Stage and screen star Hugh Jackman will be honored by New York's Museum of the Moving Image at its annual fundraiser, the Salute, to be held at Cipriani Wall Street on December 11, acco…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36PMStage and screen star John Slattery will have a recurring role on the 10-episode Netflix version of Arrested Development, which is set to debut in 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21PMStage and screen star Bradley Cooper is considering bringing the Williamstown Theatre Festival's recent production of Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man to Broadway next fall, th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21PMThe night was April 18th, 1976 when an authentic Theatrical breakthrough occurred with the announcement of the winner for “Best Featured Actor In A Musical“ –Samuel “Sammy“…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 10:17PMSummer is the perfect time for a silly romp on Broadway. Although I always regret not seeing things early in their run when they are more fresh and the audience is more of a "Broadway …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 10:08PMStage and screen actress Phyllis Thaxter died Tuesday at her home in Florida after a long bout with Alzheimer's Disease, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 90.
Thaxter appear…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:04PM
Lowland Hall, EdinburghIn Caryl Churchill's 1999 double bill, Blue Heart, language is disrupted and destroyed so that meaning becomes tangled and communication impossible. Every word is trea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59PMWONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I’ll be taking a look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. This is the sixth in a series of posts on Greg Rucka’s much-lauded stint writing Won…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:47PMFor 12-year old Brigid Harrington, starring in the title role of Annie is another dream come true. Every little girl dreams of wearing the iconic Annie red dress and curls. Bellarine Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMNow playing at the Lost Studio on La Brea is Elmina’s Kitchen, Kwame Kwei-Armah’s drama about three generations of West Indian males, set in a rough London neighborhood. There’s a …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:24PMThis week’s Between Shows is the new movie musical SPARKLE starring Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston, in her final film performance. A remake of the 1976 Irene Cara film of the same …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 07:19PMiTunes has released today the original off-Broadway cast recording of John Dempsey amp Dana P. Rowes production of Zombie Prom. Zombie Prom has music by Dana P. Rowe, book and lyrics by John…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMGentle readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of Elmira’s Kitchen, a drama by Kwame Kwei-Armah, now playing at the Lost Studios on La Brea. Click here to go to the L…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:01PMIt’s brave to take Shakespeare into the West End in midsummer – and in this of all summers. Greg Doran’s all-black, African Caesar certainly doesn’t lack for impact, colour, zest, ur…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM
BROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:43PMEVITA's Ricky Martin will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this Thursday, August 16, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMA new casting notice has gone out for both an upcoming fall developmental lab of the Broadway-bound HANDS ON A HARDBODY, as well as the upcoming Broadway production, which aims to begin rehe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMCraig Wright's Grace begins performances at Broadway's Cort Theatre Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PMAs BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, Joan 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 Mo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10PMThe idea of setting by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods in the actual woods may seem, at first, to be a stroke of genius, or at the very least an obvious but cool idea. It …
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:04PMThe original Off-Broadway Cast Album for Zombie Prom has just been released on iTunes.
The musical has music by Dana P. Rowe, book and lyrics by John Dempsey, and is based on a story by De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:03PM
The Living Theatre, FringeNYC
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This unusual, off-the-wall comedy explores the hilarious misadventures of three earnest but clueless young women trying…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 05:59PMLive Nation Entertainment is producing a gospel tour for the first time ever. Four of the most successful gospel stars in the genre: Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin, and Israel …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:42PMOn Monday, September 17, Broadway at Birdland is proud to present multi-Grammy and Tony nominated composer Frank Wildhorn in his monthly concert series called Frank amp Friends. Joining Fran…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMThe “greatest hit” list at Annoyance Theatre reads like a bad fever dream albeit one infiltrated by laughter: “Co-Ed Prison Sluts.” “The Real Live Brady Bunch.” “That Darned An…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:38PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more information: Tickets Go On Sal…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:35PMAs any Chicago dance aficionado will tell you, the annual benefit concert for “Dance for Life,” set for Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium Theatre, not only serves as the Midwest’s l…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:34PMArt, confession and nude self-flagellating all part of SummerWorks presentation by transsexual performance artist Nina Arsenault.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 05:32PM‘Whenever we dance outdoors I tell my dancers to use the site, to switch into the mode of the landscape,” said Janet Eilber, artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, thinkin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:30PMOPENING DREAMGIRLS. Marriott Theatre presents the Tony Award winning musical-turned-hit film.Directed by. Previews Aug. 22-28. Opens Aug. 29. Wed, 1, 8 pm; Thu-Fri, 8 pm; Sat, 4:30, 8 pm; Su…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:28PMNow Available: Applications and Guidelines for TCG’s International Grant Program GLOBAL CONNECTIONS ROUND 2 • CYCLE A ONLINE REGISTRATION & APPLICATION POSTMARK DEADLINE MONDAY, …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:26PMRoundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood will open earlier than first reported. The revival of the Tony Award-winning musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood has rescheduled its opening night date for November 13. The Broadway revival of Rupert Holmes’ 1985 musical come…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:23PMProducers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Kinky Boots, the highly anticipated new musical that brings together four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:18PMIn the world of Hanafuda Denki the dead seem to show just as much life as the living. Not only do they run funeral parlours and help people on their journey to the underworld but they sing a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:17PMThe Roundabout Theatre Company has adjusted the opening date for its Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to be presented at Studio 54. Previews will still begin October 19, bu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMSAM I Am Films, producers of Scrooge amp Marley, a modern-day variation on Charles Dickens' classic holiday story, A Christmas Carol, has announced that acclaimed Tony Award-winning actress …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMAfter receiving a Tony nomination for creating the role of Jack Kelly in Disney’s latest Broadway musical, NEWSIES, Jeremy Jordan, will play his final performance in the award-winning …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:03PM Mark: Tell me about how you came to live in Detroit? Shea: In the early 1970s I was part of something called the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, whic…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
The new Broadway-bound musical Hands on a Hardbody will have a fall "developmental lab" in New York City prior to a Broadway launch in early 2013. The Oct. 1-13 lab is expected to …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMNobody know more about Jekyll & Hyde than Robert Cuccioli: Not only did he nab a 1997 Best Actor Tony nomination for playing the dual roles, he has since directed multiple productions of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:56PMAfter playing its 6,138th performance at 2 PM this afternoon at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre, Disney’s Tony-winning The Lion King became the fifth longest-running show in Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:44PMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, to run Sept. 13-Nov. 11, will feature Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann Mayberry and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMArena Stage is set to present One Night with Janis Joplin, September 28-November 4 in the Kreeger Theater. Writer Randy Johnson directs.
