Broadway will welcome another two shows this week- GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS and THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, which start previews on October 16 and 19 respectively. Get your tickets now
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:55PMIf history class were like the rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, I might have fared better in school. The 2011 off-Broadway musical by Michael Friedman (music and lyrics) and Alex T…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:49PMYou choose the murderer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the whodunit smash based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens and adapted by Tony Award-winning writercomposer Rupert Holmes Curt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMBrian Friel wrote The Freedom of the City nearly four decades before the Occupy movement ignited (and fizzled), but watching the show in 2012 it's nearly impossible to tell.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMsearchforatwitterstar, the online talent competition run by the Twitter phenomenon westendproducer, was brought to the West End stage this July. With hundreds of entries to the talent search…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:33PMYoung or sensitive patrons might not want to attend this production - The Right Brain Project uses a mix of substance, style, shock, and blood splatter to rattle even the most stoic theater-…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:18PMNETworks Presentations, LLC, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Unique Features have announced casting for the upcoming national tour of ELF THE MUSICAL. The tour kicks off at the Providence …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:14PMThe premise of Stephen Belber's new play Don't Go Gentle, which just opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theater production, is one loaded with dazzling promise.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMThere are heady conversations going on about town. Don’t Go Gentle offers a fistful. The themes here are mythic and bold and boils down to family vs. friend. Who is who and how come we …
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 07:09PMIn the video below, comedian Paul F. Tompkins sits down with Jesse Tyler Ferguson to talk about his Broadway beginnings, So You Think You Can Dance, flirting with Bryan Cranston, bow-ties, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:03PMAs Fall rolls in it may be too chilly for a trip to the zoo, but you’ll have far more fun watching these animals in their ‘captivity’ as Iron Crow Theatre Company presents Bad Panda -…
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The American Repertory Theater A.R.T. will present Pippin, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson, directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. Previews beg…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:55PMThe Broadway Channel announces the return of Broadway Profiles to its series as half hour shows and announces Tamsen Fadal as the series new host.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMJeff Goldblum, starring in "Seminar" at the Ahmanson Theatre through Nov. 18, will participate in a Google+ Hangout in this space at noon Pacific on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:45PMA compelling new photographic exhibition at the Getty offers an overview of innovative photographer Ray K. Metzker’s long career and also includes inventive photographs by Harry Callahan, …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:43PMClick below to watch a clip of Les Misrables' Samantha Barks singing Too Far Gone with Russell Crowe and Alan Doyle at their Indoor Garden Party on October 13th at The Gramercy Theatre in Ne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMIt's time for episode fifteen of BWW's exclusive TV series - CHEWING THE SCENERY WITH Randy Rainbow In this week's episode, Randy covers last week's biggest headlines at the CTS Newsdesk, in…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:29PMAs a cancer-ridden judge reexamines his life choices, he permanently upsets the lives of four others. The cast and creatives of Don’t Go Gentle open up about the drama’s modern t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMJust days after Broadway.com debuted the first photo of Scarlett Johansson as the sexy and ferocious Maggie in Rob Ashford’s upcoming of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof revival, we caught up wit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:20PMTwo of the most accomplished productions in the history of Chicago theater — "Follies" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre — shared top …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:20PMEdward Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Amy Morton and Tracy Letts have made this 50-year-old play the freshest new Broadway experience. Even if you're familiar with …
SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 06:19PMIts one of the most anticipated events of the year in New York City The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens for the 2012-2013 winter season on Tuesday, October 16. Set against the Art Deco bac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMIn November 2011, twenty-five theater professionals gathered in Washington, DC to discuss nonprofit and commercial collaborations aimed at the development of new theatrical work. In spirit (…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 06:16PMIf you've already defied gravity on Halloween as Elphaba or spooned out sugary medicine as Mary Poppins, it's time to consider a new Broadway-themed costume! This year, Broadway.com …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:15PMFrom stage to page! Bob Martin, Tony-winning co-writer and star of The Drowsy Chaperone, will develop a new half-hour comedy for ABC and Canada's Shaw Media alongside EntertainmentOne pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:13PMOn Saturday night, I was one of about 400 writers who performed their work as part of the San Francisco Lit Crawl: Celebrating Litquake’s closing night, Lit Crawl is the world’s largest …
SOURCE: direct address at 06:12PMJulia Murney and Daniel Everidge lead a family on the brink of collapse in off-Broadway's Falling. Hear from the cast and creatives about the show’s powerful message and why a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:11PMStar of A Clockwork Orange, the Pink Panther and the Italian Job, was also the voice of John Lennon in Yellow Submarine Continue reading...
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It won more Tony Awards than any other play last season, and continues to delight the senses and imagination as it continues its Broadway run through January 20, 2013. Peter and the St…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 05:59PMWhen the movie musical adaptation of Les Miserables hits theaters this Christmas, there will be at least one new tune joining the familiar, sweeping score.
As Broadway.com reported back i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMFalling premieres tonight, Monday, October 15th at 7 p.m. The new play by Deanna Jent, began previews for an open-ended run on Thursday, September 27th at the Minetta Lane Theatre 18 Minetta…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMI scarcely know where to begin. Hemispheric Dysfunctionalism & the Cortical Titanic moves through the treacherous waters of involved philosophical musings like the Titanic maneuvered th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:53PMThough playwright-performer John Jiler deals provocatively with the subject of death in his 80-minute one-man play “Ripe,” the show is vibrant with life. And the principal life s…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:48PMTeachers at Fairfield University leave the classroom for a little drama and a lesson in business and philosophy: a staging of “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMBroadway star and lead in ABC Family's new show Bunheads Sutton Foster sang the National Anthem at last night's October 14th Yankees game. Click below to listen to her performance
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:45PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, October 15, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway GOLDEN AGE, Terrence McNally’s new play @…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:44PMAs the son of Tony-winning actress Tonya Pinkins, Maxx Brawer practically grew up in rehearsal studios and backstage. He realized at an early that he wanted to take the stage and make …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:40PMAny production of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize–winning “Doubt” playing in Manhattan these days inevitably falls under the shadow of the original 2005 Broadwa…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:38PMThe interested parties aren’t the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:38PMAccording to Variety, the musical adaptation of the film Secondhand Lions is aiming to open at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theater in August 2013.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMTony Award nominee Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Nick Adams, Max Von Essen, Kara Lindsay and Nikki Renée Daniels are among the performers who took part in the Oct. 14 "Broadway Gets Out th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:37PM“Urban” features graduates from Circo Para Todos in an act reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil’s, but with a decidedly hip-hop feel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMCaldwell Theatre Company co-founder Michael Hall stepped down as artistic director in 2009, and has been travelling and writing ever since. But he returned to the Caldwell in February 2011 t…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 05:33PMRECOMMENDED What begins as a spat between a small town DJ and his female producer, quickly turns into a battle to stay alive in Strawdog Theatre’s production of “Pontypool.” In a small…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:31PMThe Producers stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane are among the actors featured in the PBS "American Masters" documentary about Academy and Tony Award winner Mel Brooks, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:29PMGays and lesbians need the support of our communities if we are going to win the fight over marriage at the ballot box, and one couple explains why that’s fitting.
