Off Broadway's Second Stage Theatre recently debuted a new, timely satire entitled "Modern Terrorism."
SOURCE: NY1 at 11:59PMHey, Rahim, is that a bomb in your briefs, or are you happy to see us? The title of Jon Kern’s new play should give a clue.
Indeed, it’s option A for Rahim (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a young P…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:56PMThe “Rebecca” scandal has made me nostalgic for the Broadway of the ’70s and ’80s, when the street had a colorful selection of rascals and rogues and ticky-tacky productions that clo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:55PMIs “Elsewhere,” a new multimedia piece devised by cellist Maya Beiser, really an opera?
Not quite. For one thing, only in the show’s second half is there singing — from bracing vocal…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:48PMBy: Paulanne Simmons At the Oct 16 premiere of pop-jazz singers Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano’s “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes” at The Metropolitan Room, Fasano said early in…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:43PMIt takes steel you-know-whats to write a comedy about terrorists determined to blow up the Empire State Building and NASDAQ.
So give Jon Kern some credit for his intriguing but inco…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:18PM"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is back on Broadway, in as fine a revival as you're likely to see in a lifetime of playgoing.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:10PMNOTICE: THE POLLING PROGRAM I USE DOES NOT TRACK OR KEEP ANY RECORD OF WHO VOTES! IT SIMPLY RECORDS HOW YOU VOTED.So far this season, you voted and selected which c…
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Hugh Masekela’s trumpet becomes a mining drill in “Songs of Migration,” the tuneful, quietly stirring musical tribute running through Saturday at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:47PMSierra Boggess will hear the music of the night once more when she joins the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera in time for its landmark 25th Anniversary, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18PMTHE JOURNEY HOMEWARD The title character in Simon Stephens’s freshly observed new play, Harper Regan, is at a crossroads in her life, in the midst of what we used to call a midlife crisis.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:14PMYou don’t need to be a physicist to understand the pure magnetism of Richard Feynman (1918-1988), the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has been described as “one of the greatest minds s…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:10PMThe plot of “Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them” involves a plan to blow up the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn the wake of reports of a man being arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up a van outside of the Federal Reserve in New York, a play like Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, Or They Who Want T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMPlaywright Paul David Young aspires to something pretty impressive in In the Summer Pavilion, now at 59E59 Theaters, but instead of providing a bracing new kind of drama, he only offers a ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
David Johnston, published in Playing With Canons, has a new play coming up. DAVID JOHNSTON’s new full length play Coney, produced by Blue Coyote Theater Group and directed by lon…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 07:56PMThis item from Barbara Harrison, intern Since 1993, HERE Arts Center has been one of New York’s most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at the forefront of the city’s…
SOURCE: NYTE Small Press at 07:50PMMelbourne Festival Diary #5
Holding note: Sometimes I find that all that emerges from my fingertips is a sludge of meh. This can particularly happen when I've been knocked out by a work: al…
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 07:33PMTheresa Rebeck's 'Seminar,' starring Jeff Goldblum at the Ahmanson Theatre, is entertaining in its details and dynamics, but the story and sitcom humor falter.Masochism is the chief prerequi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:02PMGrace Gummer, Corey Stoll, and Treat Williams join Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, Ellen Barkin, in The Parisian Woman. Commissioned by The Flea Theater, Beau Willimon has adapted Henry…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:01PMAntaeus announces 2013 plays...Dates scheduled at Pasadena Playhouse for the briefly controversial Tales of a Fourth Grade Lesbo...the latest seedlings at Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse...Val…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PMPaul David Young’s compassionate drama “In the Summer Pavilion” was a highlight of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival. An imaginative exploration of the variou…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:00PM
By Rob Hartmann
At its best, the art of cabaret represents the peak of the storyteller’s craft. From a simple beginning, the yarn-spinner draws you in to a tale which takes you places yo…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:52PMBy Judd Hollander
The changing times, the lack of a feeling of "community" in the present-day suburbs and the dangers of keeping secrets are the underlying themes in Lisa D'Amour's dramat…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:40PMOn November 4, 2012, a troupe of Broadway's most promising young performers will stage an evening of song and dance at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, New York City. Lee Godburn, a…
SOURCE: artistsforworldpeace.org at 06:32PMPresident Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney face off in a fan-made YouTube video featuring footage of the second presidential debate set to Wicked's Loathing. Whatever the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMBy Judd Hollander
The Actors Company Theatre opens its 20th season with a pair of one-act works by Brian Friel about life, love, and second chances. Presented under the umbrella title of …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:25PMThe 4th Annual Broadway Can A Concert for Citymeals-on-Wheels amp City Harvest will be presented at Don't Tell Mama, one night only, Sunday, November 11th at 8pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:18PMOn October 22nd, 2012, Henry Krieger, composer of Dreamgirls and the cult-classic Side Show, will take part in Kaufman Centers Broadway Close Up series at Merkin Concert Hall.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMTo divine is to discover. Discover humor, beauty, tragedy and gentle wisdom in Westminster College's THE DIVINERS playing through October 27th.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PMIt takes little time into "Avenue Q" — the charmingly wanton, puppet-populated musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty — to see why music man Lopez, and "The
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:08PMJeff Goldblum stars in SEMINAR by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Sam Gold and produced by Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Roy Furman, David Ian, David Mirvis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07PMProducers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy have just announced a nationwide open call audition tour for African American singers for the Broadway world premiere of MOTOWN THE MUSI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:07PMThe Heiress is bringing a taste of 19th-century New York charm to Broadway, starring Academy Award-nominee Jessica Chastain as Catherine Sloper and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens as her s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PMAffleck believed the film Argo, about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, would strike a chord with viewers because of the Arab Spring.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 06:04PMJUSTIN IS JUST IN THE MIDDLE The best thing about Justin Love, Celebration Theatre’s 30th season opening production, is the fun of watching the stylish performance of Grant Jordan, who giv…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:03PMDean Evans, as Honeybuns the clown, manages to shock, provoke and make us laugh - in shame. Evan's acerbic and sometimes caustic wit is made for the anthropomorphic character he has created…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:01PMWell, hello Nancy! Ford’s Theatre and Signature Theatre, co-producers of a revival next March of the Jerry Herman hit musical from the ’60s, “Hello, Dolly!”, say they have found thei…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:01PMHalloween is just around the corner, and Filament is celebrating by having a costume sale! Find unique, inexpensive costumes - and get an exciting sneak peek at Filament's brand new space. C…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 06:01PM
