Evelina Fernandez's Faith at LATC completes her Mexican Trilogy in fine form. It includes the trilogy's first scenes that are actually set in Mexico, before the action switches to the '30 …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:56PMReviewed by Joe Regan Jr. October 21, 2012 Mary Testa, the award winning musical actress who seems to be continuously employed on Broadway, off Broadway, and in first class reg…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:53PMTony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, Linda Lavin and Audra McDonald and four-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza will join Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway in Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:53PMWith election season approaching, some of America's most influential members of society are encouraging the masses to get up, get out, and vote. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at actor and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:39PMWhile the play mocks the 1%, the production unfortunatly mocks the 99% for $25 a pop. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:34PMIn a televised "master class" from 1979, these two great talents lead us through a guided tour of one of the late, great sonnets - #138 - in the process limning the braided density of meanin…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 08:16PMFour Americans — one of Pakistani descent, one of Jewish decent, one African-American, and one just plain-old white — sit at a table and munch on fennel salad. The Pakistani says to the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWhen Jewish-American art dealer Isaac asks Pakistani-American corporate lawyer Amir “Did you feel pride on Sept. 11?” and gets the hesitant answer, “Yes,” everything …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 08:00PM
Both the J. Paul Getty Museum and LACMA are concurrently staging exhibitions of works by groundbreaking American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The two related exhibitions represent the f…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 07:43PMRolex presents JUMP FOR JOY A Dance Variety Spectacular - Career Transition For Dancers 27th Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, November 5, at 700 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:25PMNEW YORK (AP) — The iconic booth that sells tickets for Broadway and off-Broadway shows in the heart of Times Square is expanding its offerings.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:19PMStill, this world premier is successful despite these drawbacks. If you love great language and stellar performances, and want to see something less traditional, In Pigeon House will impress…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:13PMDamian Bellino and Camille Harris will host My High School Boyfriend Was Gay, November 5 at 8pm at UCB East. This celebration of our most tragic and hilarious teenage memories is inspired by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:09PMThe rain was incorrigible, but it didn’t stop the guests from heading to the opening of Monacle's Toronto outpost.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 07:00PMWhen I went to work for the Royal Court Theatre in 1968 as their first resident dramatist, I was lucky enough to be involved in a radical new initiative, which had been launched there earlie…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM
Demand for 'Clybourne Park' is running high.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 06:55PMThe producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play by Tony Award-nominee Rick Elice, announced today that Starcatcher has assembled a special behind-the-scenes…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:44PMLincoln Center Theater hosts the New York premiere of the explosive new drama Disgraced, starring Aasif Mandvi. Hear from the cast about what Disgraced has to say about race and politics in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:26PMThe holidays are just around the corner, and the cast of A Christmas Story, The Musical is ready to bring the spirit of the classic 1983 movie to Broadway. We sat in on rehearsal and got a s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:25PMWhile Glee's Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) pursues her Broadway dreams in New York, the McKinley High students are ready to get to work on the school's production of Grease. Even though…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:15PMThe Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel is pleased to welcome back the acclaimed husband-and-wife team John Pizzarelli amp Jessica Molaskey to the legendary Caf Carlyle. Mr. Pizzarelli and Ms. Molaske…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMThe cast met the press today, and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMNCM Fathom Events, Omniverse Vision and The Broadway League present Jesus Christ Superstar UK Rock Spectacular in select movie theaters nationwide for two nights only on October 29 and Novem…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMRemember sneaking a peek at your Christmas gifts before you actually got to unwrap them? We feel the same way about A Christmas Story, The Musical, the big Broadway adaptation of the 1983 ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:02PMEmmy winner Valerie Harper and Brian Hutcherson will reprise their roles as Tallulah Bankhead and Danny Miller, respectively, in the national tour of Looped. Both Harper and Hutchinson starr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:00PMEmmy winner Valerie Harper and Brian Hutchison will reprise their roles as Tallulah Bankhead and Danny Miller, respectively, in the national tour of Looped. Both Harper and Hutchison starred…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:00PMEmmy winner Valerie Harper and Brian Hutchison will reprise their roles as Tallulah Bankhead and Danny Miller, respectively, in the national tour of Looped. Both Harper and Hutchison starred…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:00PMThis Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 102212.
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"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:59PMPatti Issues, Ben Rimalower's solo play about his love of Tony winner Patti LuPone, has extended its run, for a third time at The Duplex. The show will now run through December 29.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Monday, October 22, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway “ANNIE‘s Search for Sandy” ai…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:54PMBack in January, City Paper reported that the H Street Playhouse was being priced out of its digs on H Street NE, and it was looking for a home somewhere nearby—perhaps somewhere farth…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:53PMChaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev tells a classic story about breaking from tradition and finding acceptance within one's community. This beloved novel has been adapted fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMHusband-and-wife singing duo John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey are set for a month-long engagement at New York’s Café Carlyle, beginning on October 30 and concluding on Novem…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:52PMBased on the best selling novel by the author of The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, a new play by Aaron Posner, begins performances at The Westside Theatre407 W. 43rd Street on November 8, an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:46PMWhen death comes for me — and, as Markus Zusak's novel, "The Book Thief," makes very clear, death surely is coming for us all — I wouldn't mind if he were played by Francis Guina…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:41PMThe producers of A Christmas Story, The Musical will present the November 5 December 30 Broadway engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Following a nationwide search, Johnny Rabe will don …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:38PMPlaywrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan will feature the newly announced Jeremy Strong (Broadway's A Man for All Seasons), who joins Becky Ann Bake…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:35PMWaterwell, one of the Village Voices Best Arguments for Devised Theater 2010 and creators of the live concept album Goodbar and 9, will present a special one-night-only concert of The Last Y…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMElla Minnow Pea, a musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, will get private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMNo one has a knack for playing heartthrobs of yesteryear quite like Dan Stevens. The early 20th century-set drama Downton Abbey made him an international celebrity, and now, he’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PM
