Tonight was the final night of Battle Rounds on NBCs The Voice So as it stands coming into the last night of the battles, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and CeeLo Green have all used up their s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:46PMWhether reflected in mirrors or gliding through water with ecstatic longing, Hubbard Street's artistry is weightless yet completely grounded. No muscle isn’t engaged and expressive, no spe…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:38PMATTENTION EVERYONE We will not get to send someone home this week. Elimination was were replaced by a bunch of so-so dances, instead. And so many insanely awkward televised moments that luck…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33PMJust in case you haven't seen the latest twist on Psy's hilarious video.The Hub Review, the guide to everything that matters in Boston and elsewhere.
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:32PMC.P. Taylor's 1981 play is tough to categorize. Some consider it a play. Others, a play with music, and some consider it a musical comedy, but the subject matter is anything but …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:26PMAmerica Ballet Theatre will announce Wednesday that it has signed a three-year deal to perform at the David H. Koch Theater, starting in October 2013 with a two-week season.
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NY1 VIDEO: Donna Karger hosts the October 20, 2012, edition of On Stage.
SOURCE: NY1 at 10:54PMNever, ever count Barbra Streisand out. She dazzled on stage at the Air Canada Centre in Act 1, Richard Ouzounian says.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:38PMMourning becomes electric — and curiously amusing — in the small-scale comedy “Wild With Happy” at the Public Theater.
Written by and starring Colman Domingo, the play conce…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:33PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY An Iliad, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. There have been many, many plays about Homer’s Iliad and about the Trojan War in general. In the last few years alone,…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 10:31PMFinally, L.A. gets a look at a play by the much-talked-about Tarell Alvin McCraney: his expressionistic tale of a young woman with choices to make.Beyond the fact that it is sensational, the…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:10PMWhy does it sometimes take so long to find yourself?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM“Neutral Hero,” the playwright-director Richard Maxwell’s new play, is set in a small Midwestern town and depicts the coming-of-age journey of an anonymous, commonplace character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMColman Domingo has a high-energy, in-your-face performance style that invigorates his charmingly sentimental new play Wild with Happy, at the The Public Theater, which has been directed by R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM“How to Break,” a new play by Aaron Jafferis and the Mixing Texts Collective, tells the story of two teenagers in a hospital who are united by their illnesses and their love of hip-hop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Wild With Happy,” a new play written by and starring Colman Domingo, a down-in-the-dumps 40-year-old heads to the Magic Kingdom carrying his mother’s ashes in an urn.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The "Spider-Man" saga is going from the stage to the page....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:36PMGlen Berger, one of the co-authors of Broadway's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, will pen a tell-all book about his experiences working on the high-profile musical, according to The New York T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:31PMNEW YORK (AP) — Strap on your bibbidi-bobbidi-boo and fire up the fairy dust. The Cinderella brought to life in the 1950 Disney animation about a glass-slipper-shod housemaid who bewitched…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:24PMThe Hub's theater scene is the subject of chatter on the Internet these days.HowlRound, the playwright-centered blog of Theater Commons, is focusing on Boston this week. There are gues…
SOURCE: Art Hennessey at 09:24PMNEW YORK (AP) — It's an oft-used device in theater: The doomed dinner party, a gathering that starts out politely, with house gifts of wine or pastries and glasses clinking over civilized …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:23PMBROADWAY SESSIONS is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12PM“Wild With Happy” is a misleading title for writer-performer Colman Domingo’s new play at the Public Theater. In certain instances it is wild, as in the opening church revi…
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Chicago’s newest theatre company, The Eclectic Theatre Company, is dedicated to presenting “niche less” theatre, focusing on story regardless of genre, style, or age. They believe in t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:44PMAccording to the New York Times, playwritght Glen Berger, who recently worked alongside Julie Taymor, Bono and the Edge on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, will write a book on the whole saga, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:42PMBroadway In Chicago has announced that I LOVE LUCY® LIVE ON STAGE, the brand new hit musical stage show adapted from the longest-running and most beloved television program in history, star…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:32PMThe cast is talented and well prepared. There is even some more-than-competent choreography. I enjoyed myself for an hour on an autumn afternoon and I recommend that you take the kids for so…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:31PMBroadway Barre, a monthly event hosted by Kate Pazakis South Pacific, South Park, happened last night, October 22. This month's special guests were Euan Morton Taboo, Audra Mae Recording Art…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:30PMMeet David Tarlow and Ryan Maes, who converted management skills learned in part at nonprofit theaters into better-paying day jobs -- without forgetting their theatrical roots. Then meet Ste…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PMPaper Mill Playhouse Mark S. Hoebee- Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director has just announced the cast for its holiday musical masterpiece, The Sound of Music. One of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMEVET Arts, a new theatre company based jointly in Chicago and Boston, will make its Chicago debut with a new work of physical theatre entitledTrajectories: Part 1. Trajectories will ru…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:23PMVictory Gardens continues its 2012-13 season with the World Premiere of Failure: A Love Story, written by VG Ensemble Playwright Philip Dawkins and directed by Seth Bockley.The producti…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:19PMThe Black Ship Co. is proud to announce the Chicago premiere of Foreverendia, by Brian Tuttle and directed by The Black Ship Co.’s Artistic Director Nicki Mazzocca, November 28 – Decemb…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:09PM“Life is a Cabaret” once more when The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University welcomes Chicago favorites to perform in the Katten/Landau Studio Series (425 S Wabash, 4th Floor). Hu…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:05PMLaurie Sansom, currently artistic director of Royal and Derngate in Northampton, has been appointed to lead the National Theatre of Scotland. Sansom will succeed NTS founding artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMFormer head of Royal & Derngate in Northampton takes over from Vicky Featherstone, who is moving to London's Royal CourtLaurie Sansom is to take over at the National Theatre of Scotland when…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMI grew up on Brixton Hill, a child of Thatcher's Britain, in the Eighties. I've always felt slightly at odds with what is considered to be even, and growing up as a young black guy in south …
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The 2012 Ovation Award Nominee Reception was held last Sunday night, October 21 at SIX01 in downtown Los Angeles. Nominees had the opportunity to meet each other, receive their nominat…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:48PMParticipants in Horizon Theatre Rep's cancelled production of The Balcony at Off-Off-Broadway's ArcLight Theatre are clarifying details about the show's shuttering, which was fir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:48PMA DELECTABLE CHESTNUT Kaufman & Hart’s You Can’t Take it With You has earned its place in the American canon as a great American chestnut, one of those charming, heartfelt comedies f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:32PMFollowing up on ideas raised at Prelude.12, Kai Tuchmann interviews a former Wooster Group member now based in Berline