Lookingglass Theatres Board of Directors and Gala Committee announce one of Chicagos highly anticipated events of the season, the 2013 Lookingglass gglassquerade, which will celebrate 25 yea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:58PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, October 18, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more info…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:56PMThe tour of the 2011 Broadway musical Catch Me if You Can started October 7 at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The videos below show clips from the show, including Live in Living Colo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:47PMOn the very last episode of Hedda’s Headlines, video blogger Jenn Colella and her Chaplin castmates sing Broadway.com a freestyle love song, document a hilarious backstage emergency an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:43PMTRYOUT SHOULD GET THE BOOT UNTIL IT WORKS OUT THE KINKS Prepare yourself for some disparate reviews of Kinky Boots, which had its pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago’s Bank of America Theater l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PMTony Nominee Laura Osnes made a special appearance and sang an original song in the new musical comedy web series, City of Dreams. Watch the whole second episode, Unexpected Song, below And …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY & SAN FRANCISCO Assassins, Shotgun Players. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, San Francisco Playhouse. By Sam Hurwitt The presidential debates are upon us, Election …
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:21PMThe electric new musical Kinky Boots is taking Chicago by storm before arriving on Broadway in March 2013. Get a first look at the show’s rocking musical numbers by Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:16PMBroadway star Capathia Jenkins will be among the special guests for the Philly POPS' Holiday POPS! 2012 concert, December 7-22 at Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.In…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMThe Skivvies are having a release party for their debut single, Hardbody Hoedown, a bluegrass-tinged parody mega-medley of hip-hop songs about body parts. This will take place at the newly r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09PMThe upcoming Broadway production of Motown: the Musical will embark upon a nationwide open call audition tour to cast African American singers for the show.The musical is based on the life o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:07PMI’m going to say something every Thursday, half on purpose and half by accident. #Oops! This week: “Oops! Broadway’s seein’ double these days.” I’m talking ab…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 05:03PMToday there’s a bit of a reversal on the David Dower Friday Phone Call. Y’all already know that I don’t even record them on Friday’s, generally. And today, I am not e…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMIf theater illuminates the human condition, can it do so without literal light? Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is about to answer that question with two productions of short pieces performed entir…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PMBy 1975 producer Norman Lear had gone out on a limb several times, and hit the jackpot every single time, with All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, the Jeffersons and Good Times. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:00PMLegit News:
Paulson, Bauer, others set for stage stints
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM
Arena Stage will present the world premiere co-production of Cheryl L. West's Pullman Porter Blues, November 23-January in the Kreeger Theater, following its opening at Seattle Repertory The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:50PMWatch this workshop live on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Tuesday, October 23 at 2:30pm PDT (San Francisco)/ 4:30pm CDT (Chicago)/ 5:30pm EDT (New York)/ 21:30 GMT / 10:30pm BST (London)…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:49PMCLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS Producers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy are proud to announce a nationwide open call audition tour for African American singers for the Broadway…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 04:49PMMargaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle are schooling Big Apple natives and tourists alike in How to Be a New Yorker. Broadway.com headed to Sofia’s Downstairs Theatre to turn the tabl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMBroadway 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 04:48PMOn October 14, the cast of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark made an appearance at the 2012 New York Comic Con. Whilethey were there they performed Boy Fall from the Sky, followed by an interacti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMOne Slight Hitch is a silly, mildly farcical comedy by popular comedian Lewis Black. Lacking originality, substance and believability, it is a parade of mostly stale jokes framed by a stock …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMCast members from the Broadway production of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark came out to the 2012 New York ComicCon this past weekend.Star Reeve Carney, who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man, sang …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:47PMTickets are now on sale for the much-anticipated new musical, Kinky Boots. Based on the film of the same name and featuring “Sex is in the Heel,” already a Top 10 song on the Bi…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 04:46PMNEW YORK (AP) — "True Blood" star Chris Bauer is going to be sinking his teeth in a new play in New York.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:45PMSecond Stage Theatre has announced the casting for its upcoming production of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Quiara Alegra Hudes, directed by Davis M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMThough there was a Broadway musical, 9 to 5, using her music in 2009, and she performed on the Tony Awards in the same year, country star Dolly Parton expressly said that she can never be on…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:41PMTwo-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello began performances of her new musical Scandalous on October 13 at the Neil Simon Theatre, and Broadway.com has your very first peek at the almight…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PMIn 1997, actor Eli Wallach reigned off-Broadway as the title character in Jeff Baron's two-person drama "Visiting Mr. Green."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:38PMBroadways CHAPLIN has launched a CHAPLIN lookalike Instagram contest. The CHAPLIN Look-Alike contest is running now through Monday, October 29. Heres how it works
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMIf you've always wanted to know how to behave like a real New Yorker, (even if you are one), a new off-Broadway sketch comedy show opened this week to help you out. HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER is…
SOURCE: www.thethreetomatoes.com at 04:31PMBased on the one-act monodrama 'Request Concert' published by Franz Xaver Kroetz
in 1973, 'Peace/Piece of Mine', conceived and performed by Miriam Ibrahim, is
the portrayal of a spectacula…
SOURCE: www.scribd.com at 04:31PMPlaywright-lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green and composer Jule Styne hand-tailored “Fade Out–Fade In” to the considerable abilities of Carol Burnett, who in 1964 was …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 04:27PMArmando Riesco, Liza Colon-Zayas and Zabryna Guevara, who appeared in the 2011 Hartford Stage world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Water by the Spo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMThe 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 04:22PM42nd Street Moon launches its 20th season with a sharp production of Of Thee I Sing. The show was probably the most sophisticated musical of its time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PMSecond Stage Theatre has announced the cast for its production of Quiara Alegría Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful, to run December 11-January 8. Davis McCallum …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PM"Odin's Horse," Mirror Stage Co.'s first full production in a decade, is an eco-drama by Robert Koon about a writer of Icelandic heritage's...
