With one look at the stage before Alexei Ratmansky’s “Cinderella” began Tuesday night, you knew you weren’t in for a fairy-tale treatment. The drop curtain shows a crowded, crudely p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:29PMThe Colonial Theatre, dark since July 2011, may reopen on Oct. 24. Citi Performing Arts Center president and chief executive
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:28PMThe World Premiere of Kinky Boots, the new musical brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein Book and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper Music amp Lyrics. Directe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMArs Nova, Off Broadway
By Rachel Merrill Moss
BOTTOM LINE: Overly articulate and richly romantic, this ringing and measuredly rowdy musical adaptation of War and Peace brings life ane…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:12PMThe first North American tour of WICKED is currently featuring Dee Roscioli as Elphaba, Patti Murin as Glinda, Kim Zimmer as Madame Morrible and Tom McGowan as The Wizard. In the video below…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:11PMNEW YORK (AP) — A former stockbroker charged with defrauding a fledgling Broadway production was held without bail Wednesday after a prosecutor called him a "considerable threat" to the co…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:11PMNeil Genzlinger of the New York Times gives a big thumbs-up to Satchmo at the Waldorf: Reviewing a play is...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:09PMNICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, featuring music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro, stars two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:07PMIn the spirit of generosity and goodwill, the Grinch read Dr. Seuss famed childrens book, How The Grinch Stole Christmas in front of twenty-five Garden of Dreams children and officially kick…
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By the director of Les Miserables and Nicholas Nickleby, and the creators of Jane Eyre, this two-person play still manages to twinkle like a lovely little gem.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMTwo time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals, under the leadership of Executive Director Michael P. Price, is delighted to announce its Golden Anniversary season at the Goodspeed Opera Hou…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:56PMEmily Dendinger
Hometown: Purcellville, VA
Current Town: Iowa City, IA
Q: What are you working on now?
A: A couple of things. First, I'm working on a new play about an amate…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 06:55PMIt’s not encouraging when all through New Theatre’s production of Educating Rita you keep thinking what a great script Willy Russell wrote. This edition sloughs listlessly in the openin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:33PMOPENING THE BOOK THIEF. Steppenwolf for Young Adults presents the story of a girl struggling to survive Nazi Germany through her love of books. Directed by Hallie Gordon. Opens Oct. 21. Sat,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:30PMThe New Colony's award-winning 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, which played an extended run at the New York International Fringe Festival Encore Series, began previews at the SoHo Playhouse …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:28PMNEW YORK—The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Clybourne Park" says he recently withdrew permission for a Berlin theater company to produce the play after learning that one of the …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:27PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Clybourne Park" says he recently withdrew permission for a Berlin theater company to produce the play after learning that one o…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:27PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:19PMISLAND SONG, a new musical anthology with music by Derek Gregor and words by Sam Carner, will have a one-night-only developmental concert at le Poisson Rouge Monday, November 12, 2012. Showt…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:16PMBroadways Carols for a Cure, Volume 14, goes on sale Friday, October 19 with the voices of major talents, including Ricky Martin, Chita Rivera, Cyndi Lauper and more.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:10PMRicky Martin, Chita Rivera and Cyndi Lauper are just three of the high-profile stars who have teamed up to record Broadway’s Carols for a Cure, Volume 14. The holiday album hits s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:10PM“Now is the winter of our discontent.” This famous line uttered by the bloody king (and we all know what proceeds therein) in one of Shakespeare’s great bloody tragedies Chesa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PM54 BELOW, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, will host Halloween and Election nights this year. Full details below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PM"Falling" at Minetta Lane Theatre, October 14, 2012
(photo: Carol Rosegg)
There's an intense situation happening at Minetta Lane Theatre, courtesy of Deanna Jent's new play makin…
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According to Freedomtomarry.org, newly-wed actress, Anne Hathaway Les Misrables will donate proceeds from the sale of photos from her wedding to Adam Shulman to nonprofit organizations that …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:55PMMatthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara and the cast of Nice Work If You Can Get It had cause for celebration on October 17: The Gershwin tuner, which began previews on March 29 at the Imperia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMCyndi Lauper, Ricky Martin, and Chita Rivera are among the artists who lent their vocal talents to the annual CD Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Volume 14, which officially goes on sale Friday…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:51PMFind out if the butler did it when Goodspeed Musicals brings intrigue and amusement to the Opera House stage with its production of the musical whodunit Somethings Afoot. This hilarious musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:50PMWright's life of Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba is among highlights of Young Vic's 2013 season in LondonIt is probably as far from Atonement, Anna Karenina and the new Brad Pitt adve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMDo the sexual politics of Ibsen's A Doll's House belong to a bygone era? Hardly, says Carrie Cracknell, director of a new film that recasts the play's heroine as an ad exec and mother longin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47PMDo the sexual politics of Ibsen's A Doll's House belong to a bygone era? Hardly, says Carrie Cracknell, director of a new film that recasts the play's heroine as an ad exec and mother longin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47PMTerry Teachout, a drama critic, has switched hats and written a one-man show called “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMGerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking, which was originally slated to close on January 6, has announced an extension through April 28. Directed by Alessandrini, with c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:43PMThe age-old struggle between humanity’s higher and lower impulses is the subject of Sherie Rene Scott’s very personal show, “Piece of Meat.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMAFTERGLOW It’s with good reason that Chad Beckim’s After has been extended at Profiles Theatre. Yes, Beckim’s script undoubtedly tries to cover too much territory as he tells the tale …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:42PMSamantha Marie Ware plays “Ugandan princess” Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon national tour. Watch her talk about pulling the Mormons out of their cardboard box, playing the free …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:41PMTony-nominated composers Craig Carnelia and Andrew Lippa and Grammy-winning songwriter Lari White were among the teacher/mentors who performed as part of New Music from The Johnny M
