The Harlem cultural fixture, located at 125th street and Fifth Avenue, was in danger of foreclosure due to financial problems and was in disputes with a neighboring restaurant and its former…
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:55PMBe advised – Vanessa Claire Stewart’s wonderful play about Buster Keaton is not a barrel of laughs. Dealing largely with the latter, dismal years of the legendary silent film comedy star…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:38PMThe Getty opens a new, expanded Children’s Shop at the Getty Center this week, featuring fun and imaginative items for kids of all ages. Located on the Plaza Level of the West Pavilion in …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:30PMRoundabout Theatre, Laura Pels, Off Broadway
By Haytham Elhawary
BOTTOM LINE: An enjoyable and accomplished tale of how we strive to achieve our youthful ideals while struggling with …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:21PMDanny DeVito isn't your typical piece of celebrity casting. In "The Sunshine Boys" he delivers a whirlwind of fiercely acted energy. A performance that ranks amongst the best in London, DeVi…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 10:14PMNick Leichter premieres “Twenty Twenty” a duet with Bryan Strimpel for DANCENOW Joe’s Pub this Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, at 7:00pm, as part of DANCENOW’s 2012 Featur…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:10PM Stoneface; The Rise and Fall of Buster Keaton is now open for your ultimate viewing pleasure over at Sacred Fools. Review by Lucy Griffin I had quite the time Friday nig…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 10:05PMLocated at the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown is considered by many to be the birthplace of the modern American theater, having served as an artistic home for such playwrights as Eugene O'Nei…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:05PMChad Kimball gives a breakout performance as a murderer facing the death penalty in this intensely exciting courtroom drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMLynne Winsterstellar and Nancy Johnston give deft performances in Kari Floren's dramedy about two long-time friends.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
The past Tony Award-winner is being honored at the Tonys this year with the Isabelle Stevenson Award, honoring her humanitarianism and commitment to animal welfare.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 07:39PMOn Tony Sunday, June 10, 60 Minutes will re-air an interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the four-time Emmy Award winning creators of South Park and the Tony Award-winning co-authors of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMRoundabout Theatre Company in association with Don Gregory, is presenting the new Broadway production of Mary Chases Harvey, starring Jim Parsons Elwood P. Dowd, Jessica Hecht Veta Louise Si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMA newbie producer uses Hollywood Fringe Restival resources to give birth to a new play, Jennifer Aniston Stole My Life. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:22PMOn Twitter Watch, Andrew Rannells amp Josh Gad wrote It's BOMFanDay and joshgad 's last show. I love you, Josh. I am so proud and grateful to be your missionary companion.AndrewRannells it h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMThe 66th Annual Tony Awards® telecast will be broadcast to theatre fans in four continents and over 45 countries around the globe.
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 07:01PMIt starts with a whistle. It starts, in fact, with a very sturdy Afghan policewoman pointing fiercely at the crowd. She's at Kabul airport. She's also in Ephesus. She's also on the stage at …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Chicago Dance Crash, the company devoted to creating power-packed mashups of break-dance, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, acrobatics, the Brazilian martial arts form known as capoeira and good old fa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:52PMThe 66th Annual Tony Awards are just days away, so the staff at Playbill.com thought it would be a good time to take a look back at some of our favorite (Tony Award-winning) performances fro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:49PMBroadway and film legend Celeste Holm was joined by her husband, Frank Basile, and Joel Spector, the artist who painted her portrait, as a beautiful painting of her likeness was unveiled on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMOn Tony Sunday, June 10, “60 Minutes” will re-air an interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the four-time Emmy Award winning creators of “South Park” and the Tony Award-winning c…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:32PMIt's a sad week backstage at the The Book of Mormon on Broadway. The two leading Elders are leaving the clan and going on a mission to Hollywood. Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who play Elder…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 06:30PMBroadway.com headed to Hollywood to get an exclusive tour of the Bunheads set, hosted by Sutton Foster. The two-time Tony winner gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Paradise …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMBroadway’s biggest night is almost here, and Broadway.com wants to celebrate with you! We know you’re as excited as we are for the Tony Awards on June 10, and we want to see how …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMBroadwayWorld'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 06:25PMBroadwayWorld'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 06:23PMBroadwayWorld'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 06:22PMDa’Vine Joy Randolph is more sensible than her Ghost character, psychic Oda Mae Brown. The Tony nominee showed off her backstage must-haves: It’s all about old-school healthcare …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:21PMHoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford recently visited Linda Lavin, who is nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rita Lyons in Nicky Silver's new Broadway comedy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:20PMNEW YORK — What with "Ghost,""Lysistrata Jones" and other wearying disappointments, the 2012-13 Broadway season hardly will go down as a banner year for new American musicals. Indeed, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:19PMThe Glee Project Season 2 Premiere - Individuality - Full Episode Recap - POTENTiALcelebrity
Fourteen contestants begin their quest for a guest shot on TV's "Glee" in the seas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:14PMStephen Tyrone Williams describes how music and documentaries help him prepare for a role like the one he plays in Athol Fugard’s “My Children! My Africa!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMLost In Love, the new musical based on the hit songs of Air Supply, played the Triad Theatre yesterday, June 5. The production last held an industry-only reading in April. Andrea McArdle, Co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PM
Stage and screen star Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of MGM's upcoming remake of the 1987 film Robocop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film will star Joel Kinnaman as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMBroadway stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMVanity Fair Out to Lunch July 2012 The Farce Side After becoming a BBC superstar, James Corden lost it. Now he’s the toast of Broadway. By John Heilpern James Corden, hailed as a comic gen…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:56PMChristian Borle knows what it takes to make a stellar impression on the Great White Way thanks to the raves he's currently earning for Peter and the Starcatcher. The Smash star just earn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PMAt a one-night-only concert in Newark with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Bernadette Peters performed selections from Broadway and the American Songbook.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMSay hello to 2012 Tony nominee Elizabeth A. Davis, who has earned her first nomination playing violin-playing immigrant Reza in Once. Learn more about this Tony nominee, like how she got a t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMMad Men's Vincent Kartheiser Pete Campbell talks about his starring role in The Death of the Novel, a new play by Jonathan Marc Feldman at the San Jose Rep. As Kartheiser wraps up Mad Men Se…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMThis is a fast paced production, and will leave your mind slightly dented. In a political climate that fosters wing nuts of all kinds, this piece will make you scratch your head and think fo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:39PMLA STAGE Times Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens recalls a summer 2009 afternoon spent with the legendary author, who reminded her why she wanted to be a writer. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:36PMWatch the final episode 10 of CafeMom Studios On Broadway With Kids - Featuring the Parents of MAMMA MIA - the online series that opens a rare and personal window into the lives of the cast …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:34PMThrilling, Intelligent, Harrowing, MovingBritain's National Theatre's moves its monster into movie housesby Michael MitchellThere’s a scene early on in the National Theatre’s production …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:34PMANNIE, the new production of the classic Tony Award-winning musical, goes on sale today to American Express cardholders. For tickets, call 877-250-2929 or visit Ticketmaster.com. Tickets wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMSeattle Times theater critic Misha Berson shares her picks for the 66th annual Tony Awards. The big showdown: "Once" vs. "Newsies" for Best New Musical.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 05:32PMWe knew that the producers and directors of the stage production of War Horse at New York's Lincoln Center put on a stellar show about the strong bond between horses and humans, but now we k…
