Donmar Warehouse, LondonRacine in English? It always poses a problem, but we're getting steadily better at it. And director Josie Rourke and translator Alan Hollinghurst come up with a radic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTony nominee Ral Esparza will play the recurring role of DA Rafael Barba on Law amp Order SVU beginning on Wednesday, October 10. The episode, titled Twenty-Five Acts, centers on the author …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:38PMHaving seen the original 1981 production of this one-act, dialogue-free musical, I have long maintained that it is the best of the Sondheim compendium shows. Unlike the others, such as &ldqu…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:28PMThe truly weird Rebecca collapse makes our theater critic feel all warm inside.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:28PMDaniel Radcliffe will star in the supernatural thriller HORNS from Red Granite Pictures. Red Granite's Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland, Mandalay Pictures president Cathy Schulman and Adam Stone…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMIt’s not often that the works of 17th-century French classicist playwright Jean Racine make an appearance in the West End, and you can’t fault the ambition of the Donmar’s artistic dir…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:21PMDarren Stein is set to direct the indie film G.B.F. Gay Best Friend, written by George Northy. Among the cast is Broadway actor Taylor Frey, who has appeared in How to Succeed in Business Wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMA revival of an old play with a broad sense of fun and a turbo-charged role for a co-star of hit sitcom Gavin & Stacey? No, not One Man, Two Guvnors, but this well-dressed production of …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:00PMLaurence Fox is sitting, like a giraffe in a box, in his tiny garret dressing room at London's Duchess Theatre. On one wall, brushing the top of his head, hang his costumes. His guitar is pr…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIt is a Saturday night in Stratford-upon-Avon and theatregoers are settling into their seats for an evening with the world's greatest playwright.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMIt promised the most lavish new musical to be staged on Broadway in decades, with a brilliant musical score and fiery conclusion to create a "stunning and unforgettable theatrical experience…
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Culturebot joins the hoi polloi of contemporary theater (including, in fact, Hoi Polloi) as both artists and critical partners of the 2012 Prelude Festival
SOURCE: Culturebot at 06:58PMNow according to the New York Times, the United States attorneys office is investigating whether the investor ever existed in the first place. Sprecher told NYT I never made up or fabricate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMThe highlights of the month include appearances by star performers Joshua Bell, Stefan Jackiw, Jorge Luis Prats, and Arabella Steinbacher.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:43PMThis October and November 54 BELOW, the new performance venue in the grand tradition of New York City nightlife, presents an exciting lineup of Broadways brightest talent. Located just below…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMMany young women dream of walking down the aisle in a wedding dress as their loving mother watches from the church pew. For Tony nominee Condola Rashad the experience was just anot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMRoundabout 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 06:20PMI saw Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses right after it transferred to Broadway in 2002, after a much-heralded off-Broadway run that began two days after the September 11 attacks. It was one o…
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 06:16PMThe Graham Show Has the Fabulous Christian Borle: The new weekly web interview series “The Graham Show,” hosted by Graham Douglass, had on its premier an interview with Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 06:14PMLegacies and echoes of the Rwandan slaughter of the 1990s are seen and heard in “Children of Killers,” a play by Katori Hall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMOn the heels of winning its first premiere week in the A18-49 demographic in nine years, NBC has picked up three of its new fall series - the adventure-drama Revolution and the comedies Go O…
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STOMP’s New York company was recently visited by a crew from www.YoungHollywood.com, hosted by Lesley Robins. Follow either link to watch: WATCH HERE or http://www.younghollywood.com/vi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:59PMAs criminal investigation proceeds, Ben Sprecher says he is still looking to stage the musical on Broadway or elsewhere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe Broadway-bound musical Kinky Boots hasn’t opened out of town yet, but the cast and crew will surely be celebrating with their director Jerry Mitchell tonight. The director and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:51PMA star-studded revival of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins previews at Studio 54 on October 19, and the cast is raring to find out just how the show will end! Audien…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PMTed Seifman Productions will present the industry reading of Damage Control, a new comedy by Douglas Braverman author of Dalliance in Vienna and Snowman and starring Jackie Hoffman, Nancy Op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMWith a national tour currently playing in Los Angeles at the Patages Theatre in addition to the outstanding Broadway production, it is no surprise that "The Book of Mormon" leads TicketNews&…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:44PMR. Hamilton Wright has been named the 2012 recipient of the Gregory A. Falls Sustained Achievement Award, which he will receive at the 4th Annual Gregory Awards being held at A Contemporary …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:42PMJaylee Montague Mead, the NASA astronomer and arts philanthropist who died Sept. 14, will be honored with a memorial service at Arena Stage. The service will include performances by Nichola…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:41PMIf There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet and Red Dog Howls By Joseph Cervelli You can easily be put off by director Michael Longhurst’s staging of the familiar yet still affecting “If There …
SOURCE: cervellionstage.blogspot.com at 05:40PMCarrie the Musical Successfully Lives On: Carrie made records as Album Charts on Amazon.com for 24-hours straight and counting showed the sales jumping ahead of staple best sellers Wicked, J…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:34PMGrammy Award and Tony Award-Winner, and soon-to-be turning heads on the West End stage in London, UK, Heather Headley, recently released her latest CD, Only One In The World. The CD features…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PM$10 Rush Tickets! Wednesday October 3, 8pm! $10 AT DOOR Buy Tickets – Use Code DEVIL!, OR call (703) 998-4555. AND $20 Single Tickets For remaining shows through October 6 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMMamet's play is designed to be provocative, and it certainly provoked the audience on opening night ... Villanova Theatre is offering a fine production of How I Learned To Drive, Paula Vogel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:22PMGrace, the acclaimed dark comedy written by award-winning writer Craig Wright Mistakes Were Made, Recent Tragic Events, Six Feet Under and directed by Dexter Bullard Tracy Letts BUG, today a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMLaura Benanti and Andrew Rannells have reason to celebrate! In the first back order of the fall season, NBC has given a full season pick-up to sitcoms Go On and The New Normal, as well as th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PMLast night's event featured Monday, Ryann Redmond, who is making her Broadway debut in BRING IT ON. Check out photos from the concert below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMLauren Molina and Jason Tam co-star in the Keen Company's Off-Broadway production of the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, featuring songs added and subtracted sin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMGood news for New York stage actors and their fans: HBO has ordered a fourth season of its Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire, according to The New York Times. Set in Atlantic City in th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:00PMGood news for New York stage actors and their fans: HBO has ordered a fourth season of its Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire, according to The New York Times. Set in Atlantic City in th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:00PMAbout one-hundred years ago, George Pierce Baker, then a professor in the English Department at Harvard University, helped integrate theater production into the university first by creating …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe Broadway production of Grace, written by Craig Wright and directed by Dexter Bullard, has announced a series of special events that will take place throughout the month of October.The sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMIt wasn't so long ago that Dina Thomas and her husband, Mark, 2011 graduates of the University of Missouri-Kansas City's professional actor program, thought they'd stay in Kansas City indefi…
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It is difficult to describe the anarchic, confused plotting, and wildly arbitrary inclusion of literary and historical pop culture personages who populate Jeff Whitty's The Further Adventure…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:51PMNBC has given a full-season order to the comic series "The New Normal," starring Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha, and "Go On," with Laura Benanti and Matthew Perry, acc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PMMembers of the Bring It On creative team, including Tony-winning writers Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt, Jeff Whitty and Amanda Green, will be part of a fundraiser for the Amber Charter School…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PMFreud's Last Session, New York’s long-running hit play by Mark St. Germain, is set to open in Los Angeles this winter starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C. S. Lewis …