Produced in partnership with Cleveland Play House i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:35PMGordon DahlquistHometown: Portland, OregonCurrent Town: NYCQ: What are you working on now? A: Right now I'm working on a couple of novels, a short sci-fi piece for younger reader…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 04:32PMThe Edinburgh Fringe excites me because of plays like Rainbow. By way of form it’s brave: an hour and twenty five minutes of what is essentially three monologues spoken in turn, with v…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMSolo shows are a challenge: the actor has to be charismatic, the script has to be engaging. The danger of a solo show is self indulgence. On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco/Can Cause Death ar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27PMSOME FRAGILE PERFORMANCES CAN’T BREAK MENAGERIE’S SPELL The Glass Menagerie is getting lots of airtime this summer. Having just been produced in the Steppenwolf Garage, Redtwis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:26PMBroadway stars James Barbour, Janet Dacal, and Karen Mason will join composer Frank Wildhorn for the next installment of Frank & Friends at Birdland, to be held on Monday, September 17 a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMFacehunters is mental. It’s a proper rave, The Hungry Bitches (yes that is the company name) know how to party – the floor was vibrating at one point. Not even Rock of Ages manag…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:23PMJust yesterday, Newsies 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 mon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMIn an otherwise busy Fringe Festival, those rare spaces to breathe should be savoured – preferably with a nice glass of port or a hot cup of tea. Red, Like Our Room Used To Feel is precise…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:17PMOver 20 years in the making, singer songwriter Glen Hansard released his first ever solo album, Rhythm and Repose, on Anti- Records on June 19. Best known for his work with The Frames, The S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMC Venues, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: Delightfully overwhelming from start to finish, this spectacle-driven production is an hour and change well sp…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 04:15PMI have seen far too many interpretations of Macbeth that do not reach the mark, but Fools Play Collective have cleverly merged past brilliance with present themes. In their hands, ‘Mac is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMAs any Chicago dance aficionado will tell you, the annual benefit concert for “Dance for Life,” set for Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium Theatre, not only serves as the Midwest’s l…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:11PMIf there was an award for ‘Most Misleading Title of the Fringe’, Juana in a Million would have to be a contender. Initially put off by the pun, I only realised this was a must-see play u…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:09PMThe L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center is set to present Broadway's Valarie Pettiford in a one-night benefit concert, September 16 at 8 pm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMis my favorite part of Bring It On: The Musical. Gregory Haney kills it playing the the first high school transgender character on Broadway. Or at least he did in L.A. when I saw it at The A…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 04:09PMThe new musical Kinky Boots by Harvey Fierstein (book) and Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics) will play Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre, beginning March 5, 2013 with an opening on April…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:06PMPost Table Read Post MortemDon't think that this is gonna be a morbid post. That's just what popped into my head for a post title and well, I like repetition and wordplay. Besides, last nigh…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 04:05PMMichael Lamont"Blame It on Beckett", John Morogiello's comedy about regional theater, now playing at the Colony Theatre, is this week's Pick of the Week Click here for all the latest New Th…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:04PMWalnut Street Theatre for Kids is set to open with ArtsPower National Touring Theatre's Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, playing for three performances on September 22 at 10:30am, 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:04PMProducers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Kinky Boots, the highly anticipated new musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Awa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMTVLine reports that Miriam Shor has just joined the cast of the CBS drama series THE GOOD WIFE in the recurring role of a reporter. The news comes just two days after actress Kristin Chenowe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMNo more need to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, not when they are as gifted as director Thomas Moschopoulos and his cohorts.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:00PMDays after Kristin Chenoweth announced that she will not return to The Good Wife following an on-set injury, the CBS drama has cast Chenoweth’s GCB co-star Miriam Shor in the recu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:00PM
Backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Peter and the Starcatcher’s Adam Chanler-Berat keeps his sense of childlike wonder alive with baby photos, a bouncy couch, his yoga mat and mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:59PMThe forthcoming musical adaptation of Kinky Boots, featuring music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, will begin preview performances on March 5, 2013, at Broadway&rs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMKinky Boots, the new musical about a floundering British shoemaker who has his business saved thanks to some flamboyant clientele, will begin Broadway previews March 5, 2013, at the Al …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMDenis O'Hare was on the Lopate Show, along with co-star Amy Adams, to discuss playing The Baker in the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Into the Woods." He also told us about watching …
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:24PM