SOURCE: www.peta.org at 05:28PMIf it’s summer, you can be sure that Redmoon is cooking up some major outdoor spectacles. And your bet would be right on the money. Plans for its large-scale “public art” projects, run…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:26PMMike Albo, Justin Vivian Bond, Colman Domingo, Michelle Federer, and Taylor Mac will perform as part An Evening with AMANDINE, to be held at 6pm on Tuesday, June 19 at the Loft at Judson Mem…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, June 6, 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 05:24PMCasting has been announced for New York Musical Theatre Festival's presentation of the world premiere of How Deep Is The Ocean? by Peter Cincotti and Pia Cincotti, July 12-21 at the The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:21PMThe long-itinerant but continually flourishing Chicago Children’s Theater will finally have a home to call its own. Beginning this fall, the company, under artistic director Jacqueline Rus…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:20PMCasting has been announced for
Antaeus Company's production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, will run July 12-August 26. Jessica Kubzansky directs the production, which features t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMOn June 5, Broadway alums Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages) and Andrea McArdle (Annie) joined forces to bring the hits of Air Supply to the New York stage. The duo starred in a reading of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMMegan Follows in Nightwood's Penelopiad (photo: Robert Popkin)It's 9:45 AM in Rehearsal Studio A in The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre CentreA crowded slate for TAPAby Jasmine ChenIt's 9:45…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:18PMThe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced the directors and musical directors for the previously announce pieces that will be developed and presented at the 2012 National Music Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMToday co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford attended the Wednesday, June 6 matinee performance of Broadway's The Lyons, at the Cort Theatre, and visited backstage with 2012 Tony Awa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMAs Bev, a Chicago-based, Eisenhower-era housewife with a black maid, in Bruce Norris's two-act play "Clybourne Park," Kirk gives a performance of such slowly accumulated magnitude that the i…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:10PMAl Tapper and Tony Sportiello's musical National Pastime will play the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, August 8-25.
Nancy Robillard directs the production, which will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMIn the space of a single year, acclaimed author Joan Didion experienced the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband while watching her only daughter become ever more gravely ill. Based on …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:09PM
How projection mapping (combining video with all kinds of different surfaces and artistic disciplines, as opposed to a flat screen) works. Sweet.
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 05:08PMIf you're betting on this year's Tonys, Broadway's annual cavalcade of champions, keep it right here on the New Yorker Web site. Besides knowing the course-I won one in 2002-I also fancy…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:08PMThe 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival presents the world premiere of How Deep Is The Ocean, a new American musical with music and lyrics by Peter Cincotti Metropolis, book by Pia Cincot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMI still remember the moment I realized I wasn't the only person in the world who loved "Newsies," the movie-musical based on the story of the real-life New York Newsboys Strike of 1899.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:06PMSaying the current touring production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is a stripped-down version of its long-running Broadway predecessor is a bit like saying Ke$ha is a stripped-down versi…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:05PMRay Bradbury, who died on Tuesday at 91, will be remembered foremost as a science-fiction novelist and short-story writer whose works "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" have trans…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:05PMIn his living room high up in Hell's Kitchen, the comedian Lewis Black sat on a sofa with three throw pillows tucked around him, as if he'd had a bad breakup and needed a hug and some Haagen…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:04PMSan Jose Rep has released a video interview of Mad Men star and stage veteran Vincent Kartheiser talking about his upcoming role in Jonathan Marc Feldman's new play The Death of the Nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMMatt Morrow, the new Associate Artistic Director of City Theatre, talks about his work with City Theatre, what excites him about new writers, and his recent return to Pittsburgh. Tammy: Pitt…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Brynn O'Malley, Clarke Thorell and J. Elaine Marcos have been revealed as members of the principal cast of the new Broadway production of Annie, tickets to which go on sale June 6 to Ame…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:54PM"The Addams Family" Trailer
The Addams Family brings the darkly delirious world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and, of course, Lurch to life. It'…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:53PMThe Tony Awards have just announced that stage veterans Matthew Morrison and Josh Groban have joined the list of presenters for the 66th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre in New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMAn exciting project celebrating new writing and language of “honesty and boldness”, Let’s Get Visceral does not disappoint in presenting the freshest and newest voices on the L…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42PM2012 Tony Award nominees Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, who star in the title roles of the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will participate in the first of a new s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:37PMANNIE, the new production of the classic Tony Award®-winning musical, goes on sale today to American Express cardholders. For tickets, call 877-250-2929 or visit Ticketmaster.com. Tic…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:36PMOff-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER a glorious, Tony Award-winning musical adap…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:35PMA 2012 Tony nominee for her turn in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Jessie Mueller
joins Michael Feinstein in rehearsal for Sweet & Low Down: How Popular Standards Became Jazz Clas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMBrynn O'Malley will play Grace Farrell, Clarke Thorell will play Rooster Hannigan, and J. Elaine Marcos will play Lily St. Regis in the upcoming Broadway revival of Annie, which will be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:32PMIMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures recently announced Rock of Ages, based on the hit Broadway musical, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released for a limited dom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:29PMCabrillo Music Theatre will present Meet Me in St. Louis, July 20-29 in the Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Linda Kerns will direct.
