Brett Sheehy's first season as artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company was launched last night. It's fair to say that the 2013 program been rapturously received: it's the most ima…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:59PMA Red Orchid Theatres AROT Board of Trustees and Gala Committee, together with Rockit Ranch Productions, proudly announces the 2012 A Red Orchid Gala.The 2012 Gala will celebrate 20 years of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Precious Little, Shotgun Players.
By Sam Hurwitt
What exactly is being communicated, and how is it different from what’s being said? For that matter, why’s it be…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 07:49PMBroadway veteran Sierra Boggess will be featured on the upcoming Rodgers amp Hammerstein At The Movies CD, singing I Have Confidence from THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Watch the video below for footag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:47PMOn Saturday, September 8th, the World Financial Center Winter Garden will welcome families and visitors to the third annual Brooke Jackman Foundation Read-A-Thon, with readings of childrens …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMFriends and admirers from film, television and theatre presented selections of Vidals famous works, as well as share personal remembrances and stories. Patricipants included Susan Sarandon, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMThe Taper proves to be an ideal venue for John Logan's play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:24PMJohn Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Carey Anderson all from Broadway's AVENUE Q along with Gwen Hollander LITTLE WOMEN, Christine Toy Johnson FALSETTOLAND, Francis Jue THOROUGHLY MODERN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PM
I’m really excited about this one. Site-specific theater! Oysters! Campfires! Booze! Pretty much everything you need for a great night out. It’s the return of PianoFight’s …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:45PMOn Monday night, August 27th, Tony-Award winner John Gallagher Jr Spring Awakening, American Idiot and HBO's The Newsroom will return to his rock 'n roll roots for one night only at the lege…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:41PMAccording to The New York Times' Arts Beat blog, Off-Broadway's Soul Doctor is in negotiations to move to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater or to another Off-Broadway venue at New Worl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:32PM"Summer Shorts" is an annual festival, now in its sixth year, that offers up short works from both emerging and established artists.
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:29PMA star-filled tribute was held in the Theater District on Thursday for the late prolific writer and outspoken social critic Gore Vidal, in the theater where the current revival of his play &…
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:28PMA star-filled tribute was held in the Theater District on Thursday for the late prolific writer and outspoken social critic Gore Vidal, in the theater where the current revival of his play &…
SOURCE: NY1 at 06:28PMRehearsals are underway for the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, and on August 23, the cast of Edmond Rostand’s classic play met the press. Director Jamie Lloy…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:16PMAccording to the Chicago Tribune, True Blood star Nelsan Ellis is set to direct Katori Hall's HooDoo Love at Chicago's Athenaeum Theatre next month.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:12PMUnited Airlines Taste of Broadway concert took place in lower Manhattan on this afternoon, August 23rd at at the World Financial Center Plaza 220 Vesey Street between North End Ave. and West…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMThe Public Theater presented a special family-friendly Aug. 22 Shakespeare in the Park matinee performance of Into the Woods, where only the "happily ever after" first act of the T…
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Roundabout Theatre Company presents Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge as Cyrano in a new Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Clmence Posy will make her Broadway debut as Roxane and Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:59PMA mix of luminaries, theater fans and tourists crowded the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on West 45th Street in Manhattan on Thursday to pay tribute to Gore Vidal, who died in July.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMAfter a run at New York Theatre Workshop earlier this summer, the Shlomo Carlebach bio-musical Soul Doctor is eyeing a run at either Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre or off-Broadw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, August 23, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:55PMPlaybill was on hand to soak up songs and talk to the stars featured in the latest round of performances at the speakeasy-styled cabaret space, 54 Below. Tony winner Faith Prince (Guys and D…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PMStage and screen stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets will join forces Saturday, October 13 for BUCKS COUNTY CABARET, a one-night-only concert to benefit Broadway CaresEquity Fights AIDS. Th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMOff-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 05:44PMThe Theater District's swanky new nightclub 54 Below is hosting a slew of Broadway's hottest stars this summer, from two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone to downtown diva Justin Vivian …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:42PMSome of the biggest names on Broadway have graced the Joes Pub stage. The tradition continues this month and into the fall when some of Broadways finest vocalists and performers, including S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMProducers announced today that the box office at the Cort Theatre 138 West 48th Street is open for business in anticipation of its new tenant the Broadway Premiere of Grace, the acclaimed da…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMTwo-time Emmy Award-winner Sally Struthers returns to the Ogunquit Playhouse for the premiere of Dolly Partons 9 to 5 the Musical, August 22 through September 15. BroadwayWorld has a sneak …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMGore Vidal's friends and colleagues — including Dennis Kucinich, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Moore, Elaine May and others — toasted the late essayist-novelist-playwright-screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMBroadway stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets are set to star in Bucks County Cabaret, a one-night-only concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, taking place October 13 at 6 pm …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:25PMWelcome to the first episode of our new podcast series, Twenty. Why Twenty? Simple. Quick, twenty minute conversations with theatre artists and professionals from around the world. Sometimes…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 05:20PMBroadway star Robert Sean Leonard and stage veteran Gloria Reuben are to have recurring roles on the cast of TNT's sci-fi drama Falling Skies, according to Deadline.com.
