59E59 Theatres, Off Broadway
By Benjamin Coleman
BOTTOM LINE: A darkly comic story of two Irish care workers who find themselves in a financial pinch and at a moral crossroads when th…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 10:59PMDavid Hare's 1998 play wasn't terribly well received when it was first produced by the Almeida; several critics regarded it as a thin work, weakly directed by Richard Eyre, and opined that L…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:35PM$100,000 restoration effort repairs East Portico
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:27PM The venerated South African playwright who used words as his weapon to expose his country's dismal racial policies is now an octogenarian.&nb…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 10:18PMWhat "Sleep No More" and the Stanford Prison Experiment tell us about who we really are.
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According to Deadline.com, Larry David has brought together a star-studded cast for his HBO movie Clear History. David will star in the film, which will also feature Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PMIt’s opening night! This week, Chaplin video blogger Jenn Colella takes Broadway.com behind the scenes at the Barrymore Theatre for fancy fashion tips, Guinness cupcakes and a front ro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:53PMGet ready, America! The tour of The Book of Mormon is on its way across the nation, and the new cast promises that it’ll be just as uproariously funny and in-your-face outrageous as yo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:51PMThe National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play a strictly limited 12-week engagement from now through November 25, 2012 at the Pantages…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:49PMIf you missed last Wednesday's print edition of The Seattle Times, you didn't see our 24-page guide to the fall arts season. It's got a lot of great ideas about what to see and do this fall,…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 07:36PMThis is a fascinating exhibit, stimulating for its irony, humor, kaleidoscopic glimpses at American culture in the last 50 years, and interrelationships between artists with Warhol the creat…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:35PMActors' Gang's Elizabeth Doran is Pasadena Playhouse's new executive director...South Coast Repertory's new season at Studio SCR...With director David Anspaugh leaving Three Views of the Sam…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMem>The well sung, classically staged Lyric Stage production of "The Mikado" supplies plenty of trip down memory lane satisfactions.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:24PMAfter a three-year absence Forbidden Broadway is back home at The 47th Street Theatre with a new show, "Forbidden Broadway: Alive And Kicking."
SOURCE: NY1 at 07:09PMDirector Lou Bellamy is no stranger to the vigorous poetics of the late, great playwright August Wilson, who died in 2003 at the age of 60.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:00PMJohn O’Keeffe’s 18th century classic Wild Oats is a play about players and an uproarious love letter to the theatre: a perfect fit for the re-opening, after 18 months of massive refurbis…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMThe team behind the first theatre to be built in London for 30 years hopes it will help foster a New York-style "off Broadway" scene in the capital.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMThe comedian Sarah Millican is refusing to perform at venues operated by Britain's largest theatre operator, the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), because of its high booking fees.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Their legs are a signature feature of the most famous dance line in the world. Kristina Larson-Hauk and Gabriele Del Re are among the 18 Rockettes who will star in “The Radio City Christma…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:42PMThe autumn theater season is fizzing in London and plays are opening every night—with new productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen this week alone.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:32PMAl Pacino, who returns to Broadway this fall in the starry revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, teams up with fellow Oscar winners Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin for one final night of debauch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:27PMWilliam Squier describes the experience of bring his musical, Blindsided By A Diaper, to the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival's new development series THE PITCH.
SOURCE: www.breaking-character.com at 06:21PMPainstakingly faithful and ravishingly composed, the new stage version of Ralph Ellison’s masterwork, “Invisible Man,” is a wholly respectable and at times even radiantly evocative por…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:18PMThis national tour production matches the verve, if not the sharpness, of the original Broadway production. The musical about two mismatched Mormon missionaries assigned to Uganda is a profa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:18PMIn “Bird in the Hand” the playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas chronicles the teenage years of a lonely, gay, precocious Cuban-American boy in Miami, with flamingos helping tell the tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMFollowing a performance of THE BOOK OF MORMON's national tour in Los Angeles over the weekend, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone chatted about the possibility of making a feature film base…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT announced today that Tony nominee Nancy Opel and Tony winner and NAMT alum Joe DiPietro O. Henrys Lovers 98 will host the NAMT Songwriters Show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PM"The Book of Mormon," Trey Parker and Matt Stone's award-winning musical, said a big hello to Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:01PMAcademy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn and the leading man of Downton Abbey Dan Stevens lead a new production of the unforgettab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PM
The singer-songwriter-playwright Jason Robert Brown performed a set of his songs that are just short of being cabaret staples at 54 Below.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMA new season of "30 For $30," a partnership between Playbill and NY1 that offers an evening of affordable theatre and intelligent conversation to young theatregoers, will kick off …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:56PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, September 13, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more in…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:54PMTheatre Seven of Chicago is set to present the professional world premiere of Carter Lewis' American Storm, November 16-December 16 at the Greenhouse Theater Center Upstairs Studio. Artisti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:50PMKristoffer Diaz's play, a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, manages to ground the excesses of pro wrestling in reality while also viewing life through that wildly theatrical prism.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:48PMThe Book of Mormon has been a gargantuan hit since it opened on Broadway in early 2011. Now, the show has arrived at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles as part of its national tour, and i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:48PMRajiv Joseph's play is a hallucinatory look at life in a war zone, larded with absurdity and crowded with ghostly presences�and it's both funny and chilling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:47PMHuntington Theatre Company is to present the American premiere of Now or Later by Christopher Shinn, October 12-November 10 at the Boston Center for the Arts. Michael Wilson will direct.Now…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMIF THERE IS I HAVENT FOUND IT YETs Jake Gyllenhaal will be a live guest on NBC's Today Show tomorrow, Friday, September 14, 2012, between 8 and 9 a.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:41PMIF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET’s Jake Gyllenhaal will be a live guest on NBC’s “Today Show” tomorrow, Friday, September 14th between 8 AM and 9 AM. If There Is I Haven’t Fo…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:37PMOn Oct 4, Six-Word Memoirs returns to 92YTribeca with a new show with a six-word title and wonderful theme Let Me in You Narrative Whore -- A Six-Word Memoir Story Show on the Creative Life.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMAmerican Conservatory Theater is set to present the West Coast premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, January 17-February 10 at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater.In 4000 Miles, 21-year-old Leo unexpected…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:34PMWhere would the theater be without dysfunctional families—particularly the American theater of the last century? The extended Weston family of Tracy Letts'
