Title and Deed, Will Eno’s new one-man play starring Conor Lovett, opens May 20 at off-Broadway’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre in the Pershing Square Signature Center. The Sig…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42PMBEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese conglomerate has announced it will buy U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion to create the world's biggest movie theater operator....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:40PM“Old Jews Telling Jokes,” based on a popular Web site, affectionately recycles humor from a rich tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Title and Deed” is Will Eno’s Beckettian meditation on loneliness and home, in which a nameless traveler narrates his quest to find connections in an unknown country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThis rollicking revue at the Westside Theatre has patrons chortling at some familiar, but still hilarious material.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMConor Lovett gives a compelling performance in WIll Eno's new solo piece.
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Susan Charlotte's play about two old friends is too full of dramatic gimmickry.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM"I don't need to be busy. I need to be necessary!" is one of the most powerful lines I have ever heard in a play. Brilliantly delivered by Margaret Colin, in Manhattan Theatre Club's product…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:53PMQuite possibly one of the most engrossing, unique, emotionally charged plays of the season. Throw away all your theatrical pretense and spend 90 minutes immersed in a battle over John.…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 09:50PM
Is the title accurate? And is the show funny? The answer to both of these is a resounding yes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMUniversality takes on a vicious double meaning in Title and Deed, the new play by Will Eno that just opened at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Signature Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51PMThe Next Wave festival - a look at up and coming artists from around Australia, with a significant international component - is now in full swing, illuminating all sorts of hidden corners of…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 08:48PMSinger and songwriter Robin Gibb, who was part of the Bee Gees with his brothers Maurice and Barry, has died of cancer at age 62.
A top-selling group through much of the 1970s and 1980s, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:08PMJewish Books Cooking, a new musical based on Jewish-themed childrens books and created and directed by award-winning composer and author Elizabeth Swados, premieres at The JCC in Manhattan t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:03PMA new touring version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” is set to embark on a headlining tour of UK arenas later this year. The new production will star Tim Minchin as …
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Here’s the funny thing about Art, Yasmina Reza’s much-produced comic drama about three men and a painting: It’s truly a matter of perspective. A director can go serious wit…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:45PMPittsburgh CLO has announced casting for its summer season, which includes six shows, featuring the national tours of Come Fly Away and The Addams Family, and CLO original productions of A C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMPeter and the Starcatcher, at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson TheatreGratuitous Violins rating: ***1/2 out of ****Sure, I like plays that weigh in on serious subjects. But every once in awhile, i…
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 06:11PMTim Tebow posed for a photo backstage with cast members of the Broadway music "Rock Ages" ... and then asked for that photo to be taken off Twitter ... this according to one of the cast memb…
SOURCE: TMZ at 06:08PMTime Circus offers its guests performance art, spiritual retreat and camping in the woods rolled into one, writes Alexander Gilmour
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 06:01PMThe New Victory Theater has announced programming for its 2012-13 season, which will feature productions in its home on 42nd Street, as well as neighboring theaters.
First up will be the U.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMThe U.S. premiere of I, Malvolio, a personal look at Shakespeare's puritan killjoy, as well as the opera The Firework Maker's Daughter and The Mark of Zorro, will play midtown Manhat…
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Thank You, Dr. Herbert
If you are lucky, you have a teacher who changed your life. This is video of the moment Dr. Herbert changed mine.
What you're seeing is a break from a Brick Pri…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:25PMIt’s easy to label any show about the Great Depression as a timely revival. The Finborough Theatre recently presented Arthur Miller’s unrelentingly pessimistic verbatim play The American…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMRather than the party that the title promises, we are presented with a gathering that stinks of second best. In Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s 1977 suburban comedy, a bizarre gathering of…
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Jekyll and Hyde is a favourite musical for a lot of people, including myself, so it’s a brave move to take something so firmly set in the Victorian era and bring it into the twenty-first …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52PMIn a time of job losses and economic uncertainly, it is easy to see how The Hairy Ape, a play that is basically a rant against the ruling classes, has resurfaced. Eugene O’Neill is perhaps…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:44PMWhen I arrived, in 1998, to work at Children’s Theatre Company, the largest children’s theater in the United States, I knew very little about the field of Theater for Young Audiences. I …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PMYoung Lin-Manuel Miranda . . . The Pushcart War
My video book report on The Pushcart War, by Jean Merrill, in 3rd grade, circa 1988, for Janice Wells' class. On camera? Luis Miranda. O…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:22PM1. I was a finalist at O'Neill for my play Where You Can't Follow. If you work at a lit office and I haven't sent it to you already please let me know if you want to read it.&nbs…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:20PMIt’s been said that English plays are all about class, while American plays are about property. Well, that’s certainly the case in Patrick Marber’s 1995 play After Miss Jul…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 04:10PMMDQ Tour Rocks Seattle, WA - See You Later Alligator
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" plays "See You Later Alligator" at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle, WA.
