I moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2008 to start a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. My dad and I packed up Lil Pesh Aveo in North Carolina and road tripped across the co…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 11:43PMNothing gives your humble theater critic more pleasure than to see actors coming into their own or pushing themselves beyond their comfort zones. You get a little of both in the Unicorn Thea…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 11:35PMLONDON — Is Broadway big enough for two little girls?
A juicy rivalry is shaping up this season between “Annie,” which begins previews next month at The Palace, and “Matilda,” a We…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:24PMIt’s tough going for a comedy like “Mary Broome,” which revolves around a spectacularly unsympathetic lead character. It’s not Mary herself, by the way — because this 1911 play rea…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:23PMTim Hopper, Adam LeFevre and Adina Verson will join Tony Award nominee Hallie Foote in the Primary Stages production of Him, a new play by Daisy Foote, which will debut Off-Broadway Sept. 25…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22PMThe 2012 Ovations nominations were especially good news for Center Theatre Group, Celebration's The Color Purple and designer Tom Buderwitz. They won the most nods for any group, single show…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 11:16PMWatching “The Why Overhead,” it’s hard not to imagine its playwright in some actual, dead-end office job, taking notes about his co-workers with the hope of one day putting it all onst…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMJoan Didion’s stage adaptation of her 2005 memoir, "The Year of Magical Thinking," is a wrenchingly meditative one-hander that delves into the mechanics of loss – namely, the sud…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00PMThe nominations for the 2011-2012 Ovation Awards were announced Tuesday evening. Leading the way were Center Theatre Group with 29 nominations, followed by the Celebration Theatre and Musica…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00PMThe acclaimed Broadway revival of Follies, the Center Theatre Group staging of Waiting for Godot and Geffen Playhouse's Good People are among productions nominated for the 2012…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00PMNominations for the 2012 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards -- honoring the best in Los Angeles-area theater -- have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place on Monday, November 12…
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'Chaplin’ Won’t Leave You Speechless By Isa GoldbergRob McClure as Charlie ChaplinA valentine to the movies and to the orphans we all are, the musical “Chaplin,” like the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:20PMNew Ohio Theatre, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: Happiness and the search for purpose are thoughtfully examined in this hyper-stylized play.
Ivan Dimitrov's new play…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:14PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, San Francisco International Arts Festival.
By Sam Hurwitt
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo is a project that’s been in the…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:14PMAccording to Deadline.com, Lionsgate has acquired North American distribution rights to director Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, which made its debut at the Toronto International Film …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:05PMThis play’s second to last scene, portraying sibling loyalty, is awkwardly sweet and touching. If only *Better* had more scenes like this – polished in their sense of reality – one wou…
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Where Jed Clampett was endearing and comical, the real-life "hillbillies" filling primetime are hard to watch. Not so much because of their uncouth charm, rather the way in which these progr…
SOURCE: simsscoop.com at 09:35PMStaged on a colorful plexiglass set designed by Riccardo Hernandez (who also designed The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess), with stunning costumes and wigs by Gabriel Berry, Adjmi's highly enterta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMBarbara Cook returns to Carnegie Hall to celebrate her 85th birthday on Thursday, October 18 at 800 p.m. with a special performance in Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PMIf There Is I Havent Found It Yet, a new play by Nick Payne and directed by Michael Longhurst, features Annie Funke Anna, Michelle Gomez Fiona, Jake Gyllenhaal Terry and Bran F. OByrne Georg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PMNY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the September 8, 2012, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 09:15PMDilorio has challenged himself and his audience by placing the central focus of his play on an unregenerate pedophile rapist and the indelible harm which his reprehensible crimes against oth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:14PMHey art fans! Cella Gallery in NoHo is hosting two free art events over two consecutive Saturdays this month. SATURDAY, SEPT 15, 2012 2—5 pm Interactive Artist Appearance. Join master scre…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 09:07PMThe cast of the Tony-winning play War Horse, including the show’s title character, Joey, took a trip to Citi Field on September 10 to participate in “Hooves on First,” a fu…
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Two River Theater Company launches its 2012-2013 Season with TopdogUnderdog, written and directed by Suzan-Lori Parks. Performances continue in Two Rivers Rechnitz Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:43PMDazzling repartee between the pair of divorced sophisticates at the center of “Private Lives” is one reason Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy of bad manners never goes out of styl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:42PMAlmeida, LondonJonathan Pryce is the latest actor to scale Mount Lear and, although it's getting a bit crowded on the summit these days, he gives a striking, individualistic performance in a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35PMA budget option for next summer
CURACAO — The Jones family never likes a vacation to come to an end, especially when work has squeezed it to a mere five days. So, unsurprisingly, we a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:34PMGUILT OF HOPE AND DESIRE The idea that the amount of guilt one feels depends more on one’s character than one’s crime is the subtext of Marie Jones’s play Fly Me to the Moon, an entert…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PMBroadways new musical CHAPLIN opened last night, September 10 at the Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street. CHAPLIN is a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMThe notes keep coming in from directors seeking actors. The latest is from Jeremy Quinn at White Plains PAC, who has cast “AUGUST: Osage County” with a mix of Equity and non-Equi…
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Cloud Atlas is an epic adventure-drama film written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer also co-composer, and Andy Wachowski. It was adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by Da…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:59PMPLODDING ALONG THE TRAIN TRACKS What does it mean to persist in a world without hope? Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver tackles human mortality with grim poetic grace, but the New York premi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:55PMFeaturing book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman, SCANDALOUS begins performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre 250 W. 52nd St. on Saturday, O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:45PMYesterday, September 10, The New York Mets partnered with Seraphim12 Foundation on Hooves on First Night at Citi Field when the Mets hosted the Washington Nationals. The fundraiser will rai…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMJust as verbal communication no longer is required to conduct important business transactions such as ordering pizza or paying a bar tab, it’s now easy to dispatch a taxi without ever bein…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:40PMToday we are talking to a terrifically talented stage and screen performer who has appeared in dozens of film, TV and stage projects over the course of his forty-year career, the thoughtful …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:37PM ood and Evil–and their merits–men have argued throughout history” we’re told in a number from “Jekyll & Hyde”–the hit musical starring Constantine Maroulis…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 06:35PMTORONTO (Reuters) - Funnyman Bill Murray long ago mastered the ability to wring laughs by saying absurd things in a matter-of-fact tone, but even he was caught off guard when first approache…
SOURCE: Reuters at 06:32PMRoundabout Theatre Company will present the new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The show is set to open on November 13, 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:30PMThe H Street Playhouse has new digs and a new name to go with them. When the theater opens shop at 2020 Shannon Pl. in March, it will be under a new moniker: Anacostia Playhouse.