Both actors ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:11PMOn Thursday, August 23, the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac met with members of the press at their midtown rehearsal space. With direction…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMWhat a poor self-initiated restoration job undertaken by an old Spanish woman can tell us about art as a vital part of our daily lives
SOURCE: Culturebot at 05:02PMDon't put Michael Hollinger in a box. His Ghost-Writer, at International City Theatre, was inspired by a story about Henry James and his secretary. His Tooth and Claw, recently recorded for …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:01PMThis call is with Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, of rainpan 43. We’re focused on The Elephant Room, a piece they created with Steve Cuiffo that Paul Lazar is directing. It opens this w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
One weekend is left in Sound Theatre's production of Tony Kushner's "The Illusion": Aug. 24-26, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:58PMFriends and admirers from film, television and theatre presented selections of Vidals famous works, as well as share personal remembrances and stories. Patricipants included Susan Sarandon, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMBoyd Gaines, Doug Hughes, and Richard Thomas talk about the Manhattan Theatre Club's sizzling new production of Henrik Ibsen's timely drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:57PMClémence Poésy, Patrick Page, Bill Buell, Kyle Soller and more will join Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge in the new Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway production of Edmond Ros…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMAdditional events have been announced for Joe's Pub in September and October.
A benefit concert for St. Judes will be held on August 26 at 7pm featuring new music, arrangements and fa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:55PMStage and screen stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets will join forces Saturday, October 13 for BUCKS COUNTY CABARET, a one-night-only concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. T…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:48PMTony winner Robert Sean Leonard will guest star on the TNT sci-fi drama Falling Skies, according to Deadline.com. Leonard will appear in a five-episode arc as Dr. Roger Kadar also known as T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PMGreat art is embedded with a potent survival mechanism. Among the very best proofs of this principle is the enduring work of Martha Graham, the godmother of modern dance — a visionary whos…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:46PMThe lead producer of the show is looking at Circle in the Square, on Broadway, or Off Broadway's New World Stages, where it would be less costly to mount.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMInternational City Theatre has announced the five plays that will comprise the 2013 season.
The season will launch with Mark Brown's adaptation and staging of Jules Verne's Around…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMAfter successful runs at both New York's Public and New Haven's Long Wharf theaters, February House will have an original cast recording on October 16, 2012 on StorySound.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30PMPBS will air Susan Froemke's documentary Wagner's Dream, a behind-the-scenes look at Robert Lepage's staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle," which was presen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:23PM"Call Me Adam" chats with Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins about her one-night only concert on August 27 at 54 Below, celebrating the life and music of Ethel Waters, her time on "All My Child…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 04:20PMThe full company for The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) presentation of writer/performer Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge has been announced. Shira Milikowsky will direct the w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMAs the acclaimed run of One Man, Two Guvnors heads toward its final week, leading man James Corden is walking away showered in awards glory, and Tom Edden has earned bragging rights as a Ton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:07PMAs the party conventions approach, elaborate theatrics on the part of presidential candidates are at the forefront. NPR critic Bob Mondello takes a look at the ways campaigns frame their can…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:07PMThe Collective Theatre, a new African-American company set to make its debut in Chicago in September, is getting quite a high-profile collaborator for its inaugural production. Nelsan Ellis,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:06PM
Nelsan Ellis, best known for playing Lafayette on HBO's "True Blood," is to direct an off-Loop show in Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PMFor Gore Vidal's memorial at the Schoenfeld Theater on Thursday, August 23, a photograph of the playwright-novelist-essayist was placed against the American flag. Not surprisingly, it …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMThe 11th annual Wilde Awards, EncoreMichigan.com's celebration of the best of Michigan professional theater, were presented at West Bloomfield's Berman Center for the Performing Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:55PMClark Johnsen, an original Broadway cast member of THE BOOK OF MORMON and former Mormon missionary, will be featured tonight on NBC’s “Rock Center” in a special single topic show about…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:50PMTwenty-five years ago, when INTO THE WOODS played its first preview in New York, many audience members walked out after the first act. They weren’t necessarily dissatisfied; they’d simpl…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:47PMPartial Comfort Productions will celebrate its tenth anniversary with Ten, a program featuring ten plays, ten actors, ten playwrights and ten directors. It will be presented at The Wild Proj…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMI can't believe that it's the end of August already and another fall theatre season is here. A few of you early birds have even opened your first show already and in the next few weeks many …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:45PMBroadway.com offers up the best breaking news, star interviews and exclusive features about Broadway on the web. Below are the most-read stories on the site from August 16 to August 23.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:43PMCulture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, celebrates its return to the theaters at 45 Bleecker Street with the award-winning 10th anniversary production of the hit play, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMAge & Hometown: 26; Forest Lake, Minnesota
Current Role: Billy Narracott, the spoiled young antagonist who finds himself unprepared for the horrors of World War I in the Tony-winning …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:40PMBarbra Streisand's private music vault holds all the master tapes she's recorded for five decades. Now, she's sharing 11 previously unreleased songs, spanning a cross-section of her career f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThere's an interesting disconnect at the Library of Congress in the way it presents some of its concerts.The Coolidge auditorium, where the venerable institution's live music programming gen…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:34PMMinnesota artists display their ample talents in the State Fair Fine Arts show.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:31PMBain Boehlke has become a legend in local theater by
directing the only way he knows how: conducting an
endless and exhausting search for the truth of a play.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:29PMWhen Anglo American actor Michael Benz was 12 and making his way on British television — playing, among other roles, Little Lord Fauntleroy for the BBC — he was asked to present a bouque…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:19PMJessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s chilling drama The Exonerated will return to off-Broadway's 45 Bleeker Street in honor of the play’s 10th anniversary. Directed by Bob Ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMGreat art is embedded with a potent survival mechanism. Among the very best proofs of this principle is the enduring work of Martha Graham, the godmother of modern dance — a visionary whos…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:08PMThe Actors Fund today that ONCE will perform a benefit performance on September 30 at 7pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:03PMWant to see Hartfird Stage productions for $16.50 per show?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:03PMOscar-nominated film heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal is prepping to make his New York stage debut in Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which begins performances on Aug…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:01PMAccording to the New York Times ArtsBeat Blog, Sony Pictures Entertainment has just inked a five-year deal with Scott Sanders, the Broadway producer behind such hits as Evita and The Color P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMWhen the Public Theater stages shows at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, are there discussions between the creative team and the keepers of Central Park?