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:39PMTony nominee Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys) began performances of his new play Wild With Happy on October 9 at the newly renovated Public Theater, and Broadway.com has your first …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:35PMListen to CHAPLIN stars Rob McClure and Christiane Noll on the American Theatre Wings Downstage Center as they talk about playing Mom and Son on Broadway in the new musical CHAPLIN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMSome things just naturally go together: apple pie and ice cream, thunder and lightning, Frankenstein’s monster and . . . “Roseanne”? Well, playwright Seth Wanta thinks so, and so do th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:26PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Night Over Erzinga" by Silk Road Rising ★★★½
As befits a company dedicated to stories of diaspora, Silk Road Rising (formerly Silk Road Theatre Project) …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:24PMNoteworthy intent permeates “Bad Apples” in its Circle X Theatre Company premiere. Jim Leonard, Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley’s surreal take on Baghdad’s infamous mili…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:23PMAlthough the two actors have commendable voices, no moment really makes you empathize with the characters. Perhaps that is because this one-hour show does not give you an in-depth look at an…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:21PM“The Whale,” Samuel D. Hunter’s new play about a severely obese seeker, is opening at Playwrights Horizons, a step up for him to a stage that carries more weight with thespians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMWith a much-anticipated role in a much-anticipated revival, Katie Finneran is seeking the right balance for Miss Hannigan in “Annie.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMBroadway 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 Hilferty's budget.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:14PMWhen the movie version of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” starring Javier Bardem as a man lovesick for 50 years, was released in 2007 to generally unfavorable reviews, critic Roge…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 05:13PMI love theatre. I love going to the theatre more than very nearly anything else. I go to the theatre as often as I can (although not always as often as I’d like), and I’ll see very nearl…
SOURCE: oneapostrophe.wordpress.com at 05:11PMGrammy Award winner Mika's new album The Origin of Love was released on October 8, and it includes the track, Popular Song. The tune samples Popular from Broadway's WICKED, originally sung b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMForbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking has extended through April 28, 2013 at off-Broadway's 47th Street Theatre. The show, which lovingly mocks Broadway’s biggest shows and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:02PMOne of the important pieces of learning from the National Theater Pilot has been the role of developmental partners on the shape and success of productions. Quita Sullivan (NEFA’s National…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMGreg Keller didn't have to do a lot of extra research to play the role of a young writer in Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, opening tonight at the Ahmanson. He's a young writer himself, as well as…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM"Audition" is a word that carries a plethora of reactions with it: excitement, anxiety, nausea, worry. Much of my time this year has been spent in class and independently towards prepping fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMBefore it ends its New York City run in November, the high-energy Off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta will offer 100 fans the chance to see the production for free on Oct. 24 at the Daryl Ro…
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Steffanie Leigh and Garett Hawe have the mouse to thank for their BFF status. The two met while on tour with Disney’s popular family musical Mary Poppins. Now Leigh is starring in the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMSteffanie Leigh and Garett Hawe have the mouse to thank for their BFF status. The two met while on tour with Disney’s popular family musical Mary Poppins. Now Leigh is starring in the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMINTO THE TOILET The 1996 film Trainspotting was notorious for its spare-no-sensitivity, take-no-prisoners look at Edinburgh heroin addicts. Based on Irvine Welsh’s bottom-feeding novel, it…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PMBruce Norris, whose play Clybourne Park features white and African-American characters — to Pulitzer Prize-honored, Tony Award-winning effect — stripped a German theatre company …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:55PMModern Terrorism is hiding out at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre, starring Utkarsh Ambudkar, Steven Boyer, William Jackson Harper and Nitya Vidyasager. Find out more about Jon Ker…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMClassic Stage Companys new production of Anton Chekhovs IVANOV, starring Ethan Hawke, Joely Richardson and Juliet Rylance, and directed by Austin Pendleton, begins previews Wednesday, Octobe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMThe new edition of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway, which officially opened Sept. 6 following previews that began July 24, has extended its run at the 47th Street Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:50PMThe playwright and director behind NYC Players talks about trying to achieve complete neutrality onstage
SOURCE: Culturebot at 04:42PMTony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, who originated the role of radical teenager Melchior in Broadway's Spring Awakening, went solo Oct. 13 at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club in Indianapo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:42PMRecently celebrated in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning adventure Hugo, French filmmakerGeorge Méliès is considered the father of cinematic special effects. To celebrate the 15…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:41PM(photo courtesy The Electric Company)Going Placesby David C. JonesThe Electric Company is one of the most celebrated and bold theatre companies in Vancouver – maybe all of Canada. They are…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 04:36PMMargaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, stars and creators of the new Off-Broadway comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, unveiled the insanely delicious dessert treat "Fudgetaboutit" on Friday, Oc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMAs his one-man show Running on Empty packs in crowds at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre, fuming funnyman Lewis Black returned to his roots by stopping by The Daily Show with Jon …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:34PMWhat's hot on stages across the USA? Broadway.com's new weekly feature pinpoints five new shows you ought to know, plus national tours headed to a city near you. This week's line…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMThe Velocity of Autumn by Eric Coble, which had its World Premiere at Boise Contemporary Theater in the spring of 2011, will play Arena Stage in spring 2013. Molly Smith, the Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMNew production at the Fox Theatre uses projections inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 04:25PMThe Pasadena Playhouse is accepting submissions for roles in its upcoming staged readings.
