Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:49PMPlaywright Vanessa Claire Stewart and actor French Stewart reveal the softer side of Buster Keaton in Stoneface. It premieres Friday night at Sacred Fools Theater. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMThe Pirate King (Sean Arbuckle) celebrates his position as the head of a rag-tag band of swashbucklers. The Pirates of Penzance is just one of 14 magnificent productions that make up the 60t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:22PMThe Pirates of Penzance | "Major-General's song" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Major-General Stanley (C. David Johnson) rhymes off the many reasons that he is a para…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:22PMMabel Stanley (Amy Wallis) takes pity on Frederic (Kyle Blair), who has just left the Pirates of Penzance to build a respectable life for himself. The Pirates of Penzance is just one of 14 m…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:22PMCymbeline | "A manacle of love" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Princess Innogen (Cara Ricketts) meets in secret with her husband, Posthumus (Graham Abbey), who has been b…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:22PMJeff Talbott's shadowy Off-Broadway comedy The Submission, for which the playwright received the 2011 Laurents/Hatcher Award and the 2012 Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, will ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:20PMCheck out a special edition of Broadway-bound Constantine Maroulis'Unofficial Idol Forum on Fuse, featuring Season 8 winner Kris Allen, who has just released his new album, Thank You Camelli…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PM"Posh off!" was the headline in The Sun when, in the wake of the last Budget, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries described her own Prime Minister and Chancellor as "two arrogant posh boys" who d…
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By Byrne Harrison
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I am 44 years old and…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:55PMAccording to published reports, Broadway playwright Henry Denker passed away on May 15 from lung cancer. He was 99 years old.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:50PMJulie Martell in Ragtime (photo credit: Emily Cooper)Two Guys, Five Days, Five Playsby Stuart MunroStarting this Friday, fellow CharPo contributor Dave Ross and myself will be heading into t…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:39PMBy Byrne Harrison
Daniel Durkin is a New York-based director, video designer, producer and writer. Directing Credits: "I Loved Sam Stone" (The Tank); :Sticks and Bones," Daria Tavana’s …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:32PMOn May 21, Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presented George Bernard Shaw's IN GOOD KING CHARLES'S GOLDEN DAYS his outrageous comedy of royal manners at The Players Club 16 Gramercy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PMAfter two nights of aging productions, next up was "La Traviata" in a new production by Jean-Francois Sivadier from earlier this season. As massively different from those traditional staging…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:25PMTom 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 06:21PMO'SullivanTORONTO: Performances continue tonight of Lost in Yonkers presented by the Harold Greenberg Jewish Theatre and starring Happy Days mom, Marion Ross. Performances were put on hold s…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 06:21PMWorking Artists Theatre Project, in association with chashama, heats up the streets of Broadway this June with OPEN CALL This free and interactive event invites audiences to attend a uniquel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19PMFresh from the moth balls of the previous evening's "Salome", night two of my brief Vienna trip was "Il Barbiere di Sivilia" in a production that is, if you can believe it, even older. Some …
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:19PMTony Award winning actresssinger Victoria Clark is currently co-starring in Follies at the Ahmanson in the complex role of Sally Durant Plummer. In our chat, she talks about Follies, Sondhei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMBroadwayWorld'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 06:16PMBy Byrne Harrison
Actor/writer/producer Amanda Johnson is originally from Seattle where she earned a degree in drama from University of Washington. She began her career performing at Walt…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:10PMJames Lecesne
Producers of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man just announced that Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Academy Award winner James Lecesne will…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 06:07PMAlan Menken and Harvey Fierstein on Newsies (Full Episode)
Original tape date: May 4, 2012.
First aired: May 19, 2012.
Our focus is Newsies, the crowd-pleasing musical nominated for 8 Ton…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:04PMONCE: The most Tony-nominated show of 2012!
Now winner for BEST MUSICAL for the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama League Awards and a to…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:02PMDuke of York's, LondonWith even a Tory attacking the "arrogant, posh boys" who run her party, now seems a good time to revive Laura Wade's 2010 play.It has undergone a good deal of revision …
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Clybourne Park will be able to enjoy the summer sun for a few more weeks. Bruce Norris’ award winning quasi-sequel to “A Raisin in the Sun” will now close on August 12 afte…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:53PMChicago Live! - UP Comedy Club, 230 W. North Ave. is offering 50% off the $18 ticket price to the Thursday, May 24, 7 p.m. show including guests Laurel Bellows, John Conroy, and Ke…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:50PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that on May 25, Leo Ash Evens will replace Jonathan Winsby as Phillip in Broadway's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, due to an injury. Evens will remain with the productio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMOPENING THE BLONDE, THE BRUNETTE AND THE VENGEFUL REDHEAD. Writers’ Theatre persents the tale of a thwarted housewife whose moment of heated passion sets into motion a series of events tha…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:48PMAndy Bey, Barbara Fasano, Annie Ross, and Billy Stritch will perform in England Swings: Noël Coward in Jazz, to be held at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, part of Jazz at Lincoln Cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:43PMLast night, the Godspell Cast of 2032 made their debut after the curtain call. It was one of the most special things I’ve ever seen on a Broadway stage. It was filled with lov…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 05:41PMDeborah Staples is playing a colorful role at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe. Actually, she’s playing several of themin “The Blond, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead.” Robert Hewett…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:40PMONTROEREND GOED’S “A HISTORY OF EVERYTHING” Ontroerend Goed is a Belgian company that tries to stretch the traditional definition of theater. Widely known in Europe and beyond, the en…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:40PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more informa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:36PMThe Public Theater's world premiere production of FEBRUARY HOUSE, with music and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane and book by Seth Bockley, opened last night, May 22, at The Martinson Theater. Direc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMFebruary House, the new musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley that centers around the bohemian residents of the Brooklyn Heights address of 7 Middagh Street, officially opened Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:34PMBloggers Doug Oliphant and Danielle Oliver continue their coverage of Directors Lab West 2012 with tales of tap-dancing, play-reading, and problem-solving workshops. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:32PMSterling's Upstairs at The Federal is set to present Broadway's Faith Prince and Jason Graae in the Los Angeles debut of The Prince and The Showboy, June 11.
