Go, “Tootsie,” go!
Well, not so fast, my dear.
Sony Pictures announced last week that it has struck a deal with Broadway producer Scott Sanders (“The Color Purple”) to turn some of i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:58PMIn most lives, absurdity and sorrow are woven together too tightly to be teased apart—and it is comedy, not tragedy, that illustrates that fact most fully.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:31PMChad Beguelin's new play is delightful. A gay couple unexpectedly come upon a turning point in their relationship. Which road will they choose? It may not be the one you th…
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Using your music library as a guide, Songkick keeps track of upcoming concerts near you.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:42PMLaura Carmichael, famous for her role as Lady Edith in Downton Abbey, will play Sonya in Linday Posner's forthcoming Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre.
According to the Daily Mail's Baz…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:40PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Schilling will play the lead in Jenji Kohan's creator of Weeds Orange Is the New Black series on Netflix.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32PMShrek – The Musical will close in February 2013 to make way for the upcoming musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to be directed by Sam Mendes.
According to the Daily …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:20PMWhy Chicago breeds great restaurants and theater companies
Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. I…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:09PMOver the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:09PMArena Stage in Washington welcomes Molly back in the person of another gutsy woman, Kathleen Turner, in the crackling one-woman show Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMShoshana Bean joins the cast of A Magical Night On Broadway at The Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in Rancho Mirage on Saturday, September 8 at 800 pm. A Magical Night On Broadway is a fully…
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It may be Labor Day weekend in Chicago, but while you stand over a hot grill, a large percentage of the theater community is deep into rehearsal and performance mode. Here’s a look at two …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:47PMThese are some great young actors to watch, while your ears exult in the equally great writing of Richard Greenberg's 2003 play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46PMAt first glance, the ingredients of playwright Annie Baker’s “Body Awareness” may seem sitcom simple. Take a Vermont lesbian couple — Joyce, a high school cultural studies teacher, a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:45PMA sampling of the sketch and improv comedy, shortie works by Seattle playwrights and more available for theater fans at Bumbershoot 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:16PMThe Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in the Berkshires has announced its Fall 2012 lineup of events, including An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin in October and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:10PMDowney Civic Light Opera appears doomed after the current season...Steven Glaudini appears to be leaving Musical Theatre West...The attempted extension of Deathtrap falls into a...deathtrap.…
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Laura Carmichael will move from the great house of Downton Abbey to a dilapidated Chekhovian dacha when she makes her West End theatre debut.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:49PMBroadway.com video blogger Jenn Colella kicks off the very first episode of Hedda’s Headlines with a trip backstage to meet the ladies of Chaplin. Get a peek at the silly hijinks, from…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:40PMAfter nearly 25 years in offices in downtown LA's old Engine Co. 28, LA STAGE Alliance is on the move -- to temporary quarters within the LA County Arts Commission offices on Wilshire Blvd…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:24PMWestport Country Playhouse stages the world premiere of a new comedy, Harbor, written by two-time Tony Award nominee Chad Beguelin and directed by Playhouse artistic director Mark Lamos, now…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMFormer "Spider-Man Turn off the Dark" director Julie Taymor, who claimed her ideas were used even after she was booted from the show, has reached a settlement with producers, thoug…
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A new off-Broadway musical celebrates cougars, and that's not a reference to the animal.
SOURCE: NY1 at 05:57PMTransport Group is set to present the world premiere of House for Sale by Jonathan Franzen, October 21-November 18 at The Duke on 42nd Street. Daniel Fish, who adapted the work for the stag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:44PMSCOOBY-DOO LIVE MUSICAL MYSTERIES, an all-new family musical presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Life Like Touring, is set to tour North America, beginning January 2013 in York, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMStage and screen star Taylor Schilling has landed the lead role in Jenji Kohan's new Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The one-hour show, bas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMAccording to the Associated Press, ex-Spidey director Julie Taymor just today reached a tentative settlement regarding her lawsuit against the producers of Broadway's SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMThe warring parties in the "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" lawsuits -- one-time director Julie Taymor and the show's producers -- have reached what appears to be a tentative settlement.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:18PMDear readers and ghost busters! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of The Para Abnormals, a spooky comedy by Thomas J. Misuraca, now playing at Zombie Joe’s Underground T…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:16PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, August 30, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:14PMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors has revised the rules concerning the original song category for the Oscars, according to a report in Variety.
