Tradition is the theme as the 2012 Music Circus season continues with the all-time classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, at Wells Fargo Pavilion from tonight, August 14 19. Preview the show …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58PMThere are two kinds of mazes – the one where you start on one side and work your way through to the other, and the kind where you start on the outside and work your way to the center. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMWho's the Boss??I drove by Kenmore Square this evening, and with the windows open I could just hear the garbled echo of what sounded like "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" bouncing off the walls of …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:52PMJim Parsons will join a very exclusive club if he wins Comedy Actor for the third year running at the upcoming Emmys. The star of "The Big Bang Theory" would be the fifth fell…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:49PMAccording to Deadline.com, Frank Langella is in talks to play Father Tucker in Grace of Monaco opposite Nicole Kidman in the title role of Princess Grace Kelly, as well as Tim Roth as Prince…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:46PMTo the tune of Stephen Sondheim’s “No One Is Alone” — or, if you don’t know it, “The Candy Man” (they’re practically interchangeable) — let’s all sing an ode to the Publi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:22PMWatching Michael Smuin’s “Medea” is like freebasing kitsch. From its first image of the heroine wrapped in an enormous purple cape that is smoking — literally — you’re in for som…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:21PMNothing much happens in Horton Foote’s plays, yet you leave feeling satisfyingly full. He may skimp on the whiz-bang action, but Foote manages to say a lot about his characters — and you…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:18PMPrimary Stages offers an expertly acted trio of Horton Foote's affecting one-act plays.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSusan Louise O'Connor gives a dynamic performance in Victor L. Cahn's play about a woman who climbs the corporate ladder.
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Eric Schaeffer, Signature Theatre’s artistic director, gave loose guidelines to the performers in the upcoming “Summer Hummer,” a benefit for Taking Care of Our Own, TheatreWashington�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:44PMFirst Floor Theatre @ La MaMa, FringeNYC
By Weston Clay
BOTTOM LINE: A funny, sad and thought-provoking story about a phone sex operator without hands.
Mare Pines is the sultry, stau…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:30PMThe shortlistings for the Victorian Premier's Literary Prize were announced recently, and are now online at the Wheeler Centre's website. I mention it because this year the Wheeler Centre, i…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 09:24PMJoe Walsh did not need an opening act on August 13th. The guitarist is well known for his work in the James Gang, The Eagles and his solo work. The weather was wonderful at Wolf Trap and the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PM We’re back with another exciting round of “Who Played It Better?”! This week, we’re having a Mamma Rose-off. Which of Broadway’s Mammas will take home th…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:15PMThis season of "Smash" is turning into a who's who of Broadway! Sean Hayes and Sheryl Lee Ralph have both been tapped for guest spots on the second season of the theater-based drama. Sean Ha…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 09:12PMOne of the most enduring stereotypes about tiny communities is that everyone knows everyone else.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMName: Sean HefferonHometown: South Salem, NYEducation: BA in “Theater Management, Production and Performance,” Tufts UniversitySelect Credits: West Side Story (Diesel, Yorktown Stage); C…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 09:02PMCombine more than 20 unforgettable Gershwin songs like I Got Rhythm and Someone to Watch Over Me with lots of fabulous dancing and a comical boy-meets-girl love story and you get Crazy for Y…
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Scott Adsit, Chris Bauer, Edie Falco, Dayle Reyfel, and Kyra Sedgwick will star in a benefit staged reading of Drama Desk Award winner and Emmy nominee Eugene Packs new comedy, Columbus and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:53PMSOMEWHERE BETWEEN PERFORMANCE ART AND DRAMA Without ever denigrating the work of Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick, I have to say I never quite got part three of his trilogy of play/art-show/p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:48PMWhat Marvin Hamlisch did for love was acknowledged and honored by family, friends, fans and presidents at his funeral Aug. 14 at Congregation Emanu-El, the Fifth Avenue synagogue where, it w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Believers, Wily West Productions.
By Sam Hurwitt
It may or may not be the end of the world. Certainly there are a lot of frogs and locusts out there, and all th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:40PMThe World Premiere with Lillias White in Big Maybelle Soul of the Blues had its opening night last Saturday, August 11, 2012, at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY. Plus, on August 10th, B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:31PMThose of us smitten two years ago by “The Orphan’s Home Cycle,” the Signature Theater Company’s epic production of nine of Horton Foote’s plays taking place in a small Texas town h…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:22PMJoan Roberts, the stage and film actress who created the role of Laurey in the original 1943 production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA, died on Monday August 13, in Stamford, Connecti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:14PMEmma McClusky profiles the work of graduate-led puppet theatre company, Paper Crane Theatre, as they take work to the fringe for the first time.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:05PM
The stars came out for Victor Garber's opening night at 54 Below. Garber's Alias co-star Jennifer Garner, American Pie's Eugene Levy, Tony Award-winners Debra Monk and Susan Stroman were amo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMAccording to the New York Post, Leap of Faith's Jessica Phillips will co-star alongside Josh Segarra and comedian Godfrey in the FX sitcom pilot Bronx Warrants. Phillips will play Adele, wif…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMWell if you’re so smart Travis Bedard asks some good questions on 2AMt, and then takes a stab at answering them by designing a full theater season based on the following principles: What d…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:33PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Sheryl Lee Ralph will guest star on NBC's Smash season two as Cynthia, mother of Jennifer Hudson's character Veronica Moore. Ralph starred as Deena Jones…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:27PMWELCOME BACK, KOTTER star and theatre vet Ron Palillo died this morning at his home in Palm Beach, FL from an apparent heart attack. BWW asked Palillo's longtime close friend Lawrence Leritz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:23PMJoan Roberts, the soprano who originated one of the major leading-lady roles in American musical theatre — Laurey in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! — died in Stamford,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:22PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Sheryl Lee Ralph will guest star on NBC's Smash season two as Cynthia, mother of Jennifer Hudson's character Veronica Moore. Ralph starred as Deena Jones…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:15PMI am keenly looking forward to seeing the new production of JB Priestley’s play Cornelius at the Finborough Theatre. This will be the first time I have seen the work performed, though I ha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06PMMontreal, watch out for Mary Poppins! This phenomenal Broadway musical from Disney and Cameron Mackintosh is playing at the Place des Arts’ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on November 21 to 25, 20…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:02PMMary Poppins, one of the most successful musicals in history, is set to spread its unique brand of Broadway magic on its Oklahoma City audience on November 6 to 11, 2012 at the Civic Center …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 07:01PMChloe Jackson has just one more fight to win before she gets the chance to live her dream - to box for Team GB at the Olympics. So begins Bitch Boxer, one of five plays that have been brough…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBritain's "most promising playwright" is considering her hopes for her work. "My main aim," she says after some time, "is to avoid working in an office." Penelope Skinner was 30 when her fir…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMChloe Jackson has just one more fight to win before she gets the chance to live her dream - to box for Team GB at the Olympics. So begins Bitch Boxer, one of five plays that have been brough…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMBritain's "most promising playwright" is considering her hopes for her work. "My main aim," she says after some time, "is to avoid working in an office." Penelope Skinner was 30 when her fir…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Guess who will be at the Proctors Theatre on October 2 to 7, 2012. Schenectady, prepare for the arrival of the world’s most famous and most loved nanny of all, Mary Poppins! Re-visit the B…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 06:59PMKristin Chenoweth isn't back to 100 percent yet, but that doesn't mean she's not smiling!
