Given the talent assembled to fashion a new musical out of 21 of George and Ira Gershwin’s durably tuneful and witty songs, it should come as no surprise how entertaining “Nice Work If Y…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:41PMBroadwayStars brings you all the news and reviews for Nice Work If You Can Get It. All the links, one website.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:06PMThe characters of Matthew Lopez’s engrossing if soberly conventional Civil War drama, “The Whipping Man,” gather around a makeshift seder table in the ruins of a stately Richmond homes…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:06PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the April 21, 2012, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:02PMMatthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara star in this frothy Jazz Age cocktail, brewed around a string of evergreen Gershwin tunes and staged by Tony-winning director-choreographer Kathleen Marsha…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:51PMFrom the sound of it, Nice Work If You Can Get It is setting itself up from failure: classic Gershwin songs harshly bolted onto a Prohibition-era farce that's adapted by Joe DiPietro fr…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:50PMFrom the sound of it, Nice Work If You Can Get It is setting itself up from failure: classic Gershwin songs harshly bolted onto a Prohibition-era farce that's adapted by Joe DiPiet…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:49PMNICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Joe DiPietro, stars Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. The production is directed a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMSarah Jessica Parker -- Exclusive Opening Night Video
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:25PMThe talk on twitter is eerily positive, but the critics have a different take of the new musical adaptation of “Ghost.” It appears that Ghost, The Musical has more wrong with it than a t…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 08:18PM“Ghost,” the hit movie starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, has been resculpted for Broadway. The movie-turned-musical opened Monday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in a sp…
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Though no cliche is left unturned in Sue Fabisch’s “Motherhood, The Musical” — now in an expertly performed production at the Royal-George Theatre — the show has acquired a bit of …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:36PMNEW YORK — Plans are in the works to bring David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” to a movie theater near you. The play made its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre in June 2011 and took …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:22PMI really thought that this would be the easy bit. I know, I can see all the raised eyebrows, I can hear all the tutting, and my hair’s been ruined by the gale force of your pitying sighs a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:21PMApril has been a huge month for Broadway, as many shows are making sure to open by the 26th in order be eligible for a 2012 Tony Award. This past week alone we saw three shows open on Broadw…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 07:15PMWhat a joy this once-in-a-generation season is. From Moscow comes this free-wheeling production of Shakespeare's great morality play, and one that also makes remarkably free with the text to…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06PMIn the opening scene of The Impending Storm, a bold new production which is receiving its world premiere at the International Dance Festival Birmingham next month, an integrated company of a…
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TV and film stars Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker made their Broadway debuts this past week in Emily Mann's new staging of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:59PMThe new revival of Tennessee Williams' often brutal 'Streetcar' features African-Americans in the lead roles
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:58PMThey say April showers bring May flowers. But on Broadway, April yields a bumper crop of opening nights. We’ll hear about a mad scramble to meet the April 26th eligibility deadline for the…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:56PMAfter a world premiere last year in the United Kingdom, the film-inspired musical "Ghost" has crossed the pond and is now haunting Broadway.
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:47PMIt’s really amazing to think that the irreplaceable Barbra Streisand is 70 years old! I grew up listening to her music, and had all of her albums. I even loved her disco songs!…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:43PMMost people read *Moby Dick* because they are forced to do so in high school. The Mammals succeed in creating a visually stunning work that people will want to choose to experience for thems…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:42PMHow much of a difference can one performer make? That's the question I was left to ponder while walking out of the strangely lifeless revival of Evita that's currently packing them in at the…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:40PMI often hear people in this country complaining about how pointless the standing ovation has become in a performance setting. Here in the States, an artist need only walk on stage, belch, an…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:32PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to unveil the first two in a series of Digital Character Cards for the new musical Check back for new cards daily
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMA Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays: Though it gives its entire cast plenty to do, it’s often devoured whole by a single performance. In the film, the devouring was done by …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 06:17PMI’ve always said that the American musical hasn’t meant much to me. I don’t really connect to most of those stories told through singing and dancing. Then I saw a workshop performance …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:15PMThe 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition raised 3,677,855, the result of six weeks of intensive fundraising for Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS by 51 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMThe 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals, the third-highest total in the history of the even…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:08PMBroadway raised $3,677,855 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at the 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition. Culminating in six weeks worth of fundraising efforts, the tally was annou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMJohn Lithgow and Margaret Colin in a scene from David Auburn's THE COLUMNIST, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:05PMThe supernatural power of love arrived on Broadway last night, April 24th, at the Opening Night of GHOST The Musical. Featuring an original score by rock legends Dave Stewart and Glen Ballar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMThe new Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It has tap-danced its way onto the Great White Way, starring Matthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara, Judy Kaye, Jennifer Laura Thompson and m…
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Falcon Theatre and The Mineral Theater Company are set to present the world premiere of Scott Caan's romantic comedy, No Way Around But Through, June 1-July 8 at the Falcon Theatre. V…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:55PMStage magic and sniffles were the talk of the red carpet as a starry crowd filed into the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 23 for the opening night of Ghost. The beloved film romance has found…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMThis production is beautifully presented and performed. Nonetheless, *Duchess* is missing a degree of trust in the audience, feeling the need to spell out the play's every detail. A little …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:47PMJohn Lithgow, Margaret Colin, Boyd Gaines and Grace Gummer in a scene from David Auburn's THE COLUMNIST, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:46PMOklahoma City organization plans to relocate here.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:46PMThe word colorful doesn't begin to explain the mixture of talent that gathered last night at Birdland, New York's most iconic music room. Simply Barbra, Steven Brinberg's hilarious homage to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMVince Lombardi to F. Scott Fitzgerald at History Theatre; Ten Thousand Things promises a new look at "Streetcar."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:45PMMona Golabek, a third-generation concert pianist, concentrates on her mother's story in The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Geffen. As a child, her talented mother was shipped out of reach …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:44PMIn Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Columnist, feared and revered social scribe Joseph Alsop is accustomed to exposing the truth, but the man uncovering the secrets of Washington’s e…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMAs some of you may know, we’re in the process of gearing up for our annual Alcyone Festival. I say gearing up, because the pieces are about to start becoming more public. In truth, it ta…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:42PMEric Michael Gillet Wows at Mac's: Here is 2012 MAC Award winner Eric Michael Gillet entertaining at BB Kings.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:37PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more informa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:35PMJohn Lithgow and Boyd Gaines in a scene from David Auburn's THE COLUMNIST, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:33PMCompany XIV, in association with Morningside Opera and SIREN Baroque, is set to present the world premiere of Judge Me Paris, to run May 17-27 at the 303 Bond Street Theatre. The production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PMLast night, GHOST The Musical, starring Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman, celebrated its star-studded opening at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre! Check out more photos of the curtain call, red …
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 05:32PMThe 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals, the third-highest total in the history of the even…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMRock stars, stage stars and more were clutching their Kleenex on April 23 after the opening night performance Ghost at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The tearjerking musical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:21PMOff-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre will present its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER the Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMThe 26th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855, the result of six weeks of intensive fundraising for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS by 51 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:14PMThe festival will present more than 100 free performances in the center's plazas and at the band shell in Damrosch Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMCenter Theatre Group will soon present FOLLIES starring Victoria Clark replacing Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burnstein, and Ron Raines. The limited engagement will play May 3 throu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMAnnual MIA festival starts Thursday, April 26
SOURCE: StarTribune at 05:05PMLeap of Faith, the rousing gospel-tinged musical that follows the escapades of part-time reverend and full-time con artist Jonas Nightingale, is raising spirits at Broadway's St. Ja…
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Jed Bernstein, Producing Director of the Bucks County Playhouse BCP in New Hope, Pennsylvania, has announced the Summer 2012 Season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:59PMIconic theater will reopen July 2 with Rodgers and Hammerstein revue, followed by "Barefoot in the Park."