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
Alfred Music Publishing has released The Music of Smash: Sheet Music Collection, the first officially licensed music folio from the new NBC series, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar.
To…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMColony Music, the Times Square-area institution where show-tune lovers, theatre performers and a range of singers and musicians sought sheet music, piano-vocal scores, Broadway cast albums a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:56PMLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar organizers on Thursday named "Chicago" filmmakers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron as producers of the upcoming film awards show in the first major move for the newly…
SOURCE: Reuters at 02:52PM"Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!" — a dozen of them. With talk of a 2013 London revival of Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne's icon…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:52PMDirector Mark Rucker and a company of American Conservatory Theatre actors manage to pull off a delightful evening of light entertainment for a warm night.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:51PMMulti-Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Sarah McLachlan has announced that she will compose music for KING KONG, which has set a June 2013 opening night in Melbourne.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMJudy Kaye and Michael McGrath hosted and performed at United Airlines' Taste of Broadway concert, held Thursday, August 23 at the Wold Finanical Plaza. The free lunchtime show, which se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:37PMInitial casting has been announced for The Culture Project's 10th anniversary production of The Exonerated, to be presented September 15-November 4, with an opening on September 19. Bob…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMBroadway may embrace yet another cross-dressing comedy! Sony Pictures and Evita producer Scott Sanders are developing a musical based on the 1982 Oscar-nominated film Tootsie, according to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMSony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Scott Sanders Theatrical Productions (SSTP) have announced a five-year deal, which will allow SSTP to develop and produce stage versions of the studio&a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMWorkShop Theater Company has announced its 2012-2013 season.
The season's first offering, a Plays-in-Process production, will be Philip Hall's Life on the Mississippi (September 1…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- The producing team that helped to create such musicals as "Chicago" and "Hairspray" is overseeing the next Academy Awards ceremony....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:22PMCulture Project will celebrate its return to the theatres at 45 Bleecker Street with a 10th anniversary production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated, which will be offere…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMAcclaimed motion picture, television and theater producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today. This will be the duo'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMFresh off the heels of Mayor Vince Gray's announcement of a Chuck Brown memorial in Langdon Park, The Howard Theatre has announced a new series, "Wind Me Up, Chuck! Mondays." The regular con…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:18PMElisabeth Murdoch, the chairman of global TV producer Shine Group, has urged broadcasters to look to the success of video-on-demand sites such as YouTube in a bid to build relationships with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:17PMThe critically-acclaimed play about wrongfully convicted inmates on death row will return to the theater where it ran 10 years ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMThe 85th Academy Awards will be produced by stage, TV and film producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. The ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and will be televised live b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:07PMSony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has signed a five-year deal with Scott Sanders Theatrical Productions (SSTP), whose Broadway productions include Evita and The Color Purple, to develop and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:06PM
On Thursday, the motion picture academy announced that the producing team of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will oversee the 85th annual Academy Awards, set for Feb. 24. While the pair, who are …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:57PMA review of what is perhaps Harold Pinter's most demanding work, the two-act "No Man's Land." At ACT Theatre through Aug. 26, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:55PMThe Rose Theater's Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Matthew Gutschick as Artistic Director of the Omaha Theater Company. Gutshick will begin his new role on September…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMShow is part of an ambitious collaboration among three leading museums
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:52PMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron, the powerhouse producting team behind TV's Smash, the Chicago film adaptation and the recent revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, are …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMBeach Blanket Babylon's producer Jo Schuman Silver has announced major auditions for male and female singers September 15 at 12pm at Club Fugazi. Auditions are open to everyone and are…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:50PMThe goal of the deal is to bring the studio's films to the stage. read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:49PMA HEARTBREAKING, FUNNY, AND COMPASSIONATE TALE FROM A PLAYWRIGHT WHO IS SORELY MISSED The audience never sees Marvin, the title character in Marvin’s Room. He’s an old man ravaged by can…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46PMSymphonic Sondheim and An Evening With Paulo Szot are on tap for the New York Philharmonic’s forthcoming season at Avery Fisher Hall. Symphonic Sondheim, which will feature a selection…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:44PMEast LA Rep still does theater -- it's doing For One Mariachi for Meet Me @ Metro III. But it also has expanded into a "creative center," explains co-founder Jesus A. Reyes. READ MORE
