Producer John Forslund presented OFF THE BOOKS A Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET evening at The Duplex Piano Bar amp Cabaret, New York on May 16, with additional performance coming up on May…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:44PMJay Frisby has been playing Tom O’Brien on the national tour of “South Pacific” since September. After Kerouacing it up all over the country for nine months along with a 50-member cast…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:43PMIn a post-apocalyptic world, after the grid’s gone dead, people sit around a campfire and tell stories for entertainment.
But their tales are not classics of Greek mythology or of literatu…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:43PM“Coppelia” has long been regarded as one of the world’s most beloved story ballets, staged across the globe since its premiere more than a century ago. But in the United States in rece…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:43PMWalterdale poster artMONTREAL: Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui has rescinded its Thursday decision to forbid the wearing of the red square badge (symbolic of support for the student movement in Queb…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:42PMTwo-time Tony winner Katie Finneran will return to Broadway as tyrannical orphanage head Miss Hannigan in the upcoming revival of Annie. Directed by James Lapine, the musical begins previews…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:34PM(poster art)The Drama of The SearchLise Ann Johnson says farewell with a beautyby Jim MurchisonAnnie Baker's play Circle Mirror Transformation takes place entirely in one brick room in a Com…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:21PMThe Old Globe presents the World Premiere of Nobody Loves You, a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gaby Alter and book and lyrics by Itamar Moses set in the world of reality television.
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:11PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Katie Finneran Promises, Promises, Noises Off will star as Miss Hannigan in the new production of ANNIE, the Tony Award-winning classic musical. ANNIE opens Novemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:08PMProducer John Forslund presented OFF THE BOOKS A Cole Porter UNPUBLISHED CABARET evening at The Duplex Piano Bar amp Cabaret, New York on May 16, with additional performance coming up on May…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMBoys, LondonBoys will be boys, but these days it's harder for young guys to be carefree, according to a new play by Ella Hickson which looks at the plight of young people with huge student d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMNetia Jones and Ryan Wigglesworth, the team behind Aldeburgh's new staging of operas based on Maurice Sendak stories, talk to Andrew Clark
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:03PMPlays about media folk and creatives, such as Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show and Stella Feehily’s O Go My Man, are not uncommon in British theatre. They usually have recognisable middle-class s…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMOn Wednesday night I joined the great, the good and the odd crafty ligger at the Royal Academy, where the Queen hosted a celebration for the arts. I'm with Her Majesty on this one. There's q…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMTomorrow, London's Royal Court Theatre will hold a celebration of the life and work of Britain's greatest absurdist playwright, N F Simpson (1919 -2011). And I imagine we will hear much talk…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMYou have to hand it to the London 2012 Festival team. When they call it "a once in a lifetime experience", I rather think they mean it. In an "age of austerity", this almighty splurge is not…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
CBS has released a trailer for its new upcoming drama series MADE IN JERSEY starring Janet Montgomery and Kyle MacLauchlan. Get a sneak peek at the new series, which features Broadway favori…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMLast night, May 24, Roundabout Theatre Company opened Simon Grays The Common Pursuit, directed by Moiss Kaufman at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre Laura Pels Theatre. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:50PMKatie Finneran, who won Tony Awards for her turns in revivals of Promises, Promises and Noises Off, will play orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the new Broadway production of Annie, the prod…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:16PMMark Roberts knows Where the Great Ones Run. He has run with a few of them—in the TV industry and onstage. The Mike & Molly creator's play opens Rogue Machine's 2012 season with its …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:14PM By: Denis McKeown New York’s Metropolitan Room on West 22d Street combined Louis XIV ‘s Court music from Versailles with Cole Porter’s romance and the …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:08PMBarbara Kraft’s sensitive memoir, Anaïs Nin: The Last Days, captures the humanity, mortality and essence of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and yet mysterious literary fi…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:06PMKingsley Leggs, currently performing in Sister Act on Broadway, appears in Take Me Back - an unplugged Just a Piano Concert at The Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd Street, Monday, May 28th, 2012…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMA generation ago, the singer-songwriter Dave Alvin founded the rootsy-rock band The Blasters with his brother Phil in Los Angeles — and they made an indelible mark on the early 1980’s pu…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:04PMAward-winning, nationally-touring company Four Clowns presents That Beautiful Laugh, conceived by Orlando Pabatoy, as part of the 3rd Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. Set in a wor…
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Voting opened on May 3, 2012 and runs through June 4, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards Here are the current standings as of 525 with just 9 days to go in voting