F…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:02PMA song-and-dance show about obesity and mental illness? Epidemic could pull in big audiences – and improve their healthIn a chilly, high-windowed room, a young man is being pursued by four…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM
Good news comes along too rarely to let it go without comment, so here’s a bit. Last 31 December, President Barack Obama signed a piece of legislation to warm Home Secretary Orbison…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:57PMOF GOOD TURNS AND SCREWINGS All emotional reaction comes filtered through prerequisite knowledge: the sound of a crying baby is annoying, unless it’s your baby, in which case that soun…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:41PMAccording to gossip reported by the New York Daily News, Bono approves of references to Bono, specifically the song I Am Africa from Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON, which the star saw last we…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:31PMThis trio—whose shows include The Book of Mormon (Bobby Lopez) and Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)—will discuss working in the musical theater today, from their days as classm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:30PMAn Officer and a Gentleman, directed by Simon Philips and co-written by Douglas Day Stewart and composer and lyricist team Ken Hirsch and Robin Lerner with choreographer Andrew Hallsworth an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMHappy Birthday, Judy Kuhn Kuhn made her Broadway debut was in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She then played Cosette in the 1987 multiple award winning Broadway production of Les Misrables brou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMTHE 2ND NOMINATIONS BALLOT FOR THE JKTS AWARDS CLOSES TODAY AT 8PM!CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR NOMINATIONS!Well, two and half years ago, when I started this blog, I was really doing it most…
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According to a report by BBC News, Andrew Lloyd Webber will follow his ITV talent show SUPERSTAR with a new musical about Stephen Ward, who was linked to the Profumo scandal in the '60s that…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMAs a follow-up to their very first Lazy Sunday SNL Digital Short, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell have revealed Lazy Sunday 2 in which they visit Broadway's SISTER ACT. Watch the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMThe revival of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING will play its final performance today, May 20, 2012. The 50th Anniver…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMLocal high school students took part in the musical theater-based Gershwin Awards in Chelsea on Saturday.
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:09AMThis one is for the Actors out there. I’ve given out Audition Tips for Actors on this blog before, and now it’s time for you to hear it from a true audition expert. Rachel Hoff…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Legit Reviews||Regional:
The reality show craze has now has inspired a terrific new American musical.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57AMThis sketchy play by Susan Charlotte on serious issues that women face is given an anemic treatment, despite the talent of two of its protagonists.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:57AMThere is something delightful about the spirit that sometimes embodies a local community theatre where many performers and crewmembers work hard all week at their day jobs and then spend cou…
SOURCE: thepeoplescritic.com at 09:51AMWill Eno's tender "Title and Deed" gets a solid American premiere at the Signature Theater, starring Conor Lovett.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:48AMThis slight revue of Borscht Belt gags, featuring comic veterans Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman, and Lenny Wolpe, is like spending time with a favorite uncle.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:44AMOn March 31, 1960, Gore Vidal’s political drama, The Best Man, premiered on Broadway. The play was set in two posh hotel suites at a national political convention, as one presidential cand…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Legit News:
Chamberlain also on board for Geffen show
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47AMMatt is an Idiot (on tour)! #6
Have you ever wanted to know what REALLY happens when a Broadway show goes on tour? No, I'm not talking about what kind of reviews they get or if audience…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:39AMToday is Cher’s birthday! Her first #1 solo hit majorly captured my imagination when I was a kid, although I was naturally oblivious to the sexual aspects, which I learned to appreciat…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:36AMOval House, LondonWill learning to say "Haargh" very loudly like a pirate further the cause of feminism? The creators of this playful oddity clearly think it's a step in the right direction …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 20 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMHow To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying closes on Broadway today. I'm sad to see it go. It has a lovely score, some of the best (and best looking) dancers on Broadway, and great mer…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:00AM
By Steven Jamail (Composer and MD) I love a good, clean, straight-toney, riff-tastic pop voice. I live for it. I want it on my IPhone, I want it on my radio and I even want it on my Broadway…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:15AMFOLLIES IN HOLLYWOOD Follies has always been a fabulous musical. It may not be Stephen Sondheim‘s greatest musical, but it is the Stephen Sondheim musical that his admirers most desper…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:11AMA Helpful List of Opportunities for Twenty-Somethings Who Want to Direct by Hunter Bird (Director) So, many of you fellow 20-something directors may find yourself in the same boat I’m in. …
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Killing CuriousityStaging Britten's brilliantly dark pieceby Joel IvanyIt is a curious story.Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera, The Turn of the Screw, opened in 1954 at Teatro La Fenice in …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:04AMLarry Kramer (photo by David Shankbone via Wikipedia)Hollywood is a four-letter townThe long and winding road of Pulitzer- and Oscar-nominated writer Larry Kramer’s controversial play The …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMFrom one-woman (in every sense of the word) FRINGE show to true team effortHow this remount changes everythingby Michaela di CesareI was asked how the input of a new director, Tamara Brown, …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMWill Eno's Title and Deed, a new solo play about a mysterious traveler, opens in its American premiere May 20 following previews from May 8 as part of Signature Theatre Company's sea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMHaving It AllA guide to holding on to the creature comfortsby Cameryn MooreA couple of weeks ago I wrote about the little creature comforts of my home turf, stuff that I was going to miss wh…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThis month we watch John Malkovich in "Being John Malkovich," Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in "Victor Victoria," a TV version of Rodgers & Hart's "Deares…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCause Célèbre, in association with Mary J. Davis, presents the world premiere of She's of a Certain Age, written by award-winning playwright Susan Charlotte, opening May 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe seventh annual Stella by Starlight gala, a celebration to benefit the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, is held May 20 at the Players Club in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Black Ensemble Theater presents Jackie Taylor's The Marvin Gaye Story (Don't Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend), officially opening May 20, following previews that be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOld Jews Telling Jokes, which is co-created by Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent, officially opens May 20 following previews that began May 1 at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNorm Lewis, a 2012 Tony nominee for his performance in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, joins Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices for special concerts May 20-21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe staff of the Worldwide Wicket Company clears their desks May 20 when the Tony Award-nominated revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starring Nick Jonas, ends its B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1919 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse call this Kissing Time at London's Winter Garden Theatre. Ivan Caryll provides the music for this tale of complications arising when French ladies carr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThere's something quintessentially American about The Orange Person, a celebration of individuality, small town life, and joyful story-telling created by Jeremy Bloom, Laura Dunn, and Brian …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM 
