Though far from a perfect production, *Hostage Song* is worth the Brown Line jaunt. Through strong performances and poignant music, the show brings a glimmer of hope to a horrific nightmare.…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:59PMSmash - Season 1 Episode 14 - Previews - Full Episode Recap - Luan Legacy
In the this week's episode of NBC's Smash, "Bombshell" faces its first audience just as a major c…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:55PMBWW is excited to present a sneak peek at the star in rehearsal at New York's famed Ripley-Grier Rehearsal Studios in midtown with her cast and creative team preparing this special new conce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:49PMChoreographer Santee Smith brings themes of Norval Morrisseau’s life to stage in TransMigration at Fleck Dance Theatre
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:15PMKatie Gould(Left to right) Terence McFarland, Alice Tuan, Steven Leigh Morris, Frances Baum Nicholson, Deidrie Henry and Don Shirley at L.A. Stage Alliance's recent arts criticism panelOn th…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:02PMTheatre Row, The New Group, Off Broadway
By Benjamin Coleman
BOTTOM LINE: David Rabe’s new play about youth in crisis during the historical explosion of the early '60s never quite i…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:01PMThe 50th Anniversary production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will end its run on May 20 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The production, which recouped its $9 million ini…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:00PM
Nick Jonas tried hard but couldn't keep Broadway's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" in business.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:59PMThe Broadway season that ended recently has shown that the art of eloquence in theater is very much alive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMToday, get to know David Alan Grier, a three-time Tony nominee who is starting trouble in Catfish Row as the devilish drug dealer Sporting Life in the acclaimed revival of Porgy and Bess. C…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:57PMIn “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” presented by the Barefoot Theater Company, three generations of women alternately deny and confront a past tied to the Holocaust.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:56PM“Color Between the Lines” strives to document many of the forgotten abolitionist heroes of Brooklyn, with an emphasis on “many.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:53PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Nick Jonas tried hard but couldn't keep Broadway's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" in business....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:52PM“You Are in an Open Field,” by the New York Neo-Futurists troupe, is a stew of 1980s-style video games, role-playing games and “nerdcore” hip-hop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50PMThe Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — first a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe, and now starring Nick Jonas — will close up shop on May 20, the p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:46PMAcclaimed director David Cromer’s interpretation is a deconstruction: stripping away elaborate dance moves and impeccable *poverty chic* in favor of Rent’s deplorable setting, desperate …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:44PMOn Friday, May 4th, members of the cast and creative team of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark visited Bronx Middle School 343 to conduct a special Master Class for the students. See below for ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMThe actress Megan Hilty is taking on a role made famous by Marilyn Monroe, the celebrity her character on NBC’s “Smash” pines to play, in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” part of the En…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:44PMIn “Protected,” a series of odd characters turns up at the front door of a man who is new in the witness protection program.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PMThe National Theatre of Great Britain is set to present special encore National Theatre Live broadcasts of Frankensteinn, Nick Dear's new play based on the book by Mary Shelley, in sele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:39PM2011 Tony Award-nominee Rory O'Malley Book of Mormon confirmed on Twitter today that he and his boyfriend Gerald Schroeder are the same-sex couple featured in a new Gap ad revealed this week.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMWater Sonettos
hrough May 24 at In/flux, 307 W. Baltimore St.
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As Jann Rosen-Queralt walks past a conical sculpture wrapped in brightly patterned Afric…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 06:30PMThe Nominees Reception for the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards was held on Tuesday, May 8 at Oceana.
The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 3 at 8pm at The Town Hall in Manhatt…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:27PMHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will end its engagement at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Sunday, May 20 after a run of 30 preview and 473 regular performances
Rob Ashford…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:19PMA few weeks back, I had a chance to revisit the two musical revivals from last season, and it was a stark study in contrasts. My second visit to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Try…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:14PM"Leap of Faith," the Broadway musical about a con-man minister, has posted a real closing notice for May 13. Producers of the show starring Raul Esparza made the unsurprising announcement on…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:10PMNominations for the 30th Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards, which recognize excellence on the Broadway Stage and in film, were announced by New York Post Theater Critic Michael Riedel at a recep…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05PMJill Abramovitz, Desmond Dutcher, Jeannine Frumess, Jose Llana, Lucas Steele, and Karen Ziemba will be guest performers at lyricist Jack Lechner's "Here Goes Nothing" concert …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:05PMIn the hit NBC series "Smash," Megan Hilty plays a struggling Broadway actress looking for her big leading lady break in a musical about Marilyn Monroe. In real life, Hilty will take to the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:05PMAfter displaying some impressive dance moves when stopping by The View on May 8, it's easy to see why Evita stars Ricky Martin and Elena Roger earned Astaire Award nominations …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMThe nominees for the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards greeted the press and posed for photos at a May 8 luncheon held at Oceana.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:00PM
Why wait for the envelope when you can cast your ballot right now.
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:57PMMembers of the cast and creative team of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark visited Bronx Middle School 343 to conduct a special Master Class for the students on Friday, May …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:52PMA BIT OF BULL: Flamenco dancers, Spanish music and Timothy O’Leary sweeping through the crowd in a toreador cape – it could only have happened at Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ gala, La H…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 05:51PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Anatol, Aurora Theatre Company.
By Sam Hurwitt
Chicks dig Anatol, and Anatol digs chicks. Exactly why the ladies are drawn to the title character of Arthur Schnitzle…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:49PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½ ... Few plays are as tricky to stage as dra…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:46PMIt happens every year: the Tony nominations come out, and like clockwork, the closing notices pop up. The first to go this year are Seminar (which closed on Sunday) and Magic/Bird (closing t…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:40PMIn the background: A rainy night in New York City in late spring. In the foreground: a live stream broadcast of Thais Flaitt’s Portuguese translation of my play The Way of Water from Cia d…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 05:32PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined by acclaimed playwright Lynn Nottage comes to life on the stage of Fells Point Corner Theatre as the final production in their 2011-2012 season. This h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:31PMJoe's Pub has announced that three stars of The Public Theater's world premiere production of Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's February House will present concerts in June.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:31PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more informatio…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:28PMThis weekend, we’re looking forward to the world premiere screening of the new documentary The Standbys by Stephanie Riggs. The feature film follows the lives of three actors (Ben Craw…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:28PMPhoto from the Broadway production of Magic/Bird. Earlier this year, I found myself in an argument with my Dad. He was coming to visit me at Syracuse University and had purchased two seats t…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:24PMEven a Tony Award nomination as best musical didn't provide salvation for Leap of Faith. The Broadway version of a 1992 Steve Martin movie will close Sunday, after 24 previews and 20 regular…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:15PMThe Getty Villa has announced that it will continue its Villa Theater Lab Series with the spoken word performance Hymns to Aphrodite by Hugh Lupton and Helen Chadwick.
