The forthcoming movie adaptation of Rock of Ages will hit IMAX screens on June 15. Warner Brothers will release a digitally-remastered version the film the same day of its wide release, acco…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMAli Ahn and William Jackson Harper will share star-crossed nights in the Shakespeare on the Sound outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet, beginning June 26 in Greenwich, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMHere’s our photo of the week, a lovely image of FOLLIES at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre featuring Jan Maxwell and Victoria Clark. FOLLIES was nominated for 8 Tony Awards i…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:48PMLorelei Lee lives again in "Smash" star Megan Hilty's inspired comic turn in this 1949 musical, based on Anita Loos' novel about a gold-digging flapper who knows how to work her assets.read …
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:44PMNEW YORK - A funny guy with a cane, a hat and an unforgettable mustache is heading to Broadway.
Producers announced...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:42PMMAMMA MIA Broadway cast member Monica Kapoor sits down with WAMC radios The Roundtable host Sarah LaDuke on Friday morning, May 11, at approximately 1115am for a special Mothers Day segment …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, May 10, 2012 Breaking News Musical of Charlie Chaplin heading to Broadway AP – by Mark Kennedy A funny guy with a cane, a hat and an unforget…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:39PMWatch the special Mothers Day edition and latest episode 6 of CafeMom Studios On Broadway With Kids - Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA - the exclusive online series that opens a rare and p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMROCK OF AGES will open in theaters on June 15, 2012. The film stars Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, along with Diego Boneta as Drew, Julianne Hough as Sherrie, Russell Brand as Lonny, Alec Baldwi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMThe unsung heroes of the theatre are getting the chance to take center stage courtesy of the new documentary, "The Standbys."
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:34PMSpiegelworld's Gazillionaire and his assistant Penny, who currently star in the Las Vegas production of Absinthe, made a trip to New York last week to scout for locations in the Times S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMWatching an all-black cast skewer African-American stereotypes is unsettling but the awkwardness is part of the appeal
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:31PMI somehow had the good fortune to spend time on the phone with Cheryl Ikemiya, Senior Program Officer for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in the middle of a very busy seaso…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:30PMA 1906 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “House of Mirth,” presented at Metropolitan Playhouse, displays the theatrical conventions of the melodramas of its time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMJames Kudelka’s multidisciplinary tribute to Wharton’s House of Mirth has contemporary resonance
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:24PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of the musical CHICAGO welcomes the return Terra C. MacLeod as merry murderess Velma Kelly and Roz Ryan as Cook County jail Matron “Mama” Morton, b…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:23PMThe Marsh Berkeley will begin presenting Friday Night Happy Hours starring The Amazing Bubble Man and musician Jetty Swart. The Friday night events will be held at the Cabaret at 6 pm, June…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:21PMActors' Playhouse in Coral Gables opens Steven Dietz's comedy Becky's New Car on Friday evening (it'll run through June 3), but executive director Barbara Stein and artistic director David A…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:15PMNBC has given a series order to Do No Harm, a medical drama starring stage veteran Steven Pasquale.
The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (to be played by Pasquale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMJulie Andrews talks Princess Diaries, Cinderella, Camelot, Mary Poppins and more
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 05:11PMIn the dark of the Arvada Center's Black Box Theater, a comedy's a-brewing as winds whip, distressed voices call out and a ship's timbers are heard shivering, cracking, smashing against a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:08PMPlays are often about listening, about the ebbs and flow of language. With its rich, ideas-laden writing, "Red" — John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama about artist Mark Rothko and an…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:06PMMusicals Tonight, under the aristic direction of Mel Miller, will present Fade Out - Fade In and Strike Up the Band as part of its five-show 2012-13 season at the Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:05PMMusicals Tonight, under the aristic direction of Mel Miller, will present Fiorello! and Strike Up the Band as part of its five-show 2012-13 season at the Lion Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth discusses her roles as Hippolyta and Titania in the Classic Stage Company’s new production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Sh…
SOURCE: WNYC at 05:00PM
I’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “OOPS! You should feel bad about your feel-good show.” I’m talking to you, …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 04:58PMLegit News:
Thesp to play Loretta Lynn in legit adaptation
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMCritics Ben Brantley of The New York Times, Peter Marks of The Washington Post, and Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal review the current spring season on Broadway in the newest THEAT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMThe British actor talks about being penniless in Paris, growing older, the beauty of honesty and riding a motorcycle with Judi Dench.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 04:40PMI've been reviewing musicals and other theatrical productions on this blog for over six years now. For the most part, I've been doing it for the sheer love of theater, and musical theater in…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 04:38PM"Million Dollar Quartet," based on a legendary musical meeting among Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins in 1956, returns to Seattle after rocking out on Broadway. It's at t…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:33PMAs 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 04:25PMJed Bernstein Broadway Producer, Bob Israel Movie Producer and Entertainment Marketing Executive, and Rich Battista Entertainment and Media Executive have announced the launch of The Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMJames Goldman and Stephen Sondheims Follies, which was just nominated for eight Tony Awards, opened last night, May 9 at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre. Performances of the exclusi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMNEW YORK — A funny guy with a cane, a hat and an unforgettable mustache is heading to Broadway. Producers announced Thursday that a new musical depicting the life of Charlie Chaplin will b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:20PMMatthew White and Howard Jacques's remake