The ne…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMIt was a star-studded week at the new cabaret venue, 54 Below, located just under the famed Studio 54. Performers including Faith Prince, Jason Graae, Maurice Hines, Tonya Pinkins and more w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMFormer New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich recently answered a plethora of questions through a Reddit AMA, about which he tweeted 'Fielded two hours' worth of smart questions in the AMA…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMA settlement has been reached in Federal Court between director Julie Taymor and the producers of the hit Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, according to The New York Times. No …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMCougar the Musical, which is directed by Tony nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett, officially opened in its Off-Broadway premiere Aug. 26 at 2 PM following previews that began Aug. 10 at St. Luke…
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Alhambra Theatre has announced that Katharine DeWitt, niece of the show's previously announced star Joyce DeWitt, has joined the cast of Sam Bobrick's Remember Me, to run September…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMRachel Potter, who plays Perón's Mistress in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita, took the Playbill Flipcam backstage at the Marquis Theatre for a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:45PMThe sexy adult circus Spiegelworld’s Empire welcomed some very special guests on August 29, including gossip guru Perez Hilton. Hilton, who is in New York prepping to make his off-Bro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PMOBIE amp Drama Desk Award winning Transport Group will present the New York premiere of HOUSE FOR SALE, the first of any work by National Book Award novelist and Pulitzer finalist Jonathan F…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMToday, dear listener, I have both a treat and a challenge for you. My guest is Julianne Brienza, co-founder and Executive Director of the Capital Fringe in Washington, DC. That’s the t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:40PMThe 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 04:40PMWIR Productions is set to present the world premiere of Bill Rich and Steve Kopandy's new musical The House Of Finnegan, running October 18-28 at El Portal Theatre. Alissa-Nicole Koble…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:38PMIn my role as executive director of the South Florida Theatre League, I regularly get asked why South Florida doesn’t have a fringe festival. If we can support one of the largest and most …
SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:37PMDirector Julie Taymor has reached a settlement with the producers of Broadway's Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, according to the New York Times.
Taymor began work as the musical's …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMAmerican Idol veteran and current Rent star Anthony Fedorov will perform his show, An Evening with Anthony Fedorov at Toshi's Living Room at the Flatiron Hotel (9 West 26th St.), on Tue…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMThe pop superstar chats with Broadway.com about what fans can expect at Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway, coming on October 19 to the Broadway Theatre for seven performances.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:29PMThis summer might have been too darn hot, but the theater scene is about to zoom into the red zone. It's impossible to do justice to the awe-inspiring variety of work that is waiting in the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:25PMBROADWAY BALLYHOO is now in its 9th Smash Month It features different Stars, different show tunes, and a different show every Thursday night This Thursday, August 30th, the show celebrates t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:25PMAfter two glorious weeks of research and development we are happy to say that The Feather Catcher has started to take shape. We’ve experimented with bubbles, unsuccessfully tried to build …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24PMAugust 30, 2012By Nathan NorcrossPlayhouse Directing Intern Alexis Molnar, Bobby Steggert, Kate Nowlin & Paul Anthony StewartPhoto by T. Charles EricksonNow that the technical rehea…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 04:21PMA Christmas Story, The Musical will arrive on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. The producers have announced that the new musical, based on the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:17PMA Broadway Concert Event Robert Ahrens, Eva Price and Manny Kladitis and Live Nation Jason Stone will present for the first time in concert on the Great White Way, Frankie Valli and the Four…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:11PMThe legendary singer previews his upcoming show with the Four Seasons at the Broadway Theatre.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:11PMThe Liar, Marin Shakespeare Company.
Robert Currier directs a delightful production of David Ives’s marvelously clever adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 1643 farce The Liar. I wr…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 04:10PMANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, went into rehearsal today in New York City with its full company. The production begins previews October 3, 2012 and opens Novemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:09PMThe producers of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Julie Taymor have reached a tentative deal settling a dispute over her role in the musical, according to the Associated Pres…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:04PMHouse For Sale, a play adapted from an essay by writer Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom), will run off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street. The Transport Group production will star…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMBroadway and cabaret star Andrea Marcovicci will release her new CD, Smile, on CDBaby.com on Tuesday, September 4.
The recording is based on her newest show, which will next be seen at New …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PMIt was a starry week at 54 BELOW with performances from Faith Prince and Jason Graae, Maurice Hines and Tonya Pinkins. Among the celebrities who came out for their opening night performances…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PM
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center has announced the schedule of events for its fall 2012 season.
Highlights will include Broadway veterans Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin in a benefit performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:57PMBroadway night spot 54 Below welcomed a host of notable visitors in recent days, as celebrity guests came to check out performances by Maurice Hines, Tonya Pinkins, and Faith Prince and Jaso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:56PMAn old medium can still learn new tricks, as a top-notch show proves in Bloomington.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:46PMJeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus, Krysta Rodriguez and Jennifer Hudson are among the actors who will apppear on the upcoming season of NBC's "Smash," currently filming in New York. Here are some…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMTickerts are now on sale for comedian Lewis Black's latest Broadway stand-up show Running on Empty. The show is set to run at the Richard Rodgers Theatre October 9 through 14.
Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMLegit News:
Tentative deal would resolve dispute
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMScooby-Doo and his gang will hit the road next year. Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries, an original family musical presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Life Like Touring, will la…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - A bitter legal dispute between the producers of Broadway's version of "Spider-Man" and the musical's ousted director, Julie Taymor, has been resolved, a court filing sho…
SOURCE: Reuters at 03:34PMRyan Murphy’s terrifying anthology, American Horror Story, returns to television on October 17 with its second installment, Asylum. The first season, which took place in a haunted hous…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:32PMNEW YORK—Like in any great theater production, the conflict between director Julie Taymor and the producers of the Broadway production of "Spider-Man" peaked in intensity just before t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:32PMRobert Cuccioli is no stranger to playing complicated characters, but the Green Goblin has unusual challenges, starting with his slithery green exterior.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMNBC.com has released new behind-the-scene images from the set of SMASH Season 2. Check out new photos of Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Christian Borle and upcoming guest star Jennifer Hudso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:30PMMichael Gaughan's amusing show.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:30PMAfter 66 years, he continues to direct and call the shots at the venerable playhouse, despite rumors that it's about to be sold.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:28PMIn honor of its 50th anniversary return to Broadway this fall there was be a special Box Office Opening Celebration at the Booth Theatre. Tickets for all preview performances were available …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:26PMWith at least 17 Broadway shows set to open before the end of 2012, now’s the time to book seats for the fall season’s hottest musicals and star-packed plays. Not sure which show…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMWith at least 17 Broadway shows set to open before the end of 2012, now’s the time to book seats for the fall season’s hottest musicals and star-packed plays. Not sure which show…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM I’ve been involved in the Vancouver Fringe in every way except performer. I’ve worked for a venue, I’ve volunteered, I’ve produced & stage managed, and for the p…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 03:21PMPEN American Center has just announced the winners and runners-up of the 2012 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. This year marks PENs 90th anniversary…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:19PMOusted Spidey director Julie Taymor has reached a tentative deal in her legal battle with the producers of the Broadway musical. Taymor and the men behind "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" hav…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:16PMA couple of weeks ago I posted my testimony for the Illinois Arts Council and I have been asked by a few people to write a more detailed blog on the importance of general operating support f…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:16PMA stage adaptation of "Freedom" author Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" will receive its Off-Broadway world premiere in October under the wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:13PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
The framework of "Room" is incoherent and distasteful (beneath a wholesome veneer), and the performers spectacularly overestimate their personal appeal.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMJason Robert Brown will bring his show to NYCs newest theatrical hot spot, 54 Below, Broadways Nightclub, for seven performances. To celebrate his first time at the new club, hes bringing Sh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMWith video camera in hand, Evita cast member Rachel Potter (you know her as Peron's Mistress) continues her behind-the-scenes tour, and capturing the secret of how an on-stage hospital bed i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:06PMOlympians obviously love a good superhero tale! First came American gymnast Danell Leyva, and now champion rower Pete Reed has made his way to see Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Reed took ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMTony and Olivier Award-winning actor Mark Rylance is currently behind a series of "What You Will" Shakespearean flash mobs that are bringing the bard to the citizens of London in a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM
FOX has released additional video promos for Glee, which returns for its fourth season on September 13.
In the first video, actors Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Darren Criss, Dean Geyer, K…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:55PMOn October 28, 1985, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation invited Peter Zeisler to moderate a panel featuring journalists Thulani Davis and Erika Munk, playwright William Hoffman, a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMAre critics feeling "Heartless"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 02:52PMDenise Whelan, who starred in the Walnut Theatre Company's production of Aspects of Love and played Norma Desmond in two regional productions of Sunset Boulevard, will play stage mother …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMPedestrians heading into Times Square did a double take on August 30 when they spotted Frankie Valli posing in front of posters announcing the forthcoming concert run of Frankie Valli and th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:28PMDirector Julie Taymor has reached a deal in New York to settle a lawsuit she brought over the Broadway production of "Spider-Man."