SOURCE: Culturebot at 06:31PMMatthew Broderick, Norm Lewis, Ashley Brown, Adrienne Warren and Jay Armstrong Johnson are among the special guests who will appear at Make Believe on Broadway, the 13th annual gala event by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:31PMA slew of Broadway shows are getting patriotic this season by changing their performance schedules and going dark on Tuesday, November 6, in honor of the presidential election. Instead of th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMSpider-Man, Turn Off the Dark is flying high on Broadway (and pulling in over $1 million in ticket sales weekly), but it wasn't always smooth sailing at the Foxwoods Theatre, especially …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:22PMBased on the stories of raconteur Jean Shepherd and the subsequent 1983 film, the cast and creatives of A Christmas Story, The Musical (including producer Peter Billingsley who played young …
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:17PMLawrence, the widowed, conservative judge with a history of tough drug sentences, doesn't find his omnipotence as reliable when he's retired and sick. In Stephen Belber's fairly engrossing, …
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 06:13PMThis sounds like a Lifetime movie, but don't be fooled. "Falling," which has practically crept into town from the Mustard Seed Theatre in St. Louis, is an unflinching and unsanitized drama a…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 06:11PMTony nominee Colman Domingo is the playwright and star of Wild With Happy, a new comedy at the Public Theater chronicling one man’s struggle to cope with death—and the unlikely p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PMToday we are continuing BroadwayWorlds extensive coverage of the forthcoming Fathom cinema presentation of the epic brand new arena production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices JESUS CHRI…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMFour playwrights are among this year's 10 winners of the Whiting Writers' Awards, which honors writers in various fields. The playwrights are Danai Gurira and Meg Miroshnik, both of whom res…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM
HIS OWN PRIVATE BOISE We’re in Boise, Idaho, in the break room of an arts and craft chain store called Hobby Lobby. Two men appear on closed circuit television doing a sort of home shoppin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Opponent" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Opponent" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½ ... "The Opponent" is one of th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56PM“In the Summer Pavilion,” by Paul David Young, three recent Princeton grads spend a night boozing and living out their possible futures together and apart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMTake the incredible journey from animal shelter to Broadway stage in the new NBC documentary Annie’s Search for Sandy. The 30-minute TV special, produced and hosted by Al Roker, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:53PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more infor…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:49PMBilly Ray Cyrus, Chicago’s upcoming leading man, kicks off his video blog series, The Road to Chicago, with an inside look at his first day of rehearsal at the Ambassador Theatre.
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PMTony Award nominee Hunter Foster, Arielle Jacobs and Alexandra Silber will take part in Inner Voices, a collection of three solo musicals that will be presented beginning Nov. 10 at the 30th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:49PMThe Tony-winning musical grossed more than $2.2 million in the week ending Oct. 21, setting a new high for an eight-performance stint at the West Coast playhouse.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:44PMDavid Mamet’s Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross is back on Broadway for the third time in an all-star revival led by Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMSimon & Schuster is slated to publish Glen Berger's "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History" in 2013.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThe Broadway at Birdland concert series has announced that Rachel Potter, one of the stars of the Broadway production of Evita, will make her Birdland debut on Sunday, October 28 at 6pm. Her…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMThe piece is based on the memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who served for years as a principal at the girls' school in Beirut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMOverall, the Saint Sebastian Players execute this challenging and unusual play remarkably well. The Dining Room depicts relationships that are both honest enough and comedic enough to supers…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 05:28PMO’Hara spoke to us recently about his collaboration with actor-playwright Colman Domingo.
The post Interview: Director Robert O’Hara Talks Colman Domingo’s <em>Wild with Happy<…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:25PMIn “The Other Josh Cohen,” the tale of an unlucky Josh whose New York apartment was robbed, except for a Neil Diamond CD, is recounted from the future by Narrator Josh, a version of the …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:23PMOn November 5, host Christopher Meloni will welcome celebrities, Broadway greats, philanthropy influencers and the New York elite to celebrate Make Believe on Broadway. The evening will show…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:20PM"Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking", a play that spoofs Broadway plays and actors will continue their run until April 28, 2013. Previews for the production began on July 24, 2012 at the …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 05:19PMThe revival of David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child begins performances today, October 23, at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center. The production stars Greg Watanabe and Jennif…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:15PMFailure: A Love Story, Philip Dawkins' new musical play, will be seen at Chicago's Victory Gardens, November 16 to December 30. Seth Bockley directs the work.The play concerns the Fail siste…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:10PMThe Black Ship Co. will present the Chicago premiere of Brian Tuttle's Foreverendia, November 28-December 23 at the Athenaeum Theatre's Studio 2. Artistic director Nicki Mazzocca will direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:05PMAs Halloween approaches, you can count on some theater or other doing The Rocky Horror Show, that dress-up audience participation horror flick spoof. This year, Entr'Acte Theatrix will do th…
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 05:02PMWhat makes an artistic home? People, transparency, conviction and commitment! We build the community and change the landscape simultaneously by bringing artists and audiences together—an a…
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The 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 04:54PMA BLOODY GOOD TIME Bloody Sunday is a 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, during which 13 civil rights protestors and bystanders were shot and killed by the British Army. Although the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54PMThe 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 04:53PMMormons in Africa apparently have elbowed aside witches in Oz to achieve what the Pantages Theatre says is the highest one-week box-office gross in L.A. theater history.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:49PMChicago's Victory Gardens Theater, the Tony Award winner as Outstanding Regional Theatre, will launch the world premiere of Failure: A Love Story, a "magical, musical fable" ab…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMSir Ian McKellen will be honored at the 13th annual Make Believe on Broadway gala, to be hosted by stage and screen star Christopher Meloni of Law
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:41PMMore of A Christmas Story the Musical, Pasek and Paul, Warren Carlyle and More: Another installment of the new Broadway show A Christmas Story the Musical.