The production, starring Al Pacino, grossed $703,775 for its first four preview performances at the Schoenfeld Theater last week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:59PMBroadway for Obama founders Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher) and Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Newsies) have announced another "Broadway Gets Out the Vote" phone bank event …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:57PMBrian Hutchison will return to the role of secretive recording engineer Danny Miller, recreating his Broadway performance, in the national tour of Matthew Lombardo's seriocomic biographi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:56PMFollowing the success of the first Get Out the Vote event on October 14th, Broadway for Obama founders and Broadway siblings Celia Keenan-Bolger Peter and the Starcatcher and Andrew Keenan-B…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:55PMAnthony Warlow is one of the most acclaimed and preeminent stage actors in his native Australia. His extensive body of work there includes originating roles in Les Miserables, The Phantom of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:53PMFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons will take their final Broadway bows this week, but another set of performers will take their place. Cheyenne Jackson, Henry Winkler and the cast of THE PER…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PMSomethings Afoot cast had a surprise visit from writers James McDonald, Robert Gerlach, and Original Broadway Cast Member and Lucky Guy composer, Willard Beckham. Check out the photos below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMThe Brooklyn-born singer will return to his hometown to play a 17-date engagement, with premium ticket prices topping those for "The Book of Mormon."read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:40PMTheatre Development Fund's main TKTS discount booth in Times Square begins testing two new services Oct. 22. Matinee and evening tickets will now be sold simultaneously, and theatregoers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:37PMI’m writing this article from my rehearsal hall. I meant to write it sooner and elsewhere, but here I am: on the due date and between my day job, my rehearsals, and seeing a show on ev…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:36PMBritish director Maria Aitken will helm Huntington Theatre Company's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, running November 9-December 9 at BU Theatre.Betrayal is a drama exploring the com…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMForbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking will record a cast album to be released by DRG Records on November 27. The hysterical musical revue, which is written by Gerard Alessan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PMEnjoy an exclusive first look at this gorgeously moody black-and-white commercial for Lincoln Center Theater's Broadway revival of Golden Boy, which begins November 8 at the Belasco Thea…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:29PMNEW YORK (AP) -- The iconic booth that sells tickets for Broadway and off-Broadway shows in the heart of Times Square is expanding its offerings....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:21PMThe Tony Award-nominated musical Million Dollar Quartet has found a new home in Sin City, with a mounting of the red-hot rock ‘n’ roll show settling in for an open run at Harrah&…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PMStage and screen star Megan Hilty will ring in the holiday season with famed music group Mannheim Steamroller during the upcoming NBC special Pandora Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice. Th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:18PMA classic tale of acceptance gets a fresh coat of glitter in this fabulous Chicago premiere. *Kinky Boots* is the most grin-inducing musical since Hairspray! (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:14PMThe Joyce Theater has announced its line-up for the 2013 Spring/Summer season, which will include several individuals who have worked on Broadway.Ronald K. Brown, who choreographed the recen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:13PMDavid Wilson Barnes and Jennifer Mudge, appearing as grown siblings in MCC Theater's world premiere of Stephen Belber's Don't Go Gentle, each documented a day leading up to last …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:07PMThe cast of Broadway-bound A Christmas Story, The Musical presented three songs from the Benj Pasek & Justin Paul score for the press on Oct. 22. Based on the 1983 film of the same name…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PMWelcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights Read on f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMGrosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 10212012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED The Doge of Genoa is back. He doesn’t come around very often, so if you want an audience with him, now is a good time to do so or you may end up having to wait another decade a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM
Body Cartography, with a premiere at the Walker this weekend, boldly explores both inner and outer landscapes.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:58PMOn the first season of NBC’s Broadway dramedy Smash, Bernadette Peters gifted the television world with a stunning rendition of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” When P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PMOn the first season of NBC’s Broadway dramedy Smash, Bernadette Peters gifted the television world with a stunning rendition of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.” When P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:55PMWhen two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters returns for the second season of "Smash," she will premiere a brand-new tune from the series' Tony Award-winning songwriting t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:53PMNEW YORK (AP) — Looks like Barry Manilow is making it again — on Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:52PMGrosses are up for the week ending October 21, 2012. Though there were a few more empty seats than last week’s end, total attendance was up about $1.5 million because of the addition of se…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 03:49PMKevin Mambo -- known for his acclaimed performance as Fela Kuti in the Broadway musical Fela -- will join Zoe Saldana and Mike Epps in the upcoming Nina Simone biopic Nina, according to the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:48PMBroadway veterans Nick Adams and Tonya Pinkins will headline The International Theatre and Literacy Project's benefit, which supports the organization's "Voices of the Future Project." The e…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:42PMJersey Boys has always been a favorite at the box office, and audiences are more than eager to catch the real Frankie Valli as he plays his Broadway concert engagement with the Four Seasons.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:41PMJeff Strome, Brent Hirose and Cole Humeny (Photo by Epic Photography)Revisiting Menby Edgar GovernoAny modern production of A Few Good Men must emerge from three shadows simultaneo…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:41PMBlackfilm.com reports that two-time Emmy winner and Broadway actor Kevin Mambo Fela has joined the cast of the upcoming Nina Simone biopic, NINA.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMAudra McDonald became the 100th person to be honored with a "Pipe Night" at The Players on Sunday, October 21.Christine Andreas, Angela Lansbury, Kenny Leon, Diane Paulus, and Phylicia Rashad
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMAudra McDonald became the 100th person to be honored with a "Pipe Night" at The Players on Sunday, October 21.Christine Andreas, Angela Lansbury, Kenny Leon, Diane Paulus, and Phylicia Rashad
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:29PMIn a pilot program, theatergoers will be able to purchase discount tickets for matinee and evening performances beginning in the morning, and some full-price tickets will be available at the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PM“ANNIE’s Search for Sandy,” a 30-minute television special about the nationwide search to find the canine star of Broadway’s new production of the Tony Award-winning classic musical,…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:23PMThe Broadway League announced today that the dates for 2013 KIDS NIGHT ON BROADWAY will be from Monday, February 25, 2013 to Sunday, March 3, 2013. Tickets to participating shows will be ava…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:21PMDefine normal. Everyone thinks it is the standard by which we compare how well our lives are going, but it turns out when you look at what’s ‘normal’ you’ll find that it is rarity �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMAs BroadwayWorld previously reported the second season of SMASH will include a growing list of high-profile guest stars, including the just-announced Nikki Blonsky of Hairspray, as well as J…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMMaking movies has a special effect on Eastchester student (Eastchester High School senior Jessica Costa, 16, in the school’s film studio. Photo by Seth Harrison/The Journal News.) East…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 03:05PMHide the sledgehammer...the previously reported stage adaptation of Stephen King’s psychological thriller Misery has found its stars in Tony nominee Johanna Day and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:04PMThis Livestream will begin at 2 pm WATCH LIVE NOW
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:03PMKappy Kilburn created and used to run the Pasadena Playhouse's Hothouse readings series. Now she's returning to the playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre with Joe Musso's New Orleans-set Conk …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:02PMRECOMMENDED “Why is everyone always cryin’ at your house?” asks Pale (Ryan Kitley) in “Burn This.” Because it’s a Lanford Wilson play. Everyone’s always crying, circumstances a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM
ANNIEs Search for Sandy, a 30-minute television special about the nationwide search to find the canine star of Broadways new production of the Tony Award-winning classic musical, ANNIE, will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMIrish Repertory Theatre has added three weeks to its run of the well-reviewed A Celebration of Harold Pinter, starring Julian Sands under the direction of John Malkovich. The show, now playi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMCulturebot is moderating a panel as part of Ping Chong's "Undesirable Elements" Festival at La Mama this Saturday at 4:30.