Hymns to Aphrodite is…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:06PMNicole Kidman will star in a film version of The Family Fang, adapted from the Kevin Wilson bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, according to Deadline.com.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PMOn Twitter Watch, Alan Menken wrote LEAP will live on, just not on Broadway. And the need for cast recordings is still very much on my agenda.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:02PMCompetitive cheerleading is not the deepest of dramatic subjects, and Bring It On is not the deepest of shows.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:00PM
Jeremiah James takes on the role of the mysterious El Gallo May 8 in the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks at the Snapple Theatre Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PMThe Grove Theatre is set to present Roslyn Kind in concert, June 16 at 8pm.
The concert will feature Kind performing a set of popular songs.
The younger sister of Barbra Streisand, Rosl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMD’Metrius Rice’s Meme Schemes
opens May 11 from 7-9 P.M. at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave.
For more information, visit thewindupspace.com
Local artist D’Metrius Rice spr…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 04:48PMAccording to Deadline, Nicole Kidman has signed on to star in another David Lindsay-Abaire work- a film adaptation of Kevin Wilson's 'The Family Fang.' Kidman previously appeared in the film…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:31PMTheatre Seven of Chicago is set to present the Chicago premiere of Lauren Gunderson's Exit, Pursued by a Bear, June 7-July 15 at the Greenhouse Theater Center Upstairs Studio. Cassy Sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:27PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, launching the company's 2012 50th-anniversary season, will feature Derek Wilson as Prince …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMRENT GETS A NEW LEASE ON LIFE, EVEN AS THE INTRINSIC PROBLEMS REMAIN As soon as David Cromer was announced as the director, the revival of Rent became one of the buzz productions of the seas…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PMState of the Re:Union Live
at the Theatre Project May 17-20
For more information, visit theatreproject.org
As they travel around the country, Al Letson, a black man with dreadlock…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 04:21PM"Leap of Faith," the Broadway musical that had its world premiere in 2010 in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre, will close its doors earlier than expected. Organizers announced Tuesday tha…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMThe 2012 Theatre Museum Awards Gala Celebration was held at the Players Club on Monday, April 30.
Stagedoor Manor received the Award for Excellence in Arts Education, presented by Richard …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:07PMVoting 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 58 with just 26 days to go in voting
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThe Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical "Leap of Faith" will finish its run Sunday with only 20 regular performances.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:00PM
As the excitement builds for the 2012 Tony Awards, Broadway.com is presenting a series of exclusive video features in which your favorite nominated stars spill secrets about themselves, thei…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:59PMWhat is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our eighth session, a discussion about the Boston Universit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:59PMRicky Martin and the cast of Broadway's EVITA performed And the Money Kept Rolling In live today on ABC's The View. View the performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMRicky Martin and the cast of Broadway's EVITA performed live today on ABC's The View. Directed by Tony and Olivier Award-winner Michael Grandage and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Rob As…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMFactory 499 is set to present the world premiere of The Ice Child by Lisa Hodsoll, Rick Hammerly, and Hunter Styles, May 10-June 3 at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint. Hunter Styles will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMFREUD’S LAST SESSION, New York’s smash hit play by Mark St. Germain, invites audience members to have their moms photographed on Dr. Freud’s iconic couch after the performance on Mothe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMNew plays! We all agree they're important. They also require lots of close, collaborative, feedback-supplying work to develop—in other words, time, plus a greater-than-usual financial…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:37PMHow to Succeed... Broadway Revival
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 03:35PMPulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole playwright David Lindsay-Abaire will pen a film adaptation of Kevin Wilson's "The Family Fang," which will star Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★ ... There are revelations in David Cromer's intensely tex…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMNew Jersey Symphony Orchestra is set to present An Evening with Bernadette Peters, June 2 at 8pm at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
The program will feature Peters performing Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMIn honor of Mother's Day (May 13), Playbill.com offers a two-show day with one of the hard-working mommys currently performing on Broadway. Spend a day at work and play with Priscilla Qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMBroadway-bound Constantine Maroulis recently chatted with Fuse about this season's AMERICAN IDOL contestants. In this week's special edition, Maroulis chats with last weeks cast-off Skylar L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PM2012 Tony Award Show Clips: Clybourne Park
Tune into this year's 66th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 10th 8/7c only on CBS. Find out who will take home this year's top awards.
Cly…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:21PM2012 Tony Award Show Clips: Peter and the Starcatcher
Tune into this year's 66th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 10th 8/7c only on CBS. Find out who will take home this year's top a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:21PMIn the wake of Hope comes Charity, more of Evelina Fernández's semi-autobiographical trilogy about a multi-generational Mexican American family. Fernandez is also on stage in Charity, w…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:20PM2012 Tony Award Show Clips: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Tune into this year's 66th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 10th 8/7c only on CBS. Find out who will take home this year's top…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:19PM2012 Tony Award Show Clips: Leap of Faith
Tune into this year's 66th Annual Tony Awards, Sunday June 10th 8/7c only on CBS. Find out who will take home this year's top awards.
