Adam Schulmerich-Adam is a graduate of SUNY Purchase's Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film. Recent Chicago credits include "Johnny Theatre," "Macbeth," and "Women Are Crazy...." He…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:59PMThe most memorable thing about “Two Intimate” is the audience seating: men on one side, women on the other, as if at an Orthodox Jewish wedding. Not only does this make for a rotten firs…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:54PMMichael Manocchio is a freelance actor, director, and dramaturg in Chicago. He has had the privilege to work with the Goodman (Stage Kiss, El Nogalar, New Stages Festival), American Theater …
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:52PMUpdated casting has been announced for the first installment of the New Mondays series at 54 Below, to be presented on June 4 at 7pm.
The series celebrates the work of some of New York&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32PMOn Wednesday, May 30, I saw The Active Theater's thought provoking production of Jennie Contuzzi's "Body Language" which takes the audience on a darker journey of self-acceptance, covering m…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:30PMWalter McBride got a sneak peak at the 'Triassic Parq The Musical' Rehearsal at the CAP21 Studios in New York City the other day.
SOURCE: www.timessquaregossip.com at 10:04PMThis tribute to the multi-talented Jackie Curtis is often enchanting.
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Gentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Beautified, a personal play written by Tony Abatemarco. It’s the ‘Pick of the Week.’ It’s a…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:37PMTune in to hear Bruce Dow, who stars as King Herod in the Tony nominated JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, on WAMC Radios The Roundtable on Thursday, May 31 at 1015 am. Bruce sits down with host Sarah…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMIt might seem curious that a bouncy little pixie in a bright apron and a peasant blouse is ballet’s Wonder Woman, but this is the revelation of “Coppelia,” the comic ballet that sees a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PMRon Raines performs "The Road You Didn't Take" from Follies onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:29PM"Backbeat," based on the 1994 Universal film, will hit the Ahmanson Theater from Jan. 16-Feb. 24, 2013.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:24PMNewsies star Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead will be the special guests at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox May 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:18PMMusical Mondays Los Angeles Ryan OConnor and Scott Nevins, Co-ProducersHosts have announced that they will host an LA Gay Pride kick-off event Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood. Featuring p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMThis June, 54 BELOW, a new performance venue in the grand tradition of New York City nightlife opens its doors to the public. The venue, located just below legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PMAlthough some contemporary plays — notably Posh and 13 — have accurately taken the temperature of the times, what about the timeless classics? Does Sophocles’s Antigone (dated about 44…
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Lions aren't known for eating their young, but try telling that to the mama Lyons at the center of Nicky Silver's dark new comedy.
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:50PMTHEATER TALK welcomes two of the key collaborators on the multi-Tony nominated play Peter And The Starcatcher, now on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre professional and personal partn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45PMA smorgasbord approach to theater: Luna Theater Company offers a festival of 10 10-minute plays all focused on the general theme of "Identity Crisis." Ten playwrights, nine actors, five dire…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:45PMVirginia Madsen and Steven Weber are set to perform A Work Of Art, Pulitzer Prize finalist Stephen Karams first play which he wrote at age 17, at 20 Years of Winners Scenes, Songs, and Speec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMDespite the trip from the Berkshires barn to the La Jolla Playhouse to New York Theater Workshop and now to Broadway, Peter and the Starcatcher has by all accounts maintained its original fe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:40PMCenter Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre just announced their 2012-13 season, which is set to include BACKBEAT. The birth of one of the greatest rock n roll bands in history is told in the new d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater's production of Meredith Wilson's The Music Man, helmed by Artistic Director Molly Smith, stars Kate Baldwin Tony Award nominee for Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMWatch the latest episode 9 of CafeMom Studios On Broadway With Kids - Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA - the exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal window into the lives of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMJesse Green (New York Magazine), Michael Musto (The Village Voice), and Patrick Pacheco (LA Times) join us to forecast who will win 2012's coveted Tony Awards.
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:30PMGivenik.com has announced eight more members of their Ambassador Program, it was announced by Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters. Nick Adams Bette Midlers Priscilla Queen of the Des…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22PMLuck be a lady if you get tickets to see the Tantallon Community Players production of Guys & Dolls. This little community theatre brings you all the glitz and glory to do Frank Loesser …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMSignature Theatre closes out its 201112 season sporting funky legwarmers and wielding neon glow sticks with the Washington premiere of the musical comedy hit Xanadu. Nominated for four Tony …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMAbout Theatre Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved NYC youth to theatre. Open Doors will be honored by the Tony Awards in 2012.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 06:07PM“The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes” is headed back to Chicago with some big changes in store, including new scenes, costumes, choreography and a 50-foot LED scr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:05PMSaturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell rapped about seeing Sister Act in their video Lazy Sunday 2, and those ladies of the Broadway cloth had something to say about it. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMThe 60th Season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival opened last night with Much Ado About Nothing, but there was definitely something special happening in this gorgeous town. BWW was on h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMOPENING ALMOST AN EVENING. Circle Theatre presents a dark comic trio of plays by filmmaker Ethan Coen that explore the theme of hell. Directed by J. Chritopher Brown. Previews June 2 & 5, 8 …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PM42nd Street is all about hoofing, and not so much about plot
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La MaMa's popular series MONDAY NIGHTS AT LA MAMA -- featuring La MaMa artists in discussions about their careers and their work at La MaMa -- will conclude on Monday, June 4 at 730 p.m. wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMKatrina Lenk played her first performance as Arachne in the Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, at the Foxwoods Theatre, on Tuesday, May 29.
Among those in attendance tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:55PMFor the final installment of his Broadway.com video blog, Once star Steve Kazee wanted to let his fans call the shots. He put out a call for questions on Twitter, then got to work giving som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMThe program tells us that the 50-year delay in moving 42nd Street from screen to stage “isn’t so mysterious.” It isn’t mysterious at all; in 1980 people weren’t doing that kind of …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:47PMThe 2012-13 Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre season will feature Jeff Goldblum in the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar; the American premiere and pre-Broadway run of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:44PMThe 2012-2013 Center Theatre GroupAhmanson Theatre season was announced today by CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. The new season, the 46th season at the Music Center of Los Angeles, wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMThe Hollywood Reporter holds a roundtable with six top drama actresses: "Ask a drama series actress to name the toughest part of her job, and inevitably the conversation turns to mother…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:42PMAdditional details have been announced for The Blank Theatre's benefit for the Young Playwrights Festival, to be held at Avalon Hollywood, Sunday, June 3, at 6pm.