SOURCE: The Advocate at 05:26PMThere has been much speculation about what the song might be, and the film's leading man Hugh Jackman sat down yesterday with The Telegraph to talk details on the addition of the new solo fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMAnnette Bening addressed the Los Angeles cast of The Book of Mormon prior to their benefit performance for The Actors Fund on Wednesday, October 13th. Check out photos of Bening with the cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:22PMFollowing critically acclaimed engagements in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, DREAMWORKS’ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON LIVE SPECTACULAR continues to wow audiences across the US,…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:17PMEVIL WILL TRAVEL In his great works, like Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and even in his lesser efforts, such as Broken Glass, Arthur Miller forces us to confess a greater loyalty th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:16PMThe Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, now at the Booth Theatre, is a sterling production with an amazing cast. But it left us asking, "Can anyone drink tha…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMThe stunning Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, now at the Booth Theatre, raises questions about monogamy, life and lies. But the big question for us was, "…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMDrury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, makes a splash with the effervescent musical comedy SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, previewing November 8, opening November 15, and running through January 13, 201…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:07PMNEFA, as a nimble New England-based regional arts organization working to connect extraordinary artists and communities, also serves the region with national and international programs. For …
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Try ranting about this one, Lewis Black! The sharp-tongued comedian can't complain this week, as his one-man show Running on Empty played to full capacity during its limited eight-perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMAmy Morton, Tracy Letts and the cast of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? blew the roof off the Booth Theatre on October 13 (figuratively, at least), when the revival of Edward Albee&rsq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMCBC anchor Peter Mansbridge shows off his horse-riding moves in a spoof of Korean hit 'Gangnam Style.'
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:51PMSpice Girl, singer-songwriter, judge on the ITV1Andrew Lloyd Webber show SUPERSTAR and now Mary Magdalene in the show's UK arena tour, Melanie C has just released a video of CHESS's I Know H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMCENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former stock broker accused of swindling the producers of a Broadway adaptation of "Rebecca" has pleaded not guilty to fraud and money-laundering charges in a …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:48PMActress Hallie Foote was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about starring in the off-Broadway production of "Him," written by her sister Daisy. The chocolate fan also told us what …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:46PMLifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and former Live Bait Theater Artistic Director Sharon Evans are pleased to announce the 16th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, running January …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:44PMThe Fall 2012 semester started off on a high note at William Peace University as Broadway performers Courtney Balan CRY-BABY, TITLE OF SHOW and Kilty Reidy THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, IN MY LIFE r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMTikly, the first low-fee, flat-rate ticketing platform of its kind to give artists, venues, and events full control over their marketing and promotion, has announced integration with Faceboo…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:42PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:41PMNext Theatre Company’s second production of their 32ndseason is the Midwest premiere of Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter by Julie Marie Myatt and directed by Jessica Thebus, at Noyes Cultural Ar…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:40PMPUT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION Anticipating having to review Owen Dunne’s new play Positions, the feeling I had while watching it – knowing the production to have travelled 600 miles …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:38PMPlaywright Daisy Foote was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about the new off-Broadway production of her play "Him," starring her sister Hallie Foote. She also told us what she's …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:38PMTony Award-winning Drowsy Chaperone writer and star Bob Martin has been tapped to create a new television series in a partnership between ABC and Shaw Media, according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:38PMIn the fourth episode of the King of New York vlog, Corey Cott brings you the truth behind some of Newsies’ biggest stage secrets. From hidden mics to menu tricks, get all of News…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMCOVERAGE BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT As the song goes, “Life is a Cabaret” so is the same for Chicago. Even though there are a limited amount of venues in Chicago to experience cabaret or li…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:32PMHe forged a language that has shaped how the English – and British – see themselves, and set the terms for our imaginationShelley's famous claim that poets are "the unacknowledged legisl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMFollow-Up Workshop: The TCG/American Express Leadership Boot Camp culminated at the National Conference with a final morning workshop held on June 21. Of the original 15 pairs of Emerging an…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:21PMFive-time Tony Award and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury, two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jones, and just announced Four-time Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:20PMPam MacKinnon directs Tracy Letts (author of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County) and Amy Morton (Tony Award nominee for August: Osage County), Madison Dirks and C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PMTony Danza, who recently penned the book "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had," and Liza Minnelli joined Nicolas King onstage at King's Oct. 9 performance at …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:17PMFive-time Tony Award and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury, two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jones, and just announced Four-time Tony Award winne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMManhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of GOLDEN AGE, the new play by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie begins rehearsals today …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:13PMMerrimack Rep takes the Kerouac legend off-road with Beat Generation.Last weekend Merrimack Rep played host to a minor - maybe even a major - literary event: the world premiere of Lowell hom…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:13PMNEW YORK — When Craig Wright's offbeat play "Grace" was produced at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie in 2006, the central problem was one that befalls many contemporary dramas seemingl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:11PMBroadway is the best place outside of Comic-Con to grab inspiration for a Halloween get-up, but we're aware that not everyone has access to Evita's dress or costumer Susan Hil
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:09PMFour-time Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines joins five-time Tony Award and three-time Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury and two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner James Earl Jon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:05PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 10142012.