SOURCE: E! Online at 06:51PMPasadena Symphony and Pops has scheduled a free concert on the steps of Pasadena's City Hall Sept. 22 to celebrate the life and music of Marvin Hamlisch .
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:38PMThis week's TicketNews exclusive venues rankings have remained fairly stable towards the top with Yankees Stadium and Eugene O'Neill Theatre flip-flopping first and second position week afte…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:35PMStephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods" is back on the New York boards, as the revival is currently taking up shop at The Public Theater's outdoor space in Central Par…
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:18PMBroadway alum Jessica Phillips has been tapped for the FX sitcom pilot Bronx Warrants, according to the New York Post. Phillips will star as Adele alongside Robert Kelly (Ghost Tow…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PM
The York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director in association with Edward Negley, Neil Berg and Adam Friedson, has announced a new addition to one of the best reviewed Of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMBroadway and movie stars and even former President Bill Clinton were among the luminaries who gathered to pay their respects to composer Marvin Hamlisch at his Upper East Side funeral on Tue…
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:58PMThe Public Theater's revival of <em>Into the Woods</em> is a muddled and confusing show that seems to have gotten lost along the way to its goal, just like many of its characters.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:56PMNewcomer Corey Cott is living the dream: The recent college grad will make his Broadway debut as Jack Kelly in Disney’s blockbuster Broadway musical Newsies. Cott assumes the starring …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inform…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:50PMFull cast and creative team information has been announced for the Writers' Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Artistic Director Michael Halberstam will dir…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PMDermot Mulroney is set to star as sleazy businessman Steve in the forthcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to De…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMDermot Mulroney is set to star as sleazy businessman Steve in the forthcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to De…
SOURCE: omaha.broadway.com at 05:43PMMichael Attenborough will direct Jonathan Pryce as William Shakespeares King Lear running at the Almeida Theatre from the 31 August 3 November 2012, with press night 11 September. Designs a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PM(Pictured: playwright Ivan Dimitrov, author of The Eyes of Others, which will have it’s U.S. premiere at the New Ohio Theatre on September 7th) Following up on a terrific TCG Conferenc…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:35PMI am asking director Grady Weatherford what “A Maze” is about. One would think this is a fairly simple question.
“It can be a difficult question,” says Weatherford, which is a sign …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:33PMIt may be August, but it's starting to feel a lot like Christmas. See the Radio City Rockettes celebrate 85 years in New York and preview the 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMLeslie Kritzer will join the York Theatre Company’s off-Broadway production of Closer Than Ever beginning August 28. Kritzer replaces current star Julia Murney, who departs the musical…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:31PMCHECK OUT HOW MANY OF YOUR FAVORITE BRING IT ON STARS ARE BROADWAY NEWBIES!!!
Taylor Louderman
Adrienne Warren
Jason Gotay
Elle McLemore
Ryann Redmond
Ariana Debose
Janet Krupin
Nic…
SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 05:30PMWith high-school and college students getting ready to crack the books in just a few weeks, BWW is on standby with the launch of the 2012-2013 Student Center This year we want to engage even…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:27PMNewsies has just announced that Corey Cott will become the shows new leading man, Jack Kelly, beginning Wednesday, September 5th. Cott became the Jack Kelly alternate earlier this month and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:19PMOur Video of the Week is the trailer for the new film SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, written by Martin McDonagh and starring Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson. We’…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:14PMLeslie Kritzer will bring her voice to the York Theatre Company's extended production of the Maltby and Shire revue Closer Than Ever, succeeding Julia Murney, beginning Aug. 28 Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMNew Repertory Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming production of The Kite Runner, to run September 9-30 at Arsenal Center for the Arts' Charles Mosesian Theater. Elaine Vaan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMBroadway veteran Leslie Kritzer will join the Off-Broadway cast of Closer Than Ever, presented by York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's Church. She replaces Julia Murney, who will depar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMAs Mark Troy prepares to open his new play Anxiety at the Odyssey, he discusses some of his own anxieties and his obsessions over one minutia or another. On opening night, take a look at his…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Marvin Hamlisch's Funeral was One Singular Sensation: Marvin Hamlisch would have been proud he played to a star-studded full house. All that was missing was the applause and the standing ov…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:56PMLearned this afternoon of the death of actor Ron Paolillo at age 63. He was Horshack on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Here’s my 2005 interview with him, when he was in Nyack with…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:55PMThe Apollo Theater and Manhattan School of Music will present the New York return of Ask Your Mama, described as "a 90-minute sonic tapestry of music, film and spoken word by Emmy Award…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PM42nd Street Moon is set to present the West Coast premiere of Carmelina, October 31-Nobember 18 at Eureka Theatre.
With lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Burton Lane, and a book by Alan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:48PMThe 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular stopped traffic on August 14 with a “Christmas in August” preview extravaganza, and this year, the Radio City Rockettes have an ext…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMTheaterMania has learned that actress Joan Roberts, who originated the part of Laurey in the 1943 Broadway production of Oklahoma!, has died. She was 94.
The actress' additional Broadw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:44PMOn Twitter Watch, Jeff Calhoun wrote Jekylls of the past and present. Anthony Warlow and ConstantineM.JEKYLL amp HYDE will return to Broadway in Spring 2013, following a 25-week National Tou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:43PMAs first reported on Deadline.com, Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of the big screen adaptation of Tracy Letts' AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY as 'Steve.' The actor joins previously announced cast …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMFrom the premiere at the Westchester Square Arts Festival in MayPhoto credit: Lorah HaskinsI don't know how it's August--it feels like it was just the 2011 Fringe Festival, but here we are a…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 04:34PMTony nominee Jeremy Jordan has set a September 4 departure date from Broadway’s Newsies to work fulltime on the NBC series Smash. Jordan will be replaced by recent college graduat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMOne of the great things about getting down to New York City as frequently as I do now is having the opportunity to catch revivals of obscure shows at some of the Off-Broadway non-profit thea…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 04:32PMGreen Day’s ‘American Idiot’ comes to Central Illinois in spring 2013 for a limited engagement at the Peoria Civic Center on April 23 and 24, Tuesday and Wednesday, at 7:30 PM. A groun…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:31PMCorey Cott will take over the leading role of Jack Kelly in the Broadway production of the musical Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre on September 5.
He replaces Jeremy Jordan, who receive…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:31PMGreen Day’s ‘American Idiot’, hailed by the Toronto Star as “the first great musical of the 21st century”, sets the stage for a brief, weekend run at the Shubert Theatre in New Hav…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:29PMJeremy Jordan, who received a Tony nomination for creating the role of Jack Kelly in Broadway's Newsies, will play his final performance in the award-winning musical Sept. 4 at the Neder…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods may materialize on Broadway this season, the New York Times reports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:22PMA packed house of celebrities bid farewell to composer Marvin Hamlisch at a service that, like his life, was filled with music.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:09PMMarvin Hamlisch was a master at so many things -- and had the Oscars, Tony Awards, and Emmys to prove it -- so it's no surprise that he planned his own funeral today at the magnificent …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMOnly months after his college graduation, Corey Cott will take over as the star of the hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PMSilence! The Musical parodies the Oscar-winning thriller Silence of the Lambs, only it replaces all of the audience’s screams with howls of laughter. Hear from the off-Broadway cast about …
SOURCE: news.kinnetiks.net at 04:03PMI unfriended someone on Facebook recently because, even though she lived in Texas, she kept attacking Detroit—saying that it was in worse shape than Hiroshima and that the people in it wer…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PMThe 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 week, August 9th to mixed revei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM
Martin McDonagh’s (The Pillowman, The Lieutenant of Inishmore) new film Seven Psychopaths won’t hit theaters until October 12, but we’ve got a sneak peek at stars Colin Far…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMName: Gail ShalanHometown: Stockbridge, MAEducation: BFA in Acting at Boston University, LAMDASelect Credits: The Dick and The Rose (Ministering Angel/ Puppeteer, Outcast Café Theatrix, NY …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 03:54PMTony-winning actor John Gallagher, Jr. visited the inaugural edition of THE DAILY AT THE DAILY, in which he hung out at The Daily bar in New York City. The actor chatted about jamming with '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:53PMDermot Mulroney will play the role of Steve in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County, according to Deadline.com. John Wells will direct t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:41PMPresent Laughter, an audacious comedy by the popular and prolific playwright Noel Coward, opens at the Peterborough Players on Wednesday, August 15, and continues through Sunday, August 26. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMWhen it comes to self-promoting tweets, there's a fine line between wit and desperationWhat's more important at the fringe: being funny or creating a buzz about your show? It's hard to say. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PMYesterday, August 13, Broadway at Birdland presented multi-Grammy and Tony-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn in his monthly concert series called Frank amp Friends. Joining Frank onstage wer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:23PMStage and screen star Kathryn Erbe is set to guest star on the upcoming season of Law & Order: SVU, reprising her role as Alexandra Eames.
Eames, who was played by Erbe for ten seasons,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:17PMBroadway and musical theatre performers Sean Smith, David Burnham, Kim Huber, Christina Saffran Ashford, Damon Kirsche, David Engel, Jennifer Shelton, Emma Ashford, Matthew Ashford, Ali B. O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMLookingglass Theatre Company has announced casting for its upcoming production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, running September 19-November 18. Zimmerman herself, an ensemble membe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:12PMOpera fans who haven't yet had the opportunity to weigh in on the Metropolitan Opera's new -- and divisive -- production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle, take note: PBS will air the four operas on …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:10PM17-year-old Neil Shukla of Webster Groves was the winner of the Mid-America Guitar Competition, held at the eponymous Mid-America Guitar Camp in New Haven, Mo.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:09PM
Three friends faced with the choice to dare to live their dreams or stay in the safety of suburbia. That is the story of American Idiot, the hit punk rock Broadway musical coming to New Brun…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:58PMGobsmacked! Productions, LLC will present SICKS: An Evening with Six of the Most Notorious Women in History, September 11-16 at walkerspace. Clay Edmonds and Janet Jenness will direct.