SOURCE: reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com at 04:46PMTheatre Communications Group has just realeased a list of the most-produced playwrights of the upcoming 2012-13 season, and topping the list is David Lindsay-Abaire, with 19 productions. Al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:46PMPHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Technology that allows musicians in different places to perform together in real-time was dramatically demonstrated Tuesday in Philadelphia, where a violinist and ce…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:40PMAccording to the Associated Press, Broadway vet Christine Ebersole will star in 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Martin Scorsese will direct the film, in which she wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMStage Directors and Choreographers Foundation has announced that director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell will receive the 2013 "Mr. Abbott" Award in recognition of the artistry and creativ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:31PMBroadway's Grace Offers Halloween Treats: Grace, the acclaimed dark comedy written by award-winning writer Craig Wright ( “Six Feet Under”) announced a series of special events throughou…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:25PMThe first season of the NBC musical drama "Smash," about the subculture of musical theatre people, will be released on DVD Jan. 8, 2013, according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical will present the November 5 December 30 Broadway engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Following a nationwide search, Johnny Rabe will don …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMWill Miss Pettigrew live as a Broadway musical?ShowBiz411 is reporting that Focus Features is planning to adapt the 2008 film, titled in-full Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day, for the stage, f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inform…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:15PMMerrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have announced casting for the previously announced world premiere staged reading of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation, ru…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:15PMMark Blum has replaced Bill Sage in the New Group production of Francine Volpe's The Good Mother, which will begin Off-Broadway previews Oct. 29 at the Acorn Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:14PMJerry Mitchell, currently in Chicago directing the out-of-town tryout of the musical "Kinky Boots," is the winner of the 2013 "Mr. Abbott Award," an honor named after the late George Abbott …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:08PMStars from stage, television and film—including Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Ethan Coen and Raul Esparza—flooded the beautiful 19th-century church that Atlantic Theater Com…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:04PMStage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announced Oct. 2 that Tony-winning director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell will be honored at a gala event this spring with the 2013 "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:02PMThe cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood met the press on Tuesday, October 2 at their rehearsal studio. Directed by Scott Ellis, the prod…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PMDirections. Take one dead giraffe. Place carefully onto work surface. Sever head. Remove tongue. Serve with a garnish of eviscerated crocodile. Mwah!
In Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new pro…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:01PMWhat famous sculptor designed the first Ovation Awards? Who modeled for the Ovation Award statuette? Who got his job at the Grammys because of his previous management of the Ovations? READ M…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:00PMIt has taken Rex Harrington years to create a garden of trees, bushes, flowers and vines at his house in Toronto
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:00PMBroadway Box OfficeWeek #18 of the 2012 - 2013 SeasonSeptember 24 - 30; 22 ProductionsThis week was pretty much the opposite as the previous week - only two shows posted losses in attendance…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 04:00PMMabou Mines' Glass Guignol, Tim Crouch's Adler & Gibb and the new Todd Almond-Jenny Schwartz musical Iowa are among the projects that will be developed by the Sundance Theatre In…
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Written By Joel Benjamin October 1st, 2012 The underlining theme of Julie Gold’s exemplary cabaret show at the historic Duplex in Greenwich Village might easi…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:57PMTony Award nominee Liz Larsen (The Most Happy Fella), Drama Desk Award nominee Garrett Long (South Pacific, The Spitfire Grill) and KT Sullivan (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) are among the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:49PMWell the Bats, some of my favorite performers, are at it again. And this time there is a some good Old Testament testifying. Like These Seven Sicknesses by Sean Graney, this company has ta…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 03:46PMSlick back your hair! Dust off your Pink Lady jacket! Former Grease lovers John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are teaming up for a joint holiday album that will feature guest appearances f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMSecond Stage Theatre is set to present "Exploring the Art and Politics of Satire," a post-show talk back following the 7pm performance of Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kil…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:44PMTony and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with Tony Award winners Tom Kitt, Jeff Whitty, Alex Lacamoire, Amanda Green and other members of the creative team behind the hit new B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMCurt Hansen, of Broadway's Hairspray and Next to Normal, will play Snow White's Prince in an English-flavored "panto" production of A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PMThey say the first step in the grieving process is denial. If that’s true, then we’ve been grieving the closing notice of Peter and the Starcatcher (announced late Friday afternoon) for …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:28PMA Contemporary Theatre is set to present Wanderlust – ACT's Night of Adventure and Annual Gala, October 15 at 5:30pm.The event will feature world flavors paired with cultural performances …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMFocus Features plans to adapt the 2008 film "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day," which starred Frances McDormand as a middle-aged London governess, into a musical for Broadway, accord…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:17PMSinger, songwriter and pianist Tony DeSare has earned fans around the world for his jazzy vocals, and the handsome performer is bringing his new show, “Making Love Songs” to 54 B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:15PMMerrimack Repertory Theatre MRT and the University of Massachusetts Lowell are thrilled to announce the cast of Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac. Directed by Charles Towers, Kerouacs long-los…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:13PMShakespeare's late-period, lesser-known romantic tragedy is refreshed with a successful staging in Pasadena.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:03PMJames Madison University and The Forbes Center for the Performing Arts will present Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, to be helmed by guest director Ricky J. Martinez, artistic director of So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PM
The Red Bull Theater will launch its 2012-13 Revelation Reading series with Moliere's The Miser, starring Jan Maxwell, Richard Kind, T.R. Knight and Reg Rogers, Oct. 22 at the Lucille Lo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:58PMSupporters and donors and artists who attended the Oct. 1 unveiling of the Atlantic Theater Company's newly renovated mainstage home in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan were treated…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMTickets are now on sale for DR2 Kids Theatre’s production of The Velveteen Rabbit, written and directed by Kevin del Aguila (Peter and the Starcatcher). The show will play a limited te…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PMLilla Crawford, a veteran of Cool Whip commercial and Billie Elliot on Broadway, is the new Annie. She’s an old pro, which is clear from her interviews.Asked what she wants to do after…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PMBroadway alum Mark Blum will replace Bill Sage as Joel in the previously announced world premiere of Francine Volpe’s thriller The Good Mother. Sage dropped out of the production prior…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMEvery 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 ra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMBilled as “the purr…fect comedy cocktail,” Cougar the Musical celebrates women of a certain age who aren’t ready to say sayonara to their sexy side. Starring Chicago…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:39PMMore performers have been added to the cast of UnsungMusicalsCo.'s previously announced one-night concert production of the Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz musical At Home Abroad, to be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:38PMNew York Theatre Workshop recently launched its new season with the play "Red Dog Howls" starring stage veteran Kathleen Chalfant.
