Coming Up This Week in Theatre - 5/26/2012

BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 5262012.

Jay-Z to Head ANNIE Film Soundtrack by BroadwayWorld

According to a report by MSN Music News, Jay-Z will head musical direction for the soundtrack of the new Annie film starring Willow Smith.

Review: Romeo Juliet (The Hypocrites) by Scotty Zacher

Comfortable in its own weirdness, Romeo Juliet - with its close quarter and actor interaction - is not for everyone. That said, Sean Graney and company take the most familiar of plays and th…

Photo Flash: Stars Come Out for WHEN YOU BELIEVE Stephen Schwartz Tribute by BroadwayWorld

Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz was honored and presented with with Desert Ensemble Theatre Company's inaugural Melpomai Award at When You Believe A Conversation With and Tribute To St…

Empire WTE press junket by Matthew Morrison

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Photo Flash: Memorial Day Weekend Saturday Intermission Pics - NEWSIES, JERSEY BOYS, West End's THE 39 STEPS and More! by BroadwayWorld

Do you ever wonder what your favorite Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and regional stars are doing during intermission Thanks to NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger KeenanBlogger, dedicated …

pool (no water) by Doug Marino

Off-off Broadway can be one of the best grounds for exciting, ground-breaking, and intellectually stimulating new works and Mark Ravenhill's new work, pool (no water), is no exception.  …

French Without Tears review: Sitcom, pure and simple by Richard Ouzounian

French for Dummies would have been a much more appropriate title for the show that opened at the Shaw Festival on Saturday afternoon.

Lakewood Cemetery's Garden Mausoleum: Toward the light

Lakewood's new Garden Mausoleum digs into a hillside site and takes architecture to new heights.

Small gestures, big stories for Katha Dance Theatre

Her father once insisted that she not dance in public - which is what Rita Mustaphi has been doing for most of her life.

Chariots of Fire; Posh; Children's Children – review by Kate Kellaway

Hampstead; Duke of York's; Almeida, LondonRunners surge endlessly along a white beach, and it is this victorious image, from the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, that continues to blaze in the mi…

Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures; Ballo della Regina; La Sylphide – review by Luke Jennings

Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonMatthew Bourne's Early Adventures is a triple bill of the dance-maker's work, created between 1988 and 1991. Since then, Bourne's reworkings of balle…

The Suit – review by Andrew Dickson

Young Vic, LondonFor a director who once threw everything he could at the stage – Japanese bunraku puppetry to Hindu epics – Peter Brook has latterly discovered the art of the exquisite …

Betrayal – review by Clare Brennan

Crucible, SheffieldHarold Pinter's 1978 play is both deeply personal and disquietingly universal. Its ostensible subject matter is the staple of bourgeois drama: publisher Robert (Colin Tier…

Review: Night Just Before the Forest (Lake Como in Rome) by Scotty Zacher

This is a very introverted piece, and while interesting, it’s not for everyone. Nonetheless, Kevin V. Smith's power-driven performance of Bernard-Marie Koltès' script is a sight to behold.

Chariots of Fire, Hampstead Theatre, London Children's Children, Almeida, London In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play), Ustinov Studio, Bath

Adapted from the award-winning film, Edward Hall's staging of Chariots of Fire is just out of the starting blocks at Hampstead. Yet this homage to Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell – Britai…

Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures, Sadler's Wells, London; Ballo della Regina/La Sylphide, Royal Opera House, London

It's not just the humour of Matthew Bourne's early work that makes it so remarkable. It's also the gayness. Emerging from dance training in the late 1980s, Bourne set up his fledgling compan…

Watch the Throne by Robert Walport

Jay-Z and Kanye West in concert together... the mere presence of two such superstars in combination more or less ensured that "Watch The Thone" was going to be disgustingly good fun. It was …

MDQ Rocks Portland, OR - I Hear You Knockin' by Million Dollar Quartet

MDQ Rocks Portland, OR - I Hear You Knockin' The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "I Hear You Knockin'" in Director Park in Portland, OR. From: …

More Lakewood landmarks

Lakewood is open to the public daily. Here are a few architectural and historic highlights at the 140-year-old cemetery near Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.