August: Osage County, now at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PMTony Award-winning Memphis writer Joe DiPietro and Tony-nominated actress Nancy Opel (Memphis, Urinetown) will co-host the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Songwriters Showcase in…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:32PMAccording to People.com, Sally Struthers, best known for her roles on All In The Family and Gilmore Girls, was arrested for driving under the influence earlier today.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:31PMA seventh grade assignment led Meg Wallace to the world of Carson McCullers. Now, Wallace is providing another chance for the famous Southern writer's seldom-seen The Square Root of Wonderfu…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMEveryone in L.A. is buzzing about Mormons! Celebrities rolled in to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood to celebrate opening night for the latest stop on The Book of Mormon’s first natio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:28PMBroadway Ballyhoo has announced its cast for tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13th at 11 PM at Feinsteins at Loews Regency. The evening will feature Tony nominee Barbara Walsh Falsettos, Company, Dr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:28PMPlaybill recently stopped by 54 Below for a peek at a new show songsmith Jason Robert Brown is preparing with Wicked's Shoshana Bean. The Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist sings a song cu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMTony Award winner Rupert Holmes -- represented on Broadway this season with the revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- and Oscar-winning songwriter Paul Williams will perform in Rockers on…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PMCasting has been announced for the new Frank Wildhorn production of Zelda An American Love Story, starring Lauren Kennedy and Tony award winner Jarrod Emick. Directed by Vincent Marina wit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:16PM Found: Photographs of the Rolling Stones, will be a month long exhibition of twenty-six rare and candid photographs that document the legendary Rolling Stones on their first American …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 05:11PMToday I talk with Jeni Mahoney about the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho where she is the Artistic Director. If this group is new to you, take a look at their New Play M…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Marin Mazzie, Malcolm Gets, Emily Skinner and John Glover will be part of the Westport Country Playhouse's Sept. 24 salute to salute playwright Terrence McNally, The Full McNally: A Cele…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:59PMDear Chuck McEwen and Jill Roszell, Let me begin by thanking you once again for your work running the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals. These festivals each represent an amazing feat o…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:58PMThis latest Video of the Week is Chehon Wespi-Tschopp and Allison Holker’s performance on “So You Think You Can Dance,” choreographed by Stacey Tookey. The moving number is…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:56PMBroadway.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 September 7 to September 13.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMWestport Country Playhouses one-night-only fundraising gala, The Full McNally A Celebration of the Writing and Works of Terrence McNally, will take place Monday evening, September 24. McNall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMAcademy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, who is gearing up to star in the Broadway period drama The Heiress, is trading in her long red locks for a severe, black hairdo in Guillermo Del Toro&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:41PMIt's possible that not everyone attending Curious Theatre Company's pumped-up production of the wrestling play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" will be ready to rumble.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:38PMPolitical commentator and author Imogen Lloyd Webber (did we mention that she’s the daughter of musical theater legend Andrew Lloyd Webber?) headed to Columbus Circle in New York City …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMLauren Molina and Jason Tam, who co-star in the Keen Company production of the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, gave Playbill Video a preview of the show before it began …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:34PMA review of the upstart crow collective's all-female production of "Titus Andronicus," at Seattle's Lee Center for the Arts through Oct. 7, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:30PMPerformers have been announced for the Westport Country Playhouse's 2012 gala, to be held on Monday, September 24. As previously reported, Tyne Daly and Richard Thomas will host the event, w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:26PMText: In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find…powerful people have liberty. ~ Sun Yet-Sen, revolutio…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 04:19PMStephanie Cox-Williams is currently Company Manager of Nosedive Productions. She is a SFX/gore designer, fight choreographer, actor and director for Independent Theater. SFX/gore…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 04:18PMJessica Chastain, Dan Stevens and the cast of The Heiress gathered at the glamorous Empire Hotel to chat about the new revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s classic drama, opening Novem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:08PMRandy Harrison is set to return as Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s nemesis, Dr. Chilton, in the Off-Broadway smash hit SILENCE! The Musical for three performances only this Saturday, September 15th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07PMMost Cirque productions have a story that boils down to someone going on a quest. Amaluna, with its classical underpinnings, has more of a spine.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:00PMShowtime has renewed David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik's series Episodes for a nine-episode third season, according to Deadline. The series, a co-production of Showtime and the BBC, will begin …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
The Path Fund, Inc. is proud to announce that Academy, Grammy and Golden Globe-Award winning composer Paul Williams A Star Is Born, The Muppet Movie, and three-time Tony-Award winning compos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:58PMTheatre Communications Group (TCG) has published a new collection from Athol Fugard, entitled The Train Driver and Other Plays.The New York premiere of The Train Driver, under the direction …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
After nine Tonys and rapturous notices, Broadway's "The Book of Mormon" is still evidently selling tickets up to the time when Malia Obama can run for p…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
No one has ever accused stage scribe Tarell Alvin McCraney of aiming low, and he's certainly not bucking his own trend with "Choir Boy."