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:38PMHere is the latest news from Shakespeare Theatre Company regarding its attempts to continue to occupy The Lansburgh Theatre: “The Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) filed a lawsuit th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMStage and screen star Peter Gallagher will play a limited engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency Nov. 13-17.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMPaolo Andino will star in the Blank Theatre's annual production of David Sedaris' solo comedy, The Santaland Diaries, running November 16-December 16 at Hollywood's Stella Adler Theatre. Mic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:28PMTony Award winner Michael Rupert celebrates his 61st birthday this week. We look back on a Broadway career spanning 40 years, beginning with his debut at age 16 in The Happy Time.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMCountry musician Billy Ray Cyrus is readying to make his Broadway debut as Chicago's Billy Flynn, and to celebrate, the musician is teaming with Broadway.com for an exclusive look as he …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:22PMALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:11PMTony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave will direct herself in a special two-night engagement of A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, a play she also co-wrote with Mariam C. Said. The pro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:08PMCasting has been announced for the San Francisco return engagement of Disney's The Lion King, which will play the SHN Orpheum Theatre Nov. 1, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013.
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My Mother's StoryLetter From VancouverPants on Fire, TheUnplugging and My Mother's Story reviewedby David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesMy Mother’s StoryI was reluctant to attend this show. Based…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:59PMCasting has been announced for the upcoming production of Disney's The Lion King at the SHN Orpheum Theatre, November 1-January 13.The production will star Derek Smith (Scar), Dionne Randolp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:58PMShakespearean actors have a new booster on the West Coast. San Diego’s Old Globe has hired Barry Edelstein to be its new artistic director, and the former New York theater executive sa…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 03:56PMBroadway.com's exclusive videos take fans behind the scenes at their favorite shows with one-of-a-kind backtage visits, video blogs, starry talk shows and much more. Our most-watched vid…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:56PMNEW YORK (AP) — "King Lear" may be Shakespeare's greatest work, but, let's face it, it's also grindingly grim.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:55PMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham and Miller Theatre at Columbia University Executive Director Melissa Smey will present the Brighton Fe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMNow that I'm no longer shuttling between New York and New Haven for rehearsals of Satchmo at the Waldorf, I've...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:37PMDavid Silberg's Oy, Vey! The Play will begin performances November 23 at off-Broadway's Lion Theatre in Theatre Row. The comedy will be directed by Sue Lawless , and is sch…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMSo when do we speed-the-play? The cast of Race at the New Rep.It's hard to remember, as you watch Race (at the New Rep through November 4), that David Mamet was once a great playw…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 03:25PMShowBiz Chicago Podcast Irvine Welsh from Michael Roberts on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:23PMCasting has been announced for Oy Vey! The Play, which will begin performances Nov. 23 at Off-Broadway's The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street).
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:23PMShowBiz Chicago Podcast Irvine Welsh from Michael Roberts on Vimeo. Irvine Welsh is the author of twelve works of fiction, including Trainspotting, The Acid House, Ecstasy and Filth, all of …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:20PMOn October 23, David West Read’s porneriffic new comedy The Performers begins previews on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. Set in Las Vegas at the Adult Film Awards and starring Ali…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 03:18PMOne might have hoped that by now we’d be talking about an Original Broadway Cast album of Sylvester Lévay’s Broadway debut as a composer of major musicals. Instead all tongues t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:14PMPreviews of the new romantic porn comedy The Performers, starring Cheyenne Jackson, Henry Winkler and Alicia Silverstone, begin October 23 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. Written …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMPlaying to sold out crowds in Broadway's Glengarry Glen Ross should help Al Pacino prep for his next film, in which he'll play a famed rock star. Pacino has signed on to st…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMSEMINAR SEARCHES FOR MEANING The premise: four fiction writers have paid five thousand dollars each to participate in an exclusive seminar with a renowned teacher. Filled with witty wordplay…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01PM
Janet Horvath, Minnesota Orchestra associate principal cellist, has resigned because of painful hearing condition.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 02:54PMOctober 23, 2012 Keira S., a student at Discovery Magnet School, Angel P., a student at Nichols Elementary School, Brenda Y., a student at Multi-Cultural Magnet School, and Fidel G., a stud…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 02:53PMTony nominee Brenda Braxton has brought her signature brand of sex appeal to Broadway blockbusters like Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Café, Cats, Legs Diamond and Dreamgirls. Now Braxto…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:49PM'A Raisin in the Sun' makes a timely complement to 'Clybourne Park' at the Rep.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 02:44PMPublic Theater and Miller Theatre at Columbia University will present the Brighton Festival 2012 production of A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, directed by Oscar winner Vanessa R…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMThe Public Theater and Miller Theatre at Columbia University will present the Brighton Festival 2012 production of A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, directed, co-written, and narr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMThe national tour of the Broadway musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, inspired by the electrifying true story, will make its Fort Lauderdale premiere November 6 18 at Broward Center for the Per…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMAt a time when talk of “death panels” commands headlines, George Bernard Shaw’s “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” recently revived in London to critical acclaim, is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMAdapted from a talk I gave at Clay McLeod Chapman’s “Fear Mongers” in March 2012, in which the participants are asked to talk about the one horror movie or show that rea…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:32PMWhat is the impact of art in your community? The challenges facing America are immense…and the solutions will involve art. The Network of Ensemble Theaters’ MicroFest USA: Revitaliz…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:29PMLegit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Scribes who are determined to shoot themselves in the foot usually direct their own plays. Colman Domingo, a thesp with notable profesh credentials …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:27PMColman Domingo has been a galvanic force of many natures ever since his deeply strange and daring virtuosity in "Passing Strange," followed by his commanding presence in "Scottsboro Boys" an…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 02:24PMIn an effort to urge Latino voters to participate in the November 6 presidential election, Tony-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda employed his rapping talents for Movimiento Hispano, a mov…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:22PMWhether they're playing an onstage gang of ‘20s bootleggers or relaxing behind the scenes, Matthew Broderick, Kelli O’Hara and the cast of Nice Work If You Can Get It know ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:21PMChaplin star Christiane Noll is accustomed to singing her heart out on the Great White Way, but on October 12, she took the stage at a very different venue. Noll and the cast performed songs…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:21PMHow a Tiny L.A. Theater Succeeded by Focusing on Local Playwrights So Bob Rusch, co-founder of L.A.