Based on the M.G.M. movie and feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMIn the race to win the Tony of My Heart, there are several ways a competitor can distinguish himself. First there’s his performance, obvi, which had better be good. But then there are thin…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:28PMHappy Birthday, Harvey Fierstein In addition to Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles and A Catered Affair, Fierstein's Broadway acting credits include playing the mother, Edna Turnblad in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMBroadway vets Brynn O’Malley, Clarke Thorell and J. Elaine Marcos are the latest Broadway vets to join the cast of the upcoming revival of Annie. They join the previously announced Kat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PMThe "How I Met Your Mother" star takes a break from rehearsals to talk with THR about the challenges and rewards of hosting Broadway's big night.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:10PMREact: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Stratford Shakespeare Festival
BOGO FREE for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!
Peanuts fans, you're in for a treat! Throughout the mon…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:09PMThe results are in! Voting opened on May 3, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards, and ran through June 4, 2012.
This year, we shattered all previous site records, by more than D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMThe team at "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" pays homage to the work of their costume designer, the late Eiko Ishioka, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 73. In this video, Ishiok…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:07PMA 2012 Tony Award nominee for Best Scenic Design of a Musical, George Tsypin talks about his inspirations and the challenges of bringing a comic book world to life in Broadway's "Spider-Man …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PMCharlie Rosen, Austin Moorhead, Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Colin Cohen comprise The Craze, the onstage "skiffle" band that pumps out Grant Olding's rhythmic Tony Award-nominated Best Score i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:05PMJan Maxwell has built a stellar theatrical career her way, mixing high-profile Broadway plays and musicals with off-the-radar projects in New York and elsewhere. Since 2005, Maxwell’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PMProducer Randie Levine-Miller will launch a new celebrity luncheon series to benefit The Actors Fund. The first in this series is in honor of Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, musical theater s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMABDC Season 7 Week 9 - Surprises & Lessons - Mos Wanted Crew, 8 Flavahz, Elektrolytes
America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), season 7 week 9, features the David Guetta challenge, which i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:00PM
Theater’s rising stars were honored on June 5 at the 68th annual Theatre World Awards. Honoring performers who have made an outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway debut, the awards were …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMAlena Smith’s new play, “The Bad Guys,” displays an appreciation of the complicated mixture of honorable and dishonorable impulses in us (well at least those of us who are guys).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMLonny Price has been named the director of Sleepless In Seattle The Musical, it was announced today by producer David Shor.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMTroupe will open with 'Spring Awakening.'
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:45PMPlaywright Mike Bartlett, director James Macdonald, and the cast of the Off-Broadway American premiere of "Cock" explain the nature of the play — and the meaning of its possibly scandalous…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:44PMLonny Price is set to direct the previously announced musical adaptation of Sleepless In Seattle when the show makes its world premiere at California's Pasadena Playhouse in Ju…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:38PMDemocracy's a lovely thing -- everybody ought to have their voice heard -- but it's dangerous, too. After all, popularity, volume, and ideas aren't always enough to string together a coheren…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:38PMRory Raven, the Rhode Island Mentalist, whom we’ve had the honor to present and wrote about here, has just proven that he’s more than just a Southeastern New England mind reader.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:35PMThe stars of the Planet of the Apes franchise have spoken about having to attend ‘ape school’ to acquire the physicality of primates for the films, which are hardly known for their accur…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:35PMNational Asian Artists Project presented 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 03:31PMEmmy Award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris, star of the CBS comedy HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, returns to host THE 66TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, to be broadcast live from The Beacon Theater in New Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMIn honor of Ray Bradbury's passing today at 91, we re-post this July 2009 interview by Editor-in-Chief Deborah Behrens from the LA STAGE Times archives. As we said then -- "A month shy of …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:16PM
To be fair, I should admit that I’m not really into comedy. And I'm completely mystified by British humor. I like a witty
joke as much as the next bloke but the low-brow, drop-the-drawers …
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:59PMPlay scripts tend to be no-frills paperbacks, but the folks at Disney decided to produce something spiffier for Peter and the Starcatcher: an annotated edition of Rick Elice’s script, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:58PMFrom on stage at "Backstage at the Geffen," the annual gala for the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, host Jane Lynch of "Glee" said she had participated in the theater's previous fundraisers, a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PMLonny Price will direct the world premiere of Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical, which as previously announced will be presented at The Pasadena Playhouse beginning June 2013.
Based on the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMPlaybill.com offers an exclusive listen to "If I Could I Would," a song from Home, the new musical by composer-lyricist Scott Alan and playwright Christy Hall, which is aiming for …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMStage and screen star Neil Patrick Harris joined Kelly Ripa as guest co-host on on the popular morning talk show Live With Kelly! on Wednesday, June 6. Guests included Julianne Hough, who is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:43PMTransit of VenusWhile not something easily observed on one's own, the transit of Venus yesterday was still thrilling when you think that it won't occur again for another hundred years or so.…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 02:33PMClybourne Park played host to some very special guests on June 5, when two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran and her husband, Broadway actor Darren Goldstein, dropped by to check out the Tony-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PM“Chimichangas and Zoloft” brings a fresh story to the Atlantic If you ever feel Off Broadway is stuck in a cultural rut, then you’ll welcome Chimichangas and Zoloft, now at…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:30PMAnthony Wayne, cast member of Broadway's Priscilla Queen of the Desert, will produce, direct and star in Fabulous, One More Time: A Sylvester Concert July 29 at NYC's (le) Poisson Ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMThe Audie Awards, which honor the best in audiobooks, were handed out in New York City on Tuesday, June 5.