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The new stage musical Secondhand Lions, based on the 2003 movie starring Michael Caine and Robert Duval, will debut at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in August 2013, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PMSirius XM Radio announced today that iconic actordirectorproducerauthor Henry Winkler will sit down for a wide-ranging QampA session with a select group of SiriusXM listeners at the SiriusXM…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMNEW YORK (AP) — Mark Hotton appeared out of nowhere this year, offering to come to the financial rescue of a fledgling Broadway adaptation of the psychological thriller "Rebecca."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:55PMCast your vote for the President of Neverland and enter the sweepstakes for a chance to win the PETER AND THE STARCATCER Prize-Pack that consists of a signed playbill, an annotated script, s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:50PMA bevy of Broadway headliners, playwrights and award-winning off-Broadway stars turned out for the opening night of Stephen Belber’s Don’t Go Gentle on October 14. Presented by M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PMThe national tour of the Tony-winning revival Anything Goes sets sail. Watch Rachel York and the cast give a “de-lovely” sneak peek at this classic musical in rehearsal.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PML.A. MASTER CHORALE’S GRANT GERSHON PIPES UP The Los Angeles Master Chorale kicks off its 49th season on Sunday, October 21st at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with an organ and choral e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38PMProducers of the long-running Off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks have announced that pop singer Aaron Carter has extended his contract with the production for a fourth time into 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PMThe popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series will screen The Blues Brothers, the 1980’s musical-comedy, action-fantasy – and the first “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) skit-to-scre…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:33PMThe New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is hosting a free program, Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic, on Thursday, October 18 at 6pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.The event is being…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMTCG's annual report on the business of nonprofit theater shows cites a $1.94 billion contribution by these theaters to the US economy and attendance figures of 34 million, based on data from…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:30PMTony Lo Bianco will play late, beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a new solo play The Little Flower, written and directed by the actor, in a brief Off-Broadway engagement t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:27PMThe fourth Broadway production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened this past week to the first full-throated raves of the season. (See my rev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PMAmy Whitaker gives a performance lecture on the market before Keith Hennessy's "Turbulence"
SOURCE: Culturebot at 03:23PMOUTFEST, the world's leading organization dedicated to showcasing, protecting and nurturing LGBT film imagery and artistry, just honored award winning producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron at…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMNYMF today announced the Grand Jury for the Next Link Project. Submissions for The Next Link Project, which guarantees production slots in the 2013 Festival, continue through November 2nd. T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMAlexis Fishman has been chosen the winner of The 7th Annual NYMF Next Broadway Sensation NBS Over 200 people auditioned for NYMFs Next Broadway Sensation.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:22PMAaron Carter will continue in the off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, playing at the Snapple Theatre Center, through January 27.The musical is directed by Tom Jones, who wrote the sh…
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PMFor the first time ever in the history of Amazon, a mother and her son have number one albums during the week of their release.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMGRACE on Broadway has announced that international best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love will participate in a post-show conversation about the play as it relates to issues of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMA Long Island businessman allegedly duped the producers of "Rebecca: The Musical" into believing he had secured $4.5 million from investors to open the show on Broadway.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 03:12PMNearly five decades after a musical adaptation of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was one of the biggest flops in theater history—even with a book by Edward Albee and starri…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 03:11PMMatt Kopec will star as Buddy in the mini-holiday tour of the musical Elf, which launches Nov. 4 in Providence, RI. The cast will also feature Julia Louise Hosack, Gordon Gray, Kate Hen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMTony nominee Cathy Rigby recently flew in to check out the company of Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher! Rigby first appeared as Peter Pan in the eponymous musical on Broadway in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThe new show at Society Hill Playhouse, an import from Rochester, gets more wildly funny as it goes on.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:06PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
How refreshing -- a dysfunctional family drama in which you actually give a damn who gets written out of the will.
SOURCE: Variety at 03:03PMEcho Theater Company has announced additional casting for the previously announced world premiere of Gary Lennon's A Family Thing, February 16-March 17 at Stage 52. Chris Fields will direct…
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The Princess Grace Foundation-USA PGF-USA has just announced that the 30th Anniversary Princess Grace Awards Gala will be held on Monday, October 22, 2012 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMAmy Morton and Tracy Letts have made this 50-year-old play the freshest new Broadway experience. Even if you're familiar with George and Martha's devastatingly funny yet awful alliterative g…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 02:57PMSporty Spice has turned to the world of Broadway as the source of inspiration for her newest album, Stages.On the recently released CD, Melanie Chisholm sings her favorite showtunes, includi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:57PMAngelica Page looked overjoyed on opening night of Turning Page, her solo play that shares with audiences the personal and public side of her late mother, Geraldine Page, who originated role…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:56PMNEW YORK (AP) — Brian Friel is a master at beginning his plays at the end. Even though we know the outcome, his compassionate interpretation of events and their aftermaths often sheds ligh…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:52PMTony Award-nominated Memphis star Chad Kimball, Jessica Phillips and Chester Gregory will perform in the Engeman Theater's Nov. 2 Broadway Concert Series in Northport, Long Island.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMFly, Fly Away with Broadway’s newest musical now hitting the tour circuit! The high-flying musical, Catch Me If You Can, is making its national tour debut after premiering on Broadway…
SOURCE: Luner on Theatre at 02:45PMNot-for-profit theatres contributed nearly 1.94 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 34 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2011. Released by Theatre Communications Group TCG,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34PMLA has already seen parts 2 and 3 of Evelina Fernandez's trilogy about four generations of a Mexican American family, loosely based on her own. Now Faith, part 1, is opening at LATC. It's se…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:27PMTHE LANGUAGE OF THE ZOMBIE Over a decade ago, author Tony Burgess penned the experimental novel Pontypool Changes Everything, which featured what could be called “zombies” but focused mo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25PMAmy Morton, a Tony nominee for August: Osage County, talks about seeing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from both sides now — as current actress on Broadway and past director, regi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:25PMAustralian singer Alexis Fishman has been named the winner of the 7th Annual NYMF Next Broadway Sensation Competition on Friday, August 12. Karen Mason hosted the events.She was one of eight…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:20PMFour-time Tony winner Boyd Gaines, currently headlining the Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, will join James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury in the previously reported Australian d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:19PMCatch Me If You Can is taking off once again, this time in a high-flying national tour. Here is a first look at the Tony-nominated musical touring the country. Newcomer Stephen Anthony stars…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:16PMRoundabout Theatre Company's Cyrano de Bergerac officially opened on October 11, 2012 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway and will play a limited engagement through November 25, 201…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMPerformances from the upcoming musicals Giant, Here Lies Love, Fun Home and last season's The Total Bent puntcuated the Public Theater's Oct. 13 block party celebrating the reop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:13PMFive-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, who recently concluded an acclaimed run in the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, is honored Oct. 15 by PFLAG NYC at the organ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:12PMThe popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series will screen The Blues Brothers, the 1980’s musical-comedy, action-fantasy – and the first “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) skit-to-scre…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:07PMJon Kern’s new play finds dark humor in vicious deeds You never know what will happen during preview performances: You could start with a goofy comedy and end with a dark rumination on…
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Bill Kenwright presents the multi-award winning production of Cabaret, starring Will Young, Michelle Ryan, Sian Phillips, Matt Rawle and more. Kander and Ebbs landmark musical turns Weimar B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:58PMTake some cracking Irish characters, throw in a bitter and confusing love triangle, a terminal illness and the twilight period of life, and you get something rather special. Hugh Leonard’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:53PMWith Barbra returning soon to the big screen, we asked which of her previous movies is your favorite. Check out the results below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46PMFamily fare that both delights and educates, while reminding how little in a child’s adventurous spirit has changed over 100 years.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:45PMLorna Luft, Ashley Brown, Ann Hampton Callaway and Steven Brinberg were part of Hello Gorgeous! A Salute to the Streisand Songbook, an Oct. 12 benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fight…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMA host of Broadway and cabaret favorites will take part in the 2012-2013 season at the Royal Room at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach.The remainder of 2012 will feature appearances by Avery So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:33PMIn this year of endless divining of the will of the people, theatergoers might find especially noteworthy the contrarian outlook of playwright Henrik Ibsen, who no doubt would have considere…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:32PMCalled the season's most dazzling talent show, Gypsy of the Year is easily the biggest party in town with appearances by dozens of Broadway and Off-Broadway's most popular shows and performe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMClever, colorful budget production packs a surprising emotional punch.