The evening will feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMBeloved theater producer Edgar Buddy Freitag died on Wednesday, May 30th in New York City. He was 80. Buddy is currently represented on Broadway by the 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, May 30, 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 05:38PMDirected by Tony and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols, the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s masterpiece DEATH OF A SALESMAN opened March 15, 2012 at the Barrymore Theatre to critical a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:35PMGlee graduates Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) and Naya Rivera (Santana Lopez) as well as Glee Project winner Samuel Larsen will join the second season of The Glee Project, according to The Holl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:33PMThere’s a new leading lady burning up the stage in Sister Act, and on May 30 producer Whoopi Goldberg headed to the Broadway Theatre to see Raven-Symoné in action! Of course, Ra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMBroadway fans Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb love attending Wednesday matinees, and on May 30, the Today co-hosts checked out Pulitzer Prize winner and four-time Tony nominee Clybourne Par…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:30PMWell we all know it's a depressing story, but perhaps a little glimmer of happiness (besides Amanda Seyfried smile) could be shared in the first trailer for the star studded Les Miserables m…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 05:28PMVerdi's "Falstaff" is one of the funniest operas ever written and Michael Carsen has honed in on this very fact in his new production for the Royal Opera. It's hard to complain when you're h…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 05:26PMABDC Season 7 Week 8 - Top Performances - Mos Wanted Crew, 8 Flavahz, Elektrolytes & RNG
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), season 7 week 7, features the LMFAO challenge! Behind the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:25PMMDQ Rocks Salt Lake City - Blue Suede Shoes
The touring cast of "Million Dollar Quartet" performs "Blue Suede Shoes" at the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City, UT.
From:
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:22PMWhen I first moved to the new country, the language barrier was a hurdle I finessed by smiling or shaking my head, until a fabric store clerk cornered me and it took an excruciating moment t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:21PMLondon stage veterans Adam Best and Ken Drury will join the cast of West End thriller The Woman in Black as The Actor and Arthur Kipps, respectively. They will play their first performance i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:20PMSomething magical and exciting is happening down at Broadway San Jose! This production of Mary Poppins marks the second consecutive regional premiere of a show in San Jose (Million Dollar Q…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 05:17PMJeff Still and Nick Westrate will join the Off-Broadway company of Nina Raine's Tribes, currently at the Barrow Street Theatre. David Cromer has directed the production.
The play cente…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMEd KriegerTony Abatemarco's "Beautified" Tony Abatemarco's family drama, Beautified at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre is this week's Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey H…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 05:15PMBolshoi Ballet adds comic flair to Coppélia Subtlety has never been considered a characteristic of the Bolshoi Ballet. The reputation of the 236-year-old Russian company suggests dance tha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:11PMNick Westrate and Jeff Still are set to join the cast of the hit off-Broadway drama Tribes. Westrate will fill in for Will Brill as Daniel in Nina Raine’s family drama from …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:11PMBroadway alums Teal Wicks (Wicked) and James Snyder (Cry-Baby) will star as Julie Jordan and Billy Bigelow, respectively, in Carousel at Goodspeed Opera House in in East Haddam, Connecticut.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMTony Award-Winning theater producer Edgar "Buddy" Freitag died on May 30 in New York City due to complications from a brain tumor. He was 80 years old.
After serving 2 years in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMThe Colony Theatre is set to present the LA premiere of Evan Smith's The Savannah Disputation, June 13-July 8. Cameron Watson will direct.
In the play, when susceptible Catholic spins…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMAtlantic Theater Company presents the world premiere of Fernanda Coppels new play CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT featuring Teddy Caez, Zabryna Guevara,Alfredo Narciso, Xochitl Romero, and Carmen Zi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04PMThe acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Nina Raine's Olivier Award-winning drama Tribes will welcome two new men to its troublesome clan this summer at the Barrow Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:03PMA group of Native American playwrights speaks to the personal and the universal in offerings on display in free readings this weekend at the Autry. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Porgy and Bess star Phillip Boykin may play Audra McDonald's evil, murderous ex-lover Crown onstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, but behind the scenes, this opera vet is an adora…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMThe Broadway League has released end-of-season statistics for the 2011-2012 season, which are the highest grossing of any season on record.
The season began May 30, 2011 and ended May 27, 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:53PMTony Award winner Randy Graff will head the cast of the Cape Playhouse's upcoming production of Douglas Carter Beane's As Bees in Honey Drown.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMI have read the Harvard Business School study about critics and it is clueless on so many levels about the craft and mechanics of reviewing that it is astonishing that major newspapers and m…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:47PMArtists fear that proposed changes are in fact a way for a deeply pious government to deal a blow to the arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:44PMBoy's Life: Backstage at "Peter and the Starcatcher" with Adam Chanler-Berat, Episode 7
For the seventh installment of his Boy's Life video blog, Adam Chanler-Berat gets u…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:44PMThis morning, Cameron Mackintosh released the trailer for the upcoming movie of the long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMWow: "Come Fly Away," making a stop as part of a national tour at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts through June 3rd, is a stunner.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PM“The Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes” is headed back to Chicago with some big changes in store, including new scenes, costumes, choreography and a 50-foot LED scr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:42PMCenter Theatre Group in Los Angeles has announced the remainder of its 2012-2013 Ahmanson Theatre season.
