Luke Hatton, formerly of the Barrel of Monkeys, formerly of a plethora of Neo-prime time shows (Roustabout, Fake Lake), and formerly of Chicago, IL in general, is your guest-writer this week…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 07:58PMFor 25 years this pint-sized triple threat has been one of the brightest lights of musical theatre, playing some of the great female leads of our time. This is Ruthie Henshall's brain on Mus…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMPreviews begin tonight, August 24th, for If There Is I Havent Found It Yet, a new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst. If There Is I Havent Found It Yet features Annie Funke An…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:36PMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: A riveting fantasy journey through London’s South Bank.
Let’s imagine that Pete Edwards is the…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:20PMWonderland, EdinburghIt's a final gasp for the theatre programme of the Edinburgh international festival, but there should be nothing underpowered about this subversive take on Alice In Wond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe fright wig is instantly recognisable. Even with her back turned, it’s obviously Tina Tuner on stage. Expect it isn’t. It’s actress Emi Wokoma playing the singer in a performance vi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PM
Broadway performer Sean Palmer will star in the Drury Lane Theatre production of Singin' in the Rain, playing November 8-January 13, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Based on the 1954…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:59PMScotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, has called for the country to have its own public service broadcaster, claiming the current situation is "failing Scottish TV viewers and producers".
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:57PMThe Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar will star Aya Cash, Patrick Heusinger, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, who join the previously announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMRepublicans, Democrats should allow us space to dream at conventions
With the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Fla., on Monday, that once-every-four-years feast of poli…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:37PMWith the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Fla., on Monday, that once-every-four-years feast of political stagecraft is upon us. These conventions (the Democratic Party me…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:37PMAya Cash, Patrick Heusinger, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller will join the previously announced star Jeff Goldblum in the Center Theatre Group's West Coast premiere of Seminar, by Theres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:27PMPBS is bound for Broadway this fall with a three-hour primetime documentary series that tracks the real life stories of America's top high school musical performers vying in the ultimate com…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMThe original Off-Broadway cast recording of Zombie Prom, which premiered in March 1996 at the Variety Arts Theatre, is now available for purchase on iTunes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMThe Oscar winner for 'Beginners' has a new one-man show with director Des McAnuff that he'd like to do in the Ahmanson."First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:20PMKelly Yacono and Lisa Herceg in Babes with Blades’ “Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride.” Photo by Steven Townshend. Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride, an energetic m…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 03:18PMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK United Airlines' 'Taste of Broadway' Concert, Closing Night of 'End of the Rainbow', Broadway stars honor the late Gore Vidal and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PM'Flashdance' joins the movies that have been turned into musicals.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 03:11PMIn this next edition, we caught up with Zak Resnick, who is starring as 'Sky' in MAMMA MIA- currently playing at the Winter Garden Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMFirst Folio Theatre is to present The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story, an original play by executive director David Rice, September 26-November 4. Michael Goldberg will direct.
Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:07PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of August 13-19, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
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Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond conducted the wedding ceremony for singer and composer Rufus Wainwright and his longtime partner, theater producer Jorn Weisbrodt, in Montauk, Long Island on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMAlso, 'Red,' 'Once a Time in New Jersey,' 'The Poe Mysteries,' more
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:50PMThe Tony-winning musical struck a chord in New York, but all eyes are on whether it will have the same effect nationally to become a true cultural wonder.NEW YORK — In "The Book of Mor…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMCamille O’Sullivan’s soft-grained vocal delivery and gentle Irish brogue make for a certain sameness of tone, writes Martin Hoyle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:48PMCamille O'Sullivan's soft-grained vocal delivery and gentle Irish brogue make for a certain sameness of tone, writes Martin Hoyle
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:48PMMark Morris’s exquisitely choreographed ‘Dido and Aeneas’ looks and sounds superlative, writes Martin Bernheimer
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:47PMMark Morris's exquisitely choreographed 'Dido and Aeneas' looks and sounds superlative, writes Martin Bernheimer
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:47PMSean Palmer, who played the character of Marcus on HBO's "Sex and the City" will star in the Drury Lane Oakbrook production of "Singin' in the Rain," which begins in November.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:42PMA 2012 Tony winner for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his turn as Cookie McGee in Nice Work If You Can Get It, Michael McGrath's road to Broadway success took a long and often winding …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PMThe Castillo Theatre is set to present the American premiere of award-winning playwright Katori Hall's Children of Killers, September 21-October 28.
