Ok, children.Check it.This is going to be simple, because I have some props to set. Also, you just need to know that Jessica is stepping out of the show, as an active ensemble member, …
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 10:50PMThe Muny closes their 2012 season with the revival of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, THE KING AND I. It's an elegant end to a very entertaining season that's been full of surpris…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34PMWhat this 5,000th (or so) adaptation of Antigone, gains in clarity and immediacy are countered by losses in grandeur and mystery. The adaptation tries to explain too much, and in a flat pros…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:21PMBarrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, presents a workshop production of the new musical The Black Suits w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14PMMichael Raver's excellent stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel keeps the writer's famous wit intact.
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Rob McClure, Warren Carlyle, Christopher Curtis, and Thomas Meehan share their thoughts on the legendary film star whose life provides the inspiration for the new Broadway show.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:22PMNeef (COC website, photo byMichael Cooper)OTTAWA: The Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC) has announced its new artistic director. Director/Actor Eric Coates - formerly AD at the Blyth Fes…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 07:08PMGulliver's Travels, EdinburghRomanian director Silviu Purcarete put on a very showy Faust at the 2009 Edinburgh International festival – a spectacular and seductive performance of Goethe's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMAdults too often tune out and miss what children are really saying, says a new play called Monkey BarsThree women are sitting close together, heads bent, gossiping. "I know what deja vu is,"…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMHeralded as the new Sam Mendes ever since he got the job as associate director on Mendes' Richard III, starring Kevin Spacey in 2011.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMAs one of the first women on the arts scene of belle epoch Paris, Camille Claudel made quite an impression when she arrived at Auguste Rodin's studio at the age of 19 to work as his assistan…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMFollowing a fine tradition of absorbing first-person narrative into third-person drama, the playwright Simon Stephens makes Mark Haddon's brilliant cult novel an ensemble piece about putting…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
With a new production of Friel's first play at the Donmar, Colm Tóibín re-examines the works of a writer whose characters' words often conceal as much as they revealIn all his work, Brian …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMWriting is the foundation of any performance or story rooted in personal experience that you see on The Neo-Futurist stage. On any stage where words are thrown around. And while writers must…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 05:51PMStage and screen star Michael McKean will be featured in the Pearl Theatre Company's benefit presentation of James Thurber's A Thurber Carnival, to be held on Monday, October 1 as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:26PMI once saw a demonstration of second-tier gymnasts, people who were just below Olympic level. Watching their strengths and weaknesses made me understand and appreciate gymnastics more deeply…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:18PMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods is being revived in the closest Manhattan has to woods: Central Park. Hear from the all-star cast on their opening night about this m…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMEvery Friday this summer, The Here & Now Project will post a new short play, written by one of four playwrights selected from across the United States. These plays focus on dramatizing…
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“Subscribe Now!” was the title of a 1977 book by Danny Newman that became the marketing bible for performing-arts institutions in the United States.
“No!” comes the answer from audie…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:55PMIan Shuttleworth finds that the dramas offered in this year's Edinburgh Fringe range from the daring and delightful to the dreadful
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:52PMIan Shuttleworth finds that the dramas offered in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe range from the daring and delightful to the dreadful
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:52PMAn Anglo-American 'Troilus and Cressida' at Stratford takes aim at posturing male egotism, writes Alexander Gilmour
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:52PMAn Anglo-American ‘Troilus and Cressida’ at Stratford takes aim at posturing male egotism, writes Alexander Gilmour
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:52PMAlso 'Nunsense,' 'Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the Sparrow,' more
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:50PMThe Royal Shakespeare Companys world premiere production of Roald Dahls Matilda The Musical has captured the imagination of young and old alike and continues to play to packed houses at Lond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMRaven Theatre has announced casting for Clifford Odets' The Big Knife, to run September 11-November 11. Michael Menendian will direct.
Based on Odets' own caustic experience in H…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMPlaywright John Morogiello's resume lends credibility to Blame It on Beckett, a comedy set behind the scenes of a resident theater company. The director -- former Laguna Playhouse artistic d…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:20PMFeatured in this week's event was Chicago Donna Marie Asbury, Dylis Croman, Cristy Candler, Tonya Wathen, Tony Yazbeck, Peter Nelson, Amos Wolff, Denny Paschall Rebecca Jill Paice, Ryan Silv…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMThe Diverse City Theater Company offers up a disappointing revival of Lee Blessing's political drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
WNBC says Donna Murphy and Amy Adams lead a clever, often chaotic update of the dark fairytale, complete with trees and castle
SOURCE: NBC New York at 03:53PMFor 12 years, Merkin Concert Hall's Broadway Close Up series has been taking audiences behind the scenes of classic musicals old and new with eye-opening interviews and inspiring performance…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:46PMWilliam Webster, John Jarvis, Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster & Hannah Miller (photo: Cylla von Tiedemann)No one can know God’s willSixty years on, The Crucible proves it still has much to sa…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:45PMAngelica Page will premiere Turning Page, a new solo play about her late mother, American actress Geraldine Page, Off-Broadway this fall at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PMFollowing a run at The Secret Rose Theatre, Blazeco Productions is set to present its staging of Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed at Zephyr Theatre, August 17-September 16.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMThe 2012 Howlympics is an open call for writing about, and inspired by the London Olympics. When I was in seventh grade, my track and field-obsessed father convinced me to join my middle sch…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:30PMAngelica Page will perform her solo show, Turning Page at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, October 11-28. Wilson Milam will direct.