Owner Adel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30PMPEEPSHOW star Holly Madison will complete her three and a half year run in Las Vegas only striptease spectacular, taking her final bow on October 21.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMArgo is a political drama film based on Tony Mendez's account of the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The film just premiered at the Toront…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMBelow, watch HOW TO SUCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING's Nick Jonas and THE BEST MAN's John Stamos on drums performing Frankie Vallie's Can't Take My Eyes Off You at the Bitter End in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:17PMEarlier this week, the company of the new Primary Stages production, HIM by Daisy Foote, took a break from rehearsal to meet with the press. Check out photos from the event below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMPolitical drama, sibling rivalry, and more: There’s drama aplenty in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, currently in previews at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMI guess it’s an opera — at least that’s how it’s billed by conductor Robert Wood, composer Conrad Cummings and librettist James Siena. But “Photo-Op,” which opened at Artisphere�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:12PMFor an unprecedented fifth consecutive week the Eugene O'Neill Theatre remains in control of TicketNews' exclusive venue rankings list, behind the Broadway smash "The Book of Mormon." While …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:10PMAthol Fugard’s thought-provoking drama The Train Driver has taken up residence at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. Get the scoop on this chilling South African pl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:09PMBroadway and television star Jim Parsons will be among the presenters for the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, to be presented at 8pm on Sunday, September 23 in Los Angeles and aired live …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PM“WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T ASK WHAT THIS SHOW WAS ABOUT” Natalie Portman, The Musical! is a two-hour, no-intermission sketch-comedy musical written and directed by Brittany Garms, with mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PMSuzanna Geraghty stars in the one-woman comedy “Auditions, Zoe’s Auditions Part 2,” part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival.
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Stars Patti LuPone and Debra Winger took questions from (and made jokes with) the New York theater press about David Mamet's exciting new prison-set play The Anarchist. The show begins a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMThere is work worth seeing at regional theaters throughout the country. All throughout the country new plays are being produced, old ones revived. I can't properly express how important I th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:46PMStage veteran and Oscar winner Anna Paquin and her husband, actor Stephen Moyer, are now parents of twins, according to People. The babies were born early, but are reportedly doing fine.The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:46PMHolly Madison will play her final performance in the Las Vegas burlesque entertainment Peepshow, at Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, on October 21. As previously reported, the star – who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMWith the success of musical-themed shows like Smash and Glee, Broadway is truly taking TV by storm and VPEs Make My Musical is poised to be the next big thing. VPE is looking for talented tr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMTony nominee Da’Vine Joy Randolph has joined the cast of The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, an upcoming comedy starring Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and James Earl Jones. The actres…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:41PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:39PMChaplin has arrived on Broadway, starring Rob McClure, Jenn Colella, Erin Mackey, Christiane Noll and more. Get a front row seat to opening night at the Barrymore Theatre!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PMMarvell Rep will present Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance and the Frank Wedekind play Spring's Awakening in rotating repertory, as part of its fall season, at the TBG Theatre in New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PMCLASSICAL/CONTEMPORARY MASHUP There are few venues in Los Angeles better suited to productions of ancient Greek plays than the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater at the Getty Villa. Not…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:36PMThe Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY has announced the full lineup for the previously announced PRELUDE.12, the ninth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:35PMDixon Place is set to present Megan Murtha's Missing Person(s), October 11-13. Conrad Kluck will direct.In the play, a whaler and a saint visit a town where children play hopscotch over bod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PMOn the Road is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac cult classic novel of the same name, directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley as Sal Paradise and Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriart…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:32PMA 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 05:31PMThe Bay Area Cabaret has announced their 2012-2013 series that will be held at the Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel.The series will feature Mary Wilson (October 28), Tommy Tune (November …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:23PMLooper is a science fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson with a time travel plot. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. The film noir combines strong co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:21PMOn Sept. 9, a crowd of theatre lovers filled Times Square for Broadway on Broadway, an annual free performance featuring Broadway shows both old and new. In this 20th year of the event, host…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMMost Broadway shows have an irregular performance schedule during Thanksgiving week (Nov. 19-25).
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:19PMA dark chapter of American history is explored in Allegiance, a new musical set to open on September 19 at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, starring Tony winner Lea Salonga and Star Trek…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:18PMThe company of Primary Stages’ world premiere production of Him, written by Daisy Foote, met the press on Monday, September 10. Evan Yionoulis will direct the production which runs at 59E59
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:16PMManhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of An Enemy of the People, adapted by British dramatist Rebecca Lenkiewicz and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, begins performa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:13PMAnna Karenina is a 2012 drama film directed by Joe Wright that is adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel of the same name. It stars Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:10PMNO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE Author Joan Didion’s powerful piece of writing, the elegiac monologue The Year of Magical Thinking, receives its Los Angeles premiere in this intimate production at t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:07PMTony Award winner Joan Allen will star in the film A Good Marriage, an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, to be directed by Peter Askin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. King has writ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:06PMCome back here at 7:30 to see the announcement live!