Leap…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:18PMProgramming has been announced for the River To River Festival, Lower Manhattan's free annual summer arts festival which will take place seven days a week from June 17 through July 15. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMThe producers of the critically acclaimed and Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT are pleased to announce the launch of a US national tour in the fall of 2013. NICE WORK …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:15PMActress and StageSource member Stephanie Clayman weighs in on the Audition process. To Producers and Directors: an Open Letter about Open Auditions I’ve been thinking a great deal about an…
SOURCE: StageSource at 03:07PMIn honor of heart-warming musical Ghost, New York sweets shop Magnolia Bakery has cooked up an equally out-of-this-world treat. Who better to give the new “ditto” cupcake a taste…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMProducers of LEAP OF FAITH announced today that the show will close at Broadways St. James Theatre this Sunday May 13 after the matinee performance. In a statement, they said Although we lov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMWe see quotes from critics plastered all over adverts, posters and book jackets. But is their use always what it seems?The novelist Anthony Horowitz should not really have been surprised whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMJosh Young, who is currently making his Broadway debut in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, recently earned a 2012 Tony nomination for Best P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Oscar winner Nicole Kidman will reunite with Tony-nominated playwright/screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire for a film adaptation of the Kevin Wilson novel The Family Fang, according to De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMOscar winner Nicole Kidman will reunite with Tony-nominated playwright/screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire for a film adaptation of the Kevin Wilson novel The Family Fang, according to De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMOscar winner Nicole Kidman will reunite with Tony-nominated playwright/screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire for a film adaptation of the Kevin Wilson novel The Family Fang, according to De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMAs the excitement builds for the 2012 Tony Awards, Broadway.com is presenting a series of exclusive video features in which your favorite nominated stars spill secrets about themselves, thei…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:54PMThe next time you want to curl up with a new TCG title or revisit a favorite published play, you may not need to visit the bookshelf. Every week more TCG titles are finding their way into eB…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:52PMBroadway legend Bernadette Peters joins the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra NJSO for An Evening with Bernadette Peters, the final program in the NJSOs 201112 POPS series, on Saturday, June 2, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMTony Award winner Lillias White will star as Aunt Ester in Rubicon Theatre Company's first August Wilson production, Gem of the Ocean, which will begin performances May 16, prior to an o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:47PMACT is set to present An Evening with Lewis Black, May 16, as a fundraising event for the theater. At the event, Luke Burbank of KIRO's The Ross & Burbank Show and Black will discu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMAs Bring It On: The Musical hopes to show, there is more to cheerleading than high kicks and spirit fingers. The Post spoke to the stars of the show, now on in Toronto, about being the geek …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:42PMToo few people were willing to consider taking a "Leap of Faith." Producers of the Broadway musical based on the 1992 film starring Steve Martin said Tuesday the show will close Sunday. It w…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:30PMTwo River Theater Company, under the leadership of artistic director John Dias and managing director Michael Hurst, has announced its 2012-13 season in New Jersey, which includes Suzan-Lori …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PM EMILY BERGL, BRAD ELLIS and DAVID YOST all on board to raise money for high school performing arts in concert version of GODSPELL. Los Altos Hills, California – Broadway, film, tele…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 02:29PM"Leap of Faith," adapted from the 1992 movie starring Steve Martin and featuring Raúl Esparza as the fraudulent evangelist Jonas Nightingale, will close after earning only one Tony Award no…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMAfter earning 10 Tony Award nominations, the Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It will hit the road on a U.S. national tour beginning fall 2013. Nice Work opened on April 24 at the I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced new additions to its 2012 special online auction, which will benefit the organization's six annual productions and programs in its upcoming 41st Anniv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMThis would not have been music to the Gershwin Brothers’ ears. The daughter of George Gershwin’s biographer is suing to block the sale of 135 letters sent by his brother, Ira, to her dad…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:17PMSISTER ACT: RAVEN-SYMONÉ SINGS "SPREAD THE LOVE AROUND"
Get a sneak peek of Raven-Symoné bringing the house down with "Spread the Love Around!" For more in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:17PMIn celebration of the centennial year of the Authors League, The Dramatists Guild of America has announced it will release archived audio from its In the Room series of conversations between…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:16PMNice Work If You Can Get It, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical that marries a new screwball-comedy plot to old Gershwin songs, will spawn a national touring company, the produce…
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SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:07PMThe Broadway production of Leap of Faith will play its final performance at The St. James Theatre on Sunday, May 13. As of that date, it will have played 24 previews and 20 regular performan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMLeap of Faith, the Tony-nominated musical from Alan Menken and starring Raúl Esparza, will play its final performance on May 13 at the St. James Theatre. At the time of closing the sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMThe first four new production photos have been released, along with photos of the cast members who made the treck west from Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMLeap of Faith, the new Broadway musical about a con-man preacher who blows into a depressed, drought-plagued Kansas town, where he spars with a lady sheriff, will close on May 13, the produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards will be held Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at a theatre TBA. The 2 pm by-invitation-only ceremony will also include presentation of the 4th Annual Dorothy Loud…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMThe Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, formerly known as The Astaire Awards, were established in 1982. They recognize outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway each season. The award was …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:00PMThe New York Public Library and Souleo Enterprises, LLC have announced a partnership and plans to present innovative summer adult programming, beginning June 2012.
Events ranging from pop-u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
The new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, currently playing Broadway's Imperial Theatre, will launch a national tour in the Fall of 2013. Tour direction is by The Booking Group.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMAdam Arkin will be part of the L.A. Theatre Works production of Michael Hollinger's Opus, which will begin May 17 at the James Bridges Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PMFrom the looks of this promo shot, The Book of Mormon star Andrew Rannells is headed for the maternity ward! Rannells and fellow Broadway vets Justin Bartha and Ellen Barkin have signed on t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PM
Shameless Self-Promotion
I will be playing the role of Father John in the New York reading of A Letter From The Bishop by Tony Adams.
The reading will be held at St. Clement's Theater…
SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 01:52PMTNT has given a 10-episode series order to Monday Mornings, which will co-star Tony Award nominee Alfred Molina and Tony Award winner Bill Irwin. The series will premiere in summer 2013.
Cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMTNT has given a 10-episode series order to Monday Mornings, which will co-star Tony Award nominee Alfred Molina and Tony Award winner Bill Irwin. The series will premiere in summer 2013.
Cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMTony Award winner Lillias White will lead the cast of Rubicon Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, to run May 16-June 24, with an opening on May 24. Ja…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:45PMFinborough, LondonOriginally seen as a BBC Play for Today in 1974, watching Trevor Griffiths's All Good Men makes one painfully nostalgic for a time when TV was unafraid to show serious poli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMGuitar Hero: Backstage at "Once" with Steve Kazee, Episode 5
Get tickets to "Once": http://www.broadway.com/shows/once/
It was a very big week backstage at "Once.&…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:39PMPaul Weitz's dark comedy "Lonely, I'm Not" is premiering off-Broadway with an all-star cast led by screen favorites Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby. Lonely, I'm Not tells the story of Porter…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:35PMStage and screen star Eric McCormack, who is currently starring in Broadway's THE BEST MAN at the Schoenfeld Theatre, visited 'The Colbert Report' last night wher he chatted about the play, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:35PMA week in the life of actor, radio host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:34PMThe woods of Athens are in full bloom at Classic Stage Company, where a colorful production of Shakespeare favorite "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has taken root. Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth star…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:32PMCurt Bouril and Randy Redd will join the cast of Off-Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet as Sam Phillips and Jerry Lee Lewis, respectively. The production runs at New World Stages.
Bouri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMSecond Stage Theater stars past and present came out in droves on May 7 to celebrate the opening night of Paul Weitz’s world premiere play Lonely, I’m Not. Screen star and theate…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:26PMpiece by piece productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater have announced that the world premiere of 3C, written by David Adjmi and directed by Jackson Gay, wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMRandy Redd and Curt Bouril will join the cast of off-Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet. Redd will play Jerry Lee Lewis, with Bouril taking on the role of Sam Phillips. Redd joins th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMRandy Redd and Curt Bouril will join the Off-Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet, as Jerry Lee Lewis and Sam Phillips, respectively, in the coming weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMTony Award winner Judith Ivey will star in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class as part of the Long Wharf Theatre's 2012-13 season, which will also include the world premiere of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMIt was a Finch reunioun last night, as worlds collided at the 2012 Met Gala. Joe Jonas, brother of Nick- who is currently starring as J. Pierrepont Finch in Broadway's HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMIt’s time to celebrate some of the breakthrough performances and debuts of the 2011-2012 theatre season! The Theatre World Awards will be held on June 5 at a venue to be determined, hosted…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 01:13PMA brigade of glamorous ladies (and a gentleman or two!) got locked up at off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on May 7 for a benefit reading of Tom Eyen’s black comedy Women Behind Bars.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMOctagon, BoltonCoronation Street star Pat Phoenix was once described by prime minister Jim Callaghan as "the sexiest thing on television". Yet Phoenix, who played the Street's rapier-tongued…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMThe 2012 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-2012 theatrical season are: Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) Phillip Boykin (The …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:07PMDesigner Natasha Katz explains her work for “Once” and “Follies” Natasha Katz tells stories with light. When she makes a shadow strike an actor’s face, or when …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:04PMAlfie Boe, best known for his role as Jean Valjean in the 25th anniversary stage show of Les Misrables, showcases his mesmerizing and outstanding voice in a concert filmed during his latest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:03PMThe winners of the 2012 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performances have been announced.