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:56PMChicago Shakespeare Theatre has announced the cast that will perform Ontroerend Goed's A History of Everything, to run, as previously announced, May 22 - June 3. Alexander Devriendt ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMThe finale of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 26th annual Easter Bonnet Competition was held on Tuesday, April 24 at the Minskoff Theatre, celebrating six weeks of fundraising by Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMIrish Repertory Theatre has announced plans to present a concert performance of Oliver! on Broadway for its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, to be held June 11 at 7pm at Broadway's Shubert The…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:45PMThe newly renovated Bucks County Playhouse has announced the productions planned for its 2012 summer season.
The season will launch with A Grand Night for Singing (July 2-22), a musical rev…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:42PMSmash - Season 1 Episode 12 - Publicity - Full Episode Recap - Luan Legacy
In the twelfth episode of NBC's Smash, Karen finds herself seduced by the glamorous life of new BFF Rebecca Du…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:41PMIt’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…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:35PMEmmy Award winner Jane Lynch will host Geffen Playhouse's fundraiser, Backstage at the Geffen, to be held at the venue on Monday, June 4 beginning at 7pm.
The event will honor stage an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:35PMIt's way too early for a Broadway revival of Hairspray, but if it weren't, its producers would be lucky to come up with a production as good as the one that just opened at Chicago's Drury La…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:28PM... imagine, if you will, that the professor of your Shakespeare course is one of the world's most esteemed interpreters of the Bard's work and you'll have a good picture of Simon Callow's p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:27PMMeet the first-nighters at The Lyons and Ghost The Musical, which opened on Broadway on the same night.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, has extended the lease at its East End location for another decade while executives continue the search for a permanent residence.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMAbout the author:
Elizabeth A. Davis charms Broadway audiences nightly as part of the triple-threat—make that quadruple threat—ensemble cast of the musical Once. In addition to …
SOURCE: baltimore.broadway.com at 04:21PMCollider.com recently reported that the first official teaser poster for the upcoming LES MISERABLES film surfaced last weekend at CinemaCom in Las Vegas. Drawing inspiration from the musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMCall it a Franken-musical, stitched together out of body parts from different shows. But "Nice Work If You Can Get It," which has been sewn together with a grab bag of wondrous Gershwin song…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:12PMLas Meninas
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Las Meninas takes a slice of the 17th-century French court—with all its riches, opulence, and self-involvement—and sets …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 04:12PMWhat lessons to draw from last night's Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre? There were only two ties—compare that to five in 2011. And no company dominated outright—although…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:11PMItsKingsleyBitch - Commentary to Dance Showdown Performances
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:07PMAccording to Deadline, Justin Lin is set to helm a big screen adaptation of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, which opened on Broadway last Fall. Lin will also produce the film with Bobbi THom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMAllen MacInnis, artistic director of Toronto's prestigious Young People's Theatre, has announced a 47th season based around the theme "I Wish". To that end the company will be presenting ori…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:06PMTango es la pasiòn del alma. Tango is the passion of the soul. Tango is many things; it can be a man, a woman, a feeling, a dance…all these things and more. And all these discoveries of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMBroadway embraced its newest dysfunctional family, The Lyons, on April 23, when Nicky Silver’s acclaimed play officially opened at the Cort Theatre. The comedy about a family dealing w…
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The Mattie Volkswagen Audi Newport Summer Comedy Series has announced the artist set for its 2012 season.