of the 1935 musical "Top Hat" is replete with jokes so corny that the only possible response to them is to groan with pleasure, but can Tom and Summ…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 04:18PMThe new musical about the life of the comic performer and film icon has found a Broadway home. Performances of Chaplin, formerly titled Becoming Chaplin, are scheduled to begin August 21 at …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:14PMCasting has been announced for the Mad Cow Theatre's upcoming production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which will begin performances at the Orlando venue June 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:12PMFollowing acclaimed openings in Washington and New York, the Kennedy Center's Broadway production of the award-winning musical Follies officially opened its limited engagement at Los An…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:11PMJames Goldman and Stephen Sondheims Follies, which was just nominated for eight Tony Awards, opened last night, May 9 at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre. Performances of the exclusi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMOverall, *Encore...*, directed by Joyce Piven, is an intriguing, if uneven, hour of theater. Chekov’s stories have obvious potential for theatrical adaptation, and Piven Theatre Workshop h…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:08PMBraden Abraham, Associate Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory talks to me as part of the Seattle City Series this week. Contributors have been talking about the Writers’ Group there…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:08PMJason Danieley, Claybourne Elder and Betsy Wolfe will appear in a reading of the Jordan Harrison-Daniel Zaitchik musical Suprema May 18 at Ars Nova.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
From the longtime Zanies to the brand-new UP, a survey of the Chicago stand-up comedy scene
(BY STEVE JOHNSON) ... From the longtime Zanies to the brand-new UP, our guide to the Chicago st…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMA musical performance by the Tony Award-nominated cast of Broadway's ONCE are among the guests MAY 14-18 on ABC's The View
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMThe Center Theatre Group celebrated the opening of Follies at the Ahmanson Theatre on Wednesday, May 9. The production is directed by Eric Schaeffer.
Opening night guests included Scott Bai…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:54PMKathleen Turner (photo credit: Lanny Nagler)A solo which is notKathleen Turner fills her vehicleby Jasmine ChenHigh, which opened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre last night, is the story of a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:54PMIf you find classical music to be a vibrant, living thing in which inventive pairings and convincing realizations of music of the distant and recent past can speak in fresh and vital ways to…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:51PMBrooding and compassionate prints by German artist Käthe Kollwitz star in an eclectic Weisman show.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:50PMAfter a star turn in "Caroline, or Change" three years ago, Greta Oglesby returns to the Guthrie in a role she was "born to do."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:47PMTrey Parker's CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL is set to play at this year's Orlando International Fringe Festival. The production is presented by Logan Donahoo, in association with New Cannibal Society.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:43PMThe show : "My Name Is Asher Lev" at Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Drive, new Haven.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:38PMSpotlighters Theatre offers a Mother’s Day Discount for Hello, Dolly! Order your tickets at www.spotlighters.org and use DISCOUNT CODE: 5-DOLLY to get $5 off your ticket price.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMInspired by iconic songs, RWB piece offers mostly conventional choreography
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:31PMJane Archibald (photo credit: Michael Cooper)A Jolly Good Time......and utterly ridiculous and bombasticby Axel Van Chee“No, no I’ll take no less” sings Semele to Jove with grim determ…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:30PMThere's a significant difference between attending live theater and seeing a taped performance of the same show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29PMJack Cole was a revolutionary choreographer whose work influenced the likes of Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Michael Bennett. But many people don’t even recognize his name.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:23PMThe Public Theater yesterday announced complete casting today for AS YOU LIKE IT, the first show of the 50th Anniversary season of free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte. Directed by …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMMusicals Tonight has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season to be presented at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row.
The season's first offering will be Fiorello! (October 2-14), with a b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMA partir del 1 de junio de 2012 Shuler Hensley dará vida al Dr. Hannibal Lecter en el musical del Off-Broadway SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, hasta el 24 de junio, reemplazando a David Garrison dura…
SOURCE: www.todomusicales.com at 03:10PMNext 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 03:01PM(photo credit: Carol Rosegg)West Side Story SoarsFifty-five years later and still a masterpieceby Stuart MunroThere are certain shows that make me wish I could go back in time and experience…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:01PMPlaybill.com continues its new series looking back at vintage Playbills with one from the 1949 production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the musical that is currently being revived by City Cen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM
A new biographical Charlie Chaplin musical that began in 2010 at the La Jolla Playhouse has set an opening day for Broadway.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PMDavid Cale As The Friar The outdoor theater company Shakespeare on the Sound will present a newly conceived production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, under the directio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:56PMThe playwright seems addicted to sensationalism, judging by this tale of addiction and redemption
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:52PMThe new musical FLASHDANCE, which was scheduled to play a pre-Broadway engagement in Toronto this summer, has announced a postponement of the Toronto engagement. The show's producers were pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49PMThe Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will welcome Tony nominee Marin Mazzie and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra for Music for the Tempest-Tost: A Trib…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMIt was few months ago that I first heard about The Frost Amphitheatre. If I hadn't been told about this outdoor concert venue smack bang in the middle of the Stanford campus, I would have ne…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:34PMSummer hasn’t even arrived yet, but the cotton candy concession is open at City Center, where a delectable Encores!