As previously reported, Peter Quilter's play End of the Rainbow, staring Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMHANDS ON A HARDBODY, a new American musical with a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright and music and lyrics by Phish’s Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, will open on Broadway in the 2…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:35PMCynthia Dale (photo credit: David Hou)Come And Meet Those Dancing FeetStratford’s 42nd Street is flashy, if unevenby Stuart MunroThere is a fantastic moment early on in the Stratford produ…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:35PMChicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2012-13 season of live performances. The typically expansive, eclectic and inter-disciplinary season includes the following events:
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:19PMFrank Wildhorn and Don Black's Bonnie & Clyde score uses blues, rockabilly and gospel flavors to tell the tale of Depression-era American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Alan …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMDespite closing, Leap of Faith, the Tony-nominated musical that starred Raúl Esparza, will perform at the 2012 Tony Awards on June 10, according to The New York Times. Nominated …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:08PMOne of the most common phenomena associated with running a regional theatre, but one which is rarely publicly acknowledged, is a feeling of isolation. It is difficult to imagine from the out…
SOURCE: StageSource at 04:05PMThis month, Broadway's Ali Ewoldt, Kevin Kern and Natalie Cortez saw their talents bring them to the southeast coast of Africa for a one-night-only performance of West Side Story in Moza…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMThis month, Broadway's Ali Ewoldt, Kevin Kern, Natalie Cortez, Michael Jablonski and Karolina Blonski saw their talents bring them to the southeast coast of Africa for a one-night-only …
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The New York Times reports that producers of the recently closed Broadway musical LEAP OF FAITH have decided to stage a musical number on this year's Tony Awards broadcast airing June 10th o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:52PMAs 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 03:52PMThe theater’s season also includes new version of “An Enemy of the People” and an opera-themed play by Terrence McNally.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:51PMSpider-Man: Turn Off The Dark cast members Matthew James Thomas and Daniel Curry appeared as Peter Parker and his superheroic alter ego Spider-Man for a special demonstration on science and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:51PMBucks County Playhouse's new production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing will star Erin Davie, Courtney Balan, Ron Bohmer, Greg Bosworth and Kenita R. Mil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMAfter a four-year absence, the Radio City Rockettes are kicking their way back to what was the Rosement Theatre and is now the Akoo Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMHere, Nichols discusses a play which wears out its cast nightly but clearly has reinvigorated its director.
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:35PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) Henry Ong cares very much about the subjects of his play and writes beautifully about tough topics: Cambodian…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:33PMCock, the award winning play by British playwright Mike Bartlett now playing at The Duke on 42nd Street, takes a fresh look at the old "boy meets girl" story. In this 90-minute intermission-…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 03:30PMThe trailer for Tom Hooper's epic-looking "Les Miserables" is causing quite the stir on the internet today.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:30PMJoe Besecker's award-winning play, Tennessee in the Summer, based on the life of famed playwright Tennessee Williams, has extended its West Coast engagement at California's Sidewalk …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMRoundabout Artists on Education@Roundabout
Roundabout artists Donna Murphy, Kelli O'Hara, Julie Andrews, and more talk about the importance of arts education in our schools.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:25PMThe Bucks County Playhouse BCP in New Hope, Pennsylvania, has announced the casting for its first production of the summer, Rodgers amp Hammersteins A Grand Night for Singing. The cast will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMLegit News:
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SOURCE: Variety at 03:23PMThe 2012-13 season at the Ahmanson Theatre will feature Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," starring Jeff Goldblum, and the U.S. premiere of "Backbeat," a new musical about the origin of the Beatles…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:21PMNicholas Rodriguez, known to soap audiences as Nick Chavez on ABCs One Life to Live for which he received a GLAAD Media Award, has joined the cast of LOST IN LOVE the Air Supply musical for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and film star Liv Tyler took a trip “over the rainbow” to see Tracie Be…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:11PMWhat could be better than hearing the great James Earl Jones ruminate on six of his favorite roles? At age 81, Jones just picked up his fourth Tony nomination for his sly performance as form…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMOn Twitter Watch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson wrote Here's me looking like a mop of tears with SteveKazee amp Cristin Milioti who DEVASTATED me in Once Loved it
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06PMStage veterans Michael Learned, Richard Thomas, and Ralph Waite will join the rest of the cast of the CBS' hit series The Waltons on September 29 at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced two Off-Broadway productions for the upcoming 2012-2013 theatrical season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced that they will present the American premiere of Rebecca Lenkiewiczs new version of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Tony Award winner …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PMThere’s a new cast of dancing queens (and kings) in town! On June 4, Broadway will welcome Rialto favorites Aaron Lazar, Felicia Finley and more to the Greek Islands in the hit ABBA tu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:00PM
On Twitter Watch, Ricky Martin wrote With my beautiful friend msleamichele I'm glad u liked Evita Now go and enjoy ur vacations U deserve them baby 0
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:56PMTune in to hear Bruce Dow, who stars as King Herod in the Tony nominated JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, on WAMC Radio’s “The Roundtable” on Thursday, May 31 at 10:15 am. Bruce sits down wit…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:53PMLynn Ahrens, Darius De Haas, Adam Jacobs, Thomas Kail, Syesha Mercado, and Saycon Sengbloh preview the Paper Mill Playhouse's new production of the beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMWatch the latest episode #9 of CafeMom Studios “On Broadway: With Kids – Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA!” – the exclusive online series that opens a rare and personal win…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:51PMThe Bucks County Playhouse has announced casting for the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue, A Grand Night for Singing, to run July 2-22. Emmy Award winner Lonny Price will direct.
A Grand Nigh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:46PMWelcome to Trailer Trash, highlighting the best, worst and so-so in new movie trailers. We can almost feel the collective cringe coming from the millions of fans of the Broadway musical vers…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 02:45PMCheck out this guest post about Woody's battle with Huntington's Disease, the underlying causes of HD and the types of advocacy and treatment available today.
SOURCE: American Repertory Theater at 02:43PMHow Gotham Dance Festival boosts both audiences and artists — The dance world is exploding. There are innovative choreographers all over the map, many using multimedia and intricate st…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:39PMNominated for multiple 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, the Kennedy Center production of Follies is now kicking up its heels in Los Angeles, with most of its Broadway c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PMSecond Stage Theatre Carole Rothman, Artistic Director has just announced that Jason Robert Browns musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS has been added to the companys upcoming 2012-2013 season. The m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMBroadway ticket sales were strong through Memorial Day weekend with several shows above the $1 million mark as New York City's tourism season comes to a start, just in time for the beginning…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:37PMMy Wonderful Day - Audience Reaction
MY WONDERFUL DAY at Two River Theater Company
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Nicholas Martin
Runs through June 3, 2012
Tickets: http://www.trtc.org
Fr…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:34PMBroadway veteran Lea Michele will be joined Glee castmates Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera, and Samuel Larsen as guest mentors on the second season of the Oxygen Network's The Glee Project, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMTony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who will perform in concert June 2 at New York City Center, told Playbill.com that her former Wicked producer, Marc Platt, is now attached to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMUpdated casting has been announced for the first installment of the New Mondays series at 54 Below, to be presented on June 4 at 7pm.