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SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:20PMAmy Adams was on the Lopate Show recently, along with co-star Denis O'Hare, to talk about playing The Baker's Wife in the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Into the Woods." She also tol…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:19PMSignature Theatre kicks off its 201213 season with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, now playing through October 7, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMThe musical adaptation of the 2005 film will feature a score by Cyndi Lauper and star Billy Porter and Stark Sands.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:13PMTickets for DEAD ACCOUNTS go on pre-sale on Thursday, August 16, 2012 at 1000 am exclusively to members of Audience Rewards, the official loyalty program of Broadway. Its free to join at www…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMFinlay Robertson’s debut play Strong Arm takes a look at Roland Poland, a 20 stone young man, as he takes on the mental and physical challenge of changing his body from fat man to bodybuil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:11PMTouring company sets its sights on lakeside spot at Pace University (Photo by Simon Annand: Michael Benz is the doomed Dane in the Shakespeare’s Globe touring production of “Haml…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:11PMPerformers have been announced for 106.7 Lite FM's final 2012 Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert , held on Thursday, August 16 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm. The show will be emceed by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
Geva Theatre Center has snagged Emmy Award winner Robert Vaughn, star of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Washington: Behind Closed Doors," to play Martin Vanderhof in You …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMBritish TV star Jason Durr (Heartbeat) is spending the summer seducing women on a Caribbean island in the West End premiere of Volcano, a previously unknown Noel Coward play that sheds light…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMEXCLUSIVE TWO-DAY PRE-SALE FOR AUDIENCE REWARDS MEMBERS BEGINS THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 at 10 AM TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 AT 10 AM PREVIEWS BEGIN SATURDAY, NOV…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:49PMStage and screen veteran Miriam Shor will join the cast of the CBS drama The Good Wife in a recurring role, according to TVLine.
Shor, whose stage credits include Hair and Hedwig and the An…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PMLuke Barnes is certainly proving that his writing talent is on top form at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has two plays running: the first is the fantastic Bottleneck presented …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:44PMALL SHOOK UP is now playing at North Shore Music Theatre NSMT through Sunday, August 26. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMStage and screen star John Barrowman will have a recurring role in the new CW series, Arrow, according to EW.com.
The superhero series is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow.
Barr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:39PMEW.com reports that John Barrowman has joined the cast of the new CW action drama series ARROW. The actor will have a recurring role in the series freshman season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36PMCorey Cott will succeed Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan in the role of Jack Kelly beginning Sept. 5 in Broadway's Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:34PMWhile his Queer as Folk love interest Gale Harold has established a successful career on television in recent years, Randy Harrison has quietly been carving out a career on the stage.
SOURCE: www.gaystarnews.com at 02:32PMTony Award-winning actors Ron Holgate and Roger Robinson will co-star in a reading of Ceasefire, a new drama by James DeMarse, which will be presented Aug. 22 under the wings of the Berkshir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTHEATER REVIEWS: "The Vortex" by Dead Writers Theatre Collective at the Greenhouse Theater Center ★★½ and "The Monument" by Idle Muse Theatre Company at Side Project ★a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMFor the third time this year, cast members from the breakout American musical Newsies will chat with fans live on YouTube. This Saturday, August 18th at 600PM EST, Newsies Andrew Keenan-Bolg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:16PMTony Award-winner Judith Light will narrate the film Scrooge & Marley, a contemporary adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The film is co-directed by Richard Knight, Jr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMA 6-foot painting of Charlie Chaplin hangs prominently in Rob McClure's house. Any relation between the portrait and McClure's starring role in "Chaplin" is, as they used to disclaim in pulp…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:14PMThis season Bring It On: The Musical is giving Broadway a jolt of bonafide cheerleading cred, with impressive, high-stakes stunts that have audiences gasping. But while all that action is go…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:11PMLegit News:
Actress created role of Laurey in original 1943 production
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMChicago star Bianca Marroquin clearly loves playing Merry Murderess Roxie Hart: The Mexican-born star is celebrating 10 years in the role, both at Broadway’s Ambassador Theatre and in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMAs any Chicago dance aficionado will tell you, the annual benefit concert for “Dance for Life,” set for Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium Theatre, not only serves as the Midwest’s l…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:06PMThere's another new company on the South Florida scene, this one dubbed What if Works Inc. Not the simplest company name, maybe, but the concept and mission are interesting. Phillip Church, …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:00PMDirector Ricardo Khan will stage a world premiere based on Kansas City's African-American history as part of the UMKC Theatre's 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:00PM
On 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 were Consta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51PM"The Lion King" is set to roar past "A Chorus Line" on Wednesday to become the fifth-longest running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:47PMGeva Theatre Center announces that Robert Vaughn, star of stage and screen, will play the role of Martin Vanderhof in the opening production of its 40th Anniversary Season, the Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMToday we are talking to one of the most alluring and anomalous recording stars on the rise all about this weeks US release of her sophomore album, BOYS DONT CRY, a tribute to male songwriter…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:45PMHelen Constantine's new translation of Balzac's "The Wild Ass's Skin" serves this wonderful and weird book well. It is one of the great, black comic fables in world literature, a dazzlingly …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:42PMDrawing on interviews with his co-stars, friends and wives, McLean tells us just about everything we want to know, and possibly more than we ever wanted to know, about the adorable blond kid…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMArs Nova's Out Loud series will present a free reading of Joshua Allen's Chrysalis on Monday, November 20 at 7pm. Hal Brooks will serve as director.
