"Then She Fell," the latest production by the experiential-theater company Third Rail Projects, is inspired by author Lewis Carroll and staged in a repurposed Brooklyn hospital.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:46PMIt's boot camp this week on The X Factor - so whether you missed the show or just want to re-live the drama, read on for a full recap of tonight's episode
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32PMMark C. Hotton, a stockbroker who introduced a producer of the musical to the mysterious investor Paul Abrams, is the subject of an unrelated federal fraud investigation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMIn Jeffrey Hatcher's unruly, though not unrewarding, Ten Chimneys, now at Theatre at St. Clement's, the playwright examines an unconventional marriage for the glue holding it together. This…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMHome may be where the heart is, but as Andrea Marcovicci proved on the opening night of Smile, her delicious new show that marks her debut at the Cafe Carlyle, home is where the pictures of …
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Gentle readers, Here is a link to my article for LA Stage Times where I chatted with singer and musician Sophie B. Hawkins, and her writer/director Gigi Gaston, about their show Room 105, th…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:54PMProducers Whoopi Goldberg, Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment announce casting for the North American Tour of five-time Tony Award nominated musical SISTER ACT. Called In a word, D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:50PMWith election season approaching, some of America's most influential members of society are encouraging the masses to get up, get out, and vote. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at EVITA's Ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PMWhen I met a cute twentysomething guy a couple of weeks ago at an event and he asked me how old I was, I quickly answered “37”. Oops, I’m not 37, but I guess I’m already at that age …
SOURCE: From the Ledge at 07:46PMActor Andre DeShields, a veteran of Broadway, who most recently appeared in the Goodman Thetre’s controversial production of the Tennessee Williams play, “Camino Real,” has received a …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:36PMAs you may have heard, Barbra Streisand will soon return to the borough of her birth, Brooklyn, to give two concerts in the brand new Barclays Center. If you're a big Barbra fan but you can'…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:25PMChicago improvisational comedy will once again be in the spotlight this weekend with the inaugural Four Star Comedy Fest at Navy Pier. “Saturday Night Live” alumni Tim Meadows will appea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:12PMAlfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, the first couple of 20th-century English-speaking theater, were stage-obsessed (they turned down million-dollar movie offers), insisted on always working toget…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:08PMJorge Luis Prats' performance was absolutely breathtaking, and one had the sense of being at a historic recital, of discovering a hugely gifted, yet virtually unknown, artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:05PMOur Boys shines a light on young war veterans in a military hospital in the early Eighties. A hit at the Donmar Warehouse in 1995, this new revival balances brash humour alongside some …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PMCenter Theatre Group's Robert Egan will direct Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum. The play that received a 2012 Tony nomination for Best Play will be presented in…
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Michael LamontThe Celebration Theatre's new musical, "Justin Love."
Casa 0101 and the Latino Equity Alliance present "Coming Out" Day (Thursday, October 11) in Boyle Heights, in associati…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 06:59PMOPENING THE ARSONISTS. Trap Door Theatre presents a sociological study of a society that refuses to question overt exploitation. Directed by Victor Quezada-Perez. Opens Oct. 11. Thu-Sat, 8 p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:52PMEd Begley Jr. and David Mamet aren't necessarily on the same page in their personal political perspectives, but they are on the same stage, more or less, in Mamet's 2008 political comedy abo…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:44PMAccording to TVGuide.com, Broadway veteran Marissa Jaret Winokur will guest star on NBC's 'Guys with Kids.' On the October 24 episode, she'll play Lydia Allmendinger - 'seemingly well put to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMMamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar will be on tonight’s Boot Camp episode of “The X Factor.” I’ll be updating this post after her performance tonight and speakin…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:42PMBroadway star Robert Cuccioli, best known for his Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winning and Tony-nominated performance as the star of Jekyll and Hyde, is starring in another dual role …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMRoundabout Theatre Company just launched the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award winning Anything Goes, starring Rachel York as Reno Sweeney. The national tour will set sail in Cleveland on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMCostume designer Amy Clark gives Broadway.com an inside peek at original sketches, swatches and concepts for Chaplin’s glamorous black-and-white wardrobe, and pays a tearful tribute to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:08PMThe Broadway production of the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages, at the Helen Hayes Theatre, held a Military Tribute Night on Monday, October 2. The evening was presented in partnership
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:06PMThe theatrical series Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 will receive its first American premiere at the Public Theater as part of the company’s 2013 Under the Radar Festival. The play, conc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMThis installment of Gotta Dance! showcases Suzanne Hylenski, who is currently making her “practically perfect” Broadway debut in the ensemble of Mary Poppins. But this hoofer is …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMDoes Gwyneth Paltrow have the beat? The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the celebrated film star is in talks to develop a stage musical featuring the retro-pop tunes of the Go-Gos.The all…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:01PM
Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to collaborate on a theatrical production based on the 1980s all-girl group The Go-Go's, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:59PMMichael Benz is a youthful, high-spirited Hamlet in a visiting production from Shakespeare’s Globe of London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PMTickets are on sale for the Media at Large Productions' revival of Tennessee Williams’ play In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. The production, which incorporates live stre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMLegendary Broadway Music Director Darren Cohen signs on as Vocal Harmony Specialist and Music Director for The Youth Orchestra of the Low Countrys 40th anniversary concert series kickoff per…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMToday, Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director announced that the Honorary Chairs, Sheldon Harnick and Maury Yeston join Encompass New Opera Theatre in celebrating Alan Menkens life in the American …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:52PMAfter centuries of repression by the phallocentric hegemony, the vagina has become very chatty. Now an acclaimed monologist, with a biography by Naomi Wolf out in hardback, it takes the epon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:52PMAs Amy Morton begins her run in the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, filming has simultaneously started on the film adaptation of the Tony-winning play August: Os…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:50PMFind out if the butler did it when Goodspeed Musicals brings intrigue and amusement to the Opera House stage with its production of the musical whodunitSomethings Afoot. This hilarious music…