SOURCE: Culturebot at 02:53PMSundance Institute today announced that it has established a first-of-its-kind Tennessee Williams Award to honor emerging playwrights who have participated in its Theatre Program Labs. Permi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:52PMby Michael Wheeler There are two upcoming events I am organizing that emphasize conversation and online interactivity in a performative context. You are invited! One is free and includes lu…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:48PMPlaywright Bryony Lavery offers an audience plenty to ponder in “Dirt,” her antiseptic new stage contemplation of death and dying and other stuff. And the results are indeed plenty ponde…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:43PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
The new musical "Kinky Boots," running in Chicago prior to a March launch on Broadway, has a lot going for it. There's a spirited charm; a broad message…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:43PMThe name says it all: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway! Just around the corner from Jersey Boys, the still-red-hot musical starring Jarrod Spector, Drew Gehling, Jeremy Ku…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:43PMI was lured to the East coast this week with the promise of fall color and experienced not only incredibly vibrant scenery out of doors but also colorful art happenings inside, including one…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:35PMJoin us every Thursday at 18:00 GMT / 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 1pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT for the Weekly Howl, an open discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:30PMPicture this: A site-specific theatrical work by the Hartford-based Bated Breath Theatre Company will be presented Thursday Nov. 1 at 6:30 and 7:30 p,.m. and Friday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:30PMThe latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway, Alive and Kicking, which was recently extended through April 28, 2013, at the 47th Street Theatre, will be released by DRG…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PMNEW YORK (AP) — The backdrop that frames the breezy musical comedy "The Other Josh Cohen" is a set of bare, white walls in a low-end New York apartment — unblemished if not for a few bri…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:22PMCindy Williams ( TV’s “Laverne and Shirley”) will star in Dan Goggin’s “Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show,” which will be presented at …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:20PMArs Nova's production of Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which officially opened Oct. 16 following previews that began Oct. 1, has been extended by a w…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMManhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce additional casting for the world premiere of THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, the new play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTC’s awa…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:05PMThe run of David Ives ' comedy "Venus in Fur" at Hartford's TheaterWorks is extending one week.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:05PMChoreographer Parker Esse who was the recipient of a Helen Hayes Award for his high-kickin’, foot-stompin’, hand-clappin’ choreography for Arena Stage’s Oklahoma!, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMThere's a Pinter lovefest going on over at the Irish Rep, with British actor Julian Sands of A Room With a View fame performing Pinter's poetry and prose--interspersed with reminiscences fro…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:00PM
Traverse, Edinburgh"I'm at home and I feel homesick," says the character of Kate Bane, explaining her unresolved anguish to the boyfriend who has come to meet her parents. Or rather, in Ella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMJake Gyllenhaal and Bran F. OByrne, stars of If There Is I Havent Found It Yet will be interviewed tomorrow from 130PM-200PM on The Leonard Lopate Show. The show airs on 93.9 FM and AM 820.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMManhattan Theatre Club has just announced additional casting for the world premiere of THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, the new play by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg, directed by MTCs award-winn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:57PMMillion Dollar Quartet, the Tony Award-nominated jukebox musical about a flashpoint in rock history, will debut in Las Vegas Feb. 4, 2013, at Harrah's Showroom.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:57PMREVIEW: Catchy tunes and an energetic cast give flight to Chanhassen Dinner Theatre's first-ever production of this 1960 musical.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 01:54PMAfter a successful Edinburgh Fringe run, ThickSkin’s production of The Static is touring the country with its high-energy tale of young love and the difficulties of being a teenager. The c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMA week in the life of actor, radio and TV host, music director and writer Seth Rudetsky.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PMThe first revival of Cabaret opened Oct. 22, 1987, and featured Joel Grey returning to the role of the Emcee after earning a Tony Award for his work in the original production in 1966.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:44PMThere's about to be one more Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas.The musical Million Dollar Quartet will play Harrah's Showroom beginning February 4, 2013.Inspired by a true story in which Elvis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:42PMThis week, Broadway welcomes David West Read's new romantic comedy THE PERFORMERS, starring Cheyenne Jackson, Alicia Silverstone and Henry Winkler, as it begins previews tomorrow, Tuesday, O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMI was flattered to be asked to write the intro to this unique new book by L.A.-based playwright/ ventriloquist/ scholar Rich Mitchell. It’s really a unique tome – - sorts of hits…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:38PM"Million Dollar Quartet,' the Broadway jikebox musical developed in Chicago, where it still runs after more than four years, is now headed to a sit-down engagement in Las Vegas,
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37PMBroadway’s favorite slice of Americana Pie is back!