SIC…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PM‘American Idiot’ comes to Cedar Falls, IA for a two-day run at the University of Northern Iowa’s Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on March 27 and 28, 2013, Wednesday and Thurs…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 02:56PMOn Tuesday, August 14, the cast of Through the Yellow Hour took a few photos at their midtown rehearsal hall. Presented at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the show will run September 13-Oct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMFeatured in this week's event will be the casts of A Christmas Story, The Musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Avenue Q, Bring It On, The Musical, Rock of Ages.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51PMLauren Molina and Jason Tam will star in the Keen Company revival of the 1980 Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre. Helmed by Keen artistic di…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:50PMThe multimedia musical show based on work by Langston Hughes will be presented for one night on March 23.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PMGenson Blimline and the gang at Rock of Ages are just as crazy backstage as they are in the spotlight! Don’t believe us? Get a behind-the-scenes look at the wild bunch at the Helen Hay…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:39PMClassical soprano Sarah Brightman, who originated the role of Christine Daaé in the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera, celebrates her birthday Aug. 14.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMCharlie Chaplin is perhaps best remembered as the bowler hat-wearing, cane-carrying "Little Tramp." But as the cast and creators of the new Broadway musical Chaplin tell, t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMTMZ reports that WELCOME BACK, KOTTER star Ron Palillo died this morning at his home in Palm Beach, FL from an apparent heart attack. The news was revealed by a source close to the actor. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:03PMAssembly George Square, EdinburghThey say you can't make an omelette without cracking eggs but if anyone could it would be this quartet of performers who test the very limits of the human bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMEvery day, Broadway.com brings theater fans up close to their favorite stars and behind the scenes at their favorite shows with our popular, one-of-a-kind video features. Now, we're rank…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMBroadway veterans Jessica Phillips and Josh Segarra have been cast in the FX network pilot Bronx Warrants, according to published reports. Stage and screen director Scott Ellis will direct.
…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PM
<![CDATA[The Public Theater's revival of <em>Into the Woods</em> is a muddled and confusing show that seems to have gotten lost along the way to its goal, just like many of it…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:56PMKatselas Theatre combines features of several previous play labs in sessions that start before the first draft is even written. The results of the first lab are now being presented in worksh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:49PM106.7 Lite FM's final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert will be held on Thursday, August 16 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. The show will be emceed by Lite FM personality Bob Bronson.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:49PMOn August 11, The Newsroom star John Gallagher, Jr. kicked off the inaugural edition of the web series The Daily at the Daily and sat down for a chat with host Michelle Ruiz. The Tony winner…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:43PMA funeral service for the multi-award winning composer Marvin Hamlisch was held today at Congregation Emanu-El in New York City.
As previously reported, the composer of A Chorus Line and m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:43PMCasting has been announced for an industry reading of the new musical Cubamor, which will be presented Sept. 10 at New York Live Arts.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:40PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit star Tamara Tunie will bring her solo show Yes, I Sing! to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency beginning October 30. Tunie joins a fall lineup that inclu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:39PMFriends and admirers of Marvin Hamlisch including Bill Clinton and Ann-Margret gathered Tuesday in New York City to bid farewell to the celebrated songwriter hailed as "the people's composer…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:29PMErich Bergen, who starred in the Marriott Theatre's world-premiere staging of the new musical Hero, offers snapshots of a recent day in and around the Chicago-area venue.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:27PMStage and screen star Tamara Tunie will bring her act, titled "Yes, I Sing! to Feinstein's at Loews Regency, for one week only, October 30-November 3. The concert will feature re-i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMScreen and stage actor Ron Palillo has died at the age of 63, according to published reports. Palillo, who lived in Palm Beach, is best known for his performance as Arnold Horshack on the 19…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMSt. Louis Actors' Studio has named its new theater festival after Tony-nominated playwright Neil LaBute. The annual event, dubbed "LaBute New Theater Festival" will be held at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMSummerWorks 2012 Special- Margaret Evans and Laura Nordin Greta gets some tips on how to handle firearms from the leading ladies of Fierce Monters. She goes a little overtime…but it’s wo…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:13PMThe New Ohio Theatre is set to present the world premiere of Ivan Dimitrov's The Eyes of Others, September 6-29. Samuel Buggeln will direct.
