In 2007, Joel Vig--who played various roles in Hairspray--sued the show for $1.5 million, claiming they fired him after he had surgery on a knee he'd injured onstage.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:59PM2012 Tony Award Nominations
As the annual awards ceremony approaches, here's my take on what should happen on Sunday, though that may not be the case. My choices are in bold italics.
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SOURCE: Third Row, Mezzanine at 09:42PMHere's a sweet and crusty drama about male aging and friendship. Playwright Richard Atkins-from the East Mountain area-takes a detailed look at what happens when men face loss and deteriorat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41PMA one-season wonder and Best Musical Tony nominee arrived at Seattle's Paramount Theatre in its faithful national touring reproduction as a part of the Best of Broadway series, whose audienc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PMHello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Compleat Female Stage Beauty, written by Jeffrey Hatcher. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page with my review…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:30PMThis weekend ONLY, Center Stage Opera opens their new production of The Barber of Seville, which centers on the scheming hilarity of reality television. It’s Rossini meets ‘Reality TV’…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:24PMIn the videos below, FIRST YOU DREAM cast members James Clow and Alan H. Green talk about their journey from hometown to Broadway and the excitement of performing in the Kander amp Ebb First…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:23PM
As per TonyAwards.com, the Creative Arts Awards portion of the 2012 Tonys will be hosted by Norbert Leo Butz and Beth Leavel. Several of the Creative Arts Awards will be presented immediatel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52PMStuck on the office Tony pool? Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek, Managing Editor Beth Stevens, Senior Editor Kathy Henderson, News Editor Michael Mellini and Staff Photographer Bru…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:43PM“Why are those people annoyed with me?” the older gentleman asked his wife in a highly audible stage whisper.
She wasn’t sure, but I was sitting in front of them at the Lansburgh Thea…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMAs Kander and Ebb put it in “And the World Goes ’Round”: “Sometimes you lose, and sometimes you win/Sometimes it’s kicks, then it’s kicks in the shin.”
“Really, we lucked out…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:41PMDan Gordon’s play “Murder in the First,” set in 1941, follows a lawyer who gets a case that exposes the harsh treatment of inmates at Alcatraz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:27PMMatt Shakman and James Roday, young theater artists who made money in TV, are re-investing some of it in a joint home for their companies, Shakman's Black Dahlia and Roday's Red Dog Squadron…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:19PMOn Thursday, June 14, NCM Fathom and BY Experience present a one-time only movie theater showing of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's critically acclaimed production of THE TEMPEST, starr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:16PMBroadwayWorld'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 07:15PMShakespeare's histories were not just the making of the Bard, they were the making of the English too, writes Simon Schama
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:14PMTwo Tony Award winners, Norbert Leo Butz and Beth Leavel, will host the Creative Arts Awards portion of the 66th Annual Tony Awards June 10 at the Beacon Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13PMThe Royal Ballet is collaborating with the National Gallery to perform a triple bill of dances inspired by Titian's paintings, writes Richard Fairman
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 07:06PMMacbeth, GlasgowIt's not quite a one-man Hamlet from Alan Cumming, but it's very close in this New York-bound production directed by John Tiffany. With a little help from Ali Craig and Myra …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMElla 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.
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SOURCE: Vulture at 06:55PMDating-competition television shows are given a musical satire treatment at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:47PMTrying to make classical theatre relevant is both easy and very hard. Easy in that texts such as Sophocles's "Antigone" have a timeless quality that has sustained them for several thousand y…
SOURCE: The Tyro Theatre Critic at 06:40PMPast winners Norbert Leo Butz and Beth Leavel will be on hand on Sunday evening, June 10 to preside over the Creative Arts Awards portion of the 2012 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® ce…
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 06:35PMIt’s a crazy world we live in people, between face-eating in Miami, Scott Walker-unrecall in Wisconsin, and beauty pageant-rigging in Donald Trump’s House of Miss USA. For my part, I n…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:16PMThis is a play that is paved with good intentions, but good intentions are not enough to nourish a hungry audience.This is the story of a Palestinian family living in Bethlehem on the West B…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:16PMAccording to the New York Times, Live From Lincoln Center's creator John Goberman will depart from the show at the end of June. AFter he leaves, Goberman 'will continue to stage concert gala…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMBroadway Sings for Prides Second Annual Gay Pride Concert will feature rousing songs from Broadway and pop hits, as well as feature stories of LGBT pride as told by celebrities, activists an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07PM
Best Actress Tony nominee Linda Lavin will be joined by an array of notable playwrights, directors and actors -- Vineyard Theatre artists all -- when she hosts The Vineyard's 5th annual lunc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMThe Tony-Awards is upon us, with the promise of "more performances than ever" at this Sunday's ceremony on CBS (hosted by the pride of Broadway: Neil Patrick Harris). We hear The Book of Mor…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 05:50PMWatch the second episode of the Tony-nominated JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTARs new behind-the-scenes video series, Spotlight on the Superstars below Episode 2 is called Love at First Listen and feat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMComedian Mo Rocca will make a special guest appearance during the opening night performance of Dicapo Opera Theatre's remount of Frank Loesser's Most Happy Fella, on Thursday, June…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMIn 1966 the Hallmark Hall of Fame presented a television adaptation of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidts Off Broadway musical THE FANTASTICKS. Ricardo Montalban appeared as El Gallo and Bert Lah…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMBefore Broadway’s brightest stars take the stage at Beacon Theatre on June 10 for this year's Tony Awards, Broadway.com is looking back at the many fun facts and shocking secrets w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:24PMLES DEUX SEUL-ITUDESBy Rick Miller, June 7, 2012Gaëtan thought it might be interesting to write about “going from Stratford (en anglais) to Carrefour (in French)”. Indeed, it’s been m…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:16PMLiisa Repo-Martell and Alex IvanoviciSEEDS OF THEATRICAL LIFEjoel fishbaneThe great questions of the universe have been bottled and staged in Seeds, the exquisite docudrama by Annabel Soutar…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 05:10PMWe celebrate the best of Broadway this year by inviting Tony nominated directors, choreographers, actors and composers to talk about their work, nominations and their thoughts on the current…
SOURCE: BlogTalkRadio at 05:06PMAdditional information has been announced for The Vineyard Theatre's Emerging Artists Luncheon, to be held at National Arts Club on June 21 beginning at Noon.
