Some plays can stretch a tiny plot for hours. They finally grind to a halt, and you’re still wondering what the heck they were trying to say.
And then there’s Alena Smith’s “The Bad…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:50PMBased on the manner in which the English National Opera marketed "Caligula" (Exhibit A: the poster above) it will come as no surprise to anyone that it really is a grisly bit of theatre. Beg…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:46PMMy dear friend, Herb (whom we lovingly rever to as “Opera Herb” because his mellifluous voice is something of a wonder), reports on the new, unique summer Chicago venue, The Rive…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:44PMBy Mark A. Newman
The 1980s and all its garish colors and awful fads (leg warmers, head bands) have come skating back to life on the stage of the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia,…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:39PMThe Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the “ITBA”) is proud to announce the 2012 recipients of the Fourth Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards, (the “the Patricks”). Patr…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:37PMBy Judd Hollander
Photos by Gregory Costanzo
Pointedly biting, wonderfully politically incorrect, and containing absolutely exquisite dialogue, Nina Raine's “Tribes” pulls no punches…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:22PMWhen you’ve been going to the theater in Chicago as long as I have, you learn to embrace the unexpected in a The Hypocrites production, especially one from founding Artistic Director Sean …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 10:17PMIt's been a strange year for music on Broadway, at least as far as the Tony Award nominations are concerned. The favorite for Best Musical isn't nominated for Best Original Score. Yet two pl…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:07PMRUN The Rogue Machine is one of the best theatre companies in Los Angeles, producing some of the finest productions anywhere. Sadly, their latest effort Where the Great Ones Run wandered off…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:00PMJaime Castañeda directs the premiere of Fernanda Coppel’s play about two young women growing up fast in Los Angeles while their fathers strain to recapture their own youth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAlena Smith's play about a filmmaker on the verge of his big break is overstuffed yet underdeveloped.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThis outstanding new play approaches the timely topic of the bullying of gay teenagers with both complexity and empathy.
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Signal Ensemble, the company with a permanent home at 1802 W. Berenice, has announced the three productions that will comprise the 2012-2013 season — its 10th anniversary. The lineup will …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:54PMPlaying yet another mustachioed character, Douglas Sills returns to the LA stage as the patriarch of the proudly oddball Addams family, opening tomorrow night at Pantages Theatre. The former…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMLegit News:
Event took place at New Amsterdam Theater in Gotham
SOURCE: Variety at 06:42PMHere's a lovely paragraph from Tammy Ryan's blog post about Pittsburgh theatre from the perspective of the playwright. The post just appeared yesterday on HowlRound. When I first moved to Pi…
SOURCE: Extra Criticum at 06:37PMFor its 50th anniversary celebration, the folks at the Dramatists Guild Fund knew they needed to come up with an extra-special honoree, and they did: legendary composer John Kander! The man …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMThe star-studded West Coast performance of the gay marriage play "8" led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt will be heard again this month -- on radio and online.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:29PMNEW YORK—The star-studded West Coast performance of the gay marriage play "8" led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt will be heard again this month—on radio and online.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:28PMThe biggest stars of the New York stage aligned at the Town Hall on June 3 for the 2012 Drama Desk Awards, a fun, festive event honoring the best of Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:25PM“Potted Potter,” at the Little Shubert Theater, takes a humorous look at the seven Harry Potter books in 70 minutes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:17PMWilkie Ferguson, III, currently performing in the ten-time Tony Award nominated The Gershwins Porgy and Bess on Broadway, makes his NYC solo concert debut at The Triad Theater 158 West 72nd …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMBroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you sp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMEarlier 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 06:02PMHell isn’t other people. It’s an evening at the theatre. On a lighter note, here’s Dom Joly in The Independent on the horrible experience of going to the theater. For the s…
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It's time for episode six of BWW's newest exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this hilarious new edition, it's all things Patti LuPone. Randy lip-syncs chapter 12…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company closes the 201112 season with Three Sisters, Anton Chekhovs humorous and affecting tale of longing for a better life, adapted by Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:57PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Crow" by Walkabout Theater ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Crow" by Walkabout Theater ★½ ... Jeremy Sher's new one-man show is about a man's solo voyage across the North …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:51PMCheck out the new trailer for EVITA on Broadway, starring Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris Watch the video below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:49PMOn a special Tony Awards edition of "Working in the Theatre" host Ted Chapin, Chairman of the American Theatre Wing, takes viewers behind the scenes with Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, Exec…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:48PMA one-man show.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:44PMTracie Bennett, James Corden, Judy Kaye, Judith Light, Audra McDonald and more share their reaction on their historic victories.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:41PMPresident George HW Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush attended the Ogunquit Playhouse's production of Always, Patsy Cline on Sunday, June 3.
Stars Sally Struthers (as Louise) and Carter Calv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:37PMTony Awards will feature more performances than ever before. From the press release: "The evening, which will be packed with more entertainment than ever before, will feature performanc…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:36PMBroadway veteran Benjamin Walker may star in director Edward Zwick’s upcoming film The Great Wall, according to Deadline.com. Produced by Legendary Pictures, the film has already cast …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:27PMTwice in a row, the Albuquerque Little Theatre has filled its house with color, music, and exhilarating dancing. Xanadu was a spectacle on rolling skates, and Singin' in the Rain features so…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23PMSignal Ensemble Theatre has announced its 2012-13 season, the company's 10th season of operation.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PMCharlie Hofheimer is set to join the cast of Nicky Silver's new comedy THE LYONS on Broadway at the Cort Theatre 138 W. 48 St. starting Tuesday, June 12. Mr. Hofheimer assumes the role of Cu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMJoe Cassidy, Carrie Manolakos, Patti Murin, Kyle Post, Rachel Potter, Daniel Reichard, and 2/3 Goat will perform in Unicorn Jamboree, to be presented at Industry Bar (355 W 52nd Street), on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:09PMAcclaimed author Joan Didion will appear at the Westport Country Playhouse for a June 17 symposium centering on her one-woman play The Year of Magical Thinking.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:00PM
Premium tickets topped out at $499 apiece for the last performances of the Tony-nominated revival of Arthur Miller's play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:57PMGet ready to take a hilarious and fast-paced ride on the Hogswarts Express as Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, a parody of the popular Harry Potter book series, pulls into o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMGet ready to take a hilarious ride on the Hogswarts Express as Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, a parody of the popular Harry Potter book series, pulls into off-Broadway&rsq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMDogs all of all shapes and sizes are expected to audition for the role of Toto in CBC's new live reality competition series Over The Rainbow.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:55PMTwo-time Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen and Patricia Conolly (The Coast of Utopia) attended the Off-Broadway hit FREUD’S LAST SESSION on Friday, June 1st at New World Stages. Below, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PM“I’ve been to the barbecue before and you can’t do a single thing once they run out of ribs,” says Kristin Chenoweth about cancelled series GCB.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:43PMThe director of “Murder in the First” finds the human story in awful crimes Even when he’s not in a scene, he’s on stage for most of the play. Curled on his prison ma…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:37PMA musical adaptation of the 1996 Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings is in the works, according to Variety. The new musical will tell the story of "the Rumble in the Jungle,&qu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMPop singer Joe Jonas, who was in Las Vegas to judge the 2012 Miss USA pageant, visited the late show of Cirque du Soleil's O at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on Sunday, June 3.
O, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:34PMThis it it- your final week to catch up on this season's hottest shows before the 2012 Tony Awards on June 10 Make your Tony predictions count this year by seeing all you can before awards n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMMad Men’s Charlie Hofheimer will assume the role of Curtis Lyons in Nicky Silver’s The Lyons beginning June 12 at the Cort Theatre. Hofheimer will take over the role from it…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:28PMThe producers of the 2012 Tony Awards have announced the line-up of performances for the ceremony celebrating the 66th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. The evening, which will be pac…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:28PMPlaybill.com offers a look at the nominees for the 66th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards in the categories of Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and Musical and Bes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:26PMCharlie Hofheimer, who plays the role of Abe Drexler on AMC-TV's Mad Men, will join the Broadway cast of Nicky Silvers' The Lyons, beginning June 12. He takes over the role from o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMMCC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director announced today that Emmanuelle Chriqui Entourage, The Borgias and Cheyenne Jack…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMNational Asian Artists Project presents a staged reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical Carousel June 4 at 7:30 PM at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMCheyenne Jackson and Emmanuelle Chriqui have joined MCC’s The Heart of the Matter, a four-night-only benefit event. Written by Neil LaBute and directed by Carolyn Cantor, the collectio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMWhat brought you to this production of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man? I grew up with Gore Vidal. I was a huge fan of his fiction. In fact, I was reading mostly everything he had written, espec…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:08PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 632012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMYesterday, June 3, The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at The Town Hall, celebrating this year's big winners. The festivities were presided over by star of stage and screen Brooke Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMMulti-award-winning actress play Frances Conroy will play Maybelle Carter in Lifetime's upcoming bio-film about singer June Carter Cash, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The proje…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PMUnicorn Jamboree, an evening of performances from Broadway actors to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will be offered June 5 at NYC's Industry Bar.
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According to Variety, the 1996 documentary 'When We Were Kings' is being turned into a stage musical. Producers revealed that the show will feature musical from the film's soundtrack, which …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMTHE LIBRETTO NEVER REALLY WORKS, BUT THIS PRODUCTION SURE DOES Camelot is a good musical that should be better. After all, it was composed by the team of Lerner and Loewe, of My Fair Lady i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:58PMGreen Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong made a surprise visit last night to the first national tour of Green Days AMERICAN IDIOT. Check out a snapshot below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMKash left the show after her husband, comedian Paul O'Sullivan, died in a car accident. She will return for the final two shows this weekend.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 03:54PMAlso Musicals 'Into the Woods' and 'Show Boat'The Connecticut Critics Circle named Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “Water by the Spoonful” the best play of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:54PMChuck Cooper, Adriane Lenox, and Lillias White will star in a benefit staged reading of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner on June 18 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:52PMA new batch of Broadway and TV stars have joined the roster of celebrities appearing on the Tony Awards telecast. Evita headliner Ricky Martin, Glee’s Matthew Morri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMA new batch of Broadway and TV stars have joined the roster of celebrities appearing on the Tony Awards telecast. Evita headliner Ricky Martin, Glee’s Matthew Morri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMThe Tony Awards has announced the line-up of performances for the 66th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. The evening will be packed with more entertainment than ever before.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 03:51PMOLD JEWS TELLING JOKES opened at off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre last month and was featured in The Star Ledger and Newsday this weekend. STAR LEDGER: “In an empty Highland Park storef…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:47PMYesterday, June 3, The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at The Town Hall, celebrating this year's big winners. The festivities were presided over by star of stage and screen Brooke Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:44PMCast members from the London production of War Horse participated in The National Theatre's Jubilee Salute to The Queen on Sunday, June 3 by bringing Joey (the horse puppet featured in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMBernadette PetersTracie BennettCelebrity Red Carpet Arrivals at the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards came out in style wearing their best as they strike a pose for Thetarlife.com. Outstanding A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:41PMThe troupe moved beyond its northern Indian roots to bring in flamenco and gospel in a lively show at O'Shaughnessy.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:40PMCharlie Hofheimer, who is best known as Abe Drexler, the boyfriend of Elizabeth Moss' character Peggy Olson on AMC-TV's "Mad Men," will join the cast of Nicky Silver's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMMorgan Freeman and Elie Wiesel received Lincoln Medals at the Ford's Theatre Annual Gala on Sunday, June 3.
The event, which honors courageous achievement through performance, was hos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMThe Town Hall s 123 West 43rd Street Broadway By The Years 12th season will conclude with The Broadway Musicals of 1987 on Monday, June 11th at 8PM. It was a year that brought us shows incl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThree of Chicago’s most gifted actress-singers — E. Faye Butler, Susan Moniz and Hollis Resnik — have been selected by the Ten Chimneys Foundation to participate in the 2012 Lunt-Fonta…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:34PMThe Tony Awards will include a live broadcast from the middle of the Caribbean Sea, where Tony Awards partner Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas’ cast of Hairspray will pe…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 03:34PMAtlantic Theater Company's world-premiere production of Fernanda Coppel's play Chimichangas and Zoloft, featuring Teddy Cañez, Zabryna Guevara, Alfredo Narciso, Xochitl R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMGCB’s cancellation is already old news for Kristin Chenoweth, who is winning standing ovations across the country for her exciting new two-act concert, which blends Broadway hits (her …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31PMBay Street Theatre has announced the line-up for its 2012 Comedy Club.