SOURCE: NY1 at 02:37PMObie Award winner Mark Blum has joined the New Group cast of Francine Volpe's The Good Mother, which will perform at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre October 29-December 22, with an opening on No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMNearly 35 years after summer lovin' had them a blast, former Grease co-stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are reuniting for an album of holiday tunes titled This Christmas, set to hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:29PMChita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block lead an all-star cast in the big Broadway musical whodunit, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Broadway.com got a special first look at the stars in full co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:28PMTo Tend New Musical ProjectsMichael Bush is exiting his role as artistic direcrtor of the Cabaret & Performance Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:23PMMixed Blood Theatre will present Center of the Margins, a five-play mini-festival exploring the complex world of disability, October 20-28.The festival will feature fully mounted productions…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:19PMThe World Premiere of Kinky Boots, the new musical brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics. Directe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMThe play was first presented at a reading in 1944 with an all-star Left Bank existentialist cast: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Queneau, among others of Picasso's circle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMWATCH THE VIDEO below to see interviews with the cast and crew of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre‘s acclaimed Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wo…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 02:13PMFollowing a nationwide search, producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical announced Oct. 2 that Johnny Rabe will don Ralphie’s trademark spectacles for the holiday engagement at Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:08PMDiana Rigg played a memorable Medea – now her daughter Rachael Stirling is taking it on. She talks to Maddy Costa, while other actors recall their own immersion in one of theatre's toughes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMDiana Rigg played a memorable Medea now her daughter Rachael Stirling is taking it on. She talks to Maddy Costa, while other actors recall their own immersion in one of theatre's toughest p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMTwo-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole, who can currently be seen in TBS' "Sullivan and Son," has been cast in the upcoming film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMTheatre Communications Group (TCG) has released the 2012-13 list of the Most Produced Plays by its member theatres nationwide. David Lindsay-Abaire tops the list with 17 scheduled production…
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Paramount Pictures has revealed poster art for the upcoming comedy THE GUILT TRIP. The film stars legendary actress, singer and director Barbra Streisand and funnyman Seth Rogen. THE GUILT T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMPlaywrights David Lindsay-Abaire and Naomi Wallace are the recipients of the 2012 Horton Foote Prize, a biennial honor recognizing works of new American theatre, which were presented Oct. 1 …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMMotown the Musical doesn’t hit Broadway until next year, but some of music’s greatest legends caught a sneak preview of the electric new musical and schooled us on what defines t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:46PMThe People's Cook in partnership with Intermedia Arts will present ¡Viva la Soul Power!, a live performance and culinary experience hosted by cook Mero Cocinero, November 1-10 at Intermedia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:46PMStudents cannot say theater tickets are too expensive. Culture Shock Miami has resumed offering $5 tickets to high school and college students – less than a movie matinee. Starting this we…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:44PM54 Below has announced an updated lineup for November.Performers will include Melissa Errico (November 1-3, 8:30pm), Michael Cerveris and Loose Cattle (November 2-3, 11pm), Terese Genecco (N…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:40PMEach day leading up to the first performance of Annie at the Palace Theatre on October 3, Broadway.com is bringing you exclusive video introductions to the lovely little orphans who are neve…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:39PMA whodunit in which an audience vote decides the guilty party, Rupert Holmes’ (book, music, lyrics) The Mystery of Edwin Drood employs a play-within-a-play structure. Based on the titular …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:39PM(Photo credit: Alissa Moore. Pictured:Mark Smith, executive director, Blue Star Families; Teresa Eyring, executive director, TCG.) On Friday, September 28, a press conference was held at Tri…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:37PMMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonHas anyone noticed the link between this once-famous 1892 farce by Brandon Thomas and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot? What happens to the Jack Lemmon charact…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMJean-Michel Richaud spent boyhood summers in Provence, not far from the landscapes that inspired Van Gogh. But it was a new museum in Paris that turned Richaud into a Van Gogh devotee. Now h…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:33PMANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, begins previews tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 and opens November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre Broadway at 47th Street.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:32PMThe planned theatre tour based on BBC TV show Top of the Pops has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Top of the Pops Live was due to tour the UK this autumn until...The post Top of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
It takes great determination and no little effort to screw up "Marry Me a Little," the charming 1980 pocket musical that Craig Lucas and the late No…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMOn the Boards is set to present the Seattle premiere of Amarillo by Teatro Línea de Sombra, a Mexico City theater company, November 8-11 at the Merrill Wright Mainstage Theater.Amarillo is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23PMSarah Brightman, concert soprano and star of "The Phantom of the Opera," will be in concert at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 12. Tickets go on sale Oct. 15 at …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:20PMJunot Díaz Hates Writing Short Stories Good lord, Junot Díaz even writes genius sentences while talking off the top of his head: What are the mistakes you make? First of all, nonsense char…