The venerable 686-seat theater is experiencing a financial renaissance after a successful fundraisi…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 04:23PMFour-time Academy Award nominee and stage veteran Annette Bening thanked the national tour cast of the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon prior to a special benefit performance of the show they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:22PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T. presents Pippin, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson, directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, with circus chor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMNEW YORK—The latest edition of the theater spoof "Forbidden Broadway" will be making folks laugh deep into spring.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:18PMInternational best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love) will participate in a post-show conversation about the play as it relates to issues of faith directly following the Wed…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 04:13PMWhen confronted with the title of Jonathan Larson’s epic rock opera/ musical RENT, what emotions are you suddenly filled with? Passion? Nostalgia? Loss? Or perhaps celebration and friendsh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMIn conjunction with its world premiere stage adaptation of “The Book Thief,” the Steppenwolf Theatre for Young Adults show that opens Saturday afternoon, Australian writer Markus Zusak, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:10PMProducer Sean Hudock announced that Room at the End of the Hall, a new work from playwright Rocco Natale, will receive its world premiere in 2013 at an Off-Broadway venue to be announced.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PM“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” feels like a Russian novel. This is good, because the musical is based on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” a book …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 04:05PMViacom brands MTV, VH1, CMT, BET, Logo, TV Land, TeenNick and Paramount Pictures will join the hosts of Good Morning America, the cast of Days of Our Lives, Dianna Agron, Chaz Bono, Pauly D,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04PMREVIEW: The return engagement of "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" offers much to children and adults alike.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:03PMA Culture for New Work This is a panel discussion produced and livestreamed on #NEWPLAY TV by The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis as a part of PlayLabs, their national festival of n…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM
Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov begins performances today, October 17, at off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company. The Classic Stage Company’s new production has already been extended by two…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:58PMPatrick Page is in love. He loves his current gig as slydog Comte De Guiche in Broadway's acclaimed and very romantic revival of Cyrano de Bergeracat the Roundabout's American Airlines Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMActor-musicians Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, who comprise the scantily clad music duo The Skivvies, will celebrate their new single "Hardbody Hoedown" with a release party and c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:58PMIn the territory of the so-called blood lands - that unwelcoming region of Europe between 1933 and 1945 that included Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states - truth and histo…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 03:50PMKatie Holmes and two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz return to Broadway beginning Nov. 3, when the New York City premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy Dead Accounts begins …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:50PMBroadway stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PMBroadway stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:46PM(To learn more about Marcy Arlin’s Artist, Immigrant blog series, click here.) What do you love about theatre in the U.S. for yourself and in general? I love theatre because it gives me th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:45PMThe national tour of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, launched Oct. 2 in Cleveland. Rachel York is joined by Fred Applegate as Moonface Martin, Erich Bergen as Billy Crocker, Alex Finke as H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:45PMIt’s been two long years since New York audiences were last treated to the clear and powerful voice of three-time Tony nominee Sherie Rene Scott. Now Scott is back and better than ever…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:44PMIt’s been two long years since New York audiences were last treated to the clear and powerful voice of three-time Tony nominee Sherie Rene Scott. Now Scott is back and better than ever…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:44PM“METAMORPHOSES” EXTENDS: The luminous Lookingglass Theatre Company revival of “Metamorphoses,” based on the myths of Ovid, and written and directed by Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmerma…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:44PMSurprise! The theatrosphere has been a busy place with a number of interesting conversations to take note of:
The Canada Council is launching “a dialogue about how the arts bring value …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:43PM“Surviving Mama,” now in its world premiere at Edgemar Center for the Arts, is a frustratingly disjointed play that feels like a protracted examination of a stranger’s phot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:41PMDeadline reports that Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen will co-star in the B.J. Davis-helmed 911 drama SEPTEMBER MORN by Fleur De Lis Film Studios. B.J. Howard Cohen penned the script.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMNEW YORK (AP) — Playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was famous for his precision with language and for his silences, with impactful ambiguity often the intended result.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:28PMDave Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” an electro-pop opera, is based on part of “War and Peace.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:27PMStudio 180 has presented socially relevant works like Stuff Happens and The Laramie Project.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:21PMDetail from Botticelli's Madonna of the MagnificatI'd been looking forward to the Handel and Haydn season opener - a Bach orgy focused on the Magnificat - because artistic director Harr…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:18PMOur colleagues at The Village Voice have long shown their commitment to quality theater through sponsoring the annual OBIE Awards – and they're continuing to display their discerning taste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMKristin Chenoweth, Kanye West, and now Mika.The British-born pop singer is the latest artist to incorporate "Popular" -- the comic first act number from the hit musical Wicked -- in one of h…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:03PMLast night's DWTS ALL STARS included a a performance by Tito Puente Jr., showcasing a medley of his classics and a duet of 'This Is the Moment' from Donny Osmond and Susan Boyle. Check out p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02PM
The real Frank Abagnale, Jr. met with the CATCH ME IF YOU CAN national tour company on Oct. 13 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Check out the photos from the meet and greet below.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:59PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham presents the world premiere production of WILD WITH HAPPY, written by Colman Domingo, in The Publ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:55PMListen to CHAPLIN stars Rob McClure and Christiane Noll on the American Theatre Wing’s “Downstage Center” as they talk about playing Mom and Son on Broadway in the new musical CHAPLIN.…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:52PMLast chance, for a while, to see dance troupe Kidd Pivot, which goes on sabbatical next year, after touring Crystal Pite's "The Tempest Replica," her multimedia dance adaptation of Shakespea…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:52PMWhat do I hang on to? What do I let go of? And when?
Sherie Rene Scott chews on juicy personal dilemmas in her gorgeously sung cabaret show “Piece of Meat.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:47PMThe Windy City is getting a whole lot kinkier thanks to Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein and the company of their new musical Kinky Boots. The Broadway-bound tuner stars Stark Sands and Billy …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PMADAPTATION NEEDS TO MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT Jules Verne channeled 19th century technological progress into wondrous stories that fueled the world’s imagination. He took us to the center of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41PMOscar-nominated John Hurt stars in Samuel Beckett's elegiac, sentimental piece.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:40PMKirmser Ponturo Group announced today the formation of Kirmser Ponturo Fund. The Fund was created to invest and support multiple theatrical productions across seasons. The Fund was conceive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38PMJust in time for the 2012 election, David Mamets November comes to the Center Theatre GroupMark Taper Forum. The show is currently running through November 4, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a fir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PMPartway through her wondrous new "cabaret" show, A Piece of Meat at 54 Below, Sherie Rene Scott tells us that her holy triangle -- the three words she tries to live by -- are "good, fast, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:36PMNEW YORK (AP) — There were pleasures to be had at the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Verdi's "Otello" on Tuesday night, even if casting problems left the performance with a hole at its ce…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:30PMLast week, one of this blog's best friends, Teddy Toye shared with us his experience as a swing in Bring It On: The Musical (Click HERE to read that!) Today, I'm just as excited t…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 02:29PMTony Award nominees John Tartaglia Avenue Q and Chad Kimball Memphis and Tony Award winner Alice Ripley Next to Normal along with Jeremy Kushnier Jersey Boys and Tituss Burgess The Little Me…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMThe Great White Way welcomed two new shows this week, and thanks to their openings, gross ticket sales increased by nearly 2.5 percent over the previous week, despite a drop in sales among s…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 02:24PMJohn W. Engeman Theater has announced the next event in their ongoing Broadway Concert Series, taking place November 2 at 8pm.The event will feature performers recreating some of their most …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:21PMA new musical adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel Somewhere in Time will receive its world premiere at Portland Center Stage beginning previews May 28, 2013 with opening night set for May…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMAlison Fraser, recently seen Off-Broadway in In Masks Outrageous and Austere, will go it solo next month at the new Manhattan nightspot, 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:17PMThe new reality series "Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual" will take audiences into the personal life of the Grammy Award-winning recording artist who is making her debut as a Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team for The Old GlobeUniversity of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program presentation of William Shakespeares Measure for Measure, running N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:11PMNEW YORK (AP) — How does a young playwright from New York who volunteered at ground zero in the days after 9/11 deal with the topic of Muslim terrorism? If you're Jon Kern, you ridicule it.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:10PMThe York Theatre Company’s revival of Closer Than Ever will play its final off-Broadway performance on November 4. The revival opened on June 15 at the York Theatre at Saint Peter…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMThe hope is that it will become the fan sing-along song at Busch.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:05PMTony Award winner Tyne Daly and producers Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon will be honored at Primary Stages' annual gala Nov. 14, at the Edison Ballroom.