The kick-off will be the All Star Comedy Showcase on Monday, June 11, hosted by Joseph Vecsey, and featuring Yannis Pa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMThe Centenary Stage Company has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will open with a 60th anniversary production of Agatha Christie's murder mystery The Mousetrap (Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMOnce On This Island, starring "American Idol" finalist Syesha Mercado as Ti Moune, opened June 3 at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. Here are highlights from the musical, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMThe Weekly Howl is an open discussion about theater culture and the new works field that happens every Tuesday 12pm-1pm PDT (San Francisco) /1pm-2pm MDT / 2pm-3pm CDT (Chicago) / 3pm-4pm ED…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:27PMMost shows saw a dip in their receipts during a week where Wicked remained at the top spot. The Tony-nominated revival of Death of a Salesman played its final performance on June 2, breaking…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PMThe rapier wit of Noel Coward meets the assured experience of Director Maria Aitken, a pitch-perfect leading couple in Bianca Amato and James Waterston, and the outstanding production values…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:26PMCasting has been announced for L.A. Theatre Works upcoming production of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version, which will be recorded to air on the company's syndicated radio se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMCheyenne Jackson and Emmanuelle Chriqui will join Krysten Ritter for MCC Theater's benefit run of The Heart of the Matter, a collection of short plays by Tony-nominated playwright Neil L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMEmmanuelle Chriqui and Cheyenne Jackson will join the previously reported Krysten Ritter in MCC Theater's benefit presentation of Neil LaBute's The Heart of the Matter, running Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:23PMMore than 20 years after its premiere, Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens have re-invented their first musical with Tony-nominated director Thomas Kail In the Heights, Lombardi, MagicBird, choreograph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMBronx native Giancarlo Esposito at the New York Botanical Garden. Giancarlo Esposito, now starring in Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of John Patrick Shanley’s play …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:20PMThe John W. Engeman Theater at Northport announces its next special event in their ongoing Broadway Concert Series on Saturday, June 23 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMThe roles of Cyrano de Bergerac and Daddy Warbucks have been cast. Who gets to put on the nose and shave their head? Tony Winner Douglas Hodge will play the title role of Cyrano in Roundabou…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:19PMBARED SOULS AND BARE FLESH The huge production of Ray of Light Theatre’s The Full Monty may be packed into the tiny Eureka Theater (opening night was squirming-room-only), but it asto…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18PMToday we are continuing the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown with another pairing sure to instigate ample amounts of approbation and opprobrium - now, just as it did twenty-five years ago - t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMOur next victim is Jessie Mueller, who received her first nomination for a dazzling Broadway debut as jazz singer Melinda Wells in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever". Click on to find out…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:15PMBerkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab 5th Season Gala Celebration on June 9 at 730pm and staged readings of new plays on July 11, July 23, August 8, and August…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMElizabeth Franz, Jay Thomas and Treat Williams will appear at the Berkshire Playwrights Lab Gala, featuring a new short play by David Mamet, June 9 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:15PMGet to know 2012 Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, who has garnered her second nomination for playing Molly, a young girl destined to save the world in Peter and the Starcatcher. Click …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PMAs 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 03:14PMBroadway on Tour June
This month, Broadway's biggest blockbuster is touring nationwide as the Emerald City comes alive at WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz. Find out what ha…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:13PMOur next nominee is Condola Rashad, who received her first Tony nod for her Broadway debut performance as Cheryl, the precocious 18-year-old daughter of a maid in the family drama "Stick Fly…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:13PMGolden GlobeR Award winning actress Frances Conroy Six Feet Under and music pioneer John Doe X have joined the cast of the Lifetime Original Movie RING OF FIRE fka The June Carter Cash Story…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMEmmy Award winner and stage star Michael Emerson, and Broadway veterans Max Casella, Sally Hawkins, and Peter Sarsgaard are among the actors who have joined the cast of Woody Allen's n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMThis week's installment of Broadway.com's Gotta Dance! series features Cameron Adams, who plays glitzy chorus girl Olive in the new Gershwin tuner "Nice Work If You Can Get It." Adams, who w…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:09PMThe Town Hall, New Yorks landmark theatre and concert venue, just announced the 6th annual Summer Broadway Festival created, written, and hosted by Scott Siegel for the Town Hall. Presented …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMToday, we bring you David Carroll circa 1986. Carroll was nominated for two Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Musical in 1988 for Chess and again in 1990 for Grand Hotel. Carroll also received …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:01PM
Adirondack Theatre Festival will launch its 18th summer season with a one-week engagement of A.R. Gurney's Black Tie, starring Emmy winner Thom Christopher ("One Life to Live,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMBroadway heartthrob Jeremy Jordan nabbed his first Tony nomination this season for his heartfelt portrayal of rabble-rousing newsboy Jack Kelly in Disney's hit musical "Newsies."
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:58PMThe world premiere of the musical Los Otros, with has book and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh and music by Michael John LaChiusa, opened at the Mark Taper Forum, on Sunday, June 3. The production …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:56PMThe John W. Engeman Theater has announced the performers set for the next installment of its Broadway Concert Series, which will take place June 23 at 8pm. Musical direction and accompanime…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:53PMYesterday, June 3, the Dramatists Guild Fund hosted their 50th Anniversary Gala at the Mandarin Oriental New York. This years event, hosted by Jon Cryer, honored Chicago and Cabaret composer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMThe Paper Mill Playhouse's new production of Once On This Island, which features book and lyrics by Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, officially opened June 3 at 7 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:49PMThe world premiere production of Jay Jacobson's Mental Creatures is set to play July 12-August 18 at Lounge Theatre 2. Randy Brenner will direct.
Mental Creatures features Jay Jacobso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMAdditional artists have been announced for the 66th Annual Tony Awards, which will be presented June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:46PMLarry Blossom gives a first-person account of the creative wellsprings of his latest production. “I have always wanted to write. Even as a boy, growing up in the small town of Pueblo, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMThe Town Hall has announced the line-up for its 6th Annual Summer Broadway Festival.
