The American premiere of Love Story, the musical, based on the best-selling Erich Segal novel, will star Alexandra Silber (Broadway's Master Class) as Jenny Cavilleri and Will Reynolds (…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:45PMCelebrity Autobiography with Scott Adsit, Alec Baldwin, Christie Brinkley, Illeana Douglas, Jerry OConnell, Eugene Pack, and Dayle Reyfel played to sold-out houses at The John Drew Theater i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:40PMThe First Floor Theatre @ La MaMa, FringeNYC
By Adrienne Urbanski
BOTTOM LINE: This modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland turns Alice into a New York City woman in search of sexual…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:38PMCombine more than 20 unforgettable Gershwin songs like I Got Rhythm and Someone to Watch Over Me with lots of fabulous dancing and a comical boy-meets-girl love story and you get Crazy for Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:31PMThe Marriott Theatre's production of Dreamgirls, featuring Raena White, Britney Coleman and Rashidra Scott, officially opens Aug. 29, following previews that began Aug. 22, at the c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23PMThe world premiere of Barbra Streisand's recording of I Think It's Going To Rain Today was released today, August 28th, from her new album Release Me, which will be available on Amazon and E…
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THE INGERSOLLS TEAM UP: Michael and Angela Ingersoll are a dynamic show biz duo who also happen to be husband and wife. HE is best known to Chicago audiences for his long-running turn in the…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:29PMThe Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today its 2012 NYFF HBO Films Directors Dialogues participants would be Abbas Kiarostami, David Chase and Robert Zemeckis and the popular On Cine…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28PM Dearest readers, Here follows a link to a post for LA Weekly about the current show Elmina’s Kitchen, now playing at the Lost Studios on La Brea until September 9, 2012. …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:08PMMartha Wollner fell into documentary films and spent twenty-five years in the field with Maysles Films, Inc, founded by the fathers of direct cinema, acclaimed documentary film makers, Alber…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 07:08PMAffairs, arguments, accidents. Feminism, marital failure and a fear of ageing. Jumpy has plenty of conflicts and issues, dunked in a wonderful bittersweet humour. But while Angel de Angelis …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PMThere’s one overwhelming reason to check out this dramatically rather run-of-the-mill bio-musical, and that is to savour Emi Wokoma’s phenomenal performance as Tina Turner.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThose venturing to Covent Garden this week may be in for a theatrical surprise. Visitors shopping in the market or enjoying a coffee could receive their own "pop-up" performances of Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Are you a little nerdy (I certainly am)? Do you think the hottest thing about someone is their ability to discuss the almost science fiction levels of technology we are creating (shout out t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMOn Monday, August 27, cabaret star Jeff Harnar took to the Broadway at Birdland stage with a new show, Does This Song Make Me Look Fat The packed house included theater and cabaret stars lik…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:47PMFor just a few minutes of sizzling shimmy-and-shake, the naughty ol’ Chicken Ranch way out in the wilds of Gilbert, Tex., manages to get up the proper head of steam. This temperature rise …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:28PMThe Development Wing which has dedicated itself to nurturing new musicals via partnerships with regional, not for profit theaters will hold an exclusive, intimate one-night-only benefit conc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMAccording to Gwydion Suilebhan, we have an obsession.
“We” is the entire planet. The obsession is with superheroes.
Suilebhan, a D.C.-based playwright, theater blogger and resident pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:10PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
The Fisherman’s Wife, Impact Theatre.
By Sam Hurwitt
Playwright Steve Yockey has had plays produced locally by Magic Theatre, Climate Theater and Marin Theatre Com…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:03PMLady Gaga is an international superstar known almost as much for her outlandish costumes and persona as for her Grammy-winning music. But before she was Gaga, she was Stefani Germanotta: a n…
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For generations, musical theatre writers have come to New York City to change the world. Once Upon A Time In New York City is about the people who have changed THEM. This concert will featur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMA NATIONAL LAMPOON While the 2012 presidential election has provided entertainment enough, from Donald Trump’s political posturing to the Sarah Palin bus tour, there’s always roo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47PMFull casting has been announced for the three plays of The Guthrie Theater's Christopher Hampton Celebration, running September 21 through November.
Tales from Hollywood (September 15-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PMThe Guthrie Theater today announced the full casts, comprising 39 actors, for the three plays of the Christopher Hampton Celebration. The previously announced celebration of the multi-facete…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMTickets are now available for Second Stage Theater's world premiere production of Jon Kern’s comedy Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them. Dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PMCelebrated playwright Sam Shepard returns to the New York boards with his latest work, called "Heartless."