A tribute to her mother, famed actress Geraldine Page, the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMThis fall, celebrated stage veterans Edward Watts Finian's Rainbow and Roz Ryan Chicago, The Pajama Game, Dreamgirls return to Broadway to co-star in the new musical SCANDALOUS The Life and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMAfter watching Mike Tyson�s one-man show on Broadway, it all seems so obvious: his life has always been a one-man show. Unlike those fighters whose legacies were carved out in collaboration …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:19PMMerkin Concert Hall's Broadway Close Up series has announced plans for its 2012 season which will feature concerts celebrating the likes of Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, Henry Kreige…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:18PMIn her new film adaptation of the 2010 off-Broadway comedy, writer/director Leslye Headland has expanded Bachelorette past the confines of a hotel bridal suite, letting the badly behave…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:16PMMeet the first-nighters at the opening of The Public Theater's new Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods, in Central Park's Delacorte Theater.
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Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of July 30-Aug. 5, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:59PMSiân Phillips, Matt Rawle, Linal Haft, Harriet Thorpe and Nicholas Tizzard complete the cast of Rufus Norris' remounting of his Olivier Award-winning production of Kander and Ebb&#…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMStephen Sondheim's fractured musical fairy tale is getting a major revival in Central Park. NPR's Trey Graham had a look.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:54PMAccording to an Equity casting notice, Rob Ashord is set to helm the upcoming Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the Spring 2013. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Scarlett Joh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMEdward Watts and Roz Ryan will star alongside previously announced two-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello and two-time Tony winner George Hearn in Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMAt one point in "The Great American Trailer Park Musical," a campy off-Broadway spoof with music and lyrics by David Nehls and a book by Betsy Kelso, the crazed ex-boyfriend of a stripper-on…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMIf time flies when you’re having fun, it’s no wonder that another week on the Great White Way has whizzed by already. From an Into the Woods star's weird relationship with he…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMSt. Charles High School director of bands Jessica Ingraham is the new SLSYO manager.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:32PMRoz Ryan and Edward Watts will join the previously reported stars George Hearn and Carolee Carmello in the Broadway premiere of the new musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Sempl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:25PMThis year's Bessie nominees--and the torturous categories into which they've been placed
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:24PMDOMA Theatre Company has announced casting for Xanadu, running September 7-October 7 at The MET Theatre. Hallie Baran will direct, with choreography by Angela Todaro and musical direction b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:24PMCo-creators of the popular web series "Submissions Only" Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) and Kate Wetherhead (Legally Blonde) joined Seth Rudetsky for his weekly installment of "Seth's Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:24PMWishes, dreams and magic come to life in Central Park as Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods receives an all-star staging, directed by Timothy Sheader. This Tony-winning…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMEdward Watts (Finian's Rainbow) and Roz Ryan (Chicago, The Pajama Game, Dreamgirls) have joined the cast of the upcoming new Broadway musical, Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMWhat happens when a musical opens for an eight-week limited engagement at a downtown Off-Off-Broadway theater and winds up playing for over a year? It moves uptown! And Silence! The Musical …
SOURCE: news.kinnetiks.net at 02:04PMOn Monday September 17, Broadway stars will unite to sing the songs of a music legend in 'Broadway Sings Michael Jackson' at Le Poisson Rouge. The concert, which will feature some of Jackson…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PMWelcome 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 02:00PMOSA Images Costumes: Zaldy Goco ©2011 Cirque-Jackson I.P., LLC
It seems a shame to be talking to Travis Payne on the telephone, where he's a disembodied voice. Payne is a storied dancer, c…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:00PMJohn Waters will narrate the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presentation of Hairspray in Concert, to be held January 24-27. Jack Everly will conduct the performances, which will take place at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
In the video below, Ghost stars Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman put their talents together creating an acoustic version of the show's hit number Here Right Now. Check out the acoustic ver…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMSatchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about jazz musician Louis Armstrong, will appear at Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, MA, Aug. 22-Sept. 16, prior to a ru…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMPyotr Fomenko, a rebellious Russian stage director who often ran afoul with Soviet authorites, died Aug 9 in Moscow. He was 80.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:53PMBrian Copeland's solo show The Waiting Period, which is currently running at The Marsh, has been extended through September 29 with an additional Thursday show beginning September 6.