The settlement was disclosed in a document filed Thursday i…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:26PMLike in any great theater production, the conflict between director Julie Taymor and the producers of the Broadway production of "Spider-Man" peaked in intensity just before the resolution.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:21PMKelly Ripa, Chris Rock, Oprah Winfrey, and cast members of Modern Family will be among the guest hosts of ABC's Good Morning America, during the absence of Robin Roberts, who has left t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMA cast recording off the [title of show] team's recent off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. is officially in the works. Cast members Susan Blackwell, Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen and He…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:15PMThe Pearl Theatre Company will kick off its upcoming season with a reading of the comic revue A Thurber Carnival Oct. 1 at the Pearl Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe hit series "Glee" will return for a fourth season Sept. 13 at 9 PM ET on Fox.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:14PMSelections for the Telluride Film Festival have been announced, according to published reports. The festival takes place in Telluride, Colorado over the Labor Day weekend, with several films…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMAfter a three-year absence, Gerard Alessandrinis Forbidden Broadway returns to the 47th Street Theatre with a brand new edition, Forbidden Broadway ALIVE AND KICKING. The show, which opens T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:02PM
THEATER REVIEWS: "Pool (No Water)" by Vitalist Theatre ★★ and "Susan Swayne and the Bewildered Bride" by Babes with Blades ★★
NINA METZ reviews "Pool (No Water)" by …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:58PMAt the start of the summer, I groused that the slate at the major theaters in downtown Chicago was thin. It stayed that way; there were few must-see shows this summer, especially for visitor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:58PMThe new fall theater season in Chicago features plenty of Broadway blockbusters such as "War Horse" and "The Book of Mormon," and even a few star actors like Diane Lane. But Chicago is, abov…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:57PMFor my overall top-10 list for the fall, check back on Sept. 9 in A&E. In the meantime, Chicago is, above all, known as a tryout town, an experimental city, a boundary crosser. It's world-pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:57PMA Broadway Concert Event Robert Ahrens, Eva Price and Manny Kladitis and Live Nation Jason Stone will present for the first time in concert on the Great White Way, Frankie Valli and the Four…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMPaul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Ed Asner, Kate Arrington, and Dexter Bullard preview Craig Wright's intriguing new Broadway play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMEveryman Theatre is opening its 2012/13 season with the acclaimed Broadway hit, TIME STANDS STILL by Donald Margulies. We are offering a special offer to DCMTA readers! 50% off adult priced…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMBroadway.com offers up the best breaking news, star interviews and exclusive features about Broadway on the web. Below are the most-read stories on the site from August 24 to August 30.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMA Broadway Concert Event and Live Nation will present Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway for a limited seven-performance engagement this fall. A special news conference took plac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMBroadway belter Shoshana Bean will join Tony-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown for his upcoming concert engagement at 54 Below in September, according to Brown’s Twitter pag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:30PMA Broadway Concert Event Robert Ahrens, Eva Price and Manny Kladitis and Live Nation Jason Stone will present for the first time in concert on the Great White Way, Frankie Valli and the Four…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMEvita stars Ricky Martin, Elena Roger and Michael Cerveris took some time out backstage to send messages of hope and strength to the city of New Orleans as it faced Hurricane Isaac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:20PMTony Award nominee Robert Klein, Grammy Award winner Helen Reddy and stage and screen star David Cassidy have joined the 2012-13 lineup of performers at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMAge & Hometown: 27; New Port Richey, Florida
Current Role: Shredding guitars and singing sky-high riffs as Drew Boley, a Bourbon Room bartender and aspiring rock star in Rock of Ages.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:16PMRoyal LyceumThe play by Arthur Miller that became Death of a Salesman was originally called The Inside of His Head, but the title could apply equally to Vanishing Point's nightmarish contrib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMKenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company has announced that LaTanya Richardson Jackson, director of the theater's upcoming production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMAmy Sohn is the author of the novels Prospect Park West, My Old Man and Run Catch Kiss. Her latest novel, Motherland, features Melora Leigh, a former A-list actress who is starring in a Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMLisa Hammond is right in her call for multi-faceted disabled characters – as a playwright I've been trying to do it for decadesI was delighted to read Lisa Hammond's open letter to writers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Film star Jake Gyllenhaal appeared on the August 27 episode of Late Show with David Letterman and discussed several topics, including his Off-Broadway appearance in the new play If There Is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:58PMShows such as Matilda and War Horse seem to make the case for subsidy. But if the money was used at the grassroots, how many more great shows might we produce?British arts funding is not a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMFrom Nosedive Productions... The Blood Brothers present... Raw FeedOctober 4 – 13, 2012 At The Brick579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211 (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) �…
SOURCE: Jamespeak at 12:49PMTiger Aspect's head of comedy, Sophie Clarke-Jervoise, has been promoted to the role of managing director.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMReview: Love Songs: A Musical: Always and Forever
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:41PMLegendary pop singer Frankie Valli met the press at the Broadway Theatre on Thursday, August 30, to promote the upcoming Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons 50th anniversary concert, which ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMTony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and his band will play New York's newest nightspot, 54 Below, Sept. 11-15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMGrammy and Emmy Award winner John McDaniel will be the special guest arranger for upcoming shows by singing group The Midtown Men as they premiere the symphonic version of the act's 201…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMIt was inevitable that Tracy Reed, who has died at the age of 69, would follow a career in the performing arts. She was born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier in London on September 21, 1942, he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMThe new coaster will send riders racing through a 1,650-foot track at speeds of up to 50 mph.