The festival will begin on July 16 with Frank Sinatra, Jr. and his Octet in Frank Sinatra Jr. Sings Sina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMThese days, it seems that the Belasco Theatre’s "Rainbow Room" boasts as many famous faces as the wall at Sardi’s. On the weekend on June 1, Tony nominee Tracie Bennett…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:41PM“My View” by Stephen Sorokoff There were some new high end car models that came out this year and at the Carlyle Hotel, Jim Caruso & Billy Stritch, likewise, presented their f…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:37PMBreaking Pointe - Series Premiere - Survival of the Fittest - Full Epsiode Recap - CircleNoStar
Breaking Pointe CW reality series premiere episode, "Survival of the Fittest"
The …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:36PMProducers of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidals THE BEST MAN have announced that Obie Award winner MARK BLUM will permanently assume the role of Dick Jensen, the role regular…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMUpdating casting for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as translated by Tracy Letts, has been released according to the Chicago Tribune…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMFull casting has been announced for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, as translated by Tracy Letts. Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMONCE: The most Tony-nominated show of 2012!
Now the BEST MUSICAL winner of the Outer Critics Circle Awards and a total of 11 Tony Award nominations, including BEST MUSICAL. http://oncemusic…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:30PMTCG has long championed the artistic, moral and civic imperative of diversity. In 2008, we joined more than 4,000 arts practitioners at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver wher…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:28PMA LETTER TO HARVEY MILK, a new musical which was a finalist in this years prestigious Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater, is one of 10 musical plays being presented by the 2012 New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:28PMPeir Sea Sun, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 02:28PMThe actors selected to be 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows by the Ten Chimneys Foundation have been announced.
This year's members are E. Faye Butler, Christopher Bloch, Colman Domingo, Nick…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMBerkshire Playwrights Lab has announced an updated line-up for its 5th Season Gala Celebration on June 9.
The multi-media event will feature new short plays by Richard Dresser, Dipika Guha,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMTony nominee Liz Callaway will celebrate the work of composers Stephen Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim in her new concert act, Even Stephen, which will debut July 30 at Manha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:19PMOver the past six weeks, A Younger Theatre has been collaborating with the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney (ATYP) to showcase the best new monologue writing from ATYP’s emerg…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PMDance of the Vampires producer David Sonenberg is developing a new musical based on the George Foreman-Muhammad Ali documentary "When We Were Kings," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMGreen Day's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong made a surprise visit to the first national touring company of American Idiot, on Sunday, June 3 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMGregory R. Tate, a co-founding artistic direcvtor of Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble, died Sunday night in a cancer center outside of Chicago. Tate, who was birn and raised in Chicago, was 6…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:07PMSaturday night, after giving her all on stage as if that wasn't enough, Kristin Chenoweth hosted a fundraising event upstairs in the Grand Tier of City Center for her charity, Maddie's Corne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMSam Hoffman, creator of "Old Jews Telling Jokes, " a popular website and, now, an off-Broadway show NEW YORK — In an empty Highland Park storefront in 2008, at his son’s sugges…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:00PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
A would-be filmmaker who betrays his boyhood friends by putting their shared secret into his first movie.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM
In Forsythe, Hubbard Street Dance shows us what happens when the music goes away, when a stomp or slap echoes through the space. The result is a piece of moving modern art, the ultimate rewa…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:59PMMark Blum, the busy New York actor who originated the role of campaign manager Dick Jensen in the 2000 Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, will permanently take over the same …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMFormer In the Heights star and American Idol champion Jordin Sparks has been added to the list of presenters for the 11th annual CMT Music Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52PMMuch Ado About Nothing: Grand Staircase | Behind the Scenes | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Scenic Carpenter Mark Smith describes the construction of the grand staircase that appears in Mu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:51PMLeslie Kritzer will star in Laura I. Kramer, Ellen M. Schwartz, and Jerry James' musical A Letter to Harvey Milk as part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival Next Link Project,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:49PMJune 4, 2012By Nina SankovitchAuthor of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, a memoir of a year of reading a book a day and rediscovering joy, after experiencing terrible grief.I remember reading T…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 01:45PMTHE COLUMNIST: Extended Through July 8
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:42PMA special Tony Awards edition of the American Theatre Wing's "Working in the Theatre" spotlights the Tony Awards.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 01:41PMBroadway vet Mark Blum will assume the role of Dick Jensen in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man beginning June 5. Blum succeeds original star Michael McKean, who, as pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMObie Award winner Mark Blum will permanently take over the role of Dick Jensen in the Broadway production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, beginning Tuesda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:35PMJames Earl Jones, thunder-voiced actor of stage and screen, is the 2012 recipient of the Marian Anderson Award, Mayor Nutter announced today, citing Jones’ "culture-changing" theater r…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:30PMTom Deckman, who was seen on Broadway in Monty Pyton's Spamalot and Good Vibrations, will play the title role in Arnie the Doughnut, which will be presented as part of the 2012 New York …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMDavid Alan Grier scored his third Tony nomination this year as Catfish Row’s drug dealing pimp, Sporting Life, in the acclaimed revival of Porgy and Bess. Grier, who became a breakout …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PMEarlier, I posted about Carey Perloff’s article in the Huffington Post and some responses to it on Theatre Bay Area’s Chatterbox. Once again, the final word goes to the brilliant…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:24PMThe Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of "Three Sisters," as translated by Tracy Letts and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, is to feature a very different cast from the one originally annou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:20PMStage and screen star Samuel L. Jackson will host Spike TV's Video Game Awards, which will air live December 7, according to Deadline.com.
Jackson starred on Broadway earlier this seas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMKathleen Turner will direct and star in Jeffrey Hatcher's new adaptation of Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George at the
Long Wharf Theatre, November 28-December 23. The prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMThe 57th annual Drama Desk Awards, celebrating excellence in Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theatre, were presented last night. DEATH OF A SALESMAN won Outstanding Revival of a …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:16PMHeart Shaped Eureka MomentSometimes I think our thoughts swim in our heads with their own currents and tides. And that when a realization or revelation rises to the surface or arrives on our…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:16PMPaul Rudd and Michael Shannon are teaming up for a Broadway production of "Grace," a play by Craig Wright that is expected to open Oct. 4 in New York. The production will also star 82-year-o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:16PMClayton Phillips will direct Miami Beach Stage Door Theatre's production of Ira Levin's Deathtrap at the Byron Carlyle, June 15-July 1.
