The comic Goth family created by cartoonist Charles Addams has spanned several generations. Now comes the musical.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 07:08PMRikki Henry went to Paris to help Peter Brook with casting but found himself centre stageWhen Rikki Henry's family and friends take their seats among the audience at the Young Vic later this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe Hub, Pacific Quay, Glasgow; Royal Court; Globe, LondonIn a terrific imaginative stroke, director John Tiffany co-opts not only the city of Glasgow but the entire sky for his production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMKen Campbell, Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2003I used to live near Battersea Arts Centre and I wandered in one rainy afternoon. Ken Campbell was doing his one-man show at a scratch ni…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMChicago Shakespeare Theater's hip-hop production of "Othello: The Remix" opened Saturday night in London. The show, devised by Chicago's Q Brothers and one component of the massive Globe-to-…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:04PMCynthia Silver is an actress, teacher, writer, director, solo performer, "mompreneur" and CA girl gone NYer. She teaches at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and is an ensembl…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:01PMIt looks set to be a summer of endurance – and we aren't just talking about Olympic athletes. If you're heading to a theatre or opera house any time soon, you might well be letting yoursel…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThey used to be impaled. In days of yore, when journalists clattered away on typewriters, articles ditched by the editor were literally "spiked" – on a metal prong. Now, the National Theat…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMCuba's got talent – that much is established. Any country of only 11 million souls that can produce Carlos Acosta and field more than 50 dance companies, one of them world-renowned, does n…
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Jonathan Larson wrote this story about his real life struggles as struggling composer. Unfortunately the back to back musical numbers feel forced and could use streamlining. That said, Porch…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:52PMThe Old Globe's production of the Tony Award-nominated musical THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS opens tonight, May 5, and runs through June 10 in its West Coast premiere in San Diego, starring Broadway v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMTheo Stockman and Gordon Clapp; Photo credit: Monique CarboniAn Early History of Fire is David Rabe's first new play in a decade, but it feels dated. A show can take place in 1962 and s…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 06:43PMJulie Taymor at "Peter and the Starcatcher”: I was sitting in my seat talking to another fellow critic when I kept hearing from behind me, “Oh I love your work,” “You're so talented,…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:33PMKensington Arts Theatre’s production of Paul Scott Goodman’s Sottish rock musical Rooms: A Rock Romance features a thrillingly gorgeous score by Paul Scott Goodman and a poigna…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:16PMA new sculpture by New York artist Jim Hodges challenges notions of art.
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Voting opened on May 3, 2012 and runs through June 4, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards Here are the current standings as of 55
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37PMNew Play Festivals: The Blog Salon Laura Brueckner is curating a salon series on the Theatre Bay Area blog. First up, Jessica Holt from the Bay One Acts Festival: We talk about value a lot i…
SOURCE: direct address at 04:32PMPerhaps one of the greatest plays of the 20th century (by one of its greatest playwrights), Iceman is a cautionary tale - that revealing truth over pipedreams can uncover the cowardice embed…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:30PMThe Independent Film Festival of Boston has achieved a reputation as one of the hippest in the country because of the dedication of its small and dedicated staff, an army of well-trained vol…
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the long and THE SHORT OF IT was born out of the reality that there are only 24 hours in a day and only a portion of them can be spent working. Reviews published under this moniker wil…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 01:47PMTony Award snubs claim their first victims: "Teresa Rebeck's comedy 'Seminar,' which received no nominations, quickly announced that it would shutter this Sunday. Jeff Goldb…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:29PMDo not adjust your browser. This is indeed my site. I'm doing something a little different on Sunday night. I will be blogging LIVE from The 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awar…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 01:28PMA Lincolnshire girl myself, I was mightily excited at the prospect of The Bush Theatre’s Chalet Lines, a new play by Lee Mattinson set at Butlins, Skegness. In case you’ve not h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:22PMChoreographer and director Myron Johnson created this new, one-night-only version of a work he made more than 20 years ago.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:20PMI like The Real World? better than any other Michel Tremblay play I have seen. It dates back to 1988, and it concerns a playwright who has written a play about his own family