Produced by Bug Company and translated by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:11PMTwo young St. Louisans, both members of the 2011-12 St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, are currently members of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute for promising young musicians.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:10PMOn Monday, August 13, the Summer Shorts 2012 festival held a cocktail party to celebrate this year's works at the rooftop terrace at MOMA's Museum Tower. The series is being presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:10PMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company Jonathan Silverstein, Artistic DirectorDamon Chua, Executive Director today announced that Lauren Molina and Jason Tam will star in Marry M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMIn June, "Once" won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. On Monday, producers announced the production had recouped its cost "faster than any Tony Award-winning bes…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:04PMKorey Jackson, Maurice McRae and Sharon Washington will join Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo in the world premiere of his new play Wild With Happy, which will debut at the Public Theater t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM
"Marvin Makes Music," a children's book written by the late composer Marvin Hamlisch, will be published by Dial Press Nov. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMA preview of the opera version of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt is among the works that will presented as part of the Works and Process fall season at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Muse…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMLaura Osnes, Stark Sands, Constantine Maroulis and Melissa van der Schyff joined Frank Wildhorn at Birdland for the Aug. 13 installment of "Frank & Friends."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMThis year's Manchester Comedy Festival has been cancelled and the future of the 11-year-old event seems uncertain following the withdrawal of funding by Manchester City Council.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMBarking's Broadway Theatre has announced it will live stream its autumn season online, including a new play starring Shameless actor Ciaran Griffiths and stand-up from Mock the Week comedian…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMTony Award winner Hal Linden, of Broadway's The Rothschilds and TV's "Barney Miller," stars in the world premiere of the comedy Under My Skin, to play Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:32PMCasting has been announced for Troika Entertainment's upcoming tour of Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's classic musical West Side Story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMMichael Learned and Ralph Waite -- who starred together as Olivia and John Walton on the television hit The Waltons -- are currently reuniting for a production of A.R. Gurney's Love Let…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:24PMBroadway veterans Lauren Molina and Jason Tam will star in Keen Company's revival of Marry Me a Little, to run September 11-October 21 at Theatre Row's Harold Clurman Theatre. Jona…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMMatthew Broderick will appear in a benefit performance for New York City's South Street Seaport Museum on Monday, October 15 at 730 pm. The 'Celebrating Moby-Dick Benefit' will be an immersi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMLauren Molina and Jason Tam will co-star in the Keen Company production of the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, which will begin Off-Broadway previews Sept. 11 at the Clu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:15PMIt's interesting to read in Forbes about Beck's new album, which the indie pop star is releasing...wait for it...as a bunch of pieces of sheet music. Forbes hails the singer-songwriter's eff…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 12:14PMStage star and comedienne Lea DeLaria will headline Homo Comicus, a night of LGBT-themed stand-up and song, to be presented at Gotham Comedy Club on Wednesday, September 5 at 8:30pm.
Perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:08PMA few words about an interesting artifact the Countess and I watched last night, a 1961 episode of The Shirley Temple Show a.k.a Shirley Temple’s Storybook, devoted to an adaptatio…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:04PMThe cast of Off-Broadway's Silence! The Musical unveiled the new dessert treat "Hannibal Nectar," available only at the Times Square Tasti D-Lite, on Friday, August 10. Also o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMKristen Chenoweth’s recurring role on “The Good Wife” will have to be put on hold. The head injry Chenoweth sustained while filimg the CBS drama has sidelined the actress f…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:02PMFOR YOU TO DO AT JK'S THEATRESCENE:VOTE NOW! "HOT/HOTTER": THE BRING IT ON EDITION, PART I - CLICK THE CHEERLEADER TO YOUR LEFT!TAKE THE MONTHLY THEATRE POLL! TO YOUR LEFT AND DOWN A BIT!CHE…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 872012 - 8142012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival has announced that Anita Gaffney has been appointed to the position of executive director.
Currently serving as administrative director, Gaffney has been …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
In the video below, watch CHAPLIN on Broadway's star Rob McClure and cast create movie magic with directorchoreographer Warren Carlyle as they create green screen footage for use in Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMIn Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte, Irish actress Maxine Linehan is bringing one of the literary world’s more extraordinary figures to life on stage. Click on below to hear her shed so…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMTwo-time Tony winner Sutton Foster is doling out pop culture references and banter aplenty in the ABC Family series Bunheads, but in a recent Salon interview, the Anything Goes alum admits s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMTo mark the golden jubilee of Jamaica’s independence, the Art Museum of the Americas is presenting "Outward Reach," an eclectic mix of photographers and visual artists who have one foot in…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:53AMCarol Ann Duffy has vowed to return the fairy tale to its darker original version in her first dance production, commissioned by Sadler's Wells
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:52AMCarol Ann Duffy has vowed to return the fairy tale to its darker original version in her first dance production, commissioned by Sadler’s Wells
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:52AMSaturday, August 18th is the last chance to see Ghost The Musical. As a special thank you to fans, producers announced today that all 24 lottery tickets located in the first and second rows …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMSignature Theatre presents the world premiere of HEARTLESS by Sam Shepard and directed by Daniel Aukin, through September 16, 2012 with an August 27 opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMName: Stephen FeigenbaumHometown: Winchester, MAEducation: BA, Yale College, MM candidate, Yale School of MusicFavorite Credits: Not much to say here as I'm pretty new to this art form! Had …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 11:49AMBroadway is gearing up for the presidential election with a new political parody video, "One Term More," which is based on "One Day More" from Les Miserables, and feature…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:49AMThe 2012 New Works Festival at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto is in full swing and that means: An eclectic collection of writers, directors and actors are busily rehearsing, performing and rewrit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:48AMIn the heartrending "Three Strong Women," award-winning novelist Marie NDiaye infuses her Senegalese women characters with a personal sense of dignity and a strong belief in self.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMI’ve seen three of Fourth Monkey repertory shows now, and this is my favourite. The Elephant Man is a real story about Joseph Merrick, a man cursed with a severe disfigurement. Joseph …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:37AMPuppetry gets a boost, a Macbeth beneath the seagulls and art on the menu at the Hunt and Darton cafeNo strings attachedOne of the things I love about the fringe is the fact that audiences a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMStage and screen veterans Craig Bierko and Molly Price will guest star on an upcoming episode of the new CBS series Elementary, according to TVLine.