-based SkyPilot Theatre, had this epiphany: He would throw SkyPilot into the breach by prod…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:17PMWritten by: Linda Amiel Burns October 22, 2012 Composer David Friedman performs “Songs That Have Written Me” Multi-talented composer David Friedman has been well known in the caba…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:16PMPlaywrights Horizons presents THE GREAT GOD PAN, the World Premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Amy Herzog After the Revolution at PH, 4000 Miles, directed by Carolyn Cantor After the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:08PMSILENCE! The Musical is adding two performances to the weekly playing schedule beginning October 23rd at the Elektra Theatre in Times Square: Tuesdays at 7pm and Saturday matinees at 2pm. Wi…
SOURCE: www.bestofoffbroadway.com at 02:02PMRECOMMENDED Unlike so many klutzy plays that offer a “For Dummies” guide to the basics of unartistic disciplines—math, science, football—”The Opponent,” an unapol…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PMKevin Gray knows a few things about the musical "Miss Saigon." After all he played the lead role of The Engineer in the Los Angeles and Toronto productions of the show.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:00PMVanessa Redgrave will direct and appear in a two-night presentation of A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman, which will be presented by the Public Theater at the Miller Theatre at Col…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM
Brian Hissong, who plays the Doctor roles in the Arden Theatre Company's video-enhanced production of Next to Normal, takes Playbill.com readers through tech rehearsal and into opening n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:58PMIt's been three years since the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q bid Broadway adieu and moved to off-Broadway's New World Stages. The hilariously R-rated but touching tuner ab…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:56PMThe Public Theater announced today that Public Theater alumna and Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway, who played Viola in the critically acclaimed 2009 Shakespeare in the Park production of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:53PM3Arts is honored to announce the ten recipients of its 5th annual 3Arts Awards, presented to women artists, artists of color and artists with disabilities working in the performing, teac…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:52PMThe second annual TEDxBroadway, a day-long event where artists come together to discuss the future of Broadway, will be held Jan. 28, 2013, from 11 AM-6 PM at New World Stages.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:46PMBloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a rock musical with a score and clever lyrics by Michael Friedman, and a book by Alex Timbers. You have to give the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson a s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45PMPrompted by a fifth grade teacher on New York's Lower East Side, the introverted Juan Francisco Villa surprised himself by spilling his guts about dark family secrets. Now he's doing it as a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:40PMNICE 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 01:40PM(Photo by Emily Mendelsohn. Pictured: COOKING OIL workshop at Ishyo Art Center, Kigali, Rwanda, August 2011. ) The main goal of TCG’s Fulbright Stories is to dispel the common myth that …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:37PMPing Chong & co.'s long-running documentary theater project celebrates its second decade with a book, a documentary, and a festival at La Mama
SOURCE: Culturebot at 01:37PMRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThe Albert Hall doesn't look as stately as it did – but it's still incongruous to see Joan Rivers in this grand old rotunda, making the air curl with malice, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMRoyal Albert Hall, London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghTowards the start of Shakespeare's comedy, the fairy queen Titania tells her lover Oberon how their quarrel has turned nature upside down. "The seasons alter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMAasif 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 opened Off-Broadway Oct. 22 a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:20PMSPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, the hilarious and naughty new musical parody of Fifty Shades of Grey, will dominate willing audiences at the Royal George Theatre Main Stage, 1641 N. Halste…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:19PMThe Guardian (UK) 10/23/12
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:19PMBroadway’s JERSEY BOYS met two of the original Four Seasons they portray in the show at the opening night of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ special concert engagement on Bro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:13PMCity Winery Chicago, 1200 W. Randolph Street, the city’s newest concert venue, restaurant and only fully operational winery, presents the return of Nikki Hill, November 25; an Evening of…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:10PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Burn This" from Shattered Globe Theatre ★★★
KERRY REID reviews "Burn This" from Shattered Globe Theatre ★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMQuintessence Theatre's Othello is tough ... Gutenberg! The Musical! is a good show about a bad show.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:07PMLegendary Broadway composer and lyricist Richard Adler passed away this year on June 21st. His seamless partnership with friend and composer Jerry Ross in the 1950s led to the hit musical sc…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:05PMJosh Shaw / Pacific Opera ProjectPacific Opera Project's Sweeney Todd,Centuries ago, opera was more affordable, not just something thought to be for the country club set when the dained to p…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:00PM
Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, who appeared in the title role in the 1998 Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, revisited the Hedwig garb Oct. 18 for a special performan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThe full transcript of the inaugural Everyword Lecture, given by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMPrepare for some naughtiness. And don’t you dare say you didn’t know it was coming.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:54PMThe show: "Something's Afoot" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:52PMMost Broadway stars spend their night off recharging for a demanding eight-show week. But on October 22, Grace leading man Paul Rudd donned his bowling shoes on behalf of a terrific cause: O…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:50PMNEW YORK (AP) — What better antidote for a blustery, wet afternoon in midtown Manhattan than to enter a theater for a few hours and see wonderfully attractive dancers perform with absolute…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PMThis show’s strength is its bravura use of computer-powered light and sound allied to the movement of the dancers, writes Gerald Dowler