T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMBroadway vets Nick Adams, Marissa Perry, Tony winner Beth Leavel, The Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz and more are set to join John Waters in a concert version of the hit musical Hairspray with…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK A first look at the new musical CHAPLIN, BULLET FOR ADOLF celebrates opening night, the casts of REBECCA, NEWSIES and RENT perform at Broadway at Bryant Park and so mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:39PMI’ve never seen Les Misérables before (having been put off by the extortionate West End prices) but was most impressed by the professionalism of this youth production. They presented the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:38PMSarah Litzsinger, Caroline O'Connor, Chris Peluso and Adam Monley will sing "Another National Anthem" in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater production of Stephen Sondheim and John…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMThe Public Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapines INTO THE WOODS, part of The Publics 50th Anniversary season at the Delacorte opened last night, August 9th. BroadwayWorl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMSt. Paul's Circus Juventas brings a new twist to the Old West in its latest summer show.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:35PMThe 2012 Howlympics is an open call for writing about, and inspired by the London Olympics. Everyone is encouraged to submit their writing. Find details here. I am absolutely fascinated by …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:32PMThe theatre director says he feels passionate about what’s happening – or isn’t happening – in England at the moment, writes Hester Lacey
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:29PMThe theatre director says he feels passionate about what's happening – or isn't happening – in England at the moment, writes Hester Lacey
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:29PMAn old man caught in a routine that sees the same actions repeated each and every day: he wakes, he gets his slippers, makes coffee, drinks coffee, he repeats, again and again. Caught in thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:21PMTony Award winner Rob Ashford will direct a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, which will be produced by Tony Award winner Stuart Thompson, according to an Eq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMThe tents and stages have come down in Newport, and now the action shifts west to Connecticut, home of the superb Litchfield Jazz Festival. Later in the month, it's party time in Salem, MA …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:15PMName: Trenton I. WeaverHometown: Gahanna, OhioEducation: BFA Musical Theatre from Otterbein UniversitySelect Credits: Chamber Theatre Tours playing Blaise Pascal and various others, Don't Dr…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:11PMWith their plainspoken eloquence, Horton Foote’s gentle yet deceptively complex stories about small-town life are a welcome addition to any theater season.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:10PMOk, we admit it. It was a tremendous relief entering the St. James Theatre on a scorching-hot New-York-City-in-August afternoon in to be greeted by a blast of air conditioning and ice-cold a…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:10PMHangar 858, RAF St Athan, Vale of GlamorganTwo summers ago, National Theatre Wales stunned us with a version of Aeschylus's The Persians set in a military training camp. Now the same directo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMSamantha Macher had to learn how to write about someone she never knew, in a very different culture, in a time far removed from the perspective of her millennial generation. With the help of…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:08PMKim Cattrall and Michael Pennington will star in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The revival, to be directed by Janet Su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PM
When 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 12:55PMThe Glimmerglass Opera staging was outstanding in all aspects of production: the singing was commanding, costumes were lavish, the scenery was sumptuously displayed and changed smoothly from…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMThe Off-Broadway production of 7 Fingers' Traces celebrated its one-year anniversary at the Union Square Theatre on Thursday, August 9. The production continues at the venue through Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMFull casting has been announced for San Jose Rep's production of Jonathan Marc Feldman's new play The Death of the Novel, which will run August 30-September 23. Rick Lombardo will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:47PMPrimary Stages ESPA has announced the cast and directors of the ESPA*Drills Reading Series, which will run August 16-23 at 59E59 Theaters.
The plays selected for the series include Heidi Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMWoody Harrelson appeared on last night's 'The Colbert Report' on Comedy Central to discuss his new Off-Broadway play, BULLET FOR ADOLF. During the interview, the actor managed to unbutton h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMCaissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman, stars of Ghost The Musical, perform an acoustic version of "Here Right Now" from the Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:43PMEver Mainard and Alicia Queen are set to present Shakespeare's Female Women, September 8-29 at Gorilla Tango's Skokie Theatre.
Both written and performed by Mainard and Queen, S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:41PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that it is adding three additional productions, including the National Theatre of Scotland’s well-received Black Watch, to the 2012 portion …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMOn Thursday, August 9, The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods opened at the Delacorte Theater where it will run through September 1. The production is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMDelivered in a mixture of Spanish and English, Panta Rei Theatre Collective’s imaginative and surreal production of Don Quixote! Don Quixote! is brought to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMThe musical based on the popular Will Ferrell movie "Elf" will return to Broadway for another yuletide season. Producers announced that the show is set to open Nov. 9 at the Al Hirschfeld Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:33PMJared Zirilli, who has been seen in Broadway's Lysistrata Jones and Off-Broadway's Fat Camp, and DJ Bucciarelli, who appeared in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, have bee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMArthur's Seat"A good walk spoiled," was how Mark Twain once described the game of golf. The phrase comes to mind in this mix of art and sport created by NVA on the steep mountain above Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMAs first reported on Deadline.com, Justin Theroux will rewrite and direct Warner Bros. upoming comedy SWEAR TO GOD starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMThe theater district's swanky new nightclub 54 Below is hosting a slew of Broadway's hottest stars this summer, from two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone to downtown diva Justin Vivian …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:23PMThe casts of A Christmas Story, The Musical!, Bring It On: the Musical, Mamma Mia!, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once, Rock of Ages, and The Phantom of the Opera will perform a number of so…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:23PMTraverse"This is not about fathers and sons," says comedian Mark Thomas in this solo storytelling show. But how could it not be? A picture of Thomas's father, Colin, dominates the stage, mak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMHow has your Broadway debut treated you so far?? It’s been great. It’s very scary to come into a show that you know is so great. I’ve seen the show knew it was incredible and wonderful…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:19PMEmmy Award winner Mel Stuart, who directed the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, has died in Los Angeles at age 83.