Children of Killers is set 15 years…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PMThe Donkey Show is racing toward its final performance on Sept. 2, but due to the uncertainty surrounding Tropical Storm Isaac's impact on South Florida, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Pe…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 02:24PMAs the sun sets on another eventful week on the Rialto, Broadway.com looks back on the headlines that tickled our funny bones, raised our eyebrows or just made us shudder. From Kristin Cheno…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PMHot Mess in Manhattan The Musical, featuring music by 12 of todays musical theatre composers, will perform a limited run August 30-September 8 at The American Theatre of Actors 314 W. 54th S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - Which upcoming Broadway musical are you most looking forward to
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12PMHefeweizen Goes With Second Breakfast A “pre-noon glass of beer” during “second breakfast”? Clearly, I need to start exploring my German heritage. In the heat of a wa…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:12PMSean Thomas has made some big choices in life -- leaving Nova Scotia for Hollywood, returning home, returning to Hollywood. Now he feels he has found the right play to explore what he has le…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PMDespite its very specific setting in the Lebanon hostage crisis of the 1980s, there is something timelessly truthful about Frank McGuiness’ play. The piece depicts the plight of three capt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:10PMNights at the Circus, adapted from Angela Carter’s novel by Sarah-Jane Moloney and director Steve Green, is – like Fourth Monkey’s original script for The Elephant Man R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:06PMPlanning to join in the salute to playwright Terrence McNally at the Westport Country Playhouse gala are John Kander, who collaborated with McNally for the musicals…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:04PMBroadway star Sutton Foster will be a guest on the August 31st episode of CBS's THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON. The actress currently stars in BUNHEADS, recently renewed for a second…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PM
New venue 54 Below welcomes Tituss Burgess on August 26, Tony winner Tonya Pinkins on August 27 and Eden Espinosa on September 10 and 17. We’ve got a sneak pee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMKilworth House Theatre, Leicester: Helena Blackman, runner-up in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Maria quest, gets to play the role at last and does it sublimely. There are echoes of Anne of Gree…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMThe cast of Glee is all over the map for season four as Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) ready to chase their dreams in New York City, Mercedes (Amber Riley) tries to break into …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:38PMTony Award winner Bernadette Peters, co-founder of Broadway Barks, recently stopped by Access Hollywood to talk about the cause with some furry friends. Check out Peters' appearance - with a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMMy guide to pronouncing the names of Chekhov's characters and getting the stress right has proved to be one of my most popular blog postings ever. I hope actors and directors everywhere in t…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 01:30PMLast night's ACCESS HOLLYWOOD LIVE included footage from a recent BWW TV video in a segment featuring Bernadette Peters discussing her work with Broadway Barks. In the featured video, the Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30PMKim Criswell and Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane are among the vocalists featured on the the U.S. release of The John Wilson Orchestra's That's Entertainment: A Celebration of th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMKim Criswell and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane are among the vocalists featured on the the U.S. release of The John Wilson Orchestra's That's Entertainment: A Celebration of t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:27PMOn Twitter Watch, Bette Midler wrote Colony Records in NYC may close OH NOOOOO If it hadn't been for Colony I'd still be in the chorus
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:23PMThe show captivates upon arrival. Director Jonathan L. Green masterfully uses a multi-cultural and multi-generational ensemble to deliver the story --- in unison. The entire show is a well-o…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:17PMDeadline.com reports that NBC has just bought an hourlong romantic comedy based on the classic tale of Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMHot Mess in Manhattan: The Musical, featuring music by 12 of today’s hottest musical theatre composers, will perform a limited run August 30-September 8 at The American Theatre of Actors (…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:12PMAt BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content from all corners of the globe. Our regional contributors do an amazing job each day of bringing you the latest theater news …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMOr, Alastair Macaulay should try thinking above the belt from time to time.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:02PMRaissa Katona Bennett brings new songs and standards to Feinstein’s at Loews Regency for her show there, “Another Kind of Light.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PM"On the day before a New York opening, a company moves within a solar system of its own. It is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PMProducers 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 eigh…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:01PM