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SOURCE: The Hartman Group at 01:33PMTickets are now on sale for The Good Mother, the world premiere production of Francine Volpe’s dramatic thriller starring Gretchen Mol. Directed by Scott Elliott, the New Group product…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:29PM92nd Street Y has announced the performers set for the previously announced 2013 season of Lyrics and Lyricists. The season is curated by artistic director Deborah Grace Winer.The season wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:29PMTony nominee Laura Osnes will perform a concert of songs by two-time Tony winner Maury Yeston (Nine, Titanic, December Songs,The Grand Hotel) at 54 Below. Before Osnes will pay tribute …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:27PMTony 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 01:27PMHedwig, the transgender bombshell star of cult off-Broadway classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch, made her first appearance in New York in over a decade on October 22, 2012, when Tony Award-win…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:24PMBroadway’s Mamma Mia‘s celebrates it’s 11th anniversary! Mamma Mia is one of the most successful musicals of all time anywhere in the world and is the 10th longest running…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:23PMWe dart across the road in front of irritated taxi drivers; the girl with the gold bag pauses uncertainly at the corner of the street. She turns and starts walking away. We follow, rushing t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:21PMElaine Paige and Ruthie Henshall will headline the Huawei Winter Concert 2012 on November 27 at London's Central Hall Westminster. The duo, joined by the City London Sinfonia, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:19PMWe still don't know many specifics about Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters' return to NBC's Smash this season as Broadway grande dame Leigh Conroy, mother to aspiring star Ivy Lynn (played…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMThe cast of Broadway's A Christmas Story, The Musical met the press at the New 42nd Street Studios and offered a taste of the holiday-fl
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:19PMAmerican Theater Group, New Jerseys newest professional theater, in association with The ASCAP Foundation, announces the CY COLEMAN NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL READING SERIES taking place on Novemb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:16PMIn celebration of its fifth anniversary on October 24, FUERZA BRUTA NYC will open its doors with free admission for the first 100 devoted fans. Fuerza Bruta is partnering with BroadwayWorld …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14PMThe six cast members of the off-Broadway musical comedy The Other Josh Cohen pull double duty, playing dozens of characters in the show and rarely leaving the stage. But on opening night, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:14PMRaise your hand if you have heard of "Rebecca," the Broadway musical. Now raise your hand if you remember ever having heard of the show before Sept. 10? (Where is a snap poll when …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 01:14PMOn Thursday, October 25 at 6pm, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR presents a conversation with the cast, director and writer of DEAD ACCOUNTS, a new comedy about famili…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:13PMBroadway vets Heidi Blickenstaff, Rebecca Luker, Jason Danieley, Barbara Carroll, James Naughton, Billy Stritch, Debby Boone and more will star in the 92nd Street Y’s 2013 season, Lyri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:10PMWarner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Castle Rock Entertainment and Playhouse Productions announced today complete casting for the world premiere of MISERY at Bucks County Playhouse 70 South Main S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:07PMTheatre Royal, YorkAt the heart of Dickens' novel young Paul Dombey, the sickly heir to a mercantile fortune, disarms his father with a simple question: "What is money after all? What can it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMAasif Mandvi and Heidi Armbruster co-star in the LCT3 production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, about a Pakistani-American lawyer on the rise, which officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 22 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:07PMStephen Tompkinson is to make his musical theatre debut as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot. He will take up the role when the production opens at the Playhouse Theatre on Novemb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMRobert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, starring Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays in eight roles, is now playing at Connecticut'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:03PMJake Gyllenhaal and Brían F. O’Byrne, stars of If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet will be interviewed tomorrow from 1:30PM-2:00PM on “The Leonard Lopate Show”. The show airs on 93.9…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:02PMJeremy Shamos, Mark Blum and Sam Robards will join previously announced cast members Jessica Hecht and Judith Light in Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties. The Manhattan Theatre Cl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:00PMJeremy Shamos (Glengarry Glen Ross), Sam Robards (HBO's Treme), and Mark Blum (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) will join the previously announced Jessica Hecht and Judith Light in Manhattan Theat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
Today, we're featuring Colleen Dewhurst in 1990. Duhurst was known most for theatre roles , and for a while as the Queen of Off-Broadway. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMDGR Records announces the release of the cast recording of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album, produced by Hugh Fordin, and available in stores and online on No…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMJeremy Shamos, Mark Blum and Sam Robards will join the previously announced Jessica Hecht and Tony Award winner Judith Light in the world-premiere production of The Assembled Parties, Richar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMLast week's poll asked what Nora Ephron movie is your favorite. It was a tight race, but your results are below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMPatti Issues, the solo piece by writer-director Ben Rimalower, which chronicles his relationship with his gay father and his obsession with Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, has extended its r…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMDRG Records will release the "Un-Original" cast recording of Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking, the latest installment of Gerard Alessandrini's popular satirical revue, currently playing…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:53PMToday in 1998, Footloose opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 709 performances. Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Sn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:50PMDarkness and absurdity hang over the highlight of American Ballet Theatre’s rich autumn season, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:47PMClive Barnes Foundation Awards, Honors Young Performers of Theater and Dance: On Monday December 10 at 2:30 PM Valerie Taylor-Barnes will announce announce the third annual Clive Barnes Foun…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:44PMFive-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald was honored with a Pipe Night at The Players landmark Booth mansion Oct. 21 in New York. Angela Lansbury, also a five-time Tony recipient,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:40PMCompass Rose is a theater and a training institution, and so has selected a play which can serve as training to all of us. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935, in the deep South, and on its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMLincoln Center Theater is presenting the New York premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s jaw-dropping new play Disgraced. Centering on a rising Pakistani-American lawyer (Daily Show regular Assif M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PMJohanna Day will play Annie Wilkes, the number one fan of Daniel Gerroll's Paul Sheldon in the world premiere of Misery, adapted from the best-selling Stephen King Novel. Will Frears will di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:36PMA DEATH OF FRESH AIR During the height of WWII in Germany, a recently orphaned adolescent girl named Liesel is taken in by a poor couple in The Book Thief, now receiving a world premiere pro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:33PMRock me, Amadeus! Mozart, L’Opera Rock, a French musical featuring a score of both pop-rock songs and classic Mozart compositions, could be heading to Broadway, according to Variety. A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMSILENCE! The Musical is adding two performances to the weekly playing schedule beginning tomorrow, October 23rd at the Elektra Theatre in Times Square: Tuesdays at 7 PM and Saturday matinees…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMTony Award nominee Anna Kendrick, who was recently seen singing on screen in the feature film "Pitch Perfect," is attached to star in a film adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown mu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:28PMBarry Manilow Comes to Broadway: 80 million records, Grammy Awards and superstar Barry Manilow begins a 17-performance engagement on Broadway.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:22PMThe Heiress stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain as Catherine Sloper, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn as Dr. Austin Sloper, the leading man of “Downton…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:20PMThe Broadway League announced the dates for the 2013 Kids' Night on Broadway, which allows kids ages 6 to 18 the opportunity to see Broadway shows for free when accompanied by a full-pay…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PMBebe Neuwirth, Judy Kaye, Rob McClure and more will help Encores! celebrate its 20th Anniversary Gala on November 12. The one-night-only event, directed by Marc Bruni and featuring musical d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PMTheatre Development Fund, the not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts, has announced that in cooperation with The Broadway League, it will test two new services at the ma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:16PMMisery, a new stage version of the Stephen King novel about a novelist held captive and hobbled (literally) by his greatest fan, will star Tony Award nominee Johanna Day (Proof) as craz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:12PMAbby Lee, David B. Brode and Executive Producer Tom Viertel just announced that the hit 1982 Tony nominated Best Musical PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES will return to Broadway this spring at a theat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMNEW YORK—Looks like Barry Manilow is making it again—on Broadway. The Grammy Award-winning singer of such songs as "Mandy," "I Write the Songs" and "Looks Like We Made It," w…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:11PMThe Broadway Cabaret Festival continued Oct. 21 at The Town Hall with an afternoon entitled Broadway Originals!.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PMABC Family will kick off the New Year with all new episodes of returning original hit series and fan favorites including its new hit dramedy BUNHEADS, starring Broadway's Sutton Foster. The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMThe currently running, John Malkovich directed, A Celebration of Harold Pinter, starring Julian Sands, has extended through November 25 at Irish Repertory Theatre. The production was origin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:05PMThe producers of Broadway’s Chaplin have announced that it will be playing into the new year with tickets released until June 2, 2013. Chaplin opened on September 10, 2012 at the Ethel…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:04PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Looks like Barry Manilow is making it again - on Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:03PMIt's Monday, so it must be time for another contest at JK's TheatreScene! This week is a very special opportunity!The producers of Dead Accounts want to invite you to one of…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMSister Act alum and former Broadway.com video blogger Sarah Bolt married technology lawyer David John Crowell on October 20 in St. Louis. Appropriately enough, the former Sister Mary Patrick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED He’s back! Honeybuns, that gap-toothed, canary-yellow bouffon with a demented sense of humor and an insidious libido has triumphantly returned to his rightful place on the…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM
According to MovieHole.net, Pitch Perfect's Anna Kendrick is set to star as 'Cathy' in Richard La Gravenese's film adaptation of the musical The Last Five Years.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:59AMGoing on tour seemed like the natural progression of things for the Latino Theater Company. We didn’t know that it would lead to action for change in the American Theater. After twenty-sev…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:59AMOn Thursday, October 25 at 6pm, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR presents a conversation with the cast, director and writer of DEAD ACCOUNTS, a new comedy about …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:58AMWith worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, Grammy Award-winning superstar Barry Manilow is returning to the place where it all began, his hometown, New York City, with a new conce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMIf you've already donned a dinner jacket and skinny tie as a Jersey Boy or showed off your six-pack as Spider-Man, it's time to consider a hot new Broadway-themed costume! This year,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:56AMAs the 2012 theatre season begins to draw to a close the spotlight is already on 2013 and the array of brand new productions arriving in London’s West End. From fantastic revivals of m…
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 11:55AMMozart, l'Opera Rock, the successful French pop spectacle about the life of the classical composer, is being adapted for Broadway by Paul Gemignani and David Grimm, according to Variety.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:55AMUnder the baton of much loved guest conductor Juanjo Mena, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed a fabulous concert at The Music Center at Strathmore on Saturday, October 20, 2012. The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AMNEW YORK (AP) — The honkey-tonk musical revue "Pump Boys and Dinettes" will make a pit stop on Broadway in the spring of 2013.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:51AMWith plans scrapped for the Broadway premiere of Rebecca, and two new movies about the life of Alfred Hitchcock on the horizon, Broadway.com asked readers which of the famed director's t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMThis 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 11:49AMBroadway’s favorite Vegas showgirl-turned-ballet-teacher is coming back this winter! Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster and her ballet students will return for season two of Bunheads b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMToday, October 22, the Dramatists Guild of America features archived audio footage of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz discussing his career, his working relationship with co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:47AMColin Teevan's new play The Kingdom, which "vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century", opens at Soho Theatre this week (24 October 2012).