SOURCE: The Washington Times at 01:28PMThe National New Play Network has added two plays by Australian playwrights Vanessa Bates and Declan Greene to the previously announced National Showcase of New Plays, to run November 29-Dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:28PMSusan Blackwell brought along The Book of Mormon’s Rory O’Malley for her latest Side by Side shenanigans, which included an explosive backyard cook-out, sharing fond memories of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:27PMDeadlines, Deadlines Everywhere...and not a lick of sleep. A wood-engraved illustration by Gustave Doré inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.There! Th…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 01:26PMTape is one of those plays that has style. It takes a while to become immersed in the strange dialogue and eccentric characters, but once it finds its flow, Tape stands alone. Stephen Belber…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:25PMIt can't shock the way it once did, but it sure does land its punches.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:24PMGive the creators of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" credit for coming up with the most audacious idea for a musical to come down the pike in years.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:24PMAccording to MTI's official website, BONNIE amp CLYDE, which last year played the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is now available for licensing. In the show, two small-town kids from the middle …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21PMIt’s one of the most anticipated events of the year in New York City – The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens for the 2012-2013 winter season on Tuesday, October 16. Set against the Art …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:21PMNot-for-profit theatres contributed nearly $1.94 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 34 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2011. Released by Theatre Communications Group (TC…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:16PMAngelica Page premieres Turning Page, a new solo play about her late mother, American actress Geraldine Page, Off-Broadway beginning Oct. 11 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMThe longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webbers THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince and produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Company, Inc.,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12PMKate Oates, a former story editor for Emmerdale, has been appointed as the new producer of the soap. She will join Emmerdale in January, replacing Stuart Blackburn, who is leaving to produce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMEmmy Winner Richard Schiff rose to TV stardom as White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on Aaron Sorkin’s long-running drama The West Wing. At age 57, the actor, who has…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMMary McCann gives a well-crafted performance in Simon Stephens’ unsettling play about a woman in midlife crisis, Brendan Lemon
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:03PMHofesh Shechter’s first evening-length work in New York is powerful even if its argument is patchy, Apollinaire Scherr, writes
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:03PMBill RadenDark visionary Ron Sossi
It's the kind of what-if that gives lighting designers the night sweats: What if the artistic director at one of L.A.'s premiere stages got it into his he…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PM
For generations, musical theatre writers have come to New York City to change the world. Once Upon A Time In New York City was about the people who have changed THEM. This concert featured m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMOnce Upon a Time in New York City, a benefit concert featuring new material from emerging songwriters celebrating the city of New York, was offered Oct. 14 at Joe's Pub.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:56PMThe 25th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be celebrated as a Special Gala Performance on Jan. 26, 2013. Exact details of the 6:3…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:49PMIt is clear why <em>The Best of Everything</em> appeals to modern-day audiences, but what was not counted on, however, was the frightening relevance of the play to present-day wo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PMREVIEW: Two shows opened last weekend that seek to influence the debate on the upcoming marriage amendment, "Love & Marriage" and "But Not For Love."
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:45PMREVIEW: The Guthrie's final Christopher Hampton play, based on a 1942 novel, concerns the recollection of a decades-old event.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 12:44PMTCG Books recently published Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements: Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater. A community-specific theatre works series that examines the lives of those born into …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:42PMA Long Island businessman has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding producers of the aborted Broadway musical "Rebecca." Officials with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office made the an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:41PMPlaywrights Lydia Diamond, Emily Mann, and Marsha Norman will have new works performed as unstaged readings during the upcoming McCarter Lab Fall Festival 2012, to be held October 29-Novembe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMAs previously announced, Rodgers amp Hammerstein'S CINDERELLA will arrive on Broadway this season with previews set for January 21, 2013 prior to Opening Night on February 21 at the Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMToday, we're featuring Milton Berle and George Burns in 1982. Berle's Broadway credits include See My Lawyer, Ziegfeld Follies of 1943, I'll Take the High Road, Seventeen, The Goodbye People…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMThe Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will mark its 25th Anniversary on Saturday, January 26 with a special gala performance at the Majestic Theatre. The …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:27PMBased on the classic novel 'Oliver Twist', Charles Dickens words come to life in OLIVER with book and music written by Lionel Bart and presented by The Frankel Academy of Metropolitan Detroi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMBroadway alum Christina Applegate hosted Saturday Night Live on October 13, and the Sweet Charity Tony nominee showed off her high kicks, toe touches and “ka-donk zaa-zaas” as a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PMOne man, isolated and alone on a stage completely covered with discarded, unwanted clothing: it's a striking visual metaphor for this show which is based on interviews with gay men and women…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:18PMWhat happens when an actor is cast as a master cook and famous gastronome? In the case of Nick Olcott, he digs in to some cookbooks and heads for the market. Nick Olcott (Photo: courtesy of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMPlans are underway for a U.K. tour of the well-received Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to his hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, according …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:11PMToday in 2009 the first Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie opened at Henry Miller's Theatre now the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, where it ran for 117 performances. Originally titled Let's Go St…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:10PMBroadway’s CHAPLIN launches a CHAPLIN look-alike Instagram contest today, October 15th. The CHAPLIN Look-Alike contest is also supported by Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, and will run …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:07PMCulture Project Allan Buchman, Founder amp Artistic Director, in association with Innocence Project, Marc amp Steven Kaplan, and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, has announced a 4-week extension of the ac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMWynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will work with kids from East St. Louis High School.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:04PMAtlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director has just announced that the New York premiere production of Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens play H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:02PMWith the recent release of the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors and anticipation building for the Les Miserables movie, Broadway.com asked readers which feature film adaptation o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMI just wrapped up a wonderful weekend of discovering new musicals and reconnecting with musical theater colleagues from around the country at the National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT).…
SOURCE: Make Musicals at 12:00PM"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
-- Anaïs NinSince I was thirteen, I've known that I wanted to work in theater for…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMThe large ensemble of actors and dancers works hard and well under director Terrence Spivey and choreographer Angelique Lipford, though their efforts can't hide the seams in this crazy-quilt…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PM