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:20PMBroadway veteran Seth Numrich is among the actors to be featured in a free-of-charge workshop presentation of Daniel Talbott's new play, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait, to be he…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMEvery day, Broadway.com brings theater fans up close to their favorite stars and behind the scenes at their favorite shows with our popular, one-of-a-kind video features. Now, we're rank…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:17PMThe message of “Cougar the Musical” is that relationships between older women and younger men are a great idea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMPigPen Theatre Co. premieres its first foray into animation with the short film "Bremen," a companion piece to their upcoming production The Old Man and the Old Moon. The tale of a man who m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMKularts will present Make Your Own Revolution, a community-based performance event held in remembrance of the resistance to martial law in the Philippines at Bayanihan Community Center (1010…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:02PMThe road from artistic concept to actual fruition is a long, hard, and potentially expensive one. How many of us have been awakened from a dream to jot down on a piece of paper next to the b…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMOn Twitter Watch, Lady Gaga wrote some things never change...here's a photo of my in highschool in the school play set that wig did my own makeup
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California Shakespeare Theater will concludes its season with Shakespeare's Hamlet, running September 19-October 14 at the Bruns Amphitheater. Liesl Tommy will direct.
This will mark …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PMVideo from Halcyon Theatre's panel discussion on "Dreaming a New Theatre," on Saturday, August 4, 2012. This free event was part of the Alcyone Festival 2012.
Panelists include: Danny Bernar…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 04:47PMEdward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf will begin rehearsals on September 4, 2012, in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where this production originally began in December 2010…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMThe York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director, in association with Robert D. Wachs producer of the hit films Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Coming to America, p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMSince its Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway debut in 2009, Next to Normal has become a popular production for regional and community theatres.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:43PMMarcus Nance, recently seen on Broadway as Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar, will perform in concert at the Metropolitan Room on Monday, September 10 at 9:30pm.
Entitled Marcus Nance and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:42PMThe Guthrie Theater has announced full casting for the three plays that comprise its Christopher Hampton Celebration.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:35PMThe Development Wing is to host "Broadway Under the Stars," a one-night-only benefit concert featuring Broadway stars singing songs from three new musicals, September 15 at 6 pm at…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMI Am Zombie, a new original musical comedy from the mind of Josh Canfield, follows Zombie as he realizes that he is a zombie, and decides that's not what he wants.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMCivic Theatre of Allentown is to present a one-night-only reading of Dustin Lance Black's 8, September 8 at 8pm at Civic Theatre's 19th Street Theatre. Artistic director William S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PMMoney and leadership problems shadow the organization.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:07PMThe producers of The Heiress have announced full casting for the Broadway-bound production that stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Davi…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:06PMJesse Nager (“Xanadu”), Danny Calvert “Altar Boyz”), Tim Young (“Next to Normal”), Willis White (“In the Heights”), Brad Greer (“…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:05PMObie Award winner Lisa Emery will play drug-addicted Mary Tyrone opposite David Chandler as aging actor James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMBeginning Monday, September 3, 2012, Ricky Martins performance schedule as Che in the hit production of EVITA will be Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesdays at 2pm amp 8pm, Thursdays at 8pm, Fridays at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMAfter completing the first season of the ballet-centric series Bunheads on ABC Family, two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster can now add “TV star” and “role model” …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:01PM
The York Theatre Company's developmental lab production of the new musical Last Dance is now in rehearsal. Philip Wm. McKinley directs the musical, which will be presented September 20-…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMThe Public Theaters 40 million revitalization of its downtown home at Astor Place will be unveiled October 4, 2012 and celebrated through a series of events designed to engage the entire New…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMTalk about timing! Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, the critically-acclaimed revival about dirty tricks and double-dealing at a political convention, has recouped its investment just as the 2012…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:46PMRicky Martin, who is currently playing the role of Che in the Broadway revival of Evita, is making a change to his performance schedule in the musical, which plays at the Marquis Theatre.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:38PMThe Sterile Cuckoo will be released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on October 16, 2012 by Olive Films.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMAdditional casting has been announced for the L.A. Theatre Works production of The Seagull, starring Calista Flockhart, T.R. Knight and Dakin Matthews.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:34PMLady Gaga has traced her love of wigs and costumes to her days as a high school stage actress, and now the pop superstar has tweeted a rare photo of herself, handkerchief in hand, as Miss Ad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:29PMWhen Lady Gaga tweeted this photo of herself as Adelaide in her high school’s production of GUYS AND DOLLS, we just couldn’t resist making it our Photo of the Week! The pop star …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:27PMRicky Martin will begin playing Che for seven performances each week in the current revival of Evita on September 3. Martin will play performances Tuesday through Saturday, with understudies…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMThe New York Film Festival will present a screening of the 1986 film "Little Shop of Horrors," based on the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical of the same name, Sept. 29.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PMLast week Harvard Business Review posted an intriguing article, "Every Leader is an Artist." The basic premise is fundamentally flawed, but it's intriguing nonetheless.