As previously reported, 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM
Winners of the 66th annual Tony Awards for the best of Broadway will be announced on Sunday night, June 10th. Winners will have asterisks in the list of nominees below. The links are to my r…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:59PMThe National Theater of the United States of America brings “The Golden Veil,” a celebration of ideas about stories, to the stage at the Kitchen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:55PMEd Helms criticizes the Emmys for snubbing Steve Carell: "Helms told TVLine: 'The ceremony is fun. It's fun to just celebrate the people that we like and that make us laugh or m…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:54PMSunday night is going to be a fight for the remote control and the DVR in certain demographic households. At 8pm the Tony Awards will begin on CBS. At 9pm “True Blood” will retur…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:52PMIn honor of the upcoming Tony Awards on Sunday, or Video of the Week is last year’s Best Musical, THE BOOK OF MORMON. Congratulations to everyone on a great season and may all of the n…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:50PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of May 28-June 3, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:49PMThe Matchmaker, at the Stratford Festival, is the richest and funniest production of a farce that I’ve ever seen in a Canadian theatre.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:45PMYou’ve gotten to know the 2012 Tony nominees…now hear what the Broadway.com editorial staff has to say! Find out our thoughts on their favorite Tony nominees, hosts and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:45PMYou’ve gotten to know the 2012 Tony nominees…now hear what the Broadway.com editorial staff has to say! Find out our thoughts on their favorite Tony nominees, hosts and more.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:45PMBRING IT ON, the new Broadway musical from the Tony Award-winning creators of AVENUE Q, IN THE HEIGHTS, and NEXT TO NORMAL, released its first TV commercial today! Check out the bold new m…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 04:42PMWe recommend seeing Marat/Sade, but plan for it: Take take water. Take the fan. And consider wearing a hospital gown. It’s light, flimsy and you’ll fit right in with the other nuts.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:35PMA review of Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of "As You Like It," running through June 24, 2012. George Mount directs.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:27PMThe man who created "Live From Lincoln Center" is stepping down as executive producer of the show after more than 30 years in the role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:22PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK KChen takes on City Center, POTTED POTTER comes to America, MAMMA MIA gets new leads, and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:19PMBRING IT ON THE MUSICAL is headed to Broadway following a tour that began in 2011. The show will play Broadway's St. James Theater, beginning previews on July 12th, opening August 1st and ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMFifteen inmates at San Quentin State Prison are to perform Shakespeare's Hamlet, June 15 at 11:15 am. Marin Shakespeare Company's Lesley Schisgall Currier and Suraya Keating are d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:01PMLanguage Rooms was born from the recently naturalized US citizen and playwright Yussef El Guindi's growing sense of civic alienation -- a result of the stories of human rights abuses during …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMTony Award nominee Nina Arianda is preparing to bid farewell to an old friend. She created the role of Vanda in David Ives' Tony-nominated two-hander Venus in Fur Off-Broadway in 2010, i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM
Ever wonder what it's like to witness the Tony Awards through the eyes of a nominee? On June 10, Broadway.com is teaming with several of this year's nominees for a firsthand look at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:57PMPage 73 Productions is set to present a developmental workshop of Carlos Murillo's A Thick Description of Harry Smith (Volume I) as its first Page 2 presentation of 2012, with performan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:57PMCharitybuzz.com has partnered with MCC Theater for a benefit auction.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMIn several categories, it’s a toss-up between two spirited contenders.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:51PMPerformers and speakers have been announced for Broadway Sings for Pride's second annual Gay Pride concert, to be held at The Mainstage Theater at 416 West 42nd Street on Monday, June 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:50PMWatch the 2nd episode in the Tony nominated JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Spotlight on the Superstars video series: “Love On First Listen.” JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR has received Tony, D…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:49PMWhen the legendary Patti LuPone has a solo show, excited fans nearly burst with questions. What will she sing? What will she wear? We have all those answers and more as Patti and pals dish t…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:44PM"Peter and the Starcatcher" Tony nominee Christian Borle revealed his inner spirit animal, love of steak and boubon and obsession with Star Wars when he answered readers' questions.
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMTown Square Productions, Inc. will present Bitches of the Kingdom! at Don't Tell Mama, running Thursday evenings at 9:15pm, June 14-July 26. Fiely Matias will direct.
This new musical …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMBroadway Rhythm and Booze, a cabaret series created as a platform to "highlight the soulful talents of the Broadway community," will continue June 11 with a concert presented by N+…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMWhen the legendary Patti LuPone has a solo show, excited fans nearly burst with questions. What will she sing? What will she wear? We have all those answers and more as Patti and pals dish t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMIt's curtains for another week on Broadway. With the Tony Awards right around the corner, we’ve learned lots of juicy secrets from the nominees, from Jeremy Jordan’s pageant …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PMBroadway star Karen Mason will bring her cabaret show, The Secrets of the Ancient Divas, to Davenport's in Chicago, June 13-18.
Mason will star this fall in the new Broadway musical R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:15PMHere comes Elle Woods, impossibly blond and impossibly determined to work her way into, and through, Harvard Law school.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:14PMTony Award nominee Arian Moayed of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is among cast members of New York Theatre Workshop/Noor Theatre's Middle East-set play Food and Fadwa, about cooking an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMDuring the month of June, The Robert G. Reim Theatre in Kirkwood, Missouri will feel less like a theatre, and more like a Harlem jazz club in the 1930′s, when STAGES ST. LOUIS presents…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:01PM
Tony Award winner Lillias White will perform at Bay Street Theatre's Rock the Dock! benefit, to be held on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor on Saturday, July 21.