The season will open with Tony-nominated actress, best-selling author, Emmy Award…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:54PMWithout fanfare or a press conference, artistic director Dean Patrick Fleming has released the details of his upcoming season. Two plays will be presented to the general public: Robin H…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:52PMNew Yorker Magazine Talk of the Town feature: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2012/04/23/120423ta_talk_kramer Women’s Wear Daily Feature on Patricia Kalember: http://www.wwd.com/eye/people/n…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:51PM(Generation Without Borders is an essay series created by TCG for the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day. Submit your own essay for consideration to Gus Schulenburg.) There is geography.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:49PMIt most certainly is "Nice Work If You Can Get It," but the new Broadway musical starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara is otherwise tough to define. It's not really a jukebox musical, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMSIXTY MILES TO NOWHERE The setting for Dan LeFranc’s Sixty Miles to Silverlake is the front seat of a car. Ky (Sean Bolger) has picked up his son Denny (Ethan Dubin) from a soccer game, as…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:47PMVariety reports that actors Dov Davidoff, Taryn Manning, Diana Farr, Anna Louise Mountford, Ella Bowman, Cameron Daddo and Currie Graham will join the cast of the feature film ALMOST BROADWA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMDoylestown-raised American Idol star Justin Guarini takes the Atlanta, Ga., stage in the world premiere of a new musical written by Stephen King and with John Mellencamp
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:45PMHere is the first edition of our new feature called “Between Shows” which is something we at BBB are looking forward to in the world of fine arts and pop culture. Sometimes “Between …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:45PMTony Award-winning stage and screen star, Julie Newmar, will officially open the Pacific Rose Society's 75th annual rose show, held at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Gar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMThe cello music of Jeremy David Ward is the saving grace of Sarah Ruhl's farcical play. His presence provides a melodic respite from the disconnected story that unfolds onstage.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:43PMCorbin Bleu, the "High School Musical" star who made his Broadway debut as charismatic narrator Usnavi in In the Heights, returned to The Great White Way April 17 in the current re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMWhere are the education guides from your last 5 plays? Can you find your old programs without calling your mother? What happened to that set model? Can you still access digital photos from 2…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:38PMLa Compagnie Jean-Duceppe's artistic director, has announced its upcoming season and as usual it includes well-known international works (Lee Hall's The Pitman Painters - translated as…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:38PMBefore the curtain could go up for the April 23 opening night performance of Ghost, the cast assembled to observe a very important Broadway tradition: the awarding of the Gypsy Robe! On…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMJamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Faye Price continues this series. What makes an artistic home? Ideall…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMSubmissions Only, Broadways favorite behind-the-scenes sitcom, will wrap its second season this Friday, April 27 with an all-star guest line-up like none before. Guest stars for Episode 8 in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMCorky Hale, a Jazz pianist who once accompanied the late, great American Jazz singer Billie Holiday, is joining up with singer Freda Payne, along with singer (and daughter-in-law) Tricia Ta…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:22PMTrevon Davis, Morgan James, Phyre Hawkins and Nikki Kimbrough were featured in the most recent Broadway Rhythm and Booze, a cabaret series created as a platform to "highlight the soulfu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMLike the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, the Drama League does not distinguish between Broadway and off-Broadway when doling out honors. However, with so many shows and pe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:18PMThis morning Broadway newcomer Raven-Symon joined Drama League nominee Megan Hilty and Justin Long as co-host to announce The 2012 Drama League Nominees for Distinguished Production of a Pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMPioneer Theatre Company's 2012-13 season, the first under new artistic director Karen Azenberg, will launch with the resident Utah premiere of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMThe BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will present its spring Smoker, a semi-annual showcase of new songs from workshop writers, April 26 in BMI's New York office.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMAre critics giving directions to "Ninth and Joanie"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:13PMIt was a rainy night in Manhattan on April 22, but the weather inside the Broadhurst Theatre was balmy as the New Orleans-set classic A Streetcar Named Desire opening on Broadway. The starry…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMSynopsis: Boy and girl are in love. Sam (Richard Fleeshman) works in finance. Mollie (Caissie Levy) is a sculptor. They move into a loft together. Time passes. They are still in love. …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 03:10PMThis is a really not a play in the classic sense. It is a theatrical triptych of one acts. The first, in which Linda Lavin as Rita Lyon glows red hot, is the story of a man on his deathbed…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 03:06PMDebra Monk and Sue Jean Kim are set for a reading of Page 73 Productions' Playwriting Fellow Max Posner's play The Thing About Air Travel on April 25. There will also be readings …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMINTAR is set to present the Off-Broadway premiere of Ed Cardona, Jr.'s American Jornalero, May 3-June 3. Mariana Carreño-King will direct.
The play takes place in 2007, on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PMTopher Grace of "That '70s Show" stars in the world premiere of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not, alongside Olivia Thirlby, Lisa Emery and more at Off-Broadway's Second…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PMSometimes it feels like theatre is trying too hard to make a statement. Whether it be too in your face, too controversial, laden with popular culture references or political issues, it can a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:01PMTony Award winners Donna Murphy and Mary Louise Wilson and Tony nominee Laura Linney have joined the Juilliard School's April 30 gala tribute to Mary Rodgers Guettel.
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Justin Lin will direct and produce a film version of David Henry Hwang's play, Chinglish, for his company, Barnstorm Pictures.
The play, which premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMI hope you’ve been pacing yourself because the tsunami of Broadway openings continues through the end of the week. (Maybe I’m crazy but wouldn’t a show get a lot more free …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:50PMThe group sales divisions of Broadway.com and Broadway Across America have merged with Group Sales Box Office, creating an industry-leading service for theater fans to purchase group tickets…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMFilm and TV director Justin Lin has acquired the rights to helm Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s comedy Chinglish for the big screen, according to Deadline. Hwang will pen the script fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMIt’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 02:45PMMurder! Mayhem! Mystery! Clowns? This exciting action-packed thriller could be none other than The 39 Steps presented at The Olney Theatre Center. Adapted by Patrick Barlow based on the movi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMPS Classics will release the New Broadway Cast Recording of THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, currently available for pre-order, on May 22. Additionally they are offering a first listen of some…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMThe new romantic musical Ghost is making sure there isn’t a dry eye in the house of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Richard Fleeshman and Caissie Levy star as lovers Sam and Molly, who…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThe Convert opens at the KDT
Wes Craven, Rutina Wesley and L. Scott Caldwell join playwright Danai Gurira and the cast of The Convert for opening night at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
In The …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:40PMImagine a notoriously corrupt country where the autocrat hands over to his deputy for a period before suddenly returning to resume his place at the top. No prizes at the front of the class f…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 02:40PMThere’s a hefty list of Broadway plays this season and the Tony Awards are going to be a tight race. Acclaimed black comedy “The Lyons” is intent on making that race even more difficul…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:33PMTHE LION KING tour continues to reign across North America, celebrating 10 triumphant years on the road on Friday, April 27 in Orlando. Since launching in April 2002 in Denver, CO, THE LION …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32PMOriginal cast members Mark H. Dold and Martin Rayner will return as C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud, respectively, in Freud’s Last Session. Dold and Rayner return to the show on May 2&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PMTickets are now available for the final offering in the Atlantic Theater Company’s season, the world premiere of Fernanda Coppel’s Chimichangas and Zoloft. Directed by Jaime Cast…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:27PMWin 2 tickets to hit Broadway show "Peter and the Starcater" starring "Smash's" Christian Borle, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Adam Chandler-Berat. This contest will end on Wednesday…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 02:24PMFilmmaker Justin Lin ("Fast and Furious" franchise) has acquired the film rights to David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the recent Broadway comedy about an Ohio businessman navigati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMProducers from the Barrow Street Theatre in New York were in Chicago for the closing days of Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall," the hit production about the Stonewall riots staged in the Steppenwo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:23PMA host of Broadway favorites will be instructors this summer for Making It on Broadway, a week-long intensive theatre and theatre-education series in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMThe English National Opera (ENO) has announced its 2012-2013 season, according to published reports.