Casseroles by Praxis

Every evening at 8pm in Montreal, and recently in other parts of the province, Quebecers gather to bang pots and pans in support of the student movement and against Bill 78, which limits the…

Photo Flash: SPIDER-MAN Welcomes Sailors Aboard USS Wasp for Fleet Week 2012 by BroadwayWorld

In honor of Fleet Week, Broadways own super hero Spider-Man, welcomed real American heroes from the U.S. Armed Services to New York City, sailing into New York Harbor aboard the USS Wasp in …

Dance spotlight: Keigwin + Company

Theater artists find depth in search for families

Sun Mee Chomet and Katie Hae Leo, both adoptees, talk about their search for their relatives in Korea.

Review: The Jammer (Pine Box Theater) by Scotty Zacher

Though uneven, The Jammer is still worth a look. Everyone loves an underdog, and Josh Odor plays one to a tee. And the stunning technical work done on a shoestring is worth the ticket alone.…

Vocal coach wants OTSL singers to find feeling in music

Ben Malensek pursues worthy goal.

Cool Art Thing Of The Day: New Orleans’ Music Box by Andy Horwitz

The Music Box, in the historic Bywater section of New Orleans, is a new performance space designed to coax novel sounds from salvaged building materials. (from Smithsonianmag.com)

Review: (Shaw Festival) Misalliance by The Charlebois Post

Krista Colosimo, Ben Sanders (photo credit: David Cooper)Endless patter...Good endless patterShaw Fest delivers a brilliant castby Dave RossMisalliance by George Bernard Shaw is an unfamilia…

Los Angeles Theater Review: IT IS DONE (Pig ‘N Whistle in Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

IT IS (BUT SHOULDN’T BE) DONE There was something that felt particularly showcase-y about It Is Done, which can best be described as a 22-minute episode of The Twilight Zone laboriously st…

Reviews - Spring Broadway Play Roundup by Christopher Caggiano

Regular readers of my blog will likely know two things about me: 1) In selecting shows to see, I tend to stick to the musicals. 2) I teach full-time, and toward the end of each semester, I t…

National Philharmonic's intriguing 'Martyrdom of St. Sebastian'

Debussy's quasi-cantata premieres here 100 years after its composition.

STAGE TUBE: Portland Actor Isaac Lamb's 'Lip-Dub' Marriage Proposal Goes Viral by Stage Tube

On Wednesday, May 23, Portland actor Isaac Lamb got together 60 friends to propose to his girlfriend, Amy Frankel, through live lip-dub to the song Marry You. Watch the video below

Amy Adams Says Broadway Transfer of INTO THE WOODS Would 'Be Amazing' by BroadwayWorld

According to a report by Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch, Amy Adams, soon to be playing The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, would definitely consider, continuing her role in the production i…

"My Wonderful Day" at Two River in Red Bank NJ by Bob Rendell

Farcical, laugh out loud situations combine with a delicately limned portrait of a shy, quietly observant 9-year-old girl in the entertaining 2009 Alan Ayckbourn comedy "My Wonderful Day," w…

STAGE TUBE: Jared Zirilli Chats with Casting Agent Michael Cassara on 'BROADWAY BOO'S' by Stage Tube

Jared Zirilli recent star of Off-Broadway's Fat Camp, original Broadway cast member of Lysistrata Jones, Wicked, Twilight the Musical brings you episode 23 of the Jared Zirilli Blog and his …

I Interview Playwrights Part 457: Kendall Sherwood by Adam Szymkowicz

Kendall Sherwood Hometown: Madison, GA Current Town: Los Angeles, CA Q:  What are you working on now?A:  I'm honored to be working for 10 great writers on "Major Crimes" (TNT's n…

Farce, frivolity add up to fun in 'Absolute Turkey'