30 Rock star Tina Fey received Audie Awards for Audio Book of the Year and best Bi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMRound House Theatre, one of the region’s popular mid-sized theater companies and an arts anchor in Montgomery County, on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ryan Rilette as its new prod…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards were just held last night, June 5th, 2012. The winners for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performances during the 2011-2012 theatrical season…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMThe pressure to look stunning on Broadway’s biggest night can be daunting, but Celia Keenan-Bolger is up for the challenge. As Molly, the heroine in the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:13PMThe brilliance of Noel Coward is not easily carried from page to stage ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMDaniel Conway's atmospheric projections and Matthew M. Nielson's sultry sound design ground the scene in 1936 Los Angeles and the gray world of insurance agent Walter Huff (Marty Lodge), who…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09PMA celebrated list of authors are slated to attend Authors Night, a fundraiser to benefit the East Hampton Library, August 11 at 7 pm. The festivities will begin at the East Hampton Library,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMPeter and the Starcatcher (Full Episode)
Original tape date: May 11, 2012.
First aired: June 2, 2012.
Our guests are Rick Elice and Roger Rees, the writer and co-director of the Tony-nomi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:00PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Off Broadway gets a worthy specimen of the socially conscious courtroom drama with "Murder in the First."
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMThe Gershwins' Porgy and Bess' Phillip Boykin is nominated for
his performance as Crown, the brute who is in love with Bess.
Evita's Michael Cerveris receives a Tony nomination for
play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
David Ives' Tony-nominated two-hander Venus in Fur will play Hartford, CT, as part of TheaterWorks' 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMNice Work If You Can Get It star Kelli O'Hara was honored with a Sardi's caricature June 5. Friends and cast members were on hand to celebrate the occasion.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMMichael Burr"Refugee Nation" A three-person series of sketches about Laotians in America, Regugee Nation is this week's Pick. Click here for all New Stage Reviews, or go to the jump.
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SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:46PMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival has added Christine Pedi, Lewis Black and Susie Essman to its Stand-Up and Late Night Cabaret series this summer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMWe're just days away from the 2012 Tony Awards on CBS this Sunday night, June 10 at 8pm and, as usual, BroadwayWorld.com will be your one-stop shop for all things Tonys on Tony Day, Night an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:31PMKC MET presents A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM with Jerry Jay Cranford (LES MISERABLES) as Pseudolus.
SOURCE: kcmetropolis.org at 01:30PMCPT, LondonMorrissey. An icon for our times? Or the man responsible for the disappearance of the traditional high-street butcher and making David Cameron look cool for a nanosecond? Amy Lam�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMTickets are now on sale for the new musical Dogfight at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena star in the show, based on the 1991 Warner Bros. film of the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:28PMStage and screen legend Carol Burnett received the Distinction in Theater Award at Geffen Playhouse's fundraiser, Backstage at the Geffen, which was held at the venue on Monday, June 4.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMGary Evans meets Lee Ridley, the joker with cerebral palsy who's aiming to take the staleness out of comedyA sense of apprehension fills the club as Lee Ridley, who has cerebral palsy a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMA casting notice has revealed potential July starting dates for a new actor to take over for the Tony-nominated Christian Borle as 'Black Stache' in Peter and the Starcatcher when he departs…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMThe Metropolitan Opera will present encore presentations of six "Live in HD" performances of its recent productions in hundreds of movie theaters across the United States this summ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMWatch the final episode #10 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 01:12PM
Tony winner Michael Cerveris is nominated again this year for his arresting portrayal of Argentine President Juan Peron in Evita. Go behind the scenes with Cerveris to see how yoga, vinyl re…
SOURCE: baa.broadway.com at 12:58PMTony winner Michael Cerveris is nominated again this year for his arresting portrayal of Argentine President Juan Peron in Evita. Go behind the scenes with Cervis to see how yoga, vinyl reco…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:58PMImmediately on the heels of the news that Michael Shannon would be heading to Broadway this fall to appear in Craig Wright’s “Grace,” comes the news that the actor will be back in Chic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:56PMFor all the varied styles explored by the great choreographer, whose work is the subject of a new month-long series of productions, certain big themes remained constant"Where does all the ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMBackstage at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert 2012
See our exclusive video clip from backstage at the Queen's Jubilee concert on Monday evening. Andrew Lloyd Webber chats backst…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:52PMKelli O’Hara is radiant whether she’s playing a navy nurse in South Pacific, a factory worker in The Pajama Game, or currently, a rough-and-tough bootlegger in Nice Work If You C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52PMThe Broadway League has just released the 2010-2011 Broadway’s Economic Contribution to New York City report—the eight biennial report in the series. The report measures the full economi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:48PMArden Theatre Company's 25th season in Philadelphia will include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, in "a visually rich production using new technology," producing arti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:48PMThe 68th annual Theatre World Awards were held Tuesday, June 5th, 2012. View photos from the red carpet arrivals below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PMOscar-nominated director Spike Lee is in discussion to direct Mike Tyson's one-man show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, at a yet to be determined Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, accordin…
SOURCE: baa.broadway.com at 12:43PMOscar-nominated director Spike Lee is in discussion to direct Mike Tyson's one-man show, Mike Tyson: Undispute Truth, at a yet to be determined Nederlander Theatre on Broadway, according…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMYesterday, June 5, theatre legend Patti LuPone opened the new nightclub and restaurant, 54 Below, with a two-week engagement of a new act that will run through June 16. Before the star took …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMEntertainment equipment engineering company, Triple E, is to unveil its newly designed and enhanced acoustic banner at this year's ABTT trade show (June 13-14).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMFlightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has donated a number of its Arena 600 cases to The Rig Scout Active Support Unit, based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMBeyond Broadway: "Old Jews Telling Jokes"
Get tickets to "Old Jews Telling Jokes": http://www.broadway.com/shows/old-jews-telling-jokes/
Just how funny are off-Broadway…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:35PMIt’s hard to imagine a more peculiar mix of canny and canned than “The Addams Family,” which opened Tuesday at the Pantages Theatre. Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PMTony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller, Jerry Dixon, Lisa Peterson, Henry Wishcamper and Wendy C. Goldberg are among the directors selected for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PM¿POR QUÉ? I have been trying to figure out sixty ways from Sunday’s opening of Los Otros just exactly how to approach a critique. The new one-act musical by composer Michael John LaChius…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:33PMWith oddly still no official word on who would be taking over as the new leads in the Tony-winning THE BOOK OF MORMON for departing stars and former Tony nominees Josh Gad June 6 and Andrew …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMTonight, our Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers are heading to see Sadie Frost in Touched... Like a Virgin at the Soho Theatre.Zoe Lewis’ follow up one-woman play runs at the Soho Theatre D…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:30PMI've little to add to the encomiums (encomia?) for the late Ray Bradbury, except to recount that he was a source for my first Arts & Leisure byline back in 2006, when Godlight Theatre wa…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:29PM2012 Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara from the Tony-nominated Best Musical NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT joined the Sardi's Wall of Fame yesterday, June 5, joined by fellow stars Judy Kaye and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:27PMOlivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone began performances at 54 Below, the brand-new nightclub and restaurant at 254 West 54th Street, one floor below Studio 54, June 5 at 8 PM. She o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMTen entertainment lighting technology companies have now confirmed their status as official Gold sponsors for this year's Knight of Illumination Awards due to take place in September at a ce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMRobe's new, small LEDBeam 100 fixtures have made their UK touring debut on the Happy Mondays' recent three week outing, with lighting designed by Dave Farmer of THC Design.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMToday is Gad's last day.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 12:18PMExperiential theatre hit You Me Bum Bum Train has announced revised dates for its summer residency in Stratford, close to the venues for this summer's Olympic Games.