Among the highlights will be the UK premiere of the new Philip Glass opera, The Perfect …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:05PM “Hear What's In The Heart: A Shoemaker’s Tale,” is a new work that will play this summer at Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, July 26 and 27.
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Stagedoor Manor alumni Julia Murney and Jeff Blumenkrantz will celebrate the prestigious performing arts summer camp during the April 30 Theatre Museum Awards gala at the Players Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMTony Award-winner Jim Dale will bring his new one man show with music to Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II this June.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:56PMLegit Reviews||Broadway:
The newly manufactured 1920s-set musical "Nice Work if You Can Get It" crams vintage Gershwin songs into a bubbly crowdpleaser, enchantingly rendered by…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49PMIf you thought dads were the original hipsters, well, you thought wrong. It was Barbra Streisand, whose 70th birthday is today. From floppy knit hats to oversized fur to cat eyes to pi…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:45PMBroadway Rhythm and Booze, a cabaret series created as a platform to highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community, took place yesterday, April 23, 2012 at Flute Bar in Gramercy at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:44PMSheldon Harnick will celebrate his birthday with the publication of his new book, The Outdoor Museum (Not Your Usual Images of New York, co-created with wife Margery Gray Harnick, at The Mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMThe American premiere of the Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning new play, COCK, is featured on FM News 101.9. Click here to watch. Written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James M…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:33PMA new production of Edgar Lee Masters' The Spoon River Anthology, conceived and directed by Jimmy Maize and featuring a cast of 100 performers, is offered April 24-28 at the Invisible Do…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMKevin Daniels, starring as NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson in Magic/Bird, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMDeception is the shining glory in the court of King Louis XIV. Or so the story unfurls in Rep Stage’s production of Lynn Nottage’s Las Meninas. A thought provoking, emotional rollercoast…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PMNBC’s theater-loving Smash explores the world of our media-crazed world, where there's no such thing as bad publicity. In this week’s episode, aptly titled “Public…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMNBC’s theater-loving Smash explores our media-crazed world, where there's no such thing as bad publicity. In this week’s episode, aptly titled “Publicity,” K…
SOURCE: baltimore.broadway.com at 01:26PMWhether it’s a black box theater or the form-fillable fields of a grant application, queer performance doesn’t always fit neatly into a box. When performing artist and curator Kolmel Wit…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:25PM I just got back from the Tribeca Film Festival, where I saw the world premiere of Rubberneck, an intense indie thriller set in the world of Boston science labs.It's directed by and sta…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 01:21PMI've always been of the opinion that a director can do what they like with a composer/writer's piece as long as the end result works (if it doesn't work however, then prepare for critical kn…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 01:19PMThis morning Broadway newcomer Raven-Symon joined Drama League nominee Megan Hilty and Justin Long as co-host to announce The 2012 Drama League Nominees for Distinguished Production of a Pla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMUncle Vanya stars Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as well as Broadway veterans Sahr Ngaujah and Euan Morton, are among the winners of the 2012 Helen Hayes Awards. The accolades laud ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMBickford Theatre Guild is set to present Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Broadway's Greatest Villains, Thieves and Ladies of the Evening, a fundraising event to take place June 9 at 8pm at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMThe English National Opera is set to stage a series of new works next year including a Philip Glass opera about the last days of Walt Disney and an experimental piece scripted by Cloud Atlas…
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:10PMSomething wicked this way comes to the Bickford Theatre as Tony Award-nominee and American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis Rock of Ages joins nearly a dozen Broadway favorites to salute t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:09PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonOn the way to the theatre I happened to pick up, at a second-hand bookstall, a copy of a volume that contains a story by the artist-writer Denton Welch about an eccen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMComposer and lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver is set to present Pace University's Musical Theatre Class of 2015 in Hatched: New Work in New York, May 4 and 5 at Joe's Pub. Rebeca Radosz…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMby Michael Wheeler This winter I worked with editor and activist Brigette DePape to write an article about Praxis Theatre. Titled Creating Political Theatre on The Internet, it looks at a nu…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:05PMThe track listing has been revealed for the two-disc Broadway revival cast album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, featuring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, which will b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMTony Award winner Laura Benanti, Howard McGillin, Joseph Thalken and Natascia Diaz were among the performers who appeared at the April 16 presentation of Signature Theatre's third Stephe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMMusician, singer and Tony-winning composer Duncan Sheik sat down to share thoughts about his career (and some music!) with the new series "The Song That Changed My Life." Created by Brigham …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMOne of nature's most effective recyclers will return to Missouri this spring. Scientists will reintroduce some 200 to 300 critically endangered American burying beetles, bred in the St. Loui…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:01PM
Lyric Studio, LondonEdward Bond has seen the future and it isn't working. Perhaps it's no surprise that one of our greatest living playwrights is back in fashion. Bond, whose masterpiece Sav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMThe Nederlander Organization and Disneys The Lion King have joined the United Nations Foundations Nothing But Nets campaign, a global grassroots movement to fight malaria in Africa.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMTransfers like "Clybourne Park," "Other Desert Cities," and "Peter and the Starcatcher" are eligible for 2011-12 awards, which will be presented May 18.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:56PMA Bit of AlterLab: A Writing Exercise for Character DevelopmentAt last week's AlterLab Salon playwright Ann Brebner mentioned a writing exercise that helped her tap into the emotional vein i…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:55PMOpening Night: "Clybourne Park" on Broadway
Get tickets to "Clybourne Park": http://www.broadway.com/shows/clybourne-park/
Bruce Norris' celebrated play "Clybo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:55PMBONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN CONGRATULATES OUR 2011-2012 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOMINEES Nominations for the 78th annual Drama League Awards, celebrating excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre, w…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:54PMThe company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL last week welcomed a new leading man- stage and screen star Corbin Bleu Disney's High School Musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMThe Circle in the Square co-founder and Off-Broadway pioneer, who died Feb. 24 at age 87, will be honored with a public memorial service.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:40PMNice Work If You Can Get It
Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the original Broadway production.