Stuart was primarily known as a director and pro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMPerformances have begun for the world premiere of Heartless, Sam Shepard's new play, and we’ve got a first look at photos from the production. Directed by Daniel Aukin, Heartless i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMThis week's topics Favorite songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Disney's Hunchback on Broadway, Shows for young kids, R.I.P Marvin Hamlisch, Celebrities on stage, Top 5, Broadway Board Commente…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMSomething mysterious is happening. In the West Coast premiere of an intimate spine-tingler from award-winning playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus), acclaimed novelist Franklin Woolsey has die…
SOURCE: Footlights at 12:00PMPlaywright Seth Moore’s new play, The Man With America Skin, which explores the effects of post-traumatic stress in two unlikely companions, will perform August 16 through August 26 at The…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 8102012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMHERE will launch its 20th season with Hanne Tierney's Strange Tales of Liaozhai. Created in collaboration with composer/musician Jane Wang and projection artist Hannah Wasileski, the wo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Casting has been announced for Hairspray: In Concert!, which will premiere with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Jan. 11-13, 2013, and with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Jan. 24-27. Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59AMThe fifth concert of this season's Broadway in Bryant Park series was presented Aug. 9 with performances by Evita, Newsies, Rent, Rebecca and Chicago.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMLive-action versions of cinematic hits such as Hairspray and Ghost have almost single-handedly revived big-budget theatreRex Pickett required one thing of the Ruskin theatre, which was stagi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMAnne Phelan
Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio
Current Town: Brooklyn, New York City
Q: What are you working on now?
A: A few years ago, I reconnected with my fellow Albee Fellow Jac…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:51AMToday in 1986, Me and My Girl opened at the Marquis Theatre, where it ran for 1420 performances. Me and My Girl is a musical with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMA new poster has been released for the upcoming comedy BACHELORETTE, an adaptation of Leslye Headland's off-Broadway show which ran at the McGinnCazale Theatre in 2010. The film stars Isla F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMOh, I am very, very sad. David Rakoff has lost his battle with cancer. He was a very good friend to me and a generous supporter of my work. In gratitude, in 2010 I wrote an appreciation of h…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:44AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMThe hit musical adaptation of Elf will return to Broadway this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Performances will begin on Friday, November 9, 2012. The production will play a …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:41AMDo your students and cast members want to be stars? Check out this cool opportunity for kids 13 or over! Star in the official music video for PITCH PERFECT the Movie featuring Mike Tompkin…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:38AMThree-time Oscar nominee chats with Broadway.com about her New York stage debut playing the Baker's Wife in the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMTake a look around the Cartoucherie, the remarkable home of the Théâtre du Soleil, buried in the Bois de Vincennes east of ParisAndrew DicksonPeter SaleKarin Andreasson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMThe Musicians' Union has launched a nationwide research project to assess the working lives of music professionals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMI just saw five different productions of five different plays by William Shakespeare inside a single week. They were in three different cities — Chicago, Spring Green, Wis., and Stratf…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:32AMCasa Mañana will present a limited run of Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard's comedy Greater Tuna, August 23-26. The production is directed by Joe Sturgeon.
David Co…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:31AMPersonalities such as Village Voice writer Michael Musto and actor David Ilku are set to participate in the 50th Birthday roast of drag queen Lady Bunny, August 15 at XL Nightclub Cabaret &a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMBob Dylan will officially reopen Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre. Yes, his whereabouts on Sept. 4 will be positively Port Chester. His website announced just now that he will play the f…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:28AMAlexander Dinelaris’ Red Dog Howls will begin performances September 5, one day later than the previously announced start date. Starring Tony winner Kathleen Chalfant and dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AMEssayist and performer David Rakoff has died following a battle with cancer, according to published reports. He was 47 years old.