Sami Gayle, Dan McCabe, Colby …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:39PMAt the opening of Red at the Mark Taper Forum, Connie chats with Betty White, Zachary Quinto, Dustin Lance Black, Alan Mandell, Ed Begley Jr., and playwright John Logan, who acknowledges a f…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:37PMDecades before vampire fans fell in love with Lois Smith as “Gran” Adele Stackhouse on True Blood, this great American stage actress was starring in plays by Williams, O’Ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMI use my down-time to join office workers and pretend I work with them. It's great to bond over stationaryLast year, someone said to my wife: "It must be a laugh a minute living with a comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMPerformances have begun for the Signature Theatre Company revival of Athol Fugard’s dark drama The Train Driver, and we’ve got a gripping first look at photos of the new producti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PMEach of three new DVDs of 1955 and 1960 televised musicals has its own charms, but one stands out as the most delightful of the bunch. It is the 1955 black and white television adaptation of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:19PMCast members from the award-winning new musical Newsies will chat live with fans on YouTube Aug. 18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMCan't get a ticket to see Jersey Boys on Broadway? Well good luck trying to snag a seat to see the real boys from Jersey! Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, the inspiration for the Tony win…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:14PMThe first thing you may want to do is take a pair of scissors to this show. It is l-o-n-g. It clocks in at over two hours with 40 musical numbers. Not to be out done by its own self, howe…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:11PMSouth Coast Repertory was founded 49 years ago in Orange County with the belief that theatre is an art form with a unique power to illuminate the human experience, and the commitment to adva…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMRoyal Shakespeare, Statford-upon-AvonThe title gives it away. This is not your standard Shakespeare but a hilarious piece of controlled anarchy that lasts 90 minutes and is directed by Dmitr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMThe second season of the musical drama series "Smash" will feature Sheryl Lee Ralph guest-starring as the mother of a stage diva played by the previously announced new cast member …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMStage and screen star Robert Vaughn will play the role of Martin Vanderhof in Geva Theatre Center's production of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize winner, You Can&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMThe Off-Broadway production of Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience -- A Parody by Dan and Jeff, currently running at the Little Shubert Theatre through September 2, will begin a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMWhere someone saw an overgrown railway cut, a coalition saw the Dequindre Cut urban walking/biking trail. Where others saw a vacant car dealership, art lovers saw MOCAD, a new modern art mus…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PM
The restaurant moved closer to interior landmark designation when the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed to schedule a review hearing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMThe song list and talent have been announced for composerlyricist Charles Bloom's debut recording, titled Music and Lyrics by Charles Bloom IN HERE. The album is due online in October from S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMHOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, a new Off-Broadway comedy written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, is set to begin performances next Wednesday, August 22nd at Sofia’s Down…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMMichael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau's company Wolf 359 is set to present the premiere of their play Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand Giving Thanks to the Godhead (in the Lydian Mode), …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMDisney’s blockbuster musical The Lion King will become the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history on August 15. The company will celebrate the milestone after the matinee at th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMMexican stage and screen star Bianca Marroquin celebrated her ten-year anniversary in the acclaimed role of Chicago's merry murderess Roxie Hart. She returned to the Broadway production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMNew plays from writers Rona Munro and Steve Waters plus a performance by Pentabus Theatre will feature during the autumn season in Hampstead Theatre's Downstairs space.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMSummerworks 2012 Special – Beatriz Yuste Greta chats with Bea Yuste about the practical side of wearing a niqab. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyD56CsUo8Q FRANCE (or, The Niqab) runs …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:44PMA Broadway Concert Event Robert Ahrens, Eva Price and Manny Kladitis and Live Nation Jason Stone have just announced for the first time in concert on the Great White Way, Frankie Valli and t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMName: Trey GerraldHometown: Columbia, South CarolinaEducation: Coastal Carolina University and the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. Select Credits: Way to Heaven (Boy …
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:35PMJessica Phillips, most recently seen on Broadway in Leap of Faith, and Josh Segarra, a featured member of Off-Broadway's Dogfight, will appear in the FX sitcom pilot "Bronx Warrants…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:34PMLast night, August 14, the Tony Award-winning revival of the musical CHICAGO celebrated a razzle-dazzle decade with its longtime leading lady Bianca Marroquin. Her current engagement with th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMA review of Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" — true to the original, not the film version, which Uhry also wrote — staged by ReAct Theatre at Hugo House in Seattle through Aug. 25, 201…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:32PMA theatre company's reach should always exceed its grasp, I suppose - but that gap looms particularly large in the Happy Medium Theatre's current production of Romeo and Juliet (at left, whi…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:31PMBroadway ticket sales fell close to $2 million through the week ending August 12. According to figures posted by The Broadway League, receipts totaled $21.8 million, down just over seven per…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 12:30PM(Editor’s Note: Denise Maroney has been following up on her environmental theatre work in Lebanon originally supported through a Global Connections IN the LAB grant. The video above wa…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:29PMTony Award-winners Ron Holgate and Roger Robinson will lead the cast of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab's staged reading of Ceasefire by James DeMarse on Wednesday, August 22. Joe Cacaci …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMChromolume Theatre will present the Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Brittany Garms, Frankie Marrone, and Tara Pitt's Natalie Portman, the Musical!, running September 7-30.