No copyright infringement inten…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:37PMTheater veterans Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, and Michael Sheen will star in the upcoming film, Cut Bank, according to Deadline.com. Matt Shakman will direct from a script by Roberto Patino…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:34PMThough bleak in its subject matter, Robert Holman’s influential triptych is surprisingly heartening, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:32PMThough bleak in its subject matter, Robert Holman's influential triptych is surprisingly heartening, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:32PMStreetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood, opened on Sunday night at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production has gotten quite a bit of attention for its multiracial cast, but that choi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMTrenton Doyle Hancock will speak with Ann Shafer Thursday, April 26 at 7 P.M. at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
The Baltimore Contemporary print fair takes place 11 a.m.-6 p.m. April 28 and n…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:26PMAn opera about Walt Disney written by Philip Glass forms part of English National Opera's new season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMThe Aesthetic of Intimacy
Through May 6 at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery
More at weekly.citypaper.com
Intimate domestic habits usually occur within a private space that exist…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:23PMMorgan State University’s main performance venue, the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center, is easy to overlook. The facade of the $40 million, 140,500-square-foot facility undulates beautifull…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:23PMTHE LYONS, which debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre, officially opened last night, April 23, at the Cort Theatre. Previews began on April 5. THE LYONS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMWhoop Dee Doo is an art collective based in Kansas City, Mo., but it’s quirky enough to have emerged from Baltimore. It produces a faux public access television program that combines eleme…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:20PMDrama League Awards Announced: DISTINGUISHED PRODUCTION OF A PLAY: Clybourne Park
Walter Kerr Theatre: Jujamcyn Theatres, Jane Bergere, Roger Berlind/Quintet Productions, Eric Falkenstein/D…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:19PMEarlier today, Megan Hilty, Justin Long and Raven-Symon announced the 78th Drama League Award Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Best Musical, Di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMBroadway stars Sal Viviano, Nat Chandler, and Eric Jordan Young will appear in the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra's The Rat Pack!: A Symphonic Celebration, April 27-29.
The concert is a re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMTHE LYONS, which debuted last fall at the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Vineyard Theatre, officially opened last night, April 23, at the Cort Theatre. Previews began on April 5. THE LYONS …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMFaces of arrestees at the Occupy Oakland January 28th Move-in day action. From stills based on LiveStream footage shot by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills.
Originally published at Light Cue 23…
SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PMNew musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It opens on Broadway tonight at the Imperial Theatre (249 West 45th Street). Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, (The Pajama Game, An…
SOURCE: nofeebroadway.com at 12:09PMThe 78th Annual Drama League Awards will be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on Friday, May 18, 2012 at noon. Check out the 2012 Drama League Nominees for Distinguished Production …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMMellissa Manchester By: Sandi DurellOn Monday, April 23rd at Gotham Comedy Club in New York, 208 West 23rd Street, Columnist & Grande Dame of Dish…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:08PMBEYOND REALISM The living room and foyer of the modest house on 9th Street in the South Philadelphia of 1986, created by David Meyer, is as dank and dreary as social realism will allow. An…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:07PMLeap Of Faith
Raul Esparza and company in a promotional video featuring excerpts from the original Broadway production.
No copyright infringement intended.
http://www.songsfromthemusicals.…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:05PMThe 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 12:05PMBay Street Theatre, which last year announced plans to leave its home in Sag Harbor for another space in the area, has now announced that it will renew its current lease and stay at its home…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe original cast of Freud's Last Session will return to the New York production at New World Stages on May 2, following a run at Chicago's Mercury Theatre.
Original cast members …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMThe original cast of Off-Broadway’s FREUD’S LAST SESSION, is returning to the New York production on Wednesday, May 2nd at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Original cast members …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMLast night (23 April 2012) Whatsonstage.com theatregoers were on hand at the Harold Pinter theatre for the double bill of South Downs and The Browning Version which has come in to town from …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:00PMOn Monday, April 23, the Broadway production of Ghost the Musical opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre with Matthew Warchus at the helm.
Opening night guests included Jerry Zucker, the origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 4172012 - 4242012.
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Fanny Pak ABDC 7 - Favorite Crews - America's Best Dance Crew
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) season 7 crew Fanny Pak tells us who their favorite crews of ABDC past are! Backstage…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:59AMIn 1964 Funny Girl opened on Broadway, officially solidifying the growing star status of a young girl from Flatbush, Brooklyn, named Barbra Streisand. Since then, it is nearly impossible to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMHello, Dolly!More than a month ago I got an email from local playwright Robert Henry Johnson. I met Robert briefly after seeing a reading of his play The Othello Papers at the 2009 Bay Area …
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:57AMA public memorial will be held on Tony Award-winning producer and director Theodore Mann at 1pm on Tuesday, May 1 at Circle on the Square. He died on Friday, February 24 at age 87.