STAGE TUBE: Ellen Helps Jim Parsons Prepare for Broadway's HARVEY! by Stage Tube

Ellen helps Jim Parsons prepare for Jim Parsons, who is starring in the Broadway production of Harvey, recently appeared on Ellen, where the host decided to help him out by preparing him for…

People You Should Know . . . Justin Harner by Zack

Justin Harner has been an actor in Chicago since 2010, after graduating with a B.A. in Theatre & Drama from Indiana University Bloomington.  Favorite past roles have included the ti…

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 5/26- Al Jolson by Stage Tube

Happy Birthday Al Jolson Between 1911 and 1928, Jolson had nine sell-out Winter Garden shows in a row, more than 80 hit records, and 16 national and international tours. Although he's best r…

Broadway Box Office: Week 51: 05.14 - 05.20.12 by JK

NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS AND STARS FOR AWARDS TONY DOESN'T GIVE OUT!THE FINAL NOMINATIONS BALLOT CLOSES ON MONDAY!JUST CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE!The Broadway Box Office Top Ten fo…

Dramaworks’ Proof Is Intelligent Examination Of Intelligent People Who Can’t Cope With People Intelligently by Bill Hirschman

The messiness of human relations as opposed to the precision of science is one of the underlying themes of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, enjoying a solid production at…

Review: Caligula ***

If opera deals with humanity at its extremes – love, hate, revenge, death – then the life of Little Boots (to translate the sobriquet by which the Roman Emperor Gaius is universa…

Fuse Author Interview: Jay Atkinson’s Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man — Remembrance of Punches Past by Bill Marx

If Wordsworth was right in saying that poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility, than a rugby memoir is a punch in the face reconsidered from a hospital bed.

Weekend Agenda: Step on Their Freckles Edition by Lucky, The Mick and Sophie Gangsta

Ah, the week in American theater… Actually, because we’re so close to the Tonys, let’s call it theatre with an -RE… At some point, the creators of the new Annie reviv…

Last Chance: Theater Alliance’s Hum, Reviewed by Rebecca J. Ritzel

For the first 30 minutes of the world-premiere play Hum, Theater Alliance challenges Synetic Theater in the race to create the best dialogue-free drama in D.C. There’s well-crafted choreog…

Photo Coverage: Casts of ANYTHING GOES, PRISCILLA, GHOST and More Perform for Fleet Week 2012! by Genevieve Rafter Keddy

The Intrepid Sea, Air amp Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, now through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is Americas pr…

2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 15: Tommy Tune At The Tonys by Pat Cerasaro

Today we continue our extensive consideration of the best Tony Awards clips of all time, culled from over sixty years worth of shows, as we look ahead to the 2012 ceremony on June 10 by salu…

BROADWAY RECALL: Memorial Plays by Michael Dale

Remembering some recent Broadway productions that concerned those who bravely make the ultimate sacrifice.

Review: My Children! My Africa! at curtainup.com by Elyse Sommer

The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hudson beautiful, subtly directed production and the impassioned performances manage to make this a moving look ba…

BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 1; GHOST, SISTER ACT, and More! by BroadwayWorld TV

The Intrepid Sea, Air amp Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrates the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet We…

Parenting & Playwriting: What I did for Love by Catherine Trieschmann by HowlRound

This post is the fourth column of a regular series on Parenting & Playwriting. Find the previous columns here. Here’s what my advice column will offer you: a place to ask questions an…

Dream Cast: Moulin Rouge the Musical by BroadwaySpotted

More than anything, when I see something I think could or should be a show, I love to speculate about who would play what roles. I love the way casting works and I love sticking my favorite,…

People You Should Know . . . Eric Parness by Zack

ERIC PARNESS is the Artistic Director of Resonance Ensemble, a theatre company dedicated to developing new work inspired by the classics. For Resonance, Eric has directed Sophocles’ Antigo…

Fuse Commentary: Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Kitsch? A Glimpse of Baz Luhrman’s Gatsby by Arts Fuse Editor

Judging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrman's habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.