The show sees audience …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:17PMMarianela Núñez gives a ravishing performance in this newly revised version of MacMillan’s last full-length ballet, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:17PMThe cast of Balanchine’s 1962 ballet danced thrillingly, with every step conveying character, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:16PMThe new musical adaptation of ROCKY has set casting for its German premiere, which will open this November in Hamburg under the direction of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Tony nominee Alex Timbe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:09PMRising Phoenix Repertory will present the final two plays in the company's Cino Nights Series, Cusi Cram's Radiance and Daniel Talbott's Break My Face on Your Hand, June 10 and J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMSophie Evans has been skipping down the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy in the West End stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since February, having assumed the role from original star Danielle …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMThe Tony Awards are Sunday night at 8 on CBS, hosted once again by the charming Neil Patrick Harris!Here are the nominees in (most of) the categories and my picks if I had a vote. I've marke…
SOURCE: Gratuitous Violins at 12:03PMRemains from the Curtain, Shakespeare’s original “Wooden O” theatre, have been uncovered in an East London yard. As Shakespeare’s earliest venue, the Curtain theatre …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMThere is the enduring myth that the writer sits in a darkened room alone, huddled over a computer… Weeks or months later they emerge from their hibernation, blinking into sunlight and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:01PMThis year, the Tony Awards will honor 2 former Tony winners and the union that represents them.The Isabelle Stevenson Award will be given to 2-time Tony-winner Bernadette Peters. The l…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMONCE, the 11 time Tony nominated musical just celebrated its best week at the box office yet at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street), grossing $827,501 for the week ending Ju…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:00PMMy first initiation into Pittsburgh wasn’t the famed Steelers (pronounced “Stillers,” if you’re from the ‘Burgh), six-inch high sandwiches layered with fries (they put fries on eve…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PM
Jeremy Jordan, Stacy Keach, Josh Young, Jessie Mueller, Philip Boykin, Crystal A. Dickinson, and Michael Cerveris give advice for actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:59AMSo The Last Five Years is happening. I mean, you may have heard. Your Twitter feed may have spent the last week dream-casting and re-dream-casting, and re-dream-casting yet again. We thought…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:57AMThe 68th Annual Theatre World Awards, hosted by Peter Filichia, were presented June 5 at 2 PM at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMThe Chicago Children's Theatre is to stage its entire 2012-13 season at the Ruth Page Theatre on Chicago's Near North Side, the company announced Wednesday morning.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AMEntr'Acte Theatrix and Palm Beach Principal Players will present Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar beginning July 5 at the Count de Hoernele Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMTony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will star in True Colors Theatre Company's production of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Kenny Leon will direct the production, which will play Geor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMThe Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, is to stage Tennessee Williams’
classic play The Glass Menagerie, marking the venue's first
professional in-house production in more than 15 years. …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:47AMOn May 13, your Broadway favorites headed to the craziest awards show of the season: The 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. Darren Criss hosted the evening, featuring hilarious songs,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMThe New York Times 06/05/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:43AMThe results are in This year, we shattered all previous site records, by more than DOUBLE, as hundreds of thousands of theatregoers and fans weighed in on their favorites of th 2011-12 theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMThe touring musical "Bring It On" makes its Broadway debut at the St. James Theatre.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:38AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
As one of the characters in "The Addams Family" might put it, "Is there a mortician in the house?"
SOURCE: Variety at 11:36AMBroadwayWorld has learned that composer Scott Alan's HOME, which is aiming for Broadway in 2012-13 and features a book from Christy Hall, is set for new readings later this month.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMLast year's big Tony winner The Book of Mormon will join the roster of Broadway musicals performing at this year's June 10 ceremony. The nine-time Tony-winning show will kick off the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMFull casting has been announced for the Irish Repertory Theatre's concert staging of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, to be presented on Monday, June 11 at the Shubert Theatre.
The producti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:33AMThe Independent (UK) 06/06/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM"Right now, we've got a wonderful soprano who's got a voice that would melt marble."
Rolf Harris in his introduction of La Diva Renée Fleming at the Queen's Jubilee Concert, Buckingha…
SOURCE: Adventures in the Endless Pursuit of Entertainment at 11:31AMDarius de Haas, who currently stars in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Once On This Island, and Carla Jablonski will be featured vocalists at Caramoor's Pops, Patriots & Firew…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMToday we continue the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown with a match-up of epic proportions that seemed to signify more than merely friendly competition for theatres top honors being awarded t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMThe Theatre World Awards, held on Tuesday at the Belasco Theatre, honor actors who made their Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:24AMIt’s almost time to sit back, relax and enjoy the excitement of the 2012 Tony Awards telecast! We’ve pulled together some frequently asked questions about this celebration of Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMCasting is now complete for the Irish Repertory Theatre's 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, which will be presented June 11 at 7 PM at Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMA memorial celebration to honor the life and career of Bradshaw Smith, who was the founder and executive producer of "Broadway Beat," will be held July 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMAuthor Ray Bradbury, best known for the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, has died at age 91, according to reports.