In Deathtrap, a once famed playwright is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:14PMBroadwayWorld has seen and covered many concerts over the years, but never have we witnessed anything like what we saw on stage at City Center on Saturday night, June 2nd.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMRoyal Caribbean International has announced that they will partner with the Tony Awards to include a live broadcast from the middle of the Caribbean Sea, where the line's Oasis of the Seas' …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:10PMSometimes, when partisan politics piss me off, I try--with increasing difficulty as I age--to see the issue from the other side. "They infuriate us as much as we infuriate them," I reason, "…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:10PMLondon is in full celebration mode at the moment as Queen Elizabeth II marks her Diamond Jubilee, the 60th anniversary of ascending the throne at age 25. On June 3, War Horse’s star pu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMWe’ve made our predictions, and tonight I’ll be on hand with some other fellow bloggers and such to see who snags a Jeff. I’ll be twittering the highlights, so follow alo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 01:03PMTony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave will guest star on the upcoming USA drama "Political Animals," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PM
Fells Point Corner Theatre announces auditions for A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE By Martin McDonagh Synopsis- In Martin McDonagh’s first American-set play, we are introduced to four quirky charac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:59PMOn June 3, Hollywood leading man Clive Owen took a trip to the Astor Place Theatre to meet off-Broadway’s three favorite blue fellas. The Hemingway & Gellhorn and Inside Man s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMTonight, Monday, June 4 at 7:30 PM in front of Buckingham Palace, Andrew Lloyd Webber (currently represented on Broadway with THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and the Tony Award-nominated production…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 12:57PMThe Off-Broadway production of Mike Bartlett's play Cock will offer a post-performance talkback on Thursday, June 14. The production runs at the Duke on 42nd street.
The discussion wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:54PMAs we gear up for this weekend’s Tony Honors and Tony Awards, we wanted to share the article, “Freddie Gershon: Building the Broadway Audience by Empowering Young Performers̶…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:50PMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth performed in concert June 2 at New York City Center, as part of her previously reported concert tour.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMItalian playwright Alberto Bassetti's Two Sisters, Two Brothers, a pairing of two one-acts, will get an American premiere June 7-24 at Off-Off-Broadway's Theater for the New City. Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe Drama Desk Awards were handed out last night with many of Broadway's current shows taking top honors including Outstanding Musical winner ONCE, PORGY AND BESS, OTHER DESERT CITIES, END O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMYoung Jews Blogging "Late to the Show"
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http://oldjewstellingjokesonstage.com
Bill loses sleep.
Join cast members Bill Army and Audrey Lynn We…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:38PMA Typographer, a Geographer, and a Stenographer; perhaps the beginning of a new ‘guy walks into a bar’ style joke but in this case they are the three main focal points of the Iron Crow T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMBay Street Theatre celebrated the opening of Geraldine Aron's My Brilliant Divorce on Saturday, June 2.
Polly Draper stars in this one-woman show about American ex-pat Angela whose irr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:32PMEd Wynn, like so many of his fellow luminaries of the teens and twenties (Groucho Marx, George M. Cohan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc etc etc) made his home in Great Neck, Long Island. This Thur…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:31PMCasting has been announced for Sell a Door Theatre Company and Greenwich Theatre's production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys, running June 18-24.
The production will feature R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMMy play, The Little One, is available for sale for mere pennies over at indietheaternow.com. Get your copy today!
SOURCE: Jamespeak at 12:30PM57th Annual Drama Desk Award Winners: The prequels to the Tony’s are the Drama Desk Awards, which combine off, off-off and Broadway performances together.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:29PMRoyal Caribbean International has partnered with the Tony Awards to include a live broadcast from the middle of the Caribbean Sea, where the line's Oasis of the Seas'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMManhattan Theatre Club announces the third and final extension for the world premiere of The Columnist, the new play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award wi…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:20PMAugust Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company's production of Strindberg's Playing with Fire will move to the Gene Frankel Theatre from June 15-30 after it complet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:18PMRising Phoenix Repertory has announced the final two plays set for its Cino Nights series of world premieres. Both productions will take place at Jimmy's No. 43.
Cusi Cram's Radi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMKansas City Repertory Theatres artistic director Eric Rosen has selected the creative team for his staging of the Reps 2012-13 season opener Pippin, a musical by Stephen Schwartz music and l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:13PMKansas City Repertory Theatres artistic director Eric Rosen has selected the creative team for his staging of the Reps 2012-13 season opener Pippin, a musical by Stephen Schwartz music and l…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMPaul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Ed Asner, and Kate Arrington are set for Craig Wright's Grace. The limited engagement will begin September 14 with an opening of October 4th. Dexter Bullard will …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:12PMHomeless youth working towards brighter futures will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars at Covenant House's A Night of Broadway Stars gala on Tuesday, June 1…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMCome hear the music play in this celebration of the songwriting team who created Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Zorba, and many more hits. Featuring a 23-piece orchestra and a c…
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMRyan Scott Oliver's 35mm A Musical Exhibition, which played an acclaimed, extended New York run last winter, will be produced by Dayton Ohio's Encore Theater Company.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMSpider-Man Turn Off the Dark choreographer Chase Brock will create the physical world of the Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Pippin this September.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMThe 2012 Tony Awards are drawing near In just under a week, the best of Broadway will gather with host Neil Patrick Harris at the Beacon Theatre for a three-hour ceremony, which will be broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMSoho, LondonWhen the party's over, there's the mess to clear up. The mess is not just physical but emotional in the Edinburgh flat that Benny (Danny Kirrane), Mack (Samuel Edward Cook),…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMStage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Brian d'Arcy James hosted the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards June 3 at 8 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AMHammersmith Apollo, LondonAbout 15 minutes into this collaboration between English National Ballet and Flawless, a love duet between two of the cast holds out the promise of a larger collect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMHappy Birthday, Mary Testa Testa is a two-time Tony Award nominee, for performances in revivals of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town 1998 and 42nd Street 2001. She made her debut as Miss Goldb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMTony-nominated actor Josh Gad will depart the Tony-winning production of The Book of Mormon on June 6, according to the actor’s Twitter page. Gad is leaving to star and co-executi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMMay 27th marked what would have been the one-hundredth anniversary of writer John Cheever’s birth. June 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMFernanda Coppel’s Chimichangas and Zoloft opened off-Broadway on June 3, and Broadway.com has a first look at this delicious new comedy. The world premiere production the effect on two…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMWhoopi Goldberg will host The Lily Sarah Grace Fund's Summer Solstice Evening, to be presented at the New Victory Theater on Thursday, June 21 at 7pm.