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMFrom The Spanish Tragedy to The Habit of ArtThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd Hieronimo exacts revenge on those who have murdered his son Horatio by staging a play and casting the two murder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMAlan Ayckbourn, a playwright with a remarkable ability to take the national temperature, is reviving his landmark 1972 play to mark its 40th anniversary"It is difficult to find a bright mome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMWeek one: plotWhat is a plot? For the reader, it is the discovery of concealed connections between events in a narrative. Michael Frayn's Spies is a novel with a carefully engineered plot, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMThe Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT just recorded an Original Broadway Cast album and we have the Exclusive behind-the-scene shots, along with backstage photos of a r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMOn May 25, Leo Ash Evens will replace Jonathan Winsby as Phillip in Broadway’s Jesus Christ Superstar due to Winsby sustaining an injury. Evens will remain with the production through…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:38PM"The Firework Maker's Daughter," based on a 1995 Pullman work, will have music by David Bruce and a libretto by Glyn Maxwell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PMIf your Memorial Day plans include a Broadway show, make sure to refer to our handy show schedule below to see what's playing this holiday Monday and for the rest of the week. While many sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:07PMBloggers Doug Oliphant and Danielle Oliver continue their coverage of Directors Lab West 2012 with reports on circus-making, car-maneuvering, and Children-raising. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:05PMCatty barbs fly fast and furious as the notorious rivalry between screen greats Joan Crawford and Bette Davis is examined through the eyes of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in this ribald com…
SOURCE: The Advocate at 05:00PMIt’s easy to pooh-pooh Gilbert and Sullivan as dusty English relics, but as The Globe’s theatre critic observes, the operetta-writing duo are not only surprisingly influential but …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00PM
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is set to present a day of free readings, panels, recordings, and screenings of unseen footage dedicated to understanding "The Group Theatre and How i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMOn Stage's Frank DiLella recently visited the cast of Scott Wittman's "Jukebox Jackie", which is currently in previews for a May 30th opening at LaMama's Ellen Stewart Theatre.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:53PMOnce received 11 Tony nominations and we’re joined by some of the cast for a live performance.
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:51PMAccording to an Equity casting notice, A Christmas Story, The Musical, which toured the US last year, will land on Broadway this holiday season, playing November 6- Decmber 30. The productio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49PMThe rule: if I miss a week of the World Premiere Preview, I have to do a shot. And tell your dad that I'm pregnant.My new phrase now will be, "Okay, Party People."Jay and Ryan go out o…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 04:47PMWhen the Tony-nominated musical closes, it will have played more than 900 times both on and off-Broadway.
SOURCE: NY1 at 04:41PMA casting notice for a fall production of the show has gone out, but where or when it will open has yet to be determined.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Romeo Juliet" by Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Romeo Juliet" by Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★ ... I've he…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMPine Box Theater rolls backward with “The Jammer,” a strident production that doesn’t begin to approach the relatively high standards set by the young company’s previous productions.…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:28PMLauren Class Schneider talks to actor/director Brian Murray about the differences between acting and directing.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:19PMAnnie's gonna play the Palace.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:19PMMorgan James, currently appearing on Broadway in Godspell, is set to perform with her soul and blues band at Rockwood Music Hall, on Monday, May 28 at 9pm.
James' band features David…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMAIDS, HIV, “brothers on the down low,” homosexuality vs. bisexuality, marriage and addiction all come clashing together in tragic ways, as only they could, in the play “Insidious.”
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:14PMOuter Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theatre announced just yesterday its award winners for the 2011-12 season in 24 categories, and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMToday we are kicking off the 2012 InDepth InterView Tony Awards Series with the directorchoreographer of the hottest hit of the 2011-2012 theatrical season, NEWSIES, that was recently awarde…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK GODSPELL sings Schwartz, Paper Mill preps ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, New Dramtists honor Bernadette, and so much more
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Last night, Broadway veteran Taye Diggs brought his mom to MEMPHIS to see friend Adam Pascal play 'Huey Calhoun'. Check out photos of Diggs with the cast below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMOne wonders how such a bizarre show made it so far uptown. Will Eno's Title and Deed, now playing at the brand new Pershing Square Signature Center, is what you might get if Eugène Ionesco …
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 03:45PMCarey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T., recently posted on Huffington Post suggesting that training programs emphasize new works at the expense of classical work: We have all but aba…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:40PMThe company of the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell performed the songs of their Tony Award-nominated composer May 23 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMBroadway Cleans House, a yard sale featuring items from Broadway performers, will take place this Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm at Pearl Studios in New York City. Organized by Kate Shindle Wonde…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:32PMMany Ways This Piece Is Even BetterMichaela di Cesare and her director find the should of a playby Chris Lane“I compiled a list of the lies my mother told me.”Lies, or myths, or half-tru…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:32PMNetia Jones and Ryan Wigglesworth, the team behind Aldeburgh’s new staging of operas based on Maurice Sendak stories, talk to Andrew Clark
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:30PMCarey Perloff's surprisingly astute production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (or Fin De Partie in the original French) at the American Conservatory Theater ended with a game-like coda last nig…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:26PMAdam Lambert stopped by the Bravo clubhouse to visit with WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE host Andy Cohen last night. During a game of 'Plead the Fifth', Lambert was forced to confess that he was no…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMFor those for whom Shakespeare is not enough, there is always Lumina. The Silver Spring-based not-just-for-kids troupe just finished celebrating its one hundredth production in fifteen years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMThe Fox hit television series "Glee" wrapped up its third season May 22. Since McKinley High is closed for the summer, we decided to surf the web for a look back at Season Three. H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMBroadway audiences have gone overboard with standing ovations. What's wrong with clapping while remaining seated?