HOW TO SUCCEED star Darren Criss appears in a new PSA to promote the upcoming Fashion's Night Out, which will be held on September 6, 2012. In the video, the GLEE star performs Madonna's Dre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMOlivier Award winner Benedict Cumberbatch has joined the cast of the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, according to the Hollywood R…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:51PMA new crop of stars are heading to the Great White Way to compete for a chance to perform at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre. The new PBS competition series Broadway or Bust, which premier…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:45PMLet's begin this week's column with one of the strangest theatre stories I've encountered in 25 years of covering the scene. Here's how the lead to the Playbill.com news stor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMIphigenia 2.0 -- Next Theatre Company at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St, Evanston, is offering $12.50 industry tickets for Thursday, Sept 6 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, September 7, …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:41PMChicago’s Barrel of Monkeys is launching into its 15th season with a new cross-disciplinary production featuring company members from Steppenwolf Theatre, BONEdanse, Noah Ginex Puppet Comp…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:40PMThe September 1 closing night party of Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, running at the Old Vic Tunnels in London, will take place in solidarity with the jailed Russian femini…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Benedict Cumberbatch will join the cast of the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY, alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Milwaukee, WI.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:28PMTony Award winner John Lloyd Young -- who has recently returned to the Broadway production of Jersey Boys at the August Wilson Theatre -- has released a new CD, entitled My Turn…, curr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Miami.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Mesa, Arizona.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Memphis.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMBroadwayWorld.com is currently seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage in Maine.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMOne of theater's most enduring superstitions is that you don't utter the word "Macbeth" inside a theater unless you are actually performing the play. Not sure if anyone at Ground Up & Rising…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 12:18PMEvery actor wants their performance to be convincing. But Zara Tempest-Walters felt the downside to a pitch-perfect performance when her rehearsal screams were so convincing that neighbours …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:17PMBroadway vet Nathan Lane will appear in a recurring role in the fourth season of the CBS drama series, THE GOOD WIFE. In the season premiere, titled I Fought The Law, Lane's character Clarke…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMEMI Classics is thrilled to announce the U.S. release of The John Wilson Orchestra’s That’s Entertainment: A Celebration of the MGM Film Musical. World renowned conductor and arranger Jo…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:15PMAs the last weekend of the festival arrives, Chelsey Burdon speaks to two companies performing adaptations of literary texts about the fringe and the future.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:14PMVeronica Aloess profiles the work of Organised Crime theatre company, currently at the fringe with Simon Stephens' Pornography.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:10PMThe Last Smoker in America, with book and lyrics by Tony Award Nominee Bill Russell Side Show and music by Drama Desk Nominee Peter Melnick Adrift in Macao, with direction by Tony Award winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMCasting has been announced for TACT/The Actors Company Theatre production of Brian Friel's Lovers, to run September 18-October 20 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre. Drew Barr direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:01PMSony Pictures Entertainment has announced it has signed a five-year deal with Tony-winning Broadway producer Scott Sanders to adapt the studio's films for the stage.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 8242012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMNew Chicago-based company The Collective Theatre will present the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's HooDoo Love, running September 22-October 21 at the Anthenaeum Theatre. Nelsan Ellis,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Summerhall has picked up another four accolades in the final round of Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, at a ceremony which included details of a five further major awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMJust last night, Olympian Danell Leyva visited Broadway's SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK, where he met with leading man Reeve Carney and the 9 Spider-Men from the show. BroadwayWorld was there…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMMarcus Romer, artistic director of Pilot Theatre, explains how his latest project - a six-camera interactive live stream of the York Mystery Plays - has the potential to change how audiences…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMLast October, when Emily Oleson first unveiled “Vaudevival,” using tap, hip-hop and other dance forms to address race and culture-stealing, she was a University of Maryland graduate stud…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:56AMChicago-area native and The Collective Theatre co-founder Nelsan Ellis, perhaps best known for his role of Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's hit vampire series "True Blood," will dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMMies Julie, a South African adaptation of the August Strindberg classic Miss Julie, is honored with the ninth annual Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award Aug. 24 in Scotland, according to th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMWoolly Mammoth has announced Powerbomb!, an online video game inspired by season opener The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz.