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PMThree-time Tony Award nominee Marc Kudisch and Drama Desk nominee Jeffry Denman will record their holiday show, The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas, which will be released later this ye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:52PMSheldon Epps has a 'multi-year' extension of his Pasadena Playhouse artistic director contract, and Elizabeth Doran will take over as executive director from Charles Dillingham.Sheldon Epps …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:51PMPlus: "Dim All the Lights," "Deer Camp -- the Musical," "Concert of the Legends," "Eurydice"
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:41PMGhostlight Records and Rodgers
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:39PMMarried for three decades, Keliher Walsh and James Eckhouse apparently still can't get enough of each other's company. Eckhouse is directing Walsh's first play Year of the Rabbit in its prem…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:38PMAge & Hometown: 30; New Milford, New Jersey
Current Role: A star-making turn as screen icon Charlie Chaplin in the new musical Chaplin.
Whistle While You Work: As the middle child …
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 03:37PMAge & Hometown: 30; New Milford, New Jersey
Current Role: A star-making turn as screen icon Charlie Chaplin in the new musical Chaplin.
Whistle While You Work: As the middle child …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:37PMInstallations at Franklin Art Works play with ideas of time, place and memory.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:36PMBeginning October 7, The Heiress will bring a taste of 19th-century Manhattan to Broadway, starring Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens. Based o…
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 03:34PMBeginning October 7, The Heiress will bring a taste of 19th-century Manhattan to Broadway, starring Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens. Based o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:34PMThe Guthrie's festival of works by British playwright Christopher Hampton includes stories from the heart of the American experience -- Hollywood, the Civil War and civil rights.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:34PMJames EspositoTara Pitt as Natalie PortmanLots of movie adaptations this week in the theater reviews, as our critics enjoyed new local versions of the Broadway musicals The Full Monty and Xa…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:29PMAri Graynor might seem like a pro as she purrs outrageously kinky dialogue in the new phone sex comedy For a Good Time, Call…, but the actress insists she didn’t dial up any sex…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:28PMAfter the success of "War Horse" and "One Man, Two Guvnors," the theater plans to take a more active role developing productions for a North American audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:22PMGentle readers, This week my theater review for the LA Weekly is of Love Struck, now playing at the Macha Theatre in West Hollywood. Click here to go to the LA Weekly’s theater page and sc…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 03:20PMWoody Harrelson dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a brief chat about Bullet for Adolf , the new off-Broadway play he wrote and directed. Sitting down with Fallon, Ha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMJake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Lochte, Robert Rodriguez, Zo Saldana, Natalie Morales, Andy Garciaand Rafael Amaya will be presenters at the 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards, along with DeviousMaids cast members…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMThe presenters for the 2012 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards have been announced. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, September 15 at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, with a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:14PMThe Fountain Theatre is to present Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water, October 13-December 16. Shirley Jo Finney will direct.In the Red and Brown Water tells the tale of Oya…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMAcademy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn and the leading man of Downton Abbey Dan Stevens lead a new production of the unforgettab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMTarget Margin Theater has announced the selections in its annual TMT Lab: Exploring Yiddish Theater, set to run October 17-November 3 at The Brick.The mainstage schedule includes Jacob Gordi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:07PM
Oscar nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) is returning to her theater roots in Tennessee William’s Sweet Bird of Youth at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and the actress is ready to sh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMThe concept is promising enough - a look at a world where women are in charge and men are mere sex objects. Unfortunately, Playwright Vincent Truman ensures that there is no room for nuance…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:54PMAcademy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn and the leading man of Downton Abbey Dan Stevens lead a new production of the unforgettab…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMThe East Village's celebrated Theatre 80 is the perfect venue to host "The Quantum Eye — Magic & Mentalism," a clever, interactive show that's written by and starring mentalist Sam…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:45PMOff-Broadway's Keen Company ventures into new territory with its "revisal" of Marry Me a Little, the 1981 conceptual revue of Stephen Sondheim songs that were cut from other productions. The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:41PMFrom Londons acclaimed Oily Cart, creators of innovative, multi-sensory and interactive productions for the very young, comes the U.S. premiere of RING A DING DING, an imaginative and energe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMThe movie versions of "Bachelorette" and "Rock of Ages" are a reminder of how hard it is to translate stage comedies and musicals to the screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:40PMThe Alloy Theatre Company’s off-Broadway production of Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte will close on September 15 due to the recent pregnancy of the solo show’s star, Maxine Line…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:37PMTony Award winner Adriane Lenox, Tom Nelis and Michael Goldsmith have been cast in the American premiere of Christopher Shinn's timely political drama Now or Later, about a Halloween cos…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:33PMAmy Oestericher will make her New York cabaret debut with three performances on October 19, 21, and 26 at the Triad.Titled Gutless
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMThe Flea Theatre is set to present the U.S. premiere of Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio's I Hate F _cking Mexicans, in a translation by Debbie Saivetz, Ana Graham, and Danya Taymor,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:28PMFrancesca Zambello of Washington National Opera has been promoted from her position as artistic adviser to that of artistic director.Zambello has worked in opera both as a director and an ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMStage and screen favorite Dylan Baker has joined the cast of ABC's midseason drama Zero Hour, according to TVGuide.com.The show stars Anthony Edwards as the editor of a magazine for skeptics…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:23PMThe creation of my top 10 list of upcoming fall theatrical attractions for last Sunday's A+E section meant some quality time wrestling with ticket prices. And comparing my list with that of …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:21PMKerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
Kerry Reid on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMThe life and work of late composer Marvin Hamlisch will be celebrated on Tuesday, September 18 during an invitation-only memorial at Julliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater (155 W. 56th Street).E…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMPOSTED BY KERRY REID ... Sirena Irwin has been rocking the curly red hair (OK, it's a wig) and wide-eyed charm of Lucille Ball — or at least Lucy Ricardo — since last fall in "I …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMNINA METZ reviews "WRENS" at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble ★★½ and "Blagojevich, Blagojevich" at the Athenaeum Theatre ★★