Could you give us an overview …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:46AMCameron Mackintoshs creative team for the 2013 West End revival of MISS SAIGON, which includes executive producer Trevor Jackson, director Laurence Connor, musical supervisor Stephen Brooker…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMThis Cyrano de Bergerac is a “rare being,” indeed. The latest revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, currently in performances at the American Airlines Theater and starring the force o…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:41AMThe Prince's Trust will be the benefitting charity for the Huawei Winter Concert 2012. Headlining the evening are multi-award winning musical theatre stars Elaine Paige and Ruthie Henshall. …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMThe 1980s musical will return to Broadway next spring in a new production featuring direction and musical staging by John Doyle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:38AMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO Zombie Vixens from Hell—The Musical!, Virago Theatre Company. Love in the Time of Zombies, San Francisco Theater Pub. By Sam Hurwitt We always knew this day w…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:35AMTony Award winner John Doyle will direct and provide musical staging for a new Broadway production of Pump Boys and Dinettes, which was conceived and written by the original company: John Fo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:34AMIn this week's School in the Spotlight High School Edition, we get to know the Theatre Department at Benton Community High School in Van Horne, Iowa
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMLegit News:
Film director on the slate at London theater
SOURCE: Variety at 11:31AMFugitive Songs - Musicals in Concert at The Music Theatre Company, 1850 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, is offering a limited number of $10 industry night tickets for Friday, Nov. 2 and 9 at …
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 11:30AMThose filling-station attendants with farmer tans and those waitresses with hot pots of java will make harmony again on Broadway in spring 2013 when the Tony Award-nominated, country-and-pop…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMStraight from 'Ghost', Mike returns to NJ's Paper Mill Playhouse in a role he also played on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AM92nd Street Y announces casting for the 2013 season of Lyrics amp Lyricists. Jason Danieley, Rebecca Luker, Barbara Carroll and James Naughton are among the performers from the worlds of Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMThe working-class musical Pump Boys and Dinettes will return to Broadway during the spring of 2013 at a theater yet to be announced. Written and concieved by the original Broadway company&md…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMAmas Musical Theatre in association with Scandobean Productions, LLC present the new musical The Other Josh Cohen, which officially opened Oct. 21 following previews that began Oct. 10 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:23AMTony Award winner and three-time Emmy nominee Jane Krakowski will headline Landmark on Main Street's annual Spotlight Gala, which will be held Nov. 3 in Port Washington, NY.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:22AMCould it be magic?Grammy Award winner Barry Manilow will return to the Great White Way with Manilow on Broadway, which will play a limited 17 performance engagement at the St. James Theatre …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:18AMMegan Hilty, star of NBCs musical drama SMASH has signed on to joining Mannheim Steamroller, the 1 selling Christmas music group of all time, as a special musical guest for NBCs special PAND…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:16AMFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons began a limited run on Broadway on October 19, 2012. Only seven performances will take place, and they are set to run through October 27 at the Broadway Th…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 11:16AMSt. Malachy's – The Actors' Chapel will present The Voices United Choral Festival, a "musical extravaganza" benefit, Nov. 12 at New York City's Beacon Theatre. Li…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:15AMPanelists will review applications this week from 128 organizations at the Idea Center in PlayhouseSquare.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:13AMThe Town Hall presents THE EIGHTH ANNUAL BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL, created especially for Town Hall by Scott Siegel. The annual Broadway Cabaret Festival returns this October 13, 21 amp 26,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #375, Mitzi Green (for a full squib on her go here). Now, here she is with Lillian Roth et al singing “Sing, You Sinners” from the 193…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AMToronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre is under threat of demolition after plans were unveiled to replace the theatre with a multi-use complex. Proposals were unveiled earlier this month …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMSmash star Megan Hilty will lend her voice to the NBC TV special PANDORA Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice. Hilty will join Mannheim Steamroller to sing holiday tunes accompanying perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMNew York City Center will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Tony Award–winning Encores! series Nov. 12 with a Gala Benefit starring Raúl Esparza and Kelli O’Hara and f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMI’m in Orlando, Florida as I type this, prepping to speak at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 Conference with the likes of Susan Cain, Jenny Zhu and Colin Powell (!). What the eff…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMBarry Manilow is returning to Broadway for the first time in over 20 years. Manilow will begin performances for his new show “Manilow on Broadway” at the St. James Theatre on January 18.…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 11:00AM
Fanilows rejoice! Grammy winner Barry Manilow is heading to Broadway for a limited concert engagement, Manilow on Broadway, beginning January 18, 2013 at the St. James Theatre. The 17-perfor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:59AMYesterday, October 21, Grammy Award-winning, Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald was honored with a Pipe Night at THE PLAYERS. McDonald is the 100th recipient since 1901 of such a nigh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMDavid Wilson Barnes wants to kill Brian Cranston. "His character on Breaking Bad, not him!" he clarifies. "I'm dying to be the guy cast to kill Walter White." Is he in the running for the jo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMBarry Manilow, the singer-songwriter who writes the songs that make the whole world sing, as his lyric goes, will sing 'em on Broadway in a limited engagement at the St. James Theatre th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:57AMIt’s no surprise anymore when Broadway attempts to add some extra pizazz to the marquee by sprinkling some Hollywood stardust, whether through film star casting or name brand titles. B…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMGrant MacDermott looks for a way out. Of this script.Just last month, with David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, the Huntington showed us how to do a political play. And now, with …
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 10:55AMGlee star and Tony nominee Matthew Morrison hit the dug out on October 19 for the MLB's National League Championship Series. The actor, whose Broadway credits include Hairspray, The Ligh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:52AMIlluminating a dark chapter in Poland’s history, Our Class at Theater J features a strong acting ensemble and assured direction by Derek Goldman. On July 10, 1941, nearly all the Jews in t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMHeidi Blickenstaff, Jason Danieley, Rebecca Luker, Barbara Carroll and James Naughton will be part of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists concert series, which will celebrate Gilb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:49AMStage and screen actress Megan Hilty, best known for her work on the NBC musical drama "Smash," will join Christmas music group Mannheim Steamroller for the NBC special "Pando…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:46AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 21, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $217,806 3,803 73.82% $57.27 ANNIE $733,95…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMForging connections, creating an equitable future, building livable communities and providing effective leadership; these were the key themes of the 2012 Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) Confer…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:45AMA Broadway Concert Event and Live Nation present Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway for a limited seven-performance engagement beginning Oct. 19 at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:45AMDirector/lyricist Lane Williamson and I have recently composed several songs for his upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Lancaster, CA. I had the pleasure to premiere …
