around low-performing schools, developed in cooperation with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42PM‘I sense bad vibes,” someone says early on in “Festen (The Celebration),” and, boy, is she on target, as a 60th-birthday party turns into a maelstrom of horrific accusations and lite…
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Yes, another Whoopi Goldberg film has made its way onto the stage, landing at the Lunt-Fontanne laden with scads of s…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 11:30PMSomething peculiar is happening in “Ghost the Musical.” It’s nothing to do with the plot, which involves a dead man looking after his (living) girlfriend, and a sham psychic with a 4G …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMThe new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams'"A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Broadhurst Theatre has one thing that distinguishes it from its predecessor productions -- it's performed by …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:20PMThe new Broadway musical “Ghost the Musical,” modeled on the hit 1990 movie about a young banker who is murdered but whose spirit sticks around to keep his girlfriend from harm, …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:08PMDuring “Ghost the Musical” last Thursday, one of the enormous sliding LED panels used to create scenic and special effects slipped off its track and crashed, leading to a 20-minute delay.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMDeath looms large in Nicky Silver’s Broadway play, “The Lyons,” a caustic and canny comedy about family dysfunction packed with surprises that are alternately hilarious, tragic and abs…
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Sculpture was the target of "Kony" graffiti on a night of protests.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:38PMHEDY WEISS: Watching the infectiously funny, playfully subversive, talent-filled revival of “Hairspray” now at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre, it is impossible not to think of Dick Clar…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:38PMNEO-FUTURISTS REVISIT: Arriving just in time for the last big push to Election Day is the Neo-Futurists’ “44 Plays for 44 Presidents,” an updated version of one of the company’s most…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:36PMIn “God of Carnage,” the comic belch of a play by the sensationally popular French provocateur Yasmina Reza, two upscale couples sit down for a civil conversation and quickly make each o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:34PMMexico-born vocalist a romantic In Series triumph at the Source.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 10:14PMNicky Silver’s The Lyons roars onto Broadway after an acclaimed off-Broadway debut. Directed by Mark Brokaw, the comedy stars Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Michael Esper and Kate Jennings…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:05PMNicky Silver’s The Lyons roars onto Broadway after an acclaimed off-Broadway debut. Directed by Mark Brokaw, the comedy stars Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Michael Esper and Kate Jennings…
SOURCE: baltimore.broadway.com at 10:05PM“The Lyons,” Nicky Silver’s acerbic comedy about an aging dysfunctional family, features Dick Latessa as the father who’s dying, and Linda Lavin as the mother who seems O.K. with tha…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA Hollywood hit about post-mortem romance comes to Broadway in “Ghost the Musical,” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTR Warszawa’s troupe brings “Festen” to St. Ann’s Warehouse, with a set that — appropriately enough — conjures the hotel from “The Shining.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMLinda Lavin leads a superlative ensemble in Nicky Silver's deliciously dark play about a dysfunctional family.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThis Broadway musical version of the 1990 film uses splashy visual effects to prop up a serviceable but not particularly memorable score and a book sorely lacking in character development.
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TR Warszawa presents a stunning stage adaptation of the film about an unusual birthday party.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PMThis new musical set in a jazz club is sunk by its witless, unoriginal script.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PM"Macbeth" presented by Aquila Theatre at Gym at Judson, April 21, 2012
I first encountered Aquila when the company was in residence at the University of South Carolina. Their ap…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 09:55PMAfter a whimsical opening night at Peter and the Starcatcher, Adam Chanler-Berat is welcoming us backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for the second episode of his Broadway.com video blo…
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BOTTOM LINE: A fun, nostalgic Gershwin-style musical comedy with a fresh take.
The “new” musical Nice Work If You Can Get It begins when …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:38PMGiven its firm reliance on violence, treachery, sex, and jazz, you'd expect the new musical The City Club, which just opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre, to be smoldering almost nonstop.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMThree young women enter adulthood in musicals that are otherwise very different -- Cloudlands at South Coast Rep, Dames at Sea at the Colony and Miss Saigon at La Mirada -- where Jacqueline …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:29PMTHE LYONS debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre and opened tonight on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. THE LYONS comes to Broadway with its entire original c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:21PMGhost the Musical, adapted from the Academy Award winning film, opened tonight, April 23, 2012. Let's see what the critics had to say
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10PMAside from its dazzling technology, this is a soulless show with all the substance and charm of wet ectoplasm.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:07PMGhost The Musical, the London pop musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film about a romance that reaches into the afterlife, opens on Broadway in a visually-arresting staging Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01PMThe popular 1990 movie that won Oscars for Whoopi Goldberg and screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin gets a musical makeover in this production by Matthew Warchus, with songs by Dave Stewart and Gle…
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Think you know everything possible about the endlessly kvetching Jewish mother? Think again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54PMShakespeare's GlobeNo one could accuse Shakespeare's Globe of lacking nerve. Not only does their contribution to the World Shakespeare festival include almost every work in the canon, each i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53PMA Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch opened last night, April 22, on Broadway for…
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America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) season 7 Mos Wanted Crew tells us who their favorite crews of ABDC past are! Ba…
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SOURCE: theartsentrepreneur.com at 08:43PMNicky Silver's caustically funny and emotionally satisfying family comedy is driven by a gem of a performance from Linda Lavin.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:42PMGhost grossed half a billion dollars and won an Academy Award for Whoopi Goldberg and for its screenplay, so perhaps it was inevitable the 1990 film would eventually be made into a musical. …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PMLinda Lavin leads the ensemble as a scaldingly blunt Jewish mother in this black comedy by Nicky Silver about family disfunction and self-preservation, transferring to Broadway after a hit r…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PMA stellar team of theater veterans and blues musicians have come together to create the The City Club, a new off-Broadway musical set in a wild 1934 jazz club. This film noir musical, direct…
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“It’s easy for me to talk to you; we don’t know each other”. Robert Holman’s Making Noise Quietly is a work that, like its title, lives in the delicate push-pull of contradiction: …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:58PMJames Anthony Zoccoli treats us to a 60 minute monologue on the complexities of racial identity filtered through his experience as a boy who grew up in a multiracial household. Highly Recomm…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:51PMSo, what's the "problem"? All is right with the world - or the theatre at least - in the Maori-language staging of Troilus and Cressida from the Auckland-based Ngakau Toa troupe that pi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:47PMSpiderman v. Taymor and Remembering Ted Mann
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:41PMLinda Lavin, twice divorced, thrice-married, five times Tony-nominated (one of which she won), nine years as the star of the sitcom Alice, is at age 74 performing her 16th role on Broadway i…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:30PM“The Book of Everything,” which stars an adult as a 9-year-old, pits imagination and art against repression and joylessness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMAdam Smith(writer/performer) is an ensemble member of the NY Innovative Theater Award-winning New York Neo-Futurists and performs in their hit show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. A…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:05PMFM News 101.9 theater reporter Michelle Murillo caught up with the Tony Award-winning production of Bette Midlers PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT on the musicals one-year anniversary at the Pa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMUnlike the National, the RSC has not had a good record of producing exciting new plays in the past 20 years or so. But one exception to this rule is the theatre’s support for the work of D…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMThe book was meant to be unfilmable. But more than a decade on from the acclaimed movie adaptation of American Psycho, a theatre company is to go one step further and bring the bloody satire…