NINA METZ reviews "WRENS" at Rivendell Theatr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMWith effective but minimal props, and Yonit Olshan’s eye-catching costumes (not to mention the splendid backdrop of the Morton Arboretum), a grassy swale and a stand of trees can become su…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:18PMTen Chimneys (Sep 30 – Peccadillo Theater Co.):
This new comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher imagines acting royalty Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1938 as they rehearse a production of The Seagu…
SOURCE: Next Magazine at 02:17PMTwo legendary ladies surnamed Lee�one fictional and one real�get new looks in recordings released this month. Lorelei Lee is the gold-digging heroine ... and cabaret singer Stacy Sullivan ta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMNonprofit arts organizations and their patrons across the region spent $1.51 billion in local economic activity in fiscal 2010, supporting 29,003 full-time equivalent jobs, according to a st…
SOURCE: www.bizjournals.com at 02:02PMPlaybill.com looks at the busy stage career of Will Chase. The leading man celebrated a birthday this week (Sept. 12) and will return to Broadway this fall in Roundabout's revival of The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMHOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, a new Off-Broadway sketch comedy written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, is adding Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings to the playing sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM“The Bellflower Sessions” refers to therapeutic interviews between a downsized bourgeois and an unhinged shrink. If they represented the sum of Andy Bloch’s black comedy, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PM
Promoted from within, Kevin O'Hare, the Royal Ballet's new chief, is looking to the future with plans for regular new works, he tells Nicola Merrifield
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59PMSony Pictures Home Entertainment will release a 30th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of the film Annie on October 2.The film, based on Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan's classi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:56PMPelham natives, up-and-coming singers, play Mamaroneck Oct. 20 (Will, left, and Anthony Nunziata will be close to their Pelham Manor roots on Oct. 20, when they play Mamaroneck’s Emeli…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:50PMTy Taylor, Douglas Crawford, and Jason Wooten's new rock musical The Existents will have a one night concert at Rockwell: Table
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMMAGGIE CINO won the FringeNYC 2012 Overall Excellence Award in Playwriting for her full length play, Decompression. Her one woman short, Ascending Bodily, is published by the New York Theate…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 01:46PMI know many of you reading this are young people, perhaps recently moved to Chicago from out of state, some of you are students, I know many of you also have interns working with you from ou…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:44PMTony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee and Tony-winning actress Elaine Stritch will be among the theatre professionals who will discuss the life, legacy and impact of late a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PMA fall Chicago launch of Unspeakable, a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life of comedy star Richard Pryor, will not happen "due to major funding that did not come through,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:37PMDaniela Dakich graduated from Drama Youth School and Acting Conservatory Yugoslavia. Was opera trained for 8 years in a class of Maida Softic. Studied at HB Studio (teachers Ed Mor…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 01:34PMWriter and political commentator Imogen Lloyd Webber signed copies of her new book, The Twitter Diaries, on Thursday, September 13 at the Allure Magazine Beauty Lounge in the Empire Hotel. T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:31PMJessica Chastain, Dan Stevens, David Strathairn, Judith Ivey, and additional cast members of the Broadway revival of Ruth
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMWith the Fall TV season nearly upon us, complete with a new round of redneck reality shows, it's surprising that more viewers aren't expressing outrage over exploitative television.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:23PMEmmy Award winner Kathy Griffin, who appeared on Broadway in Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, will headline this year’s Best in Drag Show, to be presented at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMJames Cousins is the first winner of the New Adventurers Choreographer Award, a prize set up in honour of Matthew Bourne to help top young dance professionals, writes Katie Colombus
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMNuffield, Southampton: Tim Crouch's Lear, pared down mainly for primary school audiences - the RSC's fourth show in its Young People's Shakespeare series - becomes the story o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMSMASH might not be back on NBC until January, but filming is already in full swing in New York City. BroadwayWorld brings you exclusive coverage of Debra Messing, Christian Borle, and more f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PM
By Byrne Harrison
One of my favorite Mad magazine movie parodies was a musical version of Jaws which featured the shark's first victim singing a spoof of "The Impossible Dream" fr…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:59PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, multi-Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Sarah McLachlan will compose music for KING KONG, at Melbourne's Regent Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMJacksons Lane, London"Once upon a time some were, and some were not," is a traditional Persian way of starting a story. The formula could not be more appropriate for this tale of the elusive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMChaplin is bringing the touching life story of screen icon Charlie Chaplin to Broadway, starring Rob McClure as the violin-playing, tightrope-walking Little Tramp. Directed by Warren Carlyle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52PMStage and screen stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon are the featured guests for this Friday’s episode of Anderson Live, the new nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMStage and screen stars Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon are the featured guests for this Friday's episode of Anderson Live, the new nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:51PMGet all the scoop on BLUE BLOODS, airing on on CBS on Friday, September 28, 2012
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMThe Chicago premiere of “Unspeakable,” the autobiographical show based on the life of the late comedian Richard Pryor, has been cancelled. Originally slated to open Oct. 16 at the Royal …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:44PMRichard Montoya's American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, featuring René Millán, Austin Durant, Deidrie Henry and Felicity Jones, as the opening production of the Yale Rep…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMThey say that art reflects life, but I wouldn’t say Baggage does. Baggage follows the trials of online dating: the freaks and frauds, and general disappointments made possible by the so-ca…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:38PMThe White Bear Theatre, London: Owen Horsley's electric production of The Duchess of Malfi peels the skin off John Webster's play to reveal the smiling skull beneath. Horsley perfo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMThe Tony nominated actor Craig Bierko THE MUSIC MAN has joined the cast of AdA Author directing Author -- an evening comprised of new one act plays by American playwright Neil LaBute and Ita…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMBBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night concert series is to be broadcast live on television for the first time in its 60 year history.