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 10:42AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #376, the great African American songwriter James A. Bland. In honor of the day, here’s Ray Charles performing one of Bland’s best kno…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:41AMColorado Public Television's Eden Lane is believed to be the first transgender journalist on mainstream TV anywhere in the United States. "But I don't think of being transgender as any part …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:37AMJustin Long won't be sparring with the members of the Wyeth household after all. Michael Weston will replace Long as Trip Wyeth in the Center Theatre Group production of Other Desert Cit…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMOscar and Tony nominee Anna Kendrick may play Cathy in the upcoming film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, according to Moviehole.net. Richard LaGravenese (The Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMStephen Tompkinson will make his West End musical debut as King Arthur in Monty Python musical Spamalot, which transfers to the Playhouse Theatre from 20 November 2012 (previews from 14 No…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:31AMTony nominee Liz Callaway will bring her newest concert act, Comin' Around Again, to 54 Below in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:29AMTonight through October 31 at the Tank! What the organizers say about the Festival: “Part of our motivation behind starting a festival openly searching for bad theater is to make a ven…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:27AMLiza Colon-Zayas (Second Stage’s Living Out, Our Lady of 121st Street), Tony Award nominee Frankie R. Faison (The Wire, Tony nominee for Fences), Bill Heck (Angels in America), and more…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:19AMColman Domingo’s “Wild With Happy” finds its voice If you think the middle of Wild With Happy, Colman Domingo’s new play at the Public, feels like a caper movie, then…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:18AMFirst off, let me give another rousing shout out to The Other Josh Cohen, currently running at the SoHo Playhouse. What a great night of unique, inspired theatre I have no connections to the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AM“Glee” star Lea Michele is readying her first solo album. “At the studio right now at my first recording session for MY SOLO ALBUM!!” Michele announced on Friday via Twitter. “I’…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMBlood Type: Ragu, Frank Ingrasciotta's 20-character, one-man show about a family that emigrates back and forth from Sicily to America, returns to New York City Oct. 26 as part of the Uni…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AMIn many cases you will not be the one who is in charge. Sometimes this will be due to the fact that you have a boss and other times it will be due to the fact that your customers are...
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 10:00AMSo, you haven't gotten around to seeing Peter and the Starcatcher yet and you realize you need to see it before it closes on January 20. Or you have seen it and you want to see it again. Eit…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AM
The New York premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced opens at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater on October 22. The first production of the LCT3 season, Disgraced runs throu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMOne of the most prominent theater companies in England has found itself under fire for its casting of a classic Chinese play. The Royal Shakespeare Co. in Stratford-upon-Avon is being critic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:45AMRiverside Center presents Pocahontas as part of their “Lunch n’ Show” program, where parents are welcomed to enjoy a provided lunch with their child before enjoying live entertainment.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AMToday, the Wall Street Journal reports that the stock broker has been under investigation since 2009 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in 12 different cases.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:37AMThe Gypsy of the Year Competition will be back for its 24th year on Monday, December 3 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, December 4 (2 PM) at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street). Th…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 09:36AMTony winner Betty Buckley, who is currently playing a month-long run at Feinstein's at Loews Regency with her new show The Other Woman: The Vixens of Broadway, will play a week's eng…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMElaine Paige and Ruthie Henshall will appear together for the first time for a one-off concert Nov. 27 at London's Central Hall Westminster.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:33AMNot long ago, my aunt observed me knitting away and asked where I had learned the skill. “Well, when you work in other centuries, you just pick things up,” I replied. She laughed, but it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMThe two contending main characters in In the Intersection — the non-profit theatre and the commercial theatre — want different things, as in any play; the conflict lies in how th…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:26AMWilliam Michals stars in "Man of La Mancha"
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:20AMMichael Weston has replaced Justin Long in Center Theatre Group’s upcoming production of Jon Robin Baitz's Tony-nominated Other Desert Cities, which begins previews Nov. 28 prior …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:16AMLegit News:
Concert run set for 17 performances
SOURCE: Variety at 09:15AMThe always awesome Thomas Cott has sent out this recent roundup on a consistent issue in the arts, dynamic pricing. If you have followed this blog over the years, you know that I'm not a fan…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 09:13AMProvidence Players of Fairfax presents You Can’t Take it With You, written by Moss Hart and David S. Kaufman and winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Directed by Chip Gertzog, this…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMActor and historian Ian Kelly's new book Mr Foote's Other Leg reveals the "jaw-dropping true story" of Samuel Foote, one-legged comedy superstar and founder of the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:00AM
Newsies, the Tony Award winning new American musical, has just welcomed 2012 Tony Award nominee Ron Raines as Joseph Pulitzer. In this edition, Richard chats with Ron about playing the villa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52AMVelocityDC Dance Festival kicked off this past Thursday at the Sidney Harman Hall at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Entering its fourth year, the festival provides an opportunity to experience…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:40AMIt may have become a term of abuse on The X Factor, but as cabaret goes from strength to strength it's attracting some of our brightest talentLed by Frisky and Mannish and a glorious array o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMIt was, by far, the most challenging assignment of my life and I am proud of the remarkable work of the Board, staff and artists during that difficult period. They all worked hard under grea…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AMWhere "Little Rhapsodies" is a ballet that winks with the implication that no one will really get hurt, "Crisis Variations", choreographed last season, lurches into the void.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 22 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AM
Arts Depot, London: Hot from a successful worldwide tour, Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland's Beautiful Burnout is back and it's pulling no punches.
Read the full r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMLilian Baylis Studio, London: Performing his show on the London stage for the first time in 10 years, the most obvious question about Jonzi D's Lyrikal Fearta is whether or not it'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMIf you have been reading my blog entries from the last few weeks, you may already know that I am currently in Coastal Carolina's production of The Rocky Horror Show playing the roles of Ushe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:30AMThe New York Times 10/22/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:13AMCity Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: Top of the bill at this third in the City Varieties' autumn series of Good Old Days weekends is the legendary character comedian Peter John, alongside …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMOtley Courthouse, West Yorkshire: Actors Dominic Goodwin and Emanuel Brierley clearly enjoy being onstage together - the trust they share is palpable, as is the respect they have for each ot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMTheatre arguably has all the potential of film to be frightening; see
The Woman In Black or perhaps a walk through a live action horror maze
filled with actors dressed as zombies and other g…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:06AM
Legit News:
Day, Gerroll to star in Bucks County bow
SOURCE: Variety at 06:58AMPeacock Theatre, London: Take a handful of Big Brother contestants, add a few competitors from The Great British Bake Off and fold in a couple of wannabe entrepreneurs from The Apprentice.