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THE LYONS, which debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre, officially opens tonight, April 23, at the Cort Theatre. Previews began on April 5. THE LYONS com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:57PMKevin R. Free(writer/performer) is a writer-performer who’s told stories on NPR, Dana Rossi's the Soundtrack Series and on the mainstage at The Moth. An alumnus of the New York Neo-Futuris…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:55PMSlip/Shot, a remarkable new play by Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger, starts with a bang ... Jon Marans' The Temperamentals ... has a fascinating subject: It's the true story of the men who, in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMEevin Hartsough (writer) has been acting professionally since the age of four with a couple of long stretches off to go to Vassar and, later, pursue some other interests. Credits include the…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 06:47PMJesus certainly isn't underrepresented on Broadway right now. A revival of Godspell, an early Stephen Schwartz musical, came to town in the fall, and now spring brings Jesus Christ Superstar…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:34PMRoosevelt High's much-celebrated director of theater, Ruben Van Kempen, will be inducted into the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) Hall of Fame in September in Coronado, Calif.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:31PMSamuel Beckett, Harold Pinter share literary legacy Charles McNulty, from the LA Times, has a strong opinion about the precise language of Beckett and Pinter, and why we don’t see more…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:22PMTopher Grace and Olivia Thirlby co-star in Second Stage Theatre's production of Paul Weitz's world premiere comedy, LONELY, I'M NOT, directed by Trip Cullman. Preview performances began Tue…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMThe pianist Anthony de Mare performed pieces from his “Reimagining Sondheim” project in a concert at Symphony Space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMBeloved film romance Ghost has been reinvented for the stage, and after successful runs in the U.K., this high-tech tearjerker has arrived on Broadway. Richard Fleeshman stars as Sam Wheat, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:09PMBeloved film romance Ghost has been reinvented for the stage, and after successful runs in the U.K., this high-tech tearjerker has arrived on Broadway. Richard Fleeshman stars as Sam Wheat, …
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Theater producer Daryl Roth, who produced last seasons Tony Award-winning revival of The Normal Heart and has presented an unprecedented seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays on the stage, is s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMA youthful first glimpse of the Golden Gate Bridge eventually led Richard Raskind to write a play about some of those who go there to commit suicide. The West Coast premiere of The Bridge Cl…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:51PMTony winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa return to Broadway as the Rita and Ben Lyons, the less-than-stellar parents of Michael Esper and Kate Jennings Grant in Nicky Silver’s comedy …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMMichael Cooper, who covers cities and urban affairs for the National Desk of The New York Times, spent part of Monday, Shakespeare's birthday, highlighting the playwright's best lines about …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMIt’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 05:43PMLa Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment announced a 2012-13 season that will include a 2013 visit by Shirley MacLaine, plus productions of Next to Normal, Sev…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:32PMOver the next five weeks, Paper Mill Playhouse will launch five, short video interviews with Once on This Island composer, Stephen Flaherty. Watch the third part of the interview series belo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMWhen "The Lyons" opened at the tiny Vineyard Theatre in the fall, the mystery of Linda Lavin was finally solved.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:28PMThe ads for "Ghost: The Musical" proclaim "You've never felt anything like this . . . You've never seen anything like this." The point, well taken, is that this song-and-dance adaptation of …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 05:27PMA fantastic look at marriage, actually presented at a real, honest to god wedding:I celebrate Taylor. I celebrate Karina. I celebrate [Taylor&Karina]. But this wedding also has a third party…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:24PMThe Lyons, Nicky Silver's darkly comic dysfunctional-family play starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, is now playing on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. The production, fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:21PMBased on user demand, BWW is taking our commitment to arts education one step further with the launch of the BWW Student Center - High School Edition. This directory features upcoming show l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PMA Philadelphia artist has created a reputation for paintings whose subjects are decidedly cheesy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:16PMTake this as another apology from me... Periodically, I get swamped by work and by performances, and it takes me a bit to reboot. So I'm back in the saddle, will do some catching up.Also, in…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:16PM22Q Entertainment LLC and GoAlleyCat Productions are set to present the West Coast premiere of Alex Goldberg's It is Done, May 13-June 12 at Pig 'N Whistle Restaurant. Michael Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMThe Neo-Futurists have announced the productions set for their upcoming 24th season.
The season will open with 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (October 4-November 10), curated by Andy Bayiates, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:09PMBroadway veteran Toni Collette, along with Dev Patel, have been cast in the new thriller Defiant, according to a report on Deadline.com Bill Bennett is writing and directing the project.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMToday we are completing our extensive three-part look at THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Carnegie Hall with an career-spanning chat with one of Broadway biggest rising stars, the amiable and accomplis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:00PMIn this new feature, Broadway.com staffers send personal shout-outs to applause-worthy stars, shows and more.
By the time Tom Edden makes his entrance as elderly pub waiter Alfie, the zan…
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Nicky Silver, the Wynnewood-born-and bred playwright whose edgy plays sometimes have seemingly nice or clueless people turning awful, had his Broadway debut Monday night with a solid, edgy p…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:58PMIn the beautiful city of New York, Corbin Bleu is performing miracles day by day as Jesus in the revival of Godspell, and we've got your first look at production photos of the new …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMIn the beautiful city of New York, Corbin Bleu is performing miracles day by day as Jesus in the revival of Godspell, and we've got your first look at production photos of the new star i…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 04:58PMThe Society of Composers amp Lyricists SCL, the premier educational, advocacy and networking organization for professional music creators for visual media, has announced a major membership d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PM “Nice Work If You Can Get It” Heads the List with 9 Nominations followed by “Newsies” & “Once” with 7 Nominations The First Broadway/Off-Broadway Award Nominees of …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:46PMFM News 101.9 theater reporter Michelle Murillo caught up with the Tony Award® winning production of Bette Midler’s PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT on the musical’s one year anniversary a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:46PMSorry for no post today, but preparations are underway for the annual IRNE Awards, tonight at 7:30 pm at the Cyclorama, in which the Independent Reviewers of New England honor their choices …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:45PMThe LA STAGE Alliance has announced LA Stage Talks, a series of panel discussions moderated by LA STAGE Alliance CEO Terence McFarland, exploring various aspects of the creation of performin…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:44PMPreviews have begun for Paul Weitz’s new dark comedy Lonely, I’m Not, and we’ve got a luminous first look at Topher Grace, Olivia Thirlby and the ensemble cast. In the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMPeter and the Starcatcher recently opened to mostly favorable reviews, but if you haven't gotten tickets yet, you've got a chance to see it free for any performance before June 1st. &nbs…
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:35PMTouchdown! On April 20, Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews III took off his helmet and headed to the Great White Way to catch the ’80s jukebox hit Rock of Ages—his f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMFormer television star Raven-Symoné has helped the box office since taking over the lead role of the musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMThis Friday, April 27, Submissions Only will air its episode 2 season finale, featuring previously announced guest star Jesse Tyler Ferguson Modern Family, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMTennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire was revived and reinvented on April 22, when the show’s first ever Broadway production starring a cast color opened at the Broadhurst…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMToday is the 448th birthday of William Shakespeare -- that is, if you believe the widely held assumption that the Bard was born on April 23. Like many things involving the greatest playwrigh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:28PMWith a whopping six productions opening on Broadway this week we've made it to the height of the Spring 2012 season Try to squeeze as many shows as you can into your schedlue before Tony nom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMWithin the past month, The Lion King celebrated several production milestones including becoming the sixth longest-running show in Broadway history, becoming the highest-grossing Broadway sh…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMFolger Shakespeare Library has announced that it has acquired the theatrical archive of the late actress and playwright Lynn Redgrave.