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMMade in 2009 when its choreographer Pina Bausch was dying, this dance is programmatic rather than revelatory, writes Apollinaire Scherr
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:45PMThe second-annual TEDxBroadway a one-day event about the highest aspirations of Broadway as a location and destinationwill kick off on January 28th, 2013 at New World Stages in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:45PM“I Love Lucy, Live On Stage,” currently running at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut, will be taking a brief “station break” after its Nov. 11 performance.…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:42PMDespite the recession and cuts to the arts, it is “never a better time to write a play,” according to Everyman and Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz. Bodinetz, who spoke yesterd…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMRosalind Productions Inc. will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Jennifer Maisel's The Last Seder, which will begin performances Dec. 1 with an official opening Dec. 4 at Theater Thre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:41PMConventional storytelling overboard! The aggressively bizarre little play now paddling hard in the Shop at Fort Fringe takes the Titanic as a starting point for flitting mind games. With its…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:39PM“Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington,” Laurence Maslon’s Gershwin mash-up, capitalized on the political season during the New York Festival of Song, at Merkin Concert Hall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38PMNEW YORK—"King Lear" may be Shakespeare's greatest work, but, let's face it, it's also grindingly grim.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:37PMNEW YORK (AP) -- "King Lear" may be Shakespeare's greatest work, but, let's face it, it's also grindingly grim....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:37PMThe Rebecca fiasco did not beget many winners, but there was one: Sierra Boggess. This may sound completely bizarre; let me explain.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PMJEKYLL amp HYDE, the international musical sensation will return to Broadway in Spring 2013 following a 25-week National Tour. The tour launched at San Diego's Civic Theatre in San Diego, Ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:32PMFollowing singers’ career arcs into their 70s and 80s, as Barbara Cook and Barbra Streisand deal with voice changes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMOn Oct. 22 Our Time – a non-profit organization that has been helping children who stutter for over a decade – held its 1st Annual Bowling Benefit at Lucky Strike on West 42nd St…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMLincoln Center Theater's Disgraced has extended its off-Broadway run through December 2 at the Claire Tow Theatre. The LCT3 show was initially expected to close on November 18.
D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:29PMIt was announced today that the world-wide smash hit production of JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons will open at the Crown Theatre Perth beginning April 19, …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:27PMWhen Reeve Carney isn't fighting crime as Broadway's favorite superhero in the hit musical Spider-Man, he's a backstage guide for Broadway.com! Click below to see who and what ma…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PM'You need stamina in this game: I was 36 before I earned £10,000 a year'What got you started?[The director] Brian Astbury made me do it. He ran Arts Threshold, a basement fringe theatre in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMA host of New York City Center Encores! alums -- including Victoria Clark, Tyne Daly, and Bebe Neuwirth -- will join the previously announced Raul Esparza and Kelli O'Hara to celebrate the 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMA host of New York City Center Encores! alums -- including Victoria Clark, Tyne Daly, and Bebe Neuwirth -- will join the previously announced Raul Esparza and Kelli O'Hara to celebrate the 2…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:22PMRosalind Productions Inc. will present the off-Broadway premiere of Jennifer Maisel's The Last Seder, playing December 1-20 at Theater Three. Jessica Bauman will direct.In The Last Seder, t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PMThe LCT3 production of Disgraced, which opened last night to glowing reviews at the brand new Claire Tow Theater, has extended its run through December 2.Ayad Akhtar's play centers on Pakist…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:16PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
Playwright Ayad Akhtar really sticks it to upper-class liberals in "Disgraced," his blistering social drama about the racial prejudices that secretly pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:14PMIn preparation for the Broadway-bound concert, BroadwayWorld brings you some of our favorite Manilow performances which include songs from Babes in Arms, Gypsy, Company, Les Miserables, and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:14PMThe LCT3 production of Disgraced, a new play by Ayad Akhtar which opened to strong reviews Oct. 22, has extended its run through Dec. 2 at the Claire Tow Theater. Aasif Mandvi and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PMFeaturing performers who have made an impact on television, this show is over-loud and mostly unfocused, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:12PMAmerican history and Broadway collided on October 23, when two-time Tony winner Stephen Spinella and Tony nominees Michael Stuhlbarg and Colman Domingo attended an Actors Fund screening…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMMy Name is Asher Lev, Aaron Posner's new play based on Chaim Potok's best-selling novel, will begin previews Nov. 8 prior to an official opening Nov. 28 at Off-Broadway's Westsid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMAnton Chekov once wrote a play entitled Three Sisters about three sisters whose lives virtually suck. By Right We Should Be Giants, produced by Lunar Energy Productions, takes inspiration fr…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 12:03PMBROADWAY BOX OFFICEWeek #21; 29 ProductionsOctober 15 - 21, 2012Started Performances This Week:Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons On Broadway - 3 previewsGlengarry Glen Ross - 4 preview…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMOn the Halloween episode of NBC's UP ALL NIGHT titled 'MA'AM'D,' Ava Maya Rudolph learns her neighbors arent so fond of her, she teams up with Walter guest star Sean Hayes to give the neighb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMHottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com 10162012 - 10232012.
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A charity gala hosted by Ian McKellen in aid of the forthcoming Park Theatre in London has raised £100,000. The money exceeded Park Theatre’s target of £87,000 and will mean that the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMTony Award winners Harvey Fierstein, Audra McDonald and Eddie Redmayne as well as Tony nominee Raúl Esparza will be part of Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret with Anne Hathawa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:57AMAyad Akhtar’s electrifying new drama Disgraced opened on October 22 as part of Lincoln Center Theater's popular LCT3 series. The play stars Daily Show regular Aasif Mandvi, Heidi A…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:53AMJEKYLL amp HYDE, the international musical sensation will return to Broadway in Spring 2013 following a 25-week National Tour. The tour launched at San Diego's Civic Theatre in San Diego, Ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMIn the latest installment of The King of New York, Newsies star Corey Cott exposes his castmates hidden talents. See Kara Lindsay screech, Ben Fankhauser perform magic and much, much more!