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:14PMThe Gingerbread ManNot a pleasant nightby Dave RossA man dressed in black, wearing a mask, stepped into the lobby of the theatre this evening. He mingled with the crowd waiting to enter the …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:11PMJoe Traina, who has been managing Broadway theatres since 1987 (he currently presides over the Cort Theatre, home of the critically acclaimed The Lyons), and his Septet will perform at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMA few months ago a play of mine, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago as part of their Young Adults programming. It was the first play I’…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:00PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of May 14-20, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
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Stage and television star Taye Diggs attended the Broadway production of Memphis, at the Shubert Theatre, on Thursday, May 24. Afterwards, he visited with the cast, including his former Rent…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:59PMThe poetry of Palestinian author Ghassan Zaqtan dwells in the space between life and death, memory and erasure, respite and continuous travel.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:56PMEveryone loves random bits of awards show trivia, right? My vote for this year’s most glaring, probable-but-not-proven statistic is as follows: Tom Edden, of One Man, Two Guvnors has g…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:50PMMile Square Theatre is set to present the 10th annual 7th Inning Stretch: 7 10-minute plays about baseball, June 15-17 at the Monroe Theatrespace.
Playwrights whose baseball plays will be p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMSuffer the ChildrenAgainst the Grain scores again with Brittenby Axel Van CheeAgainst the Grain Theatre has done it again. The company has set a very high bar for their future endeavors this…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 02:50PMETOnline.com reports that superstar Elton John is recovering at home after suffering from a serious respiratory infection that forced him to cancel several of his upcoming Las Vegas performa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMToday we are kicking off the 2012 InDepth InterView Tony Awards Series with the directorchoreographer of the hottest hit of the 2011-2012 theatrical season, NEWSIES, that was recently awarde…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMIt was a lucky day for any Rent fans in the Shubert Theatre audience on May 24, when original cast member Taye Diggs stopped by to see his former co-star Adam Pascal burning up the stage as …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:43PMMemorial Day weekend is upon us, so before the world heads off into a three-day weekend it's time for a look back at the week on Broadway! From a sneak peek at one of our favorite Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PMThe 2012 Tony Awards are drawing near In just two weeks, the best of Broadway will gather with host Neil Patrick Harris at the Beacon Theatre for a three-hour ceremony, which will be broadca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMTy Taylor, lead singer for bluesy rock band Vintage Trouble, joins Seth in the studio to recall their confusing re-introducion years after they had performed together at a kids' nightclub. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMI Wish is the truly heartfelt story of two young Japanese boys separated by distance, but connected by their brotherly love. Young Koichi (Ohshiro MAEDA) lives with his mother and her family…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMDepression-era form of entertainment featured couples who literally danced until they dropped
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:27PMThe works of the late, iconoclastic downtown theatre star, Warhol favorite and trailblazer of glitter rock, Jackie Curtis will be featured in the dynamic new revue JUKEBOX JACKIE -- conceive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMMolly Smith's production of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, takes a little time to get up to speed, but when it does it captures the audience in its warm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21PMMay 25, 2012By David KennedyAssociate Artistic DirectorWeston, Connecticut based actress Maureen Anderman will play acclaimed writer Joan Didion in the upcoming Playhouse production of Didio…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 02:21PMMoncton-based Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada performs Igor Dobrovolskiy’s Ghosts of Violence in Toronto
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:19PMAcademy Award winning director William Friedkin and actors Matthew McConaughey and Gina Gershon will participate in a TimesTalk entitled Stage to Screen on Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30pm.
New Y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMThe hilarious duo chatted with BWW about saving a nightly theater seat for JK Rowling and the pressures of performing a Harry Potter piece in front of some of the world's most obsessive fans.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:15PMWith huge assists from his design team, Tresnjak's first Shakespeare here, visually resplendent, is filled with numerous performing arts highlights.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PM(Learn more about the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships here, and apply before the June 27, 2012 deadline!) What is that difference between a good voice, and a voice that reaches int…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:05PMCritic Mark Blankenship says that February House, a musical about a band of artists who lived together in Brooklyn, is a musical that whispers rather than shouting with exuberance.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:04PMHello Everyone! We may be in full countdown mode here for the 2012 Tony Awards but that does not mean the rest of the New York theatre season awards are over! Yes Luner on Theatre is continu…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:01PMWelcome to THE FRIDAY SIX QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMHe's sticking around. He's sticking around. At least for a while. That's the word from Eric Rosen, Kansas City Repertory Theatre's 41-year-old artistic director, who plans to remain at the h…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PMTony Award and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce will receive the Lifetime Leadership Award at the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter gala, Forget-Me-Not, to be held at Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner Talk About Theatre: Music-Theatre Group (Diane Wondisford, Producing Director) has announced a special interview with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, to be moder…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:58PMFor two decades, the small, Hollywood-based company has presented plays and musicals by students 19 and younger. A previous participant was just a finalist for a Pulitzer.Playwright Stephen …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:57PMYou can tell, in the occasional serendipitous gesture, the brilliant telling smile, why this oddball musical, this syncopated torrent of Americana, was chosen over West Side Story by the Ton…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:50PMMass MOCA opens largest exhibition of Canadian contemporary art shown outside our borders, ever
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 01:50PMOn May 24, Tony winner Harvey Fierstein hosted a birthday party for a very special lady—the Helen Hayes Theatre! The theater, known originally as the Little Theatre, officially opened …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMEmer O'Toole, hirsute Shakespearean critic.Everyone can stop sending me this link. I cannot change what dumb white chicks think! (Can anyone?) This particular one, Emer O'T…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:48PMSouthwark Playhouse, London: Do you own a donor card? Even in our secular society the question of donating one's organs after death, of carving up the body, causes some people moral ang…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMIn a classroom of Zolile High School in Soweto, Mr. M (James A. Williams) whose real name is Anela Myalatya is refereeing a debate, which has dissolved into a respectable shouting match. Is…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:40PMHow do you light the apocalypse?