In The Prince and The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:30PMThe Bard SummerScape production of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid will star Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage in a gender-bending turn as maidservant Toinette.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMI. The Perfect Audience Let’s you and I build the perfect audience for our new play. While we may differ on a few details, I’ll bet that our ideal audience would share some of …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:28PMIt’s hard work playing a bootlegger! That’s what Broadway.com learned when Nice Work if You Can Get It's Tony-nominated star Michael McGrath invited us into his dressing room…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMStage and screen star Patrick Wilson gave the keynote address at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, on Sunday, May 20.
Speaking to a crowd of nearly 4,000 graduates, he told the gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMThrillpeddlers are set to present Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, July 11-29 at Brava Theatre. Russell Blackwood will direct, with musical direction by Scrumbly Koldewyn.
Marat/Sade harkens …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:22PMVillage Voice asks the question, and actually gets creative answers from creative people. My favorite:
Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges:
We gotta get with the food thing.…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:21PMWhen it comes to Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire, the city of New Orleans is as much a character as Blanche or Stanley. So it fell to set designer Eugene Lee and l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMWe recently caught up with Kahane and Bockley to chat about February House, a musical based on Sherill Tippins’s book.
The post <em>February House</em> Composer Gabriel Kahane …
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:16PMThe 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially begins May 23 at the Festival Theatre with the opening night of Noel Coward's Present Laughter, directed …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMVoting 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 523 with just 11 days to go in voting
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:07PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company has extended its run of the Carlo Goldoni classic: The Servant of Two Masters, adapted by Constance Congdon. Christopher Bayes directs this commedia dell&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMNational Asian Artists Project is set to present a one-night benefit production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, June 4 at 7:30 pm at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Baayork Lee wil…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 04:55PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:53PMIt's just over a week until the 2012 Tony Awards. And my mailbox keeps filling with messages from readers wanting to know if, and when, they will be able to see the buzz-heavy shows in Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:52PMThe New York Times 05/23/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:44PMJames Lecesne will play the role of campaign manager Dick Jensen in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, replacing Michael McKean who as recently reported, was injured …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:43PMA potential superhero awaits the unleashing of his powers. Tracy Letts mourns over Moscow. A Chicago disaster is revisited. A young man misses his appointment with Goldman Sachs. Oedipus hit…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PMThe Second City is moving into the teen market, creating a new, sketch-based show performed by teenagers with an audience of teenagers in mind. The new company is to get a regular, early-eve…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMIn an industry where some years there aren’t even enough leading roles for women to fill a category—something which basically never happens to the men—nothing makes me happier than a s…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:31PMJames Lecesne will step into the role of Dick Jensen, the role regularly played by Michael McKean, in the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMWelcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMJames Lecesne will step into the role of Dick Jensen in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man beginning May 23 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Lecesne will replace Broadway vet Michael McKean, who, as …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PMYork Theatre Company presented the 8th Annual NEO 8 an acronym for New, Emerging, Outstanding on Monday, May 21, at The York Theatre at Saint Peters Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMNew York Theatre Workshop NYTW last night honored New York Theatre Workshop Board Chair Barbara Warner Howard and Disney Theatrical Group and its president Thomas Schumacher at its 2012 Spri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMStage Left Theatre, a long-established Chicago company that produces at Theater Wit in the Lakeview neighborhood, has announced its 2012-13 season. This will be Stage Left's 31st year of o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:04PMFollowing the May 22 performance of Broadway's Godspell at the Circle in the Square Theatre, the "Godspell Cast of 2032" took to the stage for a special encore performance.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Earlier this month, the 2012 Tony Awards Nominations were announced by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons. The Tony Awards will be bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway producers are scrambling to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being hit by a …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:56PMGlee Graduation Episode - Goodbye - Season 3 Finale - Full Episode Recap -POTENTiALcelebrity
Glee's episode this week, "Graduation," was the Glee season finale episode. This …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:52PMFor its Toronto debut, the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada is showing arguably its most unusual production, a ballet purposefully to highlight the social scourge of violence against women.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:52PM42nd Street | "We're in the Money" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Billy Lawlor (Kyle Blair) and his fellow cast members dazzle in the infectious toe-tapping number &q…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:51PMMuch Ado About Nothing | "End with a jade's trick" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Benedick (Ben Carlson) meets his "dear Lady Disdain," Beatrice (Deborah Ha…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:51PM42nd Street | "42nd Street" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Dorothy Brock (Cynthia Dale) sizzles in the sultry number "42nd Street" during the out-of-town tryout…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:51PM42nd Street | "Lullabye of Broadway" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Director Julian Marsh (Sean Arbuckle), actor Billy Lawlor (Kyle Blair) and the company of Pretty Lady …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:51PMBroadway gross ticket sales increased by over $2 million through the week ending May 20, a big improvement over the previous week's increase of just $28,000.