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMWhat can we do if people treat us inhumanely? This is the question posed by Jonathan Salt’s new play, and the answer he finds is: we must be more than human. This biopic of Janusz Korczak,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:28PM'My One and Only' celebrates the Gershwins' music with lots of dancing.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:28PMThe exciting spectacle Fuerzabruta: Look Up will close off-Broadway after a successful five year run. Fuerzabruta will play its final show on November 11, after more than 1,500 performances&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMNew York City Centers historic renovation has been honored with six awards for excellence in architecture and historic preservation. The renovation, led by Duncan Hazard of Ennead Architects…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMWashington Improv Theater (WIT) will present a return production of its longform improv show POTUS Among Us, October 11-November 5 at Source. Mark Chalfant will direct.POTUS Among Us is a h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:23PMRandy Harrison will once again take on the role of Dr. Chilton in the Off-Broadway hit, Silence! The Musical, for three performances at the Elektra Theatre, Saturday September 15 at 8pm and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:21PMThe question of how many liberties you can take with Shakespeare is usually a matter of editorial fiddling or wild exercises of translocation. You less often encounter a controversial boldne…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:20PMToday in 1943, Porgy and Bess opened at the 44th Street Theatre, where it ran for 24 performances. First performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and ly…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMIt’s hard to believe that the Olympic and Paralympic games have come to an end. I am the first to admit that I was sceptical about the whole event, and living in southeast London, spent a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:16PMRockers Anonymous will return to the Underground Lounge Sept. 17 for its sixth installment, Back to the BaSIX, which features rock and pop talent from the musical theatre scene performing ro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMTony nominee Craig Bierko will co-star with Oscar winner Estelle Parsons in La MaMa’s previously announced production of Marco Calvani’s Things of This World. Calvani’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMGeoffrey Streatfeild makes Macbeth human without sapping him with sympathy in Daniel Evans’ revival, Ian Shuttleworth writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:09PM"Unspeakable," the new biographical show about the late comedian Richard Pryor slated for the Royal George Theatre in Chicago next month, has been cancelled.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:06PMBroadway Box OfficeWeek #15 of the 2012 - 2013 SeasonSeptember 3 - 9; 21 ProductionsOverall, the Broadway box office was down nearly 6% for Labor Day week. The 15th week of the season …
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMThe onslaught of modernized Greek tragedy Chicago has played witness to this year has consisted largely of caked-on, imposing stylistic touches, absent of purpose or urgency. To be sure, the…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM
Grace begins previews at the Cort Theatre on September 13, with an official opening set for October 4. This strictly limited engagement will close on December 16. Directed by Dexter Bullard …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:59AMThe hit series "Glee" returns for a fourth season Sept. 13 at 9 PM ET on Fox. Here is a first look at a few upcoming episodes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:56AMOur Toes Grip the Edge: Where Prophecy Meets the Abyss Presented by Mugwumpin, Theatre of Yugen, and hosted by Z Space (San Francisco, USA). Livestreaming on #NEWPLAY TV on Tuesday, Septem…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:52AMTony Award nominee Craig Bierko (The Music Man) has joined the La MaMa production of AdA (Author directing Author), an evening of two one-act plays by American playwright Neil LaBu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMBroadway stars Marc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman, the self-proclaimed Holiday Guys, are in the studio this week to record their acclaimed Happy Merry Hanu-Mas show. The album will be released b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:45AMSex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man, a three-character comedy written by Altar Boyz producer Matt Murphy and Jim Brochu (Zero Hour), will make its world premiere off-Broadway in early…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMBroadway In Chicago will present the North American Tour of Sister Act, November 12-December 2 at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.Featuring an original score by Alan Menken, l…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:41AMLeading Swedish actor Krister Henriksson, who is best known for playing the title role in the Swedih TV series "Wallander," is to make his West End debut in Hjalmer Söderberg&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMVeteran Chicago actress Hollis Resnik has been cast as Mother Superior in the North American touring company of the hit Broadway musical, “Sister Act.” The show, which runs Nov. 13-Dec. …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:38AMTony Award nominee Craig Bierko has joined the cast of AdA (Author Directing Author), in which playwrights Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani will direct one another's one-acts. The production is…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:37AMActor Justin Long, best known as the cool, laid-back personification of Apple products in the company's TV commercials, has been cast in the production of Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert C…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:32AMWestchester Broadway Theatre this morning announced its 2013 season, a mix of new and classic musicals. Now on stage is “Can Can,” the Cole Porter musical about, well, dirty danc…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:29AMThe new stage musical adaptation of King Kong, which is preparing for a June 2013 premiere in Melbourne, is testing out material in an Australian workshop the week of Sept. 10. There has bee…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, musical theatre legend Andrew Lloyd Webber is currently working on writing a new musical about the Profumo affair, which went down almost 50 years ago. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMSmall towns in the South often inspire images of people sitting on front porches, fanning themselves and idly chatting, gossiping about their friends and neighbors.The production of Harrison…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:24AMGreen Day's American Idiot, the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the Green Day album, with a story crafted by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Maye…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMTony Award winners Nathan Lane (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened…), Christian Borle (Peter and the Starcatcher, "Smash") and Roger Rees (The Life and Adventures of Nich…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMAnthony Crivello was back in New York after a six-year run in the title role of PhantomThe Las Vegas Spectacular. He went backstage to visit with Audra McDonald after seeing her perform in …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMBritain's best standup offers a theatrical masterclass in comic timing, baroque repetitions and sheer, barefaced bravura Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMThrough 15, Jason Robert Brown is bringing his show to NYCs newest theatrical hot spot, 54 Below, Broadways Nightclub, for seven performances. To celebrate his first time at the new club, he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMBabes With Blades is seeking play submissions for the 2013-14 Joining Sword and Pen Playwriting Competition. The winning script will receive a full production with BWBTC in 2014.The winning …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:15AMPatrick Wilson is on the run—for a good cause. The two-time Tony nominee will be participating in the New York City Marathon on November 4.