That’s a question that D.C.-based lighting designer Colin K. Bills has pondered repeatedly of late. This in-demand artist, who masterminds lighting for abo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:40PMAs 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 01:39PMThe Antoinette Perry Award
The Tony Awards will host the second annual Tony Awards Showcase at the Times Square Museum and Visitor Center. The Tony Awards Showcase will run from today thro…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 01:33PMOn May 24, James Earl Jones (The Best Man), Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess), Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow), James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) and a host of o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:22PMThe 36th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA is open in Charleston. The festival got under way at noon Friday with a peal of church bells, a brass fanfare, confetti floating from the air and…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:19PMA Christmas Story, The Musical!, which played a five-city U.S. tour last year, is heading to Broadway for the holiday season, according to an Equity casting notice.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:19PMVarious venues, Brighton: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a festival staple the world over because it throws up so many mirrors on contemporary times and mores, a fact inventively exemplifi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMSurflight Theatre will present All I Ask of You: A Musical Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, running May 26-June 16.
Vincent Marini directs the piece, which features musical direction by James…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMOn May 24, the cast of Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit took their first official off-Broadway bows at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The Roundabout Theatre Co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13PMOrganist and choral director John Birch's long association with Chichester Cathedral helped shape the musical life of the historic West Sussex city, and the wider Anglican church tradition, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMJamie Gahlon has asked theater artists from around the country to talk about their personal search for an artistic home. Ashley Forman continues this series. What is an artistic home? The di…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is facing the first labour action in its 60-year history, right on the verge of its Monday night season opening.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:55PMBethesda’s Imagination Stage takes dead aim at the 4 to 12 set in a six-production season which will feature a world premiere of a Roald Dahl play, the company announced yesterday. Dahl’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:53PMWhen 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 light…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:52PMDon't miss Two's Company, Harrogate's perfectly formed festival of small. Or get competitive in Sheffield with LeanerFasterStrongerScotland and Northern IrelandLet's start in Glasgow at the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMClass is in session at the Laura Pels Theatre, where the revival of Simon Grey's classic British comedy-drama The Common Pursuit has arrived off-Broadway. The Roundabout Theatre Company prod…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMLast year, BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater website on the Internet, launched a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the countr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMScreen and stage star Keira Knightley is now engaged to musician James Righton, according to eonline.com.
Knightley, who has been seen on the West End stage in The Children's Hour and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMToday, get up and close and personal with Da'Vine Joy Randolph, who has earned her first nomination playing over-the-top spirit medium Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost." Click on to hear which fellow…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:43PMEarlier 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 12:42PMToday we are tying together the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown selection with BroadwayWorlds extensive and exclusive InDepth InterView Tony Awards Edition premiere entry spotlighting NEWSIE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMMusic-Theatre Group has announced a special interview with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, to be moderated by Thomas Schumacher Producer and President, Disney Theatrical Group on Thursday, Ju…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMMoises Kaufman over-stresses the comic elements in an uneven production of Simon Gray’s brilliantly structured 1984 play for Roundabout Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:38PMToday is the birthday of the incomparable Bill Robinson, a.k.a “Bojangles”. (For my full article on him, go here. It happens to be the first vaudeville article I ever wrote; the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:33PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about literary-minded college friends who are changed over the years, opens May 24 follow…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMThe Guthrie Theater will host the Midsummer Mischief Dance Party on Saturday, June 23 on the Level Four Lobby as part of the Guthrie Theater Costume Ball.