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:19PMThe long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES, based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social injustice, will come to the big screen on December 14th. Check out new photos bel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16PMWatch the livestreaming performance on #NEWPLAY TV at newplaytv.info on Friday, October 19 at 8pm PDT (San Francisco)/ 11pm EDT (New York), (Saturday, October 20 at 03:00 GMT / 12pm JST (To…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:15PMLiza Colon-Zayas, Tony nominee Frankie R. Faison, Bill Heck and more will star in the New York premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful, at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMLiza Colon-Zayas, Tony nominee Frankie R. Faison, Bill Heck and more will star in the New York premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful, at …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:14PMAdam Cunningham, President and CEO of 87AM, announced today that Erin Rech has joined the company as Vice President, Strategy amp Development. Rech will have a prominent role in the digital …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:13PMThe fourth annual Broadway Can!, a concert for the Citymeals-on-Wheels and City Harvest, will be offered Nov. 11 at Don't Tell Mama in NYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:05PMCrossroads Theatre Company will kick of their 2012-2013 season with Charles Smith's Knock Me a Kiss, starring André De Shields, to run October 25-November 4.The show, which is directed by C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:05PMKanin's skewering of Washington politics and corruption, particularly the shady activities of lobbyists, is all too familiar territory today, though at the time of the play's debut, it was c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:04PM"Beatnik Giselle," "The Learning Fairy, Episode 2" and dance by Delfos Danza Contemporanea.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 04:03PMGate Theatre Dublins production of Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, performed by John Hurt and directed by Michael Colgan, opened at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre on October…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02PMBarbican, LondonDoes it matter that Michael Clark's latest work has no real title? Probably not, as his choreography tends to be one long work in progress. This latest piece, with music by S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM
After a long absence, principal dancers and musicians from New York City Ballet return for two nights in Minneapolis.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:59PM'Smash' creator Theresa Rebeck's searching Broadway play about an intense fiction writing workshop comes to L.A.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:59PMThis is a thinking man’s suspense thriller that has a lot of potential, and this production feels one treatment away from being a new suspense classic for the Halloween season. Setting cha…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:54PMCenter Theatre Group celebrated the opening of the West Coast premiere of Seminar, by Theresa Rebeck, on Wednesday, October 17. Sam Gold directs the play, which performs a
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:53PMThe 2005 film "Kinky Boots," about a struggling shoemaker who reinvents his business by creating footwear for drag performers, has strut into Chicago as a new stage musical…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:51PMLookingglass Theatre’s Board of Directors and Gala Committee announce one of Chicago’s highly anticipated events of the season, the 2013 Lookingglass gglassquerade, which will celebr…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:50PMGLENGARRY GLEN ROSS begins its limited run with previews on Friday, October 19, 2012, and an official opening set for Sunday, November 11, 2012, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:49PMFeinstein's at Loews Regency will present nine-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer Tommy Tune in Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales, which will play on November 18, 25, and 26. Musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMThe Lincoln Park Community Shelter is hosting its annual fall fundraiser (Taste of Fall) on Friday, October 26, 7pm-11pm at Gallery 1028. The event will feature live music by the Tony Bondi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:46PMProspect Theater Company will present a one-night-only staged reading of Rob Urbinati's original play Death By Design, a mysterious whodunit inspired by Noel Coward and Agatha Christie, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:44PMTheater on the Lake, the summer theater operation of the Chicago Park District located at the corner of Fullerton Ave. and Lake Shore Drive, has announced the joint artistic directors for it…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PMAtlantic Theater Company will present the world premiere of Melissa James Gibsons WHAT RYHMES WITH AMERICA, starring Atlantic ensemble member Chris Bauer leading a cast featuring Aimee Carre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:41PMThis January, Sierra Boggess will return to Broadway in January to play the role she has been growing into since 2006. It has been announced that Boggess will join the cast to play Christin…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:39PMZachary Quinto, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith will join previously announced star Cherry Jones in The Glass Menagerie at the American Repertory Theater this winter…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:39PMInstead of a blog today I would like to direct you to this thoughtful and inspiring piece http://www.howlround.com/growing-a-living-culture-by-matthew-glassman/ by my friend Matthew Glassma…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:39PMHoly smokes! Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will become the 100th person to be honored with a "Pipe Night" at The Players at 6pm on Sunday, October 21.This tradition, which origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:37PMCyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s splashy new musical Kinky Boots blew into the Windy City for its world premiere run at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre. The musical extravag…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:35PMThe Tony Award-winning hit musical The Book of Mormon kicked off its first national tour in Aug. 14 in Denver. Currently in Los Angeles, the show stars Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Jare…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PMThe American Repertory Theater A.R.T., under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus has announced the complete cast for its February 2013 production of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33PMFive Jerome Foundation grant winners repurpose bits of junk and fragments of the past.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:32PMJESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR UK ROCK SPECTACULAR 10/29/2012 – 11/01/2012 NCM Fathom Events, Omniverse Vision and The Broadway League present Jesus Christ Superstar UK Rock Spectacular in s…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:27PMThe Chicago Park District’s Theater on the Lake, which remounts eight well-received productions by Off Loop troupes throughout the summer months at its tattered but enduring home at Fuller…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:22PMTwo-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks makes his long-awaited Broadway debut as New York tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in the world premiere production of three-time Academy Award nominee …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:20PMPioneer Theatre Company presents John Steinbecks OF MICE AND MEN, October 19 November 3, 2012. Performances are scheduled Mondays Thursdays, 730 pm Fridays and Saturdays, 800 pm Saturday m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:16PMIn an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cynthia Nixon revealed that she is ready to move on from her long-time role as attorney Miranda Hobbes on the HBO series SEX IN THE CITY and the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald will be honored with a Pipe Night at The Players landmark Booth mansion Oct. 21 in New York. Angela Lansbury, also a five-time Tony recipi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:14PM Cheyenne Jackson is celebrating Halloween with quite the ghoulish gang. The Performers star will appear in the NBC holiday special Mockingbird Lane, an update of the classic …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMWe’re asking Broadway Stars what their favorite moments were on the other side. That’s right, no more asking what they love about being on the stage, we want to know their favori…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 03:06PMTickets for Broadways CHAPLIN are now on sale through June 2, 2013. CHAPLIN, a new musical depicting the life of film icon Charlie Chaplin, with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and bo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00PMWe've been giddy with anticipation for Tom Hooper's upcoming film version of Les Miserables for quite some time, wondering how much it will differ from the beloved musical.Well, to paraphras…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:00PM