The event includes food, p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:58PMSince the Tony Awards began announcing the nominees as well as the winners at the 10th ceremony in 1956, there have been fifteen years where Best Musical did not go to the show with the most…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:56PMThe experiences of a minor Shakespeare character are the focus of a new play at the Royal Shakespeare Company, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:53PMThe Royal Ballet is collaborating with the National Gallery to perform a triple bill of dances inspired by Titian’s paintings, writes Richard Fairman
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:53PMLAStheatre’s idea is to induce us to communicate with performers about the dazzling world of Victorian science, writes Alexander Gilmour
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:53PMRSC artistic director designate Gregory Doran has set his production in contemporary Africa, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:52PMRobert Lepage's Playing Cards 1: Spades, at Luminato June 13 to 17, dances with the devil in Las Vegas.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 02:49PMActress Amy Aquino has landed a major recurring role on the third season of Syfy's Being Human as Donna, who runs the local soup kitchen, according to Deadline.com.
Aquino's stage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:47PMBefore we begin, you should know five Neos (Kurt, Phil, Tif, Caitlin, and Jessica) served like 1,000 beers to a bunch of University of Chicago kids that just turned 21 at the Smart Museum of…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 02:45PMRepertorio Español's artistic director René Buch was presented with The Order of Isabelle the Catholic at the company's annual gala, held at Repertorio's…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMOff-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 02:32PMAlrighty then. Now we’re talkin’. After a string of plays that made me want to stick my head in the freezer, I finally found something that kept me awake. And that’s not all, folks.…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 02:30PMIn my only nod to this Sunday’s Tony awards, I pass along this quote from Jan Maxwell, who this year is nominated as lead actress in a musical for her performance in Follies. In this a…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 02:29PMI first saw Michael Stebbins, Artistic Director of Rep Stage, in 2005 juggling several phone lines and over a dozen roles in the solo show Fully Committed. Juggling seems to be what Ste…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:26PM“All the love in the world for Baptiste is mine, mine. No room for others. It is fate. It is written,” sobs his heart-broken lover, Nathalie (María Casarès). This scene appears more th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMChance Theater is to present West Side Story, July 6-August 12. Oanh Nguyen will direct.
With music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents, Chance …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMTHEATER AS COLLECTIVE DREAM The band is already playing, the show underway, as we enter The Kitchen Theatre by way of the stage, which is set up like the parlor of a mystic or a fortunetelle…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMDOMA Theatre Company has announced casting for book/lyricist Leslie Bricusse and composer Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, the Musical, to perform at the MET Theatre in Hollywood, Ju…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:17PMHis assignment was to come up with the book for an electronica-scored musical. Appropriately enough for a company named SkyPilot, Adam Hahn devised a story set on a space station. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:15PMNowLive.com and Warner Bros. Pictures will live stream the official "Rock of Ages" red-carpet premiere and after-party June 8 at 8:45 PM PT/11:45 PM ET. The film adaptation of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:09PMBroadwayWorld is excited to bring you an exclusive look at JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR's new TV commercial and invites you to take advantage of a Superstar Summer Ticket Offer
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMWelcome to THE FRIDAY SIX QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMThe majority of our Experts had been predicting "Newsies" to win Best Musical but are now backing the bid by "Once" just days before the Tony Awards Sunday.
…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMPatrick Page, who stars as the Green Goblin in Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, goes backstage at the Foxwoods Theatre to talk about the Spider-Man experience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Waterston and Amato begin their next lover's quarrel. Photo(s): Paul Marotta.If you haven't noticed (and why should you have?), the debate over new plays vs. classics has once again coughed …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 01:57PM Palo Alto Players will finish off their 2011-2012 season with the cunningly clever, laugh-a-minute comedy THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE, playing for eleven performances June 15 – July…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:55PMLIVE ART Video artist Lorena Torres will be creating live projected imagery throughout the evening. MUSIC As guests arrive they’ll be greeted by the steel-string folk & blues styli…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:54PMAsian Voices: Keith Khan, designer, interviewed by Suman Bhuchar. He talks about his current project Wah! Wah! Girls, a contemporary musical set in London's East End, which marks the first c…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 01:52PMFour-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is nominated again this year for her searing performance as Bess in Porgy and Bess. Find out which Broadway divas inspired McDonald, why she curses …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:49PMMarin Shakespeare is set to present William Shakespeare's King John, July 6-August 12 at Forest Meadows Amphitheater. Lesley Schisgall Currier will direct.