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SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:46PMNCM Fathom Events, Omniverse Vision, and The Broadway League will present a cinema broadcast of the ongoing Jesus Christ Superstar UK Rock Spectacular tour on Monday, October 29 and Thursday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:45PMThird Street Music School Settlement will host its 118th Anniversary Luncheon on October 25 from noon to 2 pm at Gotham Hall. Tony Award-winning director and producer Hal Prince will serve …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:43PMRemy Bumppo's rehearsal space at 3717 N Ravenswood has availability beginning mid-October. Rates vary from $11 - $16 per hour, depending on hours scheduled per week. Approximately 800 sq f…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 05:39PMCelebrating the American Spirit, performed by Essential Voices USA EVUSA and conducted by Judith Clurman along with guest artists, Broadway stars Kelli OHara and Ron Raines and composer-arra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMThe first new Broadway production of Tim Rices and Andrew Lloyd Webbers landmark musical EVITA since its premiere over 30 years ago stars Grammy-winning international pop icon Ricky Martin a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMBucks County Playhouse BCP Jed Bernstein, Producing Director has announced a Halloween Festival on Saturday, October 27th beginning at 130 p.m. in front of the Bucks County Playhouse 70 Sout…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMOK. Playing catchup on a few experiences of the past few days. Had to get some thoughts out about public book readings this morning and now will devote some time to sharing brief thoughts ab…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:30PMSoho Rep has announced plans for its 2012-2013 fall-winter season of mainstage productions.The season's first offering will be Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present a Presentation …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:19PMCharlie Chaplin is an intimidating role to take on, and Rob McClure is earning rich accolades for his starmaking performance in the title role in "Chaplin" on Broadway at the Barrymore Theat…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:18PMIt is an age-old question haunting some of us: What exactly is wit and what humor? Though hard to define individually, the difference between them is worth consideration and identifiable. Be…
SOURCE: John Simon at 05:18PMConnecticut Repertory Theatre CRT will present the regional premiere of Theresa Rebecks new play O Beautiful, October 4 14 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, Storrs. For tickets and infor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:15PMBroadway veterans Kelli O'Hara -- currently starring on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It -- and Ron Raines -- who is about to begin performances in Broadway's Newsies -- will be featu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMEntertainment Weekly editor Jess Cagle will moderate the post-performance anti-bullying talk-back featuring Ben Cohen, MBE, founder of The Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation, Dan Savage, co-founde…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:13PMIt is well known that rural communities today face many challenges, such as declining and aging populations, youth retention, limited economic and social opportunities, depleting natural res…
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An adaptation of Ralph Ellison's landmark novel The Invisible Man is electrifying audiences in the nation's capital. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to the writer, director and star about bringing…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:56PMThis nun means business. Jessica Lange is ready to reform some sinners in the freaky new trailer for the second installment of American Horror Story. The sophomore season of the hit thriller…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:44PMSoho Rep's upcoming fall-winter season will include the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's marathon work, Life and Times: Episodes 1-4, which will be staged at the Public Theater as part o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMBroadwayWorld is proud to announce the expansion of our ever-growing Classifieds section. As of now, production companies, theaters, and readers in the New York City and Los Angeles regions …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36PMThe five-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical Rock of Ages hosted an Oct. 2 Military Tribute Night, welcoming 160 Active Duty, Retired and Veteran members of the U.S. Military.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PMIn the new trailer for The Guilt Trip, Barbra Streisand tackles the role she was born to play: an in-your-face Jewish mother! Streisand stars in the comedy alongside Seth Rogen, whose charac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PM(Editor’s Note: This press release reached us with news of Zakaria Zubeidi’s release from his hunger strike in a Jericho prison. Zubeidi is the co-founder of The Freedom Theatre,…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:19PMIt’s been over a decade since Modern Family funnyman Ty Burrell appeared on Broadway in MacBeth, but the Emmy winner will soon spend time rubbing elbows with Broadway elite. Not only i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMStarring in the Broadway blockbuster Wicked keeps Jackie Burns on her toes, but it’s these five things that make her life easier backstage. Bet you've never done this with apple ci…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMWhat makes us artists? I'm pretty sure it's not the fact that we create; it's the intention behind why we create. I'm probably the luckiest person I know, in the sense that I am surrounded b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PM
Inspired by the novel and the subsequent film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw, Erich Segal's modern romantic classic comes to the stage in Love Story, the musical, making its U.S. premi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:59PMNature Theater of Oklahoma's opus has toured internationally but has not been produced in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMLILLA CRAWFORD IS ANNIE MADI RAE DIPIETRO IS JULY GEORGI JAMES IS PEPPER JUNAH JANG IS TESSIE TYRAH SKYE ODOMS IS KATE TAYLOR RICHARSON IS DUFFY EMILY ROSENFELD IS MOLLY AND STANDBY JAIDYN Y…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:44PMAudiences often marvel at actors’ ability to memorize long speeches and complex dialogue. But few memorization jobs are as daunting as that of I Am My Own Wife. When Tom Wahl stands alone …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 03:38PMAs Heather Headley preps to take on the music of Whitney Houston in the West End musical adaptation of The Bodyguard, the Tony winner is also releasing a new solo album. Only One I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:38PMIf Maddy Costa’s interview with Howard Barker in the Guardian the other day seemed a bit brief, and Barker more pugnacious than usual, “The Curious Romance of Howard Barker,̶…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:37PMPitch Perfect is just that. It’s quotable and laugh-out-loud funny. It has winning musical numbers and a cast that hits all the right notes, both literally and figuratively. Of course we�…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 03:30PMSusan Boyle, who rose to fame with her performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" on the British TV talent show "Britain's Got Talent," will cover show tunes in her upcoming …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMTopher Grace – who starred Off-Broadway earlier this year in Lonely, I'm Not – will join the film cast of A Many Splintered Thing, according to Deadline.com.Directed by Justin Reardon, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:21PMBroadway.com is the home for everything Broadway, but theater fans know that amazing productions are happening all around the country. In this new feature, Broadway.com will offer a weekly r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMBroadway.com is the home for everything Broadway, but theater fans know that amazing productions are happening all around the country. In this new feature, Broadway.com will offer a weekly r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMSecond Stage Theatre has canceled five preview performances of Jon Kerns world premiere comedy, Modern Terrorism, Or They Who Want To Kills Us and How We Learn To Love Them, due to actor ill…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMJanet Brenner and Michael Coco are to present three free-of-charge performances of the new musical Fiction in Photographs, October 10-12 at New World Stages.Featuring the music and lyrics of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMIt had been a long time since I had walked into a roomful of strangers and felt such an immediate sense of camaraderie and kinship. That was exactly my reaction upon entering the West Villag…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:08PMThe Broadway actor Andre De Shields is headed to do some extensive work at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre. The Fox Foundation announced Wednesday that de Shields has been awarded $25,000 …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:08PMWilliam Shakespeare once wrote: "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." That seems to be the guiding philosophy behind a new line of Shakespeare e-book…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:08PMGavin Creel is leading the mission across the U.S. in the national tour of The Book of Mormon. Listen to the Tony nominee talk about starring as Elder Price and why America’s going to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMGavin Creel is leading the mission across the U.S. in the national tour of The Book of Mormon. Listen to the Tony nominee talk about starring as Elder Price and why America’s going to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:07PMJake Gyllenhaal, currently starring Off-Broadway in If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, will join Tony Award winner and megastar Hugh Jackman in the upcoming film, Prisoners, according to De…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:04PM
Though the subjett matter of M.E.H. Lewis' *Freshly Fallen Snow" is disturbing, the journey, like the comforting thought of snow, is quite beautiful. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:54PMOn last night's episode of NBC's new comedy THE NEW NORMAL titled 'THE BIG O.M.G' Broadway's favorite funny lady Jackie Hoffman guest starred as 'Francis', David Justin Bartha's mother. In t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:53PMSome novelists and poets are extraordinary readers. By all accounts, Charles Dickens was an incredible orator. And I've gotten goosebumps while listening to Dylan Thomas read Under Milk Wood…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:48PMSomewhere out there, an opera ghost is very proud of his muse. Original Phantom of the Opera star Sarah Brightman has announced her Dreamchaser World Tour will stop at Radio City Music …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMJust before she died in 1970, Janis Joplin was spotted at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. Now, writer-director Gigi Gaston and singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins hope that Joplin's spir…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:38PMFive preview performances of Jon Kern’s Modern Terrorism have been canceled due to the illness of an actor. No understudies are listed in the production’s program. The Second Sta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMRadio City Music Hall will welcome soprano Sarah Brightman on February 8.The performance will be part of Brightman's "Dreamchaser" world tour, in support of her new album, which will be rele…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMFrom his vantage point in south Florida, writer Denis Brian says he hears little of "how supportive President Obama has been to Israel. Every one of his statements, votes and positions has b…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 02:36PM3 days to see a New Musical FREEOctober 10-11-12 The show: FICTION IN PHOTOGRAPHS, The Place: New World Stages34…
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:35PMI am finally able to announce the news you have been waiting to hear. My fourth album is called Standing Ovation The Greatest Songs From The Stage, although from some of the comments Ive rea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33PMSecond Stage Theatre has delayed the official opening of Modern Terrorism, Or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them from October 15 to the new date of October 18. The reaso…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:32PMTweetGood enough from the Goonies is one of my favorite movie showtunes. The movie the Goonies is one of the most popular and well known movies from the 80′s. Everyone remembers the ch…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 02:27PMOverall, KILL VIKTOR, Vol. 1&2 is a fun late night show for the Halloween season; a flashy, frenetic, decent comedy. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:27PMWith the 35th anniversary revival of the beloved Great Depression-era musical Annie beginning performances this week, Playbill.com looks back at the original Broadway production, a few notab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:26PMLet's see what the critics had to say
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:25PM54 Below invites you to get a little closer to your favorite Broadway stars this November. Tony winner Michael Cerveris, legends Len Cariou and Leslie Uggams and belters Liz Callaway and Eli…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMEvery first Wednesday of the month, get caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me to…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:23PMActor illness has forced Second Stage Theatre to cancel several preview performances of the world premiere of Jon Kern's dark comedy Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PMGlyndebourne, this is not. Welcome to opera for the next generation; where jeans and trainers are encouraged, punters can drink in bars and the young audiences can even stick on their headph…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:22PMMizzou conservation program assists Missouri zoos