The series celebrates the work of some of New York&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMTony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who will perform in concert June 2 at New York City Center, told Playbill.com that her former Wicked producers Marc Platt and are no…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMAfter winning the hearts of millions of fans on the eleventh season of American Idol, third place finisher Joshua Ledet took a break from his jam-packed schedule to check out the high-flying…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:27PMLynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce three productions for Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming 2012-2013 theatrical season. MTC’s B…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:24PMRaza Jaffrey played a political wheeler-dealer on TV’s Smash, but the Anglo-Asian star came to the series as a stage vet of the London productions of Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMToday, we bring you legenday playwright Arthur Miller, circa 1993. Miller's most famous plays include All My Sons 1947, Death of a Salesman 1949, The Crucible 1953, and A View from the Bridg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:20PMEdie Falco, Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2012-2013 season.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:19PMKylie Minogue Timebomb - Official Music Video Recap - DisneyKid1
Pop diva Kylie Minogue continues her year-long celebration of her 25 years in the music business with the release of her new…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:19PMCATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which played its final performance on Broadway in September, will launch a non-equity national tour in the Fall of 2012, presented by Troika Entertainment. The cast has …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMA number from Leap of Faith, the short-lived Broadway musical about a con-man preacher that received a Tony nomination for Best Musical prior to its final performance May 13, will be seen on…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMTrombonist-turned-artist manager Frank Parr straddled the worlds of cricket and jazz with an unkempt ease that would be the undoing of his sporting career. A regular in the Lancashire first …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:11PMJust yesterday, producers Broadway Across America John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth Williams, Rich Entertainment Group Bob and Mindy Rich, Barbara Whitman, Latitude Link, Dede Harris, Sharo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMJess, a 'So You Think You Can Dance' finalist last year, is a Broadway veteran at 19.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:07PMAll you Jason Robert Brown fanatics rejoice! Second Stage Theater will be reviving the two hander as part of their 2012-2013 season. Jason Robert Brown himself will direct the revival. Thoug…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 02:07PM(photo credit: Scott Munn)A MOMENT IN TIMEby Joel FishbaneEnigmatic and challenging, Zuppa Theatre Co’s The Debacle is in many ways the quintessential FTA show. Now in it’s sixth y…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 02:04PMBorn Harold Ribotsky to Polish-Jewish emigres in Brooklyn, New York, Hal E Chester, the youngest of seven children, took his stepmother's maiden name as a young actor and carved a niche for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:03PMProducers have not confirmed what will be performed or whether the show's star, Raul Esparza, will appear on the telecast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced three plays on tap for its 2012-2013 season, including the world premiere of Liz Flahive’s drama The Madrid, starring Tony nominee Edie Falco …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMHollywood Fringe Festival returns for its third year with more programs over more of the area. It’s also on-target for more ticket sales. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:00PMWhat's the best training a director can have for Sophocles's visceral Antigone? Working with Derren Brown, of course.Plenty of us have long thought that the National theatre bears a resembla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMThe Unicorn Theatre, which a few weeks ago announced some of the shows on its 2012-13 season, now has a complete lineup. It's an eclectic group of plays and musicals, mixing humor, drama and…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced three productions, along with initial casting for its 2012-2013 season.
Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas will star in the American premiere of Rebecca Len…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PMBrilliant jazz and raucous repartee mix for a magical evening at the Cafe Carlyle.
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TALES FROM A GHETTO KLOWN profiles award-winning actor and playwright John Leguizamos unorthodox rise to success and his struggles to mount his latest one-man show on Broadway and beyond. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMManhattan Theatre Club will produce a new version of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People starring Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas in the 2012-13 Broadway season. The nonprofit also anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMIn answer to anon (page 9, May 24) who complained about TV snobbery over casting extras, sadly nothing changes. In the 1970s Equity tried hard to persuade broadcasters to delete the term 'ex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52PMI refer to Andy Lenthall's decidedly precious rant against nicknames (page 40, May 24) and heartily enjoin him to get over it.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51PMWe write as youth ambassadors for the National Youth Music Theatre. We are all either in training at drama school or have recently graduated but we have all taken part in workshops and produ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50PMSecond Stage Theater will add Jason Robert Brown’s two-person musical The Last Five Years to its previously announced 2012-2013 season. Brown will direct the production in Spring 2013,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:46PMCape May Stage is set to present Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, June 20-August 3 at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse. Roy Steinberg will direct.
In God of Carnage, urban professionals …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMNow, while the eyes of the world are on the theatre scene for next weekend's 2012 Tony Awards, BWW is excited to announce that we've taken our biggest leap forward yet - introducing the bran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMJason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, a two-person musical that traces a love affair from bloom to frost, will receive a 2013 New York revival by Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMJason Robert Brown will direct his musical The Last Five Years, as part of Second Stage Theatre's 2012-2013 season. It will be presented in spring 2013, with specific dates to be annou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMDanica Novgorodoff, a graphic novelist and illustrator, talks about her poster design for Derek Ahonen's play, which is being produced by the theater company the Amoralists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:38PMBroadway veterans Ashley Brown, Tonya Pinkins, and Daniel Reichard have joined the line-up for Night of A Thousand Judys, to be held at Playwrights Horizons on Monday, June 18 at 8pm. Ben Ri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMIpswich-based theatre company Red Rose Chain is to receive almost £1 million of lottery funding to build a new venue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMFor the past six seasons, Jane Krakowski has delighted TV audiences as Jenna Maroney in 30 Rock, but the Tony-winning actress also keeps her musical skills sharp in cabaret and concerts arou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:16PMPicture this: It’s the near future. Your candidate of choice has won the Presidency. As they stand before Congress for the State of the Union, he or she declares: “My fellow Americans, I…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:14PMThe second annual Night of A Thousand Judys - the Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center - will take place at Playwrights Horizons on Monday, June 18. The show is a special presentat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMActor and playwright John Leguizamo's Tales from a Ghetto Klown will debut on PBS as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival on Friday, July 13 at 9pm EST.