Wilson will be running on behalf of the M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:14AMThe St. Louis Symphony Orchestra came home a winner in every way from its European tour.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:12AMPlaywrights are invited to submit original 60-90 minute plays for consideration to be produced by Gorilla Tango Theatre (www.gorillatango.com) in 2013. Guidelines:1) Plays should be origin…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:10AMBarbra Streisand has now added additional dates this fall with the addition of three NEWlive performances in the US with special guests Chris Botti and Il Volo.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMThe theater is a bootstrappy business. Someone has a barn, so you put on a show. You grab costumes from a closet, and props from a living room and up the show goes to hopeful success. Ex…
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On October 11 & 12, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (a service organization made up of some of the top producers, presenters and theatrical educators in the nation) will presen…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:57AMMarc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman are set to record a new album titled Happy Merry Hanu-Mas! as The Holiday Guys, prior to a holiday performance tour in December, with specific dates and venues…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMOur Boys Tickets from £25 at the Duchess Theatre, Covent Garden.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:53AMProduction photos have been released for the current revival of Taboo at Brixton Club House, which opens to press tonight (13 September 2012, previews from 7 September).Written by Boy George…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:51AMBarbra Streisand has added additional concerts to her upcoming tour, with stops planned in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Jose in November. The iconic singer will be joined by Il Volo and Ch…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMTom Matthew WolfeHometown: Hillside, New Jersey Current Town: New York City Q: What are you working on now? A: I’m working on a new full-length play called THIS IS …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:45AMGeorge Takei has plenty of practice exploring strange new worlds on TV and film, but delving into a painful time...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:42AMMamma Mia! and Viva Forever! producer Judy Craymer MBE has announced a donation of £125,000 to the Theatres Trust's Theatres Protection Fund, matching the Fund's opening donation by Th…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:36AMThe York Theatre Company's critically acclaimed revue Closer Than Ever, which spotlights the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, celebrated its 100th performance on Sept. 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMDecades after a youth spent on New York stages, Diane Lane is in Chicago, taking on the lead in the Tennessee Williams classic “Sweet Bird of Youth.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AMMany of you know that I have always been a huge fan of dance and entrepreneurship. I had the chance to meet with the folks from Dance New Amsterdam and they are so deserving of this week's A…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:30AMThe upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee William's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Scarlett Johansson, is on track to begin previews at the end of the year, with an opening night plann…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:29AMCall it an accident or a Freudian slip, we've all had those teachers who've said something faster than their mind could have told them "No." Or maybe it was that signature expression or gest…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:29AMGeorge Takei has plenty of practice exploring strange new worlds on TV and film, but delving into a painful time in his family's life onstage is something even he never imagined.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:27AMWe are thrilled to announce that the keynote speaker for the 2012 TCG Fall Forum on Governance: Leading the Charge will be Katori Hall! Not only an award-winning playwright of plays like The…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:21AMThe Debate Society is set to present Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen's Blood Play, October 3-27 at The Bushwick Starr. Oliver Butler will direct.Set in the tranquil Chicago suburb of Skokie in …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMThe York Theatre Company celebrated the 100th performance of its hit revival of Closer Than Ever on Tuesday, September 11. The production performs at The York Theatre at Saint Peter’s thro…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMMembers of the entertainment industry, including Barbra Streisand and veteran cast members from A Chorus Line, will gather Sept. 18 to pay tribute to late Academy and Tony Award-winning comp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMNEW YORK — Playwright Annie Baker, at 31 a sudden darling of the country’s new-play scene, is charmingly laid-back until you bring up a word that often characterizes her barbed, often c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:12AMANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical is now in rehearsals. The production begins previews October 3, 2012 and opens November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre Broadway at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM Did I say last week was the last week? I lied. We have this week which is a dance audition and next week which is bloopers. Everyone loves bloopers, right? Anyway, this week is a danc…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will have a recurring role on the upcoming NBC drama Do No Harm opposite Steven Pasquale. Miranda will play the attending clinical pharmacologist at the Philad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:59AMTony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming TV medical drama "Do No Harm," directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer and starring Steven Pasq…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AMWilliam Shakespeare penned memorable words and characters and fashioned them into some of the most renowned stage works in the Western world. The comedies still delight; the history plays co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMLin-Manuel Miranda will join the cast of the NBC midseason drama Do No Harm in a recurring role.The Tony Award-winning composer of In the Heights will play the attending clinical pharmacolog…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:55AMNew Royal Ballet director Kevin O'Hare has spoken publicly for the first time about the closure of ROH2, insisting that the move would not affect the amount of new work produced by the compa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMThe starry Broadway revival of Ruth