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:46AMOn Monday, October 22, the stars came out for Paul Rudd's All-Star Bowling Benefit at Lucky Strike Lanes to support Our Time Theatre Company, a non-profit organization tha
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMTony Award winner Stephen Spinella, Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Alvin Epstein have been cast in the Red Bull Theater revival of Ben Jonson's Volpone, or The Fox, which will begin pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMLegit Reviews:
"This is when rich people become really rich." A player in the post-Lehman Brothers financial world, aggressive hedge-fund dealmaker Jack (Ben Lee) wants his form…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AMIt may be possible to satirize violent jihad against New York. Especially now, it is hard not to admire someone who tries. But "Modern Terrorism . . . ," with its subtitle evocations of Stan…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:37AMWhen Harold Pinter was too sick to read his poetry at a benefit, he asked Julian Sands to sub for him. He also demanded that the finely tuned British actor prepare by taking an extended mast…
SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 11:31AMFollowing a preview engagement at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Nederlander Presentations' Broadway-aimed production of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde officially…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:30AMBroadway veterans Audra McDonald, Harvey Fierstein, Raul Esparza, Linda Lavin and more will join Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway when she takes the stage at Joe’s Pub on October …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:28AMCasting has been announced for Tamara Harvey's production of Where the Mangrove Grows, the debut play by Royal Court Studio writer Joe Hammond, which runs at Theatre503 from 6 November to 1 …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:26AMToday in 1972, Pippin opened at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 1944 performances. Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AMNEW YORK (AP) — The second annual TEDxBroadway — a conference focusing on Broadway's future — will kick off on Jan. 28.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:22AMMADRID (AP) — An official says Spanish opera star Montserrat Caballe has been hospitalized in Barcelona after suffering a minor stroke while visiting Russia recently.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:22AMRed Bull Theater Jesse Berger, Artistic Director will present a rare revival of Ben Jonsons VOLPONE, or The Fox, for a strictly limited engagement beginning November 27th at the Lucille Lort…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMWith top price seats at $350, the Schoenfeld Theatre run could do even better business than the 1992 filmForget carving it up – the Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross is raking it in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMT.R. Knight will guest star on The Good Wife as a political operative, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Though few details have been revealed about his guest stint, Knight will appear i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AMSignature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that performances begin tonight for GOLDEN CHILD by David Henry Hwang,…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:19AMYou know what’s a terrible idea? A Broadway-inspired Halloween costume. No, really. If you want to be That Person at every single party, you should definitely start rummaging around th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:18AMThe Conference of the Birds is a theatrical event that has traveled from an “empty space,” to villages in Africa. Now it comes to the stage of the Folger Theatre. Aaron Posner in action …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMSundance 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: showbizchicago.com at 11:16AMGingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw featured George Bernard Shaw's final full-length play, BUOYANT BILLIONS, last night, October 22. Now in its seventh sold-out year, Gingold Theatrical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMBrian Hutchison will play opposite Valerie Harper in the Matthew Lombardo play, "Looped" when the play comes to the Belding Theater at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMA Christmas Story, The Musical, based on the 1983 movie perennial, will play a Nov. 5-Dec. 30 holiday engagement at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The cast offered a special preview o…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:13AMLast night, Paul Rudd, who is currently starring in GRACE on Broadway, hosted an All Star Bowling Event to benefit Our Time at Lucky Strike. Attendees for the special event included Mariska …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMAlan Ayckbourn’s 1967 comedy Relatively Speaking will head to the West End after cracking up British audiences on tour. Starring Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Kara Tointon and Max Ben…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:08AM WHAT: A Private Party: Celebrate the sounds and sights of Bollywood at Circle Theatre’s Annual Benefit THE HOOK Relax and enjoy Circle Theatre’s special invitation-only perf…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:07AMLegit News:
Memoir adaptation gets New York run
SOURCE: Variety at 11:07AMAND NOW A MESSAGE FROM STAF: Competition for TAC & OAC Theatre Project grants is fierce. The pass rate for Project Grants sits at below 35% and isn’t changing. Let us help. STAF will…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:06AMDavid Mamet’s political satire, "November," may be getting mixed reviews in L.A, but his Broadway revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross" is raking it in in previews.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:05AMThe producers of the “Annie” revival now in previews faced two very big challenges on the road to Broadway: finding a triple-threat little girl to wear that iconic red wig, and f…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 11:03AMBased 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 11:02AMAbout the author:
Ayad Akhtar digs deeply into questions of identity, exploring the inner life of young Muslim-Americans and presenting his findings—warts and all—in an impressi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:01AMLast year, fellow cage-rattlers Jim McCarthy, Damian Bazadona and I, introduced the first ever TEDx Broadway. We got some great speakers in a room and posed the question, “What’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns for its fourth season at the Triad Theater 158 West 72 Street with its new edition Celebrity Autobiography The Next Chapter, open…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:59AMBattersea Arts Centre’s joint artistic director David Micklem is to step down from his position to leave the venue at the end of November. Micklem has jointly run BAC for five years and sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMGift of Thanks: New Songs for the Holidays, a benefit for The Actors Fund, will be presented Dec. 9 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:55AMNEW YORK—The second annual TEDxBroadway—a conference focusing on Broadway's future—will kick off on Jan.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:53AMThe Countess and I popped around the corner over the weekend to catch The Art of the Coney Island Hysterical Society exhibition at 440 Gallery. Brooklyn natives Richard Eagan and Philom…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:53AMTony Award winner Stephen Spinella and four-time Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh will star in Red Bull Theater revival's of Ben Jonson's classic drama Volpone, or The Fox, beginning November 27 …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMLincoln Center Theater has just released a great teaser for their upcoming production of Golden Boy starring Tony Shalhoub and Danny Burstein. Check out the video below!