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:43PM“…Do I look happy?” ventures Nikolay Nikotine, and his sunken features, usually tremulous, are entirely still for a moment, frozen in painful hope and dread. Naturally, the audienc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:41PMThe New York Philharmonic announced today three one-night-only concerts in the 201213 season.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMBear Pit Theatre’s The Mermaid of Zennor opens promisingly enough as, in the cold aqua blue light of the empty stage, a faceless creature made of delicate fabric and rope swims through the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:35PMwriting about Searching For Sugar Man, which was one of the better film experiences I've had this summer.I have to say, one of the film's pleasures to me was being surprised by it, by not kn…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 01:31PMAugust 23, 2012By Nathan NorcrossPlayhouse Directing InternVarious Harbor propsOne of the most difficult transition periods in a rehearsal process is the move from the rehearsal room into th…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 01:17PMSony has purchased a 20 percent equity stake in Scott Sanders Theatrical Productions as it seeks to mount stage versions of the studio's films, with their first project being a musical adapt…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMCraig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy president Hawk Koch announced Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PMIn interpreting Angela Carter’s short story, itself already an interpretation of the classic folktale of Bluebeard, 3Bugs have set themselves a formidable challenge. Any reimagining of a w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:11PMFilm star Russell Brand, stage and screen veteran Helen Mirren, and singer Jessie J are among the celebrities who will be featured in BSkyB TV's documentary series The British, accordin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:10PMTonya Pinkins is an Act to Catch at 54 Below: Monday August 27th at 9:30 pm Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkin’s will celebrate the life of Ethel Waters.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:09PMAward-winning producers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, and Gregory Rae announced complete casting today for the original musical BARE. The company will feature Taylo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
EWonline reports that Terrence Howard will guest star in the third season of CBS's HAWAII FIVE-O. The Academy Award nominee will be featured in a series of flashbacks depicting Danny's Scott…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMThe 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 12:55PMUnderbellyFrank Skinner, Steve Coogan, Dylan Moran ... Doctor Brown? The prospect of this sexually charged clown act joining the rollcall of Edinburgh comedy award winners is a delicious one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMIconic Times Square music store Colony Record and Radio Center is closing after 60 plus years in business. The store has not announced an exact closing date at this time.
Opened in 1948, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMThe Storm Theatre Company will present Marcel Pagnol's Marius, September 7-October 13 at the Theatre at the Church of Notre Dame. Peter Dobbins will direct.
Adapted from the French by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMAdrienne Warren, Taylor Louderman, Ryann Redmond and the cast of Bring It On showed off their spirit as they stopped by NBC TV competition America’s Got Talent on A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMArgyle Warehouse, Birmingham: Birmingham Opera Company brings off a tremendous coup by staging the world premiere production of Mittwoch (or Wednesday) from Licht (Light), Stockhausen's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMThe First National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON launched earlier this month in Denver, running through September 2 at The Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Original Broadway cast member Jared Gertne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:46PMRobert Moss Theatre, FringeNYC
By Regina Robbins
BOTTOM LINE: City of Shadows has no plot and no characters; instead it offers gorgeous music, a look into the past, and a dark, yet co…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 12:44PMWritten by Ido Bernstein, the show explores the culture of aggressive masculinity in contemporary Israel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMThe original cast recording for the new musical February House, which played New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre and New York City's Public Theater earlier this year, will be released f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMThis time: one vocal album from someone currently lighting up one of NYC's most elegant nightclubs and another kind of Sondheim set - this time instrumental.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:31PMJacqueline McKay has been appointed chief executive at Horsecross Arts in Perth, the organisation which runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMRelease Me, a collection of 11 previously unreleased tracks from Barbra Streisand, will hit stores September 25. The album, which taps into Streisand’s private vault of recordings made…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMHere's a Spider-Man reboot with a difference. Over the course of a hypnotic hour, Scottish Writer of the Year Alan Bissett weaves together a series of compelling, odd little monologues, perf…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:23PMThe cult musical Bare will celebrate its first off-Broadway revival at New World Stages beginning November 19. The Catholic-school-set musical about forbidden love just announced its new cla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMBroadway hit The Book of Mormon is hitting the road in its first national tour, and we have a first look at stars Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner in the Tony Award-winning show. Creel and Gert…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMThe NY Philharmonic has announced three one-night concerts which will take place during the 2012-2013 season.