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:54AMKarma Camp has choreographed so many shows at Signature Theatre that I have lost count. Each show she has worked on is filled with high-energy, elegance, and fun choreography. And in The Be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMThe oldest working theatre in the country, Bristol Old Vic, turned its lights back on::E8831347376300 last week after 18 months of refurbishment. This week warm reviews::E8831347462276 of it…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:52AMKevin Earley, Ryan Knowles, Mark Nadler, and Barbara Walsh will be featured in the September 13 edition of Broadway Ballyhoo! at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.Created and hosted by TheaterMan…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:44AMTheatregoers Time To Speak Out and Save Chaplin the New Musical on Broadway: I normally do not read reviews before I see a show, but in the case of Chaplin I did, as I know the director/chor…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:42AM1st Stage, the surprisingly comfortable and well appointed theatre which belies its strip mall location in Tysons Corner, has been defying the odds since a director and his actors decided to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMBarbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang, Michael Feinstein, Chris Botti, Maria Friedman, Brian dArcy James, Carter Brey, Essential Voices USA, former cast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:39AMDead Accounts has announced that two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes will be joined by Judy Greer, Josh Hamilton, and Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell on …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:38AMCraig Wright’s new comedy Grace, starring Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Ed Asner and Kate Arrington, begins performances September 13. Directed by Dexter Bullard, the productio…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:33AMTo get you ready for the start of previews tonight, check out a just-released promo for the show below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:10AMOn Sunday, September 9th, 2012, Wolf Trap presented Rock of Ages, a hilariously entertaining rock musical containing twenty-eight of the 80’s greatest glam metal hits, from artists like Ro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMThe season-opening program includes six pieces.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:00AM
Today is the birthday of Mae Questel, vaudevillian and voice of Betty Boop (for my full article on her go here). Now here she is with Rudy Vallee, singing “Don’t Take My Boop-Oop…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:59AMOn Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 200 p.m. E.D.T., Daniel Radcliffe will participate in a live online discussion to raise awareness about preventing suicide through The Trevor Projects Talk t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMProduction photos have been released for the upcoming production of Taboo at Brixton Club House, which opens to press tonight (13 September 2012).Written by Boy George, Taboo centres on Bill…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:44AMEntertainment unions BECTU, Equity and the Musicians Union have all voiced concerns about the problem of low and no pay, at the annual Trades Union Congress conference held this week in Brig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMAfter a Broadway run in a one-man play, the former heavyweight boxer announces he's keen to star in a musicalMike Tyson has been bitten by the theatre bug. A month after his one-man show Und…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMArthur Schopenhauer never characterized his philosophy or himself as “pessimistic,” though he never rejected the characterization when it was applied to him. He uses the word onl…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:26AMConstellation Theatre Company’s impeccably cast production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps delivers buckets full of laughs. A clever twist of a British farce, the show is presented at S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on September 13 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThree Chicago theater buddies — the director Dexter Bullard, the actor Michael Shannon and the playwright Craig Wright — make their Broadway debut with Mr. Wright’s “Grace.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMAuditions…I could go on and on about my love/hate relationship with them. It's like standardized testing. Is that really the best judge of intelligence/talent? Better not be – at least i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
There aren't many Victorian writers you can say with certainty would feel totally at home in the current culture of celebrity, but Oscar Wilde is one of them. In a touching programme note, t…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:51AMThe National Apprenticeship Service has announced that it is extending its £1,500 incentive scheme to encourage employers to take on apprentices, which should be of tangible benefit to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMThe forthcoming London premiere of Mortal Engine - a multimedia performance by Australian contemporary dance group, Chunky Move - produced by German engineer, Frieder Weiss, and Australian c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMFrance's Theatre National Populaire in Villeurbanne, north east of Lyon, has recently reopened following extensive refurbishment and now features new Electronic Theatre Controls Ltd lighting…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMNick Gray, from London-based creative design practice, Renegade, has been the creative force behind the look of Kasabian's festival headline appearances this summer, appearances including T …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMMarlowe, Canterbury: The Queen has just marked her 60th year of coming to the throne and the same diamond anniversary is also being marked this year by The Mousetrap, the Agatha Christie thr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMMaxine Peake and John Simm are to star in a new BBC1 drama written by Criminal Justice creator Peter Moffat.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AM
Soho Theatre has announced its upcoming productions for the Christmas season. Packed with a line up of theatre, comedy and cabaret, the main resident for the season will be the new all male …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:58AMArts Theatre, London: Baggage is a play in desperate need of editing. The premise is sort of fine - the perils of internet dating and the structuring has a Neil LaBute tinge. But the executi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMHampstead, London: Rupert Everett is an interesting and ultimately successful choice to play Oscar Wilde in this revival of David Hare's 1998 imagining of the great Irish playwright and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's Stratford-upon-Avon headquarters will this autumn host a mirror maze, where audiences must follow a scent to find their way out.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMEdinburgh Comedy Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican has revealed that her next UK tour will avoid all venues operated by the Ambassador Theatre Group, because she does not agree with ATG'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMOld Vic, London: Chicago may have just closed in the West End, but in Brian Friel's sometimes jarringly contemporary version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Judge Brack talks of going out…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMYou would need a heart of stone to resist being moved, at least in part, by Anthony Rapp’s one-man musical memoir of love and loss. But you would not need to be a fully paid-up cynic to fe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:12AMWhen it was premiered in 1998, critics (myself included) gave a cool response to this David Hare play that deals with self-sacrificial love and betrayal and homes in on two pivotal episodes …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:06AMReviews of "Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die," "27," and "Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AM
Last night (12 September 2012)
theatregoers headed to the newly revamped Hippodrome for our outing to Adam Guettel in concert with special guests Jonathan Ansell and Caroline Sheen.