It was previously …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 10:49AMRed Bull Theater hosted a benefit reading of Moliere's The Miser, adapted and directed by Doug Hughes, on Monday, October 22 at the Lucille Lortel Theater.The cast for the sa
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:49AMLucy Gillespie Hometown: London, EnglandCurrent Town: New York, New YorkQ: What are you working on now? A: Graduate School at NYU, mainly, but therein I have just started a pla…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:47AMThis Halloween is going to be all treat and no trick when I give away a pair of tickets to the upcoming Lincoln Center revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. Directed by Bartlett She…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:45AMAcademy Award winner Jane Fonda has been tapped to star in Now What?, a new comedy currently in development at ABC for the 2013-2014 season, reports Variety. Tony and Emmy-nominated dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:40AMAcademy Award winner Jane Fonda has been tapped to star in Now What?, a new comedy currently in development at ABC for the 2013-2014 season, reports Variety. Tony and Emmy-nominated dir…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:40AMNareh Arghmanyan is a personality and technique that thrives on performing Romantic music, and it was her Rachmaninov and Schumann that were most impressive on a recital that also featured t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AMDear Reader,Summer is long past over, and this website doesn't get updated much when I'm in the middle of writing a musical, and for one of these two reasons you're sad. But cheer …
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 10:36AMTom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Brooke Shields and more stopped by to visit three-time Tony Award nominee Sherie Rene Scott, last seen on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, after…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMIt has been over a decade since last viewing a production of Lanford Wilson’s wallowing play Burn This, which is getting laborious remount by Shattered Globe Theatre. First opening…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:34AMLCT3 celebrated the opening of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday, October 22.Directed by Kimberly Senior, the play stars Daily Show favorite Aasif Mandvi as
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMLCT3 celebrated the opening of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced at the Claire Tow Theater on Monday, October 22.Directed by Kimberly Senior, the play stars Daily Show favorite Aasif Mandvi as
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:34AMThe idea of white actors making themselves up as black is shocking to most of us – and yet a theatre in Germany has seen fit to continue the tradition. Why? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMThe idea of white actors making themselves up as black is shocking to most of us – and yet a theatre in Germany has seen fit to continue the tradition. Why?Most news stories – government…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AMProducers of Fuerza Bruta, who announced that the production would end its five-year Off-Broadway run in November, have now extended the engagement due to ticket demand through January 2013.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:21AMLegit News:
Speakers tapped for second annual event
SOURCE: Variety at 10:20AMThe popular off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta: Look Up has extended its run through January 6, 2013 at the Daryl Roth Theatre. The show was initially expected to close on November 11.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMHaven't heard enough "50 Shades of Gray" jokes?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:20AMAVENUE Q is the Tony Award-winning musical about 20-somethings -- people and puppets alike -- fresh out of college and trying to find their way in the big city, living as neighbors on a rund…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMTony Award winner Shuler Hensley stars in the New York City premiere of Obie Award winner Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, about a 600-pound man trying to reclaim his life, beginning Oct. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMNicole Parker may have achieved TV fame for her Emmy-winning role on the sketch comedy show MADtv, but this former Elphaba in Wicked is really a Broadway baby. Parker brings her love of show…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:16AMCabaret icon Michael Feinstein made an appearance at the Upper East Side Barnes and Noble on Oct. 17 where he signed copies of "The Gershwins and Me" along with participating in a …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMActors across the country can relive the birth of Motown and rise to stardom with the likes of Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson in a new Broadway musical based on the life and …
SOURCE: backstage.com at 10:11AMAngela Lansbury got confused Sunday when she went to the wrong event by mistake. Guests including Maury Yeston and Sheldon Harnick and performers including Ron Raines at Encompass New Opera …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:11AMA Christmas Story the Musical Double Dog Dares You Not to Fall in Love: Yesterday morning Christmas came alive at the New 42nd Street Studio’s as the highly anticipated A Christmas Story t…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 10:10AMIn 2013 the National Symphony Orchestra Pops will pay tribute to the 10th anniversary of Wicked and the 65th birthday of composer Stephen Schwartz with concerts entitled The Wizard and I: Th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:10AMPitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick will play Cathy in the film adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown musical The Last Five Years, according to Deadline.com. The piece is being adapted and direc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMAbby Lee, David B. Brode and Executive Producer Tom Viertel have announced the return of the hit 1982 Tony nominated Best Musical Pump Boys and Dinettes. Conceived and written by the ori…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 10:05AMThe Tony Award-nominated jukebox musical “Million Dollar Quartet” will begin an opened ended run at Harrah’s Showroom in Las Vegas early next year. The first show will first be held Fe…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AM If you missed last week’s edition of BROADWAY INTERVIEWS YOU, make sure to check out Danny Quadrino’s question HERE. He wants to know what you think when you see an understudy sl…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AM
The stars were out for the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala presented by The Los Angeles Times held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 22, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. Among …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:59AMBarbican
Curious things can happen in the run up to Big Moments. Perhaps your brain feels alarmingly empty before you enter an exam room. Maybe you buzz with adrenaline prior to deliver…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:58AMWild With Happy, a new play by actor Colman Domingo, opens off-Broadway on October 23. The show is set to run through November 11 at the Public Theater. Domingo, a Tony Award nominee fo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMToday is the birthday of the great Johnny Carson (for my full article on him go here). I found this cool artifact this morning…an early Tonight Show in which Johnny gets serious, hav…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMWritten during Ronald Reagan’s first presidential bid, Mamet's greedy men almost seem quaint in our impenitent era