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:33PMKeith Parham's set design and Marie Quinn's sound design makes the fashion runway set look and sound like the place to be for a Couture Killer. *Devour* entertains with flair AND tells the i…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:32PMIn early 2009, I said that Frat, the second production of the new theater company The New Colony, was “a terrific example of youthful, raw, blistering, ferocious, hungrily-acted and direct…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 02:31PMLouise Pitre gives a vibrant and heartfelt performance in the title role of Goodspeed Musical's revival of the beloved tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMIt’s doubtful that locals will see anything quite like “Copy” at Theatre of NOTE anytime soon. Padraic Duffy’s precocious absurdist exercise is, for much of its lengt…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMAcademy Award Winner Christopher Plummers critically-acclaimed performance in the Stratford Shakespeare Festivals production of The Tempest storms into select U.S. movie theaters on Thursday…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:29PMIn this rented Asian-themed production, Handel’s great tragic opera is turned into a sex comedy with Buddhist overtones
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:22PMChryssie Whitehead of Broadway's Chorus Line and the Lincoln Center staging of Company is currently starring in the the 5th Avenue Theatre production of Damn Yankees. She invites Playbil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMGerard Alessandrini will bring back the long-running satirical revue Forbidden Broadway in a new edition to begin performances at the 47th Street Theatre on July 17, with an opening later in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMNBC has released a video clip from the May 14 season finale of its hit series, Smash, featuring Broadway star Nick Jonas and series regular Anjelica Huston.
Jonas -- who is currently appear…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMThe celebrities just keep on coming to Broadway's Belasco Theatre, eager to see Tracie Bennett's Tony-nominated performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow. (Maybe they've …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:15PMOn May 9, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to support marriage equality. The announcement drew praise from members of the Broadway and entertainment community, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMFlashdance, a musical adaptation of the 1983 film, is aiming to arrive on Broadway in spring of 2013 rather than the previously reported Fall 2012, according to The New York Times.
The Time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:09PMGlee's McKinley High crew recently stepped out for high school's biggest night: the senior prom! In celebration of the dinosaur-themed affair, Broadway.com asked readers which Glee g…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PMJames Kudelka fashions a hybrid of music, dance and song in the work based on Edit Wharton’s breakthrough 1905 novel.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:06PMFormer Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt talks to Matthew Hemley about moving on from shimmying in stilettos and why she's putting her all into West End dance show Revolution
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:04PMPlaywright Michael Elyanow has reworked Medea for modern times -- and Maine. Find out whether he thinks we treat our kids any better these days when the play opens this weekend. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:02PMDirectors Stafford Arima, Dan Knechtges, and Matt Lenz have joined the creative team of Express Yourself: The 2012 Summer Performing Arts Intensive Tour, a series of week-long summer intensi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award-winner Thomas Meehan Annie, The Producer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMMAMMA MIA! Broadway cast member Monica Kapoor sits down with WAMC radio’s “The Roundtable” host Sarah LaDuke on Friday morning, May 11 at approximately 11:15am for a special Mother’s…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:59PMThe work of the Russian theatre director and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski was well-served by actor and author Jean-Norman Benedetti, who wrote three books on the man whose approach to the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59PMNCM Fathom Events and BY Experience, in association with Entertainment One, are set to present the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of The Tempest starring Christopher Plumme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMImagine someone taking the concept of bad fusion cuisine to opera, and you get the gist of the mess that the Canadian Opera Company calls Semele.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:55PMCapturing the manic energy of a spectacular farce on paper is a tall order, but that is just what Broadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson set out to do when he hea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMAs the daughter of a Spanish father and an English mother, Patricia Medina was blessed with a sultry and voluptuous beauty that helped her to land roles in more than 50 movies. Her publicist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53PMAge & Hometown: 25; Philadelphia, PA
Current Role: An over-the-top, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as reluctant psychic Oda Mae Brown in Ghost.