In the game, players are introduced to "…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMPreviews begin tonight for If There Is I Havent Found It Yet, a new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst. If There Is I Havent Found It Yet features Annie Funke Anna, Michelle G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMToday we are talking to a Tony Award-winning star known for her many impressive appearances on Broadway in JELLYS LAST JAM, PLAY ON, THE WILD PARTY and her tremendous title turn in the tower…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMOlympic gymnast Danell Leyva has dreams of starring on Broadway (and not only winning a Tony, but an EGOT!) so it’s no surprise that after picking up a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMThe show: "ENMV0002398">"Hedda Gabler" at Hartford Stage
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:43AMThis week's topics Gene Kelly Day, Audience Habits, The six reasons people don't go to Broadway, Favorite Long Song, Leaving mid-show, Will Chase in Nice Work, Favorite chorus numbers
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMA black comedy developed in collaboration with playwright Sheila Callaghan and directed by foolsFURY Artistic Director Ben Yalom. P.O.S.H. runs September 7 – 23, 2012 at Z Space in S…
SOURCE: Footlights at 11:33AMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMPreviews begin tonight for If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, a new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst. If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet features Annie Funke (Anna), …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:31AMSummerhallSometimes it's not what you say but how you say it that matters. In politics, as in theatre, delivery can be all. Not for nothing did Margaret Thatcher have training to lower her v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMIn just a couple weeks, TCG Books will publish Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (you can pre-order your copy here). The play f…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:26AMThe Scotsman awarded their third and final round of prestigious Fringe First awards today (August 24) in a ceremony at Assembly George Square.
Seven shows picked up awards, including the Uni…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:25AMColony Records, a Times Square fixture on the corner of West 49th Street and Broadway, will close in the coming weeks due to declining sales and a rise in expenses, the owners, Richard Turk …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMMove over Annie, there’s a new redhead coming to town! Earlier this week, plans were announced to adapt the beloved Oscar-nominated film Tootsie for the Broadway stage. The 1982 movie …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMNBC has purchased the script to potentially produce Cyrano, an hour-long romantic comedy TV series based on Edmond Rostand’s classic play Cyrano de Bergerac, according to Deadline…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMThe 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 11:18AMThe show: "Harbor" at Westport Country Playhouse"
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:18AMClark Johnsen, an original Broadway cast member of THE BOOK OF MORMON and former Mormon missionary, was featured on NBCs Rock Center in a special single topic show about Mormonism in America…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMThe futuristic rock comedy The Last Smoker in America will play its final performance at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre on September 1. Featuring a book by Bill Russell a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:10AMBill Russell and Peter Melnick's musical The Last Smoker in America, currently playing off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre, will play its final performance on September 1. Andy Sandbe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMPBS has released a trailer for its three-hour primetime documentary series, Broadway or Bust, to air consecutive Sunday nights, September 9-23 (check local listings).