The event will celebrate the spir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:42AMThe Tony Awards will be heavy on showcasing works on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:41AMThe Tony Awards will be heavy on showcasing works on Broadway this season, with performances from Ricky Martin, Raul Esparza, Audra McDonald, Matthew Broderick and the casts of "Godspell" an…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:39AMThe low-tech Broadway romance Once won a leading four Drama Desk Awards on Sunda. y
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 11:39AMThe world-premiere Broadway engagement of David Auburn's The Columnist, starring 2012 Tony Award nominee John Lithgow, is being extended for the final time, now to July 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMAndrew Keenan-Bolger teams up with his favorite ladies of musical theatre to chat and sing. Episode One features Maddy Trumble. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Maddy Trumble has p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMNEW YORK—The Tony Awards will be heavy on showcasing works on Broadway this season, with performances from Ricky Martin, Raul Esparza, Audra McDonald, Matthew Broderick and the casts o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:34AMThe creative team for Kansas City Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of the musical Pippin has been announced. The production runs September 14-October 7 at Spencer Theatre.
Chase…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AM(cross-posted at Train My Ear)I'm not entirely approving of the Tori Amos-ish direction of Regina Spektor's new record, but there's no arguing with the catchiness of "All the Rowboats." It's…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:32AM The Town Hall ‘s (123 West 43rd Street) critically acclaimed Broadway By The Year’s ® 12th season will conclude with The Broadway Musicals of 1987 on Monday, June 11th at 8PM. It was…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:31AMWith the Tony Awards less than a week away, Broadway fans can’t help but speculate which talented actors will be recognized for their work. This year eight leading actors from plays an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMThe stars of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - Christian Borle, Adam Chanler-Berat and Celia Keenan-Bolger - are set for a June 14 signing of the show's annotated script. They'll be joined by play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMSeth Rudetsky will celebrate the launch of his new entertainment network, Seth TV, by hosting and music directing a benefit June 18 at XL.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMCanal Park Playhouse is set to present MOMENTum: a night of music, theatre and miscellany as part of its free The Back Room Reading Series, June 13 at 7pm. The event is hosted and curated b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:29AMTonight, Monday, June 4 at 730 PM in front of Buckingham Palace, Andrew Lloyd Webber currently represented on Broadway with THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and the Tony Award-nominated productions …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMTony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave will guest star as lesbian Supreme Court Justice Diane Nash in the new USA television drama Political Animals, according to Deadline. Created by Greg Berla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMPaul Rudd and Michael Shannon will join forces on Broadway this fall to star in Craig Wright's Grace. The play also stars Edward Asner and Kate Arrington. Dexter Bullard directs the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:22AMPotted Potter has played to sold out houses in Toronto, London, Edinburgh, Australia and New Zealand, and made its US debut on Saturday May 19th at the Little Shubert Theatre. The production…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMThis is the first year that Ill be watching the Tonys with my child. After a terrific Broadway season packed with family-friendly offerings, my eight year old and I are ready to enjoy the s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMOff-Broadway's Peccadillo Theater presents a sold-out reading of Eugene O'Neill's rarely-seen play The Straw June 4 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMMusic legend Aretha Franklin and stage and screen star Denzel Washington attended recent performances of the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Bro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:15AMPaul Rudd and Ed Asner are heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's "Grace."
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 11:14AMThere is less than a week to go before the big night and, finally, we have a complete list of Tony Award performances! The 2012 Tony Awards will feature more performances than ever before! …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:14AMIn this first-look video, Steve Kazee and his castmates take to the studio for the original cast recording of Once, the new musical nominated for eleven 2012 Tony Awards, including Best Musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMThe Town Hall's 2012 Broadway by the Year series will conclude Monday, June 11 with The Broadway Musicals of 1987.
Hits from musicals including Les Miserables, Into the Woods, and Star…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMBuckle up, gang, the years are flying by again as we hit the gas on our time machine. With 1972, 1982 and 1992 in our rear view mirror, 2002 is rising before us in all its palindromic glory.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:06AMStage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Brian d'Arcy James hosted the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards June 3 at 8 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMManhattan Theatre Club announces the third and final extension for the world premiere of THE COLUMNIST, the new play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award wi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:05AMThe Tony Awards has announced the line-up of performances for the 66th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th. The evening, which will be packed with more entertainment than ever before, wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMNominations for the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced at a news conference this morning by Drama Desk winners Donna Murphy and Brian dArcy James. The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMNEW YORK - Paul Rudd and Ed Asner are heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's "Grace."