R&B Roots: The vivacious&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PMAfter a three-year hiatus, the musical spoof revue Forbidden Broadway will return to the off-Broadway stage, according to The New York Times. Written by original Forbidden Broadway creator G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMMatt Trueman talks to Ella Hickson about her latest work to be produced, Boys, which is currently running at the HighTide Festival, and how she has since moved on from writing about universi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMJohn Forrest, best known as an actor in British films during the 1950s, died suddenly at his London home in April, just short of his 81st birthday.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMIn the late 1940s, a boy soprano, Billy Neely, became a star of BBC Radio with such works as Ave Maria and the song that became his signature tune, Cherry Ripe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:45PMGenevieve Raghu, the new artistic director of Norwich's Maddermarket Theatre tells Eleanor Turney about her hopes and dreams for the venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMLast week, the 2012 Tony Awards Nominations were announced by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons, officially launching Tony season in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMNational Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc. NBLCA will host its 25th Anniversary Choose Life Awards Hall of Hope and Remembrance Benefit Reception on Thursday, June 7, 2012, at 583 Pa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:38PMIn conjunction with CenterArts at The DCCenter, the DC Queer Theatre Festival will be presenting two nights of queer plays by playwrights in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. The first annual fest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMAccording to the New York Times, theatre review FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, which began back in 1982 and hasn't been seen in New York City since 2009, will make a return this summer. Creator Gerard …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMHave you been missing the comic genius Gerard Alessandrini as he mocked Broadway's brightest and dullest? Well the wait is over! Forbidden Broadway is returning after shutting down in 2009. …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:33PMDarko Tresnjak's First Shakespeare Production At Hartford Stage Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageDarko Tresnjak is hanging upsid…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:31PMA funny guy with a cane, a hat and an unforgettable mustache is heading to Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:29PMChaplin, a new Broadway musical based on the life of silent film star Charlie Chaplin, will arrive on Broadway Aug. 21 at the Barrymore Theatre featuring direction and choreography by Warren…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PMJim Parsons is only a week away from his awaited return to Broadway in Harvey, Mary Chase’s classic play about a man and his invisible 6-foot rabbit. Despite having a scratchy voice fr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMThe demonic potential in even the most innocuous-looking child’s doll should come as no surprise to parents who've felt its eerie supernatural impact on their wallets. But, far more si…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:19PMThe White House echoed with the popular songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David — known for hit tunes, including those from the Broadway musical Promises, Promises — on May 9, when…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMStage version of the 1983 film had been considering a a fall launch in New York, but will hold a summer workshop instead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:17PMThe Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It is currently in rehearsal at New 42 Studios.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMIn the span of just two days, it was revealed that “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” “Leap of Faith” and “Magic/Bird” would all be ending their respective Broad…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:13PMDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Official Trailer 2012 (HD)
Official theatrical trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days in HD.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 release date - August 3, 2012
Dire…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:11PMThe new Broadway musical Chaplin will play the Barrymore Theatre beginning August 21, with an opening on September 10, 2012. As previously reported, Warren Carlyle will direct and choreograp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09PMThe Shubert Organization and Career Transition For Dancers along with the host committee Josh Bergasse, Caitlin Carter, Charlotte DAmboise, Krisha Marcano, Kathleen Marshall, Jerry Mitchel, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMForbidden Broadway, the Gerard Alessandrini revue that became an Off-Broadway institution following its premiere in 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club, will return this summer, according to t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:04PMThe recent census data reveals that Seattle is one of the “whitest big cities” in the country. Sixty-six percent of the people who completed the census here specified they were White. In…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:03PMThe Old Globe Theatre has announced full casting for its previously announced 2012 Shakespeare Festival, running June 3 - September 30 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.
Adrian Noble …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMThe NBC network has announced that it has picked up the comedy pilot GO ON for its upcoming schedule. The series stars Broadway vets Laura Benanti and Julie White.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Jonathan Groff and Steven Sater Discuss New Book "A Purple Summer" Part 2
http://www.playbill.com/video Steven Sater, librettist and lyricist of "Spring Awakening," is j…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:57PMLast night on 'American Idol' pint-sized powerhouse Jessica Sanchez wowed the judges with her performance of 'And I'm Telling You,' but they weren't the only ones who were impressed. Origina…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMDirectors Stafford Arima (Carrie), Dan Knechtges (Lysistrata Jones) and Matt Lenz (associate director Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can) have joined the creative team of Express Yourself, the 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:57PMTony-winning "Spring Awakening" librettist and lyricist Steven Sater sat down with stars Jonathan Groff and Lauren Pritchard to talk about
his new book "A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:55PMRebecca Front, Catherine Tate and Sharon Horgan are to star in a new comedy for Sky Arts called Psychobitches.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMLilian Baylis, LondonWith his grey shorts, buttoned-up shirt and floppy hair, Thibault Lac looks like a serious schoolboy reciting his homework as he explains the title of the piece we are a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsTom Stoppard's 1982 comedy opens with an audacious sleight-of-hand in which Max, an architect, is distraught to discover that his wife Charlotte has been unfai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMThe National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS will host its 25th Anniversary benefit, titled Choose Life Awards Hall of Hope and Remembrance on Thursdsay, June 7 at 583 Park Avenue.
Talk…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PM'A melody is heard, played upon a flute. It is small and fine, telling of grass and trees and the horizon."
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:49PMThe dance musical Top Hat, based on the movie starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, opened at the West End's Aldwych Theatre on Wednesday, May 9. Matthew White directs, with choreogr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMNew York Giants Hall-of-Fame Linebacker Harry Carson, forensic pathologist/neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu, and news reporter Stone Phillips will participate in a discussion following the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMTom Chambers and Summer Strallen take the lead roles of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont in Top Hat which opened on Wednesday 9th May at the Aldwych Theatre in the West End where the show is c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMTelevision play in 25 scenes. Unproduced in that medium; first performed in the season “Plays Television Would Not Do” at the RSC Warehouse Theatre, 21 February 1979. Directed by…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:44PMChaplin, the previously announced new musical depicting the life of silent film icon Charlie Chaplin, will begin performances on August 21 at the Barrymore Theatre, according to The New York…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMBroadway's Next H!T Musical is set to play at The Triad, May 11-June 8.