Rakoff's stage credits included the plays One Woman Sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMAt BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content from all corners of the globe. Our regional contributors do an amazing job each day of bringing you the latest theater news …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMSondheim in the Park opened this week.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - Should INTO THE WOODS Move to Broadway After Its Central Park Run
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AM101_0204, a photo by arthennessey on Flickr.The Mirror Up To Nature - Boston Theater and Beyond
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 11:18AMOn April 15, 1975, A Chorus Line tipped its hat to audiences for the first time on the brick-walled stage of the Public Theater's Newman Theater on Lafayette Street.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMThe woods are lovely, dark and deep.Oops. Wrong text.Even so, these woods ARE lovely. The shadows are getting long and sweet because night is coming on a little earlier each day. The bird…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 11:15AMWilly Russell's musical packs its bags after 24-year run while mayor describes Leicester's theatre as 'disastrous'Frere-wellA West End institution began packing its bags this week, with the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMBroadway News Review | Week of July 28 – August 3 Having trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with o…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:14AMWoody Harrelson, the co-writer and director of the semi-autobiographical new off-Broadway play Bullet for Adolf, dropped by The Colbert Report on August 9 to hang out with host Stephen Colbe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods intertwines classic fairytales including Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Rapunzel and Jack and the Be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMQuick – what do Jellicle Songs, Dick Van Dyke, and the Shubert Organization have in common? They are all featured lyrics in the hip-hop t-t-t-tribute to Musical Theater by up-and-koome…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Featured in this week's event was Chicago Donna Marie Asbury, Dylis Croman, Cristy Candler, Tonya Wathen, Tony Yazbeck, Peter Nelson, Amos Wolff, Denny Paschall, Eddie Bennett Rebecca Jill P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMMany schools and after-school programs that have been “going green” environmentally are about to go green theatrically, too. For that lovable green ogre known as Shrek, the subject of a …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:59AMSteel Burkhardt (Hair), Morgan James (Godspell) and Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid) are among the seventeen stars that will perform some of Michael Jackson’s greates…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMTHE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has announced cast changes slated to take place on the 3 September. Joining the company will be Marcus Lovett as 'The Phantom', Simon Thomas as 'Raoul', Lara Martins…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMGhost stars Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman have voices for days and charisma to spare (just check out their visits to Broadway.com's Show People: his and hers) but this duo took…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMAustralian playwright Alana Valentine has been named the winner of the STAGE International Script Competition for the best new play about science and technology for her work, Ear to the Edge…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMAnna O’Byrne will play Christine Daae twice a week in the West End production of The Phantom of the Opera, serving as alternate to Sofia Escobar. O’Byrne will succeed alternate K…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:51AMToday is opening day of the umpteenth New York International Fringe Festival. I’m proud to say my association with the festival began in its second year (1998) and my disassociation wi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:50AMWhat would you do if the apocalypse arrived tomorrow? Impossible Theater Company answers that question for four characters in their second production [missed connections]. The play is no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMThe National Theatre of Scotland's heralded Iraq War ensemble drama Black Watch will return to the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, for a limited engagement beginning …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMStandup comedian Greg Warren compiled plenty of material for his act just by growing up.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:45AMArtists from a host of Broadway productions will take part in a free concert Aug. 23 at the World Financial Center Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMKristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams will share the roles of Anna and Kate in the forthcoming West End revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times, opposite Rufus Sewell as Deeley, according…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:43AMArtists from a host of Broadway productions will take part in a free concert Aug. 23 at the World Financial Center Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMYou too can experience the privilege, respect and air of superiority enjoyed by millions who call themselves New Yorkers. But it requires training, even if you were born here. Let us show yo…
SOURCE: www.theateronline.com at 10:42AMKen Page and Jennifer Hope Wills are among the performers who will take part in The Performing Arts Center of Suffolk County's second annual gala Dressing for the Night on August 18 at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMArtists from a host of Broadway productions will take part in a free concert Aug. 23 at the World Financial Center Plaza.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMWhen Fan Expo Canada hits the Metro Convention Centre from Aug. 23 to 26, there will be thousands of eager followers of Doctor Who and Torchwood there to see John Barrowman, the omnisexual C…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:35AMThe filmmaking team behind SING ALONG, the upcoming short film musical, have launched a Kickstarter campaign offering 60 tickets to the premiere for 225, with 30 available for 125.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AM'I hate the word "production". It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in'Beyond the péripherique, a short drive through the Bois de Vince…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMFreud's Last Session has announced a final extension through November 11 at the Mercury Theater. Tyler Marchant directs.