Recipients include Tracie Bennett(End of the Rainbow), Phillip …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMOne week before the season finale, Bombshell has finally reached “Previews,” the title of this week’s episode of Smash, and things are blowing up in the faces of the c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMThe 2012 Theatre World Award winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-12 theatrical season were announced May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMBE SURE TO NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS AND STARS FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL JKTS AWARDS! CLICK HERE!It happens very rarely these days that replacement casts get the opportunity to record…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 01:00PM
Enjoying its world premier is Danai Gurira’s new play The Convert, commissioned by Center Theatre Group, and now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City through May 19, 2012. Th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 12:58PMWinners have been announced for the 68th annual Theatre World Awards, which honor performers making an outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway debut. The award ceremony will take place on June …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMOne of the things we decided to try as part of the Ceyx Series is to include more music as part of the breaks.
Last night's ceyx featured beats from Tony Bruno and at intermission we played …
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:55PMWhat a sweet, twisted and surprising tale. This play raises so many questions, the first one being – why aren’t there more plays like this floating around? Well, in a way there are. O…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:53PMThree playwrights stand poised to find out which of them will win the prestigious STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMMusician and author John Wesley Harding will continue his Cabinet of Wonders residency at City Winery beginning on May 19.
Harding's Cabinet of Wonders draws together collaborators fro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMSing for Darren Criss! "Newsies"/"Spider-Man" Broadway Song Sing-along Contest
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SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMJohn Pankow will replace previously announced actor David Pittu in the world premiere of Signature Theatre’s Medieval Play due to scheduling conflicts. Written and directed by Ken…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMWest End alum Jeremiah James will join the cast of The Fantasticks as El Gallo beginning May 8 at off-Broadway’s Snapple Theatre Center. James succeeds Edwards Watts in the classi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:41PMWest End leading man and recording artist Jeremiah James will play the role of El Gallo in the Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, at the Snapple Theater Center, beginning tonight, M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMMILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the hit musical now playing at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street), announces Randy Redd and Curt Bouril will join the cast of the electrifying musical. Redd, who…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:35PMJohn Pankow will replace previously announced David Pittu in the cast of the Off-Broadway world-premiere production of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play by Signature Theatre Company. Pitt…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMThe Washington Nationals are a baseball team full of young talent like the 19 year-old sensation Bryce Harper and pitching ace Stephen Strasburg. However, when you go to a baseball game not …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMJessie Mueller knocked Broadway's socks off in her Main Stem debut as Melinda Wells, a 1940s jazz singer who defies time and space to woo a lovesick psychiatrist, in the recent revival of On…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:31PMThe public and creators are often at odds when picking favourite plays – plus the mobile phone menace reaches new heightsDoes parental love blind playwrights?For all writers the plays and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThe acclaimed new musical Once, which recently earned 11 Tony Award nominations (more than any other production this season), will launch a national tour in 2013. The show’s stars, Steve K…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMThe 28th annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (STAGE) benefit, titled Original Cast 3, was held April 28 at the Saban Theatre Beverly Hills to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMBerenice Weiler, a producer and theatrical general manager, died of natural causes in Manhattan on April 28. She was 88.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:29PMIn its first full week since its April 24 opening, Nice Work If You Can Get It joined Broadway’s million-dollar club with a gross of $1,022,115, up a whopping 23 percent from the previous …
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 12:29PMTony Award nominee Adam Pascal (Rent, Memphis) was among the performers at Imagine: A Celebration of Life, which featured a compilation of original works, pop hits and rock 'n' roll,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow met with Queen Elizabeth II at the Windsor Castle today May 8 and presented her with a special anthem they composed entitled Sing, in honor of her Diamond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMAndrew Rannells and Josh Gad are both moving from Broadway's "Book of Mormon" to half-hour comedy series on NBC this fall.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:27PMThe West End production of GHOST THE MUSICAL is now booking until 20th April 2013 and has been seen by over 430,000 people in the UK. GHOST is also now playing on Broadway, with further prod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMThe Cut, HalesworthA night of thoughtless petty criminal activity turns dark, then darker still, in this exhilarating three-hander focusing on three Essex teenagers hiding out from the polic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMSouthwark Playhouse is to stage a revival of musical Mack and Mabel, led by the creative team behind last year's production of Parade.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMNominations and judges have been announced for the STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology, with the award to be presented on October 21 in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMWest End actresses Imelda Staunton, who currently stars in the London revival of Sweeney Todd, Miranda Richardson (A Lie of the Mind) and Lesley Manville (Six Degrees of Separation) have joi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMLegit News:
Broadway revival punches out after 15 months
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMNBC has given a series order to the Ryan Murphy-Allison Adler comedy "The New Normal," starring Book of Mormon Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMAnyone else notice that the New Group had a solid sleeper season in 2011-12? Maybe I'm the only one who thought so. Neither Thomas Bradshaw's Burning, Erika Sheffer's Russian Transport nor D…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:13PMOne of the pleasures of having a child is introducing him to my own childhood favorites; just a few days ago, Oliver discovered Spike Jones, and is now requesting songs by name. To hear him …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:13PMJudith Light "Other Desert Cities"Christian Boyle "Peter and the Starcatcher"The 2012 Meet the Tony Nominees press reception was held at The Millennium Broadway Hotel. The Tony Awards will …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:12PMJohn Pankow will replace the previously reported David Pittu in the Signature Theatre's world premiere production of Medieval Play, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. The play wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:12PMTo mark the one year anniversary of the passing of famed Broadway librettist,screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents, BroadwayWorld spoke with his close friend and the literary executor of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMI found a series of Soviet era anti-drinking ads and thought they would be fun to play with. Below are some of the results of these experiments.
Originally published at Light Cue 23. P…
SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:08PMYesterday, May 7, Magnolia Bakery honored Broadway's GHOST with a new cupcake. The Ditto Cupcake is a classic vanilla or chocolate cupcake with pale blue vanilla bean meringue icing and is t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMBirdland has announced plans for a new monthly concert series with composer Frank Wildhorn entitled "Frank and Friends," which will begin on June 11 at 7pm. This June 11 concert w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:07PMOn May 1, Tony Award-winner Kristen Chenoweth and Emmy Award-winner Jim Parsons revealed this year's Tony Award nominees while actors and theatre-lovers waited with baited breath.