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:02PM“Independents,” a musical held over from the New York International Fringe Festival, alternates between stoner comedy and romance, until dramatic storm clouds gather.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PMTony Award winning composerlyricist Jason Robert Brown Parade, The Last Five Years, Songs for A New World and Tony Award nominee Christine Andreas La Cage aux Folles, The Scarlet Pimpernel, …
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It was 16 years ago that Rivendell Theatre first mounted “Wrens,” a beguiling semi-autobiographical play by the Edinburgh-bred Anne McGravie — then a still girlish writer of 70 — who…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PMBoldly going where many have gone before, William Shatner is bringing his one-man Broadway show "Shatner's World" to Orange County in early 2013.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:56PMOscar winner and stage veteran Jessica Lange’s first children’s book It Is About a Little Bird, will be released by Sourcebooks in 2013, according to The New York Times.The work, which …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMIn a unique special event created for Toronto International Film Festival audiences, Reitman directed a live stage reading of Alan Ball's screenplay for American Beauty. Sam Mendes' film abo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:53PMRosina Reynolds and Jennifer LeBlanc will duet as mother and daughter in TheatreWorks' production of Moisés Kaufman's Tony Award-nominated drama 33 Variations, which will begi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMEvery 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 04:48PMFactory Theatre hiring of Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams shouldn’t mean an end to boycott over firing of Ken Gass.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:47PMTaylor Trensch, Jason Hite and the cast of Bare got cozy at a sexy photo shoot on August 20, and now the musical’s first official poster has been revealed. Directed by Stafford Arima a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:41PMJulian Ovenden and Rosalie Craig star in a new musical version of the film Finding Neverland, which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. The musical features Ovenden as Barrie, a role he pl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:39PMAward-winning producers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, and Gregory Rae have just announced the creation of BARE NATION, an audience loyalty program presented by the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMVeteran resident actor James Black and Tony Award nominee Josie de Guzman will star in Arthur Miller's iconic American drama Death of a Salesman at the Alley Theatre, beginning Sept. 28 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMAbout Face Theatre is set to present HOMOTOWN 3: LAST DANCE – A Tribute to Etta, Whitney
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:30PMDecca has just released opera superstar Renée Fleming’s new CD, The Art of Renée Fleming.This “best of” album includes Fleming singing some of her favorite operatic arias including �…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:29PMPrimetime Emmy Award nominees Louis C.K., Jim Parsons and Amy Poehler, along with Ricky Gervais, Ginnifer Goodwin and Mindy Kaling, are the first presenters announced for The 64th Primetime …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMRockwell: Table and Stage has announced that its previously reported production of For The Record: John Hughes will extend through September 29. Anderson Davis directs, with musical directi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PMKit Flannigan (Broadway's "Inherit the Wind," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "All My Sons"), Laurence Lau (off-Broadway's "Psycho Therapy," national tour of "August: Osage County") and Da…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:19PMAlton Fitzgerald White's second solo album, Disney: My Way!, will be available for purchase and digital download starting October 1.The 13 track recording will feature such classic Disney so…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:17PMAs kids all over America head back to school, Broadway.com decided to ask our favorite Broadway stars to look back at their own years in the classroom—and share a school picture! Kara …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMIt was a night of roller skating, tightrope walking and of course, cane twirling at the Barrymore Theatre on September 10, when the new musical Chaplin officially opened on Broadway. Headlin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PM AnneePocalypse! Written by Jason Dabrowski, Calidonia Olivares …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:10PMMeet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of Chaplin the Musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:08PMGot a note from Jason Summers, who wears many hats these days. He’s artistic director at the Westchester Sandbox Theatre in Mamaroneck and still drives things at the cancer-fighting Th…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:07PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Impenetrable" by Stage Left at Theater Wit ★★★
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMTHE ANARCHIST, a new play written and directed by DAVID MAMET starring PATTI LuPONE and DEBRA WINGER, will be presented on Broadway at the newly refurbished Golden Theatre 252 West 45th Stre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMLegit News:
Center Theater Group receives 29 nominations
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Manhattan Theatre Clubs new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsens AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes began previews earlier this month in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMBroadway’s CHAPLIN opened last night to a star studded affair at the Barrymore Theatre with a glamorous party following at Gotham Hall. See photos and video: BROADWAY WORLD’S PHOTOS OF…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:58PMThe upcoming Off-Broadway rock musical Bare, a coming-of-age story set in a Catholic boarding school, will offer "Bare Nation," a program that includes a chance for audience member…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:54PMShoshana Bean has an unbelievable set of pipes, which she has put to good use in the Broadway musicals Wicked and Hairspray, on a benefit cast recording of Hair, the 2000 revival o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:51PMThe innovative aquatic production of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance," as performed on the Tall Ship Windy, is coming back for an encore weekend this fall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:51PMBroadways new musical CHAPLIN opened last night, September 10 at the Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street. CHAPLIN is a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMNew Jersey Repertory Company is set to present the East Coast premiere of Sharr White's Annapurna, October 11-November 18. SuzAnne Barabas will direct.In the play, Emma tracks her ex-husban…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMGrammy and Tony Award-Winner Heather Headley announces her new CD, Only One In The World, slated for pre-sale on iTunes September 11, 2012 and release on September 25, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMLionsgate and Roadside Attractions are closing a deal to acquire Thanks For Sharing, a dramedy about sex addicts starring Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Gwyneth Paltrow, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMThe Los Angeles-based Antaeus Company will present a fully double cast revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's classic comedy You Can't Take it With You, to run October 11-December 9 un…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:45PMA culturally explosive knockout is in the ring as Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company launches its 33rd seasion: My Root, My Revolution with the Pulitzer Prize Finalist play The Elaborate Entran…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMA new video of Glee cast members Darren Criss, Heather Morris, Alex Newell, and Jenna Ushkowitz performing the Carly Rae Jepsen hit "Call Me Maybe" has been released.The fourth season of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMTICKET OFFER! £5! A SHOW WE GAVE 5 STARS TO AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL. Do we really need to say anything more? Get £5 tickets to the previews of Oh The Humanity and other good inten…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:35PMThe 2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Musical, The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS becomes the longest-running production of Porgy and Bess to ever play on Broadway with its 306th perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:35PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has invited Broadway and concert veteran William Michals to tilt at windmills this fall as Cervantes/Don Quixote in the musical Man of La Mancha, Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMJohn Clifton and Ben Tarver's 1966 musical Man With a Load of Mischief will get a three-performance run on October 1 and 2 courtesy of the York Theatre Company. Jenn Thompson directs the sta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMTony nominee Da'Vine Joy Randolph announced on her official Facebook page today that she will be starring in the upcoming feature film ANGRIEST MAN IN BROOKLYN, starring Robin Williams.