SOURCE: Salon at 09:50AMIt’s a pity we can’t hear the Discovery Ensemble every week – it’s a group that radiates energy and models inventive programming.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMTony winner Kristin Chenoweth, who is recuperating from injuries sustained on the set of "The Good Wife," will again co-host Anderson Cooper's "Anderson Live" on Oct.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMMaltz Jupiter theatergoers need to manage their expectations of next week’s run of the play Amadeus, better known for the film about the mediocre composer Salieri’s rivalry with Mozart…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:48AMOn December 6, 1885, Miriam Hooper “Clover” Adams, clever, accomplished and rich, took a vial of potassium cyanide to her lips and quaffed it down. She was dead before the vial hit the f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMThe Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars (TOWKSS) is a play which, reflecting its child-like characters, comes from a beautiful place but ends up somewhere confused. Henry (Gregory Finnegan) looks f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMThe Beautiful Soup Theater Collective will present staged readings of Next Thing You Know, a new musical by Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (the team behind I Love You Because...), Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:31AMTony Award winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline, or Change) and Nick Adams (Priscilla Queen of the Dessert) will perform at a benefit Nov. 12 at 7:30 PM at Etcetera Etcetera Restaurant (352 West 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:24AMBeautiful Burnout is a visually stunning play, with an energy and beat that are simply electric. Exploring the psychology and physicality of boxing, the piece is full of well-crafted and int…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:13AMTVGuide.com reports that T.R. Knight will be a guest star on CBS's THE GOOD WIFE. The actor joins a roster of celebrity guest stars on the legal drama including Amanda Peet, Christina Ricci,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:02AMMr Bean star campaigns against act outlawing 'insulting words', Frankie Boyle wins more than £50,000 in libel damages … and one standup spectator laughs so hard she goes into labourThis w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMBrian Hutchison will return to the role he originated in the upcoming tour of “Looped,” which also will star Valerie Harper. The first stop on the U.S. national tour will be at the Bushn…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AMYoung Artists of America, which was founded just over a year ago by Artistic Director Rolando Sanz, Music Director Kristofer Sanz, and Executive Director Jane Coyne, provides opportunities f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMTo receive my college diploma, I am required to take three different theatrical production classes. I am in the midst of tackling my first one, and I have spent the past two weeks backstage…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMIf you have a big project ahead of you, you are going to need a team to help you complete it. The time and effort you spend up front in assembling that team will make all the difference. So …
SOURCE: One Producer in the City at 09:00AM
Today is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #66, the Divine Sarah, Sarah Bernhardt (for full my bio go here). I’m guessing many of our readers have seen at least short clips of some …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:58AMAt the beginning of day two — and the beginning of act two — of the In the Crossroads conference, critic and former ART artistic director Robert Brustein looked around the comfor…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:54AMChick Corea and Gary Burton were celebrating their recent disc, "Hot House," which they said was meant to recall the sixties, when the two were starting their careers. But the sixties were n…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMThis is being released today by Shout Factory, featuring the hard work of friend Ben Model! You should buy it! here’s my review of Volume 1: http://www.downtownexpress.com/ernie-kovac…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:43AMThe new romantic comedy will begin preview performances on Broadway October 23 prior to its official opening night November 14 at the Longacre Theatre 220 W. 48 St. in New York City.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:41AMToday is the birthday of Gertrude Ederle (1905-2203). A New Jersey native, she became a champion swimmer at her local YWCA, and went on to win a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics. She became…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:27AMWeston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Gaza/Blaenannerch reveals Ladd's personal reflections on the parallels between the disruption of nationhood and the disappearance of ide…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMEncouraging your audience to keep their phones turned on during a show? Isn't that a major taboo?Not when it comes to The Builders Association. For their new work, House/Divided, running at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMHer latest album has a long-lost nugget that fans should anticipate in Tuesday’s Toronto show.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 08:00AM
Abingdon Theatre, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: A smart new play about gay men in Astoria, what it means to be a friend, and what it means to have adult relationship…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 07:32AMBattersea Arts Centre has announced that David Micklem will be stepping down as joint artistic director at the end of November.
According to a press statement, the move is the first step of…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:19AMWhether yours is this week or next, autumn half term provides the ideal opportunity for a theatrical excursion with the kids. Here, we make a few suggestions, and point out which shows are o…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 07:01AM By Joel Benjamin October 15th, 2012 It’s only in the past few decades that America’s musical theater, formerly considered little more than a superficial form of entertai…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 07:00AMCassandra Hodgins, the dynamic, quirky 17-year-old redhead from London, became the sixth potential Dorothy eliminated on Monday night from Over the Rainbow,
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM
The theater community comes together -- first to celebrate, then to plan. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reports.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:49AMNight five of the Battle Rounds on NBC's The Voice tonight showed that dreams do come true. Every single one of the contestants tonight had something to prove, whether for themselves person…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AMThe new revival of David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child will begin performances October 23 at off-Broadway’s Pershing Square Signature Center, starring Greg Watanabe and Jennifer Lim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:14AMWhat are the limits?One critic revives the debateby Gaëtan L. CharleboisIn my third year of acting school, one of my teachers - an inveterate bastard - decided to tell us the facts of life.…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMDrama Desk Award nominee Jennifer Lim of Broadway's Chinglish and Tony Award nominee Julyana Soelistyo of Off-Broadway's The Glorious Ones are among cast members of the new Off-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAndrew Samonsky, who doubles in the roles of Harold McPherson and Kenneth Ormiston in Broadway's Scandalous, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire of random facts, backstage trivia …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSpecial Tony Awards recipient Barry Manilow will return to Broadway in 2013 with his solo concert Manilow on Broadway. In anticipation of the concert engagement, here are clips of Manilow si…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Lo Bianco plays late, beloved New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia in a new solo play The Little Flower, written and directed by the actor, in a brief Off-Broadway engagement that …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Performers, the new comedy by David West Read that will officially open Nov. 14, begins previews Oct. 23 at the Longacre Theatre. The play marks the Broadway bow for Read, who made his O…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world premiere of Wild With Happy, a new play about family, death and healing written by and starring Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo, officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 23 at the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1844 Actress Sarah Bernhardt born today. "The Divine Sarah" will create many memorable roles in French and English, notably in Alexandre Dumas, fils' classic La Dame aux Cameli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTracy Letts and Amy Morton talk about working together again—they’re starring in the new Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Wall Street Journal columnist Sue She…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMJake Gyllenhaal and Brían F. O’Byrne discuss the Roundabout Theatre Company’s new Off-Broadway production of “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” a new play by Nick Payne. It’s…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTracy Letts and Amy Morton talk about their roles in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” They face off as George and Martha, one of theatre’s most notoriously dysfunctional couples.
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Shamos on tap for MTC's Broadway outing
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'Glengarry,' Valli show Broadway box office power
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Kendal stars in 'Relatively Speaking' revival
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