Redgrave received Tony Award nominations for her work …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMAccording to the Associated Press, Brazilian actor Tiago Klimeck, who accidentally hung himself during a Passion play, has died. The 27-year-old, who was re-enacting Judas' suicide in the pr…
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America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), season 7 week 3, features songs by Madonna! Behind the…
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SOURCE: nofeebroadway.com at 04:08PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Ghost" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York ... At one moment in this cold, over-produced new musical from London, Molly suddenly senses that maybe, just maybe, her lov…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMLaura Osnes made her Broadway debut in the 2007 revival of Grease after snagging the role of Sandy on the popular television reality series, "Grease: You're the One That I Want."
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On March 27, Raven-Symone took over the leading role of Deloris Van Cartier in Broadway's SISTER ACT from Tony and Olivier Award nominee Patina Miller, who gave her final performance on Sund…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59PMOn Wednesday, May 2, Alan Brown will lead the A-ha! Leadership Webinar, Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation. This webinar is free for M…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:54PMOn Twitter Watch, Jordan Roth wrote Want to see Clybourne amp come with me backstage Enter by 427 to win Tweet IWantToGoBackstage ClybournePark with Jordan_Roth because...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:51PMFree theater in New York City is almost as abundant as mosquitoes come warm weather.
This season that includes a new take on a Shakespeare tragedy about a dour Dane that could be c…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:51PMWith only one week left in the 2011-2012 theater season, Broadway box offices have been plenty busy. Death of a Salesman and Evita are proving to be two of the spring's biggest new shows…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMLindsay Lohan will play stage and screen legend Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime Original Movie Liz & Dick. Christopher Monger is writing the script for the project.
The movie will cen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMThe 7th Annual Stella by Starlight Gala will be held on the evening of Sunday, May 20, honoring Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Daryl Roth, Ed Schultz, and Masa Tanaka at the Players Club…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMLa Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts has announced their 2012-2013 season.
Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden and Leslie Bricusse will run September 7-30. Jeff Calhoun …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMCalled Turnaround Arts, the program aims to improve academic performance and increase student engagement in struggling schools through the arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMCynthia Hopkins is set to present a one-night concert performance of Songs for This Clement World, to be presented May 4 at 8pm at St. Ann's Warehouse. DJ Mendel will direct. Musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:36PMDrury Lane Theatre celebrated the opening of the musical Hairspray on April 19. Tammy Mader has directed and choreographed the production, which runs through June 17.
Based on the 1988 John…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMNEW YORK -- The old “contents may have shifted during flight” warning seemed especially worrying for “One Man, Two Guvnors,” the London smash from the National Theatr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:26PMTonight's 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 origi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMTony Award winner Patti LuPone was presented with Signature Theatre's third Stephen Sondheim Award at the company's annual fundraising gala April 16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMDRINKS ARE QUICK Corey Womack has produced and stage-managed my two favorite Shakespeare shows of the past year, and so to me she is among the most able and important people working in the A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08PMAt Hand Theatre Company presented the third annual Earth Day concert, Broadway Recycled, which benefits At Hand and the Broadway Green Alliance, April 22 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:07PMJamie Bernstein, Boyd Gaines, Helen Hunt, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, Donna Murphy, Faith Prince. and Mary Louise Wilson will be among the artists paying tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel at T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PMJamie Bernstein, Boyd Gaines, Helen Hunt, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, Donna Murphy, Faith Prince. and Mary Louise Wilson will be among the artists paying tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel at T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:06PMBONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN CONGRATULATES OUR 2011-2012 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINEES Nominations for the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, celebrating excellence in Broadway and Off-Bro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:04PMAs previously announced, the hit musical comedy "Glee" will conclude its third season May 22. Fox has revealed details of the episodes leading up to the season finale.
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In February 2011, Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney (ATYP) launched The Voices Project, providing a platform to showcase the best new monologue writing from ATYP’s emerging pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:55PMNice Work If You Can Get It may be a brand new Broadway musical, but its origins date back to the early 1900s. When young Israel Gershowitz’s parents bought him a piano, they had hoped…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PMThe word "Kony," referring to a Ugandan war criminal, was spray-painted on the Minneapolis sculpture over the weekend.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:51PMBen Hartley (founder and artistic director) and Amanda Edge (executive director) have announced that Broadway Arts Factory, a triple-threat educational institution devoted to the training of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMtheatreWashington, the only organization that supports, promotes, and represents Washington area theatres, artists, and audiences of all ages begins its first annual theatreWeek, beginning t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMVarious locations in central Liverpool: Marionette magic on a giant scale was embraced by the people of Liverpool at the weekend as Royal De Luxe's Sea Odyssey Giant Spectacular took ov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:37PMThe Tony winner fights death in “The Lyons” Sometimes, an actor has to play a character more than once before he’s happy with his performance. Just ask Dick Latessa (pictur…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:36PMThe Atlantic Theater Company has released a video trailer for Mike Bartlett's play Cock. which begins previews on May 1 at Duke on 42nd Street. The production is directed by James Macdo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMTHEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ ... When two characters i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:36PMSaving its best for last, the Bickford Theatre is concluding its 2011-2012 season at its Morris Museum home with an bright and charming revival of I Do! I Do!, the 1966 Tom Jones/Harvey Schm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PMThe Centenary Stage Company is presenting the world premiere of The Unfortunates by Australian playwright Aoise Stratford.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PMA Brazilian actor, who accidentally hanged himself while portraying Judas in a public presentation of the Passion of the Christ on Good Friday, has died, according to the Associated Press.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 02:17PMThere’s no better time than spring for a production of Spring Awakening. Media Theatre, no doubt, hopes its regional entry will produce a major bloom among the area’s “Guil…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:15PMAll Girl Moby DickAdapted from the novel by Herman MelvilleWritten by Bob Fisher and Sara GorskyDirected by Bob FisherPresented by The MammalsDisclosure: Comp'd and Bob is one of my best fri…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:15PMSignature Theatre has released a video montage of its 2012 Sondheim Award Gala, which was held at the Embassy of Italy on April 16. As previously reported, the event will honor Patti LuPone …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:14PMSelect songs from tonights new episode of NBCs musical drama series Smash Mondays, 10-11 p.m. ET, are now available from NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and Columbia Records on the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"The Convert" is slow in the windup but ends up dealing a knockout blow as helmed by Emily Mann at the Kirk Douglas.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12PMA PERFECTLY COIFFED HAIRSPRAY A successful revival of Hairspray demands pinpoint casting in two roles. Tracy Turnblad, the show’s central character must be short, exceedingly stocky, look …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:12PMChristopher Fitzgerald, who was recently seen at Carnegie Hall in the concert staging of The Mikado, has been cast in the NBC pilot "Next Caller Please."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"Cloudlands" is the latest entry in the curiously expanding genre of mental-illness tuners, of which "Next to Normal," "Grey Gardens" and "Spring Awaken…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMCreating the Musical Landscape for NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT on Broadway
http://niceworkonbroadway.com/