Bradbury founded L.A.'s Pandemoium Theatre Company in 1964, which eventuall…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:10AMJon Robin Baitz's Tony-nominated play Other Desert Cities will end its run June 17 at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, the show first ran off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMPorgy and Bess choreographer Ron Brown and cast member Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, as well as Leap of Faith's Leslie Odom, Jr. are among the winners of the 2012 Fred & Adele Astaire Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMSandy Shinner, the longtime associate artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater has been removed from that position, several sources with knowledge of recent developments at the non-p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:07AMMARY POPPINS - Jolly Makeup
The Australian cast prepares for the number 'Jolly Holiday' in Disney's MARY POPPINS.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 11:03AM $11 Billion Dollars. Which is up 9% from the year before! Boo ya! Our friends and data crunchers at The Broadway League released their annual “Economic Contribution” report y…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWith the Tony Awards less than a week away, I got to thinking about what it takes to be a part of the award show. There has been a lot of controversy in the news this year about which shows …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:00AMAmongst the major London openings, in the West End and further afield, in this shortened bank holiday week are:
OPENING WEDNESDAYSomething Very Far Away6 JUNE 2012(PREVIEWS FROM 1 JUNE)
M…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AM
An archaeological dig in London has unearthed remains of the Curtain Theater, which was home to the Lord Chamberlain's Men from 1597 to 1599 and was the site where plays including "Romeo and…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:55AMBroadway juggernaut The Book of Mormon is celebrating its first year on Broadway with a free fan performance at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on June 6 at 2PM. This is the second time the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMAmerican actor Drew Sarich will enter the ring as Rocky Balboa in the previously announced world premiere of Rocky the Musical in Hamburg, Germany. Dutch actress Wietske van Tongeren will co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMWriter Dennis Kelly calls it a 'complete waste of time' but he's ignoring some of the recent fresh, radical approachesPeople are disenchanted with mainstream politics. Might the same be true…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:53AMMCC Theater has partnered with Charitybuzz.com for an online auction to raise money for the Off-Broadway theater company.
Among the packages up for auction are a visit with Tony Award-nomin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:53AMDenise Drago makes her move on Will Schuller in Your Wildest DreamsLast weekend I checked out one of the final performances of my buddy Joey Pelletier's play Your Wildest Dreams, produc…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:51AMWalnut Street Theatre's production of Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story has been extended through July 22. The production began performances on the WST Mainstage on May 14.
Casey Hushion dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMThose two young, apple-cheeked missionaries of The Book of Mormon, Tony Award nominees Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who became the toast of Broadway in the hit musical from the creators of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AMTHE BOOK OF MORMON, the winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will perform live at the 2012 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10. The 66th Annual Tony Awards will air live on CBS, o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:35AMDowntown Hartford's TheaterWorks has announced the titles for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will include Donald Margulies' drama Time Stands Still, explores the relationship o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMThe Lilly Awards, named for actress Lillian Hellman, recognize the extraordinary contributions made by women to the American Theatre. Among the honorees were 2012 Tony nominees Nina Arianda …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMSave now on tickets to OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES now playing at the Westside Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMTony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris appeared on last night's LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN on CBS and told Dave what it's like to be interviewed by Oprah in his own home. View a clip of hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMA controversy has erupted over whether a Washington, DC theater company made inappropriate use of the widely-toured 2009 piece "Americana Kamikaze"
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:31AMYesterday, June 5, theatre legend Patti Lupone opened the new nightclub and restaurant, 54 Below, with a two-week engagement of a new act that will run through June 16. LuPone will play the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:28AMThe atmosphere was steamy inside Patrick's Cabaret for Kenna Cottman's mixed-genre show
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:23AMArtists, museum heads, and Minnesotans galore celebrated Friedman's career at a New York gala that raised $1 million for art.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:23AMFour Minnesota photographers have won $25,000 each in grants from the McKnight Foundation
SOURCE: StarTribune at 10:23AMEvery first Wednesday of the month, get caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:23AM“The Book of Mormon”–still the biggest hit on Broadway–is going to be featured on this year’s Tony Awards. (This Sunday, CBS.) A little weird since “Mormo…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:23AMVistors may now enter the weird world of Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana, as the larger-than-life show begins performances at Radio City Music Hall on June 6. The limited engagement runs thro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:22AMPlaybill.com offers a look at the nominees for the 66th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards in the categories of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play and Musical and B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:22AMToday is the birthday of the great equestrienne matriarch May Wirth (1894-1978). The product of several generations of circus folk, the Australian born Wirth began performing as a child, fir…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AMJon Favreau has emerged as the lead candidate to direct the planned movie version of the Tony Award-winning jukebox musical "Jersey Boys," according to a report this week in Variety.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:15AMThe Dramatists Guild Fund honored Tony Award-winning composer John Kander at the organization's 50th Anniversary Gala at the Mandarin Oriental New York on Sunday, June 3. Jon Cryer serv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:14AMNoel Coward left a lasting legacy on British theatre, and his mastery of drama, emotion and romance are seen clearly in Volcano, a play never performed during his lifetime. The play offers p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMThe 2011 Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon will perform as part of 66th Annual Tony Awards, which will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre on CBS, Sunday, June 10.