Part competition, part…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMTweetI missed the Tony Awards this year because I was watching Kristin Chenoweth’s tour and apparently I missed a ton of amazing performances. One of them is the from the new broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:07AM"Bernadette Peters tells me a story…" recalls Richard Turk, co-owner of Colony Records, losing himself in a memory, "that when she was 9, she went past the window of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMThe expensive and sophisticated BBC/HBO co-production Parade's End delivers a call to arms to costume drama. As Maggie Brown discovers, it also presented challenges for the woman at its helm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMActors including Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Alison Steadman, Steven Berkoff and Barbara Windsor have leant their distinctive voices to a new initiative to make London landmarks more accessi…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:04AMToday in 1980, the second Broadway revival of Oklahoma closed at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 293 performances. Oklahoma is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMWhat are these two closings? Hint. They aren’t shows. News hit the web yesterday that the famed NYC sheet music and showtune retailer, Colony Records, would be closing its doors foreve…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe 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 11:00AMRECOMMENDED In his tightly constructed 1995 play “Skylight,” playwright David Hare has much to say about contemporary life, especially as it relates to the choices we all make: w…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AMDoes it ever happen to you that you learn a new word or meet a new person and suddenly that person or word is everywhere? This happens to me all the time—I’m sure it does to you, too. Re…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM"Seven Gates of Jerusalem" is a performance that premiered on the date of the composer’s 75th birthday. Combining classical music, ballet, and animation, the concert proved to be an extrao…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 11:00AMThe new cast album for Top Hat is currently being streamed exclusively through the show's official Facebook page. The album will be officially released on August 27, 2012.
The stream f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe Last Smoker in America, which officially opened in its New York premiere Aug. 2 following previews that began July 11 upstairs at the Westside Theatre, will play its final performance Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
"The Music of Smash: Sheet Music Collection," the first officially licensed collection of sheet music from the NBC musical drama "Smash," has been released by Alfred Musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMRamin Karimloo, award-winning star of The Phantom of the Opera, its sequel Love Never Dies and Les Miserables, is to join Lee Mead and Stephen Rahman-Hughes for their next concerts as The We…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMIn undertaking four plays in three days up at Spring Green’s APT, the odds favored at least one dud. But on paper, “Troilus and Cressida” did not look to be that one. Not o…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:55AMFort Myers, get ready for one of the most exciting musicals to be ever staged in the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. Catch Me If You Can, the musical based on the true story of con art…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:54AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theatre stage is flooded with happy, dancing, singing Mormons, but Clark Johnsen is the one Book of Mormon cast member who has true Mormon street cred…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMThe Eugene O’Neill Theatre stage is flooded with happy, dancing, singing Mormons, but Clark Johnsen is the one Book of Mormon cast member who has true Mormon street cred…
SOURCE: boston.broadway.com at 10:52AMThe producers of Soul Doctor, the musical about the real-life unconventional rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, his passion for pop music and his relationship with soul singer Nina Simone, are seeking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMThe L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's previously reported remounting of Ira Levin's Deathtrap has been canceled.
A publicly released statement says that "the Estate of Ira Levi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMI'm sure a number of people saw the tweet of this blog title and thought I got spammed, but no true believers, this is actually the title of a performance, that I'm going to tell you about a…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMBritish stage and screen actor Benedict Cumberbatch is in talks to star as “Little” Charles Aiken in the forthcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer Prize…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:28AMComplete casting has been announced for The American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of Obie Award winner Taylor Mac’s five-part theatrical event The Lily’s Revenge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:26AMSuri’s Burn Book, the satirical blog written by Allie Hagan, has been chronicling the lives of celebrity spawn from the perspective of Suri Cruise since July, 2011. As imagined by Hagan, y…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:25AMOCCUPY THE EMPTY SPACE is a free theater festival themed on human rights, Saturday September 8, 2012, from 2-5:30 PM in El Jardin del Paraiso, an outdoor garden in the East Village! The upco…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 10:22AM"Sleepwalk With Me," written, directed and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, screens Aug. 24 at New York's IFC Center. The film, which also stars Lauren Ambrose (Exit the King)…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMI’m back from my hiatus only to discover that the theater world continued on without me. The nerve! So let’s catch up with a few of the biggest stories in a slam bang news round-…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:18AMThe Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation has announced two winners of The Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award.