Earning i…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 12:04PMCelebrated performer KT Sullivan will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at Urban Stages' annual benefit, to be held in the Central Park Boathouse on Monday, May 21 beginning at 6:30pm.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMBack Stage talked with the actor about moving a show to Broadway and going to the Tonys with her brother, “Newsies’” Andrew Keenan-Bolger.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:02PMOn May 10, 2012 Tony nominee Laura Osnes Bonnie amp Clyde, Anything Goes, South Pacific will make a guest appearance at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox at Don't Tell Mama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMNick Jonas, currently starring in the 50th anniversary revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, leads the vocals of the new five-track Broadway cast album EP, which was r…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:00PM
The world premiere of a modern day re-imagined signed/spoken version of the classic “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Cyrano is a brilliant deaf poet hopelessly in love with Roxy, a beautiful hearin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:59AMTonight (8 May 2012) our Whatsonstage.com theatregoers are heading to see the Royal Shakespeare Company production of David Edgar's Written on the Heart, which has transferred to the West En…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:59AMShakespeare's Globe, LondonIt's apt that in the middle of a dismally wet spring, a play that begins with a storm and ends with a sea voyage is performed by a group of actors from a land itse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMAwards season is in full swing and to celebrate all of the 2011-2012 nominees, we've dug deep into our archives to bring you vintage photos of all of the talent during special moments in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AM(Photo from Univ of Pretoria, South Africa reading of THE WAY OF WATER. Courtesy of Univ of Pretoria.) “Oh, environmental plays,” a UK playwright-colleague said to me during a Wi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:57AMThe Kennedy Center and the River to River festival will present the world premiere of Oceanic Verses, a new multimedia opera by composer Paola Prestini in collaboration with film artist Ali …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMThe concert film Alfie Boe: Live From the Royal Festival Hall, London will premiere on PBS beginning June 2. As previously reported, the special will be released on DVD on June 5.
Boe won a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMJamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Liz Engelman continues this series. What makes an artistic home? An a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:49AMNominations for the 30th Annual Fred and Estelle Astaire Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway, have been announced. Seven cast members from Newsies received n…
SOURCE: ottawa.broadway.com at 11:48AMNominations for the 30th Annual Fred and Estelle Astaire Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway, have been announced. Seven cast members from Newsies received n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMAwards season is in full swing and to celebrate all of the 2011-2012 nominees, we've dug deep into our archives to bring you vintage photos of all of the talent during special moments in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMIn defense of Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn OK – Now you can be the judge. I think Frank Wildhorn and Don Black wrote a great score for Bonnie & Clyde. Some of the most influent…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMIt was the social event of the year: The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute was held on May 7, ruled with an iron hand by Vogue editor in chief Anna Wint…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:40AMBroadway at Birdland today announced a partnership with multi-Grammy and Tony nominated composer Frank Wildhorn for a monthly concert series called Frank amp Friends. The series of one-night…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMTwo River Theater Company has announced the lineup of productions planned for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will kick off with Suzan-Lori Parks directing her Pulitzer Prize-winning play …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMEnglish National Opera artistic director John Berry has claimed the current trend for arts organisations to screen their work live to cinemas in a bid to extend their brand was a distraction…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMThe New Group presented a one-night only reading of Tom Eyen's play Women Behind Bars on Monday, May 7 at the Acorn Theater.
Scott Elliott directed the play, which, as previously annou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMOur design-savvy friends at Time Out London have created this cool "London's West End by numbers" interactive infographic – drawing on some Whatsonstage.com Awards and other recent poll re…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:28AMAbout the author:
Before garnering Tony nominations for Best Original Score and Best Play for Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Elice made his Broadway debut co-writing the book of Jerse…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMNicole Scherzinger will play Mary Magdalene and Tim Minchin will play Judas Iscariot in the forthcoming UK tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMNicole Scherzinger will play Mary Magdalene and Tim Minchin will play Judas Iscariot in the forthcoming UK tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:22AMDONALD WOLFIT SPECIAL (1/2) Playwright Sir Ronald Harwood, biographer of legendary actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit and a former member of his company, discusses the man and his work with How…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 11:21AMNominations for the 30th Fred amp Adele Astaire Awards taking place on Monday, June 4th have been announced. The nominations are as follows
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMRupert Friend is currently starring in a rare revival of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, which opened last week (8 May 2012, previews from 2 May) at the Arcola Theatre.Billed as "a tw…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:20AMIt was a jam-packed episode of TV’s Anderson on May 7, when Broadway sensation Kristin Chenoweth joined Anderson Cooper as his co-host. There were all sorts of shenanigans, from invest…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AM“Broadway Bares,” a one-night-only burlesque event, raises money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:20AMThe cast of David Adjmi's 3C met the press Tuesday, May 8. The play is presented as a co-production between Piece by Piece Productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, and Rattlestick Playwri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:19AMNext week on the season finale of SMASH, the big night is finally here. Tom Christian Borle and Julia Debra Messing race against time to save the show, while Derek Jack Davenport makes a dec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMNominations for the 30th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, which honor excellence in dance on Broadway and film, were announced on Monday night.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:13AMCellist Yo-Yo Ma and singer/songwriter Paul Simon are the joint recipients of the 2012 Polar Music Prize, according to the Associated Press.
The honor, which is Sweden's most prestigio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:13AMToday in 1962, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opened at the Alvin Theatre now the Neil Simon Theatre, where it ran for 964 performances. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMThe "celebration" from Where the Wild Things Are.Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:09AMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle have announced the winners of the organization’s 77th annual awards on Monday night.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:08AMBBC Radio 2 head of programming Lewis Carnie is stepping down from the role temporarily to work in the entertainment department at BBC Television.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMIf you picked up a print copy of the NY Times on Sunday, you probably saw more prints ads for Broadway shows than you have in the last year. Full pages, Double Trucks (which are two full pag…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBy The BroadwaySpotted Team 20. Jan Maxwell and her son Will at opening night of Follies. Photo by Bruce Glikas. 19. Marissa Jaret Winokur and her son Zev check out some wildlife. 18. Harry …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:00AM
DONALD WOLFIT SPECIAL (2/2) Playwright Sir Ronald Harwood, biographer of legendary actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit and a former member of his company, discusses the man and his work with How…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 10:58AMTony nominee Dylan Baker will star as Vice President Fred Collier in the new USA television drama Political Animals, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Baker joins previously announced sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMInterested in what goes on in the mind of a Broadway actor? Here’s your chance for a sneak peak at the inner workings of theatrical performance—how an actor goes from good to great. Broo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMAfter playing the role of “Tanya” for the past seven years in Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, Broadway favorite Judy McLane will assume the starring r…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:50AMStep 9 (of 12)premiered at the Trafalgar Studios 2 last week (4 May 2012, previews from 1 May). The production stars Inbetweeners’ actor Blake Harrison in his West End debut as Keith, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:50AMSalisbury Playhouse: For his first outing, Salisbury's new artistic director Gareth Machin has taken a punt on Howard Brenton's Epsom Downs and it romps home a winner.