Primary Stages, an Off-Broadway theater …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 02:01PMBefore they hit the road for Wisconsin for the first stop of the National Tour, the Little Sisters of Hoboken hit the lanes The habit-clad cast of Nunset Boulevard The Nunsense Hollywood Bow…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMUlrich Franzen, the German-born architect who designed Houston's Alley Theatre—the first permanent home to one of the nation's first major regional theatres—died on Oct. …
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THE JOADS AT HOME Playwright Randy Sharp’s one act drama takes place during the Dust Bowl catastrophe of the 1930s, when a monstrous drought descended on the central plain states turning f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59PMThe event "Wales Celebrates Richard Burton" marked the U.S. publication of the legendary actor's diaries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:58PMThe original Off-Broadway cast recording of February House, Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley's new musical about Brooklyn bohemians in the 1940s, was released digitally Oct. 16. The cast …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMSt. Bonaventure University's Theater Department will revive its biannual one-act festival production this November in a diverse, 6-piece presentation entitled Knowing and Un-Knowing.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMThe new comedy 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche transports audiences back to the 1950s, where the only things bigger than the dresses are the secrets these housewives are hiding. The five women at…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:55PMThe Broadway adaptation of "Bring It On: The Musical" is set to close after its performance on December 30 at the St. James Theatre, show officials announced Wednesday.
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:55PMGigi Bermingham is directing her first Antaeus production -- You Can't Take It With You. In some ways, she says, the eccentric family inside the play is like a close-knit family of theater…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:51PMBruce Norris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Clybourne Park," has published a letter condemning a production of the drama that had been planned for a theater company in Berlin. Th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:50PMJohnny Mercer Foundation and Kaufman Center Present CELEBRATE SONGS FROM THE JOHNNY MERCER FOUNDATION. Broadway Close Up Series spotlights new songwriters in dazzling performances with Teach…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMBackstage at the St. James Theatre, Bring It On's lead cheerleader Taylor Louderman has quite the versatile dressing room! It doubles as a pre-show hang out spot, a miniature art gallery…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:47PMClémence
Poésy is nervous. The 30-year-old actress, who hasn't done live theater
in eight years, makes her Broadway debut this fall in Cyrano de Bergerac
-- and the production isn't in …
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:45PMCharitybuzz is giving Barbra Streisand fans the chance to bid on a VIP package to meet the entertainer following one of her upcoming concerts in Las Vegas and California.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMThe cast of New York Theater Workshop's production of Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas celebrated its first day of rehearsal on Tuesday, October 17. Tina Landau directs the new play with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMClémence Poésy is nervous. The 30-year-old actress, who hasn't done live theater in eight years, makes her Broadway debut this fall in Cyrano de Bergerac -- and the production isn't in her…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 01:40PMDavid Henry Hwang, the American playwright of Tony-award winning play M. Butterfly and Chinglish, remains fascinated by cross-cultural identity in his writing.
When he first set out to be…
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at 01:36PMTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Returning to Traverse Two, the conventional theatre space where they first stepped off, site-specific specialists Grid Iron use it cleverly to examine the nature…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMHoxton Hall, LondonHealth-and-safety issues scuppered the planned promenade element of this two-hour version of the Jacobean thriller of disputed authorship. But it would take more than movi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMSatchmo at the Waldorf stars the versatile, disciplined, knowing actor John Douglas Thompson, in an excellent one-man portrayal which delves deeply into Louis Armstrong's opinions and life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:21PMPodcast with Nan Giordano & Michael McStraw of Giordano Dance Chicago from Michael Roberts on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:19PMPlease note that the piece discussed in the podcast by Christopher Huggins is postponed to GDC’s March 2013 Harris engagement. Del Dominguez ballroom dance work “Sabroso” will now …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:16PMLynne Meadow, artistic director of the Manhattan Theater Club, will receive the 2012 Museum of the City of New York's Louis Auchincloss Prize Oct. 22 in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM“War is just business”, even in the twenty-first century. As Blackeyed Theatre brings Brecht’s anti-war play forward some 400 years, it’s obvious that his challenges are just as rele…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:11PMOctober 17, 2012Angel P., a student at Nichols Elementary School, Brenda Y., a student at Multi-Cultural Magnet School, Fidel G., a student at John Winthrop School, and Jada A., a student at…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 01:10PMWith its elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, "Elsewhere" is described by its creator, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, as a "CelloOpera." It's a collaboration of Beiser …
SOURCE: PBS at 01:08PMOn October 17, the Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein powered KINKY BOOTS came a step closer to strutting its stuff on Broadway, opening at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago. KINKY BOOT…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:06PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMThe last five years have been about letting go of some new work development assumptions. One primary assumption is that new work in regional/LORT theaters is only about developing single aut…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMThis week I started rehearsal for the show I'm assistant directing here on The Boston Conservatory mainstage, William Congreve's Way of the World. In the time I spent over the weekend standi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The Mystery of Edwin Drood begins previews at Roundabout Theatre Company‘s Studio 54 on October 19. The new production will officially open on November 13.
Rubert Holmes’ cult c…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:51PMAt the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatred Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMAt the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Es…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMOn November 5th at 7 pm, the Theatre at Saint Peters Home of the York Theatre Lexington Avenue at 54th Street will resound with the songs of Larry Kerchner Somewhere in Time sung by some of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:49PMDocumentary-theatre company Look Left Look Right has been crowned the winner of a competition which will see its immersive production staged in a West End hotel. The company was chosen from …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMDancing With The Stars was 'the moment' for international British singing sensation Susan Boyle, who got to duet with her music idol Donny Osmond on Tuesday, October 16.The pair serenaded th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:48PMScarlett Strallen has been spending the better part of a year at London’s Palace Theatre, twirling an umbrella and sending her lilting soprano soaring into the hearts of audiences in S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMRobert Litz, who wrote plays that were produced Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and elsewhere, died Oct. 10 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 62.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMThe Renaissance Society presents a FREE Sunday programming series including concerts, lectures and a poetry reading, at the University of Chicago (UChicago) beginning Sunday, Oct. 21 at 3 …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:43PMWelcome to October, friends! You know, the time of year when we're so keyed up about Broadway that we consider having our paychecks direct-deposited into the Shubert/Nederlander/Jujamcyn acc…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:34PMThe idea of late blooming was essential to Dorothy Loudon's mythology.