S…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:51AMIbsen's classic Hedda Gabler, starring Sheridan Smith in the title role, opened to press last
night (12 September 2012) at the Old Vic Theatre.The play, heralded by critics as a triumph of …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:28AMBy Dennis Polkow It is a late August day, and Brian Dickie is nursing an iced coffee at a North Side café while reflecting on his thirteen-year tenure as general director of Chicago Opera T…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMAn annoying trend? A new party game? yes!...Maybe...THE MUSICAL By Ryan Bogner (Producer, Wingnut) I was struck with a flash of inspiration after recieving a text from my friend, Broadway's …
SOURCE: Crazytown at 05:00AM
The Observer (UK) 09/09/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AMHONG KONG (Reuters) - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, once notorious for his bad boy antics, has a new goal: he'd like to dance and act in musicals.
SOURCE: Reuters at 04:47AMInternational Herald Tribune 09/12/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:46AMThe Guardian (UK) 09/12/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMHedda Gabler at the Old Vic Theatre, starring Sheridan Smith in the title role, opened to press last night (12 September
2012).
Also in the cast are Darrell D'Silva, Fenella Woolgar, Adrian …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:32AMYOU BETTER CATCH THIS BEFORE IT REALLY IS THE LAST SESSION Mike Nussbaum is probably weary of hearing himself called the Grand Old Man of Chicagoland Theater and a local treasure, like Wrigl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30AMJohn Muirhead and Mike Charlesworth's online dating comedy is a one-night stand of a play – fun, but not worth taking home to mum.
The somewhat cliquey tale of Primrose Hill daters and…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:14AMA little fun speculative post today. It has been widely recognized that women generally initiate the decision to attend an arts and cultural event. Now given that the vast majority of playwr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:13AMI can understand Sheridan Smith feeling cowed by the role of Hedda Gabler, but I'm surprised she's not risen wholeheartedly to the challenge. Her performance is, of course, graceful and sedu…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:03AM
IT’S ALL GREEK TO MEE Charles Mee’s plays are audacious, imaginative, weird, sometimes funny, and more often than not, powerful and thought provoking; they are not for all tastes, bu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMThe American Heartland Theatre's "Making God Laugh" expertly pushes emotional buttons from beginning to end. Even after bracing for a sentimental, life-affirming conclusion, I found myself s…
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 02:51AMHCC’s only improv troupe returns for a 6-show season – with Special Guests Howard Community College’s Arts Collective (AC) kicks off its 18th Season with performances by “What Impro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37AMArguably the two best musical theatre composers of the last 30 years are both writers that have become famous for other things: the first, Howard Goodall for his TV theme music and documenta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM
You can’t throw a rock in this town without hitting a solo performer.
But this hasn’t stopped the All for One Theater Festival from showcasing even more. Kicking off tomorrow, the festiv…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:39AMThe B.B. King Blues Club and Grill will present Ramin Karimloo, best known for his roles in Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, and Love Never Dies. Karmloo will sing at the club tonight, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAmerican Society of Music Arrangers amp Composers ASMAC and American Society of Composers, Authors amp Publishers ASCAP present Up Close amp Personal with Musical Director, Orchestrator and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Actors Fund Special Performance of The Book of Mormon is set for today, September 13, 2012 at 2 p.m. Each year, Broadway companies, in New York and on the road, generously give their tim…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMA daring and funny revue of erotic poetry and monologues in a very relaxed atmosphere.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:18AMLong Wharf Theatre has posted on its website an essay by me called "From Page to Stage." I wrote it...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death." Fran Lebowitz, "Manners"...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM
A new musical from the novel "Love Story"? Yes, it's mush, but really good mush. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from the Walnut Street Theatre's main stage.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:58AM‘i could be arrested for theft, fraud and murder, and it’s not even 4 o’clock.”
This isn’t a hardened criminal talking, but a frazzled mother and home-care attendant named Loretta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:54AMIt's Christmas Eve and Musetta (Laura Whelan) hoisted on the shoulders of the waiters at Café Momus, while her abandoned lover, Marcello (Joshua Hopkins), glares. A bit of the excitement su…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMCraig Wright's Grace, a four-person comedic drama set in Florida, begins previews Sept. 13 prior to an official opening Oct. 4 at Broadway's Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMPerhaps the most unusual thing about the coming Off-Broadway musical attraction Sounding Beckett — and there are several — is that this is director Joy Zinoman's first N…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award-winning actress Nell Carter would have turned 64 on Sept. 13, 2012, and Playbill.com is remembering the Ain't Misbehavin' star with some of our favorite video performances.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe hit musical series "Glee" enters its fourth season Sept. 13 with an episode entitled "The New Rachel," in which New Directions members compete for lead vocals in the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSteppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People begins Sept. 13 for a run to Nov. 11, featuring Steppenwolf ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMurder at the Howard Johnson's, a suspenseful comedy by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, begins previews at the Studio Theatre in Theatre Row Sept. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMDanielle Slavick, Alok Tewari, Matt Pilieci and Hani Furstenber appear in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater world premiere of Adam Rapp's Through the Yellow Hour, which begins previews…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMStella Adler Theatre presents Anthony Skordi in the premiere of his one-man show, Onassis, beginning Sept. 13, prior to an official opening Sept. 14, in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmerican Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presents the West Coast premiere of the recent Broadway production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which focuses on the early years of the AIDS…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Actors Fund Special Benefit Performance of The Book of Mormon, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is presented Sept. 13 at 2 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMusical director, orchestrator and composer Jonathan Tunick takes part in Up Close & Personal, an in-depth conversation with the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner, Sept. 13 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Theatre at the Center presents the Tony Award-winning musical 42nd Street, the company's biggest production to date, beginning Sept. 13, prior to an official opening Sept. 16, at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1894 Birthday of British playwright J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), author of plays An Inspector Calls, When We Are Married, Laburnum Grove and A Severed Head.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
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