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It’s the oldest story, the masses are oppressed, faces, clothes, and bladders are distressed. Where could such a thing happen? Why The Arts Collective at Howard Community College’s prese…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMToday in 1954, Damn Yankees opened at the 46th Street Theatre now the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 1019 performances. Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMJonathan Pryce leads an expert cast in this top-notch production of Harold Pinter's groundbreaking play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMRoger Rees (Best Direction of a Play, sharing the nom with co-director Alex Timbers) and Rick Elice (Best Play) were nominated for 2012 Tony Awards for their work on the imagination-fueled e…
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One thing is for sure Community Theater has definitely come of age. The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, now playing at Rockville Little Theatre through tomorrow at the F. Scott Fitzgerald …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMThis Tuesday marked the second most exciting day of any given year for Broadway babies - the Tony Award nominations. The actual awards ceremony on CBS - Broadways night of nights - is still …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMTweetThe song Salt Lake City or Sal Tlay Ka Siti from The Book of Mormon is one of my favorite songs from the show. Instead of being in your face and offensive or extremely funny like the ot…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:22AMThe Town Hall presented Tony and Olivier Award-winning actress and recording artist Lea Salonga in The Journey Continues last night, May 4. Having enchanted audiences worldwide, Lea Salonga …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMThe Town Hall presented Tony and Olivier Award-winning actress and recording artist Lea Salonga in The Journey Continues last night, May 4. Having enchanted audiences worldwide, Lea Salonga …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMLet’s talk about the Tony Awards, the Tony Awards, and also how about the Tony Awards… and a couple of other things… In case you were recently bonked on the head and are su…
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This week- it's all about THE BEST MAN The show opened April 1st, at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, starring James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, and mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMOgunquit Playhouse will kick off its 80th Anniversary season with Always, Patsy Cline, starring Emmy Award winner Sally Struthers and Broadway veteran Carter Calvert, May 23-June 16. The pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMToday we are talking to an Emmy Award-winning actor perhaps most well-known for his title role in the iconic and ground-breaking millennial NBC sitcom hit, WILL amp GRACE, who can now be see…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMI don't have time this morning to pound out a full review, but early music fans will not want to miss Boston Baroque's current production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (in its original Italia…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:02AMMore than anything, when I see something I think could or should be a show, I love to speculate about who would play what roles. I love the way casting works and I love sticking my favorite,…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMNominated for Best Choreography, Christopher Gattelli grew up as a fan of the Disney film "Newsies." When it came time to create choreography for the Newsies stage musical, he looked back at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMWhen Once librettist Enda Walsh was asked to adapt the indie film for the musical stage, he was skeptical of the venture. Flash forward to 2012, and the musical is nominated for 11 Tony Awar…
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Broadway star, Aaron Lazar (Phantom of the Opera, revivals of Les Miserables and A Little Night Music) casually sauntered into the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and slowly started …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24AMThroughout the Sampled Festival at the Junction Theatre, Cambridge, Antonio will be giving his responses to the work that he sees in this blog. Be sure to find out what he is up to by follow…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:10AMThe Tony Award and Oscar winner discuss her new film and her busy career.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 5 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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``People think you're crazy anyway, and I'm just barely under the radar to get away with murder.'' This Sunday's 2 p.m. screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentaruy "Broads,"…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMAn electric surge of passionate commitment courses through the ReGroup Theatre's production of Robert Ardrey's 1939 anti-war fantasy "Thunder Rock."