The public (ages 18 and up) is inv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:31PMToday's nominee is the incomparable Linda Lavin, who picked up her sixth Tony nomination as ruthless matriarch Rita Lyons in Nicky Silver's hilarious comedy "The Lyons." Click below to hear …
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:28PMPresident Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton — and the stars will be out to welcome them. James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:28PMThe 39th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards will be presented June 23 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Wayne Brady, who was seen on Broadway in Chicago, is among the 2012 nominees.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMFriday May 25, 2012
PITTSFIELD -- If you've ever shopped with a mate you know Ikea is the kind of place that can loosen the screws of any relationship.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:15PMThis week's topics Tony Award Wins, We won BOM lottery, Songs They Never Sang, Favorite Designs of the Season, Thrilling theatre moments, cast recordings could you only listen to once, If th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMSignature Theatre's new production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, the tale of race and achievement, teachers and students, freedom and apartheid — featuring new mus…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMProducing Director Jed Bernstein speaks about plans for renovation and future use of the historic Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA.
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:03PMFive performances of Steven Cagan's Love Songs -- A Musical will be presented in August at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMDON'T FORGET TO NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITES OF THE PAST BROADWAY SEASON FOR THE 2ND ANNUAL JKTS AWARDS! CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE FINAL BALLOT! NOMINATIONS END MONDAY, MAY 28 AT 8PM…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMYesterday, May 23, the company of Godspell celebrated their Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Schwartz in a one-night-only concert featuring songs from Schwartz's Pippin, Wicked, The Bake…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMYesterday, May 24, New Dramatists honored two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters with their 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at its 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute at the New York M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe cast and creative team of the first New York revival of the acclaimed Off-Broadway classic musical, Closer Than Ever, including multi Tony, Academy, and Grammy Award-winners Richard Malt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 5252012.
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Alison Steadman, Miriam Margoyles and Nigel Planner are to star in a new BBC comedy series described as an "affectionate parody of the Bloomsbury group".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMRobert Daws will play Prime Minister Jim Hacker alongside Michael Simkins as Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby in the return of Yes, Prime Minister to the West End.
As previously repo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:56AMRafael Frühbeck de Burgos on Orff's "Carmina burana"
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:55AMThe comedy was dark but the stars were bright at Clybourne Park on May 24, when Broadway legend Liza Minnelli stopped by the Walter Kerr Theatre to see the Tony-nominated play. After enjoyin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:50AMPresident Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton -- and the stars will be out to welcome them.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:49AMSome of Broadway’s brightest lights were on hand to celebrate one of their own on May 24, when two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters was honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMCongratulations to Susan Berlin and Steve Rosenthal, the couple that was the first to answer The 2012 Broadway University Final Exam. Marc Castle was next, followed by Jack Lechner, Donald T…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:47AMPrince of Broadway, the previously announced musical highlighting the career of legendary Broadway director Hal Prince, has postponed its Broadway run until the fall of 2013. Co-directed by …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:45AMThe 62nd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway, were presented May 24 at 4 PM at Sardi's Restaurant in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMNEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama heads to Broadway next month as part of a double bill with former President Bill Clinton - and the stars will be out to welcome them....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:44AMNick Wyman, Paige Price, Rebecca Kim Jordan, Ira Mont, and Sandra Karas take top national positions, while regional officers and principals are also chosen.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AMSix actors wait in a hotel lounge for the director of a film to call them back on set. They keep on waiting. This is the premise of Steven Berkoff’s new play 6 actors in search of a direct…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:41AMCast members from Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will participate in a special one-day science event at the New York Hall of Science, on Sunday, May 27 at 1pm. The event is fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMAs The Table continues its celebrated run at Soho Theatre, Laura Turner had the privilege of asking its infamous star, Moses, a few questions.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:35AMAustin Pendleton will receive the 2012 Active Arts Award at the Active Theater Spring gala on June 4.
The gala will take place at the Whaler Lounge at the Jolly Hotel/Madison Towers.
Pendl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMThree days only — opening tonight at at Pier 25 South Street Seaport… Dead upon a Wind, a Pirate Burlesque, continues the exploits of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read; hi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMLuner on Theatre’s Tony Time continues today and brings you something totally new this year! Visuals! We are bringing you a look at the Tony nominated designs that are being honored th…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 11:24AMHappy Birthday Leslie Uggams Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMInception and The Dark Knight Rises star Tom Hardy is planning to appear in the stage musical Harold's Harem, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. Hardy describes the show, which is c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMDavis Gaines will play King Arthur in Musical Theatre West's upcoming production of Monty Python's Spamalot, to run June 29-July 15 in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
Direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMLiveWire Chicago Theatre has announced the lineup for its annual festival of 11 short plays inspired by two original artworks VisionFest 4: Where the Image Meets the Stage, June 14-30 in the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMTony and Academy Award-winning musician Elton John has canceled his May 24-27 performances of The Million Dollar Piano in Las Vegas due to a respiratory infection, according to the Associate…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMBroadway veteran Benjamin Walker really is about to get bloody bloody on the big screen. After conquering Broadway in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Walker is taking on another Commander in C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AMJames Goldman and Stephen Sondheims Follies, which was just nominated for eight Tony Awards, opened on May 9 at the Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre. Performances of the exclusive Los An…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMThe New York Times 05/24/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:08AMA couple of weeks ago, I held an audition for kids ages 6 – 16 for a promotion called The Godspell Cast of 2032. Over 500 kids showed up. I was blown back by the talent, as was the e…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMOccasionally, I get questions from others whose children are interested in pursuing a career in the performing arts. Usually, they want to know how to pursue an agent or manager, and what th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AM
The Colony Theatre Company has announced the selections for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will open with Evan Smith's The Savannah Disputation, running June 13-July 8. In the comedy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:50AMActors Equity Association Equity, the Union which represents more than 49,000 working stage actors and stage managers nationwide, today announced the election results for the 8 officers and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMYesterday, May 24, Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein hosted a special Birthday party on to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Little Helen Hayes Theatre, which opened on March 12, 1912…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46AMIn prep for the upcoming Tonys, we’ve been taking our time machine out for a spin and doing a little decade hopping. We saw those damn hippies take over Broadway in 1972 and Jennifer H…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:43AMFeaturing mind-blowing visual effects that must be seen to be believed a man running full throttle through a series of moving walls, women frolicking in a watery world suspended just inches…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMSinger, actor and former Playbill Video correspondent Leo Ash Evens, who played Riff in West Side Story at London's Sadler's Wells, makes his Broadway debut May 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMA contemporary postwar painting by Paul-Emile Borduas entitled Froissement Multicolore was sold for $663,750, including the buyer’s premium.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 10:38AMFor the first time ever, HowStuffWorks goes behind the scenes of Broadway. The expert in answering the questions of curious minds goes behind the scenes of the Tony Award nominated productio…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:36AMThe ninth season of the Fox reality competition "So You Think You Can Dance" kicked off May 24. Composer-lyricist Scott Alan's "It's Good To See You Again" was fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMViewing figures for the Oliviers could prompt terrestrial pickup, the Met rescinds a ban on its own magazine, the Royal Court scores a hat-trick and Piff the dragon may have a doppelgängerO…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMLonely I'm Not star Olivia Thirlby and Gemma Arterton will join Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark leading man Reeve Carney in the previously announced Jeff Buckley biofilm Mystery White Boy,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMLast night, May 24, Roundabout Theatre Company opened Simon Grays The Common Pursuit, directed by Moiss Kaufman at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre Laura Pels Theatre. The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMEarlier this year Kate Rockwell (Hair, Legally Blonde), who plays "Skylar" in the Broadway-bound national tour of Bring It On: The Musical, shared exclusive photos from the road. W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMMr. Finn's Cabaret, an intimate nightspot in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, is inaugurated May 25-26 with the songs of Joe Iconis. The new venue operated by Barrington Stage Company is…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMMichelle Ryan will play Sally Bowles opposite Will Young as the Emcee in the previously announced West End revival of Cabaret. Directed by Rufus Norris, the production will tour the U.K…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:29AMIts Tony Awards time, and I've put together a menu based on this year's musical amp play nominees. I include references to twenty different nominated shows. Can you recognize them all
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThis week since my guest blogger cant make it, I wanted to make you all aware of some great projects and causes that could use the support of readers like you. A few notes about support: 1. …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:26AMThe Actors Fund held a Tony Award VIP kick-off reception at Bloomingdales Century City on Wednesday, May 23. The evening helped to celebrate this year's upcoming Tony Awards Party, to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMAs previously announced, Bring It On The Musical will open on Broadway on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at The St. James Theatre, direct from a 13-city National Tour, for a 12-week limited engag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMThe 52nd Street Project's Teen Ensemble will present Bringing Down the House, an evening of one-acts written for the teens as the culmination of the first year in their two-year collabo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMThe 51st season of the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, officially began May 23 at the Festival Theatre with Present Laughter, and continues on with the Terrence McNally, Lynn …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMAfter 901 total performances, the original Broadway production of Million Dollar Quartet currently playing Off-Broadway at New World Stages will shutter on June 24. After moving to Broadway …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:15AMAll but two of our Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:15AMBroadway.com recently celebrated the slew of talented octogenarians still delivering fantastic performances on the Great White Way (readers named Angela Lansbury their favorite!) and now NBC…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMBroadway.com recently celebrated the slew of talented octogenarians still delivering fantastic performances on the Great White Way (readers named Angela Lansbury their favorite!) and now NBC…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:08AMBroadway.com recently celebrated the slew of talented octogenarians still delivering fantastic performances on the Great White Way (readers named Angela Lansbury their favorite!) and now NBC…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 10:08AMWhatsonstage.com Award-winning actor Jill Halfpenny is starring in Mike Leigh's devised play Abigail's Party at Wyndham's Theatre. The show, which is directed by Lyndsay Posner, opened in th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:08AMWeekly Round Up with David Singletary (5/25/12)
Each Friday David Singletary takes Broadway fans through the most fun and important events of the previous week! Have something you think bel…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:05AMActors' Equity Association has announced the election results for the union's 8 officers and 17 National Council seats.