First, raconteur Garrison Keillor will perform as a narrator and vocalist for M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMMetLife Foundation and TCG are thrilled to announce the fifth round of recipients for the MetLife/TCG A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It, which supports the creative thinking and action of TCG M…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:18PMGrammy winner Sarah McLachlan will compose a song for the upcoming musical adaptation of King Kong, according to the singer's Facebook page. Featuring music by Marius de Vries, lyrics by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:17PMSo I just got the following press release. After all this time, I don't really need to spell this out, do I? I'll highlight the cities and link to their counties. Bottom line: rich get riche…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:16PMA new $64-million performance hall is coming to the campus of Chapman University in Orange County. The multi-purpose space is expected to begin construction in early 2013 with a completion s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PMHAVE YOU...EMAILED ME WITH QUESTIONS FOR MY INTERVIEW WITH GODSPELL AND ALLEGIANCE'S TELLY LEUNG? SEND THEM TO ME AT [email protected] BY FRIDAY, …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:15PMThe site of the original enchantment I must have been 11 or so when my dad pointed out the cover of the Scottsdale Progress's weekend arts section: the Scottsdale Center for the Arts would b…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:15PMMembers of the band The Wanted and New Kids On The Block's Jonathan Knight attended the Wednesday, August 22 performance of The Fantasticks, playing Off-Broadway at the Snapple Theater …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:15PMThe original Off-Broadway cast recording of February House, Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical about Brooklyn bohemians in the 1940's, will be released Oct. 16 on the Stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMEditorial Intern Culturebot is looking for an editorial intern in New York to help with editorial tasks centered on covering the fall season. The role like requires 8-10 hours of work…
SOURCE: Culturebot at 12:07PMOff-Broadway's Bare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a Catholic boarding school, will star Taylor Trensch (Broadway's Wicked) and Jason Hite, in his Off-Broadway debut, will st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMIt's time to take a stand against standing ovations, and Amnesty announces the winners of its freedom of expression fringe awardAn Amnesty on the fringeThere are plenty who dismiss the fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMBare is heading to off-Broadway's New World Stages on November 19, and we've got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Taylor Trensch, Jason Hite and the new cast getting cozy on th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:04PMHIT AND RUN will be released in theaters on August 24th from Open Road Films. The action comedy was written and directed by Dax Shepard and David Palmer and stars Kristen Bell, Bradley Coope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMRob McClure, an actor with no Tony Award or major name recognition, nonetheless landed the title role in the musical “Chaplin” on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PMSITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN is a process of painting and drawing on space with choreographic gestures. It happens in public space so the performance is designed to collide with daily life. In this w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:00PMFull casting has been announced for the upcoming off-Broadway revival of Bare. Spring Awakening vets Taylor Trensch, Jason Hite, Elizabeth Judd and Gerard Canonico will star as Peter, J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMComplete casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway production of the musical Bare, to play New World Stages beginning Monday, November 19 with an opening on Sunday, December 2. Staffor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Always Wanted To Write But Didn’t Know Where to Start? This Fall: Become a Playwright at Chicago DramatistsA national leader in playwright training, Chicago Dramatists offers a variety of …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:58AMWalnut Street Theatre has announced that it will hold auditions for children's parts in its upcoming production of The Music Man on September 9.
The Walnut is looking for 30 young acto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMProducers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment and Gregory Rae have announced complete casting for Off-Broadway's Bare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a Catholic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMLooking for New Audiences? Interested in Doing a Free Program Ad Trade?We all have the same goal - to create, inspire and encourage everyone to support live theater and the all of the arts. …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:56AMReports on 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, City of Shadows, Rated M for Mature, and Dogs: A Biting Comedy.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:55AMAn international festival to celebrate the work of writer Samuel Beckett has begun in the town where the Nobel Prize winner went to school.
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:53AMFashion’s Night Out, the nationwide shopping event dreamed up several years ago by Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, is scheduled for September 6—and to raise awareness and excitement,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMDonmar Warehouse will end its three-year residency at Trafalgar Studios with three new adaptations of European classics during its upcoming season. The plays include The Promise adapted…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMThe New York Philharmonic announced Aug. 23 three one-night-only concerts that will be part of its 2012–13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMSinger Frank Dain will return to the cabaret stage following a 13-year hiatus with his solo show The Magic of Mathis, celebrating the tunes of Johnny Mathis, beginning Sept. 8 at the Metropo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMEMI Classics has just announced the U.S. release of The John Wilson Orchestras Thats Entertainment A Celebration of the MGM Film Musical. World renowned conductor and arranger John Wilson le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:30AMHad "Arrested Development" been aired after the recession, the series' chances for survival would have benefited from the nation’s need for a healthy laugh at a time of monetary meltdown.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMGeorge Street Playhouse has announced that it will present David Ives' 2012 Tony-nominated play Venus in Fur as the final offering of its 2012-2013 season. The production will run Apri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMIn an interview with The Huffington Post yesterday, Nick Jonas revealed that discussions to join the judges panel of AMERICAN IDOL are ongoing. He told The Post, There's been lots of specula…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMBullet for Adolf, the new comedy by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, has extended its run at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street. Originally scheduled to play its final performance on Su…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMProducers of the 2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Musical, The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS announced today that five-time Tony Award winner AUDRA McDONALD will return to an eight-pe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMAcademy Award nominee Terrence Howard has signed on to guest star in an upcoming episode of the CBS series "Hawaii Five-0," according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMHappy Birthday, Andrew Rannells Rannells played Bob Gaudio in the First National Tour of Jersey Boys. In January 2009, he reprised the role of Gaudio in the musical's Broadway production. Ra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMLike many of you, I'm sure, I was skeptical when I first heard that Bring It On: The Musical was to become a musical. "Great," I thought. "Another movie-to-musical franchise show." And we're…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 11:13AMNEW YORK - Woody Harrelson's play "Bullet for Adolf" is extending its off-Broadway run by more than a month and...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:10AMWoody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman's new comedy Bullet for Adolf, which was originally slated to close on September 9, will be extended through October 21 at New World Stages.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMGwyneth Paltrow ("Glee"), Julia Roberts (Three Days of Rain) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Mountaintop) are among the celebrities who will take part in the 2012 "Stand Up To Canc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMTweetThe Book of Mormon on broadway has completely taken over as far as high grossing shows. Besides Wicked, it is one of the hardest shows to get to see in NYC, unless you use the tricks he…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:01AMThe Outdoor Museum not your usual images of New York is a book of photographs and verse created as a tribute to the iconic city of New York. Presenting it as its own exhibit, the book includ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMWe’ve all known that we’ve been losing writers to Hollywood for years. And actors, well duh. Every Broadway actor I know fights tooth and toe-nail for a TV/Film out in their …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMLegit News:
Music for Screens: Summer 2012
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMOnce There Was a King from Tytus Majerski on Vimeo.