SOURCE: direct address at 01:14PMMarilyn Maye has joined the previously reported cast of the Johnny Mercer Foundation and Kaufman Center's Broadway Close Up Series' upcoming concert celebration of the Johnny Mercer Foundati…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:12PMLowry, SalfordEveryone knows the Maldives are sinking. Everyone, that is, except for Dr Diane Cassell, a climate-change expert at the university of York, who has been studying the islands fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMThis press release just received from Arena Stage: (Washington, D.C.) The life and incomparable influence of Dr. Jaylee Montague Mead will be celebrated with a memorial service and reception…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMPolka Theatre, London: Two gardeners tell a story for very young audiences - and play all the parts in this devised piece.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMThe Cat in the Hat, Horton and more of Dr. Seuss' beloved characters are heading to London! Seussical the Musical, based on the books of the famed children's author, will receiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07PMFor me, this has been a week of madness. "More madness than usual, you mean?" you might say. Yes indeed. You see, I looked at my schedule, subconsciously panicked over my excess of free time…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Hi friends What an amazing last 6 months I have had. In March I finished out the first national tour of Mary Poppins in Mexico City playing for almost 5,000 people a night. Touring was such …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:57PMOlivier Award nominee Carol Woods will debut her new show, From Blues to Broadway, on October 15 at 54 Below. The one-night-only concert will feature musical direction by Sheldon Becton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMBristol Old Vic's partnership with South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company is an example of international collaboration that needs to happen more oftenAt last month's ITC conference, Simon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMTen theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the dual presentation of its 2011 and 2012 Awards in a luncheon ceremony scheduled for October 29. David…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMAdapted from the 1997 documentary about an endurance-test competition run by a Texas car dealership, the new musical stars Keith Carradine and features tunes by Phish frontman Trey Anastasio…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:53PMThe National Theatre has announced dates for its UK and Ireland tour of War Horse, which will begin in autumn 2013. The show will visit nine venues over ten months and will commence at the..…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMThe New York City premiere of Michael Slade's coming-of-age drama And a Child Shall Lead will run Oct. 24-27 at HERE Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PMBroadway.com Audience Award winner Kerry Ellis and Queen guitarist Brian May will reunite onstage for the Born Free tour, a series of acoustic shows performed by candlelight. The tour w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:47PMLittle Steven van Zandt is doing the impossible! He’s reuniting the Rascals, the original Rascals, for a theatrical show. “Once Upon A Dream” will happen December 13, 14, a…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44PMIt was whispered for a time, but now it's official: The legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov is the special guest who will join Mark Morris Dance Company at On the Boards in the world-premiere work…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:43PMTwo-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone is the subject of a new YouTube documentary series -- created by her son, Josh Johnston.Entrances, Exits, and Everything in Between with Patti LuPone …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMThe award-winning North Shore Theatre NSMT presents 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL, now running through October 7 at the North Shore Music Theatre. BroadwayWorld has first look at video highlights below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMAs if a fifth Tony weren't enough, the accolades just keep on rolling in for Audra McDonald! The Drama League will honor the Porgy and Bess actress at their black-tie gala on F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:39PMActor/Dancer/Stripper/Performance Artist James “Tigger” Ferguson (primarily known for live work) has performed in New York & abroad since 1988. A Pioneer in the 1990s burlesq…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PMLaura Osnes, who will play the title role in the upcoming Broadway production of Rodger and Hammsterstein’s Cinderella, released a recording of her solo cabaret performance at the Caf�…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:32PM‘YOU’RE ONLY A DAY AWAY!’ PREVIEWS BEGIN TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 ANNIE OPENS NOVEMBER 8 AT THE PALACE THEATRE CLICK HERE TO WATCH ANNIE’S TV COMMERCIAL ANNIE, the new …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:30PMToday in 2003, Little Shop of Horrors opened at the Virginia THeatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 372 performances. Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy horror rock musical,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:26PMPeople we love? Gingers. Cute British boys. Silver foxes. People featured in this fall’s Moises Kaufman production of Ruth and August Goetz’s The Heiress? Jessica Chastain, Dan Stevens…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 12:25PMThe new musical Hands on a Hardbody wasted no time in securing the Brooks Atkinson Theatre after the recent closing notice posted by Peter and the Starcatcher. The upcoming show, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:25PMToday is Bud Abbott’s birthday (1895-1974). I apologize for spelling his name wrong in No Applause. I am one of the few people who prefer Abbott over Costello, and by a pretty wide margi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:23PMThe rich contrasts in Marsalis’s score give Fagan ample scope for invention in ‘Lighthouse/Lightning Rod’, Apollinaire Scherr writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:21PMWith his eloquent physiognomy, Mathew Horne leads a starrily cast revival of this 1892 farce, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:20PMToday, we're featuring Dorothy Lamour circa 1988. Some of Lamour's notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane 1937, Spawn of the North 1938 with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barry…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMAbout the author:
The name of Rain Pryor’s off-Broadway show, Fried Chicken and Latkes, hints at the two sides of her background as the daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:15PMAfter being in the works at the NBC network for several seasons, Deadline reports that Bryan Fuller's 'Munsters' reboot will most likely not go to series. The project, to be titled MOCKINGBI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMA reading of James Lapine's screenplay for the Rob Marshall-helmed film of Into the Woods took place Oct. 1 in Manhattan. Tony Award winners Nina Arianda, Victoria Clark, James Corden an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMProducers Broadway Across America John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth Williams, Barbara Whitman, Latitude Link, Dede Harris, Sharon Karmazin, and Howard and Janet Kagan have just announced th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMHere's a new opportunity to enjoy the talents of Patti LuPone without worrying about your cell phone going off! The busy life of the two-time Tony winner is the subject of Entr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:10PMThe problem with compilations of musical theater scores is that any theater fan already owns a bunch of discs that might be compiled, while anyone who doesn’t have any one of them prob…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMJesse Green has a conversation with Albee on Vulture.com that is equal parts frank and elusive, which seems about right for the subject. The master offers a handful of unremarkable how-tos a…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:08PMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will soon release his second self-produced solo album SIMPLY BROADWAY, and, to inaugurate his 2012-2013 concert year, a five city charitable tour. In …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:07PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of Porgy and Bess, starring five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and Tony nominee Norm Lewis, ended its Broadway run Sept. 23. Playbill.com offers an exc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMThe cast of Off-Broadway’s newest comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, will