Overall ticket sales for the 37…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 03:43PMWhite Flags Project has named curator and writer Sam Korman as assistant director. Korman has worked at the Chinati Foundation in Texas, founded the alternative exhibition space Car Hole Gal…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:38PMLast month Lauren Kennedy and Nikka Graff Lanzarone introduced Into the Woods veteran "Twan Baker," their co-star in the Westport-Baltimore production of the Sondheim-Lapine musica…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMTony Award winner Leslie Uggams, who recently released her newest solo recording, "Uptown Downtown," will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox May 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMOn Twitter Watch, Pasek and Paul wrote Dogfight rehearsal with lindsaymendez and pduchan in a deep discussion
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMMUSICAL TAKES ON REALITY TV What better place than the stage to examine the phenomenon of Reality TV? One would hope that by now, Americans would be wise to the fact that these shows, whethe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:23PMFROM THE STAGE TO THE BOX: New York stage actor Colin Donnell – born and bred in Glendale – is set to round out the cast of “Arrow,” playing Tommy Merlyn in the new CW pilot based on…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:23PMBonnie & Clyde stars Melissa Van der Schyff, who received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her performance, and Claybourne Elder, a 2012 Drama Desk nominee for his per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMRoundabout 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 03:14PMBillboard.com reports that Adam Lambert's newly-released album Trespassing has climbed to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's 200 Chart.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMIn one way, the fact that all the pieces dealt with sleep and dreams was a clever if somewhat abstract idea. But listening to the concert -— the real experience —- was highly problematic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:02PMGoodspeed Musicals takes to the high seas with the new musical Amazing Grace. This tale about a slave trader who sees the light and dedicates himself to ending slavery will run through June …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMWhen I first met with Seattle Children’s Theatre a few years go to pitch adapting one of the American Girl stories, the artistic director seemed momentarily stunned by my choice. She expec…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMStuart Rogers and his Theatre Tribe are keeping alert with The Sleeper, Catherine Butterfield’s post–9/11 play, opening Friday night. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:00PM
Boy's Life: Backstage at "Peter and the Starcatcher" with Adam Chanler-Berat, Episode 6
Get tickets to "Peter and the Starcatcher": http://www.broadway.com/shows/pet…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:58PMYesterday, in a very “needy girlfriend” kind of way, I coyly posted on twitter and facebook that I was thinking of blogging again. Which wasn’t really true. At 3am that mor…
SOURCE: www.off-stage-right.com at 02:58PMThe audience of Godspell may have been rubbing their eyes on May 22, when a pitch perfect mini version of the cast took the stage for a very special post-show reprise! Young Danny Ward led t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMThis is another in the line up of ill-advised plays “based on a true story,” but it is easy to see the why the authors were tempted. In 1940-41 George Davis (Julian Fleisher) found a ch…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:55PMAs we told you a few days ago, The Maestrosities, a.k.a. the Coolest Band in the World are starting a new web series and they need your help! Just one more day to go, and they are just shy o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:50PM The Fourth Annual Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards ceremony will be held June 4 starting at 6 p.m. at the Palace Theatre in Waterbury.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:49PMNew Yorks cabaret community just came together to celebrate the legacy of its late great impresario Donald F. Smith in a free public concert. Donald F. Smith, Executive Director and Founder …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMView members of the cast at yesterday's Barnes amp Noble cast recording performance and signing below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:46PMBeyond Broadway: "February House"
Get tickets to "February House": http://www.broadway.com/shows/february-house/
For a brief period in the 1940s, eccentric book editor …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:46PMGary Tiedemann is a founding ensemble member of The New Colony in Chicago. Recent performances: FRAT, Hearts Full of Blood (Chicago, New York), That Sordid Little Story, and Pancake Breakfas…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:46PMAs 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 02:43PMNational Asian Artists Project will present a staged reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical Carousel June 4 at 7:30 PM at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMBattlefield America - Exclusive Official Dance Scene - Movie Dance Battle - 2012 (HD)
An exclusive full dance scene from the upcoming Battlefield America dance movie. Check out this Battle…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:37PMMiG Ayesa will return to his native Manila to star for 14 performances as Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza Makati, June 15-July 8.
The internationa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMBrad Oscar ( Broadway’s “The Producers”) will be Tevye and Joanna Glushak (Broadway's "Sweet Smell of Success," tour of "Young Frankenstein") will be Golde in “Fi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:26PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Neil Diamond, Reba McEntire, Fantasia-Mantasia, Nelly Furtado, Jordin Sparks, Gloria Gaynor, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and John Fogerty will be among the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:23PMPatrice Miller is a theater maker. She is the resident choreographer and sits on the board of Untitled Theater Company #61, wherein she regularly works with Edward Einhorn and Henry Ako…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:22PMZachary Fernebok will tell you unequivocally that fantasy is his genre of choice. Drawing inspiration as much from cult-classic video games like the Monkey Island series as dramatists like G…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:09PMSinger, actor and former Playbill Video correspondent Leo Ash Evens, who played Riff in West Side Story at London's Sadler's Wells, will make his Broadway debut May 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PMThe League of American Orchestras and Association of Performing Arts Presenters announce the relaunch of Artists from Abroad — the most complete and up-to-date online resource for en…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:00PMTop Hat, a stage version of the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film of the same name, is now playing at the West End's Aldwych Theatre. Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen star in the musical …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMFor years the Coterie Theatre has pushed the boundaries of acceptability when it comes to what a children's theater can and can't do.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PM
Manhattan Theatre Club will celebrate artistic director Lynne Meadow's 40th anniversary as the visionary and artistic leader of the organization with a special tribute June 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMAdam Lambert, who appeared in the musical Wicked, has topped the Billboard 200 chart with his new CD, Trespassing, according to reports.