Stop-motion mixed with CG, short film based on a polish lullaby written by Janina Porazińska. Author of original music unknown. Performed…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AM
Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter will play East Hampton’s Guild Hall Aug. 24 at 7 PM and 9:30 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMPorgy and Bess' Tony-winning leading lady Audra McDonald will return to playing all eight shows each week in the Tony-winning revival beginning August 28. After suffering a res…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57AMThe George Street Playhouse announced Aug. 23 that David Ives' critically acclaimed Venus in Fur will be part of its 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMAaron Sidwell will star in Loserville, a new musical set to play the West End's Garrick Theatre. Featuring a score by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, the musical begins pefromances Octobe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMCAROLS FOR A CURE is the annual two-disc holiday CD compilation of original songs and holiday classics which benefits BCEFA. These CDs boast the best voices from the worlds of Broadway, Off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMCAROLS FOR A CURE is the annual two-disc holiday CD compilation of original songs and holiday classics which benefits BCEFA. These CDs boast the best voices from the worlds of Broadway, Off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:50AMThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust today announced that David Henry Hwang will receive the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award at the 5th Annual Steinberg Playwright Mimi Aw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMBroadway vet and Girls featured player Adam Driver has signed on to co-star with Mia Wasikowska in Tracks, a feature film about a young woman’s camel trek across the Australian outback…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:48AMBrooklyn band The Lisps will perform music from their newest album/musical, entitled Futurity, which has played at venues such as A.R.T. and the Walker Art Center, October 6 at 8:30pm at 92Y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:48AMAudra McDonald will return to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Aug. 28, producers of the Tony Award-winning Best Revival announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:41AMAs a leading theatre advertising agent in the West End, Joan Fry had clients in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of theatre. She was a director of Mentor, an agency where she had s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMIn studios boasting state of the art acoustics and mixing desks, Keith Grant was much in demand as a recording engineer. During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked with some of the most popular m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMA concert celebrating director Alan Muraoka to benefit National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) will be held Sept. 10.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMChannel 4 chief executive David Abraham has warned that UK television is failing to "achieve its potential for real cultural impact", claiming that an increase in new channels and platforms …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMIAMA Theatre Company has announced plans for the 2012 season, its first under the leadership of new artistic director Becca Wolff.
The season will begin with the world premiere of Shiner by…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:32AMKeegan’s Spring Awakening sweeps the musical categories ; three Arena Stage productions receive top awards Click to go to our Audience Choice page Keegan Theatre was the first local th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMDavid Henry Hwang has received the $200,000 Steinberg Award for playwriting, the largest monetary prize in American theater.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30AMA young couple discover just how testing relationships can be in this crackling play by Kieran Lynn. Having just transferred to the West End from the Finborough theatre:: E8831343128239, it'…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:26AMRoyal LyceumThe stage is bare but for a piano and piles of dusty manuscripts. The manuscripts seem to be there to remind us that what we are watching is a narrative poem – published by Sha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AMLegit News:
Musical hits London after Yorkshire bow
SOURCE: Variety at 10:25AMAudra McDonald, who won her fifth Tony Award this year for her performance in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, will return to an eight-performance schedule in the musical, at the Richard …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMHartford Stage has announced the cast of A Gentlemans Guide to Love and Murder, book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman, music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak and directed by Hartford Stages Darko…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:23AMGary Cole, Julianne Nicholson, Lois Smith and more are bringing the mysterious western world of Sam Shepard’s Heartless to life off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Se…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:21AMThe first preview of Satchmo at the Waldorf was extremely successful. We'll soon see whether subsequent audiences are as enthusiastic....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMTickets are now on sale for Craig Wright's comedy Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon. Dexter Bullard directs the play, which also stars Edward Asner and Kate Arrington.&n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:17AMRachel Potter, who is currently portraying the Mistress in the Broadway revival of Evita, will perform in concert Aug. 26 at Hill Country BBQ Market in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMWoody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman's comedy Bullet for Adolf has extended its run at off-Broadway's New World Stages. The show will now run through October 21, instead of the previous…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AM10 Reasons To See Broadway This Fall Autumn in New York is one of the most enjoyable times to experience New York City. As the humidity finally begins parting ways and Central Park transform…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:08AMColony Records, the famed sheet music and memorabilia dealer at the corner of Broadway and 49th Street in New York City, will close its doors after 64 years, a call to the store has confirme…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:07AMForthcoming Beatles jukebox musical Let It Be announced its arrival in the West End today (23 August) with a rooftop gig on the Trafalgar hotel.