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:21PM11th Hour Theatre Company will kick off its upcoming season with a concert performance of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the first production of their new Next Step Concert Series, November 3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15PMNora Cole, Andre De Shields, Maggie Lacey, Geoffrey L. Simmons, Jr., and Bruce Turk are among the seventh round of recipients of the Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group's Residen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:12PMEven the most seasoned Stephen Sondheim connoisseurs will appreciate the Keen Company's off-Broadway revival of Marry Me a Little, a sung-through revue featuring some of master's mor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:11PMAurora Theatre Company has announced that founding artistic director Barbara Oliver will return for the company's 21st season to direct Wilder Times, a collection of one-act plays by Thornto…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:08PMTony Award-winning composer/lyricist Adam Guettel has become the first Artist-in-Residence in Pace University's Musical Theater program within the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences.Guettel,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:06PMEach 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 02:05PMMusicals Tonight! will continue its At This Performance… series, an ongoing tribute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, with a concert on October 8 at 7pm at The Lion …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04PMThe Countess and I caught this musical parody of Silence of the Lambs the other night, in the Elektra Theatre, a venue that is to die for, in the Times Scare complex (the former Show World)…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:03PMOn a quiet stretch of Christopher Street near the Hudson River, the New Ohio Theatre not only found a new home in the historic Greenwich Village Archive Building but a partner in fostering t…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 02:02PMKyle Dean Massey, who plays the role of Fiyero in the Broadway production of Wicked, will join the previously reported Ben Cohen -- MBE, founder of The Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation -- and Da…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02PMThe upcoming New York City developmental lab of the new Randy Redd-Dan Mills musical Fiction in Photographs, featuring Lauren Pritchard, Adam Halpin and Cole Burden, is now open to the publi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PM
Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced full casting for the Broadway premiere of THE OTHER PLACE, the new play by Sharr White, directed by two-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMOver the weekend, I was listening to the “Things to Ruin” album by Joe Iconis and I realized that is my go-to album whenever I really want to dance around my room, rock out and j…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 01:59PMIt’s hard for me to believe it but five years ago today my first post went up on Theatre Aficionado at Large. I was amazed when this blog turned one year; I’m completely astounde…
SOURCE: Theatre Aficionado at Large at 01:56PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival's annual performance competition is showcasing some incredible talent for two more weeks -- so don't miss out
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:55PMThe first trailer for the Paramount Pictures comedy THE GUILT TRIP starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogan has been released. The film is set to hit theaters on December 25. Get a first loo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMThe trailer has been released for the new comedy "The Guilt Trip," starring Tony and Academy Award winner Barbra Streisand and "Muppets" star Seth Rogen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMHer plays arrive fully formed – and she refuses to talk about what they mean. Mark Lawson talks to actors, directors and her publisher about what really makes Churchill tickSince the death…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMTCM has been paying crazy big dividends lately. Sleep deprived last night from having stayed up til 2am the previous night to watch Dante’s Inferno (1935) (the last remaining movie o…
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SOURCE: Vulture at 01:38PMThe playwright talks about his first musical, "The House of Von Macrame," showing as work-in-progress on Fri., Oct. 5
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:37PMEvents are shown in conjunction with exhibit, " Jonathan Horowitz: Your Land/My Land: Election '12"
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:37PMThe prologue that draws us into the Teatro Lirico of DC’s La Dolorosa (The Woman of Sorrows), a zarzuela by Jose Serrano, is totally mystifying. A dark-haired young woman, hugging a sw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:31PMLynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce full casting for the Broadway premiere of THE OTHER PLACE, the new play by Sharr White, directed…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:27PMThe subtle secrets of the “Virginia Woolf” set On the surface, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? seems like a strange match for set designer Todd Rosenthal. Edward Albee̵…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:26PMThe collapse of the $12 million musical Rebecca in the days before rehearsals were to begin on Oct. 1 was mourned by the cast and staff at a meeting called by the producers. The suddenly une…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:26PMIt’s the one that we want gift-wrapped for the holidays. “Grease” co-stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are collaborating on a new holiday-themed album, “This Christmas.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:23PMDoes Martin Short tweet? The answer is no, and he explains why in his appearance on the Wednesday, October 3 episode of Anderson Cooper's talk show, Anderson Live.Short won a Tony Award for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMNederlander Sales amp Patron Services, Camp Broadway and BroadwayWorld.com are excited to hold the fourth annual At This Stage Education Expo on October 15th at the Minskoff Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17PMThe New York Times artsbeatblog reports that Kristen Chenoweth and Sean Hayes will be among the roster of celebrities who will join talk show host Ellen DeGeneres when she receives the Mark …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:15PMPhoto by David Gordon for Theater Mania Our Photo of the Week is the new digital marquee for DEAD ACCOUNTS at the Music Box Theatre. As beautiful as Mr. Gordon’s twilit snapshot is, th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:14PMDrama Desk Award-nominated designer Chris March, known for his appearance on "Project Runway," will debut his trailer park-set take on the beloved Christmas tale "The Nutcrack…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:14PM “My View” written by Stephen Sorokoff I guess “Smile” is the appropriate word as the title of Andrea Marcovicci’s show. As she was performing I looked around…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:12PMLaurie Metcalf’s daughter, Zoe Perry, will join the Emmy-winning actress as her stage daughter in Manhattan Theatre Club’s previously reported production of Sharr White’s T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company presents Marry Me A Little, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman Ren, directed by Keen Artistic D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMFull casting has been announced for "Viva Forever!". The new jukebox musical will feature the previously announced Sally Ann Triplett as Lauren the mother in the show and Hannah John-Lamen a…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 01:01PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:01PMZoe Perry, John Schiappa, and Daniel Stern will join Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf in Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway production of Sharr White's The Other Place, to begin previews at t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Fresh from Broadway, theres laughter on every page, courtesy of Peabody Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck, a prolific master in the art of quarrelsome comedy. Lightning…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMThe Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, will feature the previously announced Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe William & Eva Fox Foundation and TCG are pleased to announce the seventh round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship recipients. The program is designed to support actors’ pr…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:54PMThe show just opened last night, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there for all the festivities. Check out what the cast had to say at the big opening below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMAnne-Marie Duff is superbly tormented and vivid in the title role, but the drama itself is somewhat arid, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMCOSPLAYING WITH THE BARD A delightful dash through Shakespearean tropes is now the two hours’ traffic of The Connelly Theater stage. Siblings separated in a tempest, long lost lovers, conj…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44PMBroadway veterans Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Hayes, and Lily Tomlin are among the notables who will pay tribute to Ellen DeGeneres at the 15th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for America…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:42PMRebecca cast member Karen Mason has written an open letter regarding the the show's recent postponement and the speculation and gossip regarding the musical's lead producer, Ben Sprecher.Mas…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:37PMNew Manhattan nightspot 54 Below, which features a starry lineup of Broadway favorites, has announced its schedule for October and November. Tony Award winners Andrea Martin and Leslie Uggam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonDesigner Simon Daw transforms the space into an enchanting, Narnia-style winter wonderland, but there is nothing magical about the Ukrainian forest where a deaf Ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThis evening (3 October 2012) we're taking nearly 200 theatregoers to see Trevor Nunn's West End revival of Alan Ayckbourn's amdram comedy A Chorus of Disapproval.The production, which stars…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:23PMOscar and Grammy-winning composer Stephen Schwartz will host the upcoming Next Broadway Sensation Songwriter Showcase, to be held Friday, October 5 at New World Stages.The concert, co-produc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMDeadline reports that Benedict Cumberbatch may take on the role of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in DreamWorks upcoming film from director Bill Condon. Joel Kinnaman is set to play former…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMTribute shows don’t get more robust and all-embracing than Let It Be, the audience-rousing canter through the Beatles’ catalog of hits that is newly opened at London’s Prin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:16PMWritten by: Alix Cohen Christine Andreas stylishly swings Harold Arlen’s first hit “Get Happy” with reference to Judy Garland’s rendition in the film Summer Stock. Jazz phrasi…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:16PMBroadway funny lady Jackie Hoffman just made her debut on TV's The New Normal as a Bravo-watching, sex-crazed, four-star chef...and we love everything she is serving!…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMBroadway funny lady Jackie Hoffman just made her debut on TV's The New Normal as a Bravo-watching, sex-crazed, four-star chef...and we love everything she is serving!…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14PMThe interactive Off-Broadway event Sleep No More has announced an upcoming celebration of Halloween that will begin Oct. 26 at the McKittrick Hotel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMProducers Janet B. Rosen and Christina Papagjika will present two invitation-only staged readings of the hit Off-Broadway musical In Transit on Friday, October 12, 2012. Tony Award-winner Ch…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMWatch out stagehands. Kirstie Alley has been tapped to play a high-maintenance Broadway star in a new TV Land presentation (think pilot, but cheaper) Giant Baby, according to The Washington …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PMThis 1964 movie has a reputation for being an “early gore film”, but not to worry (if you’re worried–I was) , it contains very little of what a modern viewer would co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:04PMStage and screen veteran Danny Glover, singer Vy Higginsen, and arts producer Mikki Shepard were honored by the Harlem Arts Alliance on Tuesday, October 2 at the organization's Harlem Arts S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:03PMKelvin Moon Loh and I are fellow citizens of Twitterland; I first discovered his blog where he jots down his experience being an Asian American Idiot on tour of Green Day's punk rock musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Classy A-listers Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler and Uma Thurman are about to get down and dirty in the upcoming ensemble comedy Movie 43. In what seems like a mix …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMI thought I knew just about everything there is to know of the Greek myths until I saw this production of Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:59AMKathryn M. Lipuma, executive director of Glencoe-based Writers’ Theatre, has just been named to the board of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the Ameri…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:58AMALBERT CADABRA: The Great Deceiver is a professional, award-winning, comedy sideshow magician who delivers powerful, amazing and devilishly wild magic. Albert pushes and twists the boundari…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:49AMThis is the most romantic "Dream" I've ever seen, although it's also the most surprising clash of costuming visions, too.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:48AMThe universal language of the blues speaks eloquently in this scorching, Tony-nominated musical! The twenty-six hot, torchy numbers that tell the sweet, sexy and sorrowful stories of four co…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:47AMLiv Ullmann is planning to direct her own translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Doll’s House on Broadway, the actress/director revealed during an interview on The Leonard Lopat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:45AMTheatre Uncut will feature 16 new plays from international writers this year, including the UK’s Clara Brennan, Stef Smith and Kieran Hurley. They join the previously announced writers Nei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMLegit Reviews:
The stylistic and tonal formality of the 17th century French tragedian's plays are routinely regarded as more forbidding than theatrically forthcoming.
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMCasting well-known names from TV or film has become a sure-fire way of generating ticket sales. But it blinds us to the true depth and breadth of British theatreAlthough theatre reviewing ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMCasting well-known names from TV or film has become a sure-fire way of generating ticket sales. But it blinds us to the true depth and breadth of British theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMJust last night, the five-time Tony Award nominated Broadway musical ROCK OF AGES hosted a Military Tribute Night, at which 160 Active Duty, Retired amp Veteran members of the U.S. Military …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMListen up Christian Grey fans...looks like the popular Fifty Shades of Grey novels are getting the Law & Order treatment with the help of four-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza. The ac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:35AMSteve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon has announced its first holiday song contest, with a chance to win an appearance in the New Year's Eve show finale at Club Fugazi.To enter the contest, f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:32AMThe borders between farming and performance art are wonderfully blurry for me. Actually, I think we are better farmers when we approach agriculture through the arts because we can engage our…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:30AMAlan Hollinghurst's new translation of Racine's tragedy of unfulfilled passion Berenice opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night (2 October 2012).
The play recounts the tragic love stor…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:28AMNever mind the Presidential debates tonight (although they may be monstrous enough)! This evening TCM is showing a KILLER line-up of classic horror movies from the 30s and 40s. (Pun intended…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:26AMThere’s a reason why Toby’s Dinner Theater is packing them in for Color Purple—excellent casting, beautiful vocals, and spirited direction tell a poignant story of human fortitude and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMThe gorgeous Broadway productions of Follies, Chinglish and Death of a Salesman, as well as the off-Broadway drama Tribes, all received 2012 Henry Hewes Design Awards. These four production…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMWhile assembling the Broadway list of fall openings, I began to notice a -- a what? -- a trend? Should we just call it a shift in the wind? Is it genuine enough to constitute a new reality? …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:13AMNewsies Tony winner Christopher Gattelli will direct and choreograph two invitation-only staged readings of In Transit, the a cappella musical presented by Primary Stages in 2010.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:12AMMorgan James, Ryann Redmond, and Leslie Odom, Jr. are among the stage stars who have joined the cast of Rockers on Broadway: Behind the Music, to be held at the new Cutting Room (44 East 32n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:11AMTalk about a well-muscled fight! If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet star Jake Gyllenhaal will face off against Broadway vet Hugh Jackman in the new thriller Prisoners, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:09AMWONDER WEDNESDAY
On Wednesdays I look at various chapters in Wonder Woman’s history. Click here for previous installments, including Greg Rucka’s run and the current “New 52” era. We…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:09AMLauren 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 11:08AMAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, actress and singer Gwyneth Paltrow is in talks to collaborate with producers Donovan Leitch and Rick Ferrari on a theatrical production based on The Go-G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMThe Skriker - Red Tape Theatre, 621 W. Belmont, is offering $15 industry tickets to all performances through October 20. Tickets are available at our website www.redtapetheatre.org. Use co…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:05AMThis morning, October 3, the following letter was composed by one of the Principal cast members of REBECCA, Karen Mason, in hopes of clearing up the ongoing speculation of the cancelled Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMWhen I was a kid and used to go to Red Sox games . . . (I know, I just lost all my NY readers, to whom I say . . . bite me! How many more World Series rings do you want?) . . . ok, back …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMA series of special events are scheduled to celebrate the Broadway premiere of Craig Wright's Grace, which officially opens Oct. 4 at the Cort Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:00AM
“Don’t speak unless you are spoken to and don’t walk through any doors,” I was strictly warned upon entering Arts@Renaissance to experience Then She Fell, the thrillingly sensual int…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:57AMKorner Theatricals is to present Paul Carter Harrison's The Great MacDaddy, November 10-December 9 at 777 Theater. Alfred Preisser will direct.The Great MacDaddy examines the African-Americ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:52AMThe Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company presents Marry Me A Little, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, conceived by Craig Lucas and Norman Ren, directed by Keen Artistic D…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMWe are pleased to announce the new leadership of our board of directors, as well as six new members! Lydia R. Diamond, playwright, and Diane Rodriguez, associate producer/director of new p…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:42AMRoundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood will open Nov. 13 at Studio 54. Previews begin Oct. 19. Cast members posed for phot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMEven if you’ve been in a coma for the past month, the news
certainly must have gotten to you by now that the first of the debates between
President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:37AMIf Cinderella had a Facebook page, what would she have posted? Just ask Laura Osnes, who will play the title role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella on Broadway. While discuss…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:35AMCAROLS FOR A CURE is the annual two-disc holiday CD compilation of original songs and holiday classics which benefits BCEFA. These CDs boast the best voices from the worlds of Broadway, Off-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue Oct. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMNEW YORK—Colman Domingo is finishing a new play that he also stars in. That might be enough work for some.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:28AMNEW YORK (AP) -- Colman Domingo is finishing a new play that he also stars in. That might be enough work for some. But not Colman Domingo....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:27AMAbove the Stag Theatre (ATS), who formerly resided in Victoria, will this year produce its adult pantomime at the Landor Theatre in Clapham, as the company enters negotiations for a new venu…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:24AMBirmingham Hippodrome: Peter Wright's Swan Lake is a masterpiece, with all the elements which make up a superb production securely in place.
Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMThe Drama League announced Tuesday that it will honor five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald at its 29th Musical Celebration of Broadway, on February 11, 2013. “Audra McDonald, i…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:17AMAlthough Hamlet still doesn't take revenge on his murdered father until the corpse-strewn final scene, nobody will ever accuse this title figure of being slow to act in the Shakespeare's Glo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMScreen favorite, organic chef, creator of all things Goop and Glee star Gwyneth Paltrow may be adding another credit to her eclectic resume: musical producer. According to The Hollywood Repo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:12AMKorner Theatrical in association with the Negro Ensemble Company will present Paul Carter Harrison’s award-winning 1974 musical The Great MacDaddy beginning Nov. 10 at Manhattan's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMNew Yorkers will get a sneak peek at material from Flashdance — The Musical during a special concert Oct. 15 at 54 Below. The evening promises hits from the film and new material penne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMGrace, the new 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’ BU…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:06AMStage and screen favorite Whoopi Goldberg will make an appearance on ABC's mysterious new drama 666 Park Avenue, according to TVGuide.The actress and talk show host will play Maris Elder, a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMBroadway ticket sales made a slight jump through the week ending September 30 with overall sales up $94,000 over the previous week's $17 million. According to figures posted by The Broadway …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:03AMby Aislinn Rose Last Friday I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Healey, whose play Proud is currently onstage at The Berkeley Street Theatre. On beer, small people, confessions, and p…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:00AM“War Horse” may be closing soon on Broadway, but The National Theatre is gearing up for a ten month tour of the production in the U.K. and Ireland for next year. The Tony Award-winning p…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM
Berenice conforms to the governing rules of the ‘unities’ laid out by Aristotle, which require the play to be ‘coherent, a unified whole, within twenty-four hours, in the same …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:56AM"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical that debuted earlier this year at the La Jolla Playhouse, has set a March opening on Broadway. The folksy production, about a group of people competing…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:54AMTony nominee Raúl Esparza, most recently on Broadway in Leap of Faith, has landed a recurring role on NBC's "Law & Order: SVU.”
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMActress Annie Funke gets her first chance to originate a stage role opposite some impressive company in Roundabout's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet"
SOURCE: NBC New York at 09:45AMToday is the birthday of magician Harry August Jansen (1883-1955), originator of the magic words “Sim Sala Bim!” Interestingly, the phrase is not Arabic, as one would assume, but…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:44AMStage stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite actors. This wee…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:34AMThe Theater of the Spirit presents Encounter at Heavenly Gulch, a gentle comedy in two acts By Martin A. Follose, and directed by Suzanne Yuskiw. Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6 at 7:…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33AMHere's a how-de-do! Satchmo at the Waldorf got written up in the San Francisco Chronicle: One of the differences between...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMGrappling with one’s identity -- complicated by the relationships between tradition and modernism, cultural history and the process of assimilation -- is central to most of Sherman Alexie'…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:30AMOlivia Newton-John and John Travolta, who famously played, respectively, Sandy and Danny in the blockbuster film of the Broadway musical Grease, have reunited for a holiday recording due nex…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMTen Chimneys, a new play by Jeffrey Hatcher, opens October 3 at off-Broadway’s Theatre at St. Clements. Based on the backstage lives of legendary Broadway actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:26AMThe "Hard Knock Life" has officially begun for the orphans of Annie as the musical returns to Broadway on October 3. Directed by James Lapine, the production stars Lilla Crawf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:24AMReviewed by: Sandi Durell There’s a triple threat and treat in the house – just a little different from the Broadway stage kind. This one is a singer, pianist and songwriter with …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:24AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:20AMIt’s theater in the form of an mp3:…In the wacky universe of Banished? Productions that sounds like business as usual.” – Washington Post banished? productions takes theatre to the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMBetty Buckley is feeling a bit naughty with The Other Woman: The Vixens of Broadway, her new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. She's also feeling wounded, exultant, giddy, and melanchol…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:15AMJust Me, You and the Silence, a new play by Ugandan playwright Judy Adong, will be staged at London's Old Vic for a one night benefit performance Nov. 4.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMNo English-language plays so exemplify the assumptions underlying radical elegance than those of Howard Barker. As Beckett said of Joyce (and perhaps of his own work), in Barker’s play…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:05AMClive Rowe, the Olivier Award-winning actor who is soon to reprise his role in Chichester's summer production of Kiss Me, Kate at London's Old Vic Theatre, will bring his one-man cab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:02AMBeing “married to the stage” is one thing when one partner is the actor and the other the bookish dramaturg, as is the case with Johnny and myself. It is quite another when both partners…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMLeapin’ Lizards! The 30th anniversary Broadway revival of Annie, one of the most popular musicals in the history of American theatre, finally begins previews on October 3 prior to of…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 09:00AMThe 2008 film “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” is heading to Broadway. According to Showbiz411.com, songwriting team Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison are currently working on songs for a s…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMFirst produced in 1985 during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Larry Kramer's historic play is as much a call to arms as a piece of theater. Twenty-seven years later, despite an effective …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM
Picasso's granddaughter among cast for reading of one of artist's two stage works at gallery, featuring characters Big Foot and Big Blonde CurtainPablo Picasso: playwright? The first of two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMPicasso's granddaughter among cast for reading of one of artist's two stage works at gallery, featuring characters Big Foot and Big Blonde Curtain Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMCitizens Theatre, Glasgow: Rage and fear seep through Mike Bartlett's domesticated updating of Euripides, clashing brashly and inviting its protagonists to step outside. They simmer beh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMA new play The President and the Pakistani about a young Barack Obama, begins performances at London's Waterloo East Theatre Oct. 3, prior to an official opening Oct. 5, for a run throug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:46AMYou've given us your nominations - now it's time for you to vote in the 2012 BWWUK Awards
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:44AMThe hit musical comedy I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change, Off-Broadways longest running musical, filled with catchy original songs and biting humor, is now running through Nov. 18 at the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, went into rehearsal today in New York City with its full company. The production begins previews October 3, 2012 and opens Novemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:22AMChurchill, Bromley: Based on events in the life of renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pre, Duet For One tells the story of a virtuoso violinist, Stephanie Abrahams, who has had her career brough…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMShe sells herself as merely the second fiddle to playwright and co-director Michael Merino on the new show from the team that brought you Squirrel, or The Origin of the Species, and The Quic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 3 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMBe prepared to get out your handkerchiefs, copious boxes of tissues, or maybe even a roll of paper towels on Sunday, October 7, when Lifetime Television unveils its all new version of Robert…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
The hit musical comedy I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change, Off-Broadways longest running musical, filled with catchy original songs and biting humor, is now running through Nov. 18 at the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:58AMToday is the birthday of Josephine Sabel (nee Domingue, 1866-1945). A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, she performed in vaudeville (and the music halls of Europe) from the ’80s thro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:56AMWhen Lee Hall was called upon to update Close The Coalhouse Door, his mentor Alan Plater’s 1968 theatrical history of coal mining in the north-east, he announced with due reverence and sen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMSix-part drama series Homefront follows a group of servicemen’s wives and families as they struggle to lead normal lives at home while their men are on active service in Afghanistan. Each …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMStephen Campbell Moore is currently starring opposite Anne-Marie Duff and Dominic Rowan in Josie Rourke's new production of Racine's Berenice at the Donmar Warehouse.
Berenice, which opened…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:27AMUnicorn, London: Four actors have come to Unicorn Theatre to stage a version of The Winter's Tale with renamed characters using modern language. And we never know, as they banter and s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMDonmar Warehouse, London: Racine's 17th century rhyming couplets are often pronounced untranslatable. Our ears are more tuned to the five-stress pentameters of blank verse than 12-sylla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMThe Musicians’ Union has released a handbook giving advice on how the Live Music Act will affect venues and performers. The Live Music Kit explains why the legislation, which came into eff…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMActors owed thousands of pounds for their work on the cancelled musical Disco Inferno are “unlikely” to see any of the money, the accountant handling liquidation of the show’s producti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMThe fortunes of the little known BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra were transformed under the leadership of the conductor George Hurst. During his ten years at the helm, he turned the orchestr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThe director is a guiding force behind a production, and he or she is responsible for leading all aspects—acting and design, making sure they are telling the same narrative. I've always ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
Almost as if to prove it did not bear a grudge, the BBC turned Derek Jameson into a national celebrity after he lost a libel action against a Radio 4 show. He was given television...The post…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMWoyzeck’s lover icily tells him that no one touches her without permission, and Woyzeck retorts with surprise that his lover has developed character. However, character is exactly what…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:47AMCitizens, GlasgowShe enters in socks, tracksuit bottoms and faded grey T-shirt. Her blood-red hair is a shade away from the glossy surfaces of her fitted kitchen. Her son has just been dropp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMYvonne Arnaud, Guildford: After Harold Pinter's death, one of my critical colleagues made the rather bold, extravagant claim that Ronald Harwood was his heir as "now unquestionably…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMStephen Sondheim aficionados will accept the limitations of this patchwork style mini musical. Sondheim Newbies would be better off with some cast recordings of his big hits. . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:41AMOpenings and Closings Opening this week: Oct. 4-21 I Am My Own Wife Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami (305) 741-3180 zoeticstage.com Do…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:37AMThe Matcham Room, Hippodrome Casino, London: Gravity-defying musical theatre veteran Kerry Ellis hits the Hippodrome with hip arrangements of classic show tunes - though ultimately her trous…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe English theatrical spirit revels in indecorum, in laying banana skins under the paths of the high-minded, in developing a proliferation of sub-plots and in generally reserving rhyme for …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:27AMVaudeville, London: Many of us have perhaps wondered what goes on inside Paul Merton's head when the popular entertainer has a moment of genius on Have I Got News For You. Sadly the inv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMIves, Sibelius and Grieg are heard on the SLSO's Lucerne program.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:10AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Drama Desk nominee Aaron Lazar about helping the New York Pops open their 30th Anniversary season, working with Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot, as well as other detail…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
With grit, imagination and vastly improved performances, the Wilma Theater continues its exploration of Tony Kushner’s epic "Angels in America."
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:57AMDesigner Lucy Osborne has given the Donmar a dramatic makeover for her new production of Racine’s Roman tragedy Berenice. The stage is formed of sand, which cascades from the ceiling i…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:37AMSeveral London shows have made casting announcements recently, with a former Eastenders star swapping soaps for Hairspray, new cast members for Billy Elliot and a comedian joining West End s…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:02AMRECOMMENDED Vibrant, luscious costumes and foot-stomping rhythms explode onto the Auditorium Theatre stage with the return of Amalia Hernandez’s joyful, energetic company. Ballet Folkloric…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The creative bounty of autumn is celebrated at the third annual Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival: a cornucopia of companies and solo artists both up-and-coming (like r…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
How do critics judge "The Exonerated"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:51AMJohn Douglas Thompson, described by the New York Times as one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation, will make his Long Wharf Theatre debut in Satchmo at the Waldor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMA tribute to honor and celebrate the life and career of Ron Palillo, best known as Horshack on Welcome Back, Kotter has been scheduled for today, October 3, 2012. The 6pm tribute will take p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice, announced today that the show will host a Wednesday Evening Talkback Serie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMAID IN HOLLYWOOD The history of people of color on the screen is complicated, to say the least. The great Hattie McDaniel was hurt and bewildered by criticism from some in her own community…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:04AMThe first public preview of Satchmo at the Waldorf is tonight at seven p.m. at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre....
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMDavid Ives talks about becoming a playwright: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"The stage is an actors' medium. When the curtain goes up, there are those crazy actors. The story comes through...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJennifer Garner & Ty Burrell
We hope you're not lactose intolerant, because we're in NYC to catch up with the stars of quirky comedy 'Butter', Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell, and hear how th…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMTAKEN 2's Maggie Grace
Time to get introspective, you guys. Maggie Grace, the star of 'Taken 2' and the final installment of 'Twilight', pays a visit to the Studio to help us get to the hear…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
Over on the Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Cowen opines that the arts are not impacted by Baumol’s cost disease. 2. I do not see the arts as subject to the cost disease very much at a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AMStephen Sondheim’s musicals have been called textbook examples of integration — stories told through a seamless fusion of book and songs.
And yet many of Sondheim’s tunes easily stand …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMTonights episode of The Voice was slightly unusual because it was almost a recap in and of itself. The purpose of the show tonight was to refresh the audience on who the contestants were, wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:17AMThe cast of the 25th Anniversary National Tour of LES MISRABLES rocks the vote, and so can you. Watch the video below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06AMProlific Tony Award-winning librettist Thomas Meehan has three musicals on Broadway this season — Annie, Elf and Chaplin. And he's got three more in the works.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAfter a brilliant run at Theatre Calgary - Next to Normal goes on to The Citadel in Edmonton.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMAfter a rough upbringing, some 120 hit singles and five wives, musician Kenny Rogers has stories to tell in a new autobiography.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:01AM1859 Eleanora Duse born in Italy. One of the leading actresses of her day, "The Great Duse" will champion the realistic playwrights of the early 20th century, and will have some of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAn Enemy of the People
By Arthur Miller, adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen
At Center Stage through Oct. 21
Henrik Ibsen’s
An Enemy of the People, a kind of fable about o…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMOn a recent Tuesday evening, the squall of electric guitars emanated from an 11th grade classroom at the Independence School in Hampden.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMHas an apple and a fabulous manicure ever looked so tempting and sinful? Two-time Tony Award® nominee Carolee Carmello stars as Aimee Semple McPherson, the trailblazing media superstar whos…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00AMThe rolling world premiere of Terry Teachout's one-man play Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, launches the Long Wharf Theatre's 2012-2013 season Oct. 3 in New H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWith the Broadway revival of Annie beginning previews Oct. 3, Playbill.com recently surfed the web for our favorite performances of "Tomorrow," Annie's iconic first-act ballad …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMArden Theatre Company's resident Philadelphia production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, featuring a unique video design that takes audiences "into the mi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJason Danieley, of Broadway's Candide, Curtains, The Full Monty and Next to Normal, plays George in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's new production of Sunday in the Park With Georg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM42nd Street Moon presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing beginning Oct. 3, prior to an official opening Oct. 6, at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnnie, the show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, is back on Broadway starting Oct. 3. The 35th anniversary revival of the tal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe new Frank Wildhorn musical Zelda: An American Love Story begins performances Oct. 3 at Flat Rock Playhouse, The State Theatre of North Carolina.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOff-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre kicks off its 25th anniversary season Oct. 3 with Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City. Opening night is Oct. 14 at the company's Francis …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony winner Tyne Daly, most recently on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Master Class, hosts a tribute to the late actor Ron Palillo — who was best known as Horshack on "Welco…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Peccadillo Theatre Company's New York City premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's new comedy Ten Chimneys officially opens Oct. 3 at 7 PM following previews that began Sept. 21 at T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPaper Mill Playhouse kicks off its 2012-13 season with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line, featuring the music of the late Marvin Hamlisch. Performances begin Oc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNineteenth century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen is a theatrical legend, but most of his plays are not that frequently produced today, with Hedda Gabler and Ghosts probably getting the …
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