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:30PMDespite appearing in just six episodes of Doctor Who - as the Time Lady Romana during Tom Baker's tenure in the title role - it left a stamp on Mary Tamm's career that proved almost impossib…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMAs a producer of such shows as Beadle's About and TFI Friday, Stephen Joel was a highly popular figure in the television entertainment industry. He began his career in stage management worki…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMInternationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer and inspirational teacher Nigel Charnock was very much his own man. He hated the word dance, was frequently scathing in his criticism of most …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMHow and where actors live while working away from home can be as varied as the offerings in New York City real estate listings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PMThe world premiere of an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov 's 1925 sci-fi novella, "The Fatal Eggs" will open the 45th season of New Haven's Yale Cabaret.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:27PMThe countdown to the Sept. 4 release of the 27-track Encores! concert cast recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has begun, and Sony Masterworks is giving Playbill.com an exclusive first-lis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMFilm star Sigourney Weaver looks thrilled at the prospect of collaborating with her Yale School of Drama classmate Christopher Durang on Lincoln Center Theater's premiere of the playwrig…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMNicole Kidman, Richard Pena to be honored at Film Festival galas
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:23PMThe box office at Broadway's Booth Theatre -- where Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will begin previews on Sept…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMMa-Yi Writers Lab and Desipina & Co are to present four workshop performances of Rehana Lew Mirza's Lonely Leela, September 5-8 at HERE. Robert Ross Parker will direct.
Lonely Lee…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMThe actress plays Bess in the Broadway musical Porgy and Bess. The show, which won two Tony Awards, closes on Broadway next month.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:12PMWinners of the 2012 PEN Awards, honoring outstanding voices in literature, have been announced. Award winners and runners-up will be honored in a ceremony to be held at CUNY Graduate Center&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMAfter a three-year hiatus, satirist Gerard Alessandrini is back with Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! Alongside Once and The Book of Mormon, they also target the Broadway-centric TV se…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:08PMAfter a three-year hiatus, satirist Gerard Alessandrini is back with Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! Alongside Once and The Book of Mormon, they also target the Broadway-centric TV se…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:08PMJohn Cage could play on cowbells, rice bowls, car parts and temple gongs, smashing a wine bottle where an ordinary percussionist might strike his cymbals. But the one thing this musician who…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:05PMIt’s been a rough year for us in the Independent Vancouver Theatre Scene. The biggest thing that rocked our world this year was the closing of the Playhouse. But, life goes on, there i…
SOURCE: Rebecca Coleman at 12:02PMSome Labor Day weekend festivals are canceling in light of weather forecasts.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:00PMThe stand-up comedian and star of In Living Color played Sporting Life in the opera Porgy and Bess. The show, which won Tony Awards, closes on Broadway next month.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PM
A host of musical theatre writers will pen new songs for Once Upon a Time in New York City, an evening celebrating The City of New York, which will be presented Oct. 14 at 9:30 PM at Joe'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMTVGuide.com reports that actress Ellen Barkin is standing behind her response to the recent controversy over a Mormon-owned Utah TV station that is refusing to air her new NBC comedy series …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMITV has bought Graham Norton's production company, So Television, in a deal that could be worth as much as £17 million.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMIn honor of its 50th anniversary return to Broadway this fall, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? held a Box Office Opening Celebration at the Booth Theatre on August 30. The…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:49AMThe Wild Project has announced several productions that will be playing at the theater in the coming months.
Sarah Hughes will direct Jeremy Pickard's Saturn (a play about food) (Augus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMAcademy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal is making his off-Broadway debut in If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet. On August 27, Gyllenhaal stopped by The Late Show to have some much-needed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Dreamgirls" at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Dreamgirls" at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★ ... If you've o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:44AMThe Project Shaw series will kick off its new season Sept. 24 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's comedy The Devil's Disciple.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:43AMI wasn't a great lover of the recent Soho Rep Vanya, as regular readers of this blog know, but I remain a fan of nearly everyone involved, including actor Reed Birney, whose lovely interview…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:39AMThe Pearl Theatre Company will be celebrating the grand opening of its new permanent home at 555 West 42nd Street (formerly occupied by the Signature Theatre Company) on Monday, October 1.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:36AMIt’s shaping up to be a very starry fall on the Great White Way, which inspired Broadway.com’s resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson to pick up his pens for a spe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:34AMKirsten Dunst, Katherine Waterston and Ben Foster will star in the film adaptation of Adam Rapp's dark drama Red Light Winter, Variety has reported.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:34AMBilly Tighe, who plays Fiyero in the North American touring company of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Wicked, celebrated his birthday during the show's recent stop in Montreal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMAh LA. Another day full of fun things to do before heading to the show. First the fun things. Met up with my pal Matthew Rocheleau. You may have seen him on the Fiat commercial a while back.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMAnother day, another Glee season four promo. Thanks to previous season four videos, Gleeks have a pretty good handle on what to expect from Rachel’s (Lea Michele) new life in New York.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMToday in 2009, The Little Mermaid closed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it ran for 685 performances. The Little Mermaid is based on the animated 1989 Disney film of the same name and th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMAnother edition of the Original Cast Records series of Lost Broadway and More brings more than a treasure chest full of recovered gems ... Only a Kingdom revels in its just-right tone ... […
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMThe National Theatre production of Richard Bean's popular comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, currently on Broadway at the Music Box Theater and on the West End at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMThere has been a concerted effort over the past decade to redefine Broadway. It’s not just a street that runs a bit crooked through the island of Manhattan. It’s a street that …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMNew York-based investigative theater company The Civilians has announced that JJ Lind will take over as its new executive director.