As pre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMTweetHave you ever watched as someone else got a part that you wanted in a play? Do you watch as people play favorites to others when you do all the work or are just as good? Have you ever t…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 10:06AMChristopher Renshaw will direct a site-specific revival of the musical Taboo, to run September 7-December 23 at the new London clubbing venue Brixton Club House, according to Whatsonstage.co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMThis week Downstage Center gets ready for the Tonys with the 2012 Tony nominated, Pulitzer Prize winning play "Clybourne Park". Stars Jeremy Shamos (also nominated for Best Performance by an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:01AMAlright everyone, I know you’ve been waiting what seems like forever to find out who the chosen 3 were for our Broadway Boot Camp. The time has come. But, before you scroll down, I do …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMIn Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Mary Chase comedy, veteran Carol Kane joins ensemble including Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht, and Charles Kimbrough.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick: Somehow we knew it was all going to work well before a single word was spoken. Popular recordings from the 1950s put smiles on faces and the magnificent country…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMThe cast of the York Theatre Company's current revival of the hit Off-Broadway revue Closer Than Ever, which features the lyrics of Richard Maltby, Jr. and the music of David Shire, will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMInbal Segev is a working mom. But instead of a laptop or briefcase, she carries a cello. The instrument in question was made in 1673 by Francesco Rugeri. Her husband gave it to her as a wedd…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 09:56AMIt does seem like Christian Borle, star of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” is leaving the kooky musical soon after Sunday’s Tony Awards. A casting call has gone out for his ch…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:50AMBarrington Stage Company has announced that Mark St. Germain's new play Dr. Ruth, All the Way will now run June 19-July 21. Directed by Julianne Boyd, the production will play the St. G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AMI'm honored to be a part of the TCG Conference, especially the Plenary: Ensuring the Sustainability of the Field I've offered my thoughts on diversity, sustainability and the arts in the pas…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:45AMEntr'Acte Theatrix and Palm Beach Principal Players will present Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, running July 5-15 at the Count de Hoernele Theatre (also…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMLegit News:
Director joins musical version of screen romance
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AMDrew Sarich, the American actor who has had a busy career performing musicals in Europe, will play iconic underdog boxer Rocky Balboa in Rocky the Musical, getting its world premiere this fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:30AMThe Wilma ends its season with Tony Kushner's masterpiece.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 09:28AMGross ticket sales on Broadway were down $2.4 million leading in to the first week of June with Tony Award nominees still coming out on top despite a drop in overall attendance figures and a…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:25AMIn this video, Andew Lloyd Webber is interviewed about the creation of the official Diamond Jubilee song Sing with Gary Barlow, and their plans for the live performance on May 28. He says HR…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMThe Book of Mormon, the 2011 Tony winner for Best Musical, will open the 66th Annual Tony Awards, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AMJennifer Ellison and Gareth Gates will join the cast of the UK tour of Legally Blonde the Musical beginning July 17.
Ellison and Gates will take over the roles of Paulette and Warner. They …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMOn Tuesday, June 5, Tony-nominated Nice Work If You Can Get It star Kelli O'Hara received her caricature at Sardi's Restaurant.
Guests included the show's book writer Joe DiP…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:12AMIpswich wouldn’t be the first place you’d call to mind when thinking about the hotbed of contemporary theatre talent that the UK is nurturing. The city might only be a short trai…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:10AMGiven the flood of publications on early modern natural history over the last two decades, the detailed and strikingly illustrated Picturing the Book of Nature represents a herculean underta…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMOn Tuesday, June 5, Joan Rivers spoke to fans and signed copies of her new book, I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble.
Rivers received a Tony Award nom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:03AMThe first time I directed sketch comedy material was during my New Playwrights’ Theatre days on Church Street, and Yeardley Smith was in the cast. (She was 18 at the time – her first pay…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Debra Winger is going to make her Broadway debut this fall. She’s signed on to a David Mamet two hander (that’s two actors) called “The Anarchist.” Broadway legend Pa…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:58AMThe cast of THE BOOK OF MORMON will open the 66th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10th, according to the New York Post.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52AMThe salesman has been a central character of post-war American drama from Death of a Salesman to Glengarry Glen Ross. He has been treated somewhat impertinently, of course: deluded and desti…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:50AMThis is an interesting way to present the ancient tale of Beowulf, and quite unexpected. However, while visually interesting and complex in its use of movement, more often than not the dialo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:44AMArchaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an early playhouse used by William Shakespeare's company where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed.
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:34AMLONDON - Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:33AMOver the past six weeks, we at the Globe have put on a festival called Globe to Globe. The concept (an idea of Dominic Dromgoole’s) was always very simple to explain: all of Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:32AMLONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:31AMTale as Old as Time Start with the Academy Award-winning Disney animated feature film which included a delightful score by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, sprinkle in five new song…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMMercado, who placed third in the 2008 round of "American Idol," wins audiences over in a production that plays like a folk tale set on a Caribbean island.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AMLONDON (Reuters) - A bearded man in drag and the Afghan army make unlikely companions in an adapted Shakespeare comedy whose London staging has shone a spotlight on Afghanistan's neglected a…
SOURCE: Reuters at 08:22AMBoy George's Taboo will return to London, where it will begin performances Sept. 7 for a run that is booking through Dec. 23, at a new multi-purpose indoor and outdoor clubbing venue the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:21AMArchaeologists in London have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed -- a venue immortalized as "this wooden O" in th…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:19AM“Every writing project is driven by something personal,” says Andrew Hinderaker. “You have an impulse to tell a story. Then you get into it, and you realize… Oh, man. This is a c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMThe Tonys are Sunday… aaahh! Are you excited yet? We sure as hell are. For example, our Once the Musical party hats and streamers — they’re all black, very moody and chic &…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:09AMFollowing The Dark Side of Love‘s last blog on mastering Shakespeare’s language, cast member Christine Gomes shares her thoughts on tackling the text. Being part of The Dark Side…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:08AMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced some special events for its summer line-up.
Comedians Lewis Black and Susie Essman will give special comedy performances on July 9 and 23, re…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:07AMWales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Welsh National Opera's La Boheme is a feast of the senses celebrating La Belle Epoque. Choosing to revive one of their best-loved productions with the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 6 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe talented actor discusses his new Off-Broadway play and his successful fashion line.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Anthony Wayne, currently performing as Jimmy on Broadway in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has written and will star in FABULOUS, ONE MORE TIME A SYLVESTER CONCERT based on the life of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:59AMBefore it even started off-Broadway, the workshop for "Peter and the Starcatcher" consisted of a group of 19-year-old actors reading the script in a cabin in the Berkshires with a bucket and…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:53AMNow… at some point I’m pretty sure that I was going to put on a play… I could almost have sworn to it… perhaps I imagined it… or it was all a dream? It’s funny, ever since I deci…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:47AMA new site-specific production of Boy George’s 2002 musical Taboo will be staged later this year at the recently opened Brixton Club House.