People You Should Know . . . Quentin Chiappetta by Zack

Award winning artist Quentin Chiappetta enjoys a diverse career as a composer, sound designer and mixer. His collaborations span from Broadway (Lucille Lortel nomination for Irena’s Vow) t…

BWW's On This Day - May 26, 2012

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events

A Hard Look at Stage Diversity Dos and Don'ts by Jan Simpson

Another impossibly busy weekend is staring me in the face so I don’t have time to tell you about any of the recent shows I’ve seen. But I have managed to steal a few minutes to put toget…

Under 25s TakeOver York by Abigail Lewis

Abbey Lewis finds out how under 25s are making their mark on the historic city of York with exciting festival of new writing, new productions of the classics and new voices, TakeOver.

Circus Flora offers families an escape from online world

Under the big top, people can be swept up in the magic of the moment. The moments return to St. Louis on Thursday.

Review: Rock Bottom by Charlotte Whitehead

Rock Bottom sprang into action with a different start to a normal show. But then, what is normal? Inspired by the Full Monty, this production is about six bankers made redundant from Norther…

Melanie Stace by Adaumbelle

Direct from London, "Call Me Adam" chats with singer and actress Melanie Stace about her Feinstein's debut "Sirens of the Silver Screen", working in theatre/television, and other details of …

Photo shoot credits by Staff

Photos by Moe Doiron/The Globe and Mail; styling by Tiyana Grulovic.

Take A Chance On Mosaic Casino Fundraiser Next Week by Bill Hirschman

All theater is a risky proposition, emotionally, artistically and financially. You can have a taste of that on June 2 at Mosaic Theatre’s fund raiser, its 2nd annual Monte Carlo Night at B…

Katie Finneran to join cast of Broadway's 'Annie'

Katie Finneran is about to get evil -- playing Miss Hannigan in the new production of "Annie" on Broadway.

Arts | Westchester: Theater review: A Review of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles,’ in Stony Point by Anita Gates

In a happy spoof of what was once a serious piece of fiction, the moors of Devon, England, are a comedy location.

Arts | Long Island: Theater Review: A Review of ‘Cats,’ at the Gateway Playhouse by Michael Sommers

A revival of “Cats,” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot, is at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.

Arts | New Jersey: Theater review: A Review of ‘My Wonderful Day,’ at the Two River Theater Company by Anita Gates

“My Wonderful Day,” one of Alan Ayckbourn’s lesser-known but not-less-funny comedies, is the final production of the Two River Theater Company’s 2011-12 season.

Arts | Connecticut: Theater Review: A Review of ‘The Tempest,’ at Hartford Stage by Sylviane Gold

Taken from the text and copied in flowing Renaissance script, words pour down the back wall and across the stage floor in a performance of “The Tempest” at Hartford Stage.

Off-Broadway Theater Review: FEBRUARY HOUSE (The Public Theater) by Dmitry Zvonkov

THE HOUSE OF LOVE AND MUSIC Many artists, being generally unsuited for life in normal society, have often dreamed of a place where they could be with others of their ilk. Where they would be…

How exactly did Terry Gilliam predict the Bush administration? by Thomas Garvey

Late night YouTube surfing brought me unexpectedly to the opening sequences of Brazil, certainly one of the greatest movies of the last thirty years.  And I was shocked at how much more…

‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut | The Nation by Tim

‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut William Deresiewicz, in the Nation, re-reads and re-evaluates Vonnegut’s novels: “The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Han…

We’re taking Memorial Day Weekend off! by League of Professional Theatre Women

Phew! We’ve filled Blog30 with interesting League members every single day since 2012 kicked off – that’s 5 whole months of blog posts! So we’re thinking maybe it’s…

Theatre For Thought, May 26, 2012 by The Charlebois Post

SHAKESPEARE'S SEXUAL SUMMERjoel fishbaneWere one to judge novelist John Irving’s new book by its cover, it would seem to have little to do with theatre. Perhaps best known for The World Ac…

The Script Tease Project: taking it all off for art by Richard Ouzounian

10 prominent playwrights submit opening lines to inspire the National Theatre of the World. The improv that results is called the Script Tease Project.