unveil the insanely delicious dessert treat Fudgetaboutit this Friday, October 5th at 5:30 PM at the Times Square Tast…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:03PMAcclaimed gospel singer Jubilant Sykes will star in Hartford Stage's upcoming production of Daniel Beaty's new play Breath and Imagination: The Story of Roland Hayes, according to the Hartfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:02PMDual Ceremony Slated for October 29 CONTACT: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins (718-789-9025) Ten theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the dual presentation o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 9252012 - 1022012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related DVDs for October 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is to present the third annual Something Wicked This Way Comes, October 29 at 7:30pm at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre.Something Wicked This Way Com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMJess Barbagallo, Tymberly Canale, Chris Giarmo and Aaron Mattocks will join Mikhail Baryshnikov in the cast of the world premiere stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "Man in a Case" …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00PMA new production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's hit pop musical Jekyll & Hyde officially launches its U.S. national tour Oct. 2 with an eye toward Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMSince planting roots in Boise in 2005 and going full time three years later, the Trey McIntyre Project has won wide acclaim for the choreographer's penetrating artistry and the dancers' vibr…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PM
The Drama League announced today that five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will be the Honoree of The Drama Leagues 29th Musical Celebration of Broadway, on February 11, 2013 at the fa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMHow the actress shapes her performance in “Red Dog Howls” Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Kathleen Chalfant…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:59AMToday is Groucho’s Birthday With the possible exceptions of Ed Wynn and Fred Allen, no vaudeville comedy act ever attracted more highbrow approval than the Marx Brothers. Alexander…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:59AMAt age 11, Aileen Quinn was tapped to play the coveted role of Little Orphan Annie in John Huston’s big screen adaption of the Tony-winning musical Annie, sharing the screen with …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AM12-year-old Chicago native Johnny Rabe will star as Ralphie in the Broadway production of A Christmas Story, The Musical, to play the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from November 5 to December 30.Rab…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:58AMJust yesterday, Atlantic Theater Company held the grand reopening of its main stage Linda Gross Theater following a historic 8.3 million renovation of the landmark theater housed in a ninete…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMRyan Murphy is like the new Aaron Spelling, just a lot more twisted. Murphy will soon add two new series to his impressive resume alongside his three current shows Glee, American Horror Stor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMNeither the small Scotty dog from The Wizard of Oz, nor the rather embarrassing 70s’ rock band, nor the later Italian movie star, this Toto was a successful clown who conquered many kind…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:47AMSadler's Wells, London: Sasha Waltz's dancers are athletes - strong, lithe and inspiring. Whistling through time to silence, a regular percussive beat, or epochal orchestral symphonies,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMJournalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault ,will receive the 3rd annual Visionary Leadership Awartf by from New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas Nov. 14 at noon at the Omni Hotel i…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:46AMPeter Flynn, artistic director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, will step down after four seasons to pursue directorial and teaching work in the New York City area.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:42AMToday is the birthday of George “Spanky” McFarland (1928-1993). Unspeakably adorable at age three, he was less so at 13 when he neared the end of his reign as leader of Our Gang…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:41AMThe Drama League's 29th Musical Celebration of Broadway will honor five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. The event will be held on Monday, February 11, 2013 at the Pierre Hotel.A black…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40AMBefore Smash returns next year for more behind-the-scenes Broadway drama, viewers can catch up on all the Marilyn mischief when the first season DVD hits stores on January 8, 2013.
Accord…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:36AMSeason 2 of NBC's SMASH won't premiere until mid season, but fans will get a chance to relive Season 1 beginning January 8. Clcik here to preorder the first season on DVD
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMIN LOVE OR IN LOVE WITH BEING IN LOVE Playwright Kristen Vangsness’ intriguing, but ultimately frustrating comedy features as its center a gal who makes the mistake of confusing love with,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:34AMOn Monday, October 15, 2012, Olivier Award nominee and celebrated star of Broadway's smash hit musical Chicago Carol Woods will debut her newest solo concert act, From Blues to Broadway, at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:34AMCan a master actor pull off a masterly cinematic con? Philip Seymour Hoffman as "Lancaster Dodd."This weekend I sat through one of the worst movies of the year - simultaneously pretent…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:34AMQ: What does a “knowledge commons” look like? A: Here’s an example. Q: How is the content and data produced? A: By the community of users. “Community-sourcing” …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:32AMWeek two of Dancing With the Stars’ all-star season got a taste of the Great White Way on October 1, when champion gymnast Shawn Johnson and her partner, West End theater vet Derek Hou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMThe acclaimed dancer will perform in a new work by Mr. Morris during its world premiere on Thursday in Seattle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AMThe upcoming Off-Broadway rock musical Bare, a coming-of-age story set in a Catholic boarding school, will share photographic experiences from Bare fans at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMThe full cast of the acclaimed La Jolla Playhouse production of Hands on a Hardbody will repeat their performances when the new musical opens on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:28AMJoshua Henry will join Amber Riley Glee, Jared Grimes and Adriane Lenox in New York City Centers acclaimed production of Cotton Club Parade, returning for seven performances from November 14…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMBroadway alum Curt Hansen (Next to Normal, Hairspray) will play Snow White's Prince in the Pasadena Playhouse’s production of A Snow White Christmas, a musical theater event t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMTCG’s annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays list is among the theatre season’s most anticipated, and most talked-about, barometers—though, as Gus Schulenburg pointed out recently, the conv…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:24AMThe composer talks about music, politics, and collaboration through the lens of The Civilians’ newest show