Although she admitted to being 44 at the time of Annie (a fiction that many internet sites, including the Internet Movi…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:33PMTony and Grammy winner Duncan Sheik will headline a 20-city Sunset Sessions tour kicking off at the beginning of November in Las Vegas.The musician will perform tunes from his new album Cove…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:26PMBilly Crudup, Brooke Shields, Gabourey Sidibe, Jack McBrayer, Liev Schreiber, Rosie Perez and Seth Green are among the actors who will participate in 24 Plays On Broadway, which will take pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:25PMThe musical adaptation of the 1980 cult film Somewhere in Time will make its world premiere at Portland Center Stage. Directed by Scott Schwartz, the musical features a book by pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:22PMHow Tolstoy’s novel became a kicky new musical Say you’re faced with a literary tome and an itch to put it on stage. Do you find a way to dramatize every word? After all, that…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:15PMTony Award winner Alice Ripley and Bob Stillman will co-star as Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, respectively, in the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel's A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMRambert’s autumn season at Sadler’s Wells got off to a poor start, but thereafter there was nothing but excellence, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:08PMFor the fourth time in the past 12 months, I have smelled fresh paint and watched construction workers on high ladders in preparation for the opening of a new or renovated theater. This is o…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:07PMTaking inspiration from Russia's feminist punk band, the Royal Court Theatre will host its own Pussy Riot protest in early November.
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:05PMComing straight off of its extended run at the New York International Fringe Festival Encore Series, The New Colonys award-winning 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche just opened at the SoHo Playhous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:04PMSt Saviours Church, London: To the grisly sound of bones crunching and dirt being clawed away, Timothy Allsop's Richard rises from a grave scattered with papers. So begins Allsop and Ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMThe stars of the 1980s TV drama Cagney
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PMThe world-premiere reading of A View of the Mountains, a new work by A Walk in the Woods author Lee Blessing, is among the projects featured in the Pasadena Playhouse's 2012-13 season of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMBoston officials are weighing a request to re-open the 111-year old Colonial Theatre, which has been dark since...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:02PMPortland Center Stage PCS will present the world premiere of the new musical, Somewhere in Time, based on the novel by renowned author Richard Matheson I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, whi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMA family rides the daily challenges of raising an autistic son whose behavior — loving, curious and focused — includes eruptions of violence in the New York City premiere of Deanna Jent'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents the Tony Award-winning musical Man of La Mancha beginning Oct. 17, prior to an official opening Oct. 20, at the company's mainstage F.M. Ki…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PM
The Les Miserables movie has yet to even hit theaters, and already the film's 22-year-old star Samantha Barks is attracting awards attention.
Barks is among six honorees who wil…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMForget the green-eyed monster: Othello should look out for the guy with the red clown nose. Dominican theater artist Claudio Rivera dons such a nozzle for “Otelo . . . Sniff,” his 7…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:54AMBrunton, Musselburgh: Taking her cue from Charles Bukowski's cult character Henry Chinaski, Kylie Walters has created a testosterone-fuelled frenzy of an evening. In her narrative, a qu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMChristmas in New York City means one thing: the Radio City Rockettes are back in business! Tickets are now on sale for The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the annual holiday extravaganza o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMMusicals Tonight continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next edition of At This Performance to be held on Sunday, October 21st at The Li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMPlaywright Christopher Durang and director Nicholas Martin will discuss the new comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as part of Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series on Nov. 1. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMA-Sides Live in collaboration with the Digital Arts Experience Present Ripley Live An Evening with Alice Ripley on Friday, October 26 at 8pm. Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley will perform song…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AMIf 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 11:49AMThe 13th Street Theater will host a one-night performance of Sex (a.k.a. Weiners and Boobs), by David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Joe Lo Truglio, to benefit Clubbed Thumb, October 29 at 7:3…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMOXYGEN? YES. FUEL? YES. HEAT? NO. There are arsonists who want to burn down a town, and they want the citizens to help. In Max Frisch’s absurdist play, a city has whipped itself into a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:43AMMark Nadler is a longtime veteran of New York's cabaret scene and now he brings his signature brand of entertainment to cabaret's new hot spot 54 Below. His new show, I'm a Stran…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:43AMBUCKS COUNTY CABARET, a one-night-only concert featuring stage and screen stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets, raised an inspiring 162,100 in its first edition produced by and benefiting Br…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:41AMTony winner Michael Mayer is set to direct The Inferno, a new NBC drama project set in a restaurant, according to Deadline.com. The show will be produced by Scott St…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AMHappy Birthday Susan Stroman Winner of the Tony award for both direction and choreography of the original Broadway production of The Producers, Stroman's Broadway work includes The Scottsbor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:37AMThe terms are basically the same as a proposal made last week.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:31AMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, has enlisted Stratford Shakespeare Festival favorites Sara Topham and Bruce Dow to be among the woods-dwelling characters in A Midsummer Ni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AMMark Rylance stars as Richard III and Olivia in Twelfth Night at the West End's Apollo Theatre, following a run at The Globe this past summer. The double bill will begin performances in …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:27AMMega-selling British singing sensation Susan Boyle is set to release her latest album, Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage, on November 13, featuring a duet with original Pha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMSusan Boyle and Season 9 DWTS champion Donny Osmond world premiered the first song of Boyle's 4th album Standing Ovation, singing This Is The Moment on last night's DWTS's Results Show on AB…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:25AMA few of us have been big fans of Mika and we’re sorry that we couldn’t go to his NY concert this week. Well, then he did a new version of “Popular” from WICKED and w…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:24AMThe Grinch is coming to town! Tickets are now on sale for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas at Madison Square Garden, starring Broadway vet Jeff McCarthy. Featuring a book a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMThe show: “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder” at Hartford Stage
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:23AMHello friends This week we get a break from the promo events for Rock Of Ages. It was a whirlwind for the past few weeks but it was a ton of fun
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:22AMOn Sunday, October 14, 2012, ACME Comedy Theatre hosted the live comedy show Celebrity Autobiography. Audiences experienced a variety of jaw-dropping vignettes inspired and torn straight fro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMA host of theatre favorites will join composer-lyricist Amanda Green for a concert at Birdland Nov. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMBring It On: The Musical has set a new closing date. It will not play its final performance on December 30, 2012, instead of the previously announced January 20, 2013. At the time of its clo…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:15AMBroadwayWorld.com has exclusively learned the cast for an upcoming late October reading of SOAP DISH THE MUSICAL, directed by Rob Ashford, with a book by Robert Harling, music by George Stil…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMThe stars and director of Atlantic Theater Company’s hit production of Olivier Award® winner Simon Stephens play HARPER REGAN are featured in an exclusive behind-the-scenes “Beyond Broa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:11AMLolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, starring Adrian Lester opened last night (16 October 2012) at the Tricycle Theatre.Marking the opening of Indhu Rubasingham's inaugural season as artistic di…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:10AMThe Public Theater celebrated the new Politics issue of the literary magazine Lapham's Quarterly with an evening of readings and songs on Monday, October 15 at Joe's Pub and the bra