The performance, which comes just over a mont…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:05AMLegit News:
'Chinglish' scribe scores $200,000 prize
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AMThis is our last class episode for Broadway Boot Camp! Can you believe we’ve already come to this point? The campers are improving so much and we’ve all learned so much from thes…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMThe full casting has now been announced for an upcoming UK Arena tour of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” which will kick off late next month. The first performance will be held at London’s O…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMColby Day's play about four teenagers facing murderous insects is only intermittently amusing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMIt's the 13th edition of the showcase for music, dance and international cuisine.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AM
Tourists heading to New York City this fall will be able to take in a Broadway show without putting too much of a dent in their wallets. Broadway Week 2012 will take place in September and w…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:59AMHartford Stage, in association with The Old Globe, has announced full casting for the world premiere of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMLegit News:
Culture Project lines up stars for Off Broadway staging
SOURCE: Variety at 09:58AMBullet for Adolf, a new comedy by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman that officially opened in its American premiere Aug. 8 at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, has extended its run throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMToday is the birthday of the great burlesque comic Rags Ragland (full article here) — the perfect time to announce that I’ll be directing Angie Pontani’s big new show Burl…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:53AMTony Award winner David Henry Hwang has been named as the recipient of this year's Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, which will be presented to him at the 5th Annual Steinberg P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:52AMMaybe it’s vindication for us theater kids who never felt like we fit in with the cool crowd in high school. But the cheerleaders are on Broadway now, and they’re losing this pop…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:51AMTwo-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters, who was most recently seen on Broadway in the award-winning revival of Follies, will appear on the Aug. 23 broadcast of "Access Hollywood Live.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMLondon's Donmar Warehouse has announced the final season of its three-year initiative to promote the work of young directors who have previously assisted at the Covent Garden venue. New …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMLast night's live results show of NBC's America's Got Talent featured the cast of Broadway's BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL performing the dynamic number, Cross the Line. Check out the high-flying …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40AMToday would have been the 100th birthday of Gene Kelly (for my full bio on him go here). In celebration of that incredible entertainer we post this charming clip of The Muppets trying to coa…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:38AMLoserville, a new original British musical written by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, has confirmed its transfer to the West End's Garrick Theatre, where it will begin performances Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMWritten by: Sandi Durell Looking slim and svelte in jeans and T-shirt, the King of Observational Comedy, who appeared on The Tonight Show more than any other guest, picked up where he left o…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:36AMElliot Davis and James Bourne's new musical Loserville will receive its London premiere at the Garrick Theatre beginning October 1, with an opening set for October 17. Steven Dexter wil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:35AMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays will star in Hartford Stage's world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, to play Oct. 11-Nov. 11. The nimble st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMWe love a good ticket offer but it’s even better when a drink is thrown in too. Thanks to our friends at Bush Theatre we can offer AYT readers a drink and ticket to Mudlarks by Vickie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:16AMMidsomer Murders producer Bentley Productions is the latest company to be accused of underpaying its extras.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMThis week - it's all about BRING IT ON Direct from a 13-city National Tour, BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL, opened on Broadway on August 1, 2012 at The St. James Theatre for a 12-week limited engag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:07AMChazz Palminteri, actor and playwright, may be heading back to Broadway next year with his new production, “Human.” The New York Post reports that a source describes the new play as “a…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
I can't think of an actress more capable of holding the stage all by herself and bringing fascinating women like Thompson and Wharton to life. She's also proved herself the embodiment of the…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:52AMLOSERVILLE, a new British musical by Elliot Davis and James Bourne, will receive its London premiere at the Garrick Theatre a Nimax Theatre, opening on 17 October 2012, following previews fr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:38AMThe Wire star will appear in The River, Butterworth's first play since Jerusalem, at London's Royal Court in OctoberDominic West is to star in Jez Butterworth's new play The River this Octob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMNEW YORK—Woody Harrelson's play "Bullet for Adolf" is extending its off-Broadway run by more than a month and the actor-turned-playwright is hopeful it will continue building an audien…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:25AMPerformer Lisa Hammond has called on agents, writers and producers to encourage "impairment blind" casting in television drama in a bid to tackle the lack of disability portrayed on screen.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMWoody Harrelson's play "Bullet for Adolf" is extending its off-Broadway run by more than a month and the actor-turned-playwright is hopeful it will continue building an audience.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:09AMLoserville, the new musical by Elliot Davis and ex-Busted star James Bourne, has confirmed it will transfer to the West End this October.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe veteran composer gives a sneak preview of his special musical presentation at the famed New York nightclub.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMJake Gyllenhaal is making his New York stage debut with Roundabout Theater Company’s production of “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.”
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Legit News:
Pyle on deck for rock musical
SOURCE: Variety at 07:40AMIt's a glorious late summer day in the Catskills Mountains, perfect for a nice dip in the water. But the large, inviting swimming pool at one sleep-away camp is untouched.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:39AMOpening a stage adaptation of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece this week of all weeks does feel like remarkably bad luck, just as the language and attitudes around rape have exploded into a…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:36AMBBC2 controller Janice Hadlow has claimed that drama on the channel will be "protected at all costs", as the Corporation looks to make savings as part of its Delivering Quality First initiat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMWe are familiar with the one-man show, in which a single actor plays all the roles.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:20AMIt’s 11pm and there are lights strobing and music thumping as you enter the theatre for Beats. DJ Johnny Whoop, who started out on the 90s Glasgow rave scene, is on the decks while Jamie W…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:16AMBob Boyett and the National Theatre of Great Britain’s acclaimed Broadway production of One Man, Two Guvnors recouped its $3.25 million capitalization, during the week ending August 19, 20…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 07:00AMAfter her duties on Second City's We've Totally (probably) Got This! end, Melody A. Johnson will tour her one-woman show Miss Caledonia in Ontario and the Maritimes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMTAhe Inner House - I can't think of an actress more capable of holding the stage all by herself and bringing fascinating women like Thompson and Wharton…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:00AM
Apollo, London: Jason Robert Brown's Parade has been produced at the Donmar and Southwark Playhouse, and The Last Five Years at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in a series of Sunday ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMThe Donmar Warehouse has announced the third and final Donmar Trafalgar season, which showcases the work of its young directors at Trafalgar Studios 2.