Meet NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET ITs Bill Elliott (Orchestrations) and David Chase (Mu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:07PMFrog and Peach Theatre Company's upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to be presented April 26 to May 20 at West End Theater will have a musical score by Ian McDonald o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Despite uneven attempts by the actors to inject the text with life, there's so much lumbering historical and religious exposition that only in the shorter…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PMPlaywright Jason Gray Platt had a promising idea: use the story of Odysseus' return from the Trojan War, and the effect of his absence on his wife and son, to parallel the life experiences o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:03PMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Full of moving scenery, lights, projections, film and magical illusions, but devoid of actual magic, the Broadway production of "Ghost" is a lumbering meg…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PMMost people will acknowledge that the camera can be used as a powerful tool for telling lies. Harder to accept is that the camera, by its very nature, always lies, that it always misrepresen…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:00PM
"Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project," a multimedia set featuring two CDs, a book and an e-book, boasts original lullabies composed and sung by top Broadway artists, including Raul E…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMThe Outer Critics Circle, the first awards body to include Broadway shows each season, announced their nominations this morning. The “new” Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can G…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:53PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:53PMAfter leaping to TV stardom as smart-alecky high schooler Eric Forman in the hit sitcom That ’70s Show, Topher Grace moved on to feature films including Traffic, Mona Li…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMREVIEW: Love letters to and from a fisherman.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:52PMGoing from light to dark, America to Britain, solo artist to ensemble performer: Adamsdale reveals the challenges of the National's forthcoming Detroit.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:52PMThe Fox hit musical series "Glee" will pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston on the upcoming April 24 episode. Here is a first look at "Dance With Somebody."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMPlaywright Mark Ravenhill publishes sonnet for launch of festival, which will see each play performed in a different languageShakespeare's 448th birthday has been marked by the launch of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMVoca People, winner of the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience, will welcome "Police Academy" star Michael Winslow for five performances beg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMREVIEW: The all-female cast aside, Theatre Unbound stages a traditional "Julius Caesar."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:44PMSally Struthers and Jennifer Cody co-host the Theatre Communications Group's April 23 gala at Espace, honoring Tony Award-nominated director Kenny Leon (Stick Fly, The Mountaintop), Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMHad World Premiere At Long Wharf TheatrePaula Vogel's "A Civil War Christmas," which had its world premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre in 2008, will have its New York bow next seas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:43PMREVIEW: Workhaus stages drama about labor unrest at a northern-Minnesota paper mill.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:41PMBased on the 1992 Steve Martin film of the same name, the new Alan
Menken-Glenn Slater musical Leap of Faith stars Raúl Esparza as
con
man Jonas Nightingale. Posing as a miracle-workin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PMStage and screen legend Liza Minnelli performed an April 21 concert at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury, NY. She was joined by her sextet singing favorite American standards including “New…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMThe City Parks Foundation has announced the lineup for Summerstage 2012, featuring over 110 FREE music, dance, film, comedy, family and theater programs in 18 parks across all five boroughs.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:36PMDr. Ruth Westheimer will host a special audience Q&A at FREUD’S LAST SESSION immediately after the performance this Thursday, April 26th, along with the playwright and cast. Mark St. Germa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:28PMA Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch opened last night, April 22, on Broadway for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PMTony Award nominee Daniel Davis will star as Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will storm into Hartford Stage beginning May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:24PMHaymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: One of the most poignant thoughts on watching Lilies on the Land is that, had this been written ten years later, it may never have been written at all and the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMLiberal Arts: The Musical! -- Underscore Theatre Company performing at the Second Stage, 3408 N. Sheffield in Chicago, is offering a limited number of $10 industry tickets for the 8 p.m. Thu…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:23PMGet ready to catch the spirit as Raúl Esparza, Jessica Phillips and Kendra Kassebaum get jumping in the gospel-tinged new musical Leap of Faith at the St. James Theatre. Featuring a r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMNBC has ordered 13 episodes of the previously announced TV pilot Go On for the 2012-13 season, according to Variety. Starring Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Julie White, the Scott…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMNBC has ordered 13 episodes of the previously announced TV pilot Go On for the 2012-13 season, according to Variety. Starring Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Julie White, the Scott…
SOURCE: minneapolis.broadway.com at 01:12PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:11PMREVIEW: Director Noah Bremer uses physical exaggeration and noir style to create something more than an ordinary musical.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:07PMCOME FOR THE MUSIC, STAY FOR THE CADILLAC The music is everything in Miss Saigon—not the plot, which is strangely muddled at times, and not the lyrics, which are sometimes awkward. What st…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:07PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, today announced the nominees fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMMatthew Broderick’s musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It” has won a leading nine award nominations from the Outer Critics Circle.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:04PMHartford Stage has announced casting for its upcoming production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, to run May 10-June 10. Artistic director Darko Tresnjak will direct.
The Tempest is a me…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
There are people who would walk over hot coals to see Linda Lavin tear into a meaty role.
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM
Barrington Stage Company's borrowed second-stage at a V.F.W. post in Pittsfield, MA, will become a permanent home for the resident Equity organization. BSC announced that a gift from lon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMNominations Talley for 3 or more9 - Nice Work If You Can Get It 7 - Newsies, Once 5 Follies, Death of a Salesman, Evita, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark 4 - One Man, Two Guvnors, Porgy and Bes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PM“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright lov…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:56PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Bloodiness abounds in this laboured production of Martin McDonagh's comic and absurdist take on rural Irish republicanism. There is enough in the produc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMAs four-time Tony nominee Raúl Esparza preps for the April 26 opening of Leap of Faith, Broadway.com asked readers which of Esparza’s powerful vocal performances is their favori…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMNEW BEGINNINGS “You are bafu!” is an insult hurled many times throughout Danai Gurira’s new play The Convert. Bafu means traitor; in this context, it is used to describe Africans w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:43PMA potential pop star has everything going for her, but record-label executives determine that she must not be who she really is.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:42PMOn Monday April 30, Stagedoor Manor will be honored with the Theatre Arts Education Award at the 2012 Theatre Museum Awards Gala Celebration, as previously reported . The awards will be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMThe Royal Opera House: For an evening of chocolate-box charm and easy balletic delights, there is nothing better than Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee. The Royal Ballet's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMUtilizing a gift from long-time supporters Sydelle and Lee Blatt, Barrington Stage Company has purchased its Stage 2 space in the Pittsfield V.F.W. and will rename it The Sydelle and Lee Bla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMOn March 27, Raven-Symone took over the leading role of Deloris Van Cartier in Broadway's SISTER ACT. She is stepping into the high-heeled boots of Tony and Olivier Award nominee Patina Mill…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMTony Award winner Roger Bart will appear on the May 13 series finale of ABC's Desperate Housewives, according to TVGuide.com
Bart will once more appear as his deceased character, Georg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMEight day before the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced, the Outer Critics Circle have weighed in with contenders for their kudos. (Full list of nominations here.)
Members of …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:35PMLast week I did a contest where you could win five free business books. Congrats to all of those who entered. This morning I picked the winner out of a hat and the lucky winner is: John Koll…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:34PMIt’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 12:31PMIt’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 12:31PMActors' Equity Association, founded in 1913, will kick off its year-long celebration of 100 years of professional American theater on June 5 with a live event in New York's Times S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMTony Award nominee Brad Oscar and actor Diego Prieto were married April 16 at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMSimon Usher will direct Nick Whitby's new play, The Complaint, beginning May 17 at the Hampstead Theatre.