Against a backdrop of shift…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMIrish Repertory Theatre has released rehearsal footage for the company's concert staging of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, to be presented on Monday, June 11 at the Shubert Theatre. The pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMThe Cutting Ball Theater has announced the lineup for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will open with Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep (October 12-November 18), featuring reperto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:44PMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will present the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. George C. Wolfe, who directed the shows sold-out Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThe LCT3 production of Slowgirl, a new play by Greg Pierce, directed by Anne Kauffman and featuring eljko Ivanek and Sarah Steele will open on Monday, June 18 at 7 pm. This world premiere is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMThe 2012 Tony Awards Audemars Piguet Green Room, a luxury Green Room experience conceptualized by partnership development firm Axcess Worldwide, will be offered June 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMNew York is pretty much holding its breath until Tony night on June 10, so there's not much going on on The Street. So let's take this opportunity to track the action across the pond.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMAvailable just in time for Sunday night's Tony Awards, are brand-new and free BroadwayWorld.com apps for the iPhone, iPad and Android Devices.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMDance Showdown - Choreographer Live Hangout
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SOURCE: YouTube at 01:21PMMichael Feinstein hosted a Jazz at Lincoln Center program that explored how popular standards have been torn apart and remade as jazz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PMExcited for the Tonys? It's only days away and it's time for theaterinthenow.com's picks for Sunday night's winners in the big categories. Best MusicalWill Win: OnceShould Win: Newsie…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:20PMHow does Tony nominee Tracie Bennett prep for the big day? By inviting two-time Oscar winner and Broadway veteran Jane Fonda to share a glass of Champagne with her at the Belasco Theatre&rsq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18PMAs with many of his plays, Bob Bartlett’s newest, Bareback Ink, began from a very personal place. The idea came during a tattoo session. “Earlier this year, I decided to get a se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PM“Into the Garden,” Maude Maggart’s new show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, looks at double-entendres and double meanings in lyric writing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:17PMTony Award nominees Karen Akers and Howard McGillin and Silence! The Musical star Jenn Harris are among the latest performers to join the June 18 Night of a Thousand Judys benefit for the Al…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMCBS SUNDAY MORNING will take a behind the scenes look at the hardworking talented actors, singers and dancers, all of whom are members of Actors' Equity Association, who perform in the Choru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMOn June 10, a select group of theater professionals will get to take home Broadway's biggest honor: a Tony Award. Although we're eager to congratulate the Best Actors and Best Featur…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07PMOn a walking holiday in a Derbyshire spa town in 1976, Malcolm Fraser had the unlikeliest of ideas. Within three years, he had rescued Buxton's Frank Matcham-designed Opera House from its ig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMFew British baritones were as versatile as Derek Hammond-Stroud, whose range easily encompassed the musical extremes of Gilbert and Sullivan and Wagner.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMAn international tour with Vivien Leigh was probably the high point of the career of actress Marigold Sharman. But she scaled down her theatre work in unusual circumstances. She believed she…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMAfter winning huge popularity as the Cockney corporal, Peter Newkirk, in the American television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes, Richard Dawson went on to host the quiz show that became known in Bri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMToday we are shining a light on one of the most respected and revered stage and screen stars of the last several decades who is known the world over for not only his stirring and commanding …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
Shakespeare’s histories were not just the making of the Bard, they were the making of the English too, writes Simon Schama
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:50PMThe 2012 Tony Awards are so close you can taste them In just TWO days, the best of Broadway will gather with host Neil Patrick Harris at the Beacon Theatre for a three-hour ceremony, which w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:46PMEvery Friday this summer, The Here and Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the US. These plays focus on dramatizing where these pl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:45PMWhen recent Yale School of Drama graduate Da'Vine Joy Randolph was cast as shady medium Oda May Brown in the Broadway production of Ghost the Musical, she couldn't foretell that it w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMStage and screen star Hugh Jackman will appear in person to accept his special Tony Award at the 2012 Tony Awards ceremony, which will be held at the Beacon Theatre on Sunday, June 10 and br…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMMusic-Theatre Group held a special interview with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner, moderated by Thomas Schumacher Producer and President, Disney Theatrical Group on June 7th at the Dimenna Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMFriday June 8, 2012GREAT BARRINGTON - Berkshire Playwrights Lab intends to lift the curtain on fully mounted productions of new plays within the next five years. And by next season, founder …
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:40PMCasa Mañana has announced the productions planned for its 2012-2013 Broadway season.
Kicking off the season will be the rock n roll musical Grease (September 15-23). Then Casa M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMMany of the spectacular gowns worn by Shirley Bassey, Joan Collins, Dusty Springfield, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Diana Dors were the work of the couturier Douglas Darnell, the man behind Darnell of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMIt took 36 years for Einstein on the Beach — the groundbreaking Philip Glass opera — to reach Toronto.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:38PMMorgan-Wixson Theatre will present George and Ira Gershwin's Crazy for You, running June 30-August 4.
Anne Gesling directs and musical directs the musical comedy, which features a by K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMThis week's topics Chorus Boys, cold or spoiled, Patrick back on Broadway, Lily Rabe I love you, Sondheim Survey, Patti LuPone at 54 Below, Che in Evita
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33PMThe 2012 Tony Awards ceremony won't be presented until Sunday, June 10, but preparations are already underway. We caught up with host Neil Patrick Harris and Peter and the Starcatcher nomine…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMKenneth Lonergan, the American playwright acclaimed for creating modern men who haplessly search for a sense of purpose, has drawn another character in this tradition — but set him in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMBrave Spirits Theatre will present William Shakespeare's Richard III, running June 21-July 7 at Atlas Performing Arts Center's Lab Theatre 1.
Charlene V. Smith directs the work, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMNina versus Tracie. Phillip versus James. An Irish crooner versus a cast of leaping newsies. This year’s Tony Awards are almost guaranteed to be unpredictable.
The ceremony, to be held on …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:23PMNational Ballet principal dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic is still dancing meaty roles at 42.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:21PMThe Associated Press reports that Andrew Lloyd Webber is in possible talks to join the judge's panel of the UK version of THE X FACTOR. Commenting on the rumor, the composer coyly told The A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMThe Importance of Being Earnest (in New York), David Zippel's reinvention of Oscar Wilde's classic Victorian comedy, gets a June 11 reading in Manhattan, with Tony Award winner Chris…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMThe Geffen Playhouses world premiere stage adaptation of The Exorcist showcases an award-winning design team including world-renowned creative consultant Teller and internationally acclaime…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMPalm Beach Dramaworks will present Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks, running July 11-August 5.
J. Barry Lewis directs the musical, which is inspired by Edmund Rostand&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMAmerican Conservatory Theater will present a one-night conversation with the creative team of The Scottsboro Boys, June 18 at 6:30 pm.
The evening will feature legendary Broadway songwriter…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMCurtain theatre is unearthed in east London, a Burmese political comedian is to play his first UK gig and Brits on Broadway get ready to take on the TonysCurtain upThe remains of the London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMCostume designer Nolan Miller has died in Los Angeles at age 79, according to reports.
Miller became world famous as the designer for the ABC soap opera Dynasty, for which he won an Emmy Aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PMCostume designer Nolan Miller has died in Los Angeles at age 79, according to reports.