Prior to this appointment, Lind served as the director of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AMThe Starter from Old Dead Eye on Vimeo.
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Emmy winner Ben Foster will replace previously announced star Mark Ruffalo in the big screen adaption of writer/director Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter, according to Variety. The movie, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMSurflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ, opens the New Jersey premiere of the musical comedy Once Upon a Time in New Jersey on Aug. 30 for a run through Sept. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:56AMCast members from Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark performed at Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, as part of American Airlines' JFK concert series on Aug. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:52AMTony winner John Lithgow in will star in The Magistrate, directed by Timothy Sheader, at London's National Theatre. The National's upcoming season will also include Alan Bennet&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:51AMThe National Theatre in London has announced additional details for its 2012-2013 season.
Among the highlights is the news that John Lithgow will play the title role in The Magistrate. Timo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AMShakespeare's Globe Theatre, in partnership with Arts Alliance Media, will present three of its 2011 theatre productions in cinemas in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. as pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMCentenary Stage Company will present a free staged reading of Molière's Tartuffe to launch its "Great Authors Out Loud Series," September 16 at 3pm in the Edith Kut…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:37AMTickets are now on sale for the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Tracy Letts and Tony nominee Amy Morton. Directed by Pam …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:29AMThe Finborough Theatre has announced its winter line-up, with a season mixing new writing and old.
The season will launch on October 4 2012 (previews from October 2) with the first London p…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:28AMToday is the birthday of operetta, musical and vaudeville star Fritzi Scheff (for my full article on her go here). The clip below is very rare — Ms. Scheff didn’t make any record…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:22AM Candy Buckley Celebrated stage veteran Candy Buckley completes the cast of this fall’s highly anticipated new Broadway musical SCANDALOUS: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple Mc…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:21AMRobin Roberts will begin her medical leave from ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA tomorrow, August 31st. It was revealed this morning that hosting duties will be shared among some of Hollywood's bi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMToday is the birthday of the tough but adorable Joan Blondell (see my full article on her here). In commemoration of the day, we present this funny scene from the 1931 comedy Blonde Crazy.�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:02AMMike Birbiglia is not timid about his personal life. After working the door the DC Improv and struggling as a comedian, he found his voice by telling stories with a gentle, sincere tone. In …
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:00AMIt's Back to School time BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre web site in the world, is excited to announce the return of the BWW Student Center 2012-2013 edition
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThe upcoming revival of “Jekyll & Hyde” will be coming to Broadway a little earlier than expected. A previously announced 25-week national tour of the musical will kick off this fall…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM Did I say last week was our last class before auditions? Pffft! Wrong! This week is (my bad haha). We have Jazz Dancing with Asmeret Ghebremichael which is a huge honor. She’s b…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMIt was hot; don't remind us. But the record heat isn't the only thing that made the summer of 2012 memorable.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:00AMThree years ago today, I Googled "blog template," came across this really easy and very flexible blogging program. I wanted to see if I could bring together my two loves: writing and t…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:56AMCameras caught a glimpse of actors Jack Davenport and Christian Borle out and about the streets of New York City yesterday filming scenes for the upcoming season 2 of SMASH. Check out the ph…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMTheater J is starting its 2012-2013 “This is Who We Are” season with the captivating, poignant, and humorous Body Awareness by Annie Baker. Body Awareness, directed by Eleanor Holdridge,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw will begin its fall season with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, to be presented at The Players Club on Monday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:40AMMost people (over a certain age) know him as “Steve Douglas” from the tv show My Three Sons (1960-1972) and a star of silly Disney movies like The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Abs…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:35AMIn one word: Amazing (I wish people would just trust me on that and go see it, but I also understand that I should probably let you know why {so here goes})! Ok, this is unique. La-Ti-Do (M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMJason Gotay, currently featured as Randall in the Broadway production of Bring It On: The Musical, will be among the featured performers in this week's installment of Broadway Ballyhoo,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:29AMMusical theater veteran Darren Day will head the cast of the European premiere of The Last Session, featuring music and lyrics by Steve Schalchlin and book by Jim Brochu with additional lyri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:21AMThe fall and winter season at London's National Theatre will include the world premiere of the previously announced Alan Bennett play People and John Lithgow returning to the Nation…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:18AMFull programme details have been announced for this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, Europe's oldest specialist theatre festival.