The actors will guest star in the fourth…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMToday in 1997, the first Broadway revival of 1776 opened at Criterion Center Stage Right, where it ran for 333 performances. 1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe 2012 fall season of Works & Process at the Guggenheim will offer a preview of the new opera based on John Patrick Shanley's Tony and Pulizter Prize-winning drama Doubt, as well a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMA new DC-area revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas begins performances Aug. 14 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. Helen Hayes Award winner Sherri L.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMThe Tony Award-winning musical has turned profitable after only 21 weeks, which is faster than any new Broadway musical in more than a decade.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:26AMPrimary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director launches its 28th season with Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMVenue operators in Edinburgh are reporting fears that the Olympic Games has had a negative impact on sales, with local audiences particularly affected.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMThe entire cast of the critically acclaimed TRIASSIC PARQ The Musical headed into Sear Sound Studios this past Saturday, August 11th to create the original cast recording, which will be avai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMFull casting has been announced for the forthcoming Chichester Festival revival of Noel Coward's popular comedy Private Lives, which runs in the Minerva Theatre from 28 September to 27 Octob…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:20AMMichelle and Fanny are in step as they prepare for the annual summer performance of The Nutcracker in A Nutcracker in Paradise, the season finale of ABC Family's original series BUNHEADS. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMIn the post Olympic glow talk has arisen of continuing a biannual Cultural Olympiad (or should I say London 2012 Festival - is there a difference?). While LIFT (or indeed the Manchester or E…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:14AMRachel Reiner Productions present the World Premiere of Victor L. Cahns GETTING THE BUSINESS, directed by Adam Fitzgerald. Getting the Business opened last night, August 13 running through S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMIt’s time once again for my annual tribute to new plays and playwrights . These are the relatively recent original plays which made their area debut in the DC area during the 2011-2012 t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMThis just in: The Tony Award-winning musical "Once" is a hit.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMPrimary Stages presents Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote, a collection of daily encounters in small-town America, from parlor to office to boarding house. A 1995 Pulitzer Prize winn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMProgramming around the seasons is hard to do on Broadway, mostly due to theater availability. But something is happening this coming holiday season that has got my mittens in a bunch. Used…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMOn this week’s episode of Bunheads, two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster is taking a stand against overpriced coffee as outspoken dance teacher Michelle Simms. When prima ballerina Sasha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AM
Passajj Productions is set to present Paul Dick's A for Adultery, September 14-30 at Little Times Square Theatre (of Roy Arias Studios and Theaters). Marlene Thorn Taber will direct.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:59AMA few updates: Getting back in the swing: As you can see from my mini theatre calendar to the left of this post, I’ve got a full lineup over the next several days. Like most things in …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:58AMProducers of Ghost The Musical will make all 24 lottery tickets in the first and second rows of the orchestra available free of charge to fans for the Aug. 18 final performance at the Lunt-F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMIt’s my birthday! So today is a guest post. Using a web site to sell a consumer product is not as easy as buying the right domain name and setting up a PayPal account; there is a pre…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 10:52AM"Old songs are more than tunes, they are little houses in which our hearts once lived."-Ben Hecht
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:51AMTraverseFind a winning formula and repeat it is the mantra of many successful businesses, but giving the audience more of what they want can be a trap for any artist. So this year Daniel Kit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMSweeney Todd stars Michael Ball as the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street and Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton as the devoted Mrs Lovett. Jonathan Kents acclaimed production will …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMAndrew Rannells, a Tony nominee for his performance in the Tony-winning Book of Mormon, plays a stripper in the upcoming film "Bachelorette," an adaptation of Leslye Headland's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMThe rising price of comedy, Harry Hill post-TV Burp – plus, a new Bill and Ted adventure, and your take on the week's comedyComedy news from EdinburghIt's week two of the fringe, and uneas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AMOverall, Broadway grosses are down. With fewer productions playing, grosses slip about $2.5 million, while average capacity remains the same. The Lion King holds onto the top spot this week …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:39AMDanny Bernardo is a friend of Halcyon and the Chicago theatre community. His MacBook and journal were stolen while promoting his new web series. He has asked his friends to forward this on t…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 10:38AMNow playing in Toronto by way of Glasgow and London’s West End—and prior to a hoped-for Broadway run—Backbeat: The Birth of the Beatles is far from the cheery juke-box musi…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 10:35AMThe Royal Court has announced plans to participate in a global day of protest in solidarity with Moscow-based punk band Pussy Riot meanwhile Amnesty international are rallying Edinburgh frin…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:31AMStage and screen veteran Richard Dreyfuss will star in the upcoming film Cas & Dylan, according to published reports. The film is directed by Jason Priestly from a screenplay by Jessie G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:31AMSoho theatre, LondonBack in 1959, Lionel Bart wrote a jaunty musical called Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be that turned Soho into a place of primary-coloured romance. And there is something o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMHey folks, I will be speaking tonight at ELNYA on my favorite topic: Networking. More info is below and there still may be some tickets left. Grab them HERE. Excelsior! 8/14 Is “networking…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMUnderbellyWhat's so funny? Claudia O'Doherty is an oddball Australian standup ("cheer-jerker", in her own coinage) making her third fringe appearance, this year under the auspices of indie c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMThe Media Theatre has announced the productions planned for its 2012-2013 season.
The season will open with Hairspray (September 26-November 4), a stage musical adaptation by Mark O' D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:27AMThe First National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON launches in Denver today, running through September 2 at The Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:25AMLegit News:
Legit director partners with ATG
SOURCE: Variety at 10:21AMUnless you're a Marx Brothers fan, you may not be aware of this fun little Marvin Hamlisch creation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:20AMCulture secretary Jeremy Hunt has commissioned a report to look into creating a major London arts festival to be held every two years.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMAbout the author:
Capathia Jenkins may not always have the biggest part in a musical, but this big-voiced diva only needs one number to stop the show. The actress first burst onto the Broad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:19AMPerformances begin August 14 for the off-Broadway revival of Athol Fugard’s dark drama The Train Driver. Directed by Fugard, the production stars Ritchie Coster as Roelf and Leon …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:14AMBritish Playwright Simon Stephens's "Punk Rock," TooThe regional premiere of Theresa Rebeck ’s satirical play, “O Beautiful” will kick off the 2012-13 season at Connect…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:13AMNow's a great time to escape to the West End with our NEW ticketing partner LOVEtheatre LOVEtheatre is home to the most sought after tickets in town, from West End musicals and plays to seat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMStage and screen veteran Zach Braff will guest star on the TV Land series The Exes, according to published reports.