Broadway's Next H!T Musical is an improv driven mock awards show, complete with made-up show tunes and gen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMIf you’ve watched professional theatre in Baltimore, you’ve probably seen Bruce R. Nelson. But it may have taken you a little while to realize it. When I walked into the Boehmian Café i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMArs Nova today announced a by-invitation-only reading of Suprema, a new musical by Jordan Harrison Maple and Vine and Daniel Zaitchik Picnic at Hanging Rock, on Friday, May 18 at 3pm at Ars …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMGeoff Tate, lead singer for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, paid a visit to the Broadway production of Memphis May 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMElizabeth A. Davis is nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in the most award-nominated show of the season, ONCE. Winner of the New York D…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:33PMBroadwayWorld.com is excited to share a weekly series developed by the Theatre Communications Group This week Luis Valdez shares pivotal moments in his theatre career and why the arts matter…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMMegan Hilty's confident brashness and powerful singing voice overcome the inevitable memories of Marilyn, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:28PMMegan Hilty’s confident brashness and powerful singing voice overcome the inevitable memories of Marilyn, Brendan Lemon writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:28PMAlexander Gilmour and Griselda Murray Brown sample 'Richard II' in Arabic, 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' in Shona and 'Macbeth' in Polish
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:28PMAlexander Gilmour and Griselda Murray Brown sample ‘Richard II’ in Arabic, ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in Shona and ‘Macbeth’ in Polish
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:28PMRoundabout Theatre Companys The Common Pursuit, by Simon Gray, directed by Moiss Kaufman is currently in previews. The cast features Kristen Bush as Marigold, Kieran Campion as Peter, Josh C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMUnder the MASTERWORKS BROADWAY label, the New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita was recorded in April in anticipation of a June 19th 2012 release. The album is now available for pre-order on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMFriends of the entertainer Janet Brown from television, theatre and entertainment will be among the guests for her memorial service at the actors' church, St Paul's in Covent Garden, London …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMThis is a story that I know well because when I did my own one-woman show What Everywoman Knows, Alice Paul was one of the women I portrayed. Her story often gets lost in the flotsam of Wom…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:24PM"Rock of Ages" star Russell Brand will host the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, which will air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre June 3 on MTV. Death of a Salesman Tony nominee Andrew Garfi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMYork Theatre Company will present the 8th Annual NEO 8 on Monday, May 21 at The York Theatre at Saint Peters Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue. F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMBeginning Friday, June 1st, Shuler Hensley will star as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Off-Broadways SILENCE The Musical through June 24th, filling in for the vacationing David Garrison.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17PMCorbin Bleu joins the cast as Jesus in the spirited revival of Godspell, playing at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. With a score by Stephen Schwartz, this musical takes the biblical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMThe City Center Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes began its limited engagement at the famed Manhattan venue May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMWatch the special “Mother’s Day” edition and latest episode #6 of CafeMom Studios “On Broadway: With Kids – Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA!” – the exclu…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:13PMVictoria Clark and William Michals are among the performers who will take part in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's series of one-night-only concerts this summer.
The series will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma!) will star as the killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter in off-Broadway's Silence! The Musical. Hensley will join the company for four weeks beginni…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:11PM"The Lyons," Nicky Silver's darkly comic dysfunctional-family play starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, is now playing on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. The production, f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:11PMHighlights From "Red" at DC's Arena Stage
http://www.playbill.com/video Produced in association with Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage's Washington, DC, engagemen…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:10PM"Chaplin," a new musical about the life and career of Charlie Chaplin, will be presented at the Barrymore Theater, with previews to begin on Aug. 21 and an opening night planned for Sept. 10.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:09PMThe Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon: As one of the many international productions designed to celebrate the World Shakespeare Festival, the Brazilian Companhia BufoMecanica's radical vis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMPBS today announced that LOVE NEVER DIES is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations beginning June 2, 2012 check local listings. LOVE NEVER DIES, Andrew Lloyd Webbers follow-u…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMThe world premiere of "The Columnist," David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late conservative journalist Joseph Alsop, opens a…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:05PMYork Theatre Company will present its 8th annual NEO 8 benefit concert, celebrating new, emerging, and outstanding musical theater writers, on Monday, May 21 at the The York Theatre at St. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMOn Monday, June 11, at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust welcomes the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and special guest soloist, Marin Mazzie, for a m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe Marriott Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming production of the new musical Hero by Aaron Thielen and Michael Mahler, June 20-August 19. David H. Bell directs and choreographs…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMToday in 2006, Tarzan opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 486 performances. Tarzan The Musical is based on the Disney film of the same name and the story by Edgar Rice Bu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMToday, let's take a look at the commercials for the other two Tony nominated musicals, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Once. (To look at Leap of Faith and Newsies, click HERE.)Nice Wor…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PMThis week's A.P.T. is devoted to the talented Tom Wojtunik. I had the pleasure of seeing a production of Children of Eden at APAC where he currently serves as the artistic director and was t…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 12:00PMActress and singer Lisa Celeste is better known by her stage name, Simone. She's the daughter of the late legendary singer Nina Simone, and she's appeared on Broadway in musicals such as Ren…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMO’Hare chatted with Back Stage before the Lucille Lortel Awards about memorizing lines and writing his own material.