Now in its 55th year, 2012 marks the first programme from ne…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:16AMIt was only a drive… Welcome back to the Farmhouse. Night has arrived at long last. Tom, Judy, Helen, Harry, Barbra, and Ben have finally arrived. The house is boarded up tight and safe fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
A few blogospheric notes to round out the summer: Guardian critic Lyn Gardner is taking over the reins of that newspaper’s theatre blog as her “permanent home,” Andrew Dick…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:47AM by: Sandi Durell Steven Cagan, composer-lyricist, has had a long, celebrated career as both a conductor, with gigs including the first national tour of Dreamgirls, and…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:34AMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Using pornography as the subject of an artistic endeavour always runs the risk of creating something as voyeuristic as the subject matter. Matthew Lenton, wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMU.K. TV star Darren Day (best known for "Hollyoaks") will lead the cast of the U.K. premiere of Steve Schalchlin and Jim Brochu's 1997 Off-Broadway musical The Last Session, be…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:29AMAccording to whatsonstage.com, John Lithgow is set to star in the title role opposite Nancy Carroll in the National Theatre revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's THE MAGISTRATE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:19AMJohn Lithgow is set to play the title role in The Magistrate, written by Arthur Wing Pinero, as part of the National Theatre's full autumn and winter season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMBy Judd Hollander
Be sure the wish you wish for is the wish you actually want. So goes the message of Into the Woods (book by James Lapine, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) presented…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:16AMScottish theatregoing remains steady with 27% of the adult population attending a play, drama or other theatrical performance in 2011, according to the latest Scottish Household Survey.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMBelieve it or not, I love to have meetings. I love the opportunity to have conversations with people about a specific topic, and then to listen and learn while the conversation takes differe…
SOURCE: StageSource at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe former sitcom star shares her thoughts on filling Jodie Foster's shoes, her newest voiceover role, and her first TV crush!
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMA little over a month ago, I reported back from Cutting Edge Composers III, which had a couple performances as a part of NYMF. There were a ton of great songs, and most of them are up on Cut…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AM
Two Robert Juliat products will be making their PLASA debut at Earls Court - the new Tibo and Zep profile spotlights expanding its spotlight range with new LED and tungsten solutions. Zep is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMKinesys has appointed Cristiano Giavedoni as its marketing and business director as part of its on-going business development plan.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMAccording to whatsonstage.com, STARLIGHT EXPRESS may be heading to the Phoenix Theatre at the West End next near where BLOOD BROTHERS is set to close.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50AMEntertainment lighting specialist, White Light, is to hold its first Amateur and Schools Lighting Open Day on Sunday, September 30 at its base in Wimbledon, south west London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMColour Sound Experiment recently supplied lighting for five main operated stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire site for the 2012 Secret Ga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMCraig Armstrong, a Scottish composer best known for the scores of Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge, is a master manipulator of the emotions.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMDora the Explorer is about as ubiquitous as pre-school TV shows can get. She adorns rucksacks, t-shirts and lunchboxes around the world and children love the intensely high-pitched televisio…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:43AMAfterElton.com interviews Spencer Liff about his Broadway career and his Emmy nomination for ''So You Think You Can Dance.''