Lambert's second studio album -- following For…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMAudrey introduces her cats and "Yetta." Join cast members Bill Army and Audrey Lynn Weston for an all-access, backstage pass to the New York City production of OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES at the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:53PMAiley gets audiences begging for more More than any other major dance company, the world famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater attracts an audience looking for a fun night on the town.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMAs travelers jet off for the Memorial Day weekend, American Airlines will host a special performance from Broadway's newest hit, GHOST, at Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMMorgan Freeman and Elie Wiesel will receive Lincoln Medals at the Ford's Theatre Annual Gala on Sunday, June 3. The black-tie evening will be followed by a seated dinner at the National…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMThis week’s Between Shows is an exhibit of some of Al Hirschfeld’s legendary drawings of New York theatre. The exhibit, “Al Hirschfeld, Characterist,” is at the Society of Illustrato…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:45PMFollowing an afternoon of open-call auditions for kids last month in which more than 500 kids ages six to 16 were seen, the creative and producing team of GODSPELL selected five boys and fiv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMEduardo Placer takes over the role of Angel in the American Theater Company (ATC) and About Face Theatre co-production of Jonathan Larson's Rent, currently performing at ATC. He replace…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:41PMPlaywrights Foundation presents Des Voix…Found in Translation: A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation featuring plays by Marion Aubert, Nathalie Fillion, and Samu…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:36PMOff-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons has announced participating artists for its annual Spring Gala on Monday evening, June 11 at the event space 583 Park Avenue.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:34PMSheffield CrucibleIn every beginning lurk the seeds of an ending. Harold Pinter's 1978 play, inspired by his own affair with Joan Bakewell, starts with ex-lovers meeting two years after thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMA new biographical stage production about the late rapper Tupac Shakur is expected to premiere in January at the Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago. The show, written by Lyle Miller, is title…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:27PMNative Voices at the Autry, America’s leading Native American theatre company, continues its tradition of excellence, developing works by new and established Native American playwrights at…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:25PMMusicals Tonight! has announced an update for its 2012-2013 season, to be presented at the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row.
The season will now open with Cole Porter's Red, Hot and Blue, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:21PMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards: The 68th annual THEATRE WORLD AWARDS will be held Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at The Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44th Street, NYC.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:17PMAcademy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson, who last seen on Broadway in The Mountaintop, will host the 2012 BET Awards, which will air live July 1 from the Historic Shrine Auditorium in Los An…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMSadler's Wells, LondonIn the late 1980s, most young choreographers were addressing the rigours of minimalism or the politics of dance theatre. Matthew Bourne, however, was already a mav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMThe stand-up veteran, actor, writer and creator of TV’s Louie will perform “all new material” in four concerts in Toronto
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:05PMThe first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, “One Good Break,” a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn’t be more apt as the theme behind the show’s creation. For mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMWe tend to think we are completely different than people used to be, that the world is completely different. it's one of the reason I love historical sports footage. There's always an intr…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 01:04PMTheater veterans Michael McKean, David Selby, and Peter Weller are among the actors who will lend their voice to the upcoming two-part animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1986 graphic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMCulturalDC is set to present 24 original works for the stage as part of its fifth Source Festival, running June 8-July 1 at Source.
The line-up will feature three full-length plays includin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMOriginal The Book of Mormon cast members Michael James Scott and Asmeret Ghebremichael joined forces for Fingerlickin' Fierce May 14 at the Canal Room.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMMike Nichols has won every major entertainment award over a decades-long career that included theater, comedy, television and film. He returned to Broadway with a revival of Death of a Sales…
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New York Theatre Workshop presented its 2012 spring gala, honoring board chair Barbara Warner Howard, Thomas Schumacher and Disney Theatrical Group, May 22 at the Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMTheater Breaking Through Barriers will present its second annual play festival More of Our Parts, June 21-July 1 at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre.