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Conference Prep: Theatre Bay Area's Annual ConferenceI'm am psyched. Psyched about this Monday. First, I got the day off from work. Second, I'll be attending the day-long Theatre Bay Area co…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:56AMHero, a new musical about a young comic-book artist, will get its Equity world premiere on June 20 by Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, IL, following earlier development. Erich Bergen, of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
The result is smart in every sense -- not least because of beautifully unified work by the design team -- but the shiny evening never quite hits giddy…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:53AMTV star and stage veteran David Hasselhoff has joined the cast of Keith Lemon:The Movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Written by British comedian Leigh Francis, who will star in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:53AMIt's time to put on your top hat and brush off your
tails. Seventy-seven years after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
lit up Hollywood's silver screen with one of the most memorable dance
m…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:43AMFull casting has been announced for Shakespeare on the Sound's production of Romeo and Juliet, to be performed June 26-July 8 in Greenwich, CT and July 18-July 29 in Rowayton, CT. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:38AMTelevision audiences across the U.S. will venture to the mysterious world of turn-of-the-century Coney Island when PBS airs Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to The Phantom o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Long languishing on the list of not-quite-great musicals, the "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" tuner surprisingly gleams here with the brilliance…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:35AMName me any prominent Asian American playwright out there today, and I will quickly be able to point out their “identity” play. We have at least one. For Asian American artists, our ethn…
SOURCE: State of the Artist at 11:31AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
"Follies" is that rare Broadway transfer that has traveled well from its recent Gotham stint, and the reason is simple: Victoria Clark replaces the misc…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AMMosaic Theatre is set to present The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp, June 7-July 1. Margaret Ledford will direct.
In The Edge of Our Bodies, sixteen year old Bernadette is on the train to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMPBS will broadcast Simon Phillips' production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies as part of special programming that will premiere beginning June 2.
A follow-up to Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMPerhaps you've heard of this whole Naomi Schaefer Riley kerfuffle, perhaps you haven't, but basically what happened was this: In a blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education (the closest …
SOURCE: Parabasis at 11:23AMBroadway’s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR raised $40,000 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS during the 2012 Easter Bonnet competition. They shared half of that amount, $20,000, with Actors Fu…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:23AMAndrew Fishwick, the West End producer who was jailed for fraud in 2010, is to re-enter the theatre industry working as executive director of the soon-to-launch Park Theatre in London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThe other night, we were watching The Voice, and Tony Jr and Charlotte got into a back-and-forth about who they wanted to win. “I want the girl to win.” “I want the boy to win.” Cute…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:22AMThe 2012 HighTide Festival of new writing continues in Halesworth in Suffolk until Sunday (13 May). Here, artistic director Steven Atkinson discusses this year's programme and the new wave o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:21AMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley will star as Hannibal Lecter in the Off-Broadway engagement of Silence! The Musical, currently running at The 9th Space Theatre at PS 122. He will fill in fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:21AMIn the build-up to this year’s Tony Awards, let’s step into our handy time machine (I imagine it looks something like Greased Lightning crossed with the spare tire lift from Cats…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:18AMYork Theatre Company will present NEO 8, a benefit concert celebrating new, emerging and outstanding musical theatre writers, May 21 at The York Theatre at Saint Peter’s.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMTweetOk, so I’ve never actually listened to the words from this showtune, especially when the video is playing, and I don’t think you have ever listened either if you’ve on…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:12AMA new West End production of Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys, starring Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, began performances April 27 at the Savoy Theatre, prior to an official op…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMphoto by Ozier Muhammad for the TimesDon't have time to really tee this up, but it was my great pleasure to sit down with Clybourne Park director Pam MacKinnon this week for the paper of rec…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:05AMAn audacious theatremaker has provided audiences with a tongue-in-cheek audio guide to someone else's production. Cue outrageForget the antics of Anonymous or LulzSec or even News Internatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMThe middle of NYC, also known as Times Square, is now like the Wild West. Instead of gunslingers, we’ve got street teams peddling Broadway tickets, stand-up comedy tickets, photos wi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMDavid Cromer's new production of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent began April 27 in Chicago for a run through June 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Additional casting has been announced for Red Bull Theater's upcoming reading of Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig's adaptation of George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMPlays by Bekah Brunstetter and Neil LaBute are among the works that will be presented in IAMA Theatre Company's one-act festival IAMAFest 2012, to take place May 18-June 10 at the Worki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:54AMHugh Jackman, Elena Roger, Jan Maxwell, Ricky Martin and the Broadway production of Newsies were among the nominees for the 2012 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMFuerza Bruta, previously seen at London's Roundhouse in 2006 when it re-opened that venue after a refurbishment and was subsequently seen at Off-Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre, is to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMShuler Hensley, who won Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier Awards for his performance as Jud Fry in Trevor Nunn's revival of Oklahoma!, will temporarily join the cast of …
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Second Stage’s production of Lonely, I’m Not, which opened May 7, has extended its run at off-Broadway’s Second Stage by one week. The production will now…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:44AMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you sp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMTelevision producers in Wales have welcomed a recommendation that the Welsh government should explore ways to "work more effectively with Channel 4" to support independent companies.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AMThe Off-Broadway production of Voca People, at New World Stages, welcomed Police Academy star and "the man of 10,000 sound effects" Michael Winslow for his first performance with t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMComedian Rufus Hound is set to star in Utopia, the latest artistic collaboration between Newcastle’s Live Theatre and Soho Theatre.