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:09AMWhite Plains Performing Arts Center will present Ripley Live! An Evening with Alice Ripley on Friday, October 26 at 8pm. The concert is a benefit for the Music Conservatory of Westchester a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:07AMAt This Performance, the ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys and understudies, will continue Oct. 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AMPrimary Stages Casey Childs, Founder amp Executive Producer Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director have announced program details for their annual Gala on Wednesday, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMJames Bourne and Elliot Davis' new musical Loserville opens at the West End's Garrick Theatre tonight (17 October 2012, previews from 1 October). The show, which premiered at West Yorkshire …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:04AMLast week we talked about the songs we like to listen to when we’re happy or sad (you can read everyone’s answers here). This week we’re switching it up and I want to know …
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 11:01AMTwelve years ago, I was strolling through a video store (!) on the Upper West Side that is long since gone, and I fell in love . . . with a story. It was the story of a man who, while stroll…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMChristmas My Way – A Sinatra Holiday Bash! will run December 15-December 31 at El Portal Theatre Mainstage. David Grapes will direct the production, which is conceived by David Grapes and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM
Somewhere in Time, a new musical based on the Richard Matheson novel and the Universal Pictures film of the same name, will make its world premiere in May 2013 at Portland Center Stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMSHOOTING HISTORY IN THE NECK With the exception of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and its fierce gender-bending genius, and Rocky Horror Picture Show (sublime sexy silliness that nudged a million…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:57AMAnna 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. Here is a look at he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMBUCKS COUNTY CABARET, a one-night-only concert featuring stage and screen stars Bebe Neuwirth and Malcolm Gets, raised an inspiring $162,100 in its first edition produced by and benefiting B…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:56AMA new "eco-comedy" written and performed by California-based artist Kristina Wong, "Going Green the Wong Way," will be presented Nov. 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. at The Studio at Billings For…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:56AMWith the 2012 presidential election just weeks away, it seems like the perfect time to see how each candidate stacks up in their policies regarding the arts.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMLegit Reviews:
Lolita Chakrabarti's new play "Red Velvet" retells the once notorious, now barely remembered story of African-American actor Ira Aldridge (Adrian Lester), who cau…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AMI realized two long standing goals last night. First, many, many months after it first open, I finally got to check out the Canal Park Playhouse, an amazing space located in one of Manhattan…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:46AMTony Award-nominated Scottsboro Boys actor Colman Domingo stars in the world premiere of his new play Wild With Happy, about family, death and healing, which began Off-Broadway per…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMTony Award winner Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon will be honored during Primary Stages' Nov. 14 gala at the Edison Ballroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:44AMChapter Arts Centre, Cardiff: Everyone knows that Grimm's fairy tales are the best fairy tales, and as this year marks the bicentennial of their publication they are undergoing a resurg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Samantha Barks, star of the upcoming film LES MISERABLES, is one of six young actors who will be honored with the 'Hollywood Spotlight Award' at this ye…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMNEW YORK (AP) -- How does a young playwright from New York who volunteered at ground zero in the days after 9/11 deal with the topic of Muslim terrorism? If you're Jon Kern, you ridicule…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:36AMDying City is a less than fully satisfying theatrical experience: it's an appetizer rather than a meal.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AMWhen Laurie Rubin steps on stage, she becomes the character she is portraying.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:35AMPhoto credit: Joan MarcusIf you haven't had a chance to see Chaplin the Musical yet (or you want to see it again), today is your lucky day. I've giving away a pair of tickets to the sho…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:30AMMedia at Large Productions' revival of Tennessee Williams' In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel officially opens at off-Broadway's New World Stages on October 17.
The drama stars …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:26AMMichael Cristofer, Tamara Tunie, and Tom Wopat will be among the performers paying tribute to Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy, and Ted Snowdon at Primary Stages' annual gala, to be held on Wednesday,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:25AMThe Pasadena Playhouse has announced the first four staged reading of its new series, Hothouse at the Playhouse.The series will begin with the world premiere reading of Lee Blessing's A View…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:21AMEvery third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:17AMHere it is again, in case you missed it. (Sorry for the ad! Hat tip to Mike Daisey, who else.)The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:16AMTony Award winner DOUGLAS HODGE La Cage aux Folles is dazzling Broadway audiences once again in Roundabout Theatre Companys surprisingly fresh and funny new production of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMIf you had asked us a couple of months ago what the hardest ticket to get this fall would be, we would have probably said Craig Wright’s Grace. It’s a new play with a superstar cast (Pa…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:15AMNext week (on October 24, 26 and 27, 2012) I have the honor of performing at the Museum of Modern Art's Marron Atrium in Voluntaries by choreographer Dean Moss and visual artist, Laylah Ali.…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:14AMIn the latest Downstage Center, actors Rob McClure and Christiane Noll discuss "Chaplin", from the research they put into their roles (Mr. McClure as the legendary silent film actor and Ms. …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:12AMTricycle, LondonIndhu Rubasingham makes a strong start to her tenure at the Tricycle with this new play about the pride and prejudice that greeted the pioneering African-American actor Ira A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMLegit News:
Musical set to bow in spring 2013
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06AMThe Toronto production of “War Horse” will play its final performance January 6, 2013, producers announced recently. This is the same day the Broadway production of the hit musical will …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM
The York Theatre Company has announced the first Off-Broadway revival of the of Closer Than Ever, with lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire, will end its extended run with …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:55AMThe York Theatre Company's acclaimed revival of Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever will conclude its run at the Theatre at Saint Peter's on November 4 after its 150th performance. The music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMPeter Galman and Gina Bonati play an estranged couple reunited in Sharr White's 'Annapurna' at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:41AMThe New York Times 10/16/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:41AMTICKET GIVEAWAY TO GOLDEN BOY: Win two tickets to see “Golden Boy,” Clifford Odet’s drama, first produced on Broadway in 1937 by the legendary Group Theater, about a man who defies…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMHollywood lovebirds Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone spent Tuesday, October 16 on the town, attending a performance of Cirque du Soleil's Iris at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.The pair took i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMPolls say that atheism is rising in the U.S. and that even
believers go to church less often than they once did. But God still seems to be
talking to America’s playwrights.