Miller became world famous as the designer for the ABC soap opera Dynasty, for which he won an Emmy Aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:13PMA Streetcar Named Desire stops at THEATER TALK for Tony Awards weekend, with stars Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, joined by producer Stephen C. Byrd, discussing the historic Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMAfter a false start 20 years ago, comedy writer John Morton's career has reached Olympic heights with his acclaimed BBC series Twenty Twelve. He tells Matthew Hemley how he developed the show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMThere's no doubt that Shakespeare is the jewel in the crown of the London 2012 Festival, but there's plenty more on the programme, too. Ruth Mackenzie, the project's director, gives Simon Ta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThis is the first time since 1994 that four American plays are in contention for Best Play. And three of these productions mark the Broadway debut of the playwright.
Thirteen of ou…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:09PMGotham Stage Company has announced casting for Randall David Cook's new play, In a Town Near Faith, to be presented as part of the company's 2012 SPRINGboard New Works Reading Seri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMMeet Steve Kazee, who has earned his first Tony nod for playing a down-and-out Irish singer-songwriter in Once. Check out his video to learn a shady secret of his high school success, which …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMAlterLab: This is Not the End “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”-- Frank HerbertLast night was AlterLab's official final meeting. I and the three…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:02PMThe TRL Generation: Broadway Sings the 90's, a one-night-only benefit concert for Broadway Impact featuring late 90s classics, will be offered July 8 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01PMAt last we are just 2 days from Broadway's biggest night, the Tony Awards! And now, after a really full season of seeing shows - mid-June 2011 had Mike and I seeing the official openin…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMHappy Birthday, Robert Preston best remembered for his performance as Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man 1962. He had already won a Tony Award for his performa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 682012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM
The Tony Awards will host a luxury Green Room experience, conceptualized by partnership development firm, Axcess Worldwide. The 2012 Tony Awards Audemars Piguet Green Room will be sponsored …
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 11:59AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, Nederlander Presentations, Inc. will present the international musical sensation JEKYLL amp HYDE, which will return to Broadway in April 2013 following …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMSteve. Mr. Kazee. Kazoozle. It’s been a year, hasn’t it? Personal heartbreak. Professional highs. You’ve handled it all with grace and shared it with us with refreshing candor. And a…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:57AMLives are saved and hearts are broken in the world of Emily Owens M.D., the upcoming CW series starring Broadway vet Mamie Gummer. In a new extended trailer for the medical drama Emily …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMThe New York Times 06/08/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:52AMThe Guardian (UK) 06/08/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:49AMAs psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway musical Ghost, Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s get-ups are as eccentric as her over-the-top character. But the Tony-nominated actress is getting r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMOn June 9 and 10, Broadway favorite Lea Salonga will take part in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, performing with the 54 piece Adelaide Art Orchestra at the Festival Theatre. The concert will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMMusic-Theatre Group hosted a conversation with Diane Paulus, currently represented on Broadway by The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, and Randy Weiner at the Dimenna Center for Classical Mus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMBefore his big night, Tony nominee David Alan Grier stopped by Good Day New York on June 8 to crack some jokes and spread word about his current gig in the Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMMembers of Guns N’ Roses, Poison and Skid Row reminisce about their days working and playing hard on the Sunset Strip in the ’80s, the setting for the movie “Rock of Ages.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMLast Heroics and The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabbazz Memorial and Educational Center will present Wole Soyinka's 1965 comedie noire The Road as part of the 3-day Soyinkafestival, runni…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMEvery year I post my Tony Award predictions alongside YOUR predictions (derived from what the majority of you think is going to win based on your answers in my Tony Pool). Well, this year I …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AMMusical Theatre West will present the Tony Award-winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot beginning June 29, prior to an official opening June 30, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMAtlanta Lyric Theatre has announced the five musicals that will make-up its 2012-2013 season.
The season will consist of Cole Porter's Anything Goes (September 21-October 7); Irving Be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMJessie Mueller, Ellen Barkin and more were on hand at the June 7 opening night of Theater Oobleck’s Hunchback Variations at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMJessie Mueller, Ellen Barkin and more were on hand at the June 7 performance of Theater Ooblecks Hunchback Variations at 59E59 Theaters. A party was held for Chicago supporters of the pro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AMHanke took time out of his final rehearsal in DC yesterday to chat about what it was like to work opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt and why he believes the Tony Award-winning Normal Heart has as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMCheck out these pictures of Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine and more at the AFI Life Achievement Awards Honouring Shirley MacLaine yesterday June 7 in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMBroadwayWorld'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 11:13AMBroadwayWorld'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 11:13AMOn Wednesday, June 14, Recession Art Shows will present Ann Harada Avenue Q, Telly Leung Godspell, Carrie Manolakos Mamma Mia, Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell Follies and Jason Tam A Chrous L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMBritish stage and screen favorite Rowan Atkinson is set to headline a West End revival of Simon Grey’s 1987 play Quartermaine’s Terms, according to U.K.’s Daily Mail. The p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMBritish stage and screen favorite Rowan Atkinson is set to headline a West End revival of Simon Grey’s 1987 play Quartermaine’s Terms, according to U.K.’s Daily Mail. The p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Bruja, Magic Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Playwright Luis Alfaro dazzled Magic Theatre audiences two years ago with Oedipus el Rey, his lyrical barrio gangster updat…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:08AMGhostlight Records has shared "There Is Greatness In Me" -- a track from the forthcoming original cast recording of the Transport Group's production of Queen of the Mist -- fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMToday’s theater news round-up is about Paul Rudd…and some other not as important theater people. My imaginary boyfriend Paul Rudd (Broadway’s Last Night at Ballyhoo and Thr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:07AMThe world premiere musical Los Otros is perfectly named. It's an exploration of the relationships we have with the "others"�those people who come from different social, economic, racial or e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07AMStephanie J. Block, Jim Caruso and Billy Stritch offered a special performance and cocktail reception benefiting the Actors Fund June 7 at Bloomingdale's. The event capped an all day In-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:05AMOne-Minute Play Festival & Actor’s Express Present: The First Ever Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival Live streaming on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Monday, June 11 at 5pm PDT (Los A…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:01AMMuse
of Fire producers/directors/actors Dan Poole and Giles Terera
round off their guest coverage of Globe to Globe, the staging of
Shakespeare's plays in a different language courtesy of 37…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMFF Friday: Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman, Vol. 1.