The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMHarrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote, late playwright Foote's three-play collection about the intimate daily encounters in small-town America, officially opened Off-Broadway Aug. 14…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMYesterday, Marvin Hamlisch went out in a most deserved way – with a ‘sold out’ house – as a most appreciative and heartbroken group of family, fans, including myself …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons, the inspiration for the musical Jersey Boys, will celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary with their first-ever Broadway concert at the Broadway Thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:08PMDeadline.com reports that Blair Underwood has just signed a major developmenttalent holding deal with Universal Television.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMI am so excited this week to announce the addition of Samuel D. Hunter as a Resident Playwright here at the American Voices New Play Institute. Sam is an amazing playwright already and I can…
SOURCE: Arena Stage at 12:02PMWritten by Samantha Macher, author of last year’s critically acclaimed and sold out SkyPilot production, TO THE NEW GIRL. Directed by Nancy Dobbs Owen Starring Julia Sanford, Brett Fle…
SOURCE: Footlights at 12:00PM
Smart jokes and skilful puppetry abound in Dmitry Krymov's bawdy and shocking but also poignant production, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:53AMSmart jokes and skilful puppetry abound in Dmitry Krymov’s bawdy and shocking but also poignant production, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:53AMThe company founder's work doesn't stand up well – but pieces by Trey McIntyre and Amy Seiwert impress Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:53AMThe company founder’s work doesn’t stand up well – but pieces by Trey McIntyre and Amy Seiwert impress Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 11:53AMFrankie Valli and The Four Seasons will play a 50th anniversary concert at the Broadway Theatre, October 19-27.
This Broadway concert will feature all of the group's greatest hits as w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMThere’s a saying; “If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever.” That’s all sweet and everything, but sometimes it doesn’t come back to you beca…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:49AMDJ Bucciarelli, Cait Doyle, and Jared Zirilli will star in The Araca Project's developmental run of Hot Mess in Manhattan, August 30-September 8 at American Theatre of Actors. The music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:48AMLondon's Regent's Park Open Air Theatre will present To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound of Music as part of their summer 2013 programming.
Artistic director Timothy Sheader will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMCENTERSTAGE will kick off its 50th anniversary season with 50 Fest, a four-day celebration featuring performances, events, premieres, and more, running September 27-30.
The weekend's e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMThe Broadway smash "Jersey Boys" is about to get some tough competition _ from an original Jersey Boy.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:43AMToday in 2002, Hairspray opened at the Neil Simon Theatre, where it ran for 2642 performances. Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMThink you can't make fun a serial killer? You're wrong. The Silence of the Lambs musical spoof SILENCE! The Musical has been drawing audiences to its weird, macabre, hilarious take on the ce…
SOURCE: Out at 11:39AMAndrea Lynn Green tackles two of his characters at once Welcome to Building Character: TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles — We don’t kn…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:39AMA Broadway Concert Event and Live Nation will present Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway for a limited seven-performance engagement this fall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMTo Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound of Music will play London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2013. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Christopher Sergel’s stag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMPigPen Theatre Co. has released an animated short film, Bremen as a prelude to the company's Off-Broadway premiere of The Old Man and the Moon, to be presented at The Gym at Judson begi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMMore than halfway through Rob Handel’s agreeably ramshackle drama “A Maze,” a debate breaks out about the special nature of artists. Are creative people different from the rest of us? …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMThe season of Noël Coward at the NYPL is coming to a close, as we near the end of the Library for the Performing Arts's exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward, which com…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:29AMI'm doing my second Homo-Centric this Thursday in Echo Park. The plan is to read a short play in its entirety, doing all three characters. I just have to finish the play and rehearse it so I…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:27AMThe California Women's Conference, which will take place September 23 and 24 at the Long Beach Convention Center, is set to present a panel titled "Legendary Ladies of Stage and Sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Broadway smash "Jersey Boys" is about to get some tough competition - from an original Jersey Boy....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:23AMThe 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 11:23AMSet to replace Jeremy Jordan as "Jack Kelly" in the popular Disney musical Newsies, Corey Cott took the stage at the Aug. 9 installment of Broadway in Bryant Park and sampled Jack's signatur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AM"Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy named 19-year-old Blake Jenner winner of the second season of Oxygen Network's "The Glee Project." Jenner will receive a seven-episode a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:21AM “The Lost Boy” by Ron Palillo ,the Connecticut actor who died Tuesday at his home in Florida following a heart attack, was not produed at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:20AMReelzChannel - TV About MoviesR today announced the epic mini-series WORLD WITHOUT END will make its U.S. premiere on Wednesday, October 17, 2012. The series will star Cynthia Nixon Sex and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMPrimary Stages launched its 28th season with Harrison,TX Three Plays by Horton Foote. Opening night was last night, August 14. Tony Award nominees HAllie Foote Dividing the Estate, The Orpha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:13AMTraverseSome plays go together like fish and chips; other pairings are less obvious, but the effect is explosive. Neither is quite the case with this intelligent, finely written and acted bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMDevonshire Park, Eastbourne: This outstanding show, full of fun and new ideas, is a selective variation on the original song and dance theme. The entire cast of six classy multi-talented per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMThe Lion King will play its 6138th performance today, August 15th, at 2:00pm, becoming the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history. The production will surpass the original Broadway p…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:08AMLondon's Hampstead Theatre has announced the selections for its upcoming Hampstead Downstairs season.