In 1951…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMFolger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, has acquired the theatrical archive of actress and playwright Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010). The collection of professional and family papers docume…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMNominees have been announced for the 78th Annual Drama League Awards. As previously reported, the ceremony will be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square on Friday, May 18, hosted by Stoc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMThe best of the weekend's theatrical activity saw theatre walk tall on the streets of Liverpool, spread its wings on YouTube and go global for Shakespeare's birthdayYou'll never walk alone w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41AMThe guys try to take it all off at Stoneham.I've become something of an expert on The Full Monty of late - I got a chance to catch it again at the Stoneham Theatre, where it's pla…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:41AMThe Nederlander Organization and Disney's The Lion King have joined the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, a global grassroots movement to fight malaria in Africa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMThe Drama League Awards bills itself as the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are also widely viewed as the least significant — chosen by audience members who have paid to beco…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:37AMOur Vaudephone taping schedule is officially on hiatus as I work on my new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube. We will be resuming with a whole…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMGrosses are down with only one week left in the 2011-2012 theater season. Total revenue is about $4 million less than last week’s end. The Lion King, however, had a good week. It edged out…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:36AMAward-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz takes part in a post-show talkback following the April 24 performance of the revival of his early musical Godspell at the Circle in the Squar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMOBJECTIVE: The Broadway Teachers Workshop is designed to inspire teachers and directors of middle school, high school and college theatre and arts with new teaching methods, enhanced product…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:34AMI absolutely loathe the fact that people must pretend to like one another for the sake of appearances and are deemed socially inept if they don’t go along with the status quo. Most people …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:32AMMatilda
The original 'Matilda' company in a promotional video featuring highlights from the original London production.
No copyright infringement intended.
http://www.songsfromthem…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:32AMIt's been a while since original THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA star Sarah Brightman has starred in a theatrical production, but she might be returning to theatre in the near future. When asked in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMYou know how I’m always harping on about how you should be using video to promote your organization or business? I do it because you’re awesome, and I want you to be successful. …
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 11:23AMFictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new work by Philip Glass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMThe New York Pops celebrates its 29th birthday with a grand gala evening titled Journey On honoring Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, the Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated songwriting t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:17AMNominations for the 78th annual Drama League Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place May 18 at the Marriot Marquis, hosted by Stockard Channing and John Larroquette. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMCreation Production Company is set to present the world premiere of co-artistic director Susan Mosakowski's Escape, June 7-24 at La MaMa's First Floor Theatre. Gaye Taylor Upchurc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMBroadway newcomer Raven-Symoné (Sister Act), Drama League nominee Megan Hilty (9 to 5, "Smash") and Justin Long (Seminar) announced the nominees for the 78th Annual Dra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMWell. So far, the Guthrie hasn't released an official response to the flap about their 2012-13 season, but, as Ben in the comments to my A.D. Excuse Bingo post below pointed out, we did get …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:14AMThe Chicago production of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session has been extended through July 15 at the Mercury Theater. Tyler Marchant directs.
The play focuses on psychoanal…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMThe Chicago engagement of Mark St. Germain's Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater has been extended to July 15, the producers announced on April 24. Mike Nussbaum and Coburn G…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMGhost 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 11:09AMNext week on SMASH,Bombshell moves to Boston. Ivy Megan Hilty faces trouble as Derek Jack Davenport finds himself drawn ever closer to Rebecca Duvall special guest Uma Thurman, while Karen K…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AMThroughout my musical theater career, I’ve been told on countless occasions that to survive in this business I’d better develop a thicker skin. While that’s great advice, it’s just n…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 11:04AMThe seventh annual Stella by Starlight gala, a celebration to benefit the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, will be held May 20 at the Players Club in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMIt’s pretty rare to see a guy or gal take a Broadway show all the way to the end zone all by themselves these days. Producing Broadway shows can be pretty dang hard. So, like life,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMNICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, began previews at the Imperial Thetare on M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM
New Lodge Club, Barnsley: The idea behind these kind of multi-agent showcases is that each agent presents one act from their own roster of talent so that fellow agents can see them all in co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMHappy Birthday Barbra Streisand Streisand has appeared on Broadway in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE and FUNNY GIRL, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Streisand won the 1968 Acad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AM"IT'S TODAY!" Mame begins tonight but here's a sneak peek into last night's rehearsal for all our friends - even "the ones we haven't met yet" to share.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:55AMReady to take his skills back to the stage, Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal will perform this fall in the American premier of Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet". The show, a Rou…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:55AM1776 | Playing Historical Characters (Pt. 2)
The cast of "1776" at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC sit down with Music Theatre International correspondent Ken Kleiber to …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:54AMBroadwayWorld brings you exclusive photos from the April 30 episode of NBC's SMASH. In the episode entitled 'Tech', Bombshell moves to Boston. Ivy Megan Hilty faces trouble as Derek Jack Dav…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMThe Storm Theatre Company is set to present the New York premiere of Morwyn Bebner's adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's comedy classic The President, April 27-May 26 at The Theatre of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMSharpstown High School Houston, TX Reported by: Marty Johnson, Director of Education, iTheatrics April 4, 2012 The students at Sharpstown High School have been very fortunate to have both a …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:51AMThe winners of the 2012 Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) awards have been announced.
The A.R.T. production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which is now playing on Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AM1776 | Playing Historical Characters (Pt. 1)
The cast of "1776" at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC sit down with Music Theatre International correspondent Ken Kleiber to …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:45AMThe May 7 episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash" is titled "Preview" and will air at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMRob Sharenow, executive vice president of programming of Lifetime Networks, has announced that singer-actress Lindsay Lohan will star as Academy Award-winning film legend Elizabeth Taylor in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch: Queen's Theatre ends its spring season with a glitzy interpretation of what's believed to be the Bard's breakthrough as a dramatist.
Read the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMSowing the seeds of love 1 by Martin Ksinan
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:31AMLast night on SMASH, Karen Katharine McPhee found herself seduced by the glamorous life of new BFF Rebecca Duvall special guest star Uma Thurman- but could Rebecca be trusted What would Kare…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:30AMDeath of a Salesman, at Broadway's Barrymore TheatreGratuitous Violins rating: **** out of ****I read the play in high school and a few years ago I watched a production taped for TV but unti…
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 10:30AM22Q Entertainment LLC and GoAlleyCat Productions will present the West Coast premiere of Alex Goldberg's environment-set play It Is Done.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will host a special benefit party for her charity, Maddie's Corner, at New York City Center on Saturday, June 2 immediately following …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AMGhost 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 10:26AMIt's that time! Tony nominations are just around the corner, but before we get those, we have all the other awards to gather for. Here are the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Nominations: OUTSTAND…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:20AMUntitled Theater Company #61 is set to present the world premiere of an authorized stage adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel The Lathe of Heaven, June 6-30 at the 3LD Art and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMThe songs of up-and-coming musical theatre writer Caleb Hoyer will be presented May 7 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on West 42nd Street at Ninth Avenue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMThis week on SMASH the show hit its peak insofar as synergy of story, plot, character and music - especially the music. Karen Katharine McPhee offered up a touching Snow Patrol cover, Light …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM
From out front – The Awards show (filed by Debbie Jackson) The theme that seemed to permeate the Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony this year was gentle kindness and appreciation for the arts…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMApril has been an incredibly busy month for me, but Patty and Emily asked if I would help them out with another video for their website and I dropped everything for the opportunity to work w…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 09:50AMThe 27th annual Bistro Awards were held on Monday, April 23 at Gotham Comedy Club.