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:19AMEnd of the Rainbow is an unsparing, but somewhat compassionate portrait of her final months as she lurches through a five-week gig in London’s. The play itself wears the audience down with…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:16AMInterview: Simon Russell Beale on playing Stalin. To mark the transfer to the National's Olivier Theatre of John Hodge's Olivier Award-winning play, Collaborators, about Stalin and Bulgakov,…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 06:10AMA Younger Theatre are going to be live blogging the Sampled Festival at The Junction Theatre with a team of bloggers. Throughout the two day festival of Contemporary Theatre work we will be …
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Pittsburgh's City Theatre presents POP- a rock musical about Andy Warhol. This brand new show stars Anthony Rapp Rent, Dazed and Confused as Andy Warhol and is directed by Brad Rouse Hedwig …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJason Forbach, currently appearing as Enjolras in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Les Miserables, will present a one-night-only concert Broadway a la Carte II alongside Kristi Tingle a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation and Chris Isaacson Presents continue their smash season in Upright Cabarets American Icon Series with RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT tonight, May 5, 2012 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation and Chris Isaacson Presents, continues their season in Upright Cabarets American Icon Series with RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT tonight, May 5, 2012 at 80…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Franklin Performing Arts Company FPAC previously announced that Tony Award-winning Broadway star Beth Leavel would headline Gala 2012 Broadway Returns, An Evening with the Stars, taking …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTHEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★&…
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Life was altogether richer when Dennis Potter was around to provoke and worry us, to make us look queasily at the corrupt, hypocritical or despairing aspects of our lives, ever entertainingl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:31AMMarketing, Advertising, Design and Web Sites for Theatre New York, New York USA Being in marketing and advertising, I find inspiration everywhere I turn: from friends talking about their wee…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMRaleigh is becoming famous for wonderful, fresh cuisine; definitely a great vacation stop for foodies.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AMBE SURE TO VOTE IN THIS MONTH'S THEATRE POLL - TO YOUR LEFT!The last three weeks of the HOT and HOTTER qualifying rounds will be all about the hottest guys in the hottest show of the se…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01AMDiane Borsato has united mycologists and astronomers, touched 1,000 people and learned to bee keep in Italian, all in pursuit of a personally-engaged art of the everyday
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIn 1998, Zhang Huan stripped naked and had writers inscribe his bare flesh with proverbs and poetry from Chinese and Buddhist literature and history. He then picked up the bloody rib cage of…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMTHE AUDACITY OF AUBREY DANjoel fishbaneIn theory, there’s every reason to mourn the “hiatus” announced by Dancap, the Toronto production company created in 2007 as an alternative produ…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMNewsies choreographer Christopher Gattelli, nominated for a 2012 Best Choreography Tony Award, talks about collaborating with his young cast to tell story through dance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMCommitted performances, a slick scenic design, a crack band and an interesting (if mishandled) storyline are the chief virtues of "Jersey Boys," the hit musical based on the career of the Fo…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 12:00AMThe belly laughs of the Broadway engagement of the London hit One Man, Two Guvnors leave British funnyman James Corden — a 2012 Best Actor Tony Award nominee — hungry for more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHere are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of April 22–28, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's weekly planner reminds you that the book closes on Seminar… Topher Grace takes to the stage… the prodigal son returns to the Desert… and "Smash&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe National Theatre presents special encore National Theatre Live broadcasts of One Man, Two Guvnors, featuring 2012 Tony Award nominee James Corden, beginning May 5 at select independent c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Scottsboro Boys, the Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by a Depression-era miscarriage of American justice, makes its West Coast debut, officially opening May 5 following previews fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Storm Theatre Company presents the New York premiere of Ferenc Molnar's The President, described as a "madcap one-hour comedy," which officially opens May 5, following prev…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Larroquette, who is currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and "Eyewitness News" anchor Michelle Charlesworth co-host &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series continues May 5-7 with Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noël & Cole, A Battle of Wits, featuring the songs of Cole Porter and No…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via e-mail, we he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1955 Baseball, ballet and Gwen Verdon provide the slugging power in Damn Yankees. Adapted from Douglass Wallop's book, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Wallop and George Abbott,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
David vs. Goliath battle isn't clear cut this year
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'Ghost' posts biggest jump in sales
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Profiles Theater gets playwright's 'Forest' before New York run
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