The closing ceremonies of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe took place on August 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMProducers of forthcoming West End musical Let It Be have revealed they auditioned 2,500 people to find performers who could play The Beatles on stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMThe Spanish singing legend is releasing new versions of his most famous songs
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:13AMBarrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, will present …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:13AMLes Miserables and Phantom of the Opera veteran Ramin Karimloo will join Lee Mead and Stephen Rahman-Hughes as part of the singing group The West End Men for concert dates this fall. Ka…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMRoxanna Hope Takes On Challenge Of Anti-Heroine In Ibsen Classic At Hartford Stage Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageThere's some…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:09AMTony Award winner Daisy Eagan will perform in concert Sept. 17 at Joe's Pub, the intimate cabaret located within the Public Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:09AMAs the fringe heads into its final weekend, how many of this year's shows will become lodged in the memory? Plus, this week's hot tips for what to see across the UKThanks for the memoriesIt'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMIf the poems in "That Said: New and Selected Poems" had been ordered differently, the volume would have made more of its virtues.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:03AMPaul Rudd and Michael Shannon will appear on Broadway together later this year in “Grace.” “Grace” will begin previews at the Cort Theatre on Broadway on September 13 with an officia…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMPerformances for the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Nick Payne’s new drama If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, begin August 24 at off-Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMJanet Hubert, best known as the original Vivian Banks on the sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, will bring her new one-woman show, Broadway to TV Now Back to Me to the Laurie Beechman Theatre o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AM
On July 11, 2011, Allie Hagan, a policy consultant at the Penn Hill Group in Washington, was indulging in her off-hours obsession: celebrity children.
She’d occasionally say “snappy lit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:55AMTony winner Bebe Neuwirth and stage and screen star Malcolm Gets will join forces Oct. 13 for Bucks County Cabaret, which will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMJust 22, Isaac Hernandez already had performed from Havana to Moscow to Jackson, Mississippi, not to mention four years as a professional with the San Francisco Ballet.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:39AMBroadway and Glee star Darren Criss covers the Madonna hit, "Dress You Up" in this new PSA, promoting Fashion's Night Out, to be held September 6, 2012.
Among the many celebr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMSavoy, London: The 1984 album Private Dancer marked an era of reinvention for singer Tina Turner, introducing her soaring, soulful rock and roll vocal to a whole new generation. With her new…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AMTom Hewitt, Jackie Hoffman, and Michael Thomas Holmes are among the stage veterans who will take part in a staged reading of Simon Gray, Raymond Bokhour, and David Bridel's The Suicide…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:37AMA staged reading of G.K. Chesterton's Magic will be presented Aug. 27 at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMArt gets people excited. Business doesn't. Business concepts like strategy, marketing, etc. are essential elements to the artistic process but they are not the point. You're at the Board mee…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:30AMStage star Ramin Karimloo will join Lee Mead and Stephen Rahman-Hughes for their upcoming concerts as The West End Men, with performances including Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall (Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:22AMIn a recent blog, Ken Davenport noted the severe lack of young commercial theater producers. His figure for “producers under 40” came it at a paltry 8%. As a member of that 8% I’m not …
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 09:10AMOn September 29, our beloved Washington Nationals will be in Miami, carrying the hearts of every true Washingtonian with them as they nail down the Eastern Division title. For the rest of ou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AMA stage version of the 1982 Dustin Hoffman film “Tootsie” is coming to Broadway. The musical version of the Academy Award-winning movie is coming to the stage as part of a new, five-year…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