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMTickets are now on sale for Jeffrey Hatcher’s new play Ten Chimneys. The bio comedy about legendary Broadway stage couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne will star real life stage couple…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:22PMRock WILK's new solo show Broke Wide Open will play a run October 6-November 11 at the 45th Street Theatre, under the direction of Stephen Bishop Seely.Presented by Alexis Marnel and Artists…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:20PMJudy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Roberta Colindrez and Joel Perez will star in Fun Home, a new musical featuring a score by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. The musical will kick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:19PMA panel discussion inspired by Stella Adler's lectures will be held on Monday, October 1 at 7 pm at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting.Participants will include playwright Edward Albee, actre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:19PMPrimetime Emmy Award nominees Louis C.K., Jim Parsons and Amy Poehler, along with Ricky Gervais, Ginnifer Goodwin and Mindy Kaling, are the first presenters announced for the 64th Primetime …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMThe sun will come out October 2nd when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the beloved musical classic ANNIE with itsBlu-ray debut. This charming motion pictu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMTickets are on sale for The Old Man and the Old Moon, a new play with music and puppetry by PigPen Theatre Company. The play, written collectively by the troupe, begins previews September 26…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced today that FUN HOME, a new musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Lisa …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:10PMStage and screen veteran Stacy Keach will guest star on NBC’s upcoming comedy series 1600 Penn, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The series, which is set in the White House, will star B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:10PMSignature Theatre will present a World of the Play discussion in conjunction with Athol Fugard's The Train Driver on Saturday, September 15 in the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre Lobby at Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMJessica Chastain, soon to star in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Heiress, participated in the New York Times' TimesTalks series Sept. 10, engaging in a discussion with Charles McGr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:08PMA new commercial for the upcoming national tour of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:05PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
Athol Fugard's new play, "The Train Driver," takes place in the "new" South Africa of the present day, in a desolate graveyard where the ghosts of apart…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:04PMUntil I began my college career at Indiana University, SEC Football and Georgia Bulldawg blood flooded my childhood years with amazing memories. I have pictures with Uga, the famous bulldog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PM
The box offices at some of LA's bigger theaters are beehives of activity. In interviews with box office employees at the Geffen Playhouse, A Noise Within, Pasadena Playhouse and Center Theat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:45PMPeter and the Starcatcher's Adam Chanler-Berat and Jersey Boys Tony winner John Lloyd Young will be the special guests at Seth's Broadway Chatterbox Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMStage and screen star Alan Alda and television producer Norman Lear will receive special Founders Awards during the 40th International Emmy Awards gala November 19 in New York, according to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMBroadway stars PETER AND THE STARCATCHER's Celia Keenan-Bolger and NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger made a video promoting Broadway for Obama. In this second edition, watch the sibling duo cha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41PMGhostlight Recordss recording of that the debut album from composer Ryan Scott Oliver, 35MM A Musical Exhibition Original Cast Recording, is available for purchase in stores beginning today.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMA new musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic," with music by Jeanine Tesori ("Shrek") and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron ("Well"), will open the fall se…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:37PMBefore my sophomore year in college even began, I was already aware of my destiny for the summer after: an internship. There was no way to wheedle out of the prospect; it seemed as if every …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PMAlistair Smith over at THE STAGE has revealed details on a new controversy over in the UK that's worth reading... Time Out, the print publication that features listings and reviews launched …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMFun Home, a new musical by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, will open the Public Theater's Public Lab season, running October 17-November 4 under the direction of Sam Gold.Based on the graphic …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:22PMBy Wendy Rosenfield. Charlotte Ford's Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival show Bang appeals to Philadelphia men and women, but mostly to women.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:19PMTheaterMania was on the scene as the Golden Age of Hollywood officially hit Broadway with the new musical
Chaplin, joining the show as it celebrated it's opening night at the Barrymore Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMPlaybill editorial staffers put together individual lists of productions we're especially looking forward to seeing this fall in New York City and London. What are you eagerly awaiting?
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMI Love You! I know Ethel Rohan because she’s read quite a few times at the Portuguese Artists Colony literary readings, several of which I’ve hosted. I’m a big fan of her s…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:15PMThe Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre and the Barnes Foundation has created a Friday evening lecture/performance series entitled Shakespeare in the World.The series begins on September 21, wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:13PMTelevision and movie legend William Shatner will bring his one man show SHATNERS WORLD WE JUST LIVE IN IT www.shatnersworld.com to 20 additional cities across the U.S. in 2012-13. The tour e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:10PMTony nominee Stacy Keach will guest star on NBC’s mid-season political comedy 1600 Penn, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show follows the seemingly ordinary family of the…
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Fun Home, a new musical by Tony Award nominees Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron based on the Alison Bechdel graphic memoir, will receive its New York world premiere in October as part of the Pub…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:59PMKelly Hare, Genevieve Joy, and Robert Wuhl will lead Falcon Theatre's production of Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures, beginning previews on October 10. Directed by Gregg W. Brevoort, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:53PMThe Off-Broadway cast of Perfect Crime, at the Snapple Theater Center, joined with CNN reporter Maggie Lake to create this whimsical investigative report that considers the question, "Who ki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMCrucible, SheffieldWe've come to expect sterling Shakespeare from Daniel Evans at the Crucible. Hamlet (featuring John Simm) and Othello (with Dominic West and Clarke Peters) were notable no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMCyndi Lauper, Tony Danza and cast members from the Off-Broadway revival of Carrie will appear at New York City Barnes and Noble locations in the coming weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMThe useful, even if artificial, distinction between careerists and artists.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:44PMCarol Arrucci, longtime teacher, musical director, opens studio (Photo by Ricky Flores/The Journal News: Carol Arrucci is accepting students at her new studio, Cortlandt School of Performing…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:33PMFor my first review back after an unusually long "vacation," and for a show being produced by the normally wonderful Mint Theater Company, I wish I had more positive things to write. But thi…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:33PMAWA Partners is the name of a new touring-show booking agency representing a merger between AVID Touring and AWA Touring. Alan Wasser, Allan Williams and Alison Spiriti announced on Sept. 11…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:32PMCenter Rep is to present The Underpants by Steve Martin, October 19-November 17 at the Lesher Center. Michael Butler will direct.The Underpants is adapted from Carl Sternheim's 1910 farce D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:32PMFinding Neverland, the new musical based on the Academy Award-nominated film of the same title that centers on "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie and the family that inspired the tale,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMAnn Hampton Callaway will join the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for Holidays with the NJSO, the first POPS program of the season, on December 15 in Newark and December 16 in New Brunswick. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMThe Other Josh Cohen, a new musical featuring a book, music and lyrics by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, will play the SoHo Playhouse this fall. Ted Sperling will direct the show, which begi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:27PMSteve Bakunas, Linda Lavin, and The Red Barn Studio will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Owen Dunne's Positions at the Roy Arias Studio Theatre, running October 10-21.Mike O'Neil, Miche…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:26PMBroadways new musical CHAPLIN opened last night, September 10 at the Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street. CHAPLIN is a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:25PM British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen’s timely classic. Arthur Miller hesitated before adapting Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. He believed that t…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:24PMGLEE's Lea Michele visited ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE last night to promote the upcoming season premiere of the FOX musical drama series. During the interview, Michele turned the cameras on he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMMarvell Rep has announced casting for its upcoming productions of Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance (October 2-28) and Frank Wedekind's Spring's Awakening (October 8-November 4), presented in r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMThe first 15 minutes of this show had me entranced. I was sitting forward in m seat thinking, “Boy-o, boy. This is going to be great.” The show opens with the cast singing What'cha go…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 01:18PMThe Broadway-bound revival of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde, starring Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox, is currently playing La Mirada, CA, prior to officiall…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:17PMMasterworks Broadway has filled a long-empty slot on the groaning shelves of show recording completists. They have dug into the vault of the old RCA Victor Green Label Series and given us wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMThe Old Globe presents the World Premiere of Allegiance A New American Musical, an epic story of family, love and patriotism set during the Japanese American internment of World War II. As …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMShakespeare's Globe is set to launch a series of worldwide screenings at local cinemas.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMThe Playwrights' Center has announced the plans for its 2012 PlayLabs Festival and 2012-13 Ruth Easton New Play Series, to run October 15-21.The Festival will include readings of Three Voyag…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01PMSignature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's Dying City, Oct. 2-Nov. 25 in Arlington, VA, will feature Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the dir…
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Royal Court, LondonHistory and secret histories, the things that free us and the things that tie us to the past are all examined in this exhilarating, multi-layered new play from Tarell Alvi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMMulti-talented actress, singer, television host, playwright, songwriter and author Kathie Lee Gifford hosted this years Broadway on Broadway on Sunday, September 9th, presented by United Air…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMThe Other Josh Cohen, a new musical comedy by Don't Quit Your Night Job co-creators David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, will have a run at the SoHo Playhouse beginning October 10. Ted Sperling di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMBoston Children's Theatre has announced plans for its 2012-2013 season.The season will kick off in December with The Velveteen Rabit (December 9-22), an enchanting play featuring both puppe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:50PMBroadways new musical CHAPLIN opened last night, September 10 at the Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street. CHAPLIN is a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with mu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMHarry Bouvy will return to the role of Dr. Chilton in the Off-Broadway production of Silence! The Musical at the Elektra Theatre on Wednesday, September 12.With music and lyrics by Jon and A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMOn Monday, September 10, actress Jessica Chastain sat down with Charles McGrath of The New York Times for a TimesTalks discussion at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street, NYC. Chastain accl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:44PMThe new musical Chaplin just opened on Broadway without much fanfare, and there was not much buzz in the air about it. Its original writer, Christopher Curtis – book (later joined by T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PMI think this says it all today...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced that WWE wrestler Al Snow will speak at a post-show discussion following the September 14 8pm performance of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:40PMIn his third appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, erstwhile Book of Mormon star Andrew Rannells dropped by to promote his new sitcom The New Normal, which airs a new episode on Septme…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:38PMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. September 10, 2012 Singing actress Julia Murney made one of her rare cabaret appearances (I last saw her some years ago at Birdland) Monday, September 10 at 7 pm. …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:37PMThe 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, begin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:36PMTony Award-winner Cynthia Nixon will play poet Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, a new film written and directed by Terence Davies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The film will trace …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMSignature Theatre is pleased to announce a “World of the Play” discussion for Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver on Saturday, September 15 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in The Alice Griffin Jewel B…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:35PMTarell Alvin McCraney’s school drama thoughtfully probes the conflicting pressures on the young black American male, Sarah Hemming writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:34PMWhen the curtain rises on Chaplin, the new musical which opened last night at the Barrymore Theater, we see Charlie Chaplin balancing precariously on a high wire. From the angle where I was …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:30PMKaren Akers, who appeared on Broadway in the original productions of Nine and Grand Hotel, will bring her acclaimed Stephen Sondheim program to San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMNo one could accuse Bedrich Smetana of lacking in ambition: disappointed that Czechoslovakia (as it was then) rarely appeared on the cultural map of central Europe, he declared, “No other …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:29PMTony nominee Constantine Maroulis (Rock of Ages) and Grammy nominee Deborah Cox (Aida) indulge in their dark and sexy sides for a new Jekyll & Hyde commercial. Newsies’ Jeff C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMOriginal cast member Harry Bouvy is set to return as Dr. Chilton in Off-Broadway’s smash hit SILENCE! The Musical tomorrow, September 12th at the new Elektra Theatre in Times Square. Winne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMAcademy Award-winner and stage veteran Helen Hunt will receive the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye career achievement award, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress will be the aw…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMA rep for Cynthia Nixon has confirmed that the Tony Award-winning actress has been tapped to play poet Emily Dickinson in the upcoming bio film A Quiet Passion. British direct…
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Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced its centenary season under its new artistic director, Roxana Silbert, which comprises two new commissions, plus a project that will see local child…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMClaybourne Elder (Bonnie & Clyde) is currently preparing to play the title role in Kansas City Rep's upcoming production of Pippin. He shares photos from the rehearsal process as wel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AM"Wicked" has flown on over to Las Vegas, NV, for a six-week run on the Reynolds Hall stage at the new Smith Center for the Performing Arts, as a part of a national tour. "Wicked" opened for …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:52AMThe cast of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day met the press on Tuesday, September 11 at their rehearsal studio. Translated and directed by Sarah Camero…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:50AMIn a last gasp of summer freedom, I traveled to New York this past weekend to fill a long-recognized gap in my theatregoing experience by seeing Porgy & Bess. Like much of the rest of my…