Braff will appear on an episode airing August 29 as a professional tennis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:10AMTituss Burgess, Chester Gregory II, Morgan James, Saycon Sengbloh and Alysha Umphress are among the performers who will take part in Broadway Sings Michael Jackson, featuring new arrangement…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMNominations for the 2012 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards, honoring Chicago-area theater and dance featuring the work of black artists or stories on black themes, have been announc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
Get a taste of a festival Macbeth with a difference: performed in the ruins of a 12th-century abbey in the middle of the Firth of ForthMurdo MacLeod
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMOff-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Sam Shepard’s Heartless. The Academy Award-nominated actor and acclaimed playwright of True West and the Pulitzer Pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:55AMLive Nation announced on August 7, 2012, that the company's second quarter profit missed analysts' expectations and that the company expects earnings to remain flat throughout the rest of th…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:54AMMurder at the Howard Johnson's, a suspenseful comedy by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, will begin previews at the Studio Theatre (Theatre Row Theatre) Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey stages "Measure for Measure."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:45AMI have also found some annoying problems in the city's concert scene that can be rectified —- easily in some instances and difficult in others —- with a little bit of pragmatic attention…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:43AMReports on Tail! Spin!, Gay Camp, and The Importance of Doing Art.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMComedy is serious business. And for a little production tucked away in the Kennedy Center for the last 25 years, the serious business of making people laugh has been instrumental to the succ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMBroadway Week Fall 2012, which is produced by NYC & Company in partnership with The Broadway League, is scheduled for Sept. 4-16.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMLegit News:
Spoof traveling to Chicago and beyond following Off Broadway run
SOURCE: Variety at 09:21AMDisney's Tony-winning The Lion King will become the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history following the Aug. 15 2 PM matinee performance at the Minskoff Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:17AMNominations have been announced for the 2012 World Soundtrack Awards, which will be presented at the closing night of the Ghent International Film Festival on Saturday, October 20.
In the &…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMLucie Arnaz, who starred in the late Marvin Hamlisch's They're Playing Our Song, will play the role of Violet Newstead in the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of 9…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:04AMToday is the birthday of Robert Woolsey, who along with partner Bert Wheeler formed one of the great comedy teams of the early 1930s (see more on them here). The attached number from So Thi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:01AM
The Charing Cross Theatre have announced their second season since the theatre, then the New Players Theatre, was acquired and rebranded in 2011.
OperaUpClose's English-language adaptation o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:59AMStanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, which premiered at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in 1912, will be revived to mark its centenary at London's Finborough Theatre, beginning perfor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:56AMExperimental theatre company's show The Architects will recreate ancient Greek maze in former south London factoryExperimental theatre company Shunt are to create a version of the ancient Gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMPrimary Stages has a quiet winner in "Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote," directed by Pam MacKinnon and featuring Jayne Houdyshell and Hallie Foote.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 14 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe star of the megahit Broadway musical shares his secrets about headlining the show's national tour.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Friends and admirers of Marvin Hamlisch will gather Tuesday morning in New York City to bid farewell to the celebrated songwriter hailed as "the people's composer."...
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:54AMToday is the birthday (1945) of a man who may be the supreme neo-vaudevillian of the late 20th century, Steve Martin. Would this man have headlined at the Palace? Oh yes, I think so. A portm…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54AMYoung London-based Defibrillator Theatre Company will take over three suites across three floors of the Grange Holborn Hotel in central London to perform three Tennessee Williams plays &ndas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:54AM photo credit: www.TessaBeligue.comDiana Oh: Mariah MacCarthy's Magic Trick, Culture Project WCS. On Love, B.B.C. / National Geographic. Judith Leora's&nbs…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:47AMLegit News:
Studied with Martha Graham, appeared on Broadway
SOURCE: Variety at 07:41AMAssembly George SquareThere are themes and gimmicks, bells and whistles in other shows on the fringe, as comics test the boundaries of their art form. But straightforward, autobiographical s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMBig musicals have been keeping the festival afloat for the past two seasons.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:37AMThat ethereal sylph Sweet Soubrette has an event at the Living Room tonight, celebrating the release of her swell new EP What’s My Desire? and the launch of her tour in support of it. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:31AMThe title Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice in all its kooky glory may have you envisioning barmy Mighty Boosh-style spectacles of all things random, off-the-wall and altogether rather tripp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:29AM(remor) takes place in what is probably the smallest space at the fringe: a 3 x 4 metre metal box. This box is actually ½ a metre longer than the original performance space – a cell in a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AM
There has been a motorcycle accident involving other cars on I-95. Only we do not know this immediately. James (Josh Bywater) and Mildred (Kerry Fitzgibbons) are in surgery as this su…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:25AMJealousy and betrayal are explored in The Q Brother’s Othello – The Remix with ultra-cool style. Blending choice quotes from the original with clever rap lyrics, four actors and a DJ cre…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMNot content with the smearing of gruesome deaths and macabre psychotics already inscribed into Shakespeare’s Macbeth, former Fringe First winners Biuro Podróży have wrenched open the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMMiddle Child Theatre present their take on the last 25 years of political change and the repercussions upon young people today in their production 25: 13 Red, 12 Blue. Set in Hull and follo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMThe Flanagan Collective bring their own take upon the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with their Little Festival of Everything, a collection of shows that explore the possibilities of theatre, w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMLazy Susan Dinner Theatre presents I Do! I Do!, an ode to the pleasures and pitfalls of marriage. Directed and choreographed by Hans Bachmann (who also stars in the show alongside Kristen Je…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07AMIn the words of Faha, a radio DJ from Zabadani, in Zoe Lafferty’s verbatim play The Fear of Breathing, the people in Syria seek to “climb desperately… to come out from [their] situ…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMBeing the parent of a child actor comes with a learning curve that has the potential to throw your life into chaos at any point. If you’re not willing to endure the ebbs and flows that com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01AMIf you’re ready for some unconventional fun with a memory-loss momma, a lisping, limping man in a ski mask, and a sock puppet with a potty mouth, then The Montgomery Playhouse’s producti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AM
David Suchet made a visit to Kensington Gardens to meet the cast of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in Kensington Gardens two days ago (12 August).