Running from 7 September to 23 December 201…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:33AMWormsley Estate, Buckinghamshire: Launching Garsington Opera's second season at its new home - the airy, Japanese-inspired pavilion set in the Getty family's 2,500-acre Chilterns e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMRoyal Opera House, London: David McVicar's production of Strauss's Oscar Wildean shocker returns for its second Covent Garden revival, this time under the care of Barbara Lluch. It…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMElla Hickson’s marvellous play makes a well-timed arrival at Soho Theatre in Robert Icke’s superbly cast co-production for Headlong, HighTide and the Nuffield Theatre.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:17AMGareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison are to join the cast of the touring production of Legally Blonde the Musical.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMOctagon Theatre, Bolton: If there's one place to catch Jim Cartwright's 1992 tale of an achingly shy Northern girl with an incredible voice, it's surely Bolton. Growing up in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMPeter Filichia gives us the scoop on the New Jersey theater scene
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:03AMA catchy score and a sweet gay male love story are at the heart of Stephan Davis' new musical, presented as part of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMDan Gordon’s “Murder in the First,” starring Chad Kimball as a condemned murder at Alcatraz, is a feel-good documentary rescued by an engrossing production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM“Revisiting Wildfire,” Kari Floren’s two-hander about a long-term female friendship, is happily universal—and you get to hear Lynne Wintersteller sing.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
Garsington Opera, Wormsley: There is no more appropriate opera for an Olympic year than Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade, set in ancient Olympia itself against the backdrop of the Games. Fort…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMDavid MacLennan, artistic director of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint programme of lunchtime theatre at Glasgow's Oran Mor, has won the inaugural CATS Whiskers award at this year's Critics' Awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMJune 1-July 1: An ancient Greek tale of filial slaughter to appease the gods may not seem like suitable entertainment for genial summer opera - especially in the near-idyllic countryside set…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMWilton's Music Hall, London: Mark Bruce's new dance-theatre work is a sequence of scenes that most closely resemble a wacky, menacing take on Shakespeare's Tempest. There is a ship…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMDuncan Pflaster's "The Empress of Sex," in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, is an amusing exploration of the relationship between love and sex.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:35AMGareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison are to join the cast of the Whatsonstage.com Award-winning hit Legally Blonde The Musical on its UK tour from 17 July.
Gates will play Warner and Ellison …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:32AMThe Broadway musical Once, based on the Irish film of the same name, was the big winner at the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards, picking up four awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, London: Daniele Finzi Pasca's name alone means you're in for something special. After all, his previous shows include the gorgeous sky trilogy of Nomade, Rain…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AM5 Days and Counting! Are you getting excited?! WE ARE! Luner on Theatre cannot wait till the 2012 Tony Awards are here! We are continuing to bring you never ending coverage of anything and…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 06:11AMAn industry report said the Great White Way contributed more than $11 billion to the local economy in 2010/2011, up 9% over the 2008/2009 period.
SOURCE: Crain's at 06:10AM5 Days and Counting! Are you getting excited?! WE ARE! Luner on Theatre cannot wait till the 2012 Tony Awards are here! We are continuing to bring you never ending coverage of anything and e…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 06:06AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Angeline-Rose Troy about her two Lifetime Television movies "Imaginary Friend" and "Who Killed Allison Parks," producing and starring in the Hoboke…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AMWhen West Side French eatery La Boite en Bois features its “Evita” theme menu this Tony weekend, their maitre d’ of 26 years will commemorate more than the show’s best musical reviva…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Working Artists Theatre Project, in association with chashama, heats up the streets of Broadway this June with OPEN CALL This free and interactive event invites audiences to attend a uniquel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBy popular demand, one of literatures most iconic monsters rises onto the big screen this summer. The storied production of Frankenstein, presented in two nights by the historic National The…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMZarkana, the surreal acrobatic spectacle by Cirque du Soleil, returns to New York this month, beginning performances tonight, June 6, 2012 at the legendary Radio City Music Hall for a limite…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNationally-syndicated morning show LIVE with Kelly announces the lineup of guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa during the week of June 6 - 8, 2012, including Bryant Gumbel, Neil Patrick …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe next three days were hectic, but also familiar. My brother and I had buried my father, so we knew...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJulian Bream plays Manuel de Falla's Homenaje (Le Tombeau de Debussy): (This is the latest in a series of arts-related...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe rock musical "Next to Normal," which runs through Sunday at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, offers us an utterly contemporary portrait of a middle-class family that might be…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AM
NY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the June 2, 2012, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 12:04AMArtistic Director of Kairos Italy Theater, actress, director, producer, critic, theater absolute lover. Rome, Italy and New York, New York USA Where do you look for inspiration? Life, images…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMWhen talking about the prodigious, almost 70-year output of Pablo Picasso, a slate of adjectives leap easily enough to mind: Innovative, iconoclastic, experimental, fearless. Just as easily,…
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMTechnology has caught up to Einstein on the Beach, say creators Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMIt's Ottawa! It's the Fringe! It's Dirk Darrow (Paranormal Investigator)!
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMNew York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood travels far from the lights of the Great White Way this week, and he’s found a couple of shows that just might make it to Broadway. One, in …
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMPreparations for your June 10 Tony Awards party are nearly complete. You've got your Once-worthy Guinness tapped, you've got your Jesus Christ Superstar vino decanted, you've got…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCurtis Holbrook, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Patti Murin and Jason "SweetTooth" Williams appear in a staged reading of the Anne Berlin comedy La Strega June 6 at the Bleecker Street The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCirque du Soleil's Zarkana, the acrobatic spectacle that premiered last summer at Radio City Music Hall, returns to New York beginning June 6 for a limited engagement through Sept. 2 at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDan Gordon's courtroom drama Murder in the First, starring Tony Award nominee Chad Kimball, officially opens Off-Broadway June 6 at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLynne Wintersteller and Nancy Johnston star in Kari Floren's Revisiting Wildfire, which officially opens Off-Broadway June 6 at ArcLight Theatre in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Eastland: A New Musical, based in part on events from Jay Bonansinga’s novel “The Sinking of the Eastland: America…
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.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKate Buddeke, Anna Chlumsky and Bill Buell are part of the world premiere of David Adjmi's comedy 3C, which begins performances Off-Broadway June 6 under the direction of Jackson Gay.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1954 Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein is born today. Fierstein will win Tony Awards for writing and performing in his play Torch Song Trilogy, as well as for his book for the musical La…
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