When a woman makes a complaint, she enters a Kafkaesque world of invisible au…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:29PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:28PMBroadway veteran and Grammy Award winner Sting has received a nomination for the 11th annual CMT Music Awards for his video of "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" with Vince Gill.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMJim Stanek is a tried-and-true New York theater veteran, having appeared in musicals, dramas and comedies for years. Currently, he is appearing in Mark St. Germain's long-running Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMNaomi Frederick appears in Edward Bond’s The Chair Plays, currently premiering at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Frederick’s previous credits include several productions for the Royal …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:24PMSoul legend Bobby Womack, hip-hop artist Big Daddy Kane and improv troupe The Upright Citizens Brigade are among the artists who will be performing at this year's SummerStage.
The free outdo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:23PMNominations for the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on April 23, with the new Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It leading the group with nine nominations. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMActors Equity Association AEA, the 50,000-strong union of stage actors and stage managers founded in 1913, has just announced a celebration of 100 years of professional American theater on t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMMatthew Broderick's musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" has won a leading nine award nominations from the Outer Critics Circle.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:19PMThe Young Vic’s ambitious production captures the broad historical sweep of Jung Chang’s memoir, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:16PMThe Young Vic's ambitious production captures the broad historical sweep of Jung Chang's memoir, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:16PMLondon's Siobhan Dillon and Mark Evans wish the Broadway production of Ghost the Musical good luck on the day of their opening night
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:14PMThe Outer Critics Circle -- the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway -- has a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMActors' Equity Association, the union that represents professional stage actors and stage managers across the U.S., is preparing for a centennial celebration in April 2013 with a year-lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMThe dark tale of "Trainspotting," the novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known as a film by Danny Boyle, is being re-adapted as an American-set play written an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMThough the dancing is excellent, revisions have compromised the integrity of Ashton’s ballet, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:11PMRichard Belzer, show composer Alan Menken and more were on hand at the April 20 performance of Broadway's Leap of Faith.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMThough the dancing is excellent, revisions have compromised the integrity of Ashton's ballet, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:11PMCongreve’s Restoration comedy is hampered by the playwright’s preference for polished banter over action, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:10PMCongreve's Restoration comedy is hampered by the playwright's preference for polished banter over action, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:10PMBroadway veteran and Academy Award winner Robert Redford will launch his new Sundance Channel series Robert Redford Presents on Saturday, April 28 with the 1996 film version of Arthur Miller…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMDavid Edgar’s Written on the Heart is a welcome and thoroughly engaging addition to the West End list in Gregory Doran’s intelligent production, his first representation in Londo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:04PMThe Outer Critics Circle announced the first of this year’s New York theater award nominations. The winners will be announced May 24th at Sardi’s. OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY T…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:04PMDanai Gurira’s new play, “The Convert,” set in the 1890s in what would later become Zimbabwe, tells the story of a young African woman, Jekesai (the stunning, graceful Pasc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMIn her second Broadway appearance, Grace Gummer plays Joseph Alsop's step-daughter in David Auburn's “The Columnist” starring John Lithgow.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
Whatsonstage.com's Theatre Club are attending an Outing to the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre's double bill of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version and David Hare's comp…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:55AMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Seminar) and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas (The Stendhal Syndrome, Race) announced the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Aw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMMartin Scorsese, Alec Baldwin and more were on hand to honor Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell's 20th year as the head of Tisch School of the Arts with their annual gala, Ordinary Miraculous, o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe bluesy new musical The City Club officially opens April 23 at off-Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre. Directed by Mitchell Maxwell, the new musical features music and lyrics by James Co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:49AMFruitful combinations lead to interesting works
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:49AMToday in 1997, Titanic opened at the Lunt-Fonatnne Theatre, where it ran for 804 performances. Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that won f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMNicky Silver's savagely funny "The Lyons" roars its way onto Broadway after a run at the Vineyard Theatre; Linda Lavin gives a master class in comic timing.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:48AMDavid Auburn’s The Columnist has extended its run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the play, which was scheduled to run though…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:47AMManhattan Theatre Clubs world premiere production of THE COLUMNIST by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan currently in previews at MTCs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46AMCan’t put my finger on why I find the picture above kind of disturbing. Is it that it looks like Steve Allen has pulled a random elderly audience member up onstage and is making her do…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:44AMMeet the playwright Mike Bartlett, director James Macdonald and the cast of the American premiere of the Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning new play, COCK starring Jason Butler Ha…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:44AMOn Sunday, April 22, the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the
Broadhurst Theatre with direction by Emily Mann.
Opening night guests included…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMProfiles Theatre, the long-standing non-Equity theater on Chicago's North Side, has affiliated itself with the actors' union. The new Equity status coincides with the company's expansion int…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:40AMStars including Nick Jonas HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, Adam Chanler-Berat PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, Jackie Burns and Chandra Lee Schwartz WICKED and more discussed how…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:38AMTrudie Styler will star with her daughter Mickey Sumner in a master class of Thomas Kilroy’s adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull at Culture Project. Audience members will observe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMThe Railroad Playhouse has announced Tony-Award winning producer, Jane Dubin will appear at the Benefit Performance on Thursday, May 3 at Off-Broadway's Theater 3.
The event will fe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AMOne of my favorite finds over the couple of years I've been doing Stagegrade has been the work of critic David Barbour at Lighting & Sound America. He's been in the game a long time, long en…
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:37AMIt's that time of year again! Theater award nominations are being announced left and right, but here at Broadway.com, we want you to step up and determine the best stars and shows o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMThe Lyons, a new comedy by Nicky Silver that Ben Brantley has already called his “best play in years,” opens on Broadway April 23, 2012, following its start of previews on April …
SOURCE: nofeebroadway.com at 11:34AM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMLondon's Landor Theatre's revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood will transfer to West End’s Arts Theatre for a limited engagement beginning May 18. The production is set t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMTheater J’s powerful and sizzling production of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man, directed with sensitivity and heart by Jennifer L. Nelson, is a theatrical experience you will n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMIt seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience Me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMRosie O’Donnell, who was recently in talks to play Miss Hannigan in the forthcoming Broadway revival of Annie, will not take on the role, according to her Twitter page. When a fan aske…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:26AMTony Award nominee Susan Egan and composer-lyricist Georgia Stitt will present their "gal-pal show," Glamour and Goop, as part of Jim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland concert seri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AMPriscilla Queen Of The Desert star, Tony Award® nominee Will Swenson sits down with Broadway.com host and editor-in-chief Paul Wontorek on the latest episode of “Show People” this week …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:23AMPetula Clark and Carol Woods will be guest performers on Dave Willetts' newest CD Once in a Lifetime. The album is set for a May 28 release from Stage Door Records.