SOURCE: Culturebot at 11:23AMThe Brooks Atkinson Theatre will be the Broadway garage of Hands On a Hardbody, the new musical about a gaggle of American dreamers engaged in an endurance test to win a pickup truck. Produc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMJust last night, Reeve Carney, Robert Cuccioli, Rebecca Faulkenberry, and the cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark welcomed Command Master Chief Matthew E. Danforth of the USS Micahel Murphy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMThe Horton Foote Prizes, named in honor of the legendary writer, were established in 2010 to award excellence in American Theater. Presented last night, the first Horton Foote Prize was awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMThe glitzy screwball comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day may be adapted for the Broadway stage, according to ShowBiz411.com. Focus Features is considering transforming the 2008 film, which…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMJoin me and host Halli Casser-Jayne tomorrow, Wednesday October 3 at 3pm on the The Halli Casser-Jayne Show as we explore the bumps and grinds and every aspect of burlesque old and new with…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:17AMTony Award winner Barry Bostwick and Anthony Rapp will appear in the upcoming musical episode of the USA Network series "Psych," according to EW.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:14AMTony Award-nominee Joshua Henry will join Glee's Amber Riley, Jared Grimes, and Tony Award-winner Adriane Lenox in New York City Center's upcoming production of Cotton Club Parade, returning…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMThe new musical FINDING NEVERLAND just premieredin Leicester on September 22, where it will run through October 13. The cast features Julian Ovenden as James Barrie, Rosalie Craig as Sylvia …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:10AMBarbara Cook, Rupert Holmes, Lucie Arnaz, Gina Gershon and the cast of Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It will appear at Manhattan Barnes and Noble stores in the coming months.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMThe 2012 honorees for the Henry Hewes Design Awards have been announced. The Awards honor design work in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway venues, recognizing scenic, costume, and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMBroadways A Christmas Story, The Musical has found its Ralphie. Following a nationwide search, producers of the musical have announced that Johnny Rabe will don Ralphies trademark spectacle…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMStrike up the band because Joshua Henry is joining the parade over at Encores! The Tony nominee will replace previously announced star Brandon Victor Dixon in Encores’ upcoming staging…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AMFrom “Hedda Gabler” to an Ayckbourn comedy to a new Caryl Churchill play, London theater offers a mishmash of emotions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02AMThe Seinfeld star discusses the episode that ended his standup career, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm get revolutionary – and an unexpected side to Bruce ForsythThis week, we finally get th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMThe Seinfeld star discusses the episode that ended his standup career, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm get revolutionary – and an unexpected side to Bruce Forsyth Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMThe Seinfeld star discusses the episode that ended his standup career, Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm get revolutionary – and an unexpected side to Bruce ForsythThe week's comedy newsThis w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMBased on a documentary about an endurance contest in Texas, the show features music by Trey Anastasio (of Phish) and Amanda Green.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMMove over Pulitzer, there’s a new award in town, with just as fancy of a name. Ken-nedy. Jean Kennedy Smith and Columbia University (the administrators of the aforementioned “Pul…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
From Arena Stage at the Mead Center Center for American Theater. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BELOVED PHILANTHROPIST, SCIENTIST & THEATER LOVER DR. JAYLEE MONTAGUE MEAD TO BE HELD MONDAY, OCTOBE…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMThe Pearl Theatre Company kicked off its new season with a reading of the comic revue A Thurber Carnival Oct. 1 at the Pearl Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AMThe Drama League announced Oct. 2 that five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will be the Honoree of The Drama League's 29th Musical Celebration of Broadway, which is scheduled for F…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMWhen I read that the National Theatre of Scotland was to do a staged version of Swedish horror film Let The Right One In I got chills down my spine for all the wrong reasons. Horror is notor…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:56AMHenrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 in a fit of white heat as a diatribe against the general public and the politicians, and as revenge for the vicious attacks they visited upo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AMThere are only six more performances to see Mike Bartlett’s hit play COCK before it completes its critically acclaimed limited run on Saturday, October 6 at 8pm: Tuesday, October 2 at 8pm …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:54AMAfter a nationwide search, A Christmas Story, The Musical has selected Johnny Rabe, a 12-year-old from Chicago, to fill out the bright pink bunny suit as the show’s leading youngster R…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:50AMWar Horse co-director Tom Morris is to once again work with Handspring Puppet Company on a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The South African-based puppet company and artistic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMLooks like I’ll have a weekly appointment to talk with Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who blew the judges away on “The X Factor” and will appear on the show’…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:48AMAs reported back in June, Rob Marshall has made Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS his next project at Warner BrosDisney - and a starry reading just has kicked the project off.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AM This marks the beginning of a new series called BROADWAY INTERVIEWS YOU. That’s right. We’re sick of asking stars all the questions and begging you to pitch in ques…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:46AMMichael McKean (Gore Vidal’s The Best Man) and Brooke Shields (The Addam’s Family) will joing the rotating cast of the 10th anniversary production of the award-winning play, The …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:45AMNBC may be too frightened to take a trip to Mockingbird Lane after all, according to Deadline.com. The Munsters reboot series, from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller, has been in dev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:44AMTed Seifman Productions will present an industry reading of Douglas Braverman's Damage Control Oct. 15 at The Theatre at Sofia's in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMThe 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards recipients are David Korins (Chinglish), Gregg Barnes (Follies), Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman) and Daniel Kluger (Tribes), the HHDA committee annou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMWest End impresario Cameron Mackintosh has revealed plans to make Miss Saigon into a film if the forthcoming Les Miserables film is a success. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Jackman and Anne …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:34AMInternational classical musical vocalist and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes will star in the world premiere of Daniel Beaty's "Breath and Imagination: The Story of Roland Hayes."