Written by Mark St. Germain, the play focuses on psychoanalyst…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMThis week's guest blog comes to you from Ashley Carter of Double Take Dance Company. I met Ashley after seeing her work in a dance concert and following up. Like all great producers, she has…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMAlec Baldwin and Singers Forum have announced the four projects which have been awarded the first-annual Alec Baldwin Fellowship. The year-long program is devoted to the individualized works…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:23AMThe cast of Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Three Sisters,” now playing through August 26. What is it about Steppenwolf’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:22AMLast weekend, we were pleasantly surprised to find that one of the audience members that day, Roberto Reyes, had come because he is in town for 3 months, and had heard that a production of E…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:21AMSian Phillips, Harriet Thorpe and Matt Rawle will join the cast of the upcoming West End revival of Cabaret, alongside the previously announced Michelle Ryan as Sally Bowles and Will Young a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMInto the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical that intertwines classic fairytales, gets a playful new dramatic context from British directors Timothy She…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThis week the theater community lost Marvin Hamlisch, a legendary songwriter who changed the Broadway landscape with A Chorus Line. As is tradition, Broadway theaters dimmed their light…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AMName: Alex HaynesHometown: New York, NYEducation: University of Kansas B.A.'s in Theater and PsychologySelect Credits: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Judge LIttlefield/ Caiaphus the Elder,…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:18AM“As We Travel On”: Remembering Marvin Hamlisch By Joshua W. Kelley The American Musical Theatre suffered a great and incomprehensible loss on August 6th, 2012. Marvin Hamlisch wa…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:17AMCheck out photos of the show's opening night guests on the red carpet
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMMaxim de Winter brings his new wife home to his estate, Manderley. There she learns of the mystery of his first wife, now dead… Rebecca. Based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AMWill Ferrell and Steve Carrell will star in the new comedy Swear to God, according to Deadline.com.
Ferrell will play a hedge fund manager who thinks he has seen God in the film, which is b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMToday is the birthday of Jack Haley, best known to modern audiences as the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. Audiences of the 20s knew him as one of the top headliners and masters of ceremoni…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:10AMAnnual event starring top comedians is axed after Manchester city council withdraws funding as part of government cutsIn the month that the Edinburgh fringe festival showcases the best of Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMEntering the auditorium for a first look at Tom Rogers' extraordinary set is just the start of this thoroughly delightful experience. His monochrome vertical map of Manhattan is a fine scene…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMThe Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts delivers a ‘royal flush’ with its brilliant production of Urinetown directed with gusto by Delia Taylor. Urinetown has Music by Mark …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMphoto by Mark Von Holden/Getty Images North AmericaHad the pleasure recently of meeting and chatting with the very busy director Daniel Aukin, a new play specialist formerly of Soho Rep, now…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:00AM
Four performers from the original cast of “Jersey Boys” are now trying to be real pop stars as the Midtown Men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:56AMCheck out photos of the cast and creative team at the production's opening night party
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced the appointment of Cynthia Rider as its next executive director. The current executive director, Paul Nicholson, retires in December after 33 ye…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMIn the weeks leading up to Chaplin’s August 21 Broadway start date, show headliner Rob McClure has been busy…watching movies! The star, who will play the legendary Charlie Chapl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:53AMFull casting has been announced for Antony and Cleopatra, which runs in the Chichester Festival Theatre from 14 to 29 September (previews from 7 September) as part of the venue's 50th annive…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:47AMMore casting has been announced for Rufus Norris' upcoming London revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff's musical Cabaret, according to the website WhatsOnStage. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:45AM"Magic Mike" stars Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer and Matt Bomer aren't the only actors displaying their chiseled physiques on movie screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45AM"Magic Mike" stars Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer and Matt Bomer aren't the only actors displaying their chiseled physiques on movie screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:44AMThe London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will welcome new cast members Marcus Lovett, Lara Martins, Anna O'Byrne, and Simon Thomas beginning Septembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:43AMDaniel Aukin, who’s directing the premiere of Sam Shepard’s “Heartless” for Signature Theater, is admired for embracing uncertainty, his colleagues say.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMThe Public Theater's production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapines INTO THE WOODS, part of The Publics 50th Anniversary season at the Delacorte opened last night, August 9th. BroadwayWorl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38AMPlaybill.com has obtained the track list for "Laura Osnes: Dream A Little Dream – Live At The Café Carlyle," which will be released Sept. 18 on the Broadway Records la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMby Michael Wheeler Sunny’s here. Every year SummerWorks seems to have an increasingly stellar and creative line-up. Let’s set aside this evidence new and experimental work is incre…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:33AMI admire people that are willing to tackle a difficult challenge by looking at it in a different way. That's what I thought about when I read this article from the New Yorker. Just in case t…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMGiven the Russian writer's modernist pedigree, should director/playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky be punished for putting some "unevenesses" int…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:29AMProgramming has been announced for the fifth annual 1st Irish, dedicated to Irish playwrights, which will run September 3-October 1. The month-long theater festival is coordinated by the Ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:27AMRufus Sewell, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams will star in a new West End production of Harold Pinter's Old Times, scheduled to open at the Harold Pinter Theatre in January.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMThe Master and Margarita, Complicite's stage version of Bulgakov's novel that premiered at London's Barbican Theatre in March/April, is to return to the same venue for a Christma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMLoserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, is set to transfer to the West End's Garrick Theatre, beginning performances Oct. 1.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AMNew principals have been announced to take over in the West End's The Phantom of the Opera, including Broadway's Marcus Lovett, who takes over the title role, with Simon Thomas, Lara…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:14AMThe closing ceremony to this year's Olympics Games, being held Aug. 12 at London's Olympic Stadium, will feature what's being described as a "one great, big rock 'n'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:07AMMarvin Hamlisch died on August 7th, and left the world of music diminished by much. He was only 68 years old, and was, as always, neck high in the preparation of new works. I met him in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMRobert Bathurst, Gerard McCarthy, and Oliver Wilson will star in the upcoming UK tour of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, to begin September 13 at the Theatre Royal Brighton. The production, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:05AMA blurb describing After the Rainfall, a new production by Curious Directive, says that the drama explores “ant migration patterns”. It does, in depth, but don’t let that put you off.