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SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:03AMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces Tony® Award winner Douglas Hodge will star in a new Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, with a…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:02AMAustralia’s preeminent musical theatre and opera star Anthony Warlow will make his Broadway debut as billionaire Daddy Warbucks in the new production of ANNIE, the Tony Award-winning class…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:00AMWe had hoped to announce the finalists for our 10 Minute Play contest last Friday . . . but frankly, we were overwhelmed with so many submissions . . . and so many damn good ones . . . that …
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SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:00AMKS Stevens' new musical comedy Big Excellent 20th Reunion will be presented at Theatre 80, June 6-23. The production is co-directed by Regie Cabico and Natalie Malotke, and choreographe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe legal case pitting director Julie Taymor against the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is underway in a federal court in New York. Though the trial isn't …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
Paul Rudd and Ed Asner are heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's "Grace."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:59AMThe new Broadway musical Once walked away the biggest winner last evening at the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards, one of the more prestigious award shows of the theatrical season due to the vo…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:57AMDriven by the repartee between two Mexican-American girls, this play confirms its writer Fernanda Coppel as a vibrant new voice, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 10:56AMAnthony Warlow, the Australian actor currently playing Daddy Warbucks in an Australian production of Annie at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, will assume the role on Broadway this October. The…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:53AMThe Town Hall's Broadway By The Year season will conclude June 11 at 8 PM with The Broadway Musicals of 1987.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMNEW YORK—Paul Rudd and Ed Asner are heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's "Grace." Producers said Monday the production about a young couple trying to start a new life in…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:52AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Paul Rudd and Ed Asner are heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's "Grace."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:52AMManhattan Theatre Club has announced the third and final extension of its world premiere of David Auburn's The Columnist. Daniel Sullivan directs the production at MTC's Broadway h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMDirected by Adam Shankman Hairspray, New Line Cinema's adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical ROCK OF AGES hits theaters June 15th. Get a first listen to the soundtrack from the upcomi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMOn a special Tony Awards edition of "Working in the Theatre" host Ted Chapin, Chairman of the American Theatre Wing, takes viewers behind the scenes with Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, Exec…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:50AMYesterday, June 3, The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at The Town Hall, celebrating this year's big winners. The festivities were presided over by star of stage and screen Brooke Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMYesterday, June 3, The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at The Town Hall, celebrating this year's big winners. The festivities were presided over by star of stage and screen Brooke Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMLegit Reviews||Abroad:
Polly Findlay's production of Sophocles' tragedy is set in a Cold War-era bunker, where women in suits pass folders to uniformed army officers; functionar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:47AMJune 4 (Bloomberg) -- Christian Borle, an actor appearing in "Peter and the Starcatcher" and on the television series, "Smash," discusses his career and his 2012 Tony Award nomination. Borle…
SOURCE: Bloomberg at 10:47AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 3, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,657 4,900 52.44% $61.15 ANYTHING GOES $41…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThe Royal Court Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning hit play COCK offers a Talkback after the 8pm performance on Thursday, June 14. Written by Mike Bartlett, directed by James Macdonald and …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:43AMLegit News:
Attendance drops in slow week
SOURCE: Variety at 10:41AMphoto by Jason HornickJacqueline E. Lawton Hometown: Tennessee Colony, TexasCurrent Town: Washington, D.C.Q: What are you working on now? A: Right now, I’m finishing Bend and Sway, Don’t…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:40AM"The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection," a 22-DVD set featuring 50 episodes from the award-winning TV series "The Carol Burnett Show," will be released by Time …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMGreg Pierce’s new play, Slowgirl begins performances today, June 4. The two-person play stars Emmy winner and Sarah Steele and Zeljko Ivanek. This is the world premiere production and o…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:37AMThe Best Man, at Broadway's Schoenfeld TheatreGratuitous Violins rating: **** out of ****Usually I know way too much about a show going in, so I'm glad I restrained myself with The Best Man …
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 10:32AMIf I had to identify the one thing that taught me the most about producing when I first got started it was doing internships and volunteering for projects. It was a great opportunity for me …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMYesterday, June 3, The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were held at The Town Hall, celebrating this year's big winners. The festivities were presided over by star of stage and screen Brooke Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThe acclaimed new musical Once led the Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, earning four awards, including the prize for best musical. This top honor adds to its recent success and gives it momentum…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:24AMLegendary director Spike Lee looks set to direct Mike Tyson's one man show MIKE TYSON UNDISPUTED TRUTH in a Broadway production this Summer, according to TMZ.com.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe 2012 Tony Awards have announced the performance lineup for the June 10 ceremony at the Beacon Theatre. The evening will include performances from Tony-nominated musicals Evita (featuring…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMFor every two or three hats most people wear in the theatre world, Joe Banno wears four or five. Over the last 25 years he has directed over 100 theatre productions, many of them operas and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AMPictured above scenes from recently reviewed. . . My Children! My Africa!- The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hu…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:11AMThe "Mary Tyler Moore" actor will star alongside Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon in the production.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:10AMPerformers have been announced for the 66th Annual Tony Awards, which will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre on CBS, Sunday, June 10. As previously reported, stage and screen star Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMGreg Pierce’s world premiere production of Slowgirl begins performances off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater’s new Claire Tow Theater on June 4. Directed by Anne Kauffman, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AMThe Tony Awards has announced the line-up of performances for the 66th Annual Tony Awards, which will be presented June 10 in an evening hosted by Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AM"One Man,Two Guvnors," "Nice Work," and "Follies" also took home Drama Desk Awards, which honor Broadway and Off-Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
Henry V | "Enter Henry V" | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
An introduction to Shakespeare's second group of history plays, known as the Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 …
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:57AM"Lungs," a New England premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, through June 10th, is a contemporary and eclectic two person comic drama which has staying and stick…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37AMThis is probably as I'll ever get to a "manifesto". It's about the nonprofit arts system and how it can have an exciting, relevant future in a complicated, dynamic world. -------------------…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:35AMFrom Up Here, a new musical by Aaron Lee Lambert, an American actor-writer currently appearing in Shrek at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, will make its world premiere June 13-15 at South Hill…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMOff-Broadway’s Gotham Stage Company will present an industry reading of Randall David Cook's In a Town Near Faith June 11 at at The Players Club in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:21AMLong test periods for shows are driven by the neurosis of producers. In any case, these days bloggers and tweeters are sharing their verdicts long before the official opening nightIt's rare …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThere’s a fantastic cart-dragging, cow-milking, heartwarming Tevye at The Bowie Playhouse in 2nd Star Production’s production of Fiddler on the Roof. Local favorite Fred Nelson …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMPower + Corruption = Success Looking for a theater production to kick off your countdown to Election Day? Search no further than Dominion Stage’s thoroughly entertaining