Having ran uncontested, Nick Wyman, Paige Price, Rebecca Ki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04AMWith summer just around the corner, it’s time to select a good beach book, and female readers everywhere are flocking to the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey. Originally penned b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:01AMShakespeare's Globe, LondonAt the court of Navarre, the king and his lords vow to devote themselves to study and abstain from women, but following the arrival of the princess of France and h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMWoody Sez, at the American Repertory TheaterGratuitous Violins rating: ***1/2 out of ****My introduction to Woody Guthrie came in elementary school. We took a class trip to the symphony and …
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 10:00AMThe TV and Broadway star performs his favorite standards and talks Beethoven, rap and Spamalot.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:00AM
Island Shakespeare will present an immersive production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, running June 15-July 1 at the Eastwood Amphitheater on Roosevelt Island.
Directed by Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMCapital Pride and theatreWashington will team up for Music in the Night, as part of Washington DC's 37th Capital Pride Celebration, to be held Monday, June 4 at Town Danceboutique.
Hos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMAs bass player with the legendary band Booker T and the MGs, Donald 'Duck' Dunn helped to create the sound of soul music in the 1960s and 1970s. He played on albums made by Rod Stewart and E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMUnder the direction of Bruce Longworth, production develops through dramatic duets.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:42AMLike Mrs. Lovett, “Sometimes ideas just pop into me head.” Only mine are more benign than hers, thank the Lord. With Encores! announcing its 2012-2013 season this week – FIORELLO follo…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:39AMEl Portal Theatre is set to present Greg Thompson's Marilyn: Forever Blonde, August 2-5 on the Mainstage.
The production, which will take place in conjunction with El Portal renaming t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMActors’ Equity Association, the Union which represents more than 49,000 working stage actors and stage managers nationwide, has announced the election results for the 8 officers and 17…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMBroadwayWorld can exclusively report that Kevin Navayne, known for his role as Detective Ray Jackson in CSI NY, is slated to make his Broadway debut as Miles Davis in a Broadway play in abou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMITV has commissioned a 20-part daytime police drama that will feature stories inspired by real crimes, with actors in the series improvising some of the scenes.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMBernadette Peters: Photo: Barry Gordin By Isa Goldberg
Who was it, who just weeks ago uttered that despairing thought, “It’s like I’m loosing my…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30AMOne more lesson from my post on Wednesday. At some point every industry breaks down into groups. Those who are trying to maintain the status quo and those who are trying to move that industr…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMJim Parsons, who is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Harvey, will appear on ABC’s “Live! with Kelly” May 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMStrong female performers often provide the role models for young women
struggling to find their way. These days it's Lady Gaga; in the 1980s
it was Madonna, the icon for the 'have it all' …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:24AMFormer EastEnders cast member Michelle Ryan will play Sally Bowles in Rufus Norris' upcoming revival of Cabaret, according to published reports. The production will open at the Savoy Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMThe Boca Raton Theatre Guild has announced its ’s 2012-2013 season: the A.R Gurney thinking man’s comedy Sylvia from Sept. 28-Oct. 14 and Kander & Ebb’s acerbic musical Chicago in…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:20AMI am deeply moved by your generous and extensive coverage of the imminent closure of the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon. I am being ironic of course as you haven't written a single word in you…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMTheatre director Peter Brook speaks Andrew Dickson about his version of Can Themba's The Suit, and looks back on a 70-year career in theatreAndrew DicksonAlex HealeyCameron Robertson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMDavis Gaines, who performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera more than 2,000 times during his runs on Broadway, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco, wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:11AMAs his version of The Suit based on a township short story by the South African dissident Can Themba reaches the Young Vic in London, legendary director Peter Brook meets Andrew Dickson to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMPeter Brook's writings made me want to do drama – and his restless exploration of the form, and the world, makes him one of its greatest living exponents"I can take any empty space and cal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AMTony Award nominee and "American Idol" star Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages) will headline Life Upon the Wicked Stage: Broadway's Greatest Villains, Thieves and Ladies of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AMEverything about going to a Fun Company production at Maryland Ensemble Theatre involves having a good time. The afternoon starts on a high note with free face painting before the show begin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMCharlie Brady is playing the not-too-bright but energetic Sonny Malone in Signature Theatre’s production of Xanadu. I asked Charlie to talk about playing Sonny. Joel: How did you get i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
There are 37 Razzamataz Theatre Schools across Britain, not 90 as I wrongly stated in my article in last week's musical theatre training supplement. I apologise for this careless error and a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMTony Morris' thoughtful letter in The Stage about merging entertainment unions deserves reflection (letters, May 10).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMEquity, in its wisdom, has opened-up membership to child actors (page 1, May 17).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMAntoni Cimolini has a very different style from Des McAnuff, the man he’s succeeding as artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival. That has tongues wagging in Stratford.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 08:39AMOriginally filed in August 2011. In regard to the last paragraph, Mark Nixon’s excellent monograph Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries 1936–1937 was recently published by Continuum…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:27AMSometimes, memories are best left alone. Such is my experience with seeing the new revival of Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit being presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. This hi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 08:15AMIn “I Am a Tree,” Dulcy Rogers plays a woman set on learning about her mom.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 25 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThree new worthy books examine some of the theater wolrd's greatest artists.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