Shaw Festival’s Misalliance is misaligned indeed by Richard Ouzounian

You can't tell the young from the old in the confusing rendition of Misalliance that opened Friday night at the Shaw Festival.

THE WEEK AHEAD, May 26-June 1: Old Jews Off-Broadway, Amelia on Governors Island, U.K. Frankenstein in U.S. by Blake Ross

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you that the stars pay homage to the men and women in uniform this Memorial Day… you can take Love Never Dies home with you… the great…

Contradictions and Cold War: John Lithgow Plays the Complex Columnist by Jonathan Mandell

Political columnist Joseph Alsop, a New Deal liberal and a Cold War hawk, is embodied by Tony Award winner John Lithgow in a new Broadway play.

Shaw Festival Opens Ragtime May 26; Thom Allison, Patty Jamieson and Jay Turvey Lead Tribes by Kenneth Jones

The Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, first developed in Toronto prior to Broadway, is now getting a major resident Canadian production on the opposite side of Lake Ontario, at the Shaw Fe…

Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Tribute, All I Ask of You, Begins May 26 at New Jersey's Surflight by Michael Gioia

Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of executive producer Timothy Laczynski and artistic director Roy Miller, continues its 63rd season with the Surflight premiere of All I Ask of You: A…

CHART TOPPERS: Most-Read Playbill.com Stories, Week of May 13–19 by Judy Samelson

Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of May 13–19, 2012, from information compiled by Playbill.com.

STAGE VIEWS: Jersey Boys Star Quinn VanAntwerp by Andrew Gans

Playbill.com's series features brief chats with actors commenting on their recent theatregoing experiences, what productions they are looking forward to and more. Here, via email, we hea…

Amelia, Acclaimed Civil War Romance, Begins May 26 in Historic Military Space on Governors Island by Kenneth Jones

Amelia, Alex Webb's two-person Civil War drama about a wife disguising herself as a Union soldier to find her missing husband Down South, gets its New York City premiere May 26-June 17 i…

David Rabe's An Early History of Fire, With Claire Van Der Boom, Ends Off-Broadway Run May 26 by Adam Hetrick

The New Group's world-premiere production of Tony Award winner David Rabe's An Early History of Fire, starring Claire van der Boom and Theo Stockman as two young people in a changing…

Brian D'Arcy James and Ana Gasteyer Offer One Night, Two Voices, Three Cheers at Bay Street May 26 by Adam Hetrick

Tony Award-nominated "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James and Wicked's Ana Gasteyer perform One Night, Two Voices, Three Cheers May 26 at the Bay Street Theatre.

Revival of WWII Comedy Love Goes to Press, With Heidi Armbruster and Angela Pierce, Begins May 26 by Adam Hetrick

Heidi Armbruster and Angela Pierce hit the front lines in the first-ever New York revival of Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles' WWII comedy Love Goes to Press, which begins performance…

Sweeney Todd, With Rod Gilfry and Karen Ziemba, Stalks Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Starting May 26 by Adam Hetrick

Rod Gilfry and Karen Ziemba share a devious duet in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony-winning musical Sweeney Todd at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis beginning May 26.

Return Engagement of New Comedy Psycho Therapy Ends Off-Broadway Run May 26 by Adam Hetrick

Psycho Therapy, the 90-minute world-premiere comedy by Frank Stausser about a woman and the two men in her life, ends its run May 26.

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MAY 26 by Robert Viagas and Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley

1913 One hundred and twelve actors gather at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel near Columbus Circle in New York City and vote to form Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing Amer…

Grads are sweet on 'Evita'

Legit News: Visitor influx offsets Broadway League comps

'War Horse' gallops globe

Legit News: National Theater guides growth of 2011 Tony winner