By Sam Hurwitt
We now continue a week-by-week examination of Jonathan Hickman’s Fantastic Four run with… the first trade paperb…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:00AMPittsburghers are adept at transitions. Industries have come and gone. From glass, to steel, to robotics and technology, this town has worn many masks over the years, and the people who grew…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM"Glee" stars Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer and Amber Riley have joined the lineup of guest mentors on the second season of Oxygen Network's "The Glee Project,&quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) met Natalia when she first came to the U.S. and we worked together on a couple of early ITP projects at the T…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:55AMThe previously announced London premiere of Broadway’s Tony-winning musical The Book of Mormon will begin performances at the West End’s Prince of Wales Theatre on February …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AM Peter and the Starcatcher Tony nominee Christian Borle revealed his inner spirit animal, love of steak and boubon and obsession with Star Wars when he answered…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMPaul Chequer and Mark Quartley will share the title role in the Theatre Royal Haymarket’s forthcoming run of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful, from 18 to 29 September. Directe…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:52AM(POSTED BY STEVE JOHNSON) ... You won't find universal love for the Just for Laughs festival in Chicago's comedy scene. But as the aggregation of local, national and international talent pre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMPrecisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of COMPANY at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again — at the GeVa Theatre Cent…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:44AMThe Tuacahn Amphitheatre production of Disney's Aladdin, starring Dan Domenech, Haley Carlucci and Edward Juvier, officially opens June 8 in a new spectacle-filled staging.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMNEW YORK—When Cristin Milioti arrived at her final audition for the musical "Once," her palms were slick with sweat, and she felt like she was going to pass out.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:42AMBased upon the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, NEWSIES is the brand-new, New York musical about an unlikely band of underdogs who take on the biggest names in publishing in a remarkable fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMIt’s not everyday that we urge you without question to grab tickets for a show, but Mercury Fur by Greenhouse Theatre Company has to be it, and even better still, we have a ticket offe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:33AMAli Ahn and William Jackson Harper will share star-crossed nights in the Shakespeare on the Sound outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet, beginning June 26 in Greenwich, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMThe Group Theatre Too as well as choreographer Justin Boccitto and director Kimberly Vaughn are set to present the Broadway Performance Project, July 11 and 12 at 7pm at The Triad.
The Broa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMAnna Friel, Ken Stott and Samuel West are set to star in a West End revival of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Adapted by Christopher Hampton, directed by Lindsay Posner Posner (Deat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:21AMIn this installment of BACKSTAGE WITH RICHARD RIDGE, Richard presents the brother and sister powerhouse duo Celia and Andrew Keenan-Bolger, she starring in the hit new play Peter And The Sta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMRachel Klein’s Symphony of Shadows: A Tale From the Land Beyond the Veil, described as a movement-based spectacular, is currently playing a limited engagement at Dixon Place through Ju…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AMThe weekly roundup of the performances you've seen and what you thoughtWelcome to this week's reader review roundup. We kick things off with LonglifeLonder's concise recommendation for The C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMRecession Art Shows will present the second installment of Brian Spitulnik's The Chorus Boy Chronicles, a benefit for The Trevor Project, at RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix at 7:30pm …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:11AMThree-time Academy Award nominee Debra Winger will be making her Broadway debut in the American premiere of The Anarchist, a new play written and directed by David Mamet. Winger will star al…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:10AMRupert
Everett and Freddie Fox will lead the cast in a new production of
David Hare's The Judas Kiss at the Hampstead
Theatre. The show launches the theatre's autumn season,
which also sees …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMThe Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles will present As You Like It, July 10-29 at The Japanese Garden on the grounds of the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center Campus. Royal Shakespeare Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMThe second installment of The Chorus Boy Chronicles, a benefit for The Trevor Project, will be presented June 13 at RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix (9 Clinton Street, NYC).
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AMThese are the tweets of the week, folks. Little blips and blurbs of awesomeness from some of Broadway’s best in 140 characters or less.
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMNew artistic director Josie Rourke’s rare revival of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1961 play The Physicists opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (7 June 2012, previews from 31…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:00AM
Review: "Miranda Sings" defies genres by combining music, comedy, and theatre into an evening of enjoyment and entertainment!
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 09:53AMToday BroadwayWorlds 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown continues by highlighting one of the most innovative and unforgettable musicals ever composed - the Leonard BernsteinStephen SondheimArth…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:51AMCasting has been announced for The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' upcoming production of As You Like It, which will be presented in July at The Japanese Garden on the grounds of the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMKen Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West are to star in a new West End production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, beginning performances Oct. 24 prior to an official opening Nov. 2 at the Vaudevi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMProducers Debbie Bisno, Fox Theatricals and Paula Wagner have announced the Broadway Premiere of Grace, the acclaimed American play by Award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:31AMD
uring a recent statistics exam, Alex Getlin paused from probability questions to consider music — specifically, Cy Coleman’s.