More of Our Parts features six short …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMThe world premiere of Noah Haidle's Smokefall will appear in South Coast Repertory's first season under new artistic director Marc Masterson. A second new play in the 29th season wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMHead over to Times Square for a look at Tony treasures from past and present years.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 12:48PMThis production brings the spirits of a community of artists back to life with immense originality, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:39PMAudaciously staged with a running track through the audience, this adaptation makes a fine Olympic-season project, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:39PMSteven McRae's obsessive hero is the most outstanding element in a well-nigh perfect production, Clement Crisp writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMSteven McRae’s obsessive hero is the most outstanding element in a well-nigh perfect production, Clement Crisp writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMBroadwayWorld has confirmed that the revival of GODSPELL on Broadway, despite a lack of Tony nominations, will make an appearance on the 2012 broadcast to perform a selection from the musica…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMMCC Theater today announced that Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute has written an all new shorts series, The Heart of the Matter, for four special benefit performances that will take place…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:37PMTony Award winners Kristin Chenoweth and Jennifer Holliday will be among the artists performing on the season 11 finale of FOX's American Idol to air on Wednesday, May 23, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMEdinburgh-based Black Light has confirmed its schedule of summer training courses, which has two new additions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMBetween his starring role as composer Tom Levitt in NBC's Broadway-centric Smash and his scene-stealing, Tony-nominated performance as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, Chr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMLighting and sound rental company, Entec, recently provided lighting, rigging, sound equipment, pyrotechnics, video, trucking and crew for shows by Japanese rockers L'Arc~en~Ciel at Le Zenit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards will be held Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at The Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44th Street, NYC. The 2 pm by-invitation-only ceremony will also include presentati…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMAC Entertainment Technologies Ltd's audio division will be hosting two dedicated open day events in conjunction with Yamaha to showcase the manufacturer's new CL series of digital mixing con…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PMPlaywrights Horizons has announced the performers for its annual Spring Gala, entitled "The Highest Standard," to be held on Monday evening, June 11 at the event space 583 Park Ave…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMThe creme de la creme of the cabaret world turned out in full force May 22 at The Town Hall to pay tribute to the late Donald Smith, the cabaret impresario who was the founder and executive …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMNorthamptonshire-based Unusual Rigging has added more than £1 million of stock to its rental inventory, including chain hoists, truss and control.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMIt may not sound like much, but take my word for it. An elderly man reciting the lyrics of “Ol’ Man River” in a Yiddish accent is one of the funniest things to be found on …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 12:26PMGodspell Cast of 2032
Introducing the Godspell cast of 2032! For one night only, up-and-coming Broadway stars joined the cast of Godspell on Broadway for a medley that's not to be misse…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:25PMClay Paky Sharpy fixtures, from Las Vegas-based Morpheus Lights, have been sprucing up Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball world tour, giving the stage show a look that The Boss's previous con…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMThe Broadway event of a lifetime you have been waiting for has arrived. Yes, Disney’s Newsies, the downright failure musical film from 1992, has been turned into a stage production, fi…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 12:20PMThe Heart of the Matter, a collection of short plays by Reasons to Be Pretty Tony nominee Neil LaBute, will be presented as a benefit for MCC Theater in mid-June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:19PMAs previously announced, THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, will make its West Coast premiere in a strictly limited 12-week engagement from September…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and "American Idol" finalist Jessica Sanchez will perform a duet of the late Donna Summer's "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMShakespeare's Globe, LondonA gaunt and arthritic king totters on stage, his head a thatch of matted white hair – then, grinning, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and whisks off the wig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMPS Classics released the two-disc Broadway revival cast album of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, featuring Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, May 22. Cast members celebrated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMFewer than half of my readers reside in the United States, say my statistics; most of them appear to be from Europe, first the UK followed by France, then Germany, then the lovely towns and …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:05PMPerforming Freshwater in the writer's former home revealed a different side to the serious intellectuals who frequented 46 Gordon SquareKeynesian interpretive dance is not a familiar concept…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMRecently, I found out something absolutely shocking about one of my interns…she’s never read the amazing memoir of Broadway’s own Patti Lupone! I was floored when I heard t…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 12:00PMJohn Lithgow, who is nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Manhattan Theatre Clubs THE COLUMNIST, was a guest on Monday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. View the episode below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMReview of the Sunday, May 20 matinee performance at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Starring Charlie Brady, Erin Weaver, Harry A. Winter, with Mark Chandler, Jamie Eacker, Sh…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00PMLily Rabe will play Rosalind in "As You Like it," directed by Daniel Sullivan, for Shakespeare in the Park's 50th.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
David Alan Grier, Tony Sheldon and Leslie Uggams are among the presenters set for the 2012 Theatre World Awards on June 5 at the Belasco Theatre. The awards, which honor performers making an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMBack in the days, before Timeline on Facebook, people worshipped gods. They were divine creatures we couldn’t touch. This is how we see actors today: god-figures, creatures from another wo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMWill Smith, star of the film MEN IN BLACK 3, was a guest on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA. In an interview with Robin Roberts, the actor chatted about his daughter Willow's starring ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMPeter Dinklage, the the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning star of HBO's "Game of Thrones," will appear at the 2012 Bard SummerScape in a new production of Molière's satire "The Imaginary …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57AMThe Tony Awards will host the second annual Tony Awards Showcase at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center located on Seventh Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets. The Tony Awards Showc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMTickets for the three-week Los Angeles engagement of the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon, starring Tony nominee Gavin Creel, will go on sale to the general public June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMAn End To The Radio SilenceFor all sorts of reasons I haven't blogged in almost a week. Life has been extra hectic and busy, and here's why:9 to 5 job work is crazy I had to write 3 sep…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 11:46AMIt’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMFollowing open-call auditions attended by more than 500 kids, the creative and producing team of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell selected five boys and five girl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards will be presented June 5 at 2 PM at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMRight around grade school we’re reminded that kids are intelligent in different ways. Some will grow up to be great mathematicians, others great diplomats or chefs. And the few hanging out…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMBack Stage chats with actors from "Porgy and Bess," "One Man, Two Guvnors," "Stick Fly," "Ghost the Musical," "Once," and "End of the Rainbow."