Starting with a survey of his C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMShakespeare's Globe, LondonWe begin at sea. Antigonus, the infant Perdita clutched to his breast, lands in Bohemia. He places his bundle tenderly on the ground, consigns her to her fate, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMOpen Air theatre, Regent's Park, LondonThis musical had the misfortune to receive its British premiere on the night in 2003 when America invaded Iraq. Now revived by Timothy Sheader, it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMThe Berkshire Theatre Group's summer season will feature A Chorus Line, A Thousand Clowns and the premiere of Kelly Masterson's Edith, with appearances by Jayne Atkinson, Noah Racey,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:08PMCasting has been announced for Matthew Hardy and Randy Klein's Flambe Dreams, which will be presented July 9-17 at the 45th Street Theatre as part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:07PMGoodman Theatre has announced full casting for its upcoming 10th anniversary production of Regina Taylor's Crowns, which will run June 30-August 5. Playwright Regina Taylor will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05PM
Six of Philly’s most respected theaters are pulling out all the stops this week in a bonanza of season finales that will give local theatergoers a final chance to see some wonderful theate…
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 12:58PMThe current Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell will offer "Fan Appreciation Day," a post-show party with cast members, following the 3 PM matinee performance June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMIt’s Tony time! On June 10, Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris will host Broadway’s biggest night, the 2012 Tony Awards on CBS. To prepare for the exciting event, Harris joked arou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMPlaybill.com takes a look at James Earl Jones' stage triumphs in a career spanning over 50 years. The actor picked up his fourth Tony Award nomination this year for his performance in Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMTwo future critics engage in a free exchange of ideas.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:43PMIATSE, AGVA, and other local unions reach agreement with Foster Mollison Entertainment to hire union stagehands for its "Empire New York" tent show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:34PMFollowing its premiere at the Hackney Empire last month, the Tina Turner musical Soul Sister will makes its transfer to the West End’s Savoy Theatre. Performances begin August 20, with an …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:30PMBroadway veterans Chita Rivera and Susan Stroman, as well as "Grey Gardens" filmmaker Albert Maysles and "Smash" choreographer Josh Bergasse will be among the presenters …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:22PMThis adaptation’s chief achievement is in the realm of visual spectacle rather than emotional impact, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:20PMThis Japanese production of Shakespeare’s late romance proceeds with a combination of dreamlike fluidity and narrative clarity, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:20PMThere’s energy – rather too much of it – in the three pieces presented here by Cuban company Danza Contemporánea, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:15PMPlaywright William Hanley, who after a brief heyday as a playwright in the 1960s became a successful writer of television movies and mini-series, died May 25 after suffering a fall in his ho…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMFears that a "Primark culture" is developing in theatres, in which new plays are not shown again after their premieres, have been raised by a group of writers and literary managers.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMThe gowns! The tears! The epic, occasional what-the-fuckery! The Tony Awards are a pretty interesting social experiment in what happens when theater kids are allowed several hours of annual …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:12PMLegit News:
Wony best musical Tony for 'Memphis' in 2010
SOURCE: Variety at 12:12PMTalawa's new artistic director Michael Buffong has announced his inaugural season at the helm of Britain's leading Black-led theatre company.
His tenure begins with a new studio season titl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:10PMJapanese superstar Ryoko Yonekura is set to make her Broadway debut as merry murderess Roxie Hart in Chicago for a limited engagement, July 10 through July 15, at the Ambassador Theatre. Yon…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:09PMHalcyon Theatre Stargazers
Will become trailblazers,
With confidence that'll leave you entranced!
The coolest spot,
Whether cold or hot,
Is where kids get to act, sing and dance!
Halcyon…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:08PM“Motherhood the Musical,” currently playing at the Royal George Theatre, will be closing June 17. Tickets for remaining performances are available at the theater box office, 1641 N. Hals…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:02PMThis is the second in a series of short interviews with two up and coming stars of the current Broadway generation, Teddy Toye and Alex Wyse. The first interview in this series can be …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMJim Parsons, who is starring in the Broadway production of Harvey, will appear on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Thursday, May 31st between 11:00PM-11:30PM on ch…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:00PM
The 66th annual Tony Awards are Sunday, June 10. If you've been meaning to brush up on your Broadway, now's the time. Here's a round-up of Kurt Andersen's conversations with some of the nomi…
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 11:55AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
The slow burn of the exposition-heavy first act of "Canvas" suggests a play a draft away from readiness. Yet the proximity of his three fractious couples …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMTony Award winner Tonya Pinkins, Daniel Reichard and Ashley Brown have joined the June 18 Night of a Thousand Judys benefit at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMMichael Buffong has announced his first season as artistic director of Talawa, which will feature the premiere of a new play set in Deptford in 1982.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMLast night, May 29, Katrina Lenk joined the cast of Broadways SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark in the role of Arachne. Christina Sajous, who had currently played the role of Arachne, played her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMJosh Bergasse, Tony Danza, Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Melissa Errico, Albert Maysles, Joe Morton, Lee Roy Reams, Chita Rivera, Susan Stroman, Tamara Tunie, John Turturro, and Karen Ziemba wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:51AMBack it Up Productions is set to present the West Coast premiere of Project: Lohan by D'Arcy Drollinger, July 26-August 19 at The Costume Shop. Tracy Ward will direct.