Suchet recorded the voice for the pa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:51AMThe biennial Afrovibes Festival is returning to venues across the country this October following 2010's inaugural UK dates. Afrovibes 2012 offers a programme of performance from South Africa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:44AMStudents from the National Film and Television School are to develop an entertainment programme that will be broadcast on Five, as part of new partnership announced this week.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMThe OperaUpClose production of La Boheme, along with new play The Man On Her Mind, directed by Bruce Guthrie, will feature as part of the Charing Cross Theatre's autumn season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMBy Sharon Hoyer The biggest dance event of the year takes place next week at major venues in and around the Loop. This year’s Dancing Festival expands to six days of performances, films, l…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
Smuin Ballet' s exhilarating evening of highly entertaining dances by Trey McIntyre, Michael Smuin, and Amy Seiwert, is performed with polished gusto.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:47AM"Independents," with a book by Marina Keegan, at the New York Fringe Festival, is a beautifully crafted musical about the doubts and fears of 20-somethings.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:23AMAre critics hooked on "The Last Smoker in America"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:19AM"The Great Pie Robbery," Ben Tostado's send-up of 19th-century melodrama in the Fringe, feels belligerent rather than affectionate toward the genre.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:17AMIn a sensational production of John Logan's play at the Mark Taper Forum, an artist of highbrow ambition has accepted a lucrative commission, and guilt results. As imagined by John Logan in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMTheresa Rebeck's 2011 play "Seminar" has several strong elements going for its West Coast premiere at the B Street Theatre. Beginning as a funny, biting satire of various East Coast literar…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
Tradition is the theme as the 2012 Music Circus season continues with the all-time classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, at Wells Fargo Pavilion from tonight, August 14 19. Like the iconic r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAs BroadwayWorld reported earlier last week, composer Marvin Hamlisch passed away last Monday evening at 68 years old, following a brief illness. Hamlisch's funeral will take place 11am toda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMWhen Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park hit Broadway in 1963, the then-sophisticated New York comedy ran 1,532 performances and became a popular movie. But time has ravaged the formerly au co…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:27AMA nimbly funny Fringe mash-up from Her Majesty's Secret Players, "Pulp Shakespeare" imagines how the Bard might have written the film "Pulp Fiction."
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:13AMFrom 2004: My friends all take vacations, and swear by them. I don't, and after due consideration I've decided to...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMTheater awards group has suspended judging for 2012 shows.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AMSnippets of dialogue, inner thoughts of the characters begin this surreal and unnecessarily complicated play by Amy E. Witting
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
By Beverly Hills standards, Deana Martin had a perfectly normal childhood. She sang Christmas carols with Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland attended her school play and “Uncle Frank” Sinatr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:41AMBy Peter Filichia --
Now that the Olympic games have ended, let’s listen to the Broadway musical that starts at the end of the Olympic games.
It’s true! It’s true! The cover makes …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:40AMIt’s bad enough that politicians screw over their constituents. Do they have to screw over the English language, too?
Thanks to sleazy politicos involved in career-breaking sex scandals su…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:37AMThe Chronicle of Higher Education had a piece about the problems inherent to large board size on their website today (subscription required). While the article is about large boards in highe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:18AMBritish stage and screen actor Oliver Chris, who plays the priggish Stanley Stubbers in Broadway's acclaimed One Man, Two Guvnors, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random fa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIf I was a Millionaire...Ten shows I'd be gadding around the country to see before Christmasby Gaëtan L. CharleboisYes, we are in the dog days of summer, but it is now that theatres are slo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AM1888 Comedian DeWolf Hopper debuts his dramatic recitation of the poem Casey at the Bat at Wallack's Theatre. It will become a cornerstone of his act for the next 40 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first North American tour of Wicked welcomes Kim Zimmer and Cliffton Hall to the production Aug. 14. Patti Murin, who played the title role in Broadway's Lysistrata Jones, is in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBrooklyn-born boxing legend Mike Tyson brought his Undisputed Truth — a scripted one-man show chronicling the ups and downs of his life and career — to New York City. Since …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Brace Yourself, a new comedy by David Epstein starring Jill Eikenberry, Jackie Hoffman and Michael Tucker, debuts Aug. 14 at the Berkshire Theatre Group's Fitzpatri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon rings doorbells across the U.S. starting Aug. 14 with the first preview of the first national tour, starring Tony nominee Gavi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York City premiere of The Train Driver, written and directed by Athol Fugard and featuring Leon Addison Brown as Simon and Ritchie Coster as Roelf, plays Signature Theatre Company…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHarrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote, late playwright Foote's three-play collection about the intimate daily encounters in small-town America, officially opens Off-Broadway Aug. 14 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe cast album of Ryan Scott Oliver's 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, featuring Lindsay Mendez, Betsy Wolfe, Alex Brightman, Ben Crawford and Jay Armstrong Johnson, is released Aug. 14 via d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe North Shore Music Theatre's production of All Shook Up begins previews Aug. 14 prior to an official opening the following evening.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
'Into the Woods' opens at Central Park
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThe Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon rings doorbells across the U.S. starting Aug. 14 with the first preview of the first national tour, starring Tony nominee Gavi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