O'Malley argues "…
SOURCE: Halcyon Theatre at 03:19PMSo I woke up today and had the great pleasure of going to a photo shoot for this really cool project called Words with Friends no relation to the mobile game that is like Scrabble. You can c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMCommissioned, Developed, Premiered At Hartford StageUp until now the only people who have any detailed idea what the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was really about were limited to the 6,0…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:17PMCalista Flockhart, T.R. Knight and Dakin Matthews head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works opens its 2012-13 season with Christopher Hamptons new version of Anton Chekhovs tragi-comic masterpie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMPlaywright Matthew Lopez ( “The Whipping Man” ) will be the 2012-1 3 Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:07PMDuring Millionaire's Broadway Week, this season, contestants will have the chance to win tickets to see a Broadway show in addition to their Millionaire money. As part of the specialty week,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04PMBeginning Sept. 3, Grammy winner Ricky Martin will play a seven-performance weekly schedule in the current Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita at the Marqui…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:03PMLinda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress-singer who famously sang "You've Got Possibilities," is still reaching for the possible. She'll appear in two Manhattan engageme…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:02PM
Scott Wittman won a Tony, a Grammy and a Drama Desk Award for his lyrics to the Tony-winning musical hit Hairspray, and he and his partner, Marc Shaiman, are the duo behind the mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:55PMOn August 28, Andile Gumbi will assume the role of Simba in The Lion King on Broadway at the Minskoff Theatre after having performed the role in London, Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai and Sout…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:54PMThe Goodman Theatre’s Latino Theater Festival has had five biennial seasons to date (the last one was in 2010), all of them scheduled during the summer months. Now, the plan is to stage th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:54PM"American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is at work developing a new television remake of the 1980's musical series "Fame," according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMThe Public Theater will hold an official re-dedication ceremony to mark the occasion of its $40 million revitalization of its downtown home at Astor Place on Thursday, October 4 at 10am. In …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:54PM"The Sterile Cuckoo," which stars award-winning singer-actress Liza Minnelli, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time Oct. 16 by Olive Films.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:44PMBefore she was an international pop star, Lady Gaga was a New York City high school student with a leading role in a school production of a classic Broadway musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMTony Award
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Of course, thespians ogle over the actors and directors, and even the choreographers or costume designers, but many talented folks work on the Broadway prod…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 02:40PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
The plaintive question "Do you see?," repeated in the course of "An Iliad," raises this sleek distillation of Homer's epic from a mere platform reading …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:39PMThe 1969 film The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Tony and Oscar winner Liza Minnelli, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time on October 16.
Olive Films is issuing the release, whi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMHey there. Guess when we filmed this edition of Crappy/Spectacular? If you went with August 18th, right after a Newsies matinee, you’re totally correct. As you can tell, seeing as it&#…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:33PMGraham Rowat, currently starring as potential father Harry Bright in Broadway's Mamma Mia!, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Princes of Waco" at the Signal Ensemble Theatre ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Princes of Waco" at the Signal Ensemble Theatre ★½ ... The princes in "Princes of Waco" dr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:29PMHaley McGee will present her one-woman show Oh My Irma for two performances only, November 2 and 5 at Theatre Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Alisa Palmer will direct.
I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMCharlie Mount's first encounters with The Fantasticks weren't especially memorable. But now, in middle age, he realizes that the musical "suddenly makes more sense". He has re-imagined its s…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:27PMNBC's "Smash"
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As thespians everywhere are gearing up for fall productions, theatre on the small screen is in short supply.