In support of National Bullying Prevention Month and in response to the tragic loss of Amanda Todd, the below short film wasreleases, which covers What Makes You Beautiful, sung by Broadway …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:58AMTony Award winner Nina Arianda will guest star on the Thursday, October 18 episode of NBC's 30 Rock as the love interest of Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), according to NY Daily News.The actres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:52AMThe original 'Jersey Boy' Frankie Valli lands at the Broadway Theatre in a concert engagement playing 1019 thru 1027 only. FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS ON BROADWAY will feature all of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMLinda Eder kicked off The Town Halls 123 West 43rd Street Eighth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival on Saturday, October 13th, with her new show A New Life. In this special evening, Miss Eder …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:51AMIt’s usually an ominous sign when the producer and the director of any given show are the same person. Like politics, theater generally requires a certain separation of powers. When one pe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:50AMThe National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is currently playing a strictly limited 12-week engagement from now through November 25, 2012 at t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMTony Award winning musical, Memphis, is headed for the big screen. Mark Gordon and Molly Smith are producing the film, which revolved around the star-crossed lovers living in segregated Tenn…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:47AMTracy-Ann Oberman talks to Scott Matthewman about her new Radio 4 drama Rock and Doris and Elizabeth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMTony winner Sutton Foster may be a Bunhead out in California these days, but she’s still a New Yorker at heart! The bubbly Foster cheered on the home team by singing National Anth…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMGlee star Darren Criss, who starred in Zadan and Meron's Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, presented the award to them, and while he was there he also…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMPerhaps we’ll look back on the first half of the twenty-first century and see a revolution of process, with deeper collaborations among theatre artists leading to an explosion of innovatio…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:39AMAtlantic Theater Company is proud to announce that the New York premiere production of Olivier Award® winner Simon Stephens play HARPER REGAN has been extended an additional week through Su…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:37AMLongtime theatrical colleagues Alan Wasser, Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket announced today the formation of Foresight Theatrical LLC, a new company which will provide gener…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMThe Dining Room - Saint Sebastian Players, 1625 W. Diversey, is offering $10 tickets with headshot and resume for all performances opening weekend: Fri 10/19 at 8PM, Sat 10/20 at 8PM, Sun 10…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:33AMThe 24th Annual Gypsy of the Year competition — benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS — will be held Dec. 3 at 4:30 PM and Dec. 4 at 2 PM at The New Amsterdam Theatre, hom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:33AMThe world premiere of Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle, about a retired conservative judge who struggles to maintain order in his personal life, opens Off-Broadway Oct. 14 at MCC The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:32AMLooks like Harper Regan is going to raise hell for another week. Simon Stephens' acclaimed new play has extended off-Broadway through November 4 at the Atlantic Theater. The New York pre…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:31AMThe Private Theatre John Gould Rubin, Artistic Director Lucy DiRosa, Executive Director and Barbara Ligeti present the world premiere of a new solo show, Turning Page, written and performed …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMMark Hotton, the Long Island businessman was arrested Monday on two counts of wire fraud in relation to Rebecca: The Musical. Hotton is accused of fabricating the prospect of $4.5 million in…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:27AMThe producers of the hilarious musical Bring It On have announced that the production will be closing on December 30, 2012. This is a change from their previously announced closing date of …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:24AMThe Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, which features a blues, rock and gospel score by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro, is getting closer to a big-screen debut.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:24AMKander & Ebb's hit musical Cabaret, starring Will Young, Sian Phillips and Michelle Ryan, opened at the Savoy Theatre last week (9 October 2012).Based on the stories of Christopher Isherwoo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:18AMLong Island businessman hit a low note Monday morning after being arrested for allegedly defrauding producers of the musical adaption of Alfred Hitchock's "Rebecca" which has faile…
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:17AMOn October 12, 2012, The New York Pops orchestra launched its 30th Season at Carnegie Hall with Some Enchanted Evening The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Music Director and Conductor Stev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York businessman who allegedly created a cast of fictional characters to help finance a $12 million Broadway rendition of "Rebecca: The Musical" was arrested on Mo…
SOURCE: Reuters at 11:12AMAtlantic Theater Company has extended its production Simon Stephens' Harper Regan through Sunday, November 4. The play is directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.Mary McCann stars in the title role…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08AMSimon Stephens' Harper Regan earned a handful of glowing reviews in recent days, including praise for Mary McCann in the title role, prompting Atlantic Theater Company to announce an ext…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:07AMMCC THEATER presents the world premiere production of Dont Go Gentle by Stephen Belber and directed by Lucie Tiberghien, which opened last night, October 14, at the Rattlestick Theater. Dont…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMSouth Pacific stars Paulo Szot and Kelli O'Hara reunited for Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein, which opened the New York Pops' 30th season Oct. 12 at Carn…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04AMThe Goodman Theatre is hosting a costume sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 20 at the theatre, 170 N. Dearborn. The sale includes costumes from numerous Goodman productions such…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:04AMJay, Jimmy and I hang out all the time . . . in the back of cabs. I’m of course referring to TaxiTV and the non-stop promos that run of Jay and Jimmy’s respective TV shows. Just …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFor the first time ever, the musical version of “Mary Poppins” will appear in New Zealand and Mexico City later this year. The first New Zealand production will begin October 18 at The C…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AMThe recent movie musicals "Nine" and "Rock of Ages" both tanked at the box office, but that apparently isn't stopping producers from investing in an effort to adapt the Tony-winning "Memphis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM
In this week's School in the Spotlight High School Edition, we get to know the Fine Arts Department at Helena High School in Helena, Montana
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMLinda Eder kicked off The Town Halls 123 West 43rd Street Eighth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival on Saturday, October 13th at 8PM, with her new show A New Life. In this special evening, Mis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:55AMCabaret star Marilyn Maye, Colleen McHugh, Santiago Venegas and Tori Scott will belt out signature tunes from Funny Girl as part of the Oct. 18 installment of Justin Sayre's The Meeting*…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMNEW YORK (AP) — In Act 2 of the latest revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway, a desk lamp was accidentally broken on opening night.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:50AMNEW YORK (AP) — A former stock broker was arrested early Monday on charges of defrauding the producers of the Broadway musical adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Rebe…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:49AMGRACE In a suspenseful new play by Craig Wright and starring an award-winning cast, a religious couple is forced to reexamine their beliefs when they encounter their cynical, damaged neighb…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:48AMWith the Disney and Cameron Mackintosh Broadway production of Mary Poppins recently becoming the 24th longest running show in Broadway history, the show continues its success above and beyon…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMWhatsonstage.com is delighted to announce that InterAct, the lead project of The Stagecoach Charitable Trust, will be the adopted charity of the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards.