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:31AMThe grand reopening of Atlantic Theater Company's main stage Linda Gross Theater, following an $8.3 million renovation, was celebrated Oct. 1. Atlantic founding company members Felicity …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMLegit News:
Mendez stars in reading as show preps for transfer
SOURCE: Variety at 10:27AMThe Book of Mormon secures the top spot for the forth week in a row, grossing more than $1.6 million, with The Lion King and Wicked trailing, but not by much. Jersey Boys and Once inched the…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:26AMGayFest NYC, Inc will present its 2012 gala Fall for Harvey Milk, October 22 at 7 pm at Robert Restaurant. Stage and screen star Lily Tomlin is the gala chair.Fall for Harvey Milk will feat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:22AMThe most famous patronymic in the annals of burlesque management was to arrive late in the game — was indeed to oversee both burlesque’s Renaissance and demise all in one feel sw…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:21AMJoshua Henry will join Amber Riley, Jared Grimes and Adriane Lenox in New York City Center's return engagement of Cotton Club Parade, which is scheduled for Nov. 14-18.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:20AMThe Washington area music scene was well represented at the Pat McGee Band concert at the The Music Center at Strathmore on Friday, September 29, 2012. Members from Edie from Ohio and The Po…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AMCarol Kane has had a prolific career in theater, film and television, from her Emmy award-winning turn in TAXI as Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, to Madame Morrible in the smash Broadway musical Wick…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMShannon Michael Wamser and Jed Aicher will star in the season opener of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" at West Hartford's Playhouse on Park, 244 Park Road.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:15AMWe've seen this floating around the interwebs for a few weeks and figured it was just a dream cast list cooked up by a theater geek blogger with a love of bold typography.Which is why we nea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMThe Birmingham Stage Company is staging a new production of Roald Dahl's classic book, adapted for the stage by David Wood. Our offer is valid for performances from November to FebruaryJames…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMTom Morris, co-director of the international hit War Horse, is teaming up again with Handspring Puppet Company, who created the puppets for War Horse, for a new production of A Midsummer Nig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:02AMA rare treat for Sondheim fans has made its way off-Broadway: the Keen Company’s revival of Marry Me a Little. The rarely-produced musical comprised entirely of songs from other Stephe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMThe National Theatre has announced details for its upcoming production of the hit play War Horse, which will launch at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth on September 27, and continue through 2013,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMRobert Lepage, the Canadian theatre maker who has regularly brought shows to London's Riverside Studios, National Theatre and Barbican and also directed at the Royal Opera House, is to r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
The National's award-winning production of War Horse, an ongoing success in the West End, on Broadway, in Toronto and on a U.S. tour, is to launch its first tour of the U.K. and Ireland,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:56AMKinky Boots, the new Cyndi Lauper-scored musical based on the 2005 film of the same title about two unlikely business partners, begins a Chicago world-premiere engagement Oct. 2 at the Bank …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMLynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical Seussical, based on the works of Dr. Seuss, is to be presented at London's Arts Theatre, beginning performances Dec. 4, prior to an officia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMMidnight Tango, a dance show featuring Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace of TV's "Strictly Come Dancing," is to return to the West End, beginning a five-week season at the Phoen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:48AM Johnny Rabe will play Ralphie in A Christmas Story , The Musical, based on the 1983 movie, which is scheduled to play at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway from November 5 to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AMThe U.K.'s National Theatre has reported another bumper year both at its home base on London's South Bank and in the West End, with productions playing to an increasingly global reac…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:43AMAn all-star reading of Rob Marshall’s projected film version of Into the Woods was held on October 1, with 2012 Tony Award winners Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur) and James Corden (One Man…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:36AMQueen guitarist Brian May and West End singer Kerry Ellis will reunite onstage for the Born Free tour, a series of 11 intimate and acoustic shows performed under candlelight beginning Nov. 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AMTwo-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole has been cast in Martin Scorsese's upcoming film The Wolf of Wall Street, according to published reports.She will play the mother of the lead ch…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:34AMTickets are now on sale for outrageous new romantic comedy The Performers. The stimulating new play stars Cheyenne Jackson and Daniel Breaker as old high school buddies who run into each oth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:32AMIt appears that Howard Barker has not lost his ability to divide audiences — not even with a play like Scenes from an Execution, first written for radio in 1985 and now appearing on th…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:32AMSandy Duncan, who received a Tony nomination for her portrayal of Peter Pan, will join Peter and the Starcatcher Broadway cast members Adam Chanler-Berat, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Matthew Sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:25AMThe first season of NBC's hit musical drama Smash will come out on DVD on January 8, 2013, according to EW.com.The series, which deals with the behind-the-scenes drama of a new Broadway musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:16AMFollowing a nationwide search, producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical announced Oct. 2 that Johnny Rabe will don Ralphie’s trademark spectacles for the holiday engagement at Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMSINGER AUDITIONS for Young Artists of America’s upcoming Fall Concert, MARTYRS are coming up NEXT WEEK on October 9 & 13! Auditions slots are filling up fast, so be sure to REGI…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMGLASS EYE PIX, in association with FEAR-MONGERS presents TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE live at DIXON PLACE TONIGHT, Tuesday October 2nd at 9:30 PM featuring RAM KING by Joe Maggio (Bitter Feast…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:05AMWatermill Theatre, Bagnor: The idyllic isolation of a magical isle, with an enforced captivity enabling intellectual study and mystical creativity, is the setting for Ben Crystal and Paul Ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AM
The month features a number of ambitious film festivals and the predictable cinematic excursions, classy and crass, into the spooky.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48AMIt's time for episode fourteen of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this week's episode, Randy chats with Liza Minnelli about last week's biggest headline…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMRoger Friedman of Showbiz411.com reports this morning that Focus Features is now at work on turning the film MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY into a new Broadway musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:43AMIan Talbot's revival of classic farce Charley's Aunt, starring Jane Asher and Mathew Horne, among others, opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last night (1 October 2012).First performed i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 08:42AMThe two-time Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed and nationally syndicated The Dr. Oz Show will broadcast a world exclusive interview with Rosie O'Donnell on Monday, Oct. 8, as Dr. Oz i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMREVIEW: Great comic timing and a scene-stealing cast keep this Don Stolz-directed chestnut squarely on the laugh track.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 08:15AMREVIEW: Anne Bertram's play vividly surveys a turbulent time in the campaign for women's rights, when violence was not ruled out.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 08:13AMSometimes you wake up to discover that the world has bestowed a rare gift to you. Something that gives you hope for the world at large. In this case, it’s a YouTube documentary series …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:08AM“Restraint” is a word that is peppered throughout the new translation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Rebecca Lenkiewicz which is MTC’s newest p…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMOn Monday, October 1, playwrights David Lindsay-Abaire and Naomi Wallace were presented with the 2012 Horton Foote Prize, a biennial award named for the late playwright and screenwr