Faith…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 09:29AMThe U.K.'s Cheek by Jowl will launch a new French-language version of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, beginning performances in the Hague in the Netherlands Jan. 26, 2013, then touring Engla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMWhen friends ask me where to dine before the theatre I try to respond authoritatively. But, alas, my brain turns to porridge as I mentally scroll through the limitless options. I try to hone…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27AMLondon's Shakespeare's Globe has announced its production slate for 2013, following a 2012 season that played to 95 percent capacity and will see Twelfth Night and Richard III transf…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMThis excerpt from the Chronicle of Philanthropy‘s article on the presidential candidates’ positions on various non-profit issues focuses on their stances on matters involving th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23AMTête à Tête will reprise its production of Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds's 1954 musical Salad Days at London's Riverside Studios where it previously had a sell…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:23AMLondon's Soho Theatre will offer the first full-length run of a new musical called Lift and the world premiere of Arinze Kene's God's Property as part of its spring 2013 season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:22AMGorilla Tango Burlesque is auditioning female performers to join the cast of a Doctor Who burlesque opening at Gorilla Tango’s Bucktown Theatre (1919 N. Milwaukee Ave.) on Friday night…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:21AMThe greatest showman of my day produced spectacles too big for theatres, eventually too big even for arenas. I speak of course of the legendary motorcycle daredevil Evel Kneivel (1938-2007…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:19AMThe York Theatre Company's critically acclaimed production of Closer Than Ever, the revue that features the songs of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, will play its final performance …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMToday is the birthday of Margarita Carmen Cansino, a.k.a Rita Hayworth (1918-1987). A third generation member of a family of professional Spanish dancers, Rita began taking lessons at age th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:10AMThe “doomsday clock” was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, an organization of University of Chicago scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project that …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:10AMActor who made her name during the early years of drama on televisionAs a captivating young ingenue in Shakespeare on stage, and Jane Austen on television, Daphne Slater, who has died aged 8…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMAnton Chekhov’s Ivanov, starring Ethan Hawke, begins performances on October 17 at off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company. The play, directed by Austin Pendleton, with a translation …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:08AMSteel Pier, the 1997 musical from the writers of Chicago and Cabaret, will make its 'European professional premiere' at the Union Theatre with a limited run from 6 to 24 November 2012 (previ…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:06AMToday is the birthday of Irene Ryan (nee Jessie Irene Noblitt, 1902-1973), best known as “Granny” on The Beverly Hillbillies. Most people today don’t know she started o…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:02AMJoel: This is the final interview in our series “Meet the Young Cast Members of Olney Theatre Center’s Over the Tavern.” We end today with the eldest son. Connor: I’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMWhat does it mean to be a mother? Christine Suarez wants to find out—and the result is a fearless, hilarious, irreverent and compelling evening of dance-theater that uncovers the myriad fa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 09:00AM“Bring It On: The Musical” will close its Broadway run on December 30 after nearly 200 total performances. When the production ends its run at the St. James Theatre, it will have played …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
Two warhorses of the theater come to town: Shakespeare's "Hamlet" trots along in the Globe Theatre touring production, while "War Horse" shows off the equine puppet body beautiful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMWhat is/are The Crazy Coqs? They is a new cabaret room, and in these parlous times when it's more usually reported that an intimate boite is shuttering, the fact that one has opened is a cau…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:59AMCasting has been announced for the new U.K. 40th anniversary tour of The Rocky Horror Show, which will begin performances at Brighton's Theatre Royal Dec. 17 for a run through Jan. 5, 20…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:59AMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
"Red Dog Howls," the new play by Alexander Dinelaris at New York Theater Workshop about the generational aftereffects of unspeakable tragedy, is unf…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:44AMTarget Margin launches their two-year lab of Yiddish plays at the Brick Theater tonight. To learn more about this fascinating project, listen to a podcast conversation with me and Target …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:12AMToday is the birthday of Cozy Cole (1909-1981), rhythm man for everyone from Jelly Roll Morton to Willie Bryant to Louis Armstrong. He was a big influence on many rock drummers, and hereR…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:09AMAs I’ve observed here many times over the past couple of years, we are in an interesting period of Tennessee Williams revival as indie theatre companies are rediscovering his lesser kn…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:03AM“Glee” has consistently landed some pretty impressive guest stars, and now it looks like Bette Midler will be the next marquee talent to make an appearance on the hit Fox show. Ryan Murp…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 17 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMWhile most of America knows Phylicia Rashad for her television work – from playing Clair Huxtable opposite Bill Cosby's Cliff on the long-running NBC hit show, The Cosby Show, to her recen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
The 2013 Olivier Awards will be hosted at the Royal Opera House on April 28, 2013. This is the 37th annual awards ceremony and is the second year running that the event will take place...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMLeading independent Edinburgh venue, the Bongo Club, has been granted a temporary licence to occupy the space underneath the city’s Central Library until June 2014. The City of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMWith a stated aim "to make uplifting, multi-sensory performances rooted within everyday ambitions", the TOOT collective have put together something rather intriguing in the main space of the…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:06AMBen Forster has been cast as Brad in the forthcoming anniversary production of The Rocky Horror Show. Currently playing the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s arena tour of Jesus Christ S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMThe Touring Consortium Theatre Company will receive more than £1 million of the £2.6 million available from the fourth round of Arts Council England’s touring funding. This is the larges…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMIn a print shop called Hammer Press in downtown Kansas City, I bought a post card for each state I've visited in my 3.5 years in America. I counted: 15 states plus Washington DC.I've always …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AM