The InterAct …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:46AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 14, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $230,281 3,997 77.58% $57.61 ANNIE $647,76…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMLegit News:
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SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMHey readers first off, a little housekeeping. I'm trying to keep my blog interesting and relevant. My desire is to impart some experiences I've had in a painfully honest manner. That being s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:41AMEastEnders' star Tameka Empson, Alistair McGowan, and former Coronation Street star Wendi Peters will join Madness frontman Suggs in the 10th anniversary West End gala concert of the musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:40AMThe English Touring Opera’s autumn 2012 season includes The Lighthouse, a story based on real events in the Orkney port of Stromness. A supply ship pulled in at a lighthouse to find the ke…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AMAlan Wasser, Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket announced Oct. 15 the formation of Foresight Theatrical LLC, a new company that will provide general management and executive-pr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:37AMLong Island businessman Mark Hotton is expected to make a court appearance in Long Island on Monday.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:35AMThe film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical Les Misérables will have a Christmas Day opening, hitting theatres in a wide release Dec. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMThe interested parties aren’t the usual suspects. A workout gym, a church, a charter school, a medical facility. Everything but a theater. When the house that the Caldwell Theatre Company …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 10:33AMFormer stockbroker Mark Hotton was arrested on October 15 on charges of defrauding the producers of the Broadway musical adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca, according t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AM“You’re all flops,” Martha says drunkenly to her guest in “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?” the first full-length play by Edward Albee, which has proven once again to be the oppo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:32AMAlthough I've been reading and reviewing books for several decades, not until Salman Rushdie's memoir, <em>Joseph Anton</em>, have I realized how some part of me continues to loo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32AMMitchel Butel, Shane Bourne, Hugh Sheridan and Christie Whelan will join Academy and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush in the Australian staging of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the For…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMThe F.B.I. and the U.S. Attorney's office charged Long Island businessman Mark Hotton with defrauding the producers of the Broadway show Rebecca – The Musical "by fabricating …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMAt the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America’s most renowned folk heroes and the Texas law enforceme…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:26AMIt’s been exactly 50 years since Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee’s modern classic, first opened on Broadway. On October 13th a searing revival opened at the Booth Theatre…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:25AMNorthlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its 2012-2013 season with Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, featuring …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:22AMMemphis lives… onscreen! The Tony-winning tuner is the latest musical to receive a big-budget film adaptation, according to a Deadline report.
Belle Pictures, the Mark Go…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:21AMCulture Project's tenth anniversary revival of The Exonerated has been extended by four weeks and will now run through December 2. The production is directed by Bob Balaban.Jessica Blank and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:20AMTHE PERFORMERS is David West Read's new romantic comedy about life and love in the adult entertainment industry. This World Premiere production features the sizable talents of Cheyenne Jacks…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMThe Culture Project's 10th anniversary production of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated, which officially opened Sept. 19, has extended its run by four weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:15AMMillion Dollar Quartet, now in its fifth year in Chicago, continues performances through April 28, 2013 with cast members Brandon Bennett (Elvis Presley), Shaun Whitley (Carl Perkins…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:14AMGlee star Darren Criss made fans squeal with delight when he madde his Broadway debut in the recent revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in January 2012…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:11AMAndrea Martin and Seth Rudetsky were visited backstage by Nathan Lane, Victor Garber, Debra Monk, Dee Hoty, Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman following their engagement at the new cabaret venue…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AM“Memphis,” the Tony Award-winning musical, is heading to the big screen. Belle Pictures and the Mark Gorgon Company announced the news yesterday, and Mark Gordon and Molly Smith will pro…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMToday marks my 800th blog post. Hard to believe that when I started writing this blog, that I would hit this number of posts but here we are. I wanted to thank all of you who have read, comm…
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AMI am so excited to have a pair of tickets to The Other Josh Cohen to give away. I haven't seen this incarnation yet, but I saw an earlier version called V-Day and it was the m…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AM
NEW YORK - A former stock broker was arrested early Monday on charges of defrauding the producers of the Broadway...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:58AMThe twisting tale of REBECCA's cancellation on Broadway made a new turn this morning with multiple news outlets reporting that troubled financier and stock broker Mark C. Hotton was arrested…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:49AMA host of understudies from current Broadway musicals will take part in Half Hour 2: A Last Minute Concert Oct. 28 at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:49AMLong Island stockbroker Mark C. Hotton, who had been hired to find investors for the ill-fated Broadway musical Rebecca by the show's lead producer, Ben Sprecher, has been arrested and charg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMAldersgate Church Community Theater presents Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, a captivating murder mystery directed by Roland Gomez. Originally a novel (that became one of the b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43AMNoisy coughing and spluttering seems to be more prevalent in the theatre than at the cinema – but why?Coughing at the theatre is a year-round British sport. As the theatre critic James Aga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMHidden Treasures: The Songs of Larry Kerchner, which will be presented Nov. 5 at the Theater at St. Peters, will benefit Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Initiative and The …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:38AMOn October 13 stars of the FX series AMERICAN HORROR STORY Season 2 came out along with members of the casts of AHS Co-Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuks award-winning show Glee and Murp…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:35AMDeanna Jent’s new play Falling offers a look inside the world of a family raising a teenager with severe autism and violent tendencies. The drama, directed by Lori Adams and starring B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:33AMToday is the birthday of the great early blues queen Victoria Spivey (1906-1976). The native Texan got her professional start as a child, singing and playing piano in movie theatres, saloons…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:30AM“Good News,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “The Most Happy Fella” will be the three main stage shows celebrating Goodspeed Opera House ’s 50th anniversary…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:25AMMemphis, which won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical, is heading to the silver screen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMTickets have gone on sale for the new musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opens on 25 June 2013 (previews from 18 May) at the West End's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:17AMMark Gordon and Molly Smith are producing the film, which revolves around star-crossed lovers living in segregated Tennessee in the 1950s.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:09AMOn Sunday, October 14, Angela Lansbury and Elizabeth Ashley were in the house at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre for Angelica Page's solo show Turning Page, which is set to play at the t