Read the ful…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMBack Stage caught up with Cantone before the show and chatted about hosting awards shows, Off-Broadway, and how to make it as an actor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:47AMTACT/The Actors Company Theatre celebrated its 2011-2012 season and honor the accomplishments of Victor Garber at its annual Spring Gala held May 7 at The Loeb Boathouse Central Park.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMHow do you get Spider-Man to fly? Ask choreographer Chase Brock. Back Stage spoke with Brock about choreographing the show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:44AMOn last night's episode of SMASH, viewers finally got their first look at 'Bombshell, the Marilyn Monroe musical at the heart of NBC's new musical drama. The show opened for a test run in Bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMNominations for the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards have been announced. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:41AMThe fifth annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, administered by Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, will go to emerging playwright Erika Sheffer, who penned Off-Broadway's Russian Trans…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMNBC has ordered 1600 Penn, the White House comedy featuring The Book of Mormon's Josh Gad, to series, according to Deadline.com. In addition to starring in the series, Gad will serv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:39AMSubmissions Only, Broadway's favorite behind-the-scenes sitcom, wrapped its second season on April 27 with an all-star guest line-up like none before. View photos from the season two wrap pa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AMHugh Jackman, Elena Roger, Jan Maxwell, Ricky Martin and the Broadway production of Newsies have been nominated for the 2012 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMDeadline.com reports that NBC has picked up the comedy series, 1600 PENN. The series was co-created and stars 'Book of Mormon's Tony-nominated Josh Gad. Get a first look at the cast of the u…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMLong Wharf Theatre has announced the the productions for its 2012-2013 season, which will begin with the world premiere of Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf (October 3-November 4)…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMIt seems a career path has emerged for rockers looking to transition gracefully into musical maturity once the amplifiers have stopped buzzing in their ears.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMIndependence Charter School Philadelphia, PA Reporter: Cindy Ripley, iTheatrics Senior Education Associate, Resident Master Teacher April 12, 2012 When you work on a musical you often begin …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:29AMDid you know that May is Huntington's Disease Awareness Month? Join the A.R.T. and the Huntington's Disease Society of America at the theater tonight to salute one of the most famous v…
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 10:27AMDirected by Scott Elliott, Women Behind Bars featured Charles Busch The Matron, Janeane Garofalo Louise, Nancy Giles Jo-Jo, Josh Hamilton the men, Natasha Lyonne Cheri, Cynthia Nixon Blanche…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:26AMChicago truly is an amazing theatre town — especially now, where we have two epic plays receiving landmark productions, and I’ve been lucky to see both of them. Following the sev…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:21AMHoward County’s Rep Stage will celebrate its 20th year by exploring the 20th century, manipulating time through a four-play season which takes us from somber ghost story to high-octane far…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMDeadline.com reports that NBC has picked up the series 1600 PENN, created by and starring Book of Mormon's Josh Gad.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMTimesTalks just welcomed DEATH OF A SALESMAN director Mike Nichols. TimesTalks events take place at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, New York City. For additional information or to purc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:10AMOn June 3 The Blank Theatre will present a starry evening featuring scenes, songs and speeches from 20 years of The Blank's Young Playwrights Festival.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMWatch as costume designer Eiko Ishioka discusses the Green Goblin costume.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:05AMThe run of Cutting Ball Theater's previously announced world premiere production of Annie Elias' documentary theater piece Tenderloin has been extended through June 3, adding four …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:02AMThe production officially opened on Monday, May 7 and BroadwayWorld was there to bring you the stars as they arrived on the opening night red carpet
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AMAt 57, Kathleen Turner’s body and voice now mark the presence of someone who has endured.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AMThe weather may be cold and grey but these newly released production photos of The Sunshine Boys are sure to brighten your day. Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths star as an ageing vaudevill…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
Having wowed the public and critics with his musical theatre writing debut, Matilda composer and lyricist Tim Minchin will make his UK musical theatre performin debut as Judas Iscariot in th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:59AMPoor Leslie Odom, Jr. You'd think it's bad enough that he already has to be in that Leap of Faith musical....
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 09:59AMMuse of Fire producers/directors/actors Dan Poole and Giles Terera continue their guest coverage of Globe to Globe, the staging of Shakespeare’s plays in a
different language courtesy…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:59AMNBC has just picked up GLEE producer Ryan Murphy's new series THE NEW NORMAL. The show stars Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells as a gay couple who form a family with a surrogate.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:56AMThe Actors Fund's nearly-100 member team at the May 5 Revlon Run/Walk for Women in Times Square raised nearly $25,000 to fight women’s cancers; the team placed sixth overall in fun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMThe production officially opened on Monday, May 7 and BroadwayWorld was there to bring you photos of the cast at the opening night party
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMTheatre that incorporates the words of real people has never been more popular – and has proved itself infinitely flexible Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMTheatre that incorporates the words of real people has never been more popular – and has proved itself infinitely flexibleVerbatim theatre, as Will Hammond and Dan Steward point out in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMRep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College, has announced its 2012-2013 season.
First up is Jon Marans' The Temperamentals (August 29-September…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMFebruary House, the new musical inspired by a real life artistic commune that fostered some of America’s greatest talents, is beginning previews at off-Broadway’s Public Theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMPreviews begin May 8 for Will Eno’s new one-man play Title and Deed, starring Conor Lovett. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, opening night is set for May 20 at the Alice Griffin Jewel …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMTweetI don’t think there is a better showtune out there about being bitter or that can be sung acting drunker than Happily Ever After from Once Upon a Mattress. The song is about a wom…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 09:47AMIts always gorgeous when you sing, and so the same goes for NBCs musical drama series SMASH. This weeks penultimate episode of the first season order of fifteen gave us a long-awaited real l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:45AMOnce the Musical on Broadway
© Once the Musical
The "little show that could" has "once" and for all proved its worth.
The Academy Award-winning film-turned-stage-musical, Once, has not …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:45AMLaura Osnes, a 2012 Tony nominee for her performance in Bonnie & Clyde, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox May 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMBishop Packard is arrested on May 1.After reading the dispiriting news that Bernard Law is still making vicious mischief in Rome (he was largely behind the Vatican's current attack on Americ…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:43AMThe New York Drama Critics Circle met on May 7, 2012, at the offices of Time Out New York magazine, to determine the winners of its 77th annual awards. The overall results were Best Play Son…
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Jordan, Bennett, Boykin will receive award
SOURCE: Variety at 09:34AMTalked about "Brundibar," Family And CareerSad new: Children's author Maurice Sendak is dead at the age of 83.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:31AMA host of Broadway talent will be heard on Scott Alan's newest CD, which was recorded live in April at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMScreen star and Broadway veteran Jennifer Garner will serve as honorary host for The Blank Theatre's benefit for the Young Playwrights Festival, to be held at Avalon Hollywood, Sunday, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMLeap of Faith
© Leap of Faith
The Tonys weren't kind to Alan Menken's other show on Broadway, Leap of Faith, which has announced it will close.