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:02AMThe Marriott Theatre in Chicago has announced that its 2013 season will include productions of “Mary Poppins” and “Now and Forever: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.” The theater, wh…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMTheatre lovers will have the opportunity to attend the U.S. premiere of the new independent short "Sing Along," about a young boy who transforms his reality into a musical, which s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Well, I know who I'm nominating for a MacArthur "Genius" Grant. The pre-teen narrator of Into the Woods in Central Park.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:51AMDance UK has launched a mentoring scheme for dancers to further their careers as industry leaders.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMI first saw Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories on the day of its premiere, 26 September 1980, at the now-defunct Baronet theatre on the Upper East Side, alone. I no longer think as I did …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AMWhat to see in Edinburgh and beyond, audiences behaving badly, and the worst Edinburgh venues for theatreSight linesWhich are the best and worst festival venues for seeing theatre? A comment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMStephen Fry was among the guests at Soho Theatre last night (9 August 2012, previews from 3 August) for the world premiere of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe's new musical Soho Cinders. Fry,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMBilled as an improvised musical comedy, The Showstoppers has received rave five-star reviews from Time Out and other publications, but I left without raising a smile. Others in the packed-ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:23AMHow great that we are invited quite literally into the woods
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:08AMSoho, London: For their latest musical, composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe give us a 21st-century take on the Cinderella story. Elliot Davis joins them as co-author of the boo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMThe musical adaptation of the 2003 Will Ferrell film “Elf” will return to Broadway for this year’s holiday season. Producers announced recently that the production will return to the A…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 10 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award-winning star tells the truth about her new show about the late, great soul singer at the Bay Street Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
The new production of Spamalot has been pared down but not at the expense of laughs or its Pythonesque essence, composer John Du Prez and star Bonnie Langford tell Lisa Martland
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMThe caustic words of a critic helped put paid to Peter Michael Marino's West End flop Desperately Seeking Susan but his one-man show based on his experiences is attracting plenty of attentio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMQueen of crime fiction's contribution to the stage to be celebrated with statue in London's theatrelandLondon's first memorial commemorating the bestselling queen of crime fiction Agatha Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMBilly Mack, a former double winner at The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence, has been recognised in the opening round of this year's Scotsman Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMPeter Michael Marino, creator of the 2007 musical flop Desperately Seeking Susan, has criticised British theatre producers for treating writers as "the lowest man on the totem pole".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMWhat a magnificent revival this is. It seems as though INTO THE WOODS, the 1987 award winning musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, was expressly written to be performed in the ope…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMITV will soon be screening the drama Mrs Biggs, the true story of Charmian Biggs, ex-wife of the great train robber Ronnie. Tabard hears the broadcaster held a press screening of the drama t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTalking of robbery, Tabard hears reporters at The Stage felt a little robbed this week. The newsdesk team had been looking forward to a launch party at the New Wimbledon Theatre to herald tw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTabard is well aware of the lengths performers will go to just to get some publicity for their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show - why, just last week we heard how Peter Michael Marino had writ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTabard has never liked clowns much. That Stephen King film, It, was the last straw. The sleepless nights caused by that flick just don't bear thinking about. And why would anyone hire a man …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMFurther casting has been announced for Rufus Norris' upcoming revival of Cabaret at the West End's Savoy Theatre which, as previously announced, will star Will Young as the Emcee and Michell…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:17AMGilded BalloonWhen you think musical comedy, you don't think this. Rubberbandits are an Irish phenomenon heading Britain's way – in revenge for Bloody Sunday and the potato famine, as they…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMIt’s looking like the next Spike Lee joint might be a big screen adaptation of “Porgy and Bess.” The Academy Award-winning director recently told Indiewire.com that he has long been in…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:00AMAre critics into "Into the Woods"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 07:00AM
Hanger 858, RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan: Pearson and Brookes have garnered great acclaim with their production of Aeschylus's The Persians in National Theatre Wales' inaugral s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMPayments owed to performers whose work is accessed on ITV Player are being delayed, with Equity blaming the broadcaster for taking too long to relay information about programme usage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMNational Theatre Wales like the word “us”. It was there in Michael Sheen’s Passion of Port Talbot – its film adaptation was called The Gospel of Us – and it is here, prominently, i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:44AMGerard McCarthy and Oliver Wilson will join the previously announced Robert Bathurst in the cast of Blue/Orange.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMComedian Susan Calman is delivering daily dispatches about life as a fringe performer. Today, she wonders if working on death row has helped her deal with tough crowdsPeople often say to me:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMHudson Valley Shakespeare veteran brings one-man show to Depot Theater (Photo by William Marsh: Jason O’Connell relates his shared history with the Batman films in his one-man show, &#…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:32AMThe Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), parent of the larger Edinburgh Fringe, has kicked off in the Scottish capital, with advance ticket sales reportedly 8 percent up on last year.