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09AMSome future David Riesman or Theodor Adorno will one day try to assess why a trilogy of lite-BDSM erotic novels enjoyed such popularity at this moment in American history. They have been fir…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:08AMTroubled electrical-contracting king Mark Hotton was arrested and charged with defrauding the producers of "Rebecca - The Musical," according to a complaint that was unsealed today.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:08AM“As we rounded round the hill, past the boating shop, we’d stop and turn the corner by the mill - and I’d see this house…this place…” Long gone are Barbie dolls and handmade set…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AMNEW YORK (AP) -- On "Emily Owens, M.D.," Mamie Gummer plays a med school graduate just starting out as an intern....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:00AM
Specializing in presenting masterpieces of sacred music as well as newly created works, The Seraphim Singers, formed in 1997, has become an admired staple in the highly competitive Boston ch…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:58AMWhile I still believe the best arts managers are those who come to solutions that are based on their organizations' unique situations, there are many arts managers who do not bring that leve…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:52AMWhen in the presence of a superstar with a 40-year career as varied and celebrated as Maureen McGovern, it’s hard not wondering how she can still stand up in front of an audience at 63 and…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:52AM<![CDATA[It is clear why <em>The Best of Everything</em> appeals to modern-day audiences, but what was not counted on, however, was the frightening relevance of the play to pr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:48AMThe Welsh National Opera will perform a new collection of operas in the UK after receiving $2 million (more than £1.2 million) private funding. The five-year series of contemporary performa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMOn Sunday, October 14, the MCC Theater production of Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.Opening night guests included
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:41AMNeil Simon's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play is considered by many to be one of his best, and it's currently receiving a wonderfully heartfelt production opening the 16th season a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:22AMIn recent weeks, officials had begun scrutinizingMark C. Hotton his role in the deal and the show’s collapse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:21AMFree Fall Baltimore celebrates its seventh year by bringing wonderful free cultural activities to your doorstep. With more than 300 unique events scheduled, you’ll be able to find an e…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:17AMLegit News:
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SOURCE: Variety at 08:05AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 15 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Octagon, BoltonBill Naughton – author of Alfie and Spring and Port Wine – was Bolton's best-known dramatic export before playwright Jim Cartwright came along. The Octagon has presented a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59AMA Long Island businessman was arrested Monday morning by federal agents and charged with defrauding producers of the Broadway musical "Rebecca," as well as using a similar scheme to defraud …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 07:58AMIt's hard not to groan at the prospect of yet another exploration of financial machinations and City madness. Discussions of bond transactions don't generally make for a fun night out, espec…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:57AMIn Stephen Belber's new play the father faced with what Dylan Thomas so beautifully described as the not so gentle descent into the good night, is a 72-year-old retired Buffalo Judge coming …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:57AMhe Irish Repertory Theater's gripping and moving performance of Brian Friel’s 1973 play . . . Read More
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:55AMCritics applaud British actor's performance as the long-nosed hero in first Broadway production for 25 yearsYou might all it a drag-to-britches story. Two years after his Tony award-winning …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThe idea of an epistolary play telling this story in Vita and Virginia's own literate and passionate words is a very enticing one, indeed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47AMThey are part of the Dream Team the Australian cast of SOUTH PACIFIC so perfectly composed that their production of Bartlett Shers Lincoln Center revival brought Oscar Hammersteins grandson…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24AMTrafalgar Studios 2, London: As some politicians know only too well, sometimes it's only when we are recorded unawares that the truth becomes apparent. But in Stephen Belber's Tape…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMTheatre503, London: Originally devised by Jamie Bradley and director Douglas Rintoul, Elegy considers the experience of the gay Muslim refugee in todays liberated Iraq. Informed by a mix of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMThe trumpeter-composer will appear with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 07:00AMAcclaimed drama, longest-running of its kind in Canadian history, wrapping up after 368 shows.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMI am very excited to premiere part two of my "A Day in the Life of…" photo blog series for TMU. This week, we will visit Ball State University to meet another BFA musical theatre student i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
Landor, London: On paper, the concept of Hot Mikado might appear pretty grim, transposing as it does the story of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado to be-bop America in the 194…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMToday is the birthday of the great (and almost universally misunderstood) German philosopher Friedrich Neitzsche (1844-1900). Properly appreciated he is not the enemy of goodness, as is com…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:47AMGrand, Leeds: Opera North's production of Gounod's classic is an unusual one from several points of view. Rather than just playing the standard edition of the score, it takes in se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMHexagon Theatre, Reading: Greg Davies was a drama teacher for 13 years before starting out in comedy. Some of his former pupils from Sandhurst School are in the audience tonight, and it is e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMThe All Night Strut The preliminary lineup of masochists has been announced for The Naked Stage’s 24-Hour Theatre Project 2012, currently slated for 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, hosted at …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:31AMSouthwark Playhouse, London: Four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the financial system is still in crisis - and the dramatic retelling of the shattered lives and moral hazards h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMDecades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein�…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:22AMSome art is universal, some is completely a product of its time. Nicholas Pierpan’s You Can Still Make a Killing could not have been written before the recession made us all aware of the e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AMThe tiny Trafalgar Studios 2 has become synonymous with the casting of soap stars in mediocre plays. Witness recent examples Third Floor, Step 9 (of 12) and Chicken::E8831340790977.