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:30AMBarrington Stage Company's new 49-seat Mr. Finn's Cabaret will kick off its first season of performances, May 25-26 with Joe Iconis and Family.
The performance will provide an eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMStage and screen star Krysten Ritter will head the cast of MCC Theater's benefit presentation of Neil LaBute's group of short plays, The Heart of the Matter, to take place at 7pm, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMRecordings of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and Leonard Bernstein's first performance with the New York Philharmonic are among the entries added to the National Recording Re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:28AMDonald Pippin , the original music director for the Broadway production of "Mame" will offer his multi-media memoirs presentation for Goodspeed Musical members on Friday, June 8.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:26AMUglyRhino Productions has announced its plans for the 2012 summer/fall season. All programming takes place at The Brooklyn Lyceum.
The season will feature UglyRhino's ongoing monthly …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMFEBRUARY HOUSE Gypsy Rose Lee is back in a musical, alongside Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers, in a contemplative new work by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley — based…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:19AMTony Kushner, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Richard Nelson discuss the work of late playwright Arthur Miller May 23 at the 92nd Street Y.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMIt’s graduation day at McKinley High, which means that after three seasons Glee bid farewell to its senior class on the May 22 season finale, "Goodbye." We’ve got …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMNational Theatre: The Pop-up Workshop
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/insideout
Behind the scenes at the National Theatre is a hidden world of theatre-making, where plays come to life in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:16AMAn initial list of presenters has been announced for the 2012 Theatre World Awards, which are given for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performances, to be held at 2pm at Broadway…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:16AMOLD JEWS TELLING JOKES opened at off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street) on May 20 and the critics weighed in: “The jokes are delivered with surgical precision by a cast o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:06AMProducer Jordan Roth announced today that the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated Best Play Clybourne Park, now playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre, has added another 4 weeks to t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMJason Butler Harner, who stars in the Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning hit play COCK, is featured in the Associated Press. Written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James Macdonal…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:01AMIn today's The Washington Post, McKean's rep, Harriet Sternberg, reports that the actor is in stable condition and is recovering from a broken leg.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMI didn’t have to work to overhear this next exchange, because I was literally in the middle of the conversation. Spring is the season of industry events. From galas, to luncheons, to a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWith music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, the grandson of Richard Rodgers, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA fulfilled its great promise by becoming one of the most enchantingly romantic and melodically …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMBard SummerScape has announced casting for an all-male production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, to perform at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, July 13-22. As …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMTickets for "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood will go on sale to the general public starting June 10, the show's producers announced Wednesday. A daily lottery for di…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Lungs, British playwright Duncan Macmillan's play about prospective parents, gets its New England premiere starting May 23 at Barrington Stage Company's intimate St. Germain Stage in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMHow “I Am a Tree” has startled Dulcy Rogers You can’t expect to know everything about a play, even if you’re the writer and star. Just ask Dulcy Rogers, whose solo sh…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:56AMPaper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of Once On This Island, which features book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, will begin May 30 with an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMAmy Herzog's play is receiving an extended chance at capturing hearts 8 times every week downstairs at the Mitzi Newhouse E.Theatre at Lincoln Center. A tender and pensive work, the pla…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:51AMThe second annual Tony Awards Showcase, hosted by The Tony Awards at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center, will begin today, May 23 and run through The Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMBruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony-nominated play Clybourne Park has extended its run at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre by four weeks. The play, directed by Pam MacKin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:41AMThe Tony Awards is currently presenting the second annual Tony Awards Showcase at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMLegit News:
Retreat lines up development slots
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36AMA new theatre production based on BBC TV show Top of the Pops is to premiere this autumn.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMMorgan Freeman and Elie WieselTo Receive Lincoln Medals
Event Will Honor Courageous Achievement through Performance
Hosted by Scott Bakula
Appearances by Anna Christy, The Civil Wars, Bettye…
SOURCE: fords.org at 10:33AMArena Stageat the Mead Center for American Theater has announced that D.C.-area arts manager and artist David Snider will take over the role of director of artistic programming at the theate…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMAlan Alda will host the 2012 World Science Festival's May 29 gala, A Performing Arts Salute to Science, featuring James Naughton and Debra Monk, at the Allen Room.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMOne of the shows that I enjoy watching when I have some precious downtime is NCIS. It's one of those murder mystery military things that ends up doing marathons on cable every other weekend.…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMPretty vacant: Mark Morris's SocratesI've always been a fan of Mark Morris, so I was surprised as anyone that his big premieres at Celebrity Series last weekend proved so boring. …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:25AMThe Broadway run of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park will now play an extra four weeks at the Walter Kerr Theatre, with tickets now on sale through August 12.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMLegit News:
Presenter sets all-ages season