Not to worry, my dear theatre throng! While "SMASH" and …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 02:26PMActor Mark Rylance behind week-long project in London featuring able and disabled actors aged 17 to 70Susan Lawton was having a pleasant alfresco lunch with her daughters Sophie and Sarah on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMStage and screen star Ewan McGregor will receive the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival on September 27, according to The Hollywood Rep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMArtHouse Interactive is looking for an organized, enthusiastic, and all around digital nerd for their fall intern program. Read on for more information and how to apply
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:17PMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth and recording artist Trace Adkins will return as hosts for the third annual "American Country Awards."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMA creepy trio of lounge lizard magicians, sporting pedophile moustaches, cheesy outfits, hideous wigs and (in one case) false buck teeth, are the “protagonists” of a spoofy “play” ca…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:13PMCalista Flockhart, T.R. Knight, and Dakin Matthews will headline the L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, to be presented in a new version by Christophe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMCalista Flockhart, T.R. Knight, and Dakin Matthews will headline the L.A. Theatre Works' presentation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, to be presented in a new version by Christophe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:11PMThe theater plans eight weeks of events in a re-dedication to its founding principles of artistic development and public accessibility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMMacy’s Is Looking for Schools to Perform Their New Musical YES, VIRGINIA Does Santa Claus really exist? That’s a question kids have been asking for generations. In 1897, one prec…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:07PMEden Espinosa, whose Broadway credits include Wicked, Brooklyn and Rent, is currently raising funds through Kickstarter for her debut solo recording.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMDavid Chandler and Lisa Emery will play James and Mary Tyrone in Actors Theatre of Louisville's production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Les Waters d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Actress Jean Bruce Scott, who is the co-founder and producing executive director of California's Native Voices at the Autry theater company, will return to NBC's daytime drama Days…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMBroadway Fantasy Camp, an opportunity for adults to immerse themselves in the world of performing and creating live theater, has announced that Tony Award winner Judy Kaye will be present to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:57PMPaul Rudd is heading to Broadway this fall in Craig Wright's comedy Grace, and it seems the actor may have found a perfect way to kill time during two-show days. In a series of new promo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMOn August 26th at Hill Country BBQ Market, Rachel Potter was joined by Arkansas native and Broadway star of Wicked, Next to Normal, and Altar Boyz, Kyle Dean Massey, for an electrifying show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMPark Square Theatre has announced that C. Michael-jon Pease has been appointed to the position of executive director.
Pease, who has been with the theater for seven years, initially served …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMCongo Square Theatre Company, one of Chicago’s most established black companies, will be turning to Walter Mosley, one of this country’s best-read black novelists, for the second of its …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:43PMVariety reports that MGM TV has partnered with American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe to develop a new scripted series based on the musical FAME. According to the report, the project…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37PMSocial Practice, Civic Practice, Socially Engaged Art - many terms for many techniques to engage communities and non-artists in visual art and performance projects. What do we mean when we …
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:36PMBroadway veterans Kendra Kassebaum and Joe Cassidy will star in the Arizona Theatre Company/San Jose Repertory Theatre co-production of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Pulitzer Prize-winner…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:34PMSo You Think You Can Dance judge and American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe is looking to develop a contemporary reworking of the popular '80s TV series Fame, according to The Hollywo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:17PMIf you're a reader of BroadwayWorld.com but have always wanted to contribute in a different way, why not consider an internship or contributor position BWW offers positions to fit all types …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMThe Neo-Futurists are ecstatic to announce that we've chosen to add four brand-new members to our ensemble!Before we give you those names, we want to take a second to acknowledge everybody w…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 01:15PMBroadway veteran Carolyn Kirsch will direct and star in Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" which opens the Mainstage season at Newington Town Hall, 131 Cedar St., on Sept. 14 to 16.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:15PMGrammy Award winner Sheryl Crow, who is composing the music for the upcoming Broadway musical Diner, will appear as a guest on the September 10 debut of Katie Couric's upcoming syndicat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMEmmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will sit down for an interview on ABC's LIVE WITH KELLY on Friday, September 7, 2012. The actress, who is recovering from injuries she suffered w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:11PMOnce Upon A Time In New York City, a benefit concert including the work of established and emerging musical theater writers of all ages, will take place October 14 at 9:30pm at Joe's Pu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:10PMSam Shepard is in talks to play the gone-missing patriarch Beverly Weston in the film version of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Variety reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:09PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who had been announced to co-host the July 19 segment of "Live! With Kelly," will be a guest on an upcoming September airing of the morning tal…
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Tonight we're taking over 150 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers to see the West End run of Soul Sister at the Savoy Theatre, followed by a Q&A with the cast.This brand new musical is inspired by…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:58PMThe upcoming season at Astoria Performing Arts Center will feature a world premiere by Gregory S. Moss, a revival of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, and a new musical by Hair composer G…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:52PMBroadway veteran Eden Espinosa is calling for Kickstarter donations to help fund the recording of her upcoming debut album.