Fun. Fluff. Those were the words I kept hearing about Bring It On - the new musical that started at the Alliance in Atlanta and arrived at the St. James for a limited engagement - which rece…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:53AMAlfred Molina's Mark Rothko has a well woth seeing new assistnat in Jonathan (Spring Awakening) Groff-- and the play has a lot more room to splash paint on its&…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 08:53AMBBC1 has ordered new comedies written by David Walliams and Ben Elton, and a drama starring Gabriel Byrne.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMMonty Python's Spamalot, currently running at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre through Sept. 9, will resume its run at the Playhouse Theatre Nov. 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:44AMThe current West End run of Spamalot is moving from the Harold Pinter Theatre to the Playhouse, where it reopens on 14 November 2012.The production, which stars Marcus Brigstocke, Jon Culsha…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:25AMLast night (23 August) over 120 theatregoers joined us for an excellent Whatsonstage.com Outing to the concert performance of Guys and Dolls at Cadogan Hall. Starring Ruthie Henshall, Anna-J…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:16AMKritzerland will issue a second limited edition the newly remixed and remastered 1971 original Broadway cast recording of Follies. A first pressing from the label, limited to 1,500 copies, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:11AMLowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh: Theatre du Soleil had to wait nearly five decades for the Edinburgh International Festival to find a space huge enough to stage one…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMAfter 15 years, the West End production of “Chicago” is closing. Producers announced that West End’s longest running revival will end it’s London run on September 1 of this year. The…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 24 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe Tony Award nominee talks frankly about her new film, her own family, her biggest quirk, and working with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Both Mark Shenton and Joanna Page raise valid points about the reality TV casting process (Casting doubt on TV talent shows, August 16, page 6; Page against the machine, August 16, page 20),…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMWe have seen historic events over the last few months, whether it be the Queen's Diamond Jubilee or the Olympics. Musicians were, of course, involved in both these activities, from the wonde…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMOver at the Cherry Lane Theatre is one of the most bizarre, unsettling and purely theatrical offerings of this years FringeNYC Festival. It is called THE DICK AND THE ROSE but it might hav…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:46AMLyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Camille O'Sullivan stands as both perpetrator and victim in Lucrece's bloody chamber. She is a chameleon, able to shift from masculine to feminine with t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMOnstage and behind the scenes, many work together to make 'Dralion' succeed
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:40AMArcola, Tent, London: Illness torpedoed last year's intended UK premiere of The Sound of a Voice, Philip Glass's 2003 show comprising two one-act, two-character music theatre setti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMITV has revealed it has no current plans to do any more musical theatre talent search shows, admitting that it was a "little disappointed" with Superstar's ratings.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMNew York has created a structure for classification of its theatres that assists the theatregoer. There are the main Broadway houses, then Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and even Off-Off-Off…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMNever let it be said that winning Britain's Got Talent doesn't lead to wonderful things. Tabard hears that last year's winners of the ITV talent series, Ashleigh Butler and her dancing dog P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMPoor old Hugh Grant. When he isn't suffering stage fright on the sets of his movies, he's being refused entrance into Edinburgh Fringe shows.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMCult musical The Rocky Horror Show has announced a new year-long UK tour, directed by Christopher Luscombe, opening in Brighton on 17 December 2012.
The musical, which first appeared at the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:17AMThe Music Division has an amazing amount of sheet music, much of which is not listed in the online catalog. Over the years, some of this sheet music has been compiled into different collecti…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:14AMRamin Karimloo, currently on a solo tour that will include several Canada and USA dates in September, including appearances at BB King's in New York Sept. 13 and 16, will join the line-u…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:11AMShout! Factory will release the original Broadway cast recording of Nice Work If You Can Get It, currently running at the Imperial Theatre, on October 30, with an anticipated digital release…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:05AMIn a patented, pointed zinger, Gore Vidal wrote: “Success is not enough. One’s friends must fail.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:00AMMuslim, Christian and Jewish comedians join forces at the Pageant.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMOlympian Danell Leyva, who won a Bronze Medal in the Men's All Around category at the 2012 Olympics, took in the August 23 performance of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. He…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:00AM