Hound, star of television panel shows such as Neve…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:36AMChad Ryan will star in a 20th anniversary production of David Drake's The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me in Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMLuis Valdez is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today. His internationally renowned and Obie award winning theater company, El Teatro Campesi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:33AMGlitterati Productions and Pride Films and Plays will present a new, 20th anniversary edition of David Drake's The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me starring Chad Ryan from June 20-July 1 at…
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:18AMLucas Papaelias, who is featured in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Once, has joined the line-up for the 17th annual Lower East Side (LES) Festival of the Arts, to run Friday May 25 thro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:17AMIn this remarkable comeback gig, one of comedy's great survivors demonstrates her superbly polished style – and her fearless honestyTitle: Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I WantDate: 1999Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMA decade after taking Broadway by storm in “Urinetown,” Spencer Kayden is back in New York with a Tony nomination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMFollowing last year's successful events, sound specialist suppliers Sennheiser UK has announced the dates of its 2012 integrated systems seminars.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMCasting has been announced for The Active Theater's upcoming production of Jennie Contuzzi's Body Language, which will begin previews May 25 at The Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMPLASA has announced that its third annual Rigging Conference will take place on September 10-11 at the Earls Court Conference Centre, London, running alongside the PLASA 2012 trade show.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMAfter a successful run in 2006, Fuerza Bruta will return to London's Roundhouse for a limited run from December 27 through January 26, with a press opening set for January 2.
The all-s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMLinda Lavin stars as Rita Lyons, the indomitable matriarch of a dysfunctional family at a major crossroads. Her husband is dying, her son is in a dubious relationship, her daughter is barely…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMMeet the Team of OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES (Again with the Deli)
http://www.oldjewstellingjokesonstage.com
The cast and creative team of OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES introduce their show to the pre…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:04AMMagic Theatre is set to present the world premiere of Bruja by Luis Alfaro, May 24-June 24.
Bruja, a reimagining of Euripides' Medea, is a haunting contemporary story that explodes one…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AMThe new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, by the English National Opera in London, features innovative projection designs created by Nina Dunn of Knifedge, the London W1-based, dig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:02AMTheatre producer Andrew Fishwick, who was jailed in 2010 for abusing the government’s Gift Aid scheme, has been appointed executive director at the new Park Theatre in Finsbury Park.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:01AMWe’re back at Ghost the Musical with James George Brown III who has been in more shows than we can count! He’s also a super talented fashion designer…and a really smart psy…
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I know several of the artists involved in this. It’s definitely where I’d be tonight if I didn’t have a book to finish! Plus it’s FREE! AMERICA-IN-PLAY invites you to…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:58AMEvery day is Mother’s Day on Broadway, where more than a dozen matriarchs are currently asserting their authority on stage in plays and musicals. Just for fun, we gathered some of our …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMThe Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward's School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, opened recently with a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, unveil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMA question-and-answer review with the director Pam MacKinnon, who is a Tony Award nominee for her work on Bruce Norris’s play “Clybourne Park.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:50AMNominations for the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards were announced on Monday, May 7 by New York Post Theater columnist Michael Riedel at a reception at the historic Lamb's Club. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMThis summer, audiences across North America will experience the magic of fire-breathing dragons that soar through arena skies in DREAMWORKS' HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON LIVE SPECTACULAR. DreamW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMLet me begin by dropping a few names: Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith, Stan Lee, and Harry Jay Knowles. If these names resonate with you, then you probably want to make your way to see Comic-Con Ep…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMBill Mootos has a gas as Blake Pfeil looks on. Photos: Andrew Brilliant.When it comes to Little Shop of Horrors, the doo-wop musical based on the cult Roger Corman film of the same nam…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:45AMElizabeth A. Davis is the kind of woman who sets goals, writes them down and puts them on the fridge. It just makes sense.