The disc will cele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMSmash’s Raza Jafrey will star as charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago from May 16 through July 14. Jaffrey will take over the role at London’s Gar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMSmash’s Raza Jafrey will star as charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago from May 16 through July 14. Jaffrey will take over the role at London’s Gar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMTony Award winner James Naughton and singer-songwriter Johnny Rodgers have joined the May 15-16 performances of the Jazz and Popular Song series, which will celebrate the music of Cy Coleman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:20AMLook below to see what Broadway shows are playing on each night this week. Want to know what Broadway shows have Sunday evening performances Which Broadway shows have Wednesday matinees Just…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:19AMThe Headlong Theater Company in London has announced that the world premiere of the musical adaptation of “American Psycho” will be part of its 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:17AMVoca People will welcome Police Academy star and "the man of 10,000 sound effects" Michael Winslow as he joins the Voca People for five select performances only, May 9 - 20 at New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMThe London revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party will transfer to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre beginning May 15. The show opened at Menier Chocolate Factory on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMThe London revival of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party will transfer to the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre beginning May 15. The show opened at Menier Chocolate Factory on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMEncompass New Opera Theatre will present Singing Stein on April 27 at Symphony Space at 7pm and 9:30pm.
Gertrude Stein's words inspired many a composer, most notably Virgil Thomson wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMThe Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood is set to transfer to the West End's Arts Theatre, May 18-June 17, after a run at the Landor Theatre in south London. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMMusical Momentum, a concert series, will kick-off with its first event True Colors: A Benefit/Fundraiser for the Trevor Project at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Sunday 29th April at 9:30pm.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMJake Gyllenhaal takes the stage, Chaz Bono and Josh Hutcherson win GLAAD awards, "Streetcar" opens on Broadway, and more news you might have missed.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:01AMGhost the Musical, adapted from the Academy Award winning film, began previews on March 15 and opens on Broadway on Monday, April 23, 2012 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Its been a long road …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMI like to play games. And games are a great way to get your mind going. So, in order to get writing minds going, we thought we’d sponsor a game that could end up paying you for your wr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The full cast has been announced for Target Margin Theater's Uncle Vanya. This will conclude the 2011-2012 season, titled "After Anton," with a reimagined look at Anton Chekh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMRoyal and Derngate are set to present world premieres of updated versions of the classic plays The Bacchae and Blood Wedding as part of its Festival of Chaos. The Bacchae will run May 18-Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMInis Nua Theatre Company will finish its season with the Philadelphia premiere of Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce, to run May 8-27 at the Off-Broad Street Theatre at First Baptist Churc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMThe Tony Awards have announced the line-up for the 2nd Annual Tony Awards Film Series, which will take place on Saturday, May 12th and Sunday, May 13th at The Paley Center for Media. The Ant…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMThe Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, will get an extra week on Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMTwo-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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending April 22, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $311,556 7,439 79.61% $41.88 ANYTHING GOES $…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMBroadway and television favorite David Garrison, currently starring as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the Off-Broadway smash SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, will appear on tonight’s (April 23rd) TV Guide Ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMJoin the company of Godspell on Broadway as they celebrate their Academy Award- winning writer Stephen Schwartz in this one-night-only concert. Expect songs from Schwartz projects like Pippi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMManhattan Theatre Club has extended its world premiere of David Auburn's The Columnist. Daniel Sullivan directs the production, which is currently in previews at MTC's Broadway hou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:44AMManhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere production of THE COLUMNIST by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan currently in previews at M…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:40AMBritish hit "One Man, Two Guvnors" is high-tailing it to Broadway, so prepare yourself for this farce full of twists and turns with a look at the trailer below! What's this slapstick knee-sl…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:31AMJudges have been announced for the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition, to be held on Monday, May 7th at the August Wilson Theatre. The event, which is free and open to the public…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:30AMHow to Succeed's Nick Jonas, Peter and the Starcatcher's Adam Chanler-Berat, Wicked's Jackie Burns and members of the Broadway Green Alliance celebrated Earth Day April 22.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMThe cast of the new Gershwin tuner "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is singing, dancing and romancing on Broadway, and we've got a sneek peek of co-stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara kick…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:28AMLife is imitating art for leading man Raza Jaffrey, as CHICAGO producer, Barry Weissler spotted him in the new Steven Spielberg TV series Smash, and immediately offered him the role of Billy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMStage and screen favorite Eric McCormack is currently playing hard-headed presidential candidate Joe Cantwell in Gore Vidal's "The Best Man." McCormack recently took off his wingtips, put on…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:24AMGet ready to catch the spirit as Raúl Esparza, Jessica Phillips and Kendra Kassebaum get jumping in the gospel-tinged new musical Leap of Faith at the St. James Theatre. Featuring a rousing…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:22AMA Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMWord of Mouth Review: "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Get tickets to a "A Streetcar Named Desire": http://www.broadway.com/shows/streetcar-named-desire/
Blair Underwood, Nic…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:21AMA Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13 season of New York Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway theatre w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMLeicester's Curve has appointed Suba Das and Tim Ford as associate directors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMA Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch opened last night, April 22, on Broadway for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:17AMRaza Jaffrey, one of the stars of the American TV show Smash, will play Billy Flynn in Chicago for a month from 16 May 2012.
Smash, which began airing in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Saturday …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:16AMLegit News:
Broadway sales slide as spring break ends
SOURCE: Variety at 10:14AMYork Theatre Company will present the first New York City revival of the classic Off-Broadway hit Closer Than Ever with Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Music by David Shire. Performances b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMJenn Colella, George Dvorsky, Christiane Noll, and Sal Viviano will star in the York Theatre Company's revival of the musical, Closer Than Ever, to be presented at Saint Peter's Ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMPasadena Playhouse and South Coast Repertory have announced the full cast for August Wilson's Jitney, which as previously reported will transfer to the Playhouse following its SCR enga…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMTennessee Williams is a legend. He won a Pulitzer for A Streetcar Named Desire. Homage has been paid to its infamous lines and its notorious characters throughout pop culture. Some would arg…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:01AMWe’ve been together now, citizens of the Capitol, for three weeks as we’ve watched the first ever Broadway Hunger Games unfold. It has been messy, it has been bloody, but never…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMAt one point, somewhere deep in the second act of One Man, Two Guvnors — which opened last week at the Music Box Theatre — I actually wondered if I was laughing my face off. Li…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:00AMA Streetcar Named Desire starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch opened last night on Broadway for a limited r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMTrudie Styler will take part in a master class, open rehearsal session of Thomas Kilroy's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, to be offered April 23 - May 11 at Culture Proj…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMReview of the Saturday, April 21 evening performance at the Marquis Theatre in New York City. Starring Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris. With Max von Essen, Rachel …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
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 last night on Broadway for a limited r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMThe arts are a world with a high variance. In the gambling world another term for variance is "swing". Things swing widely in the arts. Great critical reviews to horrible ones. Major funders…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:56AMThe Paley Center for Media will present a 2012 Tony Awards Film Series, featuring Broadway-inspired films and exclusive interactive opportunities for audiences.