Opening the season is Rona Munro's Donny's Brain directed by Anna Ledwic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMHarlem's Apollo Theatre will present Ask Your Mama! a multimedia musical based on the poetry of Langston Hughes on March 23, 2013. The work is written by Laura Karpman, based on Hughes&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:03AMEvery third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For August,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:02AMWhat I love about working on Broadway is that there’s always a shocker. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, something comes along to remind you that you don̵…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWritten and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, 'How to Be a New Yorker' shows audiences how to develop the trademark glances and superior air that marks one as a true New …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM
Tim Roth is set to join Nicole Kidman in the cast of French director Olivier Dahan's upcoming film Grace of Monaco, according to New York Magazine.
The movie will focus on Grace Kelly …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMThe stars came out last night to attend the screening of SPARKLE at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City. In addition to the film's cast members Jordin Sparks, Tika Sumpter, Carmen Ejogo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMTony nominee Sheryl Lee Ralph will play Jennifer Hudson’s mother Cynthia on the second season of Smash, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ralph was nominated for a 1982 Tony Award f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMDermot Mulroney is set to star as the corrupt businessman Steve in the forthcoming film adaptation of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize winning play. Meryl Streep and Juli…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:53AMJoan Roberts, who created the role of Laurey in the 1943 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, died on August 13 of congestive heart failure in Stamford, Connecti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMI am reminded every day to be grateful. Some days it is easier than others. Harrison, TX: Three Plays reminded me that I am grateful for Horton Foote, Jayne Houdyshell and the discovery of…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 10:52AMIt’s always nice to have Horton Foote’s people around, particularly in Manhattan, to which they bring color, wisdom and wit of a different sort than that usually doled out in our…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMStephen Campbell Moore, Dominic Rowan and more complete the cast of Alan Hollinghurst’s new translation of Berenice by Jean Racine at London’s Donmar Warehouse. The production wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:47AMTony Award nominee Chad Kimball will be featured in this week's edition of Broadway Ballyhoo at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, to be held Thursday , August 16 at 11pm.
Create…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:47AMWhite Plains PAC has just announced its 2012-13 season, which will include three mainstage productions: “August: Osage County” and “The Color Purple” (in New York reg…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:45AMThe stars came out for Victor Garber's opening night at 54 Below. Garber's "Alias" co-star Jennifer Garner, "American Pie" star Eugene Levy and Tony Award-winners…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMToday's matinee of MATILDA THE MUSICAL has been cancelled. The show's official Twitter reported that Due to a power failure, the theatre is without electricity so today's matinee of Matilda …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMAmid a spate of adaptations of The Great Gatsby following F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel coming out of copyright, the Union Theatre is staging a rediscovered play charting the author's t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:36AMToday is the birthday of Rose Marie — one of the few true vaudevillians who’s actually still alive! For her full bio, go here. I actually got to interview her for No Applause, o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:35AMWhite Plains Performing Arts Center has announced plans for its 2012-2013, 10th anniversary season.
The mainstage season will kick off with the New York regional premiere of August: Osage C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:35AMDid you miss “One Man, Two Guvnors” (and James Corden ’s Tony Award-winning performance) on Broadway.? The production closes Sept. 2. Nicholas Hytner directs Richard …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:34AMBrooke Bloom will be the title role in David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette,” when it has its world premiere co-production with American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:31AMBroadway stars and gypsies alike have started a new tradition of "tweeting" pictures of their intermission experiences.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:31AM"The Lion King" is set to roar past "A Chorus Line" on Wednesday to become the fifth-longest running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMTony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan has officially set his departure date from Broadway’s Newsies. Jordan will play his last bout as leader of the Manhatten Newsies September 4. Corey Cott, a…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:29AMMickey Katz is much more than just the father of entertainer Joel Grey and the grandfather of actress Jennifer Grey.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:25AMBay Street Theatre celebrated the opening night of Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues on Saturday, August 11.