Honorees included Dee Dee Bridgewater, Melissa Manchester, Warren Vaché, Rita Gardner, Joyce B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture all the red carpet arrivals of GHOST THE MUSICAL's opening night on Broadway - April 24, 2012
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMNominations 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 09:48AMOur industry is in the spotlight more than ever with NBC’s hit series SMASH! Each week, Ryann Ferguson takes us through what happened in the most recent episode. Be careful though! This ar…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:38AMThe nominations for BAFTA'S TV Awards have been announced, according to a report on Deadline.com. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held on May 27.
The nominees for Lea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMIt was announced today that JERSEY BOYS The Story of Frankie Valli amp The Four Seasons has smashed the all-time box office record for a second week of trading by taking in excess of NZ1.9…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AMMcLean Community Players presents Deathtrap, Broadway’s longest-running thriller by Ira Levin. Directed by Jerry Bonnes, Deathtrap is a suspenseful treat filled with greed, deceit, and sho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMSmash considers a new logo and overall show direction....
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 09:28AMLast night (23 April 2012) Whatsonstage.com theatregoers were on hand at the Harold Pinter theatre for the double bill of South Downs and The Browning Version which has come in to town from …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:27AMphoto by Duska Radosavljevic
Adriano Shaplin
Hometown: Burlington, Vermont
Current Town: Jersey City & Philadelphia
Q: Tell me about Sophie Gets the Horns.
A: It’s a…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:27AMcate with Molly in the hope of saving and protecting her.BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the show's cast at the exciting and emotional opening night curtain call
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:19AMAcclaimed film director Tim Burton and famed music producer Giles Martin attended a performance of Cirque du Soleil's The Beatles LOVE at The Mirage in Las Vegas on Monday, April 23.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMSignature Theatre's Hairspray took home fives prizes at last night's 28th Helen Hayes Awards—including one of the biggest, the honor for outstanding resident musical.The other top awar…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:12AMTechnical Director Andrew Mestern explains how lightweight beams that look like solid wood were constructed for the 2012 production of Henry V.
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:10AMA memorial tribute honoring Theodore Mann, Circle in the Square's co-founder, artistic director and co-producer, who passed away Feb. 24 at the age of 87, will be held at Circle in the S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria present’s Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, a courtroom thriller with sudden twists and turns that shock even those with the keenest detecti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMGod of Carnage feels like a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf for the 21st century. The characters are better dressed, finer housed, super toned, and a whole lot funnier. But playwright Yas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMHe hated war, but he felt compelled to go back to it, again and again. He said, “There’s a war on and I’m part of it… I’ve got to go, and I hate it.” Er…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMReview of the Saturday, April 14th evening preview performance at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City. Starring Caissie Levy, Richard Fleeshman, Bryce Pinkham and Da'Vine Joy Ra…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 09:00AM
Today is the birthday of Borscht belt funnyman Jack E. Leonard (Leonard Lebitsky, 1910-1973). I discovered him absolutely backwards. He came to my attention as one of the stars (playing the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:53AMWest End musical Wicked has picked up three prizes at the inaugural Mousetraps, a new set of awards voted for by young people.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMThe winners of the 28th annual Helen Hayes Awards have been announced. The prizes were presented in a ceremony held on Monday, April 23.
Signature Theatre's production of Hairspray ha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:51AMThe winners of the 28th Helen Hayes Awards, a program of theatreWashington, have been announced. The most-awarded production was Synetic Theatre with six awards. Signature Theatre follows cl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:40AMThe supernatural power of love arrived on Broadway, last night April 24th, at the Opening Night of GHOST The Musical. After the show, the cast and creative team headed over to the hotspot cl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38AMOk. I may be a Chicago theatre addict, but even I have my limits. You see, I get roughly several dozen press invitations a day for shows, which at first was awesome, but now it’s a bit…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:33AMToday is the birthday of Blanche Ring (1871-1961), star of late variety, vaudeville and Broadway. A fifth generation member of a theatrical dynasty, she is much associated in her early years…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:29AMFirst, in regard to the upcoming Caffe Cino event at La MaMa this weekend, off-off-Broadway veteran Robert Patrick has provided a link to a great deal of archival material about the Caffe Ci…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:21AMI
didn’t see the original run of this production in 2007 so was not caught up in
comparing the two, although I’m aware that it was highly acclaimed then.