Espinosa has already surpassed her goal of $19,000, but donations…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMSam Shepard’s ethereal new drama Heartless has taken up residence at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center, and on August 27, Gary Cole, Julianne Nicholson, Lois Smith …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMThe Old Globe production of Allegiance — A New American Musical, charting the lives of Japanese Americans who were placed in concentration camps on U.S. soil during World War II, is cu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:47PMThe Lion King tops the charts again. The production is making regular practice of beating out former front runner Wicked. Both shows are securely into this week’s Millionaire Club. Pro…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:45PMOn October 12, 2012, The New York Pops orchestra will launch its 30th Season at Carnegie Hall with Some Enchanted Evening The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:43PMCleveland-born John Morris Russell is one of the most well-rounded conductors in the field and the leader of the Blossom Festival Orchestra's season finale this weekend. Russell, who grew up…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:43PMStronger in theme than in narrative, this drama is a minor yet compelling addition to Sam Shepard’s corpus, writes Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:36PMBroadway Must End Run Sept. 9Good news for Hartford Stage board members and friends of the theater here who invested in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man,&rdq…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:35PMA Co-Production between Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre, Next to Normal will open September 15 in Tucson. The show will feature the talents of Joe Cassidy, Kendra Kass…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMTony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth will take part in an interview during the Friday, September 7 episode of Live! with Kelly. Chenoweth has appeared on the talk show, currently hos…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:25PMFormer Jersey Boy Daniel Robert Sullivan talks about his new book on this Providence morning show.
SOURCE: jerseyboysblog.com at 12:15PMKelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot and Aaron Lazar will perform alongside the New York Pops in Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammersteins. The concert celebration of t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMSignature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, is launching its "Season of Reinvention" with a rollicking, racy production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:13PMUpdate From The UndergroundDon't you wish you could play Eye of the Tiger and magically your New Dramatists application would be finished? That's what this playwright needs, a movie montage …
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 12:12PMLos Angeles Times 08/27/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:10PMRodgers and Hammerstein between the hits From time to time I hear from my readers that they don’t buy something I said. Most of the time they are right. Last week I reviewed the book &…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMLifetime's television movie remake of Steel Magnolias will air on October 7. The film is directed by Kenny Leon, and produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
Queen Latifah will star as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMSouth Pacific stars Paulo Szot and Kelli O'Hara will reunite for Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein, which will open the New York Pops' 30th season this Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PMThe incomparable Barbra Streisand will make a rare television appearance on the debut season of Katie Couric's new daytime talk show KATIE. The superstar will discuss her passion, women and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMBroadway Box OfficeWeek #13 of the 2012 - 2013 SeasonAugust 20 - 26; 23 Productions(SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE FIRST QUARTER RANKINGS)Can you believe that we are already a whole quarter through …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMDOMA Theatre Company goes retro with roller skating musical based on the 1980 cult film. Xanadu – Based on the cult film of the same name, this riotous, Tony-nominated and Drama Desk award…
SOURCE: Footlights at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 8212012 - 8282012.
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I’ve been following news about pop star Beck’s new album, Song Reader – I know, I know, it’s not musical theater, but hear me out… He and his band aren’t actually recordi…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 11:54AMLondon's St James Theatre has announced the first season for its studio space, which will feature shows from West End performer Sharon D Clarke and comedian Hal Cruttenden.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMConstantine Maroulis will star in the revival of the show, which played four years on Broadway beginning in 1997.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49AMComplete casting has been announced for David Cromer's new production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, starring the previously mentioned Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMNick Jonas, who recently starred in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, will be part of the upcoming season of Fox's "The X-Factor," accor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:35AMLorraine Burroughs and Jodhi May are to star in a television adaptation of the book The Ice Cream Girls.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMFour-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara, who currently stars in the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, will be the special guest at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Aug. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for New York City's Signature Theatre Company, officially opened Aug. 27 following previews from Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, directed by Daniel Aukin for New York City's Signature Theatre Company, officially opened Aug. 27 following previews from Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMBroadways landmark musical event THE LION KING, which recently became the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history, is pleased to welcome ANDILE GUMBI as Simba, beginning performances …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMTomorrow night!One night only!Absolutely Free!The INTRO TO TOO MUCH LIGHT SUMMER 2012 CLASS: 20 PLAYS IN 40 MINUTES!Nathan Brewer * Ajay David * Alysia Eggerman * Kate Healy * Chelsea H…
SOURCE: The Neo-Futurists at 11:27AMAs Lin-Manuel Miranda was writing songs for the musical “In the Heights,” he supported himself in part by creating music in local candidates’ advertisements.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:16AMOn Monday, August 27, Signature Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center where it will play through Sep…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMDirector Joe Brancato worked with actors Andrea Maulella and Mark Shanahan on previous productions of Karoline Leach's taut and thrilling play. The performers remain remarkably fresh. The ra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:13AMTweetIf they are already sold out of Book of Mormon Tickets in your city, click here to find Broadway Tickets on sale or in auctions so that you don’t have to miss the show. Yesterday …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 11:09AMSignature Theatre presents the world premiere of HEARTLESS by Sam Shepard and directed by Daniel Aukin, through September 16, 2012 with an opening last night, August 27, at The Irene Diamond…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAs some of you know, I'm simultaneously revising Satchmo at the Waldorf for its transfer to New Haven's Long Wharf...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:07AMI know, I know, don't read your own reviews, but the Boston Globe review of Satchmo at the Waldorf really...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:07AMFrom 2008: I was sitting on the couch eating a bowl of high-fiber cereal yesterday morning when the phone rang....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AMAndile Gumbi will join the Broadway cast of Disney's The Lion King, at the Minskoff Theatre in the role of Simba, beginning tonight, Tuesday, August 28.