He looks as if he emerged from the laboratory of a veterinary Dr. Frankenstein. With haunches that appear to have been stripped from the guts of an amusement park ride, and a thatched torso …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:52PMDrama Desk nominee Zachary Quinto, Tony Award nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith will join Tony Award winner Cherry Jones in the American Repertory Theater production of Tennesse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PMStephen Colbert will be hosting Lookingglass Theatre Company's annual benefit "Gglassquerade," March 2 at the Four Seasons Hotel, according to the Chicago Tribune.The event will also be an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PMRené Auberjonois, Kate Burton, Michael Imperioli, and Linda Lavin will participate in a holiday-themed installment of the hit public-radio program Selected Shorts at Berkeley Repertory Thea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:48PMNine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune will make his New York solo debut in Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency this November. Tune will take the stage for six s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMGayle Rankin, Raul Castillo and Deirdre O'Connell will take part in a workshop of Mona Mansour's The Way West, which will be presented by the Lark Play Development Center in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:42PMStage vets Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Brian J. Smith will join Cherry Jones in American Repertory Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. John Tiffany …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:35PMTrue Blood's Chris Bauer and Tony nominee Da'Vine Joy Randolph are part of the featured cast in the world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's What Rhymes with America. Daniel Aukin will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:30PMTaking a break from playing Sheriff Andy Bellefleur on the HBO series, Bauer heads the cast of Melissa James Gibson's new play for the Atlantic Theater Company.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:30PMCasting has been announced for the Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's What Rhymes with America, which will begin previews Nov. 19 Off-Broadway at Atl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMRobert Plowman Hometown: Halifax, Canada Current Town: Toronto, Canada Q: What are you working on now? A: Right now I’m writing a solo show called My Sex Rays Will Cover The Earth. I…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 02:28PMIt's not a lie when it's said that Hofstra University in Long Island, NY has PRIDE! This past week, Hofstra University, for a second time since 2008, hosted the second 2012 Presidential Deba…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:26PMNEW BLOCK OF TICKETS ON SALE FOR CHAPLIN NOW ON SALE THROUGH JUNE 2, 2013 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE TO CHANGE IN 2013 Tickets for Broadway’s CHAPLIN are now on sale through June 2, 2013. CHAPLI…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:24PMChris Bauer will star in the Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Melissa James Gibson's What Rhymes with America. Directed by Daniel Aukin, the play will co-star A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:21PMStage and screen star Alec Baldwin will host Lang Lang and Friends in Concert, at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium on Tuesday, October 30 at 6:30pm. The evening will benefit Lang Lang Intern…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:18PMBroadway.com offers up the best breaking news, star interviews and exclusive features about Broadway on the web. Below are the most-read stories on the site from October 12 to October 18.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:16PMThe Delaware Theatre Company production of Bruce Graham's play about dementia and its effect on a family is first-rate. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Wilmington.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:16PMThe new musical Chaplin, depicting the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin and chronicling the rise and fall of the infamous Little Tramp, has released a new block of tickets through June …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
An appallingly funny farce about young terrorists plotting to blow up everyone on the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMDo you have a few hours a week to spare Are you a theater enthusiast Tech-savvy Want to help BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theater site on the net, continue its expansion in our over 130 ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:11PMCOPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The hate-filled, racist views of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik are the subject of a new play which premiered in a small Danish theatre this week.
SOURCE: Reuters at 02:11PM*Squabbles* concludes with a final monologue overtly geared towards an older audience. Despite its shortcomings, this production has a good deal of fun and charm to offer, particularly for t…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:11PM
Broadway World Chicago reviews the pre-Broadway tryout of Kinky Boots
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMNEW YORK (AP) — It will be cold, but Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Marvel are still planning a picnic on Broadway this winter.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:56PM“Breaking Amish,” the new reality show on TLC, recently visited STOMP ’s New York home at the Orpheum Theatre. Catch a quick glimpse of some familiar STOMP cast members at the 1:50 m…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:56PMI saw the second Presidential debate of 2012 and Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway on the same week. Here is an excerpt from Act III: MARTH…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:56PMJeff McCarthy, the actor whose New York credits include Urinetown, Chicago, The Pirate Queen, Side Show and Beauty amp the Beast, among others, will lead the cast as the title character in T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMTarell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy has attracted much attention nationwide. LA's first sampling of it, In the Red and Brown Water, arrives Saturday at the Fountain, gui…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:44PMBottom line is that this is a fun way to spend an afternoon or evening, and it includes lunch or dinner by Sophia’s Ristortante Italiano. “How 2 B A New Yorker” runs 55 minutes at Sofi…
SOURCE: Examiner.com at 01:44PMThe annual presentation of the Museum of the City of New York’s Louis Auchincloss Prize will be held on Monday, October 22nd at 6 pm. This year, the prize will be awarded to Lynne Meado…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:42PMCelina Carvajal (Cats, Tarzan), who plays the role of determined fiancée Nicola in the pre-Broadway engagement of Kinky Boots, gives Playbill.com an inside look at her day off prior t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:42PMPresident Barack Obama and presidential candidate Mitt Romney may not see eye to eye, but according to this fun, new YouTube video, the politicians full on loathe each other! This clever fan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:41PMThe TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival last summer had many pleasures. But one of its disappointments was the cancellation — or, as it turns out, the postponement — of "My Girlf…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:38PMKERRY REID reviews "The Life of Death" by WildClaw Theatre ★★½ and "Frankenstein" by City Lit Theater ★★
KERRY REID reviews "The Life of Death" by WildClaw Theatre …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:38PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about An Enemy of the People, Grace and Heresy, as well as this week’s Broadway and related news. Please take the BroadwayRad…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 01:32PMThe music of Henry Krieger, the two-time Tony-nominated composer of Dreamgirls and Side Show, will be featured in the Kaufman Center's Broadway Close Up series Oct. 22 at Merkin Concert …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThe Clive Barnes Foundation has announced the nominees for the 2012 Clive Barnes Awards, a distinguished annual honor recognizing the work of young actors and dancers in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:29PMPlaywright Bruce Norris has stopped the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin from staging Clybourne Park after discovering that a black character was to be played by a white actress in make-up.
SOURCE: The Independent at 01:25PMThe Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Glengarry Glen Ross, will begin previews on October 19. This 30th anniversary production, starring the one and …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:24PMProspect Theater Company will present a November 5, 2012 one-night-only staged reading of Rob Urbinatis original play Death By Design, a witty and wonderfully mysterious whodunit inspired by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced the full Broadway cast of PICNIC, starring Reed Birney as Howard Bevans, Maggie Grace as Madge Owens, Elizabeth Marvel as Rosemary Sydney, Sebastian …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMTony Award nominee Jeremy Shamos and Outer Critics Circle nominee Laila Robins have been named Best Theatre Actor and Best Theatre Actress, respectively, in The Village Voice's rece…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMThe Triad Theater will relaunch in November as Stage 72, opening with two special editions of Celebrity Autobiography. The renovated space will officially debut during the New York Comedy Fe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PMNEW YORK (AP) — "True Blood" star Chris Bauer is going to be sinking his teeth in a new play.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMA first-ever Spanish-language production of MARY POPPINS will premiere in Mexico City on November 14 at the Centro Cultural Telmex. This new production joins Broadway, the US National Tour a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMWhoville has found its citizens. Ken Land, Gilbert L. Bailey II, Philip Hoffman and more will join Broadway vet Jeff McCarthy as the Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMEver wondered what it would be like to star on Broadway in Mamma Mia!? Now you can find out.The musical is hosting an all-day session on Saturday, October 20 as part of Broadway Fantasy Camp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:06PMStreisand is currently touring North America, selling out from Brooklyn to LA, and yesterday performed at Montreal's Bell Centre where she performed Get HappyHappy Days Are Here Again - the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:05PMAs Emmerdale celebrates its 40th anniversary, Ben Dowell talks to the soap's producer, director and creative director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMBroadway actor Colin Hanlon, who was seen in the reading of Twilight: The Musical, will return to the cast of the ABC hit "Modern Family."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMProspect Theater Company will present a one-night staged reading of Rob Urbinati's Death By Design, November 5 at 7:30 pm at The East 13th Street Theater. Will Pomerantz will direct.Set dur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02PMBroadway actor Colin Hanlon, who was seen in the reading of Twilight: The Musical, will return to the cast of the ABC hit "Modern Family."