Ramin Karimloo, recently voted::E8831345558101 favourite West End leading man by our readers, has posted a magnanimous acceptance speech on his Facebook page, briefly before being snapped up…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:57AMThe current West End run of Spamalot is moving from the Harold Pinter Theatre to the Playhouse, where it reopens on 12 November 2012.The production, which stars Marcus Brigstocke, Jon Culsha…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:41AMA play based on the experiences of army veterans - who also perform in the play - has won Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMShould we listen more to what children say? Chris Goode tells Sarah Williams about how he's trying to remind us that we're all ultimately people, whether child or adult.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:25AMThe Tony Award-winning American playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang has been announced as the recipient of theatre's richest prize, the biennial $200,000 Steinberg Distinguished Play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMCan Shakespeare really be reinvented? Nadia Newstead investigates with the help of two companies focusing on Shakespeare's women at the fringe.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21AMWas that a poke or a tweet? Nadia Newstead profiles two companies examining our relationship with technology at the fringe.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16AMNo one could accuse Max and Ivan of lacking ambition. Following a successful go at the Sherlock Holmes juggernaut last year, they’ve launched themselves into the world of the heist blockbu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15AMActor, writer and director Andy Nyman has written a new book entitled The Golden Rules of Acting, a handy guide billed as "every actor's best friend".Nyman, who is currently starring in Abig…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:13AMLast week, dozens of you voted and selected those cast members from Bring It On: The Musical will compete at the end of the season in the Leading Ladies and Supporting categories. …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 05:09AMRECOMMENDED It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but unfortunately that isn’t always true. This unsettling subject matter is at the center of Circle Theatre̵…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography will play East Hamptons Guild Hall with its new edition Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, tonight, August 24 at 7pm and 930pm. Gu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMPreviews begin tonight, August 24 for the Playwrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director Leslie Marcus, Managing Director production of DETROIT, the New York premiere of the much-herald…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAccording to the New York Post, Nathan Lane is set to host a fundraiser for President Barack Obama called East End for Obama today, August 24.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMROBOTS AREN'T particularly known for their sense of humor.
That's why the gentle laughs produced by "Robot & Frank" - a clever, unexpectedly touching dramedy about the relationship…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:27AM"I'VE LOVED 'The Lion King' since I was little. Well, littler," jokes Jackie Evancho as the introduction to "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" in her new concert extravaganz…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:27AMThe second preview performance of Satchmo at the Waldorf went over just as well as the first one. We had...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01AMOpening nights notwithstanding, life goes on, and so does my day job. In today's Wall Street Journal I review Goodspeed...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMLouis Armstrong's complete 1970 appearance on The Johnny Cash Show. He sings "Crystal Chandeliers" and "Ramblin' Rose," followed by a...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"An actor can practice anywhere any time with anybody, and most of them do." Rex Stout, Death of a Dude...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMA daring, surreal and wonderfully theatrical venture into the darkest of deeds previously unspoken of except in Greek tragedy.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Friday August 24, 2012 LENOX
In the photo, a crisply dressed Louis Armstrong looks down at his trumpet, while seated in a spare, decidedly
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:09AMFriday August 24, 2012
LENOX -- The challenge was to compose a work that would use Serge Koussevitzky’s words and stand shoulder to
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:09AMThis is Stagedoor Manor, where days and nights are spent furiously learning dialogue, taking classes on stagecraft, tackling show tunes and practicing choreography, not lounging about. By su…
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:09AMFriday August 24, 2012
GREAT BARRINGTON -- She knows when she likes something.
SOURCE: The Berkshire Eagle at 12:09AMOff-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre announced casting for its upcoming revival of Brian Friel's Lovers, made up of two related one-acts, to begin Sept. 18 prior to a Sept.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's comedy of cultural misunderstandings, Chinglish, directed by Leigh Silverman, who helmed the Broadway staging, begins Aug. 24 in Berkeley, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, featuring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Tony Award winner Brían F. O'Byrne and Oscar nom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner John Cullum, Darren Pettie, Sarah Sokolovic, Tony nominee Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer star in the New York City premiere of Lisa D'Amour's acclaimed suburban-set p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJake Gyllenhaal is the last to arrive among the dysfunctional family of four inhabiting If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, the prize-winning Nick Payne dramedy that has been imported fr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1985 Morrie Ryskind dies in his home in Washington, DC. The playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin on three musicals, Strike Up the Band, Let &…
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