Using only publ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMWhen there’s a month with a fifth Wednesday, I’ll be heading Way-Off-Broadway for a look at theatrical happenings outside New York City. This summer, it’s not just flowers blooming…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:44AMContinuing our extensive countdown considering many of Broadways best clips as represented on Tony Awards telecasts recent and distant, today we look to the third and final clip from a Micha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMOh to be an actor in a touring production! The wonders they must see while traversing this green and pleasant land. The sites, the landmarks, the beautiful faces of the different audience me…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMJapanese stage and screen star Ryoko Yonekura will take over the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago, at the Ambassador Theatre, for a strictly limited engagement, July …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:39AMIn our obituaries, we imagine that panto will be one of the running themes. We adore men dressed as women, women dressed as men, bad puns, local kids dancing badly, brutal re-interpretations…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMThe Tony-winning revival of Chicago will welcome Japanese superstar Ryoko Yonekura to the role of merry murderess Roxie Hart beginning July 10 at the Ambassador Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMKatrina Lenk, who was seen in the world premiere of Lost Land at the Steppenwolf Theatre, joined the cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark beginning May 29 in the role of Arachne.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:36AMB'way 101: Puppetry of the "Family"
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Playbill's Broadway 101 series continues with an in-depth look at the things that go bump in t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:34AMMichael McGrath, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for his performance in Nice Work If You Can Get It, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture ti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMNicholas Martin will stage Joan Didion's unflinching look at loss and survival, The Year of Magical Thinking, at the Westport Country Playhouse in June. Tony nominee Maureen Anderma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMWith "Priscilla Queen of the Desert"'s Nick Adams, Tony Sheldon and Will Swenson as the scheduled guests, it's a busy day of preparation as "On Stage" — New York's most watched theatre-bas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:28AMStage and screen actress Gillian Anderson (Donmar Warehouse's A Doll's House) has joined the cast of Richie Mehta's upcoming science-fiction mystery film, "I'll Follow Y…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMThe Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts as well as the City Theatre and Orlando Repertory Theatre are set to present the musical The Brand New Kid, based on the popular children&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AMHappy Birthday, Idina Menzel Menzel reached superstardom on Broadway with her Tony Award-winning performance as Elphaba, the misunderstood green girl, in the blockbuster Wicked and in her To…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMTony-nominated for her scenic design of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," Donyale Werle once again is ready to take a downtown show uptown to Broadway. This time the task at hand is "Peter and…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:20AM“American Idol” runner up and stage actor Justin Guarini will perform in concert June 2 at Joe's Pub in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:19AMSean Arbuckle talks about his role as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance and about the relationship between his character and the musical's hero, Frederic.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:14AMThe Pirates Of Penzance: Mechanical Arm | Behind The Scenes | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Props specialist Eric Ball gives us a glimpse of the mechanical arm Sean Arbuckle will be wearin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:14AMStephanie J. Block, Quite Becoming as Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes"
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Broadway veteran Stephanie J. Block ("9 to 5," "Wicke…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:06AMGingold Theatrical Group has announced casting for the Project Shaw presentation of The Apple Cart, to be performed at The Players Club on Monday, June 18 at 7pm. David Staller produces and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMLinda Lavin talks about her 2012 Tony and Drama desk Best Actress nominations as well as her Broadway hit The Lyons.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:04AMFiddler on the Roof, kicks off Barrington Stage Companys 2012 Mainstage Season for a five week run from June 13 through July 14. The award-winning regional theatre in downtown Pittsfield cel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMBroadway previews of the previously announced revival of Edward Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Tony-winning writer Tracy Letts and Tony nominee Amy Morton, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMBuzzer sound! The fourth and final quarter of the 2012 Broadway season is over. Can you believe it? Another year come and gone. And this one was a beaut . . . depending on how you look…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMDaniel Berryman, Aaron C. Finley and Naomi Morgan will be among the East Village bohemians of Rent, which will tune up at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre July 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
Get ready, Les Miserables fans: An official trailer for Oscar winner Tom Hooper’s film adaptation of the beloved musical has been released, and in a word, it looks awesome. The 97-seco…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:53AMPatrick Sandford is to step down as artistic director of the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in 2013 after 25 years in the role. The venue will move to a creative producer model.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMThe Project Shaw series will continue June 18 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMBroadway vets Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Richard Kind will star as Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock, respectively, in The Producers at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, according to t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMTicketProxy.com is bringing a new sales model into the secondary ticketing space. The new ticket brokerage is aiming to prove that the service fee, long a staple for secondary ticketers, is …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:49AMWith the 2012 Tony Awards less than two weeks away, we take a look back at last year's festivities.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMThe New York City premiere of Stories from the Fringe-Women Rabbis Revealed will be presented June 11-12 at 7:30 PM at the Manhattan JCC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMGoodspeed Musicals will welcome Carousel to the main stage this summer. The classic Golden Age musical will run from July 13 September 23 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMThe 66th Annual Tony Awards will be held June 10 at the Beacon Theatre. In anticipation of Broadway's biggest night, returning host Neil Patrick Harris filmed a series of television spot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AMBarrington Stage Company announced complete casting for its Fiddler on the Roof, starring the previously mentioned Brad Oscar as Tevye and Joanna Glushak as Golde. Performances play June 13-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMPlaybill magazine editor Blake Ross hosted "Success on Broadway: The Un-Broadway Way," a panel discussion with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrew Lippa and Rick Elice, presented May 7 as p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:38AMArchival collections can harbor surprises — which makes the job of processing them fun! The personal archives of artists not only document their careers and personal lives, but o…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:35AMYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Title Song | Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2012)
Charlie Brown (Ken James Stewart), Snoopy (Stephen Patterson), Schroeder (Andrew Broderick), Sally …
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:34AMGolden Globe-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, who will host the 66th Annual Tony Awards June 10, will co-host the June 6 and 7 broadcasts of "Live! with Kelly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AMTony nominee Norm Lewis, currently starring on Broadway as Porgy in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, will join the legendary walls of Sardi’s (234 West 44th Street) when his caricature is …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:30AMOne of the most common concerns I hear from clients is that they feel they can't get beyond their existing customer base. Whether it involves raising money and they are trying to get beyond …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMDespite flat attendance, theatergoers shelled out a record $1.14 billion on tickets during the 2012 season.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:15AMLegit News:
2011-12 frame sets new B.O. record
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMText: “Tragedy is the question. Comedy is the answer.” ~ Luke Barber Image: Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gav3IgeBbec Christine Lesiak is the co-creator/performer of Fools for Lo…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:13AMBroadway's own Seth Rudetsky was the guest bartender on last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo. Rudetsky treated the audience to a musical recap of the 'Real Housewives of Orange Coun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:09AMUniversal has released an official trailer for the film version of the musical Les Miserables, which is directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper. The film is scheduled to be released on D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMLegit News:
Beatles bio makes U.S. premiere
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07AMAdditional casting has been announced for Barrington Stage Company's production of Fiddler on the Roof. The production runs June 13 through July 14.
As previously announced, the cast i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMChazz Palminteri has revealed that his play HUMAN, in which he plays five characters, has been optioned for Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMAlright, alright. Everyone and their grandson has been asking me who I think will win the Tonys, who should win the Tonys, etc and so on. Last year when I just had a measly little blog, I pu…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM“Quite frankly, I got tired of seeing Robert Dziekanski die,” said opera writer J.A. Wainwright, a poet and author. “I wanted to see him live.”
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:00AMStage and television star Margaret Cho will launch a tour of her new show, Mother! at The Art House in Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 11-18.