Tony Award winner Lillias White stars as legendary blues singer Maybelle Smith in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:19AMFive time Tony-winner and new ATW Chairman William Ivey Long talks about his extensive career as one of Broadway's top costume designers, from his earliest days on stage -- living in a dress…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:12AMMauckingbird Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe committed to gay-related plays and issues, offers a gender flipped production of Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing through…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:01AMIt’s the show with the un-writeable title. Have you seen it? It’s the story of a boy…who likes boys. Or at least he thinks he likes boys. I would venture to say that heR…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMI’ve run into a bit of a conundrum lately and I’ve decided to pose the question here so I can get a myriad of opinions on the matter. Let’s be honest, that’s every We…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMPrimary Stages celebrated the opening of Harrison,TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote on Tuesday, August 14 with a post-performance party at The Volstead. Pam MacKinnon directs the evening of on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMDonmar Warehouse has announced that Stephen Campbell Moore and Dominic Rowan will join the previously reported
Anne-Marie Duff in its upcoming production of Berenice, according to What&apos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
The joys of curating your own festival, in search of human rights in Edinburgh – and have the Olympics really had an effect on the fringe?Fringe amnestySome years the festival throws up d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMDrury Lane Theatre is to present Xanadu, September 6-October 28 at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace. Rachel Rockwell will direct and choreograph, with musical direction by Roberta Duchak.
B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:57AMA host of Broadway talent will be heard on the debut recording from composer-lyricist Charles Bloom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMA host of Broadway talent will be heard on the debut recording from composer-lyricist Charles Bloom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMRegents Park Open Air Theatre has today confirmed that they will launch their 2013 season with Harper Lees American classic To Kill a Mockingbird, adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMChicago the Musical star Bianca Marroquin celebrated her 10th anniversary with the production with a post-performance party at The Ember Room on Tuesday, August 14. Marroquin's current …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:41AMScott Adsit, Chris Bauer, Edie Falco, Dayle Reyfel, and Kyra Sedgwick will star in a staged reading of Eugene Pack's new comedy, Columbus and Amsterdam, to take place at East Hampton&ap…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMCasting has been announced for the Beautiful Soup Theater Collective's upcoming production of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl, which will play the Gene Frankel Theatre Oct. 10-28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMJennifer Garner, Eugene Levy, Debra Monk, and Susan Stroman attended the opening night of Victor Garber's debut cabaret engagement at 54 Below on Monday, August 13. Garber will play one…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMFinalists just announced for the Audience Choice Awards Aug 15, 2012 — After an initial round of balloting which ended last night, Audience Choice voters selected six shows and perform…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AMName: John Hollingsworth Hometown: Concord, MassachusettsEducation: BFA in Drama from NYU-Tisch; Studios: CAP21 and Stonestreet StudiosSelect Credits: Sweet Charity (Oscar Lindquist, NYU-Tis…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 09:37AMWhen Michael Arden is in the driver's seat, you want to fasten your seat belt and go along for the ride ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMBroadway Sessions, which is described as "an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week," continues Aug. 16 at The Laurie Beechman…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMSummer is supposed to be the quiet season for New York
theatergoers but somebody apparently forgot to send that memo to the folks who
organized all the theater festivals that have been going…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:30AMThe lineup for the Aug. 16 performance of Scott Siegel's Broadway Ballyhoo, the concert series that is now playing an open-ended run Thursday evenings at 11 PM at Feinstein's at Loew…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMMany plays with an art theme have been written over the past decades, chief among them Yasmina Reza's Art, which shows the positive and negative effects of art on everyday life, but in John …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:23AMRegent's Park Open Air Theatre is to present the stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird and a revival of The Sound of Music as part of its 2013 season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMA starry reading of Eugene Pack's new comedy, Columbus and Amsterdam, will be presented Aug. 17 at East Hampton's Guild Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMBow Arts Trust, the east London arts educational charity, has become the recipient of the first major installation of Artistic Licence Engineering's new modular Multichrome Tube LED fixtures.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMAC Special Projects has launched a new social media initiative to enable the company to network with its customer base, including providing immediate updates on installations news, trade sho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMMauckingbird Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe committed to gay-related plays and issues, offers Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing through a new lens, now through Aug. 2…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMOrganisers of the third annual PLASA Rigging Conference, taking place at the Earls Court Conference Centre, September 10-11, are promising a top programme of seminars - the event set to clos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMActresses Carley Stenson, Zoe Wanamaker, Jodie Prenger, Jemima Rooper and Angela Griffin are backing a campaign to boost nursery provision for young blind children.