Tape de…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:18AMO2 Arena, London: Rabid Michael Jackson fans will lap up anything that keeps his memory alive, even Cirque du Soleil's naff, crass, loud and flashy celebration of his life - a cross bet…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM
Posted in Personal DevelopmentTime ManagementInnovators, renaissance men and women, and artists are some of the most interesting and admired people on the planet. These are people who shunne…
SOURCE: theartsentrepreneur.com at 04:30AMAmong this week's major London theatre
openings, in the West End and further afield, are Red Velvet starring Adrian Lester, new musical Loserville, the Soho Theatre's season of horror plays…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:23AMNew York cartoonist Jules Feiffer (still working and teaching at 83) wrote two scabrous plays at the end of the 1960s, one a black social satire, Little Murders, the other a send-up of polit…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:20AMThere's something forlorn about the Finborough at the moment, with the wine bar closed, customer access through the fire exit, and interval drinks available only in the little sweet shop rou…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 04:04AMMe and Mrs Jones opens with a goldfish in a toilet bowl. I can only guess that the goldfish took one look at the script and attempted to escape before his television career suffered irrepara…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMUnhappy and unequal marriages exist anywhere there are people. Social realism, as a dramatic genre, can be carted from here to Timbuktu. But can you transpose Nordic gloom to the Indian subc…
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Miserable no more! "Les Miserables" just pulled ahead of "Silver Linings Playbook" in the Best Picture race based upon the predictions of top experts polled by Gold Derby…
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:37AMTony Award nominee Liz Larsen The Most Happy Fella, KT Sullivan Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Chris Hoch La Cage Aux Folles, Shrek The Musical, Michael Mastro Twelve Angry Men, Pilin Anice Junie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, October 15th at 930pm CAROL WOODS moonlights from the Broadway musical Chicago to appear in concert in Broadway to Blues at 54 Below, 254 West 54th Street. Directed by Leslie Docker…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMMatthew Broderick will appear in a benefit performance for New York City's South Street Seaport Museum tonight, October 15 at 730 pm. The 'Celebrating Moby-Dick Benefit' will be an immersive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe Path Fund, Inc. has announced that Tony Award nominees John Tartaglia Avenue Q and Chad Kimball Memphis and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley Next to Normal along with Jeremy Kushnier Jerse…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMNederlander Sales amp Patron Services, Camp Broadway and BroadwayWorld.com are excited to hold the fourth annual At This Stage Education Expo today, October 15th at the Minskoff Theatre
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTed Seifman Productions will present the industry reading of Damage Control, a new comedy by Douglas Braverman author of Dalliance in Vienna and Snowman and starring Jackie Hoffman, Nancy Op…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMRosie ODonnell will host a star-studded evening honoring Elvis Duran, host of the nationally syndicated radio program Elvis Duran and the Morning Show today, October 15, 2012 at the New York…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMPFLAG NYC Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of New York City is proud to announce Audra McDonald as the featured honoree at the 32nd Annual PFLAG NYC Awards Gala to be held …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMChastain prepares for the title character in her first Broadway production.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:16AMSatchmo at the Waldorf becomes the story of Louis Armstrong’s life as he probably would have liked it to be told interpersonally
The post Tomming From the Heart: <em>Satchmo at the W…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:13AMThere is a poignant story here, but conservation is key. Night Over Erzinga branches too far out from the trunk. A little trimming will make for a solid, long-standing tree, and powerful st…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 01:10AMMrs. T and I have made our post-show getaway. We'll be somewhere else all this week, but the blog--as always--will...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMMy father owned three Polaroid cameras and bought a fourth one for me when I was a boy. I thought...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMSX-70, a promotional film made for Polaroid in 1972 by Charles and Ray Eames. The score is by Elmer Bernstein:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out...
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Silk Road Rising’s engaging Night Over Erzinga by playwright Adrianna Sevahn Nichols is the second phase of a two city “rolling” premiere which bowed in San Francisco last year produce…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:08AMRachel CorrieIt was meant as a theatrical way of understanding something profoundly troubling (in the same way, one would suggest, as the Laramie Project helps us to understand the murder of…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMTony Award nominee Liz Larsen (The Most Happy Fella), Drama Desk Award nominee Garrett Long (South Pacific, The Spitfire Grill), Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray, "Hollywood Squares")…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Jeff Awards, celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theatre, will be given out Oct. 15. A dozen new plays or adaptations are in the mix, pointing to Chicago as a continuing breedi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAnna Bergman returns to Feinstein's at Loews Regency Oct. 15-29 with her show You & the Night & the Music: An Evening of Musical Imports & Exports.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMProducers Terry Schnuck, James and Catherine Berges, Crystal Beuerlein, and Michael and Noemi Neidorff present the Off-Broadway premiere of Falling, a new play by Deanna Jent that officially…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAmerican Song, a new dramatic series comprising original plays for radio and mobile media, kicks off Oct. 15 at 7 PM. Each episode is given a one-night-only public performance at The Flea Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMShakespeare & Company on Money and Power, an evening celebrating the "Politics" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, is offered Oct. 15 at Joe's Pub. Editor Lewis Lapham hosts,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSusan Mosher and Emily McNamara join the cast of the Off-Broadway musical revue NEWSical the Musical beginning Oct. 15.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJAY Records records the cast album of Jonathan Brielle's Himself and Nora, which was part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival and is billed as "a musical tale of one of th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcademy Award-winning composer Paul Williams ("A Star Is Born") and Tony Award-winning composer Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) headline Rockers On Broadway – Behi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMaterial from Flashdance — The Musical is performed during a special private event Oct. 15 at 54 Below. The evening promises hits from the film and new material penned for the sta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, who is among the recipients of the 2012 National Arts Awards, receives the Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award Oct. 15 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe York Theatre Company, under the producing artistic direction of James Morgan, presents Civil War Stories Oct. 15 as part of the company's Developmental Reading Series.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMeet John Miller, the longtime musical coordinator who helps match the right musicians to Broadway and touring musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1881 Birth of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse P.G. Wodehouse to theatre lovers in England. He will go on to write the "Jeeves" stories as well as many Broadway musicals including …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThere is a farm in Haddam, Connecticut, that you dreamed of as a child. Some twenty-six dogs run free on its ninety acres—working or retired show dogs, many of them former Totos, from …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMIs Austin Pendleton the hardest-working man in show business? From 2004 to 2012, he directed ten works for the stage, wrote four plays, taught at the H.B. Studio and the New School, and was …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMSeventeenth-century Paris. A tennis court at the Hotel de Bourgogne, where a different kind of sport is going on: the tennis court has been converted into a theatre, and, before the play its…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AMDaisy Foote talks about writing the play “Him,” which stars her sister Hallie Foote. “Him” explores the institution of the American family. Two siblings struggling to keep the fami…
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