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PMNEW YORK (AP) -- "True Blood" star Chris Bauer is going to be sinking his teeth in a new play....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 01:01PM
Andrew Lloyd Webber has become the latest cultural heavyweight to take aim at the Government over its education policy, saying funding arts in schools has produced “enormous returns” for…
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:59PMThe issues that Beverly Creasey and I have begun discussing in an ongoing series (and which we chewed over on Tuesday with the new task force on diversity that is forming at StageSource) see…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 12:55PMAge & Hometown: 30; Meudon, France
Current Role: Beguiling beauty Roxane, a French noblewoman who is oblivious to the love of her long-nosed cousin Cyrano in Roundabout’s T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMAcademy Award nominee Woody Harrelson and Tony nominee Martin Sheen will star in "September Morn," an upcoming feature film by Howard Cohen that is based on the events of 9/11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:52PMLast season's critically acclaimed smash hit COTTON CLUB PARADE returns for a one-week limited engagement from November 14 to 18
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMProducers of Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf have announced that the 50th anniversary Broadway revival has been extended, and is now on sale through February 24, 2013. The produc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51PMCynthia Nixon is moving on from Miranda for good as the Tony winner revealed she doesn't think the Sex and the City film series should continue. “I think we had a wonderful ride. I…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:49PMSoho, LondonThis isn't Shappi Khorsandi's first show about a failed relationship, but it is the first where her niceness doesn't get in the way. On her current tour, she is talking about an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMSalberg Studio, SalisburyHeathrow Airport and its urban sprawl have a fascination for playwright Simon Stephens. The airport loomed over his works Wastwater and Harper Regan; and it plays a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMIn the intimacy of the Madison Street Studio Theatre, this is riveting drama. Don't let the bleak subject matter keep you away. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:47PMRoundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Darren Bagert and Martin Massman are pleased to announce the full Broadway cast of PICNIC, starring Reed Birne…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:46PMBerlin's Deutsches Theater was to present CLYBOURNE PARK, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, earlier this year - with a white actress in experimental makeup playing the black characte…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMGoodman and Steppenwolf Theatres are working together to bring Chicago Area Stage Managers together for a PIZZA NIGHT at the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted from 6 to 9pm on Mond…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 12:40PMMatthew Morrison, star of stage and TV's "Glee," took in the Oct. 17 performance of Broadway's Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre. After the show, he and girlfriend Renee P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMThroughout his years as an actor, Stephen Mo Hanan has performed in a wide range of roles, the variety of which is astounding. After originating the role of Aspara-gus/Growl-tiger in Cats, f…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:39PMBroadway veteran Jeff McCarthy will play the title role in Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical during the production's limited holiday engagement at The Theatre at Madison…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMJust 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 first…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38PMJeff McCarthy will be a mean one this holiday season in the New York return of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, which will begin performances Dec. 13 at the Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:35PMWith its rudimentary plot and forgettable tunes, this musical is an unrewarding experience, writes Ian Shuttleworth
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:33PMThe cast of “Trainspotting USA,” now playing at Theater Wit It’s difficult for me to get behind art that glorifies the illegal drug culture. It just seems like exploitative…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 12:32PMExecutive producer Bryan Fuller tweeted a new still from his upcoming NBC Halloween special MOCKINGBIRD LANE, featuring Broadway fan fave, Cheyenne Jackson. Along with the photo, Fuller twee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMToday, we're featuring Cy Coleman with Bob Fosse and Juliet Prowse in 1981. Fosse won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMThe Triad Theater, at 158 West 72nd Street, will undergo a name change as it relaunches in November as Stage 72 following five years of ongoing renovations.One of the first events in the new…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMThe ensemble cast for William Inge's Pulitzer Prize winning 1953 play also includes Ellen Burstyn, Reed Birney, Elizabeth Marvel and Mare Winningham.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:21PMTVLine reports that George Takei will be returning as a guest star to the CBS drama series HAWAII FIVE-O. The actor will portray the uncle of Daniel Dae Kims Chin Ho Kelly who will provide t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21PMAs Link Larkin in the original Broadway cast of Hairspray, Matthew Morrison was like the second coming of Tommy Tune. Though Morrison has gone on to TV fame as Mr. Schuester on the FOX hit G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:19PMTony nominee Laura Osnes is going to be the envy of plenty of young girls when she heads to a glamorous royal ball as the title character of the upcoming Broadway musical Cinderella. As she …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMLondon's Young Vic theater company has announced its full 2013 season, which will include five mainstage shows, two small-scale shows and a specially-commissioned short film.
The seas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMLondon's Young Vic theater company has announced its full 2013 season, which will include five mainstage shows, two small-scale shows and a specially-commissioned short film.