…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:31AMHere's the premise, having diverse groups leads to better decisions. Here's the logic behind the premise, courtesy of Northwestern University: "Diverse groups outperformed more homogeneous g…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMAs US TV braces itself for this year's Tonys, find out why they are seven hours long, who might give an embarrassing speech, and whether James Corden can beat Philip Seymour HoffmanOn Sunday…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMRowan Atkinson is to star in the title role of a new West End production of Simon Gray's 1981 play Quartermaine's Terms, beginning performances Jan. 23, 2013, at the Vaudeville Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMGlee stars Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Samuel Larsen, Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, and Naya Rivera will all serve as guest mentors on the second season of the Oxygen Network'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:24AMThe full cast has been announced for Trevor Nunn's new production of Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack's Kiss Me, Kate, which will begin performances at the U.K.'s Chichester…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:20AMRowan Atkinson will return to the London stage to play the title role in a revival of Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms, January 23-April 23 at Wyndham's Theatre, according to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:19AMThe TCG Conference is in Boston this year. The chairs of the Host Committee are Michael Maso and Kate Warner. The rest of the committee is here. There are several subcommittees, including c…
SOURCE: StageSource at 09:14AMThe TRL Generation: Broadway Sings The 90's, a concert event to benefit Broadway Impact, will take place on Sunday, July 8 at 7 pm at Joe's Pub. The evening will feature musical d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMKen Stott, Anna Friel, and Samuel West will star in Lindsay Posner's revival of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, October 24-February 16 at London's Vaudeville Theatre, according t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:13AMHampstead Theatre, under the artistic direction of Edward Hall, has announced details of its upcoming season.
The season will open with Neil Armfield's production of David Hare's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09AMAre critics feeling good about "The Bad Guys"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:07AMSome people get sick and some people get better once they get sick. And then there are some people that are always sick and never get better. Strand Theater Company presents critically accl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMOur 17 Experts are divided over the winner of the Best Actress (Play) race at the Tony Awards.
Eleven of them are predicting that Tracie Bennett will win for her Olivier-…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:02AMThe Goddess Diaries began as an experiment. Several women were asked to write about a specific milestone in their life as part of a Winter Solstice performance at a local church. Borrow…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
The London production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon will begin performances on February 25, 2013 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
Featuring a book, music, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:59AMEnd of the Rainow, starring Tony Award nominated Tracie Bennet, has launched a first-of-its-kind guided tour of Judy Garland’s New York City. Foursquare users can now take guided tour of t…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 08:55AMAre critics devouring "Food and Fadwa"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:49AMJulian Erskine phones from Ireland. “This is not blarney, says Executive Producer of Riverdance, which wraps up its nearly 16 year tour at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMThis may have been my favorite Theatre World Awards ceremony since I began emceeing it in 1996.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:44AMThe actor, who portrays Jean Valjean in the upcoming Broadway-to-big screen adaptation of "Les Miserables," will attend Sunday's ceremony in New York City.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:42AMTony Award and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce received the Lifetime Leadership Award at the Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter gala, Forget-Me-Not, to be held at The Pi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:41AMFourteen of our 17 Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:33AM“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit,” William Faulkner said …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:31AMSignature Theatre Company celebrated the opening night of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play on Thurdsay, June 7 at the The Pershing Square Signature Center.
In the play, which Lonergan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:30AMThe new season at London's Hampstead Theatre will kick off with a revival of David Hare's The Judas Kiss starring Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox, and will also include two world prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:23AMSpeakeasy has an exclusive acoustic performance of Jordan performing the song “Santa Fe” accompanied by composer Alan Menken on piano.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal at 08:21AMI was not expecting to direct Next to Normal now or any time soon when I was told about the opportunity with Taking Flight Theatre Company (TFT). Bobby McCoy, our Music Director, and I inter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMTheatre Oobleck's production of The Hunchback Variations, now at 59E59 Theaters, had some special guests on Thursday, June 7.
With music by Mark Messing and a libretto by Mickle Maher…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:11AMThe Physicists,
Josie Rourke's third production at the helm of the Donmar
Warehouse, opened last night. The press night party was held at The
Hospital Club, a members' club in Covent Garden.…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 8 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Broadway and television star discusses the casting and creation of her new film.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Rupert Everett and Freddie Fox are to star in a revival of Judas Kiss this autumn at Hampstead Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMI hate hearing young women call each other Dude. It makes me want to whack them in the head and give them a lecture on “This is how you erase yourselves!!!” And furthermore, 15 and 16 …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:57AMPeter Filichia lets us know all about the new production.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMThe always hyperkinetic Synetic Theater company is in action again at its home base in Crystal City. This time, instead of funneling classic theater works through their uniquely visual, da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonThe social responsibility of the scientist was a hot topic when the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt wrote this play in 1961: this, after all, was a period when …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMWith two stage roles, including the rarely performed Timon of Athens, Simon Russell Beale is putting his stamp on London theatre this summer. He tells Natalie Woolman of the thrill of live p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMPitlochry Festival, Port Na Craig, Pitlochry: It is a dark tale, literally, as the first ten minutes does not overwork the lighting department or the electric meter. And, given that the mast…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMPitlochry Festival, Port Na Craig, Pitlochry: Pitlochry Festival Theatre's 61st season gets an all-encompassing title of "Flights of Fancy". The programme notes that this year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMFood and Fadwa - . . . The volatile West Bank setting with its check points, curfews and long history of hostilities adds a strong and geographically specific politi…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:24AMWith Broadway prices for Death of a Salesman stratospheric, the impact of market forces on theatre is obsessing bloggersPoor old Willy Loman, courting ignominy even in death. This week, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMThe London production of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of Nine 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical of the Year, will begin preview performances in the West End at the Prince of Wales Theatr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:19AMIce Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure will begin a five-year global tour in fall 2012.