The series will open with th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMThe 2nd Annual Tony Awards Film Series will be presented May 12-13 at The Paley Center for Media.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMThe 2nd Annual Tony Awards Film Series will be presented May 12-13 at The Paley Center for Media.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMActor and writer Michael Tucker discusses his debut novel, After Annie, a tale about love and the theater. It tells the story of a man off the rails after his wife’s death, battling throug…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:47AMIt is important for audiences to go to Ten Blocks on the Camino Real with an open mind. Do not expect a play like The Glass Menagerie. Go to hear a youthful Tennessee Williams’s marvelousl…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AMThe New York Times 04/20/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:43AMThe Great White Way meets the great beyond on April 23, when supernatural romance Ghost opens at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. London headliners Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:43AM"Smash" star Raza Jaffrey will return to the West End to star as Billy Flynn in Chicago, beginning performances May 16 for a run through July 14 at the Garrick Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMNicky Silver’s comedy The Lyons officially opens at Broadway’s Cort Theatre on April 23. Directed by Mark Brokaw, The Lyons stars Broadway favorites Linda Lavin, Dick Latessa, Mi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:41AMThe company of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell will perform the songs of their Tony-winning composer May 23 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMQuotidian Theatre Company’s Mission Statement reads, in part, “By providing realistic situations and dialogue, we want to give the audience the impression that they are witnessing events…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMScreenings of Broadway-inspired film at NYCs’ Paley Center for Media, plus a panel discussion with past Tony-winners, a Carol Channing look-a-like contest, and a sing-a-long with Hugh Jack…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 09:27AMThe Dramatist Guild Fund's 50th Anniversary Gala will honor Tony-winning composer John Kander June 3 at the Mandarin Oriental New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMKristin Piacentile will star in the industry-only reading of Lost In Love, a new musical based on the hit songs of Air Supply, on April 23 and 24. She plays the love interest of Constantine …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20AMNew York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) has announced two additional plays that will comprise its 2012-2013 season, including A Civil War Christmas by Paula Vogel. The work, to be directed by Tina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMSmash and Spooks star Raza Jaffrey is to play Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMThe Broadway production of Ghost the Musical will open at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Monday, April 23.
Caissie Levy, Richard Fleeshman, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Bryce Pinkham star in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMFrom David Suchet's broken shoelace to the tumbling barometer in Noel Coward's Hay Fever, theatre is always playing with the threat – and the thrill – of things going wrong for realThe t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMThe New York Times 04/22/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:10AMA costume slip-up, a battle between singer and orchestra and sloppy marching bring down an otherwise ovation-worthy
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:10AMOver the next few weeks, New Yorkers will have several chances to celebrate two great American theatre iconoclasts who through their careers redefined US drama and theatre in the postwar per…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:01AMRaza Jaffrey will assume the role of Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago, playing at the Garrick Theatre, according to a report in Variety. The actor is expected join the comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:01AMBy Jennifer Ashley Tepper In 1951, at the age of 19, Joel Grey made his Broadway debut- in a musical called Borscht Capades. The creator, director and star was Joel Grey’s father, Mickey K…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMThe London fringe production of Rupert Holmes'1985 Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, currently running at Clapham's Landor Theatre through May 5, is to transfer to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AMTheresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar now stars Jeff Goldblum (Pillow Man, Jurassic Park, Independence Day) as author Leonard, the teacher of a private writing seminar to four students played by J…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 09:00AM
theatreWashington has created its first annual theatreWeek, April 23 – 29th, with events for adults and children, all sponsored by the Washington Post. The celebration of Washington th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMMichael Trent’s reimagining of Following Station Identification never has a dull moment
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:56AMRaza Jaffrey, one of the stars of the American TV show Smash, will play Billy Flynn in
Chicago for a month from 16 May 2012.
Smash, which began airing in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Saturday…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:53AMThe Broadway production of Nicky Silver's The Lyons will open at the Cort Theatre on Monday, April 23. /p>
Mark Brokaw directs the play, about a family grappling with the impendin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48AMThe Menier Chocolate Factory's recent sold-out production of Mike Leigh's 1977 play Abigail's Party is to transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre, resuming performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:47AMGet ready Baltimore – Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore is welcoming you to the 60’s with their fabulously fantastic production of the Tony Award-winning Musical Hairspray. Balti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMA Younger Theatre are teaming up with The Junction in Cambridge for their annual Sampled Festival to present a Digital Documentation. The Junction Sampled is a festival of performance celebr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:43AMFounding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:40AMNominees Michael J. Bobbitt, Rena Cherry Brown, Jobari-Parker Namdar, and Christopher Youstra. Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMThe mostly white and young audience gave a rousing, standing ovation at the end of CLYBOURNE PARK at the Walter Kerr Theatre where it has recently opened after its original incarnation at Pl…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:25AMSimon Callow’s one-man show, Being Shakespeare, took the U.K. by storm and is now making a short stop at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare TheatreR…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:11AMThe Metropolitan Opera recently announced a new ticket pricing policy for the coming year that, among many other things,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:01AMBlack actors playing Blanche DuBois and
Stanley Kowalski
make “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Broadhurst Theatre automatically stand out.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMPolish theater company TR Warszawa’s adaptation of the Danish film “Festen,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, is too cold and calculating, blunting its impact.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe award-winning songwriters discuss the upcoming New York Pops gala and productions of Once on This Island, Ragtime, and Rocky.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, this week are:
OPENING MONDAYMaking Noise Quietly23 APRIL 2012(PREVIEWS FROM 19 APRIL)
Robert Holman's trilogy of s…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:57AMLara Pulver, Amy Nuttall and Mike Jibson were among the alumni who helped the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) to celebrate its 35th
anniversary in a special concert at the West End's
V…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:55AMWhen was the last time you saw a musical about regular working stiffs? In Keegan Theatre’s breezy new production of Working, an assortment of blue and white-collar Americans offer a ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMDirector Matthew Warchus turns the touching 1990 film “Ghost” into a showbiz musical extravaganza with a loud pop score from Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:45AMFollowing its run at the Landor Theatre, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, based on Dickens final unfinished novel, with book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes, directed by Matthew Gould, will ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:37AMMiami’s City Theatre will be offering CityWrights, a weekend seminar for playwrights this June 14-17 at Miami’s EPIC Hotel, presented as a program of City Theatre’s 17th Annual Summer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25AMWe’ve got a super-quick competition to win tickets to Melanie Wilson’s Autobiographer at Toynbee Studios. As the tickets are valid for April performances only you’ve got to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMAs I write this I’m sitting on a train on my way back to London in anticipation of starting my final term at drama school. My final term. The last one. In 3 months I will be out of for…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:04AMFestival, Chichester: Coming on the - teetering, vermilion - heels of Lyndsey Turner's extravagant Lady Gaga-sound-tracked production for the Sheffield Crucible, Rachel Kavanaugh's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMThe multi-culturally cast production Tennessee Williams is said to have always wanted but didn't live to see is respectfully but not flawlessly staged by Emily Mann
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:00AM"The City Club," the new musical at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is really more of a concert draped around an unconvincing noir-inspired potboiler.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMYork Theatre Company will present the first New York City revival of the hit Off-Broadway revue Closer Than Ever, featuring the lyrics of Richard Maltby, Jr. and the music of David Shire, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM
Sherman Cymru, Cardiff: A former National Poet of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis has also made a name for herself as a librettist and writer of factual prose. Clytemnestra is her first theatre play. A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMStars from across the West End have been wishing us a happy birthday.From humble beginnings Whatsonstage.com has chalked up nearly 10,000 news stories and more than 7,600 reviews, 2,8005 gos…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:50AMSometimes, when the material is strong enough, success means just getting out of its way. For the most part, that’s what a cast of strong singers and the director do to make Broward Stage …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:49AMHeadlong Theatre has announced the five world premiere productions which will make up its season for 2012 and beyond including Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik's musical adaptation of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:37AMLinbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: ROH2's OperaShots showcases first operas from composers often working on the fringes of classical music.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMYoung Vic, London: Translated into 36 languages Jung Chang's autobiographical Wild Swans is a suitably cosmopolitan opening to World Stages London. Sacha Wares' panoramic productio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMThe Butcher of BarabooWritten by Marisa WegrzynDirected by Shade MurrayPresented by A Red Orchid TheatreDisclosure: I paid full price for tickets. It was worth the dough.The reasons I love …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMThe Mystery of Edwin Drood, currently running at Clapham North's Landor Theatre, will transfer to the Arts Theatre in the West End.