The seas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMDespite somewhat slow ticket sales, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? has extended its run through February 24, 2013. The production was originally scheduled to close January 27. Last week&…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:13PMTonight we're taking our intrepid Whatsonstage.com theatregoers to the Tricycle in Kilburn to see the inaugural production of Indhu Rubasingham's tenure as artistic director, Red Velvet.Writ…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:11PMMaggie Grace (of the hit "Taken" thrillers) and Sebastian Stan (of "Captain America: The First Avenger) will play the young lovers Madge Owens and Hal Carter in Roundabout Theater Company's …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:10PMNEW YORK—It will be cold, but Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Marvel are still planning a picnic on Broadway this winter.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:06PMRoundabout Theatre Company has announced full casting for its upcoming revival of William Inge’s Picnic. Ellen Burstyn, Sebastian Stan, Maggie Grace, Elizabeth Marvel, Reed B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMStephen Colbert is headed to Chicago in support of his old Northwestern University college buddies. The satirist is the headlining host of "Gglassquerade," an annual benefit for the Looking…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:04PMCiting scheduling difficulties, the Cleveland Orchestra said will not take part in this summer's New York’s Lincoln Center Festival.
around a proposed staging of Hindemith’s “Cardil…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:03PMLONDON (Reuters) - American avant-garde composer John Cage staged one of the world's first "happenings", used a remote-controlled blimp in one of his operas and turned a piano into a percuss…
SOURCE: Reuters at 12:02PMMirenka Cechová, one of the leading proponents of physical theatre in the world, hails from the Czech Republic. Last year, Washington audiences were privileged to see her work when she ap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMNEW YORK (AP) -- It will be cold, but Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Marvel are still planning a picnic on Broadway this winter....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:01PMBARE begins previews Off-Broadway at New World Stages 340 West 50th Street on Monday, November 19, 2012. Opening Night is set for Sunday, December 9, 2012. The cast and creative team of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMBroadway veteran Sebastian Stan -- best known to film audiences as Bucky in the Captain America film -- will romance former Lost star Maggie Grace in the Broadway revival of William Inge's P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
Tickets are now available for Lincoln Center Theatre's Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Golden Boy. Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher and starring Seth Numrich, Danny B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:59AMThe Tony-winning new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It celebrated 200 performances on Broadway the afternoon of Oct. 17. The cast marked the milestone with a post-show cake celebra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMCasting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic, which will begin previews Dec. 14 at the American Ai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AMA wonderful thing, the human subconscious. Mine has the
happy knack of obliterating ugly memories from the past; but, for some reason, in
the case of Rufus Norris’s 2010 hatchet job on…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:57AMThe current Broadway run of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has been extended through February 24, 2013. The production, which officially opened on October 13, is playing at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMMAMA is an upcoming 2013 horror drama film, directed by Andres Muschietti from a screenplay by Muschetti, Barbara Muschetti and Neil Cross. The film is produced by J. Miles Dale and Barbara …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:50AMMasterworks Broadway has announced the release of two classic cast recordings which have been unavailable in the CD and digital age.The 1951 original Broadway cast recording of Seventeen, a …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:49AMGeorge and Martha's marital woes will give an added chill to Broadway this winter. The 50th-anniversary production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which opened…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:46AMSharon Gless, Marilyn Horne, Liz Smith, David Hyde Pierce and Martin Charnin have joined the line-up for the Abingdon Theatre Company's 20th anniversary gala, honoring Tyne Daly, Sam D. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMSinger-actor Alfie Boe appeared in New York City on 10-17-2012 at The Town Hall and Broadwayworld.com was there.This concert was also a pledge event for the Tri State areas PBS Stations-WNET…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32AMThe York Theatre Company will remember legendary Broadway director, Albert Albie Marre who passed away at the age of 87 on September 4th, with a memorial service set for Monday evening, Octo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:28AMToday in 2001, Mamma Mia opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it is still running. Mamma Mia is a stage musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMOlivier award-winning playwright Bruce Norris has removed the rights for his play Clybourne Park from a Berlin theatre, after he learned that it intended to ‘black up’ a white ac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMShakespeare & Company on Money and Power, an evening celebrating the "Politics" issue of Lapham's Quarterly, was offered Oct. 15 at Joe's Pub. Editor Lewis Lapham hosts…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMMadison Street Theatre (conveniently located blocks from both Green and Blue Line stops) has space available for performance or events. The Studio (55-65 Seats) and Main Stage (179 Seats) b…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:16AMToday is the birthday of a personal hero of mine, Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961). I can’t presume to weigh in on whether he is or he isn’t a great jazz trumpeter. What I prize him for…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:14AMOlivier Award-winner Chiwetal Ejiofor will star in the Young Vic Theatre's production of Aimé Césaire's A Season in the Congo as part of the London company's 2013 season.Running July 6-Aug…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:14AMMilton Keynes Theatre: Tamara Rojo begins her first season as director of English National Ballet with Kenneth MacMillan's version of The Sleeping Beauty. It is a significant choice and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMMamma Mia!, here we go again. In celebration of the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical's 11th Broadway anniversary, Playbill.com looks back at Mamma Mia! through the years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:10AMDirected by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers, Peter and the Starcatcher began performances on March 28, 2012 and opened April 15, 2012, and is playing at Broa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06AMFormer X Factor winner Joe McElderry will make his West End debut playing the title role in the forthcoming concert performance of Tommy at the Prince Edward Theatre.The Who's rock opera is …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:03AM Kinky Boots is in solid shape as it gears up for its springtime Broadway premiere. The production, which sits somewhere between Billy Elliot and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, opened …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:03AMToday we are talking to one of Broadways biggest homegrown stars who has appeared in the original New York productions of many memorable modern-day classics, among them THE WHOS TOMMY, AIDA,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:02AMDEAR JOURNAL is an original musical centering around four teenagers' lives as they enter Middle School. BWW approached the musical's co-creator, Eric Gelb, to blog about the team's challenge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMOne of the most fun and educational initiatives we did on Godspell was our Creator’s Commentary. We got Stephen Schwartz and helmer Danny Goldstein to watch the show, and comment on …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Masterworks Broadway continues to release cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. Seventeen 1951 Original Broadway Cast and Cabaret 1968 Original London Cast will be available …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMThis is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Me…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:58AMLindsay Mendez and Sarah Stiles will take part in a concert presentation of Island Song, a new musical anthology by Derek Gregor and Sam Carner, Nov. 12 at (le) Poisson Rouge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:58AMNICE 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 10:56AMThe York Theatre Company will offer a memorial service for Broadway director Albert "Albie" Marre, who passed away Sept. 4, Oct. 29 at 7 PM at The York Theatre at Saint Peter&rsquo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:51AMChilwell Arts, Nottinghamshire: There are moments of tenderness and enchantment in Mary Swan's adaptation of this well-loved children's classic, which captures the essence of the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMThe wedding of Mario Lopez and Courtney Mazza -- who first met when they were both performing in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line -- will be featured in a two-hour TLC television progra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:42AMAre critics going easy on "Don't Go Gentle"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 10:37AMTicket sales for Edinburgh’s summer festivals, including those overlapping with the Olympics, dropped by just 0.39% in 2011, according to a report to the City Edinburgh Council. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMMasterworks Broadway will release the 1951 original Broadway cast recording of Seventeen and the 1968 original London cast recording of Cabaret in the coming weeks.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:35AMNew York-based actor Matthew Minor is currently in the Berkshires, starring as the ill-fated "Piggy" in Nigel Williams' stage adaptation of Lord of the Flies. He shares photos …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:34AMBenny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! celebrates its “Lucky Eleventh” anniversary on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre tonight, Thursday, October …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 10:31AMFull casting has been announced for Scrooge, which returns to the London Palladium next month (from 6 November 2012) starring Tommy Steele in the title role.