Gumbi has appeared in the Londo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:04AMRichard Nelson's play, which premiered at New York's Public Theater on September 11, 2011, the day in which the action is set, depicts the Sunday dinner of a family of adult siblings who hav…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMUpcoming tour productions of “The Book of Mormon” and “Wicked” will feature a lottery ticket drawing for $25 tickets. The national tour of “The Book of Mormon” is headed for the …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMRachel Potter may be known to Broadway audiences for starring in The Addams Family and the current hit revival of Evita, but the actress is also an up-and-coming country music artist. E…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:00AMIf you’ve been reading for a while then you know that I watch the airline industry pretty closely, as they are often prognosticators of things to come in our industry (and in all peris…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Doon Mackichan stars alongside Tamsin Greig in April De Angelis' midlife crisis comedy Jumpy, which opens at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre tonight (28 August 2012, previews from 16 A…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:57AMLegit News:
Tours make more Broadway stops
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57AMRichard O' Brien's cult musical The Rocky Horror Show will launch a new 40th anniversary U.K.-wide tour, beginning performances at Brighton's Theatre Royal Dec. 17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMBroadway’s blockbuster musical The Lion King will welcome Andile Gumbi as the newest Simba on August 28. Though Gumbi is making his Broadway debut, he has played the role of Simba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMNew Georges and the Irondale Center will present the world premiere of Kara Lee Corthron's AliceGraceAnon, running October 18-November 9 under the direction of Kara-Lynn Vaeni.
An imag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMNew Georges and the Irondale Center will present the world premiere of Kara Lee Corthron's AliceGraceAnon, running October 18-November 9 under the direction of Kara-Lynn Vaeni.
An imag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMAcademy Award-nominated actor, director and playwright Sam Shepard is currently in talks to star as Beverly Weston in the forthcoming film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Tony and Pulitzer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:49AMIra Levin's Deathtrap ran for over four years on Broadway (where it opened in 1978), and it's not hard to see why. It's an enormously appealing play that combines comedy with mystery, ridicu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:49AMTickets are now on sale for the upcoming limited holiday engagement of A Christmas Story, the Musical! Based on the classic 1983 film of the same name, A Christmas Story, the Musical! will p…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:47AMJohn Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” opens the 2012-13 season West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park . The show plays Oct. 10 to 28 at its theater on 244 Park Road in West…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:42AM"A Celtic Night Circus" to star Sacha Pavlata, Melinda Heywood and the Bertini Family Troupe
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:41AMEdinburgh Festival Fringe has closed reporting ticket sales of 1.86 million, down 1% on last year's record figures.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMChristopher Luscombe will direct a new UK tour of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show, to begin its run at the Theatre Royal Brighton on December 20.
Casting for the cult clas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:33AMKendra Kassebaum and Joe Cassidy will co-star in the Arizona Theatre Company-San Jose Repertory Theatre co-production of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMToday is the birthday of second generation vaudevillian Donald O’Connor (for more on him and his performing family go here). Here he is with recent (though deceased) centenarian Gene K…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:29AMRaphael Benavides Productions is to present Felix Rojas's Growing Up Gonzales, October 18-November 25 at The Poet's Den Theater. Candido Tirado will direct.
In Growing Up Gonzale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:28AMGrammy-nominated crooner and pianist Michael Feinstein will bring his concert The Sinatra Project to California's Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Saturday, October 27.