The musical - with book, music & lyrics by Rupert Holmes …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:06AMUnion, London: One of the beautiful things about Babes In Arms is that it never takes itself too seriously. The plot, such as it is, tells the story of a bunch of young Broadway hopefuls wor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMHeadlong artistic director Rupert Goold has announced the touring company's 2012 season of work, including a new stage musical version of the novel American Psycho.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Mariah Bonner becoming a member of LA's "The Actor's Gang," helmed by Tim Robbins, their upcoming production of "Atomic Beach Ball," starring in th…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMFollowing the success of Thriller – Live we thought it would be fun to look at a host of other iconic pop artists that have inspired musicals. Some of these artists have already inspir…
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 06:00AMSomeone whose opinion I respect recently commented that Jane Austen novels translate well to the screen, but not so much to the stage.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 06:00AM
Headlong Theatre has announced the five world premiere productions which will make up its season for 2012 and beyond including Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik's musical adaptation of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:57AMWhen it’s as cold as November in April, a vintage musical comedy filled with dazzling tunes and tap dancing is undoubtedly the best way to lift the spirits. Whether the plucky underdogs wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:56AMAs the British Library's head of English, I'm responsible for escorting a First Folio to Tokyo in celebration of Shakespeare's birthday – but will I get it back?I sometimes struggle with t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AMShakespeare's Globe has started its international multilingual festival with a real sizzler despite the rain. This wonderful production by the South African company that brought Carmen, The …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:48AMCardiff-born Peter Gill has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre as an actor, a playwright and a director with major associate and artistic directorial stints at the Royal Court,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:36AMLegit News:
Menier Chocolate Factory revival set for Wyndham's Theater
SOURCE: Variety at 04:17AMThere's no escaping Shakespeare in this Olympic Games year, however fast you run. The World Shakespeare Festival kicked off at the Globe last night with a performance of Venus and Adonis by …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:16AMAre critics on board for "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:07AMJung Chang’s Wild Swans is the story of twentieth century China and Mao’s Cultural Revolution as refracted through the lives of three generations of women (the author, her mother…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:06AM
At the Olivier Awards a week ago, Rupert Goold was proudly telling me of his plans to abandon a formal press announcement for his Headlong company’s new season. Instead, they were going to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36AM"Nice Work If You Can Get It" tops Outer Critics Circle nominations with 9, "Newsies" and "Once" grab 7 each.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:34AMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, welcomes multi- award-winning s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNew York Women in Communications will present the 2012 Matrix Awards tonight, April 23, 2012, to honor eight remarkable women who have established themselves in communications industry, duri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe producers of Ghost The Musical announced today that Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy will reprise their starring roles as Sam and Molly, which they originated in Londons hit West End p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMCapezio celebrates 125 years of excellence with this one-night only special show tonight, April 23, 2012 at 700 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street btwn. 6th and 7th Ave NYC. A gl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOscar and Tony Award winning actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey will receive the Helen Hayes Tribute at the 28th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony tonight, April 23, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMasterworks Broadway releases Liza Minnelli - Live At The Wintergarden today, April 23, online, and on May 8 in retail stores. This is the first time this highly acclaimed album has been rec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Independent (UK) 04/23/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:25AMThe New York Times 04/22/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:20AMToronto Globe and Mail 04/21/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18AMTwo-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 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:06AMIf pumping up improved acting, Sylvester Stallone would have as many Oscars as Meryl Streep, and Channing Tatum would be playing Hamlet.
But sadly, bulging biceps and taut pecs aren’t enou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:03AMWhen the Pulitzer Prize board declined the other day to award a prize this year for fiction, John Williams of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe Band plays "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "Long Black Veil": (This is the latest in a series of...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMPlaywright Bruce Norris wants to annoy us. He wants to rile us up over what has happened in Clybourne Park over the years.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM"Me and the DuBois have different notions," says Blair Underwood's uncommonly desirable Stanley in director Emily Mann's accessible, enjoyable and — on occasion — revealing new B…
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Anyone who believes there are no meaty roles for dancers should check out “Borrowed Prey,” starting Thursday. Performed for just 20 people at a time, it’s the rare dance piece that tak…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:56AMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, April 22, 2012 - Sunday, April 22, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMActor/writer/director/singer-songwriter Scotland I look for inspiration all around me, in my own and others’ experience, in the work of fellow artists, and in research. I have many favouri…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMLegendary soprano Catherine Malfitano takes on A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi for the COC.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMThe Real World?Tarragon Theatre continues its relationship with Québécois playwright Michel Tremblay with a new production of his work, The Real World? This is a prickly, quasi-confessiona…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMOscar and Tony Award-winning actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey receives the Helen Hayes Tribute at the 28th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony April 23 at the Warner Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIt's not a new trend, but this year many plays and dramas are seeing their full casts transfer from off-Broadway to the Broadway stage.
"Clybourne Park," for example, had its premiere at Pl…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTony nominees Constantine Maroulis and Andrea McArdle lead the industry readings of the new Air Supply musical Lost In Love, which begin New York presentations April 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGhost The Musical, the London pop musical based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film about a romance that reaches into the afterlife, opens on Broadway in a visually-arresting staging Apri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of The City Club, which is billed as "an original blues and jazz musical about the indisputable intoxication of music," officially opens Off-Broadway April 23…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 28th Annual Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, honoring excellence in the Washington, DC, theatre community, is April 23. The list of more widely-known performers nominated includes Euan Morto…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Lyons, Nicky Silver's darkly comic dysfunctional-family play starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, opens on Broadway April 23 following previews from April 5 at t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 27th annual Bistro Awards Gala, which celebrates outstanding achievement in New York cabaret and jazz, is held April 23 at the Gotham Comedy Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition — benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS — is presented at the Minskoff Theatre, currently the home of Disney's The Lion King,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Project Shaw series continues April 23 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Widowers' Houses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger-actor Steven Brinberg, in his alter ego as Simply Barbra — Streisand, that is — celebrate the Academy Award winner's upcoming 70th birthday April 23 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOscar and Tony Award-winning actor and arts advocate Kevin Spacey receives the Helen Hayes Tribute at the 28th Helen Hayes Awards ceremony April 23 at the Warner Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Seminar) and Outer Critics Circle nominee Richard Thomas (The Stendhal Syndrome, Race) announce the 62nd annual Outer Critics Circle Awa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1564 Okay, no one's actually certain that April 23, 1564 was William Shakespeare's birthday, but that's the accepted date. Over the next 52 years, the Bard would pen such works a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMI love The Lyons. Now that may seem surprising, for this new play by Nicky Silver is not particularly a lovable play. (In fact, in some respects, it's a little bit creepy.) But unlike every …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMLegit News:
Film series returns with new documentary
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMLet’s imagine for a minute that you are a director and you’re unhappy with one of Tennessee Williams’s great plays. If you went to one of the archives where reams of his d…
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIn 1952 Jonas Salk developed the first effective vaccine for polio but he didn't sell it to the highest bidder; instead he gave it away for the betterment of humankind. Today some may find i…
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