The all-new stand-up show offers up an untr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Universal has released the first official trailer for the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables, which features Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway taking on Fantin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AMThe Importance of Being Earnest (in New York), David Zippel's reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy, will get a June 11 reading in Manhattan, with Tony Award winner C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMJames Snyder and Teal Wicks will star as Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, respectively, in Goodspeed Musicals' production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, running July 13-Sept…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMThe Phantom of the Opera UK Tour 2012 - Bristol Hippodrome
The Phantom of the Opera UK Tour is now playing at the Bristol Hippodrome. For full schedule information, casting and tickets, vis…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:48AM7TH MONARCH, a new play by Jim Henry, featuring Tony Award winner Michael Rupert, begins a limited engagement on June 12 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre. Tickets start at 34.50 - get yours to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:47AM"Concert for The Queen: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration" will be broadcast June 5 at 9 PM ET on ABC; check local listings.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AMLast night, the Paley Center celebrated Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awardwinner Christopher Plummers television work including Hamlet at Elsinore, Little Moon of Alban, and The Thorn Birds. Plumme…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMIf you're an arts administrator and want to advance in your field, you need a platform. If you're an artist looking to be a part of interesting projects, you need a platform. I think that co…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:34AMJohn Tartaglia, a Tony Award nominee for his performance in Avenue Q (where he currently serves as resident director), will offer a master class intensive in theatre and television-style pup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMAn early look at Tom Hooper's adaptation of "Les Misérables" offers tantalizing glimpses of Hollywood A-listers playing sad Parisians, but the focus is firmly on Anne Hathaway, who plays th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:28AMThe latest offering from the Landor Theatre by the creators of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change continues their exploration of love and relationships, with a particular focus on the ma…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:28AMAre critics signing on for "Title and Deed"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:25AMBike Shed Theatre, Exeter: Peopling the stage with seven diverse characters, William Stanton's complex farce gives four actors ample scope for imaginative development. A skeletal framew…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMBroadway grosses for the just-completed 2011/12 theatre season were the highest ever, according to figures just released by The Broadway League, the national trade organisation for the Broad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AM"American Idol" finalist Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her performance in the film version of Dreamgirls, will perform on the upcoming CBS broadcast, "Boston Pops Fire…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMGillian Anderson has joined the cast of the upcoming science fiction mystery film I'll Follow You Down. She will star in the film with fellow stage veterans Haley Joel Osment, Rufus Sew…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMTake advantage of these great half-price theatre ticket deals on GOLDSTAR. __ Metamorphoses at Constellation Tonight and Tomorrow night. Only $12.50. __ The Illusion at Forum Theatre at Rou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMThreesixty theatre, Kensington Gardens, London: Spectacle is the star of this show. From the huge wardrobe which rises out of the ground to the atmospheric circular projection, the stilted r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMThe Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company has announced its upcoming season, according to The New York Times.
The season will include two major tours in celebration of the company's 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:10AMMatti Friedman, author of The Allepo Codex is a modern day Indiana Jones, in both his rugged looks and his deep love of ancient history. Just like the character in the movie, he stumbles int…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:08AMOff Sides Entertainment, Inc. joins forces with Long Island Crisis Center — Long Island's oldest suicide prevention and crisis intervention agency — and its LGBT youth initia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:01AMChris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club …
SOURCE: Footlights at 09:00AMBachelorette represents gluttony in a series of plays called Seven Deadly Plays by Leslye Headland. The scene is set in a luxurious New York City hotel room rented by a soon-to-be bride wher…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Internationally acclaimed spiritual composer Sir John Tavener and world-renowned creative consultant Teller -- best known as half of the magic and illusionist duo Penn & Teller -- are pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:59AMProducers are raising premium prices on hot tickets such as "The Book of Mormon" and "Death of a Salesman."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:56AMLegit News:
Producers sign deals after picketing
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51AMOrganic Theater's *Bartleby*, adapted and directed by Alexander Gelman, moves at a fast clip, makes the audience laugh, and brings new life to a classic piece. Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:47AMRupert Goold is reimagining CS Lewis's classic fantasy novel in a giant tent in London's Kensington Gardens, with the aid of puppetry, video projections and leaping aerialists. Andrew Dickso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AMA new cast has been announced for The Woman in Black, one of the most exciting, gripping and successful theatre events ever performed, now in its 23rd year in the West End in a production re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMBristol Old Vic will reopen its newly refurbished auditorium later this year with a revival of John O’Keeffe’s Wild Oats.
This historic theatre has been undergoing an £11…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:35AMThe multimedia Three-Sixty theatre tent has returned to Kensington Gardens, three years after Peter Pan, to host Rupert Goold's new production of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
CS L…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:33AMSummer officially started in theatreland last night as the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park kicked off its new season with a revival of Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime.