The production will preview at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, October18-21, and Nottingham's Capital FM…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:19AMDan Gordon’s play provocatively dramatizes the real story of imprisoned Willie Moore and Henry Davidson, the inexperienced but determined attorney, assigned to his case.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:17AM
The New York Theatre Workshop’s stage has been transformed into a Palestinian home complete with working kitchen where Fadwa Faranesh (a remarkable Lameece Issaq) holds court prepar…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AMDespite Eve Brandstein’s capable direction and fine performances by Lynne Wintersteller and Nancy Johnson, thi play never fulfills its potential.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AMAfter two and a half hours of watching Sir Ralph, a sword wielding killer knight with a conscience, pursue his quest for his better self the best way to sum this up is to paraphrase Ralp…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:11AMThe volatile West Bank setting with its check points, curfews and long history of hostilities adds a strong and geographically specific political flavor to this collaboration with Noor Theat…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:05AMThe Hurly Burly Show is returning to the West End following its run at the Garrick Theatre in 2011. The all-singing, all-dancing revue starring Miss Polly Rae will open at the Duchess Theatr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:04AM
New Theatre, Oxford: Set in the slump years of the Great Depression, the premise of 42nd Street seems apt for these times of austerity. Still, like all great musical theatre, context never g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMAs previously tipped, Ken
Stott will be returning to the West End this autumn in a new
production of Uncle Vanya directed by Lindsay
Posner. With previews from 24 October, Chekhov's intimate…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:48AMEnter our competition and win one of five copies of Perfect Pitch's concept album of LIFT a new British musical by Craig Adams and Ian Watson. This recording features West End names includi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:48AMHolland Park, London: Informal and affordable Opera Holland Park opens its festive summer event with Olivia Fuchs's new production of Donizetti's double tragedy. It's among he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMJulie Walters plays Judy Haussman, with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children, in this funny and savage new family drama by Stephen Beresford. Directed by Howard Davies. Now playing…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:41AMLyric, Belfast: With its tongue lodged firmly in its cheek, Graham McLaren's effervescent new production plays fast and loose with Wilde's irony-laden subtitle, A Trivial Comedy fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMAs previously tipped, Ken
Stott will be returning to the West End this autumn in a new
production of Uncle Vanya directed by Lindsay
Posner. With previews from 24 October, Chekhov's intimate…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:18AMUnicorn, London: Imagine a show in miniature in which all the conventions are reversed. Backstage is fully on view at the front behind which a story about dealing with grief, bereavement and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMAfter an unnerving series of losses, several low-key announcements provide some encouraging news this week for the South Florida theater scene: Rising Action Theatre has succeeded in resurre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:11AMGlyndebourne, Lewes: Having installed a wind turbine to generate its own renewable energy, Glyndebourne Festival Opera is also recycling David McVicar's La boheme - at 12 years old, the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMWriter-performer Andrew Weems displays passion in his one-man show "Damascus," presented by the Acting Company, but Ian Belknap's staging is too static.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:04AM
Life expectancy for a female nurse is on the low side, to put it mildly, at the Les Cerisiers, the private sanatorium in The Physicists, Friedrich Durrenmatt's absurdist tragicomedy from 196…
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:58AMGregory Doran's production of Julius Caesar draws clear parallels between the political machinations of Caesar's Rome and the current political instability of African nations. The all-black …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:55AMTony-nominated Tracie Bennett’s performance as Judy Garland is so spot-on, an audience member accused the actress of lip-synching and wanted her money back.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:51AMDonmar Warehouse, London: When Friedrich Durrenmatt's satiric play was written, in 1961, the nuclear threat was terrifyingly real and the questions the play raised - about the rapidity …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMTheatre 503, London: Vincent works in an abattoir. A young man in his community is killed. By the end of Jimmy Osborne's play, the interconnectedness of these two facts has been rammed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMKen Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West are to star in a West End production of Uncle Vanya later this year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMRowan Atkinson is to star in the West End revival of Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMWith The Book of Mormon confirmed for the West End early next year, and Rowan Atkinson announced in Simon Gray's Quartermaine's Terms on the day of his producer Michael Codron's 82nd birthda…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:06AM
Tony-winning playwright looks back at controversial production at Manhattan Theater Club, a reconceived staging, and film about play
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:47AMPhoto/Joan MarcusFood and Fadwa opens with a crash course on Palestinian parties, a direct address from Fadwa (Lameece Issaq) to her studio audience that both fills us in on the premise…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:15AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I review the off-Broadway premiere of Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play and a San Diego-area revival,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMy recent visit to the Orange County Museum of Art's Richard Diebenkorn retrospective has yielded up a "Sightings" column for...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential." Cyril Connolly,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMEdward M. Coffield is a familiar figure in local theater: production manager at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, artistic associate at New Jewish, and veteran producer and host of the Kev…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMA slow cooked, gastronomic and heartwarming journey that will leave you completely content.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
In the three years since he moved from Spain to Chicago to assume the artistic directorship of Luna Negra Dance Theater, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano has worked a slew of creative miracles. Not o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:50AMThe absence of clear frontrunners in many of the major Tony races will make this year's annual Broadway honors an uncommonly suspenseful night.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:41AMMy favorite job as an artist in residence at Halycon has been reading and weighing in on the selection of the four amazing plays that make up the Alcyone festival this year. My new favorite …
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 12:27AMAll in all, *Rock of Ages* is, to use the parlance of its era, rad. Which is to say it’s loud, stupid and terrific. Recommended.
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:22AMFriday June 8, 2012
NEW YORK -- It’s a glorious spring day in New York, so Linda Emond wants to meet in Central Park.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:11AMdramaturg & producer New York, New York USA The production that changed my life was NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. I was 23 and I wept when it was over because I felt sure that I had seen the best s…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMIf you are what you eat, then no wonder Calvin Trillin is such a fascinating guy.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 12:01AMA street sign in Manhattan's theatre district indicates that West 44th Street is "Rodgers & Hammerstein Row." How come?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIf you go to see Food and Fadwa, the new play at New York Theater Workshop, here's a bit of friendly advice: eat first This goes double if you're a fan of hummus, baba ganoush, or any dish w…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMColt Coeur presents the world premiere production of Eliza Clark's Recall beginning June 8, prior to an official opening June 12, at the Wild Project in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad directs Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, a new comedy about secrets revealed at a family reunion, playing a Chicago run that opens June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, directed by Tony winner George C. Wolfe, beginning…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb beginning June 8 in the Eisenhower Theater. The production, which officially opens …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLewis Black's wedding day-set comedy One Slight Hitch makes its West Coast debut beginning June 8 at Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1925 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart make their lyric and songwriting debut in The Garrick Gaieties at Broadway's Garrick Theatre. In the cast are Sterling Holloway, Sanford Meisner, Phi…
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