The Alan Menken and Glen Slater tuner…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:23AMTim Minchin, the comedian who composed the Oliver Award winning musical Matilda, will play Judas Iscariot in a revival of Jesus Christ Superstar at the 02 arena in London this summer, accord…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:20AMAuthor, playwright, and designer Maurice Sendak has died at age 83, according to reports.
One of the world's greatest illustrators and authors, Sendak is best known for his seminal chi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMLegit News:
Broadway musical struggled at box office
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company production of David Edgar’s new play Written on the Heart::E8831320746747 has posted closing notices at the West End’s Duchess Theatre, where it ope…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:12AMA Wicked Gala, a 'Wickedly Magical Evening in Oz,' takes place on Saturday, May 19, beginning at 600 p.m. The Sacramento Convention Center Ballroom, 1400 J Street in Sacramento, will be tran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMRick Foucheux, Nancy Robinette, Michael Russotto, and others featured in fundraising event for The Theatre Lab On May 18, 2012, favorite Washington actors will perform in readings of new pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMNina Raine's Tribes, which premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2010, has been named best foreign play of the 2011/12 theatre season by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM
Amongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, in this shortened bank holiday week are:
OPENING TUESDAYThree Kingdoms8 MAY 2012(PREVIEWS FROM 3 MAY)
Simon Stephen…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:58AMArcola, LondonMartin really does seem like a nice young man; such a caring smile, and beautiful manners, too. "You speak so beautifully, Martin," says Amy Bates, "almost as if you were Patie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMOrchestra leader and composer Mort Lindsey, who worked for Merv Griffin and Judy Garland throughout a long career, has died at home in Malibu, California, following a long decline in health.
SOURCE: Reuters at 08:38AMPlay in two acts. First performed at the RSC’s Warehouse Theatre in Covent Garden, 28 July 1977. Directed by Barry Kyle; designed by William Dudley; lighting by David Boshell. With Ian…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:34AMIn 1943 she first appeared on Broadway, and eventually performed in the musicals Star and Garter (with Gypsy Rose Lee), Something for the Boys (with Ethel Merman), and the road company of Le…
SOURCE: raymondscott.blogspot.ca at 08:27AMWho says you can’t make The Shrew work? I did. And I’ll eat my hat. The last time I had seen a truly stunning production of The Taming of the Shrew was in New York’s Central Park, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMThe legendary rock star discusses his new CD, Dee Does Broadway, his new memoir, and returning to the Great White Way.
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 faki…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:00AMAlloy Theater Company’s account of William Luce’s one-woman play about Charlotte Brontë, starring Maxine Linehan, can’t overcome the writing’s contrivances.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it’s
a whole new world. A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the
60s, and charred by today’s brutal realities. From passion to
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:59AMA video created by Long Wharf Theatre ’s education illustrating the importance of arts education won a $10,000 award from the National Corporate Theatre Fund.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:55AMMusical that topped Tony nominations wins two major prizes in run-up to US theatre awardsWith the Tony awards only a month away, the musical that topped the nominations has received a furthe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMJoining Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths as the ageing vaudevillian team Willie Clark and Al Lewis in Neil Simons award-winning comedy The Sunshine Boys are Rebecca Blackstone Miss MacKint…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28AMSecond Stage Theatre celebrated the opening night of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not on Monday, May 7 with a post-performance party at HB Burger.
Directed by Trip Cullman, the play s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:28AMDenver Chiu’s riveting performance and a look at Brecht’s basis for “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” are reasons to see this uneven trilingual production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:26AMEd Cardona Jr.’s “American Jornalero,” at Intar Theatre, offers a tepid take on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration and xenophobic bigotry.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:22AM by Linda Amiel Burns “Mad Dogs & Educated Fleas: Noel & Cole, A Battle of Wits” is the fourth concert of the five programs that the 92nd Street Y presented in its p…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:12AMA guest blog by project co-director, Professor William Everett
The Pink Lady (1911) is one of those delightful gems from a century ago with a title that suggests something eminently enjoyabl…
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"I identify with the fact that god is a never-ending question.'' Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentaruy "Broads," that features salty, outspoken interviews …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMAfter dropping out of RADA, Jonathan Frid moved to the US where he was planning to teach acting. Instead, he landed the role of a vampire in a television soap opera and became a household na…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMAt a panel discussion, artists including Young Jean Lee and Gabriel Kahane and critics Jerry Saltz and Amy Larocca discusses the place artists hold in NYC.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:53AMOpening Act is an organization dedicated to bringing free theater programs to underperforming New York City high schools.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:39AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company production of David Edgar’s new play Written on the Heart::E8831320746747 has posted closing notices at the West End’s Duchess Theatre, where it ope…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:37AMA cast of West End principals will celebrate the work of Dorothy Fields in a new revue The Sunny Side of the Street that will begin performances at London's Jermyn Street Theatre June 19…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:37AMDouglas Henshall is to star in a two-part BBC1 drama based on books by Ann Cleeves, whose novels inspired the ITV drama series Vera.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMany senior citizens insist that there’s one consolation in growing older: They’ve learned that they miss nothing by staying home instead of going out in the evening
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:30AMDirector/filmmaker Paul Weitz's fourth play, the third at Second Stage.. It has its funny moments but incisive and memorable, it's not
SOURCE: www.curtainup.comlonelyimnot at 06:29AMThe Place, London: With the words "I'm fine, really, I'm fine," Georgina Roberts manages to convey more in a few moments than lesser performers do in an entire play. As L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMBy Bill Hirschman Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a gentle message comedy about lonely people reaching out somewhat obliquely for human contact. But this occasionally charming pas de deux …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:28AMThe Cut Theatre, Halesworth: "Now, more than ever, I believe that all stories are fiction," explains Mike Daisey, the monologist and 'noted fabulist' whose latest work, T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMGrand Theatre, Leeds: Stephen Sondheim once deftly answered a question about what makes a show an opera or a musical by saying, "I've always defined opera as anything done in an op…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMLion and Unicorn Theatre, London: While the big boys are wowing us with the World Shakespeare Festival and Globe to Globe, it's great to see smaller venues doing the Bard proud too. Rae…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AM"Welcome to America," an adaptation of a 1921 Yiddish Art Theatre play about immigrants by H. Leivick, from New Worlds Theatre Project, warrants a look.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:11AMMillion Dollar QuartetBook by Colin Escott and Floyd MutruxMusic Direction and Arrangements by Chuck MeadDirected by Eric Schaeffer and Floyd MutruxPresented the Apollo TheatreDisclosure: I…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:10AMArcola, London: Dennis Potter's warped fairy tale of a man who might be the devil administering a brutal kiss of life to a paraplegic, is still a tough watch - too tough for the BBC whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMBarbican, London: Philip Glass' 1976 opera belatedly reaches the UK in this recreation by librettist, set designer and director Robert Wilson, and choreographer Lucinda Childs, of their…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMAstoria Performing Arts Center's revival of "The Secret Garden" is a potent production of a second-tier work, thanks to Tom Wojtunik's inspired staging.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:07AMQuite how I’d arrived in Dartmoor in the dead of night, the wind howling in my ears and the incessant pounding of the rain threatening to engulf me, I did not know. The strange thing was t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMThe Neo-Futurists "hip-hoperetta" "You Are in an Open Field," at Here Arts Center, puts the computer game Zork onto the stage.