Artistic direct…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:33AMTweetFantine from from Les Miserables is one of the characters you love the most. She lives in a very poor time just before the French Revolution and sells everything she has, including her …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 08:29AMThe moment Broadway babies have been waiting for has at long, long last finally arrived - the LES MIZ movie trailer just hit the internet in the wee hours of Thursday morning. As many suspec…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AMAndy has a startling moment of clarity.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 08:18AMIt's here Today, Cameron Mackintosh released the trailer for the upcoming movie of the long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:15AMBarbican, LondonOnce seen, never forgotten: when Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa's cherry-blossom Macbeth visited London in 1987, it opened our eyes to what can happen when east meets west.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMOur Video of the Week is the trailer of the film based on LES MISERABLES starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and RED Tony winner Eddie Redmayne. Enjoy this trailer which fea…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award-winning star discusses her new concert, returning to Broadway, and the final season of 30 Rock.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Anyone who still questions the value of star power on
Broadway should take a look at the current revival of Evita in which the pop
star Ricky Martin plays Che, the narrator of Andrew Lloyd W…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:59AMLegit News:
Musical to get a spring run in 2012-13 season
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47AMHit musical The Book of Mormon is hottest ticket in Broadway's most profitable year to dateBroadway productions have once again broken annual box-office records, grossing a total of $1.139bn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMAt a pivotal point in Bachelorette, one character offers her take on the state of contemporary womanhood: “Age 12 is when you start to hate yourself.” It’s the closest the play ever co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMPerhaps it was the offer from the blog-friendly Almeida theatre of a free ticket and a glass of white wine; or perhaps it was the bikini-clad young woman on the poster which drew me to see M…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:23AMLegit News:
Three productions set for 2012-13
SOURCE: Variety at 07:21AMMuse
of Fire producers/directors/actors Dan Poole and Giles
Terera continue their guest coverage of Globe to Globe, the staging
of Shakespeare's plays in a different language courtesy of 37
…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:10AMBristol Old Vic's historic Theatre Royal auditorium will reopen this autumn following a £10.5 million redevelopment, with two plays performed in repertory.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMSeveral months ago, local playwright Stephen Spotswood and Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks asked me how much DC theater companies feel like they are in competition with each…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AMChessington World of Adventures Resort: As part of its silver jubilee, Chessington World of Adventures is expanding its worldly remit. To this end, the zone formerly known as Toytown has tur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AM
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonOn the face of it, there's little to love about Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. The play unavoidably revels in chauvinism and, you might argue, enforces the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMBarbican, London: Characteristically precise, and illuminating in its clarity, Yukio Ninagawa's approach to Shakespeare on this occasion appears to highlight the power of pardon as one …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMThe multimedia Three-Sixty theatre tent has returned to Kensington Gardens, three years after Peter Pan, to host Rupert Goold's new production of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
CS L…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:22AMThe Quintessence Theatre Group concludes its season with an inconsistent production of Anton Chekhov’s landmark work The Seagull.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 06:13AMWe all love theatre that deals with the trials and tribulations of ordinary people; it’s the human element that we go to the theatre for, after all. Egusi Soup, a new play by Janice Okoh r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMAct quickly and grab some balcony tickets to see Brian d'Arcy and Brooke Shields host The Drama Desk awards this weekend.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:05AMIt is a magical setting: an elegant white circus tent in the lush green parkland next to Kensington Palace (William and Kate’s back yard). But the familiar tale of the Pevensie children, w…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:02AMWhen it comes to culture, especially the kind that catches the world’s attention, you might not think Chicago has much reason to envy Toronto. After all, the Art Institute is way ahead of …
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 06:00AM
Elaine Paige used to bill herself as the first lady of British musicals, but she also used to be first in a relatively small field. Julia McKenzie also made a significant mark, but that was …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50AMRachel Grossman is going to be an eighth-grader again.
Perhaps this doesn’t sound particularly appealing to you. Maybe it gives you Puberty PTSD flashbacks: teeth tangled in the prison of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:35AMLike a pair of pearl-studded garters worn beneath a thrift-store nuptial gown, there’s a morality play and a pop-psychology manifesto tucked beneath the surface of the acid comedy “Bache…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:35AMTony and Drama Desk Award-Winner Roger Bart stars in a short film, The Last Man, making its US premiere at the NY Shorts Fest tonight, May 30th. Bart will star as Will, a prisoner, who is re…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNot only did Hugh Jackman and producer Cameron Mackintosh give Les Misrables movie fans a Friday treat with this picture last week, taken on the Les Mis set, they also revealed that the firs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMChad Kimball and Guy Burnet Take on Kevin Bacon’s and Christian Slater’s roles in the stage version of “Murder in the First,” which will open June 6 at 59E59 Theate…
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:23AMA great American artist has left us. Oh, how he will be missed:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMGeorge Bernard Shaw prepared numerous color-coded pre-printed postcards with which he endeavored to stay on top of his vast incoming...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMOver the weekend I got an e-mail from my oldest friend: Middle age is a bittersweet time. As we finally...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMDavid Oistrakh and Frieda Bauer play Debussy's G Minor Violin Sonata: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you will eventually be accused of treason." Mort Sahl, Live at...
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Broadway shows brought in record revenues of $1.14 billion for the 2011-12 season, but attendance was largely flat compared to the last season, holding steady at 12.3 million. The results,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:42AMStephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's musical thriller has been captivating audiences since 1979, and has enjoyed not only theatre, but opera house productions from companies all over the worl…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:35AMShortly before he died in 2005, Arthur Miller smiled at his daughter, Rebecca, and said, “Catch!”
What he threw her way was nothing less than his literary legacy, a body of work that inc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:12AMPart of the problem in responding to the Next Wave Festival 2012 is knowing where to start. After much dithering, I'm going to begin by talking about the festival itself: I'll be posting abo…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 12:07AMActor/Writer/Producer/Youth-Arts Advocate New York, New York USA What play or production changed your life? i actually kind of bookmark my life by plays… like BIG RIVER, the first play…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThe ultimate showbiz anthem: The Lullaby of Broadwayfrom Stratford's production of 42nd Street
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Once On This Island, which features book and lyrics by Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, begins previews May 30. A multi-et…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMKevin O’Day choreographed Hamlet for the National Ballet of Canada
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMWho says you can’t go home again?
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AM Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThe Show: "Come Fly Away" at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford/
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMTeal Wicks, an Elphaba of Broadway's Wicked, will play Julie Jordan to the Billy Bigelow of James Snyder, of Broadway's Cry-Baby, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of Rodgers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Josie de Guzman, Allison Guinn and Kimberly King are part of the Alley Theatre production of Michael Frayn's on-stage and backstage farce Noises Off, which offici…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJukebox Jackie, a new musical revue by Tony Award winner Scott Wittman, based on the songs of Warhol icon and glam rock pioneer Jackie Curtis, officially opens May 30 at La MaMa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe FEED Foundation and Clarins present the first Clarins Million Meals Concert for FEED, celebrating FEED's fifth anniversary, May 30 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Michelle Wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe days when tulips were bought and sold as gold are conjured in the new musical Tulipomania: The Musical, with book, music and lyrics by Barrymore Award winner Michael Ogborn, opening May …
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 12:00AM1868 Birthday of producer/director/manager Charles Dillingham (1868-1934), whose productions included As Good as New, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Sunny, Bulldog Drummond, The Red Mill and doze…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
Memorial Day brings mixed week at box office
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThe Signature Theater Company’s busy season in its new Frank Gehry-designed home continues with a trio of late-spring openings. The first is the new monologue Title and Deed by Will Eno, t…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWe all should be very grateful to the folks at soloNOVA Arts Festival for bringing Baby Redboots' Revenge back to NYC in 2012, for a long-overdue revival. All that I'd heard about the show t…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMSubtitled "A Honky Dory Puppet Show," White Like Me takes us through the sordid history of white man's conquering of the world through the twisted eyes of Paul Zaloom. There is a lot of sarc…
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