SOURCE: After Elton at 07:16AMWallander fans may have already detected this one, but it’s still an intriguing mystery to us. The titular star of the crime series based on the Henning Mankel novels is coming to the West…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:13AMTheatre Royal, BathThe sublime and the ridiculous sit side by side in Adrian Noble's revival, a production modelled on one he staged at the Old Globe in San Diego in 2011. It's a mostly hand…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM
If you like your sight gags simple and stunning, your laughs loud and your submarines, well, essentially non-existent, then The Submarine Show is one to watch. Slick and often surprisingly s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:57AMActor-turned-playwright Abbie Spallen is to succeed David Ireland as the Lyric Theatre Belfast's new writer-in-residence.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AM“How’s mum?” Daniel asks his brother for the third time, or maybe it’s the fourth, or then again, it could be the fifth time, or is it the first time after all? New Celts writer Came…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:53AMThe West End production of Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain will tour the Middle East next month.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMThere is something beautifully and simply tragic about the regal wave, the Duke of Windsor notes, and he demonstrates with a slow and serene wave farewell, the last meaningful gesture of a h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48AMThe National Youth Music Theatre's young ensemble, who recently gave a six-performance run of Jason Robert Brown's musical 13 at the West End's Apollo Theatre, have recorded it f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:40AMA firework display company set to cease operating this year has blamed a shift in public arts funding towards "an elite minority" as the reason for its closure.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMRehearsal shots have been released for Trevor Nunn's upcoming production Alan Ayckbourn's of A Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre, where Rob Brydon will star in his West End …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:14AMLegit News:
Actor joins winter slate of London theater
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03AM"Call Me Adam" chats with the one and only Amanda Lepore about being the world's most famous transsexual, music, NYC nightlife, photographer David LaChappelle, and other details of her life …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AMKathie Lee Gifford will host the 20th “Broadway on Broadway” concert, which kicks off the upcoming show season with star performances from both old favorites and new shows.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
September is right around the corner, which means it’s time for the annual performing arts extravaganza that is the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:42AMWith music inspired by the Spice Girls, an original story written by the legendary Jennfier Saunders and produced by Mamma Mia!'s Judy Craymer, watch as Girl Power takes over the West End in…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:40AMTony Award winning composer Adam Guettel, best known for his musical The Light in the Piazza, presents an intimate London concert at the iconic and recently revamped Hippodrome. Supported by…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:39AMFrom Madness frontman Graham McPherson to Falklands veteran Ken Lukowiak, solo shows are all the rage right now. But what makes this the moment of the monologue?It's often been said that eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMWe've been hearing rumours that Starlight Express might be headed for the West End next year.
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, Starlight Express opened at the Apollo Vict…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:11AMEven the strangest of musicals can be adapted for Hollywood if handled correctly... by David Davila (playwright/song-writer) Have you ever heard about suspension of disbelief??? That’s the…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:01AMWe’re publishing our fall preview today. For our performing arts sections, see: Fall Dance Preview 2012 Fall Stage Preview 2012
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMby Steven Jamail (Composer and MD) I thought I’d share some of my favorite theatrical reading links this fine Thursday. I’ve always been more of a fan of doing than reading anything but …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
“Thanks for the warm-up,” the billboards announcing Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympic Games have been cheekily announcing all over the place; and last night, of course, they kicke…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:37AMIf you've overdosed on sunscreen, shorts, sweat and sand, the arrival of the ice-cool "Dreamgirls," those begowned, bewigged and beguiling divas who've sexily slinked and seductively shimmie…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:26AMLouis CK, TJ & Dave, and the Power of Slow Comedy Louis C.K. practices a brand of ‘slow comedy’ on his show that is rarely seen on television or outside of the long-form improv scene…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:25AM
Back in June there was an interesting piece on The Creativity Post about the Mozart Myth. The Mozart myth goes something like this. Some people are born with talent so tremendous that music …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AM‘i could squeeze a bullet between those lips.” “I could get a spoon and prise it in your eye sockets.” “I could squeeze a grenade up there.”
Such are among the not-so-tender decl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMThere was a small revolution recently at the Shubert Theatre, during the waning days of “Memphis.”
Nearly 15 minutes into intermission, several women on the long, slow-moving line into t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AMIt's the last weekend for the little sensation, Altar Boyz, at Arts Club in Vancouver.(Jeremy Crittenden, Michael Culpa, Geoff Stevens, Brandyn Eddy, Geoff Stevens, Jak Baraddell. Photo by D…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMVincent Kartheiser, widely known as ambitious ad man Pete Campbell on TV's "Mad Men," turns a new page starting Aug. 30 with the first preview of the world-premiere production …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe second annual Araca Project, featuring six original shows, continues with the multi-composer musical Hot Mess in Manhattan, which begins performances Aug. 30 at the American Theater…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe New York premiere of Methtacular!, Steven Strafford's humorous and harrowing account of his life as a crystal methamphetamine addict in Chicago, begins performances Aug. 30 at the Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGlory Crampton falls in love with Paris as Pistache in the Westchester Broadway Theatre production of Cole Porter's Can-Can, which begins performances Aug. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPatti Issues, writer-director Ben Rimalower's new solo play about his gay father, finding salvation in the world of musical theatre — and, of course, divas — begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMProducers of the 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are offering a special box-office opening celebration Aug. 30 at the Booth Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Weston Playhouse's world premiere of the new musical Pregnancy Pact, inspired by the real-life story of a group of teenage girls who decided to become single mothers together, begins…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1898 Birthday of actress Shirley Booth (1898-1992), who will appear in more than 30 Broadway plays in between film and TV stints. Her major stage roles include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCelia Keenan-Bolger, who stars as Molly in “Peter and the Starcatcher” and director Roger Rees talk about the Broadway production. In the play, based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridle…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMLegit News:
WB looks to turn canine into crowdpleaser with 'Musical Mysteries'
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM