The Théâtre de la Ville of Paris is presenting Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PMHello dear readers, Here is a link to my article for LA Stage Times all about the bizarre and mysterious Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre, and their newest presentation, The Fainting Couch…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:36PMStanding O, LLC presents Broadway star, Rita Harvey in her solo concert I Know These Things... on Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 800PM in the Inserra Theater at St. Joseph Regional High Scho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:20PMThe Group Theatre, whose existence from 1931-1941 overlapped the Great Depression, stated its aim as “propaganda for a better life.” Playwright Clifford Odets, along with Stella …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:19PMCAROLS FOR A CURE is the annual two-disc holiday CD compilation of original songs and holiday classics that benefits BCEFA. These CDs boast the best voices from the worlds of Broadway, Off-B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:17PMTamara Rojo spent 12 years as the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina. She explains why she walked away, at her peak, to take a new job as artistic director of the English National BalletIt shoul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15PMFor more than 100 put out of work by cancellation of the musical “Rebecca,” the hits are both financial and emotional.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PMBorderline Vultures, SalfordTaking place at a secret Salford Quays location, Happystorm's new show is part of the InOnTheAct festival which promotes risk-taking work in public spaces. Celebr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMAccording to TV Guide, while at the premiere of his Lifetime remake of Steel Magnolias, SMASH's executive producer Neil Meron let loose some details about the NBC show's second season, to pr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:04PM"I had an epiphany," says theatre-maker Adrian Howells of the day he went swimming nude on a deserted beach in Greece.
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This weekend’s soloist, Joshua Bell, is a performer who perhaps best approximates Leonard Bernstein’s charismatic personality in performance: a fully engaged interpreter, he does not shy…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:57PMZombie Joe's Underground Theatre, the NoHo grand guignol company, approaches its 20th anniversary -- not to mention yet another Halloween -- with its seventh play from Robert Riemer, The Fai…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:55PMMarilyn Sokol, currently featured in OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES, will be a guest on WBAI Radio (99.5 FM) tomorrow Saturday October 6 in the 9 AM hour. The Emmy Award winner will chat with host…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:53PMA huge part of the problem, as playwright/performer Dael Orlandersmith sees it, was embodied in the man she had to restrain from clocking during an audience talk-back at California’s Berke…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:26PMSite-specific theatre is hard – where to put the audience, can they stand for nearly two hours, how do we enable them to see/hear, most importantly, what is the purpose of the site and how…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:24PMDreamcatcher has chosen to introduce itself to its new home with a brand new, home grown musical play cum sketch comedy revue called The Neighborhood.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:22PMLast night, the cast of Broadways Rock of Ages and chart-toppers Karmin, Cher Lloyd amp Chris Rene rocked Hard Rock Cafe New York at the annual Hard Rock Rocks Times Square concert benefitin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMPotatoes tied up with twine. A handful of melted Japanese samurais. Tree roots that grow from pipes. Half of a cow. Streetlights you can drink. The other half of the cow. It’s amazing …
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Brought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, October 5, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information We hear @LeoDiCaprio went to see @MTC_NYC’s AN ENEMY OF T…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:55PMThe Old Globe presents the San Diego Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaires Good People, the award-winning play about class divisions in modern-day Boston. Directed by Paul …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMThree-time Tony nominee Dee Hoty (The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Footloose) will take fans on a journey through her life and loves (onstage and off) in t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMTickets are now available for the Transport Group’s new off-Broadway show House for Sale. Daniel Fish adapted the play from an essay by writer Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:41PMRobert Adelman Hancock and Megan McGinnis will reprise the roles of Jervis Pendleton and Jerusha Abbott in John Cairds production of Daddy Long Legs, the second production at Londons newest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:40PMIt may be nearly time for the weekend but more importantly, it’s time for one of our memes based on the witty dialogue of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. We …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:37PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Making Noise Quietly" at Steep Theatre ★★
Sometimes, journeyman writers enjoy a late-in-life renaissance, and so it has gone in Britain with Yorkshire scribe Ro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PMFeaturing: Marcia DeBonis, Anne Heche and Alia ShawkatDirected by Carrie PrestonWritten by Kellie Overbeywww.thatswhatshesaidmovie.comJoin us in celebrating the Feature Film&n…
SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:25PMSondheim (music and lyrics) and book writer James Lapine craft a portrait of a tumultuous relationship between two people who belong together and love each other deeply but cannot sustain a …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:24PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story" at First Folio Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story" at First Folio T…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:21PMWhy it's important that Chicago culture stays in Manhattan's spotlight
— Wandering through the darkened auditorium of Broadway's Cort Theatre here on a recent Saturday morning felt a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PMHaving trouble keeping up with all the Broadway Buzz? Streamline your Broadway news to the most popular articles each week with our new ‘Broadway News Review.’ Incorporating last…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:18PMJon Robin Baitz, author of last season's Tony-nominated drama Other Desert Cities and creator of the ABC series Brothers & Sisters, will return to TV with NBC's The Sla…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:10PMThe first North American tour of Wicked recently welcomed Kim Zimmer, Cliffton Hall, Patti Murin and Dee Roscioli to the cast. Here are the show's new production shots.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:08PMI just turned se…seven…seventy years old. There—I said it. I got it out. But I am not retired, because I still find every minute of every hour of every day as interesting and as exciti…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMLast night, Chicago overtook Atlanta. This isn’t some North-South battle you missed when you cut CNN short. Chicago the Musical descended on Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Centre for the first of…
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The sun is setting on another exciting week on the Great White Way, but never fear—the lessons are here! From the TV-watching habits of adorable orphans to Ellen Greene’s new die…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMFilm Festival films soon to hit theatres: the cream of the crop
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:52PMSmash producer Neil Meron recently recruited Family Guy and Ted creator Seth MacFarlane to serve as host as next year's Oscar. MacFarlane hasn't made his love of Broadway secret, hav…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:52PMQuark (1977-78) was one of my favorite shows during my junior high school years. Created by Buck Henry it was a parody of Star Trek and Star Wars which starred Richard Benjamin as the…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:50PMGrace stars Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Ed Asner and Kate Arrington celebrated the official opening night of Craig Wright’s chilling dark comedy about the pursuit of faith. Watch this …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:47PMComedian Billy Connolly is so popular that he's been forced to add a second night to his previously announced one-night engagement at The Beacon Theatre. He will now be appearing at 8pm on …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMReturning to Broadway this fall in the holiday hit
Elf, Beth Leavel joins Seth in studio for some reminiscing — they met each other some 23 years ago working in Grease. After Seth explai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:47PM“Red, Hot and Blue” contains a Cole Porter score that begs to be rediscovered. Originally a Broadway vehicle for Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, Porter’s 1936 fo…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 04:45PMThe National Alliance for Musical Theatre NAMT announced today updated casting for the 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals and for the Songwriters Showcase that Tony nominee Nancy Opel and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMA scene from Tony Speciale s Unnatural Acts,' which depict's Harvard's 'secret court' to purge the campus of gays in 1920. The director is seeking a court order declari…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 04:39PMTickets are now on sale for the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's new comedy Heresy, starring Kathy Najimy and Annette O’Toole. Directed by Jim Simpson, the show is now playing a lim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:28PMThe new Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play The Heiress begins previews tomorrow, Saturday, October 6th at 800PM.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMOur SF correspondent tackles Keith Hennessy's latest, which opened last night in New York
SOURCE: Culturebot at 04:26PM(Photo Credit Joan Marcus)Like the Stations of the Cross—But Without the HumourSister Act on stage is anything but Heavenlyby Stuart MunroPhiladelphia, PA. Christmas Eve, 1977. Deloris Van…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:25PMWe should thank Mad Men for giving Julie Kramer and Amy Wilson's stage adaptation a nifty promotional tie in to the popular series. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:19PMJonathan Lewis skilfully shows us how the deepest wounds are psychological in this drama about recuperating soldiers, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:19PMIn Ben Power’s two-handed version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the lovers are middle-aged and the text is a Shakespearean mash-up, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 04:18PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Sept. 24-30, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:15PMAs Alicia Silvestone prepares to take on the role of naïve Sara in Broadway’s new romantic comedy The Performers, the actress sat down with Entertainment Weekly to refle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:13PMTwo high-school yearbooks in our area—Suffern and Rye—have the distinction of earning silver crown awards from the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association, a Columbia U…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 04:12PMl-r Eleanor Noble, Clare Coulter (photo: lucetg.com)Family Picturesby Rebecca UgoliniIn the oppressive August heat, family tensions come to a boil and secrets and scandals rise to the surfac…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:09PMAs I said in my last blog entry, my prior semester with TMU focused on auditioning and this semester will focus more on film and theater. In honor of my previous blogs I will make this trans…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMAlternately funny and heart-breaking, Steel Magnolias tells the story of a group of Louisianan women who gather at a local beauty parlor to talk about their lives, loves and losses. Audience…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:03PMDue to popular demand, a second night has been added to Billy Connolly’s New York engagement at The Beacon Theatre. BILLY CONNOLLY: THE MAN LIVE will play on December 6th in addition to th…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:02PM
Christy Altomare, Mary Jo Mecca and Nicholas Kohn are the latest actors to join the National Alliance for Musical Theater's October Festival of New Musicals, which will be presented Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:57PMA.R. Gurney’s new play Heresy is taking up residence at the Flea Theatre, and we’ve got a first look at this kooky and hilarious parody of the Bible. Set in the near future, Here…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMIn both vocal and dramatic terms, Bryn Terfel as Wotan has the abundance of resources and depth of insight in this play, writes Richard Fairman
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:52PMAkram Khan was ostracised when he first brought contemporary dance to India. Now, Shoba Narayan says, he’s treated like a rock star
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:51PMNEW YORK--Watching “Grace” all those years ago in the spartan confines of the Warehouse on 7th St. NW, one might never have imagined Broadway in its future. Don’t get me wrong:dramatis…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49PMFor The Record: Scorsese, playing October 5-December 1 at Rockwell: Table
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:43PMMeet the first-nighters at the Oct. 4 Broadway opening of Craig Wright's play Grace.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMEric Shethar takes a turn at grappling with Wednesday's manifestos
SOURCE: Culturebot at 03:35PMa theme at HuffPo? First it's gay body fascism, now here's a bit about the great Christina Hendricks enduring some stupid questioning that highlights mainstream media's preoccupation with bo…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 03:30PM"When magic is created, you notice," Ellen Greene told TheaterMania.com on Friday, September 28, the day before the director's cut of the musical film Little Shop of Horrors was screened at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMBecca Godinez became an actress by performing in American musicals in her native Philippines. Then she immigrated to America, and now she's playing a Filipina American longing for home in Ra…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:16PMRemember when The New York Music Theatre Festival used to take place at this time of the year? Before each production, an eager staff member would take the stage and congratulate us for opti…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:15PMEthel Merman, one of the American theaters greatest musical stars, died in 1984, yet she is still revered by those who saw her perform on Broadway. Few, however, know about her as a person. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMETonline has premiered the trailer for COMING UP ROSES starring Broadway's Bernadette Peters. The film will be released in theaters on November 9th. Get a first look below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PM"Glee: The Music Presents Glease," featuring music from the upcoming Grease-themed episode of "Glee" that will air Nov. 15, will be available Nov. 6 on Columbia Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMThe irony of the evening could not have been thicker. Sitting in Arena’s fabulously revamped Kreeger Theatre waiting for One Night with Janis Joplin to begin, I surveyed the crowd. Janis J…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:06PMEugene Ionesco's 1959 absurdist masterpiece has been performed over the years as both a high comedy and a dark tragedy. In Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota’s viscerally charged new staging, the t…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 03:05PMGina Chiarelli (photo: David Cooper)La Divinaby Chris LaneMaria Callas instructs her students not to act, but to become a character, and to truly feel their emotions. Gina Chiarelli, who por…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:04PMYou may think you can dance, but these professionals really can!ristina Rihanoff and Robin Windsor of Strictly Come Dancing fame will be leading the company of Burn the Floor, the sizzling d…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:01PM
Thirty-Five Years Young: Despite a Hard-Knock Life, Annie’s Hardly Showing Her Age By Harry Haun The New York Observer October 3, 2012 THERE WAS AN Annie before the original 1977 Annie we…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:59PMTamara Wilson (Photo: Michael Cooper)A Party Worth the Hangoverby Shannon ChristyAccording to T.S. Elliott, "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to a…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 02:55PMOn Thursday, October 11, National Theatre Live will broadcast a live performance of The Last of the Haussmans a new play by Stephen Beresford Directed by Howard Davies The broadcasts will be…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:47PMThe cast of the hit Broadway revival of Evita will offer tricks and treats as they present Broadway Scares Night of the Singing Dead, the first ever Halloween extravaganza to benefit Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMThere were reasons to have faith in “Grace,” a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:34PMMost Broadway shows have an irregular performance schedule during Christmas week, Dec. 24-30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMEight finalists have been chosen to compete in the grand finale of the 7th Annual NYMF Next Broadway Sensation NBS competition on October 12th at 11pm at New World Stages. Over 200 people au…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:26PMPlaywright Craig Wright asks provocative questions about God in "Grace," starring Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon at the Cort Theatre
SOURCE: NBC New York at 02:15PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Christian Bale will star in David O. Russell's untitled upcoming drama. The Academy Award winner will join previously announced cast members Bradley Coop…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:13PMJeff Leibow, who plays Nick Massi in Jersey Boys at Paris Las Vegas, is producing the 2nd Annual NF Hope Concert, to take place October 21 at 1pm at Harrah's Las Vegas.The concert, which don…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:10PMKING KONG - THE NEW MUSICAL This Sunday (October 7th) KING KONG, the new stage musical, will launch in Melbourne, Australia. Global Creatures (producers), will stream the one-time-only even…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:07PMHoward Brenton tells Sarah Hemming why his most recent plays have focused on religion and a sympathetic study of a Conservative PM
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:04PMTheatre West is pushing an ambitious fundraising program in the hopes of scheduling two full seasons in the coming years.
The theater company, which boasts that it is the longest conti…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 02:04PMMutter has blended star appeal throughout her career with dedication to contemporary music.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:03PMSing, you ghouls! The Broadway production of Evita will celebrate Halloween as it hosts Broadway Scares: Night of the Singing Dead, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, to be hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:03PMUpdated Version Features Two News Songs by Tony-winner Lin-Manuel (In the Heights) Miranda WORKING, the 1978 musical by Stephen Schwartz is based on the Studs Terkel book Working: People T…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:02PMThis Sunday (October 7th) KING KONG, the new stage musical, will launch in Melbourne, Australia. In an unprecedented move, the producers, Global Creatures, will stream the one-time-only even…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:02PMThe PBS chat show "Theater Talk" will present an episode entitled "The Private Life of Ethel Merman" beginning Oct. 13.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:02PMArena Stage artistic director Molly Smith, Imagination Stage founder and executive director Bonnie Fogel, and MetroStage producing artistic director Carolyn Griffin will be honored with the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:01PMLooks like McKinley High may need to change its name to Rydell as Glee prepares to cover the songs of the classic musical Grease. The hit FOX series will dedicate its November 15 episode to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:00PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with Erin Mackey, who is starring as 'Oona O'Neill' in CHAPLIN- currently in playing at the Barrymore Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMIn 1897, one precocious girl named Virginia O’Hanlon was determined to find out if Santa Claus really exists. She boldly asked the question and her letter to The New York Sun prompted on…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:00PMThe most riveting drama on Broadway this week took place off stage. And even in the long annals of New York theatre chicanery, this yarn is one for the books.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
The highly anticipated, star-studded film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables will hit theatres on Christmas Day. With the film release a few months away, Play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMThe Public Theater officially opened its doors the morning of Oct. 4 to unveil the $40 million renovation of its Lafayette Street home, which has served as its residence since 1967.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:52PM"Memphis" opens Tuesday at the Buell. And the national tour of the Tony-winning musical about a white disc jockey whose love of black music leads him to challenge (in more ways than one) th…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:51PMTune in to watch CHAPLIN star Rob McClure on NY-1s On Stage this weekend. Rob talks with NY-1s Donna Karger about his preparation and the thrill of playing film icon Charlie Chaplin on Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMTICKET GIVEAWAY TO THE HEIRESS: Win two tickets to see “The Heiress” marking the Broadway debuts of Jessica Chastain (Academy Award nominee for The Help) and Dan Stevens (Matt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMCast members from the Broadway revival of Evita will offer Broadway Scares: Night of the Singing Dead, a Halloween extravaganza to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Oct. 28 at XL Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMTalk about a perfect holiday gift! Tickets are now available for the A Christmas Story, The Musical, the upcoming Broadway adaptation of the 1983 Christmastime favorite. With music and lyric…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:37PMThe Celebration Theatre in association with DEMAND PRoductions and Peter Schneider has launched its celebratory 30th Anniversary Season with the world premiere musical JUSTIN LOVE. On hand …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMDreamboats and Petticoats will return to London’s West End on October 16 for a limited run at the Wyndham’s Theatre. The return engagement coincides with Dreamboats and Petticoat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:33PMPlaza Theatre, Stockport: An empty stage is soon filled with a quartet of burlesque dancers, known collectively as the Folly Mixtures. All red lips and wiggling derrieres, the enthusiastic a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMThree actors explain how the magic is made — When you see War Horse on Broadway, you might forget you’re watching puppets. The story of a British boy’s remarkable relations…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:20PMAs has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, MARRY ME A LITTLE starts with an overture. Or does it? Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Ste…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:19PMCat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Abbey theatre brings The Plough and the Stars to Birmingham, while Circa display absurdly good circus in WalesScotland, Northern …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PM2012 Tony-nominated playwright Jon Robin Baitz is penning the adaptation of the Australian series The Slap for NBC, according to Deadline.com.The premise of the show, adapted from the best-s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:16PMStage and screen stars Paul Rudd, Ed Asner, Michael Shannon and Kate Arrington were in good company on October 4, when they kicked off the opening night of Grace, a divinely dark comedy by C…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:15PMWe were the first Broadway app on the market back in 2009. The world has come a long way since then and our apps have too!
Just a few weeks back, Apple released their iPhone 5, w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMOberon, American Repertory Theater's second stage venue, will present singer and comedian Lea DeLaria in Boom Boom's Bow, her new show for children and their parents, co-written with Janette…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13PMShow Opens Season at Connecticut Repertory Theatre at UConn At SorrsThe show: Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of Theresa Rebeck's "O Beautiful" at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:08PMManhattan Theatre Club has announced that due to overwhelming demand, MURDER BALLAD, the new musical that is the inaugural production of MTCs The Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinber…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMPublic Theater alum Meryl Streep has just made one heck of a dent in her checkbook. The three-time Oscar winner (and 17-time nominee!) donated $1 million to The Public Theater, which will su…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMFrom left: Jacqueline Burtney (Purity), Courtney Rottenberger (Charity), Dionna Thomas Littleton (Chastity) and Vanessa Sonon (Virtue); Photo by Joshua Gunter ‘Anything Goes’ at…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:03PMManhattan Theatre Club will extend the world premiere musical Murder Ballad by one week, with the production now playing New York City Center's The Studio at Stage II October 30-December 2, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03PMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - What's your favorite Barbra Streisand movie
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThis Sunday October 7th KING KONG, the new stage musical, will launch in Melbourne, Australia. The producers, Global Creatures, will stream the one-time-only event presentation live on the i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMMusical opens Stray Dog's 10th anniversary season.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00PM
yet another article about the tyranny of gay culture's obsession with body image. Here's a quote-- Why do we do this to ourselves? I can't help but think it has something to do with t…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 12:59PMLyttelton, LondonDespite one of those first-night technical glitches that seem to happen a bit too often at the National, this is a fine revival by Tom Cairns of Howard Barker's tremendous p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMRob McClure, who stars as the title role in Broadway's Chaplin, will appear on NY1's "On Stage."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe track list for THE TWILIGHT SAGA BREAKING DAWN - Part 2's original motion picture soundtrack list has now been revealed. Included on the soundtrack will be the song 'News For You' by SPI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMReview of Inis Nua's production of David Harrower's drama A Slow Air. By Wendy Rosenfield for the Philadelphia Inquirer
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:53PMManhattan Theatre Club’s new musical Murder Ballad, starring Karen Olivo and Will Swenson, has extended its run before even beginning performances. The musical, which also stars J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:50PMCitizens of Baltimore – Good news! The three-time Tony Award winning musical has landed at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre as Broadway Across America presents Wicked. With music and l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:50PMArnold Schwarzenegger released his memoir "Total Recall: My Unbelievable True Life Story" this week, which details everything from his growing up with seven cats in Thal, Austria, to his pla…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:49PMSalberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse: UK premieres of Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens' latest are becoming almost commonplace.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMThe Hamptons International Film Festival presented LOVE, MARILYN as the Opening Night Film of the 20th Anniversary Film Festival. Liz Garbus’ documentary feature LOVE, MARILYN a startlin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:46PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that due to overwhelming demand, MURDER BALLAD, the new musical that is the inaugural production of MTC’s The Studio at Stage II – Harold an…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:40PMMusicals Tonight! brings great musical rarities back, and Cole Porter’s Red, Hot and Blue is no exception. Watch the cast talk about this musical comedy and its amazing score.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMManhattan Theatre Club's Murder Ballad, a new rock musical that launches the company's new Studio at Stage II Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series, will get an extra week of per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMAny piece of theater in which one human after another turns into a thundering African mammal inherently requires as much theatricality as a director can lavish, and that's exactly what Emman…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:33PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33PMO'Reilly, DublinOver every Hamlet looms the shadow of the Hamlets who came before. Richard Burton played the Dane on Broadway in 1964, in a production directed by John Gielgud, one of the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMTomorrow, October 6, at 2:30pm: John Barrymore -is- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stan Laurel -is- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde The Silent Clowns Halloween celebration presents the great John Barr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:32PMGleeks, be prepared to get Gleased.On November 6, Columbia Records will release Glee: The Music Presents Glease, a new album featuring the classic music of the film and Broadway musical Grea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMCapitol city's feistiest little performing arts company in concert at Gala Hispanic.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 12:26PMThe New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the eight finalists for the 7th annual NYMF Next Broadway Sensation Competition, who will compete in the competition's grand finale…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PMTHERE WAS AN Annie before the original 1977 Annie we all know and love—before its much-hyped 1990 sequel, Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge, crashed on takeoff and burned out of town at t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:23PMThe Flea Theater in association with Four Arts Media will present 13 episodes of American Song, a new dramatic series comprising original plays for radio and mobile media. Each episode will …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:23PMStrictly Come Dancing pros Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff, as well as Dancing newbie Karen Hauer, are set to star in the ultimate ballroom dance musical Burn the Floor. This intern…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMThe company of Cusi Cram's Radiance -- to be presented by LAByrinth Theater Company at The Bank Street Theater beginning November 1 -- met the press on Thursday, October 4.The world premiere…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMWe are at The Fillmore, and the night is full of sex and danger (set and fabulous lighting by Justin Townsend). The great Aretha Franklin (the magnificent Sabrina Elayne Carten) has just tak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMThere is very little right with this lugubrious production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson potboiler, starting with the work itself. Mr. Bric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:13PMBroadway.com video blogger Jenn Colella hops in the bus with her castmates for a Chaplin road trip! The crew heads to Philadelphia and makes a pit stop at Rob McClure’s house for some …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMHaving trouble keeping track of all the guest stars and new characters on season 2 of "Smash"? So are we. But let's add another name to the ever-growing list. Daphne Rubin-Vega is set to pla…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:06PMSome do support poorer students Your news story ‘Top actors plan drama school for poorer students’ is misleading. In fact, most of the schools in the government’s Dance and Drama Award…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMThe Public Theater officially opened its doors Oct. 4 to unveil the $40 million renovation of its Lafayette Street home, which has served as its residence since 1967. Mayor Michael Bloomberg…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:05PMUnicorn Theatre, London: As piteously misunderstood, tragic Malvolio, Tim Crouch hilariously explores what it means to be a puritan (or today simply a decent person who doesn't drop lit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMThis week's topics Annie Preview Thread, Into the Woods Movie Reading Cast, Opening Applause, Best multi-part more than 2 song, Will Phantom ever close, Stand-bys
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMConstantly writing songs with a gritty feel and his signature tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, the singer has enjoyed hit after hit with tracks including "I Seen Beyonce at Burger King," the …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:00PMAlthough the musical version of The Bodyguard was in the works long before Whitney Houston’s death in February, the singer’s tragic departure was almost enough for the show&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 1052012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PM"Pleasant, Gamesome, Passing Courteous" -- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the ShrewIt has only been six weeks into the semester and I have learned a great deal in my Combat for Actors cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
With absolutely top-shelf acting and vocals throughout the cast, impressive digital animation and directorial flourishes used judiciously but to great effect, he gives us one of the very bes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMA new revival of Gypsy, starring Vera Drake and Harry Potter star Imelda Staunton as the world’s most ferocious stage mother, is eyeing a fall 2013 opening at the Chicester Festiv…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMAfter an almost two-year run, "
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:55AMA press event for the new stage musical King Kong, which will launch in Melbourne, Australia, will be streamed live Oct. 7 at 10 PM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMThe multi-talented actress recently chatted with BWW about her upcoming London concert tour as well as a possible return to Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMKicking off the sixth season of Roundabout Underground, Bad Jews is a world premiere comedy by Joshua Harmon about the holy and the holier-than-thou. Daphna Feygenbaum is a Real Jewjust ask …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMGleeks everywhere had their hearts broken during the October 4th episode “The Break-Up.” Sneaky creator Ryan Murphy didn’t just end one Glee relationship, he ended them all…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMOne of the lesser-known musicals of one of the best-known musical theatre writing teams gets its only recording since the original and the two female stars of the new production have their o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMThe new Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play The Heiress begins previews tomorrow, Saturday, October 6th at 8:00PM. The Heiress stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Ac…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:37AMLost, London: Somewhere in Yorkshire in 1939 Oscar and Penny plough their heart, soul and money into reopening the town's cinema, but the onset of the Second World War tears them apart,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK The cast of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD meets the press, Betty Buckley plays Feinsteins, opening night for Broadway's GRACE and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:35AMLondon International Mime Festival will this year include British aerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor, Chinese puppeteer Yeung Fai and Belgian dance theatre collective Les Ballets C de l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMRobert Adelman Hancock and Megan McGinnis will star in John Caird’s Daddy Long Legs when the musical plays London's St. James Theatre from from October 31 through Decembe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AMTune in to watch CHAPLIN star Rob McClure on NY-1’s “On Stage” this weekend. Rob talks with NY-1’s Donna Karger about his preparation and the thrill of playing film icon Charlie Ch…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:29AMSwapped emails with Mamaroneck’s Carly Rose Sonenclar, who is now through with boot camp on “The X Factor.” Here’s our Q&A. We’ll add some more answers lat…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:28AMDavid Hunter, the semi-finalist from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reality competition Superstar, will star as the big-hearted elephant Horton in the London premiere of Seussical the Musical. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMRegistration Launched on East Coast for Geo-location Database News To provide interference protection for wireless microphones, the FCC has spent the last two years developing a national geo…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:20AMDid you know that Mitt Romney is a huge fan of the “smash Broadway hit NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT starring revered luminary of the dramatic arts Matthew Broderick.” He said so o…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:20AMWho knew Peter Parker was a fan of Edward Cullen? Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark star Reeve Carney will be featured on the Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 soundtrack. Carney recorded a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMIn a previous article regarding the concept and vision of directing this production of the The Rocky Horror Show I discussed the inherent problem of where to strike a balance between mainta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMLegendary comic (and member of the EGOT elite) Mel Brooks can add another trophy to his already-crowded mantle. The writer, director and actor will receive the AFI Life Achievement Award on …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AMFlorida State University has announced that alumnus and Broadway performer Kevin Covert is returning to the school to choreograph and play J.B. Biggley in the school's upcoming production of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:17AMTen Chimneys is the name of the country place in Wisconsin where the legendary acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne usually spent their summers. “Ten Chimneys” is the appropriate…
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 11:10AMI’ll level with ya. My usual world class, infallible critical acumen is generally not dialed up to 11 when I attend Nosedive’s (usually) annual Blood Brothers offering. I go with…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:08AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega, who originated the role of Mimi Marquez in Broadway's Rent, will guest star on the second season of the NBC musical drama "Smash,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:03AMTHE REDGRAVES: A Family Epic, by Donald Spoto. Crown Archetype, 361 pp., $26.
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:03AMAnother Friday, another recap of news making the rounds in the Broadway World Nominations have been tallied and voting is now open for the 2012 BWW UK Awards so get your vote in today The 20…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMThe race for the White House is one of the most “dramatic” events out there. And if you think there are a lot of Producers on Broadway shows, imagine how many “Producers&…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMAndrew Lloyd Webber revealed recently that the Australian version of “Love Never Dies” will tour the U.K. next year. “The Australian production, which was wonderful – the London prod…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AM
STOMP is explosive, inventive, provocative, witty, and utterly unique-an unforgettable experience for audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation returns to Orange County f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMRoyal Court, LondonSometimes a play can be too compressed for its own good. Where her new full-length play Love and Information displays Caryl Churchill's dazzling gift for the elliptical, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMIn the new movie, The Oranges, life turns upside down for two New Jersey families when 24-year-old Nina Ostroff (Leighton Meester) breaks up with her fiance and comes home to spend Thanksgiv…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMMustache Ride Entertainment in association with Royal Family Productions will present a limited run of Homo the Musical! Oct. 12-Nov. 3 at The Wild Project.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMAlthough classes have just begun here at Northwestern University, several productions are already well underway. Last weekend I saw a preview of an important part of our season, one that Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AMGoo Goo Cluster, The Original Southern Confection, will bring Southern hospitality to New York City, with a candy giveaway planned for attendees of the Friday, October 5 performance of CHAPL…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:46AMA society drowning in bourbon-coloured water, an opulent mansion and improvised jazz are not the easiest of illusions to create on stage, as Alfred Hickling discovers as part of our unique c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMA Configuration of Thoughts as We Hit Day Three
SOURCE: Culturebot at 10:45AMToday in 2006, the first Broadway revival of A Chorus Line opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 759 performances. A Chorus Line is a musical about Broadway dancers auditioning…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMShe just can't get enough of that Sondheim.Everything will be coming up roses next year for Imelda Staunton when she takes on the legendary role of Madam Rose in Gypsy for the Chichester Fes…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:36AMGrace begins with the end. The terrible conclusion to a series of events is where the play opens and you would think that this divulgement would spoil the drama. Wrong. The impressive band o…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:35AMCraig Wright's Grace, a four-person darkly comic drama set in Florida that examines the meaning of religion and life, officially opened Oct. 4 at Broadway's Cort Theatre following pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMThe Hartford Stage cast of the spring 2013 world-premiere stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Man in a Case, featuring the previously announced Mikhail Baryshnikov, will also feature Jes…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:32AMThe LA STAGE Alliance, which administers the Ovation Awards honoring the best in Los Angeles-area theater, has revised its 2012 nominations, after the discovery that several nominees are not…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMPace University performing arts students in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences will gain exposure this year to high-profile industry stars on campus through new artist-in-residence progr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMToday is the birthday of the “middle stooge”, Larry Fine (1902-1975). With hair like that, he could have been an intellectual! Look at Einstein! For more on Fine and how he came …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:26AMPromotion of the UK’s first City of Culture has been thrown into disarray after Derry City Council seized part-control of the company charged with running the year-long event. The council …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMWith the recent announcement that Tony host, How I Met Your Mother star and all-around awesome A-lister Neil Patrick Harris is getting to work on a memoir, Broadway.com started to think…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:22AMMusical Theatre West will open its 60th anniversary season with the classic musical 42nd Street, running October 26-November 11 at Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Jon Engstrom will direct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMThe American Film Institute has announced that stage and screen icon Mel Brooks will be the recipient of the organizations 41st Life Achievement Award, which will be presented at presented a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #240, Louise Dresser (for more on her interesting story see here). She stars in this 1928 film about immigration A Ship Comes In as “Mama P…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:16AMThe BroadwayWorld Student Center is a comprehensive Student Database listing college and university performing arts programs across the country making it easier for prospective students by s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:16AMVirginia's Signature Theatre will toast the 50th birthday of its artistic director, Eric Schaeffer, with a celebratory concert of his favorite songs in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMToday is the birthday of vaudeville and Broadway actor Carter de Haven, Star of Vaudeville #239 (for more info on him go here). Here, through the miracle of cinema in this 1925 short, he &…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:08AMIdina Menzel originated the role of Elphaba in
Wicked in both New York & London, winning the
Tony & Whatsonstage.com Awards for Best Actress in a Musical. She
also originated the role of …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:07AMThe newest anthology from NYTE Small Press is a collection from Rising Phoenix Rep’s series of fully produced new plays inspired by and honoring the groundbreaking work of the original Caf…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 10:07AMScottish Dance Theatre is to tour to four Indian cities this autumn, including a performance at the Delhi International Arts Festival. The tour, which is supported by Creative Scotland and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:04AMTom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern has seen a lot of productions since its first stage outing back in the mid-1990s. Olney Theatre Center’s new production looks good and feels authentic. But …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AMJust a few weeks back, Apple released their iPhone 5, with a bigger and better than ever screen and now, BroadwayWorld.com's App has been optimized to take full advantage of it. The screen n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:00AMThese are the tweets of the week. Hilarious little gems and lovely notes from some of our Broadway favorites in 140 characters or less.
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMBack in August it was announced that “Elf” would return to Broadway for the holiday season, and now we know that Jordan Gelber and Leslie Kritzer will star in the show. Gelber, known for…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMAcademy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep has gifted New York's Public Theater with $1 million. The donation -- in honor of her mentor and Public Theater's founder, Joseph Papp, as well as …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM
Preview performances begin for Bad Jews, a world-premiere comedy by Joshua Harmon, on October 5 at off-Broadway's Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMSusan Mosher and Emily McNamara will join the cast of the Off-Broadway musical revue NEWSical the Musical beginning Oct. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:47AMMel Brooks may need to buy another mantle. He is to be the second EGOT champ, after Mike Nichols in 2010, to receive a tribute from the American Film Institute.
In making the annou…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:31AMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb's short-lived 1997 Broadway musical Steel Pier is to receive its European professional premiere, beginning performances at London's Union Theatre Oct. 31 pri…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:25AMPride Film & Plays and Showbiz Chicago are giving away 2 tickets to the SIMPLY SENSATIONAL 2 benefit for, Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Email the word “SENSATIONAL” with you co…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:14AMInternational entertainer “The Maine Attraction” grew up in a small town in Georgia and moved to New York City after she discovered performing was all she wanted to do. She lande…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:13AMSir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees, announced today the Board's decision to honor Mel Brooks with the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMAcademy award-winning actor's donation is announced as theatre unveils $40m makeoverMeryl Streep has donated $1m to the Public theatre in New York, as it unveiled the results of a $40m (£28…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMThe New National Pastime Theater presents, back by popular demand, 2200 years in the making, here to fill the holiday vOY-OY-OYd!, the only rock ‘n’ roll Hannukah musical on earth, HANN…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:01AMSpeaking of Philadelphia, maybe the best movie ever made in that city was the 1976 Mikey and Nicky, written and directed by Elaine May (born and raised in Philadelphia; she appeared on the s…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:00AMImelda Staunton, who recently completed a West End run as Mrs. Lovett in the transfer of Sweeney Todd from Chichester Festival Theatre, is set to star next as Rose in the first West End revi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:00AM
Dreamboats and Petticoats, which closed at the West End's Playhouse Theatre in July, is to return to the West End, beginning performances Oct. 16 for a run through Jan. 19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:51AMBroken Glass by Arthur Miller and directed by Michael Colucci & Jan Ellen Graves opens Sunday, Oct 14, at 3pm at Redtwist Theatre. Company member and Jeff Award-winner, Jacqueline G…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:50AMWhat is better than full puppet nudity? Nothing, except of course for a barrel of monkeys. Red Branch Theatre Company is excited to present its original production of Avenue Q, winner of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMThe weekly television show hosted by the silky-voiced crooner Andy Williams was as popular in Britain as it was in America. Throughout the 1960s, Williams had a string of hits in the British…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMSteppenwolf Theatre Company adds two Friday evening public performances to the world premiere of Markus Zusak’sThe Book Thief, adapted by Heidi Stillman, directed by Hallie Gordon, after…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:44AMIn a film career spanning more than 65 years, Herbert Lom played an extraordinarily wide range of characters. But he will forever be remembered as the French police chief Charles Dreyfus, wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMLyttelton, National, London: Howard Barker's 1984 radio play (also revived to some acclaim at the Hackney Empire five years ago) may have been beset by technical difficulties on press n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMMemories Light the Corners of Streisand’s Old Neighborhood
SOURCE: forward.com at 08:38AMBurn the Floor, a ballroom dance show that has previously played the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre, will return there, beginning performances March 6, 2013, prior to an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:36AMBritish director Andrea Arnold tests the limits of how radically one may re-envision a classic while still remaining true to its themes in her new version of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:34AMCraig Wright's Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner, opened last night, October 4, 2012 at Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMCraig Wright's Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner, opened last night, October 4, 2012 at Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMCraig Wright's Grace, starring Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner, opened last night, October 4, 2012 at Broad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMThe West End production of Rock of Ages, which began performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre Aug. 31, 2011, prior to opening Sept. 27, is to shutter Jan. 6, 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:14AMThe stars of Sister Act the Musical share stories of saintly and sinful behaviour, as well as the good and the bad on stage.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 5 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
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Grace - You never know what to expect from Craig Wright. In Grace he uses the familiarity with absolute evangelical theory gained while earning Masters of Divinity degreeto explore …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:44AMJerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Playing in tandem with Love and Information, Caryl Churchill's new short play acts neither as a coda nor a bonus scene to the former, ra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMJohn Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical Steel Pier will receive its European premiere next month, when it plays at the Union Theatre. The musical, which made its Broadway debut in 1997, will be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMLOS ANGELES (AP) -- The onscreen love between Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott and Phylicia Rashad in the updated version of "Steel Magnolias" is real....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:29AMNovello, London: "You already know you're gonna love it!" proclaims the brilliant advertising slogan, summing up in just seven words both the enduring appeal of Mamma Mia! and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMHello TMU readers and other individuals who have stumbled across this blog---perhaps by chance or by bribery. My name is DeAnna (pronounced de-ah-nah), and I am one of TMU's newest bloggers,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
The green-eyed monster rages Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera’s “Otello” premiere and Michael Fabiano will be collateral damage.
The 28-year-old tenor from Montclair, N.J., …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:54AMStrictly Come Dancing stars Robin Windsor and Kristine Rihanoff are to star in dance show Burn the Floor at the Shaftesbury Theatre next year. The production, billed as an “electrifying da…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMHarrogate Theatre Studio: Bones will have the senses reeling, emotions struck numb. Its portrait of a teenage boy contemplating how best to kill a baby is as uncompromising a piece of theatr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMA fine cast acts their hearts out in Grace, Craig Wright’s drama now receiving its Broadway premiere. While this play about the collision between an Evangelical Christian couple and a …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:30AMYoung Vic, London: On one level a metaphor for the raging hormones and uncontrollable emotions of adolescence, on another a warning of how actual madness can be mistaken for adolescent hormo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMColiseum, London: Proud of its achievements as the 'House of Handel', a commitment that began with groundbreaking stagings of Julius Caesar and Xerxes in the 1970s and 1980s but ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AM“It's death to be understood,” declares Galactia, the 16th century artist-heroine of Scenes from an Execution. But the fact remains that this 1986 play is one of Howard Barker's most ac…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:15AMTheatre star Heather Headley (pictured) 'rocks the roof' as Rachel Marron in the stage version of The Bodyguard, writes Baz Bamigboye.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:06AMSince his New York stage debut in 2003 in “Henry V” at the Delacorte Theatre, the talented Colman Domingo has shown he likes to mix things up — acting and writing, stage and film.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" once again chats with Will and Anthony Nunziata. This time around we get personal and discuss their "homecoming" concert at The Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY on October 20.
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DANE The Globe Theater of London brings its touring production of Shakespeare’s tale of the Melancholy Great Dane to the Michael Schimmel Center, and one is tempted…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:52AMNext to Normal is, for lack of a better term, a musical tragedy. With its beautifully sung score telling a painful and upsetting story, it challenges conventional expectations of what big Br…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:33AMAtlantas nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre will begin its Hertz Stage series with the world premiere of APPLES amp ORANGES, a play by Tony Award, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize winnin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBroadway superstar Bernadette Peters will headline the 22nd annual gala to benefit The Price Center, a regionalleader in providing care to adults with developmental disabilities.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMDue to a critical illness in her family, Casey Husion has withdrawn from directing Somethings Afoot at the Goodspeed Opera House. Vince Pesce, originally choreographer of the production, wil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMLatin and ballroom dance show Burn the Floor is returning to the Shaftesbury Theatre from 6 March to 1 September 2013, following the closure of Rock of Ages on 6 January (as reported::E88313…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 01:17AMGARY GRIFFIN CREATES A TRIUMPHANT MASTERPIECE AT CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE Rare is the theatrical experience that is so haunting and so achingly beautiful that your soul actually feels caressed an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:02AMIn today's Wall Street Journal I review the Keen Company's off-Broadway revival of Marry Me a Little and the Broadway...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMHENRY WINKLER
We welcome legend of film and television, Henry Winkler, to the Studio to get the scoop on not only his appearance in the Kevin James comedy 'Here Comes the Boom' but also his …
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMBUTTER's Rob Corddry
We sit down for a nice chat with the always hilarious Rob Corddry, star of both "Children's Hospital" and the equally offbeat big screen comedy 'Butter'. He tells us abo…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
I've decided that any time I write a protracted post about politics or aesthetics, I will give you all a Nicolas Cage chaser (or other ridiculous actors, if I run low on the Cage well... if …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:48AMIt seems increasingly likely that a fund-raiser fabricated the four investors whom producers were relying on, according to a lawyer for the Broadway musical’s lead producer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28AMA genuine superstar of musical theatre, Elaine Paige is much loved on both sides of the Atlantic and here across the Pacific. As she prepares for a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19AMReview: Stand back, NYC, because, Ben Rimalower has arrived with his show "Patti Issues," an engaging, hearfelt, and humorous story.
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 12:19AMThe new musical FINDING NEVERLAND just premiered in 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 12:08AMAnnie and Sandy: CUTE, but NOT HOT! NOTICE: THE POLLING PROGRAM I USE DOES NOT TRACK OR KEEP ANY RECORD OF WHO VOTES! IT SIMPLY RECORDS HOW YOU VOTED.This will…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01AMPittsburgh Public Theater kicks off its 38th season with Born Yesterday, Garson Kanin's classic comedy about political corruption and personal awakening, officially opening Oct. 5, follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo-time Tony Award nominee André De Shields presents his new solo cabaret show, I Put A Spell On You, beginning Oct. 5 at the the Laurie Beechman Theatre .
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone, who will return to Broadway shortly in the David Mamet play The Anarchist, offers her solo show Matters of the Heart Oct. 5-6 at Maryland's Music…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMShotgun Players presents Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Tony Award-winning musical Assassins, officially opening Oct. 5, following previews that began Sept. 27, in Berkeley, CA.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe La MaMa production of AdA (Author directing Author), an evening of two one-act plays by American playwright Neil LaBute and Italian playwright Marco Calvani, in which each playwrigh…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR presents "Inside Look: Chaplin," a conversation and performance with the stars and artistic team of the new Broadway musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRoundabout Theatre Company presents the Roundabout Underground production of Joshua Elias Harmon's Bad Jews beginning Oct. 5 in the 62-seat Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Ste…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe musical murder-mystery spoof Something's Afoot begins Oct. 5 as the final mainstage show of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. The riff on Agatha Christie tales, with a lady d…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLiv Rooth and David Christopher Wells heat things up in the TheaterWorks production of David Ives' Tony Award-nominated drama Venus in Fur, which begins previews Oct. 5 in Hartford.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPatricia Richardson and Tony Carlin co-star as brother and sister in the world premiere of Alfred Uhry's Apples and Oranges, which begins previews Oct. 5 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1896 Broadway premiere of Secret Service, which becomes a perennial touring hit for its author and star, William Gillette.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWhen Mary Bridget Davies first takes the stage as the title character in One Night with Janis Joplin at Arena Stage, the audience is almost immediately transported back to the 1960s and pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM 