SOURCE: theatrewashington.org at 11:47AMIn its ongoing efforts to combat bullying, the hit Broadway musical WICKED will host a special event on Thursday, October 11, featuring two leaders in the worldwide campaign to bring an end …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMSound design and composition by Thomas Ryder Payne The Queen West Project by Deborah Pearson and Allison Cummings is a Theatre Passe Muraille Production as part of their Metcalf Foundation-s…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:44AMGlee star Lea Michele dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 10 to entertain the audience with a bevy of terrific stories from the actress’ past including memories from working in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMJessica Chastain, who will star in this season’s Broadway revival of The Heiress, joined The New York Times’ Charles McGrath for a TimesTalks discussion at TheTimesCenter, on Monday, Sept
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMTune in to PBS on Thursday, September 27, 2012, at 8 p.m. for Live From Lincoln Centers telecast of the New York Philharmonics Opening Gala conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert. The prog…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:43AMAs kids all over America head back to school, Broadway.com decided to ask our favorite Broadway stars to look back at their own years in the classroom—and share a school picture! Befor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMAlan Wasser, Allan Williams, and Alison Spiriti are pleased to announce that L. Glenn Poppleton and AVID Touring have joined forces with AWA Touring to create a new full-service Booking Agen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMSet in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, the coming-of-age rock musical Bare is set to make a highly-anticipated New York return on Nov. 19 in a new staging by Stafford Arima (Carrie). Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:40AMLavon Fisher-Wilson will join the cast of Broadway's Newsies on September 11 at the Nederlander Theater. Fisher-Wilson will take on the role of Medda Larkin, replacing original star Capa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:38AMHappy Birthday, Harry Connick, Jr. A star in music, theater, film and television, Connick recently won his second Emmy for musical direction of his live concert television special, Harry Con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMVeteran stage actress Lucy Martin has joined the cast of The Peccadillo Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's new comedy Ten Chimneys, which will begin p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMIt is open season on political candidates, and Urban Arias may have just bought the license to shoot them all. Their latest opera, Photo-Op, makes good on the company’s promise to sing tou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMDancers Over 40 is set to present Balanchine: Broadway and Beyond, featuring a panel of ballet luminaries from the Balanchine era, October 8 at 8pm at St. Luke's Theater.Panel members will i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:27AMMr. Marre directed or staged more than two-dozen Broadway shows during his more than 50 years in theater, but it was “Man of La Mancha” that brought him his greatest acclaim.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMIf you've answered it once, you've answered it a thousand times: "Hey! How are you! How was your summer?!" This is pretty much how conversations open for the first two weeks of classes. For …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:25AMNewsies, the Tony Award winning new American musical, proudly welcomes Lavon Fisher-Wilson to the role of Medda Larkin beginning tonight. She succeeds Capathia Jenkins, who played her final …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMNew musical Chaplin, starring Rob McClure and featuring songs by Christopher Curtis and a book by Mr. Curtis and Thomas Meehan, opened on Monday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Reviews…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:15AMAs previously reported by BroadwayWorld, the Encores cast of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES recently went into the recording studio to put a cast album together. The album is now available on Amaz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMThe cast of Broadway's Evita visited a special exhibition of Evita's dresses, shoes and other personal items, along with art and other material celebrating her work at New York's Con…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMThe Suzi Bass Awards, Inc. have announced the nominees for the 2011-2012 Atlanta professional theatrical season. Winners will be announced at the 8th Annual Suzi Awards Ceremony on November…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMIn its ongoing efforts to combat bullying, Broadway's Wicked will host a special event Oct. 11 featuring two leaders in the worldwide campaign to bring an end to bullying: Ben Cohen, MBE…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMPhoto credit: Joan MarcusI saw Chaplin the Musical with my friend Yair Solan, who runs the first and only Charley Chase website and knows far more about silent films than I do…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:11AMTony nominee Andrew Rannells visited NBC's 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' last night to chat about his new NBC comedy THE NEW NORMAL, which premieres tonight. On the show, Rannells spoke abo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AMAs cult comics speak to us from beyond the grave, Julian Clary and Airplane display their enduring popularityBest of this week's newsCult comics speak to us from beyond the grave this week, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMReal-life Married Couple Star On Broadway By Mark Kennedy/Associated Press NEW YORK — Few people should be able to accuse Boyd Gaines and Kathleen McNenny of not having any onstage che…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:06AMLavon Fisher-Wilson is set to join the cast of Newsies in the role of Medda Larkin beginning September 11 at the Nederlander Theatre.With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and a b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:06AMTaboo, which will play the Brixton Club House, stars Matthew Rowland, Niamh Perry and more. Meet the cast below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMLast week, I blogged about the importance of pressing the pause button during difficult negotiations. Today, I’m going to use the same phrase for a much more important reason . . . Now…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
About the author:
When Gerard Alessandrini created and co-starred in Forbidden Broadway in 1982, he had no clue that his clever sendup of Broadway shows and stars would endure for three dec…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:57AMAngela Bassett, who was last seen on Broadway opposite Samuel L. Jackson in The Mountaintop, will co-executive produce and star in the upcoming NBC drama "Vanishing Point," accordi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMThe greatest obstacle H&H faces in building new audiences, though, is far more insidious than too many period ensembles in town: it has to do with time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:56AMWith lead roles in Hairspray and the wildly popular High School Musical franchise, Zac Efron is well-known in Hollywood as a song-and-dance man, but the 24-year-old actor has yet to conquer …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMThe Broadway production of the musical Wicked, at the Gershwin Theatre, will host a special talkback on Thursday 11 with Ben Cohen, MBE, founder of The Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation, and Dan …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:55AMThe North Wall, Oxford: As the financial crisis continues, the Great Depression continues to be a rich source of material for writers, and a thought-provoking basis for revivals. Recently Ox…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMWicked star Kyle Dean Massey pulls out all the stops to bring fans into the magical world backstage at the Gershwin Theatre. Follow him through a labyrinth of hallways for a look inside the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AM. . . and I promise to start writing again. I know, I know - with me gone, "there's nothing to read!" It is, alas, true; yesterday I did the rounds of the blogosphere and only woke up abou…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:49AMSinger Andrea Marcovicci is set to perform her show Smile, September 14 and 15 at The Gardenia at 9pm. Musical direction is by Shelly Markham.The program will include beloved tunes such as …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMEcco SILENCE! THE MUSICAL la parodia comico-musicale del film "Il silenzio degli innocenti" ora nei teatri di New York e Los Angeles.