The concert wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMThe Tony-winning The Lion King, which recently became the fifth longest-running show in Broadway history, welcomes Andile Gumbi to its cast Aug. 28.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:19AMRemember when War Horse was the toughest straight play ticket in town? Lately, the show has been available on TDF and TKTS, which would have been unfathomable a year ago. From the time War H…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:10AMThe UK touring production of Monty Python's Spamalot will transfer to the West End's Playhouse Theatre beginning November 14. Christopher Luscombe directs the musical, which has be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMPalm Beach Dramaworks has announced early casting for its previously announced 2012-2013 season.
Erin Joy Schmidt and Brian Wallace will star in Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMIn the fall of 2005, three friends were gearing up for our first show. We were new to town, and knew no actors, no designers and really nothing about how producing a show worked in Boston. (…
SOURCE: StageSource at 10:00AMJust last month, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy launched a YouTube talent search for an actor to play Michael Jackson in the upcoming Broadway production “Motown: The Musical.” Now i…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMAnika Larsen joins the cast of The York Theatre Company's Closer Than Ever with Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Music by David Shire beginning tonight, August 28, 2012. With direction by M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMTony Award-winner Faith Prince Guys amp Dolls, A Catered Affair and Jason Graae Falsettos, Ragtime, Forever Plaid, Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins Caroline or Change, Jellys Last Jam, The Wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM
The WhiteListed Theatre Company will present the U.S. and English-language premiere of Biljana Sbrljanović’s Belgrade Trilogy next month at the 4th Street Theater.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMPop star and Broadway veteran Nick Jonas will be a celebrity guest mentor on X Factor, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He will be joining fellow teen star Demi Lovato for the judges&apo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 has come to an end and the stats are once again eye-watering – this year’s festival featured a total of 42,096 performances of 2,695 shows in 2…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:28AMAt A Younger Theatre we have a bit of a crush on Kate Tempest. The poet-performer won our hearts over when we interviewed her for her last show Wasted where she said she was worried about t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AMLone Star Theatre Co. will present a night of music by playwright/songwriter David Davila Sept. 5 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:19AMI regularly write here about Samuel Beckett and Arthur Schopenhauer, but not only to air my own perspective. It is my hope that my readers themselves will also be drawn to seek out their wri…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:18AM“Arlington has a Whorehouse in it, Lord have mercy on our souls!” Don’t call the authorities. But you can call to get tickets, at least if it doesn’t sell out. Eric Schaeffer, Signat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AM“LISTEN could we just say I’m Switzerland on that one? I’d rather remain neutral, publicly.” That was Donny Osmond’s response when I asked him how he felt about a Mormon candidate …
SOURCE: wowOwow at 09:14AMphoto by Ivailo Petrov
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Q: Tell me about The Eyes of Others.
A: The main characters are two men that are going everyday on the same …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 09:08AMAward-winning singer, actress and director Barbra Streisand's newest recording, "Release Me," will be available on vinyl beginning Sept. 24 and on CD and download beginning Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:05AMThe Heiress on Broadway
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The producers of the upcoming Broadway revival of the play, The Heiress, have announced the full cast for the anticipated production.
The lead …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 09:02AMThe Kennedy Center hosts its 11th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival this Saturday, September 1, 2012 to Monday, September 3, 2012, featuring more than 40 theaters from the D.C. metropol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Tina Turner jukebox musical Soul Sister
opened to press last week (23 August) at the Savoy Theatre. Weaving Tina's greatest hits into the story of her metoeric pop career, and disastrous re…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:46AMOne Man, Two Guvnors on Broadway
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SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 08:44AMHEARTLESS Iconic American playwright Sam Shepard returns to New York with a world premiere play set in a troubling Los Angeles limbo of abandoned spouses, dark family secrets and a mute nurs…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:34AMThe Gerswhin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway
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Broadway favorite Audra McDonald resumes her 8 shows-per-week schedule as of tonight.
Starring in the Tony Awa…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 08:24AMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Into The Woods, Gay Camp and Motown coming to Broadway. Also, a brief discussion about this week’s news and the passing …
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMTheaterMania finds over 15 new recordings to end the summer and ease you into fall.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
A new production of The Rocky Horror Show will tour the UK to mark its 40th anniversary.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMGrace
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Television legend and acclaimed actor Ed Asner will take on the role of a cranky pest-control man for the upcoming Broadway premiere of Grace.