Joining steele in the principal…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:29AMPlaywright Bruce Norris has stopped the Deutsches Theatre in Berlin from staging Clybourne Park after discovering that a black character was to be played by a white actress in make-up.
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:25AMTony Award winner Jefferson Mays stars in Hartford Stage's world-premiere production of the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Oct. 11-Nov. 11. The star of I Am My Own W…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:25AMLegit Reviews||Regional:
Style is of the essence in the deliciously dark, elegant and playful musical comedy about a distant heir who facilitates the demise of eight icky kin wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:21AMOn the October 30th episode of NBC's new comedy THE NEW NORMAL, title 'PARA-NEW NORMAL ACTIVITY,' Bryan 'Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells is getting into the Halloween spirit by doing what h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:21AMToday is the birthday of the great songwriter/ guitarist/ showman Chuck Berry, born 1926. I was shocked — shocked — to learn that not only is still with us, he is still gigging.…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:17AMThe one and only Michael Feinstein returns to Southern California with this big band tribute to Ol Blue Eyes himself. Dont miss the multi- platinum selling artist as he is backed by a 17-pie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMThere were two big Broadway openings in the last week and just because I haven’t had a chance to see them, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t! Let’s see what the critics have…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:15AMLegit Reviews||Los Angeles:
With its literary lion (Jeff Goldblum) roaring and sniffing out red meat among his writing group's eager acolytes, "Seminar" is fueled more by plot m…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:14AMStage and screen stars Woody Harrelson and Martin Sheen will headline the new 9/11 drama, September Morn, according to Deadline.com.The script, by Howard Cohen, centers on the independent in…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:13AMContagious Laughter LLC will present the world premiere of Brian Gianci's Let's Kill Grandma This Christmas, which will begin performances Nov. 25 at the Theatre at St. Clement's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMAs the ENO launches its 'undress' campaign encouraging audiences to dress down for the opera, does it really matter what we wear to the theatre?A guide for theatregoers published in the 1950…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMLast night, singing sensation Susan Boyle was a guest performer at Donny and Marie's stage show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. The appearance marked the 51-year-old Scottish singer's Ve…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:08AMModern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us And How We Learn to Love Them, a controversial new drama by Jon Kern, opens October 18 at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Directed by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMModern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us And How We Learn to Love Them, a controversial new comedy by Jon Kern, opens October 18 at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre. Directed b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMHey readers Today's blog should be fun. If it's not fun, I guarantee it will be informative I don't think anyone has formally documented these two theatre phenomenons. I have to give a shout…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMDavid West Read visited Las Vegas and the Adult Video News Awards for research for his play “The Performers.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMA staged industry reading of the new musical Date of a Lifetime, which was first seen in the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival, will be presented Oct. 25 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
War Horse showreel from Toby Olie on Vimeo.Footage from Toby Olie's performances in War Horse, starting as the hind puppeteer of Joey in the National Theatre's original production, alongside…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 09:57AMGoodspeed Musicals has announced some very Good News for its upcoming 50th Anniversary season at the Goodspeed Opera House.Vince Pesce will breathe new life into B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:56AMThe 50th-anniversary revival of Edward Albee’s modern classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is serving up strong drinks and dark drama at Broadway’s Booth Theatre. Starri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54AMGeorge Takei, who is currently starring in the Old Globe's world premiere musical Allegiance, will take a trip to Hawaii Five-0. The actor will make a guest starring appearance on the CBS dr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:53AMAmerican Idol star and Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis joins with Grammy Award nominee and RampB superstar Deborah Coxto inject new life into the classic tale of good and evil, JEKYL…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMA benefit reading of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest will be presented Oct. 25 at The Colonial Dames Museum House in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMA guest post by Tracy C. Davis, Barber Professor of Performing Arts — Northwestern University.
Extracted from the preface to Dorothy in Tracy C. Davis, ed., The Broadview Anthology of …
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:43AMThe Grinch descended upon Madison Square Garden to kick off a charity book drive in support of the Garden of Dreams Foundation.The furry green creature read Dr. Seuss' famed children's book,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:38AMA by-invitation-only reading of Ian Mairs' The Learning Curve will be held Oct. 20 in Manhattan.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AMMost people stay in hotels, Tennessee Williams lived in them and now Defibrilator Theatre are performing in one. James Fennemore discovers their Hotel Plays.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMOne answer to the question of “Why two plays in verse?” might be that Denis Johnson is a writer relentlessly in pursuit of new forms, and new formal challenges—a literary daredevil alw…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AM“Kinky Boots,” the new musical that opened on Wednesday night at the Bank of America Theatre, is a tryout in every sense of the word. While solidified plans have been made to tra…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:33AMAdditional casting has been announced for The Flea Theater's benefit reading of The Parisian Woman, which is scheduled for Oct. 22 at 6 PM at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMAustralian and German theatres are not having the best of luck with American playwrights this week — a theme that takes up the first two items of this week’s theatre news roundup…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:32AMThis looks awesome, does it not???? It opens at Irondale tonight…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AMMARTINI,THE MOMS and Kristin Chenoweth"Toast To Survivors" for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.Tony Award-nominated actress, Kristin Chenoweth,took time off several years ago to care for her …
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:21AMToday is the birthday of Lotte Lenya (1898-1981). Only troglodytes associate her primarily with Rosa Klebb. Here is what we celebrate this morning:
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:17AMBelfast’s Titanic Studios has opened two new film and television production studios at a cost of £8.3 million. The new stages add an additional 42,000 sq ft to the existing 70,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMThe 2013 season at London's Young Vic will see film director Joe Wright directing Chiwetel Ejiofor in Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire's A Season in th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:15AMEleanor Turney talks to David Gilmore, Artistic Director of the new St James Theatre in London, about what makes great theatre, learning on the job and carving your own path.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:13AMI could not believe what I was seeing and hearing when I attended One Night with Janis Joplin last week at Arena Stage. Mary Bridget Davis gives one of the most amazing performances I had e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AMWe’re so excited to be working with LCT3 again! We absolutely love the works they put on and are more than pleased to be bringing you an interview with one of the stars of their new sh…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMThis fall I'm trying to get a broad range of perspectives on theater in Chicago by interviewing a diverse group of artists. Matt Raftery seemed a perfect choice, as he is a triple threat... …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM
The Young Vic Theatre has announced its 2013 season, opening with the return of the critically acclaimed A Doll’s House starring Hattie Morahan and Dominic Rowan and featuring a new pl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:58AMTheatre Royal, YorkThe Guinea Pig Club was an exclusive drinking society, but it's hard to imagine anyone would actually want to qualify for membership. The entry requirement was that you ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMAre critics over the moon for "The Old Man and the Moon"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 07:40AMJeff Goldblum stars in SEMINAR by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Sam Gold and produced by Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Roy Furman, David Ian, David Mirvis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:35AMThe Royal Court Theatre will host its own Pussy Riot on 3 November 2012, inspired by Russia's feminist punk band who were jailed in August after staging an impromptu anti-Putin protest in Mo…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:23AMEven if you aren't an opera fan, you will become enamored with the spectacle of this full-scale production of painstakingly high quality.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:12AMAnna Karenina director Joe Wright is to stage A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic next summer, starring acclaimed actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:11AMIf I had to name five British male actors on whom I would slap a 'National Treasure' export ban if they ever planned to move to Hollywood, Adrian Lester would be one of them. Long ago he was…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:07AM
Marylebone Gardens, London: Whether or not the abandoned BBC London Studios building is an apt place to explore the 'meaninglessness of life' depends upon your perspective, but whe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Music-hall variety and steampunk, industrial-revolution design drive Scottish Opera's brilliantly crowd-pleasing new Magic Flute. Director Sir Thomas Allen even …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMDundee Rep: This is a dark tale of class war in the Scottish Highlands while a world war rages not so far away. And Hayden Griffin's innovative set enhances the chilling atmosphere and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMGarrick Theatre, London: West End musicals nowadays tend to arrive tried and already tested elsewhere, unless they are by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I welcomed Loserville in my original review for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMWith the pioneering verbatim-based London Road at the National and the RSC's exuberant Matilda conquering the West End, the British musical has been showing signs of bold, fresh life in the …
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:25AMJoe Wright will direct Olivier award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor in the UK premiere of A Season in the Congo as part of the Young Vic’s 2013 season. The play is by Martinique poet and politici…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMColiseum, London: With a revival of Rufus Norris's 2006 Cabaret playing at the Savoy - another tale of decadence and moral decline - you'd expect his Don Giovanni for ENO, receivin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMIt sounds like a no-brainer. Every night for the last seven years, an actor impersonating Frankie Valli has been packing a Broadway theater in the smash show “Jersey Boys.” Shouldn’t t…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" chats with rising performer Will Reynolds about starring in the Walnut Street Theatre's production of "Love Story," running through October 21, his upcoming concert entitled "…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
I frequently reference the positive interactions and contributions that have resulted from one of the visual arts teachers eating his lunch backstage. He says he eats here because his studen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:54AMDavid Cecil faces two years in jail for staging production about gay businessman who is killed by his employersA British theatre producer due in a Ugandan court for staging a play about homo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:52AMBarbara Cook returns to Carnegie Hall to celebrate her 85th birthday tonight, October 18 at 800 p.m. with a special performance in Stern Auditorium Perelman Stage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMAmerican Bard Theater Company presents King Lear, starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan as King Lear. In addition to Mr. Hanan, Dev Bondarin will direct a cast of 12, including David …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMFour-time Tony nominee and four-time Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award winning actress Tovah Feldshuh will star in the upcoming industry readings of the new romantic comedy, Handle W…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMIf you're in or near Greenwich, Connecticut, the Greenwich Library is presenting "Remembering Louis Armstrong," a symposium occasioned by the...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Christ, one has to beware of critics--good or bad, one might be constrained to believe them." Richard Burton, diary entry,...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMBack to School with the Cast of 'G.B.F.'
Class is in session as we head to the set of teen comedy 'G.B.F. (Gay Best Friend)' and catch up with the hilarious and diverse cast, including: Paul…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMReal Talk & Innuendos with Anne Heche
When Anne Heche stops by the Studio to scoop us on her indie flick 'That's What She Said', the double-entendres fly and the censor button gets a workout…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMZombie Survival Tips With "The Walking Dead" Star Steven Yeun
We welcome to the Studio actor Steven Yeun, one of the stars of THE most successful cable television show, AMC's "The Walking De…
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Jeff GalferAnthony Manough, (seated), Sean Spann, James Black, Kate Morgan Chadwick, Ian Merrigan and Mueen Jahan star in the Circle X Theatre Company world premiere production of "Bad Appl…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:49AMNEW 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 …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:40AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Kinky Boots" at Bank of America Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Kinky Boots" at Bank of America Theatre in Chicago ★★★½ ... A warm, lika…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34AMYoung Russian dancers keep Cinderella on her toes With its remarkable legacy of theatrical and musical traditions, St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet boasts the best ballerinas and male bra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32AMTake a bunch of good dancers, add every modern dance cliché in the book — then multiply by three. The exciting but predictable product would be Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s triple bill.
The …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AMMuch like the celestial body of its title, the new pop opera “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” has appeared out of nowhere to brighten the theatrical season.
Instead of flashy …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:16AMThere is a sadness as a theatre season comes to its conclusion and that is nicely reflected in this Cylla von Tiedemann portrait of Ken James Stewart in - what else? - Stratford's You're a G…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMPS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will record a new album of Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker singing the songs of Jerome Kern, drawing …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMA Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago presents the world premiere of Brett Neveu's The Opponent, about the world of small-time boxing, directed by Karen Kessler, Oct. 18-Dec. 2.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWoodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre, in association with Castillo Theatre, presents Diane Richards' Sowa's Red Gravy at Castillo Theatre Oct. 18-Nov. 18, with an official…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Barbara Cook returns to a familiar venue, Carnegie Hall, Oct. 18 to celebrate her 85th birthday.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOhio's Human Race Theatre Company and the Kentucky-based Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center co-present the world premiere of Michael Slade's dark drama Under a Red Moon, abou…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How We Learn To Love Them, a dark comedy that skewers the difficulties of being a terrorist in the 21st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCabaret star Marilyn Maye, Colleen McHugh, Santiago Venegas and Tori Scott are set to belt out signature tunes from Funny Girl as part of the Oct. 18 installment of Justin Sayre's The Me…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Epic Theatre Ensemble production of Dispatches From (A)mended America officially opens Oct. 18, following previews that began Oct. 10, at the Theater at the 14th Street Y.…
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