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:40AMFive-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will host the Live From Lincoln Center PBS telecast of the New York Philharmonic’s Opening Gala conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, to air …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMFREE TICKETS FOR SUITE SURRENDER AT 1ST STAGE THIS WEEKEND! DCMTA readers – come to 1st Stage this weekend for a visit to 1940’s Miami Suite Surrender By Michael McKeever Direc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AMAmas Musical Theatre in association with Scandobean Productions, LLC will present the new musical The Other Josh Cohen Oct. 10-Nov. 11 at the SoHo Playhouse.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMImogene, a new comedy that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions for U.S. film distribution, according to The Hollywo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:35AMThe Keen Company's revival of Marry Me a Little, a musical which features songs from Stephen Sondheim shows such as Follies, A Little Night Music and Company, begins previews S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMThe new musical Chaplin, depicting the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin and chronicling the rise and fall of the infamous Little Tramp, officially opens at Broadway's Barrymore Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe new musical Chaplin, depicting the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin and chronicling the rise and fall of the infamous Little Tramp, officially opens at Broadway's Barrymore Thea…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMOften when I am meeting with someone for the first time or I'm teaching one of my classes I will get the question: "I have ___________ idea, but I don't have______________ qualification…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMCelebrated stage and screen composer Alan Menken will be honored by the Encompass New Opera Theatre on Sunday, October 21 at the National Arts Club. The gala will begin at 6pm, with a perfor…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMEmma Stenning is executive director of the Bristol Old Vic, where, alongside artistic director Tom Morris she has been in post since 2009.
Stenning and Morris previously worked together as …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:23AMLavon Fisher-Wilson, who has been seen on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, Chicago and The Color Purple, joins the cast of the critically acclaimed new musical Newsies Sept. 11 at the Nederland…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:23AMFive-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will host Live From Lincoln Center's broadcast of the New York Philharmonic Opening Gala Sept. 27; the event will air on PBS beginning at 8 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:14AMRobert Cuccioli, who recently returned to Broadway in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will go it solo Oct. 7 at Birdland.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:06AMStage Door Records will release the late Anthony Newley's final studio album, The Last Song, on November 5.The 15-track disc will be comprised of tracks that Newley recorded in the years jus…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05AMLegit News:
Labor dispute prompts demonstration
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04AMThe Book of Mormon trumps all the week ending September 9, 2012, officially dethroning The Lion King and banishing Wicked to the third spot. Spider-man Turn Off The Dark and Evita complete…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:03AMReview of the Saturday evening preview performance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. Starring Rob McClure, Jim Borstelmann, Jenn Colella, Erin Mackey, Michael McCormick,…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
Dawn Upshaw, Hugh Wolff, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra perform Aaron Copland's setting of Emily Dickinson's "The World feels...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:59AMJanie Dee will replace the previously announced Caroline O'Connor in the Curve Theatre, Leicester's production of Hello, Dolly!, according to published reports. O'Connor has bowed out of the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58AMStage and screen veteran Beau Bridges will receive the Betty Garrett Lifetime Achievement Award from Theatre West at the organization's 50th anniversary gala, to be held Thursday, September …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMLoni Ackerman, who played the title role during the original Broadway run of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita and was seen as Norma Desmond in the Gateway's production of Llo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:40AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the entire exciting opening night. Check out photos of the cast at the show's opening night party below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the entire exciting opening night. Check out photos of the cast during the show's opening curtain call
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMBroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the show's star-filled red carpet - photos below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMBroadway on Broadway is a fun little kickoff party for the new Broadway season, right? Given the festive atmosphere — and the bloody amazing weather — we were inspired to ask the…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 09:30AMJanie Dee will play Dolly Levi in a new production of Hello, Dolly! at the U.K.'s Curve Theatre, Leicester, replacing the originally announced Caroline O'Connor, who has withdrawn &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMLondon's Jermyn Street Theatre will present the U.K. premiere of Bill Solly and Donald Ward's 1975 Off-Broadway musical Boy Meets Boy, beginning performances Nov. 21 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMIt’s not easy replacing a local theatre icon, having to play 8 kooky characters and trying not to become lunch for a man-eating plant puppet, but Matthew Schleigh successfully did them…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:12AMThe Little Theatre of Alexandria presents Funny Money, a British farce by Ray Cooney about an ordinary man who finds himself in an extraordinary situation. Shawn G. Byers directs this comedi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMRiverside Center Dinner Theater presents School House Rock Live! at their Children’s “Lunch ‘n Show” Musical Theater. With a book by Scott Ferguson, Kyle Hall, and George Keating and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
In February 2011 I embarked on one of those grandiose projects to which I am occasionally susceptible, a survey of the effect that 9/11 had on American drama. I was unable to sustain the ded…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:44AMA guest post and edition by Andrew Lamb.
The works of Gilbert and Sullivan dominated nineteenth-century British comic opera from the start. Yet in neither London nor New York was a work of…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:28AMTony Award-winning director Albert Marre has died, according to a report in The New York Times. He was 87.Marre won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the show with whic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:20AMLondon's fringe Union Theatre will revive Irving Berlin's 1950 Broadway musical Call Me Madam, beginning performances Oct. 3 prior to an official opening Oct. 5, for a run through Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:03AMWhat percentage art? What percentage terrorist attack?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 11 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMAt first glance, Spencer Liff has had a career to which the term "meteoric" definitely seems to apply. He has already worked with such Broadway legends as Susan Stroman and Tommy Tune, won t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMHopes are high for Jeremy Irvine, the 22-year-old star of Great Expectations
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM
Few people should be able to accuse Boyd Gaines and Kathleen McNenny of not having any onstage chemistry. That's because it's undeniable in real life.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:49AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Few people should be able to accuse Boyd Gaines and Kathleen McNenny of not having any onstage chemistry. That's because it's undeniable in real life....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:42AMThe Mint Theater seems to be an oasis for elders seeking to find their Mecca in the form of good old fashioned plays (at reasonable rates) that the Mint happily and repeatedly supplies. It…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:35AMMary Broome - Allan Monkhouse's 1911 comedy at the Mint explores upstairs/downstairs and father/son relationships . . . Read More
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:10AMThe 100th anniversary of composer Benjamin Britten's birth is to be marked globally with a series of events, including a year of dedicated programming across the BBC.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMLegit News:
New musical gets Lab slot this fall
SOURCE: Variety at 07:03AMWith the nitpickers out in full force, this Little Tramp may be shuffling off the Barrymore stage sooner than we think it should. …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 07:03AMThe popular Irish soap opera Glenroe focused on a group of people living near a village pub, run by Teasy McDaid, who was played by Maureen Toal. The series topped the television ratings in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM
Bridget Jones star reported to be following up her film directing debut by appearing in stage adaption of The Hustler Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMBridget Jones star reported to be following up her film directing debut by appearing in stage adaption of The HustlerAs if one first were not enough, Renée Zellweger will follow her forthc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMStage Combat Violence, the ultimate expression of dramatic conflict, has long been a staple of theater, going back to the days of Og the Caveman retelling his war exploits around the fire. T…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:45AMBestselling children's author Michael Morpurgo will soon have two adaptations of his novels running in the West End concurrently; Private Peaceful comes to the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 1…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:39AMThe forthcoming London production of A Chorus Line, which begins performances Feb. 2, 2013, prior to an official opening Feb. 19, is to hold open auditions at the London Palladium from Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:26AMAllan Monkhouse's 1911 comedy at the Mint explores upstairs/downstairs and father/son relationships . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:21AMArts Council England has launched a £15 million fund that it is hoped will encourage arts organisations to pay their interns.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMa smartly staged homage to Charlie Chaplin buoyed by Rob McClure's brilliant star turn . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:15AM
A series of scintillating moments elevated the Crucible’s 40th birthday celebration of the Bard’s spooky Scottish tragedy from the merely very good to the excellent.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:59AMJerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Some American playwrights are embraced by British theatres, which often produce their work more readily than venues across the Atlantic. Among …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMAward winning actress Janie Dee has been confirmed to play the title role in Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman's Hello Dolly!
Directed by Paul Kerryson, the Christmas production will occupy …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:46AMCeremonies of remembrance will be held at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum starting at 8:30 this morning. The events won’t be televised this year apparently but you can se…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:37AMIt’s set to be a case of life imitating art as open
auditions are held for the upcoming production of A Chorus
Line at the London Palladium.
The auditions will take place on 1 Oct…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:14AMAnticipating Sheridan Smith's Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic this week, Paul Taylor wrote an interesting survey of other Heddas in The Independent yesterday, though he was too late to include t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:02AMRECOMMENDED A fast-paced, sixty-minute comedy show that mostly follows the late-night talk-show format—but with eccentrically dark edges—”The Late Live Show” has an inspiring…
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The Lynne Show's next two interviewees have won awards for their work in theater, film and TV. They are honored and respected by their colleagues. They have all struggled with and overcome s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMI 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 01:30AMTonight, September 11 at 7pm, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space presents MORE OR LESS I AM, a powerful music-theater innovation drawn entirely from Walt Whitmans 1855 Song of Myself. Di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAndrew Rannells will guest on Bravo TV's late night talk show WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE tonight, September 11th, the night his new sitcom, 'The New Normal' premieres on NBC. He will be joined …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMPerformances begin tonight, September 11th for the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company's Jonathan Silverstein, Artistic DirectorDamon Chua, Executive Director revised production o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNon-Profit Quarterly (NPQ) had a piece today encouraging people to pay attention to the fact that Chinese are using social media service Weibo to give directly to the needy. The NPQ piece is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:08AMI saw two friends while I was in Spring Green. One of them, Keiran Murphy, a Frank Lloyd Wright scholar...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom 2004: In a better-organized world, an artist would be able to earn inspiration. He'd get up bright and early...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFor always roaming with a hungry heart, Much have I seen and known. Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMA bit of Shaw. A bit of Wilde. A bit of Upstairs/Downstairs make MARY BROOME a smart, witty and biting comedy with great dialogue and timeless arguments.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AM
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SOURCE: Vulture at 12:48AMIt’s not a great sign when you leave a musical thinking more about the visuals than the songs — which is exactly what happens at Broadway’s new “Chaplin.”
The show about the silent…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMThe Language of DisrespectThings have actually gotten worseby Gaëtan L. CharleboisLast week I wrote about how politics should be teaching us, in theatre, lessons about respect and civility.…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMErin Mackey, who plays Oona ONeill in the new musical Chaplin at the Barrymore Theatre, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe second annual Araca Project, featuring six original shows, continues with the improvised musical One Night Only Sept. 11-15 at the American Theater of Actors.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTime Stands Still
Written by Donald Margulies
At the Everyman Theatre through October 7
Like Shakespeare’s
Antony and Cleopatra
, Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still seems to be …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMBroadway's Andrew Rannells talks about struggling as an actor, hitting the heights in The Book of Mormon, jumping to TV jobs and what it's like to be out and proud in the post-"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLauren Molina and Jason Tam co-star in the Keen Company production of the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, featuring new songs and a modern-day twist, which begins previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Provincetown Afterglow Festival, featuring performances by Bridget Everett, Justin Vivian Bond, Cole Escola, Amber Martin and a sneak peek at John Cameron Mitchell's sequel…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Hal Linden, of Broadway's The Rothschilds and TV's "Barney Miller," stars in the world premiere of the comedy Under My Skin, playing Sept. 11-Oct. 7 at Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and his band play New York's newest nightspot, 54 Below, Sept. 11-15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDenise 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, plays stage mother Rose…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Ryan Murphy-Allison Adler comedy "The New Normal," starring Book of Mormon Tony nominee Andrew Rannells and stage and screen actor Justin Bartha (Lend Me a Tenor) as a coup…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1912 Jane Cowl becomes a star while performing in Within the Law by Bayard Veiller, which opened on this night. The play is about a woman wrongfully accused of theft. This was also the prem…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
New AWA Partners to handle combined road roster
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThis week, Ryann Redmond takes her video blog on the road—to the 20th annual Broadway on Broadway concert! Get a glimpse of the crowd from onstage as the Bring It On cheerlea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM 