There
are good t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:19AMThe 25 Anniversary of what is now the longest running musical in Broadway history was celebrated last October with not just a concert, but a full staging of the entire show in London’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMLegit News:
D.C. stagings of 'Hairspray,' 'Ruined' score big
SOURCE: Variety at 08:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 24 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Broadway veterans discuss their early careers and their benefit upcoming concert at New York City Center.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMInspired by NYMag.com’s brilliant Reality Index recaps, Dave (@NineDaves, www.NineDaves.com) and I have teamed up to bring you our take on what’s keepin’ it real and what’s faking it…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:00AM
A Memorial Tribute honoring THEODORE MANN, Circle in the Squares Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and Co-Producer, who passed away on February 24 at the age of 87, will be held at Circle in th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMIt's easy to feel at home with singer Roslyn Kind, as we chat about her life and career and her April 28 concert in Brooklyn, before May dates in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57AMThere’s a lot to admire in this extremely well produced new “Blues and Jazz musical” at the Minetta Lane Theatre - THE CITY CLUB - that employs some of the best singers in …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:56AMLegit News:
Long list of shows, actors up for awards
SOURCE: Variety at 07:50AMBetween songs Touré and Raichel conferred inaudibly with one another, deciding which tune they would play next. There was very little chatting up the audience, until before the fourth song.…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:47AMA salute to the design and the cast that grapples with undeveloped characters. The show overall proves that less is more if you want audiences to emotionally connect
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:31AMThere is no denying that the technical team has created an excitingly refracted vision of New York. Whether that is enough to spell success is questionable
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:27AMLinda Lavin's monstrous matron 's deathbed vigil is as funny and sad on Broadway. as off . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24AMLegit News:
Hytner, McDermott to helm London operas
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21AMLyric Studio, London: Following its acclaimed production of Edward Bond's first full-length play, Saved, the Lyric presents a trilogy of his one act works, with the playwright directing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMDespite a few bright spots, the presence of Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara, and evergreen Gershwin tunes, “Nice Work If You Can Get It” is hard labor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
A comprehensive and stunning celebration of composer Dominick Argento’s work is being presented at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and it simply should not be missed. Composer Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:41AMAre critics roaring about "The Lyons"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:39AMSoho Theatre, London: In 2010 the five-strong Late Night Gimp Fight were nominated as newcomers for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Anyone keen on their boisterous puerility will …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMTwo of the Young Vic's most popular recent studio shows are to return to The Cut later this year where they will be re-set in larger spaces.
Joe Hill-Gibbins’ interpretation of Thoma…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:19AMThere’s been some controversy about the slowly growing trend of presenting plays with characters originally conceived as white being played by actors of color. The recent all black cas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:14AMActors protesting about BP's sponsorship of the World Shakespeare Festival invaded the stage in Stratford-upon-Avon last night before a performance of The Tempest.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMDuchess Theatre: Inspired by a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company conference on the King James Bible, David Edgar's play contrasts the relatively trivial political and doctrinal horse-tradi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMFlorida Grand Opera's incarnation of Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette under the direction of David Lefkowich is an inventively staged, well-acted mounting of this stark take on Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:08AMI subscribe to a lot of conservative blogs and websites because if I don't know what the Other Side is thinking out loud, I'm feeling a bit too "in my own Liberal Bubble." In fact, on …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:03AMThe Mamma Mia! film retains the tropical Greek-island setting of the stage version, and much of the filming occurred on location. If you’re planning a trip to Greece and would like to visi…
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 06:00AM
Keven Spacey accepts a special honor at the Helen Hayes Awards 2012
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:59AMThe King’s Speech my be stuttering to an early close in the West End, but there’s still room for the Queen’s English to be heard in serious plays and not just sung in musicals there. J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AMThe original Broadway cast recording of Frank Wildhorn's BONNIE AND CLYDE is set for release today, April 24, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMCarnegie Hall will present The Sound of Music tonight, April 24 at 800 p.m. in Stern AuditoriumPerelman Stage. A gala benefit for Carnegie Hall, this one-night-only concert performance of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe new musical comedy NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro Memphis, will open tonight…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLegendary Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz will participate in an exclusive post-post-show audience talkback immediately following the Thursday, April 24 performance of the new hit revival…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe 50th Anniversary production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, will host University Week HOW TO SUCCEED In The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMSome members of the Student Media Art Collective (SMAC) we assembled had gotten an idea to create a mural on the construction wall by the college library. At one of the SMAC meetings, they h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:23AMAre critics haunted by "Ghost: The Musical"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:14AMThe 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 01:06AMI wrote a bonus drama column for today's Wall Street Journal in which I review three Broadway openings, The Lyons,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom 2006: I was sitting on a rowing machine at the gym the other day when I looked up at...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition." Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMAndrew Pandaleon gives a bravura performance. He is young has a terrific voice, good looks, charm and can command the stage as a fine actor.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Conan O'Brien, the TV host and comedian, announced on his comedy show on the TBS cable network Monday night that he is coming to Chicago in June.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29AMNice Work If You Can Get It, a new Gershwin musical starring two-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara opens April 24 at Broadway’s Imperial…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22AMBy Peter Filichia --
She wrote a play called Happy Birthday, so why shouldn’t we wish her one?
Granted, Anita Loos, born April 26, 1888, is no longer with us. For that matter, Happy Bir…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:22AMNicky Silver's The Lyons celebrated it's opening night at Broadway's
Cort Theatre on Monday, April 23 with a post-performance party at Sardi's.
Mark Brokaw directs the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22AMBroadway Rhythm and Booze 4/23/12
Broadway Rhythm and Booze on Monday night, April 23rd at 930pm at Flute in Gramercy
Produced by N + N Productions.
Featuring Morgan James of Godspell, Phyr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:18AMThe mad rush to make Tony eligibility becomes a full on avalanche this week. Let’s ride the wave of openings with multiple review round-ups today and tomorrow. First up, two shows that…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:17AMPrincipal Associate, ARTS Action Research Boston, Massachusetts & New York, New York USA I couldn’t point to any particular theatre experience that changed my life, but I have had plen…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMAm I Myron Galloway?Be careful of what you wish for...By Gaëtan L. CharleboisI was working at Centaur Theatre in the PR department when my boss, Pam Turpin, let out a "Tsk!" that could wake…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe new Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It will open at the Imperial Theatre on Tuesday, April 24.
Kathleen Marshall directs the production, which features a new book by Joe DiPie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01AMA new generation of Broadway theatregoer gets exposed to the classic songs of composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin with the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It — …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA three-song sampler from the national tour of Bring It On: The Musical, the new stage production set in the world of competitive cheerleading, is released digitally April 24 from Sh-K-Boom …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCarnegie Hall's concert presentation of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music plays the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage April 24 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBroadway newcomer Raven-Symoné (Sister Act), Drama League nominee Megan Hilty (9 to 5, "Smash") and Justin Long (Seminar) co-host the announcement of the 2012 Drama Lea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway cast album of Bonnie & Clyde gets its official release April 24 on the Broadway Records label. It has been available through digitial services in recent days. The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1905 Sir Henry Irving's production of The Merchant of Venice was to have opened the annual Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon. But Irving was taken ill and Frank Benson and his …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
'Streetcar' opens on Broadway
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMLegit News:
'Clybourne' bows on Broadway
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