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17AMClybourne Park, the 2012 Tony Award-nominated Best Play, will stick around the Broadway neighborhood a little longer. Producer Jordan Roth announced May 23 that the Pulitzer Prize-winning co…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMA unique life? Definitely. Her stage show made her a star, but still a level-headed one.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:08AMA scathing review of the new stage musical "An Officer and a Gentleman" has prompted the show's writer to hit back in an editorial that recently ran in the Australian press.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:05AMThe recent Encores! production of Jule Styne and Leo Robin's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will release a cast album on Sony’s Masterworks Broadway label in early 2013. Smash star …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:04AMThis is written by Chris Leidenfrost-Wilson: Broadway stars Chip Zien and Jonathan C. Kaplan will be joining the group of original “Marvin Trilogy” cast members appearing at a be…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 10:04AMWendy DannHometown: Morrisville, NY Current Town: Ithaca, NY Q: What are you working on now?A: I'm writing the book for a musical called The Liberator, a project I've bee…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:03AMWatching the production of "Xanadu" now at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, makes the conversion of a notoriously bad movie musical into a blissful 90 minutes of musical theater see…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02AM"37 Plays. 37 Languages." This is the tagline for the Globe Theatre's Globe to Globe season, hosting theatre companies from every corner of the world. The season may be international in outl…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:02AMJanet Carroll, a film and TV character actress who starred as Aunt March in the 2004 Broadway musical Little Women, died May 22. She was 71.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMThe "Smash" season may be over but in the latest Downstage Center two of its stars talk about its cast, plots, and everything else you want to know about the hit show. Christian Borle and W…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:01AMToday is the birthday of the great Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939). For some on his early career, including his vaudeville background go here. And for a sample of what he did best, a snippet f…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:00AMIn the 21st century there is a lot technology on Broadway. It used to be cool to put up a flat set or a back drop and perform in front of it and voila–you had a show! These days, it ta…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
Dear Friends: There is a saying in this world that “a change is a good as a rest”. Frankly, years of club-hopping has left me unconvinced of the truth of that statement. Sometimes, reade…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:57AMBelfast's Lyric Theatre has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to tourism during its first year of operations in the newly announced Northern Ireland Tourism Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMHere’s the crap thing about The Tony Awards that you’ve probably already figured out: The people that you love don’t always win. Hell, people who fully deserve to win, and …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:52AMBroadway stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:49AMOn tonight's AMERICAN IDOL season finale, Broadway vet Kristin Chenoweth and Top 2 finalist Jessica Sanchez will perform a duet of the late Donna Summer's hit single, 'Enough is Enough'. Jen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49AMToday is the birthday of Artie Shaw, the Thinking Man’s Big Band Leader (1910-2004). The famously difficult Shaw went through 8 wives, including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. Some insig…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:49AMSam Shepard’s lost play The Tooth of Crime comes to WSC Avant Bard. Directed by Kathleen Akerley this play explores a battle of music, style, motor metaphors, and puts a unique twis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AMTo mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning 1986 musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood arrives at the Arts Theatre for a limited four-week r…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:44AMIn addition to selections from the Tony-nominated new musicals, including the uplifting Disney musical Newsies, the critically hailed screen-to-stage adaptation of Once and the new Gershwin …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:41AMThe CBC will be casting Dorothy in an Andrew Lloyd Webber production of THE WIZARD OF OZ via a live TV show, Over the Rainbow. Auditions begin in June, and the show will mount in December, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31AMAuthentic efforts to expand/diversify an audience look like this: An orchestra is trying to bring in a younger audience. It's a common problem in the classical music game. So the conductor o…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMMuch Ado About Nothing | "I pray you, tell Benedick" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Don Pedro (Juan Chioran), Leonato (James Blendick) and Claudio (Tyrone Savage) put int…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:23AMThe Broadway performers Brian d'Arcy James and Will Chase are leaving "Smash," the NBC comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical, as are Raza Jaffrey and Jaime Cepero, who played t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:17AMDespite achieving an operating surplus of almost £700,000 last year, Equity's pension scheme remains a risk to the union's finances, its treasurer has said.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMHad it only consisted of several bright colors and not every color in the rainbow with reflecting mirrors in between, dayenu.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:15AMDisney's Broadway musical "Newsies" was scheduled to close August 19, but announced on May 16 that their run will now be open-ended giving first-time showgoers more time to purchase tickets …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:15AMControversial plans to revamp Equity's democratic structure will be able to progress unimpeded, after motions enabling the radical streamlining of the organisation to proceed were passed at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMReview of regional premiere of EVERYDAY RAPTURE at the Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City
SOURCE: kcmetropolis.org at 09:12AMAs a kid in Brooklyn, Charles Fishman wanted to be a Dodger when he grew up - a Brooklyn Dodger, of course. The call of the diamond, ball and glove distracted him from his piano studies, muc…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:09AMStage and screen star Michael McKean, currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, was struck by a car while walking on the Upper West Side the afternoon of M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:03AMStage and screen star Michael McKean, currently back on Broadway in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, was struck by a car while walking on the Upper West Side the afternoon of M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMCirque du Soleil returns to Washington with TOTEM from August 15 – September 16, 2012 under the blue and yellow Big Top at the Plateau at National Harbor. Cirque du Soleil is offering…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMMaybe we should blame Joseph Alsop. When the KGB tried to blackmail the
powerful Washington columnist with a threat to reveal his homosexuality, Alsop
marched straight to the U.S. emba…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:00AM
The National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress has announced the 25 sound recordings that will be newly added to its collection, which aims to highlight the richness of the natio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:48AMTheatre by the Lake, Keswick: Perhaps it is because we expect a comedy with 'farce' in the title to be hysterically funny at all times that Stephan Escreet's production of Ala…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMIn an interview with thecraptacular.com, David Yazbek revealed that he and Jeffrey Lane have been rewriting WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ahead of a new production in London next…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46AMWednesday, May 23, 2012Latest Reviews & Features February House This musical sketchbook of Brooklyn's ar…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:41AMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge brings you video interviews and performance footage from yesterday's Once On This Island press preview at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:29AMThis musical sketchbook of Brooklyn's artistic history isn't for those whose definition of musical theater heaven is a book offering up a clearly defined plot and toe-tapping, hummable tunes…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:23AMScottish Opera is to mark its 50th anniversary season with four fully-staged, full-length operas in a programme of 11 productions playing 133 performances in 63 venues.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMTony and Drama Desk Award-Winner Roger Bart will be starring in a short film, The Last Man, making its US premiere at the NY Shorts Fest this Wednesday May 30th. Bart will star as Will, a pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:11AM303 Bond Street Theatre, Company XIV, Off Off Broadway
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: A delicious dance opera as beautiful as it is entertaining.