Th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:16AMThursday night was music night at the Proms, as Simon Callow narrated an Ivor Novello concert played by the Halle orchestra under Mark Elder and sung by the soprano Sophie Bevan and the teno…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:12AMAt the 2012 Edinburgh festival, Springsteen obsessive Sarfraz Manzoor talks about his one-man comedy show The Boss RulesAlex HealeyAndrew Dickson
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with Lindsay Mendez. This time around we discuss "Dogfight" at Second Stage Theatre, the Broadway revival of "Godspell," Ryan Scott Oliver's "35MM," and other…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMThere seems to be a new rule developing at the Shaw Festival: put Jim Mezon and another terrific actor on stage in a killer scene and watch the sparks fly.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AM
The first winners of this year's prestigious Fringe First Awards, celebrating high-quality new drama at the Edinburgh Festival, have been announced by The Scotsman newspaper today (10 August…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:31AMThursday night was music night at the Proms, as Simon Callow narrated an Ivor Novello concert played by the Halle orchestra under Mark Elder and sung by the soprano Sophie Bevan and the teno…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:25AMIn the wake of Richard Bean’s much-lauded adaptation of Servant of Two Masters – the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guv’nors, currently running on Broadway – one might see the dec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:25AMIf you loved War Horse then you won't want to miss this! The National Theatre brings the stage adaptation of PRIVATE PEACEFUL written by Michael Morpurgo, author of 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:23AMGerard McCarthy and Oliver Wilson have joined the previously announced Robert Bathurst to complete the cast of Blue/Orange, the second show in Theatre Royal Brighton Productions’ inaug…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:18AMGoodbye to one of the greats. By Gregory Jacobs-Roseman (Composer-Lyricist) When I heard that Marvin Hamlisch passed away this past Monday, I was both shocked and sad. To say the man was a l…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:03AMThe Hidden Room Brings Shakespeare to You - Anywhere Kate West (Writer) Thank goodness I check my Facebook and Twitter accounts obsessively, or I would have missed* The Hidden Room's live st…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMPutting my money (or time) where my mouth is. By Rachel James (Treasurer/Writer) After going on about how easy it is to get tickets for Shakespeare in the Park, I had to try it myself. I hav…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AMIs preserving a production good for theater? By Shoshana Greenberg (lyricist/bookwriter) The Public Theater's production of Into the Woods opened last night in Central Park. I'm not going to…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
Some 1,200 young men auditioned to be the newsboys of Newsies, the members of the ensemble who dance, act and sing. For Playbill, I profile two of the extraordinary performers who made it &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24AMIn today's Wall Street Journal drama column I report on two newly opened musicals, the Shakespeare in the Park revival...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMDirected with a fresh and original concept by Timothy Sheader/Liam Steel which features a new look, new insight into character, and a young new narrator.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMWhen Bernadette Peters appears in concert Aug. 18 at the Muriel Kauffman Theater, she will at some point cover Peggy Lee's "Fever" while lying on a grand piano. Now if the thought of Peters,…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AMGood Citizen show is her first solo exhibition in St. Louis.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AM
Friday August 10, 2012
STOCKBRIDGE -- Playwright William Donnelly admits he can’t quite put his finger on what prompted him to write
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:27AMBarry Edelstein, director of the Shakespeare Initiative for the Public Theater, talks about the Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which presents Shakespeare for free to prisons, homeless shelters, ce…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWhen Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship started to change. Maybe it was empty nest syndrome, maybe it was a midlife crisis; but after taking a few dance lessons on board a …
SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AMMr. Finn's Cabaret, the intimate music series presented by Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, presents Quentin Earl Darrington — Coalhouse in the 2009 Broadway revival of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Alabama Shakespeare Festival concludes its 2011-12 season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Aug. 10-Sept. 2 in Montgomery's Blount…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLee Meriwether's one-woman show, The Women of Spoon River: Their Voices From the Hill, is offered Aug. 10-17 at the SoHo Playhouse as part of the 16th annual New York International Fring…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLucky Penny Productions presents the new musical Who Murdered Love? Aug. 10-25 at the Players Theatre, as part of the 16th Annual New York International Fringe Festival/FringeNYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCougar the Musical, which is directed by Tony nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett, makes its premiere Off-Broadway Aug. 10 at St. Luke's Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1911 Birthday of playwright Jerome Chodorov, who wrote the play, My Sister Eileen, which he later adapted as the book for the musical Wonderful Town, which won him a Tony Award. Other plays …
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