Craig Wright's dark comedy t…
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:35AMMotown the Musical
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Berry Gordy's life as a top recording music mogul comes to life with the upcoming production of Motown: the Musical. Telling the story of the …
SOURCE: About.com - Theater at 07:23AMGood story telling never goes out of style as evidenced by the extremely satisfying three course gourmet meal served up by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Horton Foote with his trio of sho…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:22AMTo see and hear Kathleen Turner channel the words and wit of Molly Ivins is to be reminded that theatre can be like church. You need to go to get nudged into living more truthfully and stay …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:21AMThe newlywed is playing a high schooler in his 4th Bway show, which arrived in NYC for a limited engagement after a national tour.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04AMBarbra Streisand's newest album, Release Me, will be available on vinyl on September 25, and then, become available on CD and for download on October 8. This Columbia Records release w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:02AM
Considered as one of the greatest pieces of religious literature, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Process is given a playful and artful adaption by Carl Heap in Beggarsbelief’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMIf a quasi-impressive amateur gymnastics display/mock physical theatre routine/confusing love triangle told through the medium of expressive dance (performed with almost deadly seriousness) …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:23AMOver the past couple of weeks quite a few people have weighed in on the Detroit Institute of Art’s successful appeal to three counties in Michigan to pass a “millage” (a property tax) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:10AMWriter and actor Sophie Woolley writes about creating Bee Detective, a totally accessible play for both deaf and hearing children. When I decided to write an entertaining kids play about dis…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMAmong
this week's major London theatre openings, in the West End and further
afield,
are the West End transfer of Royal Court family drama Jumpy at the Duke of York's Theatre, Nickelodeon…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:09AMStaged at Southwark under the direction of Seb Harcombe, The Illusion is a story of love, desire and theatricality in the 17th century. While the plot is not the most compelling - it's large…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:00AM“I’d like to gaze out into the abyss for a while,” declares a wacko wheelchair-bound mother in “Heartless.”
Although watching Sam Shepard’s hazy new meditation on life …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
Producers of the 2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Musical, The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS welcome Tony Award winner Audra McDonald's return to an eight-performance schedule beginni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMPalmetto Records will release Tony Award winner and two-time Grammy nominee Betty Buckleys latest solo album, Betty Buckley Ah, Men The Boys of Broadway, in stores nationwide and online toda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMCombine more than 20 unforgettable Gershwin songs like I Got Rhythm and Someone to Watch Over Me with lots of fabulous dancing and a comical boy-meets-girl love story and you get Crazy for Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMOccasionally I get a sense that I have a bunch of interesting ideas percolating in my subconscious because I will occasionally misread the title of an article and have a whole slew of assump…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:15AM"A list of books that you reread is like a clearing in the forest: a level, clean, well-lighted place where...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMGeorge Hamilton brings a potent dose of star power to "La Cage aux Folles," and he seems to be having a grand old time in the venerable stage musical, which runs through Sunday at Starlight …
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AMWonderful character studies, homespun humor and attention to detail make HARRISON, TX worthy of a visit.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
Sam Shepard clearly hasn’t mellowed with age. The 68-year-old playwright’s newest work, “Heartless,” which the Signature Theatre’s giving a world premiere, reveals a writer still r…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMWith guns a-blazin’ you’ll know not to mess with Texas as Arena Stage presents the political powder keg Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Kicking off their 2012-2013 seas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06AMOutside the (Poor) BoxReflections on money in a penniless worldsby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIf you're on Facebook or Twitter you have been seeing two trends: projects - especially theatre projec…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAudra McDonald, who earned her fifth Tony Award for her portrayal of a passionate and haunted Bess, returns to an eight-performance schedule in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess beginning Au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Bobby Steggert and Emmy Award nominee Paul Anthony Stewart co-star in the world premiere of Tony nominee Chad Beguelin's Harbor, beginning Aug. 28 at the Westport Coun…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Amoralists bring back their provocative production of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side for a limited, week-long run beginning Aug. 28 at 9th Space in the East Village.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company in association with Edward Negley, Neil Berg and Adam Friedson welcomes Broadway actress Anika Larsen (Xanadu, All Shook Up, Avenue Q) to the cast of the critically …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPaul Oakley Stovall and Brad Simmons offer an evening of covers and original tunes Aug. 28 at Manhattan's newest nightspot, 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPalmetto Records releases Tony Award winner and two-time Grammy nominee Betty Buckley's latest solo album, "Betty Buckley: Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway," in stores nationwide …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1917 Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse open their romantic musical-comedy Leave It To Jane tonight at the Longacre Theatre. The score includes "Just You Watch My Step," &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