The new season will see Alex Sims, Ti…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:52AMAs previously tipped::E8831344258290 by Whatsonstage.com, Elliot Davis and James Bourne's new musical Loserville will receive its West End premiere at the Garrick Theatre on 17 October 2012,…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:46AMUnited Airlines’ Taste of Broadway concert will take place in lower Manhattan on Thursday, August 23rd at 12:30pm – 1:15pm at the World Financial Center Plaza (220 Vesey Street between N…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 06:30AM“Get out of my head”, cries an elderly Austrian therapist to the handful of guests that plague his study. He quickly exchanges the word “head” for “house”, but in an imaginative …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMNew York-based cult performer Lady Rizo has scooped the inaugural Edinburgh Cabaret award, as jointly judged by Time Out and the Soho Theatre.
Lady Rizo made her European debut at this year'…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:11AMLooking inside the mind of a teenage boy isn’t always the most attractive prospect; this bright new musical by Dougal Irvine uses high-octane sequences of song and dance to shed light on t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMTherapy is a very odd little musical from No Shoes Theatre; from an established creative team, I can only wonder how this came to be. The first and foremost issue with a musical is probably …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AM
Production photos are out for the West End run of Tina Turner musical Soul Sister, which opens tonight (23 August 2012, previews from 20 August) at the Savoy Theatre.
Emi Wokoma and Chris T…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:56AMThe New York Times 08/22/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AMTo successfully adapt the work of Haruki Murakami for the stage at any age is a feat, yet this is what the six young actors of Sackville Theatre Company have aspired to do in Tokyo Trilogy, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AMThe Wall Street Journal 08/23/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:40AMThis year I'm on the panel of The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s meant that I’ve been able to see some stunning shows that I would have missed o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:40AMThere is so much going on along the South Bank this summer that you feel that if you went inside the National, or the Tate, or the Festival Hall, you'd be missing out on something.
A huge gr…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:39AMSHAKESPEARE: HENRY V Actor Jamie Parker talks to Heather Neill about the challenges of playing the title role in Henry V, directed by Dominic Dromgoole at Shakespeare's Globe, and on the dif…
SOURCE: Theatre Voice at 04:13AM
13 at the Apollo sounds like an American space mission but marks instead the West End debut of composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, whose best known musical, Parade, directed on Broadway by…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 03:48AMAlong the theme of my post yesterday about good ideas, I wanted to point out some interesting ideas about higher education for arts majors suggested by David Cutler on The Savvy Musician blo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:41AMDancer-actor Gene Kelly's would have been 100 this year, and his legacy of unparalleled athleticism and joyous, comic performance still looms large in popular culture. His versatility and hi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:16AMFive years ago when she was about to retire from the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company, Brooke Klinger noted that dancers tend to put personal career aspirations before loyalty to any particular…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AMASPEN - Five years ago when she was about to retire from the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company, Brooke Klinger noted that dancers tend to put personal career aspirations before loyalty to any pa…
SOURCE: Aspen Times at 03:05AM
Grammy and Tony award winner Heather Headley will release her new CD Only One in The World on September 25 through a partnership with in:cite Media.
The album will feature familiar favorite…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:52AMIconic stage and screen actress Kathleen Turner returns to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater to star in Red Hot Patriot The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, as the feisty, unfo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBroadway is coming to lower Manhattan when United Airlines Taste of Broadway concert happens at the World Financial Center Plaza today, August 23rd at 1230pm. This free outdoor concert, prod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBROADWAY 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 01:30AMBROADWAY BALLYHOO has announced another all-star cast for tonight, August 23 at 11 p.m. at Feinstein's. The show, now in its 9th month, is hosting a special event night with Barbara and Scot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAre critics settling into "Harrison, TX"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:15AMLouis Armstrong and the All Stars perform "The Bare Necessities" on the BBC in 1968:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
The stars came out for Victor Garber's performance at 54 Below. Bradley Cooper (Williamstown’s The Elephant Man), Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd) and Amy Irving (We Live Here), plus Tony…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMHedda and the gun - an iconic image, this time from the Shaw Festival production of Hedda Gabler. Moya O'Connell is the discontented Hedda; this version of the image is by Emily Cooper.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn presents the world premiere of Missionary in Manhattan: A Mormon Musical Aug. 23-Sept. 9 at the Theater for The New City as part of the Dream Up Festi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRed Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, starring Kathleen Turner as the late Texas-bred political columnist, begins Aug. 23 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. David Esbjornson direc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Los Angeles premiere of David J. Duman's Fishing, billed as "a spicy comedy about food and the people who love it," begins performances Aug. 23 at the Archway Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA public celebration is held on Broadway Aug. 23 to honor the literary and theatrical career of the late Gore Vidal, who died July 31 at age 86. The event is held from noon to 1 PM at the Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe editors of Playbill.com have combed through the past seven years of our popular Cue & A feature to select some of our favorite answers to the question, "What's your worst fl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNice Work If You Can Get It Tony winners Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath host United Airlines’ Taste of Broadway concert Aug. 23.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe box office at Broadway's Cort Theatre, soon to be the home of Craig Wright's Grace, opens for business Aug. 23. Performances are scheduled to begin Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1852 Broadway premiere of Uncle Tom's Cabin, based on the novel about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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