The campaign, run by the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:12AMPreviewing from August 31 at the Bristol Hippodrome, The Lion King UK tour will be one of the heaviest touring productions in the UK, according to Unusual Rigging, which undertook an extensi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMA shortlist of lighting designers nominated for this year's Knight of Illumination Awards has been released, including nominees for specialist theatre award categories - drama, musicals, ope…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMThe Hampstead Theatre has announced a new season for the Hampstead Downstairs, featuring new plays by Rona Munro and Steve Waters, and Clare Bayley's political thriller Blue Sky, presented b…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:05AMThe Hampstead Theatre has announced a new season for the Hampstead Downstairs, featuring new plays by Rona Munro and Steve Waters, and Clare Bayley's political thriller Blue Sky, presented b…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:05AM
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its new season, which will feature a new stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird and a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:50AMLondon's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park will launch its 2013 season with To Kill a Mockingbird, a stage version of Harper Lee's novel by Christopher Sergel, and, later, a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:50AMToday is the birthday of Ethel Barrymore, who happens to be the Barrymore with the most vaudeville street cred. (For my post on all three of the thespian siblings go here). Here she is, in s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:40AMA cast that includes Nigel Cooke, Stephen Campbell Moore and Dominic Rowan will join the previously announced Anne-Marie Duff in the Donmar Warehouse's new production of Racine's Ber…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34AMAmy Adams, who stars as the Baker’s Wife, and Denis O’Hare, who stars as the Baker, talk about their roles in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Stephen Sondhei…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:31AMRegent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced its new season, which will feature a stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird and Rodger and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
Artistic director…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:13AMFringe veterans have various strategies for surviving Edinburgh – from stirring up debate to remembering your motivation – but all agree on the benefits of limiting beer intakeOf all the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMThere’s a driving logic to the Shaw's production that makes the play come up fresh and exciting
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe award-winning actress reveals why she made her new film, her feelings about having more kids, and what kind of movie she most wants to make.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMReports on The Particulars, The Hills Are Alive, and Hope is the saddest.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon: Words are almost inadequate to describe this glorious piece of theatre, commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival. It explodes on to the RSC sta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMOlympic sensation Tom Daley swapped diving boards for treading the
boards of the Lyceum theatre last night (14 August 2012) as he
celebrated his recent bronze medal triumph with a performa…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AMSee TR Warszawa's cinematic version of Macbeth from the Edinburgh festival in full, for free, exclusively on the Guardian website
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFull casting has been announced for Josie Rourke’s forthcoming revival of Racine's Berenice at the Donmar Warehouse.
As previously announced::E8831335523847, the title role will be pl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AMSwiss director Christoff Marthaler's Meine Faire Dame is very much a *version* of Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical. By which I mean; take pretty much everything you know about My Fair Lady an…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:33AMPrimary Stages is continuing its laudable association with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his talented daughters, beginning with three one act “trunk” plays from Papa Foo…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:16AMLONDON (AP) -- Shock-rocker Alice Cooper has surprised the audience at "Rock of Ages" by joining the cast of the West End musical on stage....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:07AMIt's 40 years since this play, Alan Ayckbourn's first major work, premiered, and elements of it already seem as outdated as a Victorian melodrama.
Social-climbing couples keen to throw a coc…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:05AM
Harrison, TX, Three Plays by Horton Foote is Satisfying: Never wear blue eyeliner to a Horton Foote play, if you do you are sure to look like a Smurf.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:39AMMarvin Hamlisch was remembered as a "great, giving genius" (by former President Bill Clinton) and "the merriest of minstrels" (Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of Sony Corp.…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:27AMLast month there was an article on Fast Company, Why Millennials Don’t Want To Buy Stuff, that claims the focus is moving away from acquisition of things toward access to ideas and rel…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:01AMThe Four Freshmen perform "Poinciana" in 1952: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Ideals and Doubts"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMOn one level, "The Mousetrap" can be viewed as a museum piece, a reminder of a time when the aesthetics of a "well-made play" dominated the commercial stage. But the beauty of Agatha Christi…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AM
Mr. August 2012Andy BlankenbuehlerWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: Perhaps the better question is why hasn't he been "Mr. Broadway" before now? After all, he's been on a steady rise up through t…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:09AMBroadway stars and gypsies alike have started a new tradition of "tweeting" pictures of their intermission experiences. Check out the creative snaps.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIt's not often that a Canadian playwright/novelist's work gets the full Hollywood treatment, but have a look at this trailer for Ang Lee's film of Yann Martel's Life of Pi, coming this winte…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMJonah's Co. presents Jeffrey James Keyes' The End of Days beginning Aug. 15 at the 16th New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) at the Soho Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAfter a sold-out July engagement, nightlife performer Tori Scott will return to Joe's Pub Aug. 29 for an evening of songs by Donna Summer, Cee-Lo Green, Whitney Houston and Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDisney's Tony-winning The Lion King becomes the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history when it plays its 6,138th performance Aug. 15 at 2 PM at the Minskoff Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA shadowy chapter in American history — and in the young life of "Star Trek" and stage actor George Takei — has inspired Allegiance - A New American Musical, in which T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1879 The legendary Barrymore theatre family gets one more to add to its roster today as Ethel Barrymore is born. Her father is actor Maurice Barrymore and her brothers are John and Lionel. B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPassport
Written by Kevin Kostic
Directed by Barry Feinstein
At LOF/T through Aug. 26
A synopsis of Kevin Kostic’s play
Passport, now at the LOF/T, can give you the wrong …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM“Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may,” says Prince Edward in Shakespeare’s Richard III.
That’s just what the The Public Theater has done with the play itself, employing an …
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMFrank Langella talks about his new film, “Robot and Frank.” Set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone, so his…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM 