R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMThe Rose, London: The adage 'show, don't tell' - a precautionary note designed to stop writers from relying solely on description - could be put to good use here. David Weinbe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMJubilee Social Club, Melville Place, Woodhouse, Leeds LS6 2LZ: The Jubilee Social Club, on a busy night, has great charm, and tonight has an enthusiastic and supportive audience which includ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's casting for The Orphan of Zhao seems to hark back to an age of British imperialismIt's no fun being bred out of the cultural gene pool. Watching TV, theatre o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMYesterday her life was filled with rain. Now Sunny — an irresistible shelter mutt who went from Death Row to a starring role on Broadway in “Annie” — is living it up in her airy Wash…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Broadway, film, and television's Kyle Dean Massey about guest starring in Wade Dooley's web series "Pzazz 101," starring in the Tony Award winning musicals "Next to…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:00AM
The Chicago Tribune 10/21/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30AMEast West Players EWP, the nations longest running professional theatre of color and the largest producer of Asian American artistic work, will lead a discussion on race politics in the Amer…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, 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 01:30AMFeaturing live musical performances by celebrated artists, DIVA Mondays stars the illustrious Marty Thomas XANADU, WICKED, THE SECRET GARDEN alongside Kelly King Michael Bolton, Babyface, Al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMTonight, October 22 at 930 PM, Mike Daisey will return to Joes Pub at The Public Theater to debut new monologues in the first of a series of monthly premieres through March 2013. Each month,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMThe great composer Alan Menken was honored by Encompass New Opera Theatre on Sunday, October 21 at the National Arts Club in a celebration that featured memorable performances of his songs, …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:24AMThere are several stories that intertwine through “The Exonerated,” a play reading that took root ten years ago at the Culture Project on Bleecker Street. Now the people and thei…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:21AMAn acrid smell rode on the breeze. Power tools whirred. Wooden frames were filled with miniature anvils, wrenches, red children's dresses and deer antlers. Bonded sand poured into the frames…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:15AMI was invited to the first preview of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which shows the confidence the producers have in the production. It's a transfer of a Steppenwolf pr…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:02AMIt's been an impossibly complicated year for Mrs. T and me, good and bad in near-equal measure, and it's far...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMPercy Grainger plays his own arrangement for solo piano of Charles Villiers Stanford's setting of the Irish folk song "Maguire's...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"I believe that any proper writer ought to be able to write anything, from an Easter Day sermon to a...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMDancing with "DWTS" All-Stars Apolo Ohno & Karina Smirnoff
"Dancing With The Stars: All-Stars" partners Apolo Anton Ohno and Karina Smirnoff take a break from their grueling rehearsal schedu…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMKnow Your Parasites with 'The Bay' Star Kether Donohue
The lovely Kether Donohue pays a visit to the Studio to give us the scoop on her spooky "found footage" horror flick, 'The Bay', a part…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AM
One of the best shows I've seen at the New York Musical Festival is V-Day. That was in 2010 and I've been wanting that show to get an off-Broadway production ever since. That moment has fina…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:44AMAs President Obama and Mitt Romney debate Monday, theatrical presentation will be scrutinized. But personalities should lead to ideas.The final presidential debate between President Obama an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30AMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, The Other Josh Cohen, Barbara Cook, 85th Birthday Concer…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:29AMAngelica Page waited a long time to do “Turning Page,” her solo show about her actress mother. Twenty-five years, in fact.
“There’s not been one book written about her, no documentar…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMAs the title suggests, there’s more than one Josh Cohen in “The Other Josh Cohen.” The good news is that both are very funny.
Longtime collaborators and friends David Rossmer and Stev…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMLucinda DavisThe Number 14 is an international phenomenon that makes every attempt not to be pinned down to a single genre. On this, its 20th anniversary, it is back to Vancouver to once aga…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMPlaywrights Horizons' annual one-night-only Stories on 5 Stories benefit, featuring new works by eight artists, including seven of the theatre's alumni writers, is offered …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOn Oct. 22 Our Time – a non-profit organization that has been helping children who stutter for over a decade – holds its 1st Annual Bowling Benefit at Lucky Strike on West 42nd S…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Project Shaw series continues Oct. 22 with a reading of George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Flea Theater's benefit reading of The Parisian Woman is presented Oct. 22 at 6 PM at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Red Bull Theater launches its 2012-13 Revelation Reading series with Moliere's The Miser, starring Jan Maxwell, Richard Kind, T.R. Knight and Reg Rogers, Oct. 22 at the Lucille Lorte…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAcclaimed monologist Mike Daisey, who caused controversy with his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, returns to the Public Theater Oct. 22 to debut new material at Joe's …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCelia Keenan-Bolger, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Peter and the Starcatcher, is among the artists performing at Colt Coeur's third annual Karaoke Classic Benefit Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLynne Meadow, artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, receives the 2012 Museum of the City of New York's Louis Auchincloss Prize Oct. 22 in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe music of Henry Krieger, the two-time Tony-nominated composer of Dreamgirls and Side Show, is featured in the Kaufman Center's Broadway Close Up series Oct. 22 at Merkin Concert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAasif Mandvi and Heidi Armbruster co-star in the LCT3 production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, about a Pakistani-American lawyer on the rise, which officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 22 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1903 Birthday of Jerome Lester Horwitz (1903-1952), better known by his stage name Curley Howard, who will team up with his brother Harry Moses Horwitz (a.k.a. Moe) and Larry Fine to form th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMYou know how it is: you want to scream, and then you don’t scream, as your spouse—or whoever—asks, for the umpteenth time, Where did you put this or that, did you feed the …
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