In a West End awash with nostalgic show revivals and movie adaptations, what hope is there for new musicals, wonders Michael Coveney
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMMark Shenton investigates the welcome proliferation of new writing initiatives, and composer placements that could be set to reinvigorate musical theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMThis week's roundup of theatre, comedy and dance reviews by readers includes Hampstead's Olympic show and more from the World Shakespeare festivalWelcome to this week's reader review roundup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMA smartly directed and terrifically performed revival of Simon Gray’s homage to high-toned literary publications and to the bristling academic oeuvre behind it
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:39AMSoho, London: Touched Like A Virgin is like a collection of singing postcards - the script jumps between 1984 and 2010, and each vignette in the life of monologist Lesley is paired with a Ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMShoreditch Town Hall is to be transformed into an arts centre, which will see the building host regular, ticketed cultural events for the first time since the 19th century.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMEquity is to campaign to improve the pay and conditions of performers working in the video games industry.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMEquity has agreed to engage with its critics after warnings that the union is seen as "stuffy, ineffective, disconnected, impotent" by some parts of the industry.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMFinborough, London: An air of futility permeates John McGrath's play. Based on his own national service experience, it convincingly depicts the affections and tensions that arise when a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMLaura Wade's play about the young members of a fictional Oxford dining club started life at the Royal Court in 2010. Last night it opened in the West End at the Duke of York's, having been u…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:26AMAlmeida, London: There's something familiar about Children's Children - the setting, the story, even the characters, although they are well performed. Wherever the play takes us, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMLegit News:
Off Broadway run to end in June
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24AMLegit News:
Wyman remains president of actors' union
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24AMLegit News:
Broadway musical pushed to 2013
SOURCE: Variety at 06:24AMLinbury Studio, London: That infinitely adaptable space the Linbury is reconfigured anew to present this new work, incorporating singing, speech, instrumental accompaniment, video and lighti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonShakespeare's grim story about a victorious soldier's scathing contempt for the population he is sworn to protect features battles, betrayals and some heart-wrench…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40AMActor, singer-writer and voiceover artist Jonathan Kydd is the man behind The Hard Boiled Egg and The Wasp, the original new musical about music hall legend Dan Leno, which has just premiere…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:30AMFormer EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan is to star as Sally Bowles in the forthcoming West End revival of Cabaret.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMActors Samantha Spiro, Lenny Henry, Richard Wilson and Janet Suzman were in attendance at the Almeida Theatre last night for the opening of Children's Children.
Matthew Dunster's new play,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:17AMMichelle Ryan, best known for playing Zoe Slater in "EastEnders" for five years and the title role in the re-make of "The Bionic Woman," is to make her West End stage deb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:11AM
Seeing a show on Broadway — any show, regardless of apparent merit — there’s a virtually obligatory moment at the end when the audience rises to their feet, almost as one. No, not when…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44AMThe musical featuring Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis will still be touring and Roundabout is casting "Cyrano De Bergerac."
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:41AMWho in their right mind wouldn’t haunt the library stacks if Kate Baldwin were assigned to the checkout desk? Teamed with Burke Moses in Arena Stage’s endearingly melodic revival of “T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMKatherine Boyle, in her Rant (“What’s in a (Slavic) name?”) on May 11, while trying to do a mea culpa about her inability to pronounce Slavic and other “Eastern European” names, in…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:31AMAnglophiles with a fetish for bookish Cambridge students politely arguing about literature and life may get a kick out of “The Common Pursuit.” Others may find themselves looking at thei…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:00AMToday's Wall Street Journal drama column, filed from San Francisco, is devoted in its entirety to the American Conservatory Theater's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I consider the long and illustrious career of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Here's an excerpt....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"There is but one art--to omit!" Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to R.A.M. Stevenson (October 1883)...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
Two of Broadway’s great treasures can be found on the stage of “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” — Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones.
Between the two are more than 150 years of big, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:50AMWorld Premiere An Officer and A Gentleman at Lyric Theatre, Sydney
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SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMPhoto credit: Joan MarcusRuben Santiago-Hudson's production of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! at the Signature Theatre has a lot going for it, namely three fine performances and…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2012 Spoleto Festival USA, featuring performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in opera, theatre and dance as well as chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music, is …
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Active Theater's production of Jennie Contuzzi's Body Language begins previews May 25 at The Workshop Theater, located in Manhattan at 312 West 36th Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDulcy Rogers' solo play I Am a Tree, about a woman who discovers her unknown family, begins Off-Broadway previews May 25 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Chad Kimball heads the cast of the Off-Broadway production of Dan Gordon's courtroom drama Murder in the First, based on the 1995 film, which begins performances May 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBianca Amato and James Waterston rekindle an old flame in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Noël Coward's Private Lives, which begins previews May 25 in Boston.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Josie de Guzman, Allison Guinn and Kimberly King collide onstage and backstage in the Alley Theatre production of Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off, which begins previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1878 Birthday of legendary dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949), whose Broadway appearances will include Memphis Bound!, The Hot Mikado and Blackbirds of 1928.
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