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:02AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 2 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMEveryone – especially fans of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – knows Lewis Black is one of the funniest, most politically astute men in America. Not everyone, however, knows Black is al…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMIt's often been said, "Follow up of Fail" but with the harsh business climate and access to people being what it is today, I think there are some things people need to think about …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 08:00AM
Tonight, October 1, marked the end of the blind auditions on NBC's The Voice. With only two spots left until each team had its sixteen members, the big question on every audience members min…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AMYes, I know it's still months away, and it's an award winning West End show coming to Broadway (hardly "emerging," I know). But if there is one show I'm excited about gracing the Bway in the…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 01:33AMThe five-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical ROCK OF AGES, along with non-profit organization The Boot Campaign a Texas-based non-profit that promotes patriotism and awareness of cur…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel welcomes one of the finest and most noted cabaret stars, Andrea Marcovicci, in her long-awaited Caf Carlyle debut. Ms. Marcoviccis four week engagement at the C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMFEINSTEINS AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Fall 2012 season with the return engagement of Tony Award-winning actress and singer BETTY BUCKLEY. In an exclusive four-week run, Ms. Buckley w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThis fall, the New York International Fringe Festival hit Unspeakable - described as a dramatic fantasia inspired by the life of comedic icon Richard Pryor - will come to Chicago on the Roya…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMGeorge Street Playhouse and Artistic Director David Saint have announced that full casting for their 2012-13 season opener, One Slight Hitch, has been completed. Joining the previously-annou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, October 2, 2012 at 630 p.m. at the Seagram Building Plaza 375 Park Avenue, hundreds of guests will join Studio in a School Founder Agnes Gund, event co-chairmen Caroline Kennedy, Sa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe new tour for JEKYLL amp HYDE will kick off its 25- week National Tour in San Diego tonight, October 2nd This new tour stars RampB superstar Deborah Cox as Lucy and American Idol and ROCK…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMIf people can tweet at religious services for Jewish high holy days, can tweet seats at all your performances be far behind? Well, obviously the reality is much more complicated than that. S…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:03AMI've written about the singer-mandolinist Chris Thile on numerous occasions, both here and elsewhere, always with the utmost enthusiasm. He's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMFrom 2006, some thoughts on the death of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: We are all flawed creatures, and one of the impenetrable...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"He didn't have anything to say about death; the only thing he ever had anything to say about was music....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMOlivia Wilde
We sit down with the lovely and talented Olivia Wilde to hear all about her outrageous role as a stripper in the offbeat comedy, 'Butter'! She also talks about how being the chi…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMJulia Gartha, the 17-year-old from Unionville, was the third potential Dorothy to be eliminated during Monday night’s episode of the CBC-TV show Over the Rainbow.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:00AMDirector Doug Hughes has unleashed his actors and advised them to go full throttle in this uneven and cold rendering of this updated politics as usual play
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 01:00AMBackstage at STOMP
We are backstage at the Orpheum Theatre in New York where the cast of 'STOMP' have been pounding out some amazing beats with ordinary everyday objects for almost two decad…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
By Peter Filichia--
October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over.
So wouldn’t this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time?
Or, as Nane…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:31AMYou have to follow closely in Pig Iron Theatre Company’s “Zero Cost House,” a collaboration between the Philadelphia-based experimentalists and Japanese writer Toshiki Okada that was o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19AMOur critic, Shannon Christy, may not have liked the set for the COC's Il Trovatore, but it makes for some glorious pictures, including this one from the one and only Michael Cooper. (l-r&nbs…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMSelf-inflicted woundsThe internet was supposed to kill print...think againby Gaëtan L. Charlebois(Patience...this IS about theatre...eventually.)Scratch a media pundit and they will bemoan …
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMRachel York is good company on the national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, launching Oct. 2 in Cleveland. Her shipmates in the transatlantic-set show include Fred Applega…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoger Rifkin, Christopher Ryan and Lauren Elaine Taylor star in the Musicals Tonight production of Red, Hot and Blue — the 1930s musical featuring a score by Cole P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTa'Rea Campbell stars as nightclub singer-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier in the national tour of the Tony Award-nominated musical Sister Act, which takes audiences to heaven beginni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe first national tour of Catch Me If You Can, which officially launches in Providence, RI, Oct. 7, prepares to take off in a preview engagement beginning Oct. 2 at the Pullo Center in York…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLauren Molina and Jason Tam co-star in the Keen Company's new production of the two-person Stephen Sondheim revue Marry Me a Little, featuring new songs and a modern-day twist, which off…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMusical theatre veteran Andrew Varela, currently touring the country as Javert in the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of rand…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFollowing a preview engagement at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Nederlander Presentations' Broadway-aimed production of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde officially…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCabaret favorite Andrea Marcovicci, who recently celebrated her 25th anniversary season at the Algonquin Hotel's now-closed Oak Room, plays her first engagement at the Café Carlyl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJarrod Spector returns to the Broadway company of the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys Oct. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony winner Betty Buckley, who will star in the London revival of Jerry Herman's Dear World in 2013, returns to Feinstein's at Loews Regency Oct. 2 with a new show entitled The Other…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSignature Theatre's staging of Christopher Shinn's homefront drama Dying City, featuring Thomas Keegan and Helen Hayes Award nominee Rachel Zampelli under the direction of Matthew Ga…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPortland Center Stage in Oregon unveils the world premiere of The Body of an American, about a war photographer haunted by the spirit of the soldier whose body he photographed, Oct. 2-Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMarvell Rep presents Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance beginning Oct. 2, prior to an official opening Oct. 7, at the TBG Theatre in New York City. The work will play in rotating repert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCurtis Holbrook, whose Broadway credits include The Addams Family, West Side Story and Xanadu, joins the North American tour of The Addams Family Oct. 2 in Dallas. The musical's cur…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger-actor Alfie Boe, who won a joint Tony Award for his work in the Broadway revival of La Bohème, kicks off his fall U.S. concert tour Oct. 2 in Dallas, TX.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1890 Julius Henry Marx is born in New York. Under the nickname "Groucho," he and his brothers form one of the most enduring comedy acts ever, The Marx Brothers, rising from Vaudevi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMusical theatre veteran Andrew Varela, currently touring the United States as Inspector Javert in the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables, fills out Playbill.com's quest…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
'People' opens at the Manhattan Theater Club
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