Legend has it that Elizabeth I so loved the character of Falstaff in Henry IV that she demanded Shakespeare write another play about him. Which characters from plays do you love?A few weeks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMEnjoy a pre-show meal at Wagamama, a stalls or dress circle seat to see Loserville plus a signed poster from the show, all for £35. The offer is valid until 21 December 2012Loserville a bra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:47AMTron, Glasgow: Following the loose structure of James Joyce's mock epic novel, Dermot Bolger's adaptation of Ulysses shifts between moods and styles to translate the emotional, sex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThe Matcham Room, Hippodrome Casino, London: She has danced for Jerome Robbins, sashayed with Peggy Lee and is an award-winning president of a wildlife foundation. Stefanie Powers had covere…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMTricycle, London: There's a breath of fresh air on Kilburn High Road - after a phenomenal 28-year run as artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre, Nicolas Kent has at last been succeed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMOpening this week: Oct. 18-Nov. 18 Driving Miss Daisy Plaza Theatre 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan (former Florida Stage site) (561) 588-1820 www.theplazatheatre.net The Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:13AMSuba Das’s production of The Revenger’s Tragedy starts with a bang and ends with a whimper – and then an extra bang for good measure. It’s not a subtle production, and on…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:09AMNicolas Kent is a hard act to follow at the Tricycle but Indhu Rubasingham kicks off her tenure as the new artistic director in striking style now with this fascinating, if flawed, new play …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:03AM
“I don’t think like an F.B.I. agent,” Ben Sprecher, one of the lead producers of “Rebecca,” defends himself in the New York Times, in the latest development in what I&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59AMConcerns over car parking in the West End have been highlighted by the Musicians’ Union and Equity in their submissions to an inquiry aiming to improve the workings of London’s entertain…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMWhen Adrian Lester played Hamlet, the Daily Telegraph suggested that he was wrong to do so as the character was Danish and presumably white. No doubt, and rightly, the review rankled and par…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:55AMEric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, performing at the Metropolitan Room, combine midnight reveries and lighter numbers with mixed success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:53AMVarious issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:52AMMark Sanchez and girlfriend Eva Longoria went on a Broadway double date with former New York Jet Scotty McKnight, a close friend of Sanchez, and his actress love, Hayden Panettiere. The four…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:49AMFormer Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford.Boy…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:48AMIt would be easy for a production to focus solely on Diana and her disease, but director Terrence J. Nolen is equally interested in the impact her behavior has on the entire family.
SOURCE: Philadelphia Weekly at 05:39AMBefore he tackles Willy Wonka::E8831350310621 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane next summer, Douglas Hodge could be appearing on a West End stage as another iconic character - Cyrano de Berge…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:12AMBy Sharon Hoyer I met Alejandro Cerrudo for dinner on a Monday evening after a particularly challenging day in the studio. He is tall, boyishly slim with a warm, likeable manner, just the ri…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM
Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation LSCRF announces Academy Award-Winning Actress and Director Diane Keaton as Guest Speaker at its Annual Fall Benefit Luncheon today, October 17th beginnin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMBen Sprecher, now clear of any suggestion he did anything untoward to cause the musical’s collapse, has begun to spell out how it could have happened.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14AMSo I recently read a rather thought-provoking guest post by Anna McKeon, on Daniela Papi’s Lessons I Learned blog. In the post, McKeon basically says non-profits are making it too easy…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:01AMI rejoice to report that due to audience demand, the Long Wharf Theatre production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMRichard Burton speaks Hamlet's soliloquy in a live performance of the 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, directed by John Gielgud:...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Nothing will persuade me that accident is art." Richard Burton, diary entry, Aug. 8, 1969...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMThe Actors' Gang's staging captures the silliness of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy. The problem remains the dizzying plot.Let's congratulate the Actors' Gang for at least bringing some …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM
When news of the “Rebecca” scandal first broke, the sense around Broadway was that lead producer Ben Sprecher was either a criminal mastermind or a fool.
Well, the verdict’s in, and it…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AM‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter” is richly deserved, and not for the reasons you might expect. This one-man show by British actor Julian Sands, in his New York stage debut, deals only wi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMThe Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring song contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, begins Oct. 17. The cast features Nancy Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAs our grandparents used to say, "With the Greeks, be unique." Okay, we had weird grandparents...anyhoo! Scapegoat Carnivale, in Montreal, is doing it again. After their praised and rewarded…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMOn Kilter
Goya Contemporary Through Nov. 10
More at weekly.citypaper.com
Joyce J. Scott, Baltimore native, is a sculptor and a philosopher. She ponders problems by engaging with m…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMDrunk Enough to Say I Love You?
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Ben Hoover
Through Oct. 21 at Single Carrot Theatre
To call Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? didactic is a g…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe American premiere of Christopher Shinn's political drama Now or Later, about a college party that sets off a religious and political firestorm, officially opens Oct. 17 at the H…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFun Home, a new musical by Tony Award nominees Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, begins performances Off-Broadway Oct. 17 at the Public Theater as part of the Public Lab programming. Tony Award …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCatherine Porter, who understudied the role of Diana Goodman in the Broadway production of Next to Normal, takes on the leading role in the Alliance Theatre staging of the Tony and Pulitzer …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow to Be a New Yorker, a new Off-Broadway comedy written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, officially opens Oct. 17, following previews that began Aug. 22, at Sofia&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMClassic Stage Company's new production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov, already extended by two weeks to Dec. 9, begins its run Oct. 17 at CSC's home on East 13th Street. Ethan Ha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Los Angeles debut of the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar, starring Aya Cash, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Jennifer Ikeda and Greg Keller, all circling Academy A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM{YOUR NAME HERE}, a Queer Theater Company dedicated to "producing and creating groundbreaking and thought-provoking new works that positively depict the LGBTIQQA community," kicks …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 2005 film "Kinky Boots," about a struggling shoemaker who reinvents his business by creating footwear for drag performers, struts into Chicago as a new stage musical by Grammy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe 23rd New York Cabaret Convention, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, pays tribute to the late Donald Smith, the cabaret impresario who was the founder and execu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's feature series asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSinger-actor Alfie Boe, who won a joint Tony Award for his work in the Broadway revival of La Bohème, plays Manhattan's Town Hall Oct. 17 at 8 PM.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1888 Broadway premiere of the W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan operetta The Yeomen of the Guard.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLegit News:
New Yorker takes reins at San Diego theater
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Show opened Saturday on Broadway
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'Iceman' also scores Chicago awards
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