production…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMKate Arrington, Ed Asner, Paul Rudd, and Michael Shannon will star in a Broadway production of Craig Wright's play, Grace, to begin performances September 14, 2012, with an opening set …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:07AMAmerica in 1970 seemed like the worst of times. Halfway around the world, the problems of a country only slightly larger than the state of Montana, killed almost 40,000 US citizens between 1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Guess who is smelling a return to Broadway? "Cyrano de Bergerac." Roundabout Theatre Company said Monday that it will mount a new production of the classic 17th-century French love triangle …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39AMIt all comes down to this! We are now in the final week leading up to the biggest and best night in Broadway Theatre, The Tony Awards! As we journey there however, we still are giving out so…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 07:39AMPlaywright Alena Smith aims for explosive dramatic fireworks in “The Bad Guys,” at Second Stage Theatre Uptown, but succeeds only in achieving a punchy bleariness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMThe Prince of the Pagodas has always been a problem ballet. The gorgeous Benjamin Britten score is tied to a confused fairy-tale plot, a jumble of King Lear with Beauty and the Beast. Kennet…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:27AMVarious venues, NorthamptonCivilised order confronts unbridled anarchy in Northampton this summer, where Laurie Sansom has had the imaginative idea of staging a trilogy dubbed Festival of Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMHasnat,
Ghazi and Qazim all wish to marry beautiful Bina. Her father,
however, has decided that a husband must be found for Kiran, Bina's elder sister, before he will even discuss his younge…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:22AMComedian Bill Hicks had a famous routine about people who work in marketing and advertising. Well, maybe “routine” isn’t the right word: Hicks would stand on stage, address the markete…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AM
Legit News:
Ed Asner, Kate Arrington also topline
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51AMInside Broadways 2012 Broadway Beacon Awards will be held at 600PM tonight, June 4th, 2012 at the Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in the heart of Times Square at 145 West 44t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMElizabeth Stanley Million Dollar Quartet, Company and Cry-Baby on Broadway, and an Inside Broadway alum from their past touring production of On the Town will perform at Inside Broadways 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMusical Mondays Los Angeles Ryan OConnor and Scott Nevins, Co-ProducersHosts previously announced that they would host an LA Gay Pride kick-off event Eleven Nightclub in West Hollywood. Feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that the Claire Tow Theater, its newest stage at Lincoln …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLa 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 tonight, Monday, June 4 at 730 p.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMDavid Hyde Pierce, James Keach, Jane Seymour, Victor Garber, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jonathan Groff, Michael Tucker, Jill Eikenberry, John Glover, Zachary Quinto, and John Hickey are among the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, June 4, 2012 Julia Jordan, Theresa Rebeck, Marsha Norman, Tim Sanford, Gary Garrison and The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre will present the 3rd Annual Lilly Awards at P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMEmmy Award winning actress Jane Lynch will host this years Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser, which recognizes leadership in the theater community while raising support for the theaters art…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBenny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus global hit musical MAMMA MIA welcomes new principals Christy Altomare, Lauren Cohn, Daniel Cooney, Felicia Finley, Aaron Lazar, Graham Rowat and Zak Resnick …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Chicago-based director Dexter Bullard will make his Broadway debut in the fall, directing Michael Shannon, Paul Rudd, Ed Asner and Kate Arrington in a revised version of "Grace" by Craig…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08AMRoundabout Theatre Company has just announced that Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge will star in a new Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, with a translation by Ranji…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01AMSooner or later, the approach of death imposes an iron economy of illusion. The euphemisms that once sustained you start...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMBernadette Peters sings Stephen Sondheim's "Not a Day Goes By": (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure...
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Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, June 3, 2012 - Sunday, June 3, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45AMBrooke ShieldsBrian d'Arcy JamesThe 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented at The Town Hall in midtown where Brooke Shields and Brian d’Arcy James co-hosted a spirited yet efficient …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:41AMThe new play "Automatic Fault Isolation" loses its way when it begins, then somehow finds it way late. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews the Hella Fresh Theater production in Ke…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:33AMExecutive Director, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, (A.R.T./New York) New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? A.R.T./New York’s members are a constant source of i…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMSeedsBard website artA show that seems to be changing history - Seeds - comes to the FTA. Anabel Soutar's company, Porte Parole, specializes in verbatim theatre and this show about the littl…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMYou loved him in falsies and a dress in Broadway's La Cage aux Folles, but wait'll you see Douglas Hodge in a false nose. The Tony Award winner will play the title nobleman — h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMDoubles Crossed, a new comic noir mystery by Jason S. Grossman, delivers on all counts. With its snappy dialogue and panoply of characters drawn from archetypal gangster movies of the '30s a…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMThe horrific scourge of suicides by so many young victims of anti-gay bullying has all the elements of cracking drama: stakes as high as life and death, a multi-layered clash of societal val…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMTony winner Douglas Hodge will play the title character in a Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac this fall. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the Roundabout Theater Company production begins previ…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe Jeff Non-Equity Awards, celebrating the best in the vibrant non-union theatre season in Chicago, will be presented June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBarack on Broadway, an evening at the theatre with President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, is offered June 4 at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. The sold-out event fea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Carol Burnett is among the honorees at Backstage at the Geffen, which is held June 4 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Emmy Award-winning "Glee" star Jane L…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Greg Pierce's Slowgirl, starring Tony Award nominee Željko Ivanek and Sarah Steele, inaugurates Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow Theater June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2012 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance on stage and screen, are presented June 4 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning Lion King and Spider-Man director Julie Taymor is the final artist featured in the Monday Night at La MaMa series June 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMInside Broadway's 2012 Broadway Beacon Awards are held June 4 at the Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Broadway Hotel. Nick Jonas (How to Succeed) and Christie Brinkley (Chicago) are amon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNational Asian Artists Project presents a staged reading of Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical Carousel June 4 at 7:30 PM at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre presents the 3rd Annual Lilly Awards June 4 at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which continues to play the Winter Garden Theatre, welcomes a slew of new cast me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2012 Second Stage Uptown season officially begins June 4 with the opening of the world premiere of Alena Smith's The Bad Guys, about five pals from childhood who reunite one summer. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1968 Stage and screen actress Dorothy Gish dies today in Rapallo, Italy. Her first New York stage appearance was in 1903 in East Lynne. She began her film career in 1912, but resumed her sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Douglas Hodge will play the title role in a Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, to be presented by Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre. Jamie Ll…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMLegit News:
Ventriloquist show will be remounted in fall
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Documentary to be adapted into stage musical
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMPlanet Connections Theatre Festivity presents Deuteranomaly and Adapting, a double bill of interesting and somewhat scary plays about child-rearing. In keeping with the Festivity's theme of …
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AM“They say sanity is a numbers game,” Kelly Kinsella announces wryly. If it is, a lot of people are playing it, myself included. We follow writer and performer Kinsella as she rec…
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