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Set on a Pacific island, Shiverman deals with human rights and the right of the West to impose its views on other cultures. James Sheldon’s play explores differing views whilst leaving the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:58AMA Walk On Part, based on the diaries of former British Member of Parliament Chris Mullin, will transfer to the West End's Arts Theatre, beginning performances June 19, prior to an offici…
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Jackman, Martin, Broderick in the running
SOURCE: Variety at 05:52AMHaving wowed the public and critics with his musical theatre writing debut, Matilda composer and lyricist Tim Minchin will make his UK musical theatre performin debut as Judas Iscariot in th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:41AMBack Stage talked with the actors about playing different characters in the same show and tense moments onstage.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:41AMWide Awake Devon is the perfect title for this organisation which is addressing the arts situation in this sleepy south west county. Thanks to the work of Emily Williams (22), Monique Luckma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:38AMStep 9 of 12 takes a dark look at what happens when a troubled, damaged individual reaches the ninth step – forgiveness – in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step programme.
Sober f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:32AMKenny Wax is the producer of Irving Berlin screen-to-stage musical Top Hat, which receives its West End premiere at the Aldwych Theatre tonight (9 May 2012), following an extensive regional …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:04AMBack Stage talked with the actors about playing different characters in the same show and tense moments onstage.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AMJust like the great Berlin Wall fell in 1989, another great wall has fallen, reuniting us with theatre that is essential—the fourth wall. MONKEY BUSINESS by Tony Asaro (Composer/Librettist…
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Reviews come in lots of shades of grey. Thanks to the virtually all-pervasive system of star ratings across the reviewing landscape — though not, as I’ve pointed out before, in The St…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:39AMI’m aware that occasionally this space is taken up with comments focused on some of the less remarkable sides of drama school – me, just generally having a moan. However, if ever…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:37AMTheater 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 01:30AMAfter her critically-acclaimed debut as Roxie Hart on Broadway and in Londons West End, Christie Brinkley will make her Broadway tour debut this spring as she reprises her killer role in the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAfter seven years of writing, re-writing, fine tuning, and revelatory readings, Alexander deJongs opulent Liberace musical, ALL THAT GLITTERS will be presented in its Pre-Broadway workshop f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThomas Sadoski returns to the role of Tripp Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitzs critically acclaimed new play OTHER DESERT CITIES, directed by Joe Mantello, beginning tonight, May 8 at 7 pm at the Boo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMRecording star Clay Aiken and Broadway actress Montego Glover are among the stars scheduled to perform tonight, May 8 at Family Equality Councils Night at the Pier celebration in New York Ci…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMCast members of "Porgy and Bess," "Clybourne Park," and "Tribes" are among winners for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:23AMPianist Stephen Hough helped bring the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's 2011-12 subscription season to a close, bringing down the house with phenomenal performances of two Rachmaninoff concert…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMAudience Engagement being something of a buzz word du jour, (yeah, I have used it a bunch of time here and am aware I am complicit), one of the easiest ways to make your audience and communi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:14AMThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge, sings Mozart's Ave verum corpus, K. 618:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved." Erich Fromm, The Art...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMTHEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★ ... "Jamaica, Farewell," which has ar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMNick Jonas uses his well-known image as a boy-next-door type -- not to mention his not insubstantial vocal charisma -- to superlative effect on Broadway Records' just-released five-trac…
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Roslyn Kind Interviews Eugene Louis Facciuto (aka "Luigi") Dance World Icon.
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:01AMActor, Stage Manager New York, New York USA It’s Wonderful to Know Where You Belong. A financial adviser recently asked me, “When do you want to retire?” “I don’t,&…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMNight Of The Living DeadAn interesting articles has me thinking of the "classics"by Gaëtan L. CharleboisIn the summer of 1976 - I had just turned 19 - I had a hideous job as night clerk at …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMWill Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, begins its American premiere May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's season at the new Pershing Square Si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMStage veteran Michael Cumpsty, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for his performance in End of the Rainbow, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-cultu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMLisa D'Amour's Detroit, originally premiered in a production at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2011, begins performances at London's National Theatre May 8, prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSomewhere in heaven, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, Charlie Chaplin and a long line of storytellers who loved to create physical comedy are smiling down on Tom Edden, the 33-year-old British …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLearn the story behind the new multi-racial Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, from the producer who gave us James Earl Jones in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA roundup of spring parties in London, including the presentation of the Sheridan Morley Prize to Stephen Sondheim, plus visits to his Sweeney Todd and the Old Vic's Duchess of Malfi sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSignature Theatre's DC-area premiere of the musical Xanadu, the stage adaptation of the disco-era movie musical, featuring Erin Weaver as the Greek muse Kira and Charlie Brady as artist …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Realistic Joneses, the new play by acclaimed writer Will Eno (Middletown, Thom Paine) considers the Big Questions. Parker Posey and Tracy Letts are among its stars at Yale Rep.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwisted Sister front Man Dee Snider duets with Tony Award winners Patti LuPone, Bebe Neuwirth, Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and more on his new album of show tunes "Dee Does Broadway,&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world of 1940s Brooklyn bohemia comes to life in February House, the new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley, which begins Off-Broadway previews May 8 at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new five-track Broadway cast album EP of the 50th anniversary revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, featuring current star Nick Jonas, is released May 8 from Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski returns to share a rocky Palm Springs Christmas in the Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities May 8 at the Booth Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Alloy Theater Company presents a new production of William Luce's Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte, officially opening Off-Broadway May 8, following previews that began May …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRupert Goold's new stage adaptation of CS Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which Goold is co-directing with Michael Fentiman, begins performances May 8, prior to an …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM"Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project," a two-CD, 26-song set of lullabies composed and sung by some of Broadway's finest, arrives May 8; a lavishly illustrated book and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1892 Birthday of opera singer Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) who made two memorable Broadway appearances, in Fanny and South Pacific, the latter creating the role of Emile deBecque and singing "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe show: "Into the Woods" at the Westport Country Playhouse
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMEarly in the first act of Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new Broadway musical written around the songs of George and Ira Gershwin currently playing at the Imperial Theater, there's a number …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMLeap of Faith, based on a 1992 "dramedy" film with Steve Martin, is a feel-good musical highly reminiscent of The Music Man (with a splash of Sister Act and The Rainmaker). Energetic and wit…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMPerhaps the only event more devastating than one person losing his or her soulmate is that of a child losing their parents. In The Secret Garden, both tragedies occur, resulting in the play'…
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