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Broadway bio-musical to open in September
SOURCE: Variety at 09:44AMToday is Fred’s birthday. For all the dope on his vaudeville beginnings go here. And here he is in a sparking number from Broadway Melody of 1940 with Eleanor Powell: To find out more …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:43AMNBC has released a new photo from its upcoming new comedy series 1600 PENN as well as an official synopsis of the show.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMStage and screen actor Cheyenne Jackson, recently seen in the live episode of "30 Rock," has released the first single from his upcoming EP.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:39AMAssociate Artist of the Albany theatre, Inua Ellams, tells A Younger Theatre about his experience of creating theatre among the elements. As always, it begins with a leap of faith. To write …
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D.C. regionals give new work its due
SOURCE: Variety at 09:29AMOn Monday, May 21, Private Practice star TAYE DIGGS will share the hosting duties with Ripa. RampB superstar Robin Thicke chats with the hosts and performs for the LIVE audience.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:26AMDominic Chianese will star in a reading of Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are (if you think you are), to be presented by Theatre East at O'Lunney's on Tuesday, May 29 at 6pm.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMTelevision stars Larry Storch ("F-Troop") and Marie Wallace ("Dark Shadows") will join forces June 24 for a reading of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters to benefit Manhattan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMNordoff Robbins, the national specialist music charity, has announced today that Jessie J and Andrew Lloyd Webber will reunite as they both win 2012 Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards.The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:16AMSecond Stage Theatre has extended the world premiere production of Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not through June 3.
Directed by Trip Cullman, the production features Topher Grace, Oli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMMy gut tells me "no," because I feel his re-election is absolutely crucial for the future of the country. Although perhaps I should really say, "if the country is to have a future;" I'm not …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:11AMObie Award-winning playwright/performer David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) will bring his latest theatrical creation, Tawny Valentine, to Provincetown this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:10AMAndrew Garfield’s Biff, in “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway, is just the latest in a string of conflicted, richly complex characters this 28-year-old actor has played in his short but…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:08AMAdditional honorees have been announced for Career Transition for Dancers' 27th Anniversary Jubilee, entitled JUMP FOR JOY A Dance Variety Spectacular. The event will be held at New Yor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:03AM50-year stage veteran Mike Nussbaum shines in 2-man drama
"Freud's Last Session" is no "King Lear." And there is nothing in the air to suggest that Mike Nussbaum is slowing down his busy sl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:01AMThe Kennedy Center presents the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company production of three traditional Kyogen works in the Terrace Theater from May 17-19, 2012. Last seen at the Kennedy Center in 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
"I'm very stubborn. Still am. But I always worked hard but I do think I work harder now because of h[Gene Kelly's] and Fred Astaire's teaching." Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMI don't deny I'm having to be dragged hollering and screaming into the computer age. But with reference to your article Court ruling bites YouTube (p13, April 26), surely for a major interne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMAldwych Theatre, London: After the long-running film-to-stage adaptation of Dirty Dancing and the recent Midnight Tango, which both played at the Aldwych, Top Hat, another movie musical, has…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Loving and being loved - we're told in The Real Thing - is "so unliterary". So Tom Stoppard's drama, revolving around Henry, a vain and p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMImagine an African duo with the comic skills of The Two Ronnies or Morecambe and Wise taking on Shakespeare, and you will get some idea of how funny this production is. Denton Chikura and To…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:25AMSky's new head of drama, Anne Mensah, has revealed she is hunting large-scale series that can "lead the way" and teach the "Americans a thing or two" about television production.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMA theatre production company that has staged shows across the UK and internationally has gone into liquidation owing almost £500,000.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMAnthony Hopkins Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: It is over 30 years now since the epic failure of the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along that ran for just 16 performanc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMAs unassailable as television actress Nicole Ari Parker is as the wounded Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, Emily Mann's production of A Streetcar Named Desire leaps like it was hit with a cat…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:04AM
This summer will mark the arrival of the 6th annual Chicago Dancing Festival — the weeklong summertime celebration that showcases world class companies from Chicago and beyond, and fills t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:56AMPresident Obama welcomed guests to the East Room at the White House tonight, May 9, for the In Performance at the White House series. The program honored Burt Bacharach and Hal David, legend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09AMDirector / Event Producer / Executive Coach Brooklyn, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Visual arts: museum or galleries; plus, I dabble in watercolor, create found-object coll…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMWhen Mark Hammond, programming director of the Sony Centre, visited China on a talent-scouting mission, he was looking for something innovative and exciting. The act that caught his attentio…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMCat Lemieux in Heretics of Bohemia in this magnificent shot by Tristan Brand showing the melting of performer and puppet for the Joseph Shragge script.(Read our review)(Read Joseph Shragge's…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMA star emerged last weekend. It happened during Hot Docs, the documentary film festival that, for 11 days, ending last Sunday, had crowds hurrying from the renovated Bloor Street Cinema, to …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIt is 1917. Alice Paul has been arrested for leading her group of women in picketing the White House. Two generations after Susan B. Anthony's efforts, they still want the vote. They carry s…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe Runner Stumbles is at its essence a story of forbidden love encased in a murder mystery. Loosely based on real events (the details of which sound fascinating), a priest is accused of kil…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTony Award winner Deanna Dunagan, the Chicago star who played the strained, cancerous and addicted matron Violet Weston in Broadway's August: Osage County, is Madame Armfeldt in Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAshley Spencer (Grease, Priscilla...) joins the cast of Broadway's Rock of Ages in the role of Sherrie beginning May 10 at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Daniel Davis stars as Prospero in the Hartford Stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which begins performances May 10 under the direction of Darko Tresnj…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1838 John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), perhaps the most infamous actor in American history, is born today. The son of actor Junius Brutus Booth, and brother of actors Junius Brutus Booth Jr. an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Akhtar's play to get fall run
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