Despite the tides of time con…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:02AMAt Passage Theatre, "A mystery play unlike any other."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMAnne Washburn and Michael Friedman discuss their new work based on The Simpsons at Washington D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Hampstead, London: The Olympic flame is already on its way to London and the cultural countdown has also begun with the London 2012 Festival underway at venues across the capital and the res…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMIconic BBC show Top of the Pops will receive a musical theatre makeover later in the year courtesy of the producers of Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live.
Billed as a "fabulous feas…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:49AMArts, London: When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was in the middle of writing his 15th novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Fans of his work have long since been fascinated by this unfinishe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMWe're already in classic Bourne territory, with comedy masking yearning and repression, woven through with sharp movie references. For all the wit, this revival is hit and miss. At its best,…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:39AMNew Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: The New Vic's artistic director, Theresa Heskins, always relishes a challenge. By her own admission she likes to "stage the unstageable". Well, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMYou have to be a real nit-picker to find anything wrong with American Ballet Theatre's lavish production of "La Bayadere," choreography by Natalia Makarova.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:24AM"Call Me Adam" chats with "Miranda Sings" creator Colleen Ballinger about her upcoming show at Birdland on May 28, 2012 with Adam Pascal!
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AM
Empty calories don’t seem such a misguided nutritional choice when they’re served to you by a force like Erin Weaver, the vitamin-enriched musical star of Signature Theatre’s “Xanadu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:57AMMarty Lodge has something really cool to say, except he’s not allowed to say it.
“I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” he said.
Okay, fine, he will say one thing: “I’m going to be on ‘…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:57AMTonight, May 23, join the company of Godspell on Broadway as they celebrate their Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Schwartz in a one-night-only concert. Expect songs from Schwartz projec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThere is an old rule of thumb about judging the cleanliness of a restaurant’s kitchen by the cleanliness of the restrooms. I actually used this example this past weekend when discussin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AMThe Boy From Oz - Hugh Jackman - Not the Boy Next Door
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:21AMTony nominee Danny Burstein is nothing like his character in 'Follies,' Buddy Plummer. He'll perform 'The-God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues' at the awards show.There's a flicker of uncertainty…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:20AMHaving grown up in one of the flattest parts of America, I now spend as much time as I can...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe 1962 BBC telecast of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, directed by Michael Elliott and...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband." Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World...
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BEBE NEUWIRTH doesn’t do the fluffy stuff. Neuwirth’s stance makes sense to anyone who only knows her as Lilith, the icy, monotone psychiatrist and eventual wife of Kelsey Gramme…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:50AMMerle Dandridge, Adam Pascal, Sherie Rene Scott, and the cast of Newsies were among the performers at the New York Theatre Workshop gala, held at the Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, May 22.
Guests …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45AMThe Public Theater celebrated the opening night of Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical February House on Tuesday, May 22 with a post-performance party at Five Points Restauran…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39AMMatt Golden grew up on the northern shore of the Long Island that’s anchored east of New York City. After pursuing endeavors both sporting and theatrical throughout his youth, he stu…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:36AMWhen The Women’s Theatre Project leaders announced in February that they had lost their performing space in Fort Lauderdale, some pessimists feared its unique voice would slide into limbo.…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:07AMA reader wondered about the use of a certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMLighting Designer New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Nature What’s your favorite book? Open by Andre Agassi What play or production changed your life? None Is there …
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMLooks like you'll cry...Ragtime at Shaw FestAudience reactions and somepretty stirring moments from the musical.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMA reader wondered about the use a of certain tropical fruit in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher. Is there a story there? Of course there is!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWalnut Street Theatre concludes its 203rd season with an all-new production of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, opening May 23, following previews that began May 15, at the WST main…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLos Otros, Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's chamber musical touching on the Mexican-American experience, begins a world-premiere run at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe company of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell perform the songs of their Tony Award-nominated composer May 23 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMeredith Willson's The Music Man, the Americana-striped musical comedy about a corrupt salesman who charms — and is charmed by — a small town in Iowa, opens May 23 in-the-rou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAtlantic Theater Company's world-premiere production of Fernanda Coppel's play Chimichangas and Zoloft, featuring Teddy Cañez, Zabryna Guevara, Alfredo Narciso, Xochitl R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1904 The Southerners, with a score by black composer Will Marion Cook, is the first time an entire black chorus is used in a show with a white cast. Lead Eddie Leonard appears in blackface i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Midtown circus show draws labor ire
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMLegit News:
Play to run four more weeks
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMA play in the commedia dell’arte tradition of Italy from the 1700s, featuring stock characters in uncomfortable situations, is now on Broadway. But the production is not full of powdered w…
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