Find out if the butler did it when Goodspeed Musicals brings intrigue and amusement to the Opera House stage with its production of the musical whodunit Somethings Afoot. This hilarious musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMPlaywrights finally had their say at the end of the first day of the In the Intersection conference. Charles Randolph-Wright, Amy Freed, and Karen Zacarías, all current residents at the Are…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:24PMPlaywright Susan Felder’s skill lies in her ability to forge character links in a way that’s both surprising and thick with tension. With only one actor onstage - and the other not seen…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:21PMTonight, October 24, 2012, Sardi's unveiled a caricature for Manhattan Theatre Club's artistic director Lynn Meadow. BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities, and we bring you photos from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13PMPlaywright James Still brings the viewer into the home of James Beard (1903-1985), a pioneer in American cooking and host of the first cooking show on television.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMT. Schreiber Studio, Off Off Broadway
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BOTTOM LINE: Heard about this play? Missed it on Broadway and at the movies? Now's your chance to check it out (thanks, T. Schr…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 08:09PMIt's 1956, and we're all at the annual quiche breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein, and the members of the society, widows all, are salivating with ant…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:07PMailbait evenly and compassionately illustrates the emotional land mines faced by today's adolescences who have to deal with pressure from peers who expect them to be active sexually before t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PM
Within the first minutes of the Transport Group Theatre Company’s “House for Sale,” billed as the first work by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom, The Corrections) to be adapted for the stage…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:47PMCyndi Lauper amp Friends Home for the Holidays star-studded benefit concert will be held on Saturday, December 8th at New York City's Beacon Theatre to help raise awareness about lesbian, ga…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMPlaywright Samuel D. Hunter won an Obie Award last year for this dark comedy, which deals with themes of family, religion and responsibility.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:41PMOPENING CHICAGO CASTING AUCTION. Anyone can be a star — for a price. Bailiwick Chicago Theater will auction off more than 60 roles for a production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:10PMHeroin addicts in the contemporary Midwest, and traveling players in Ireland and England over many decades. Let it never be said that Chicago theater doesn’t run the gamut of human experie…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:08PMKate Pazakis and co-host Shane Scheel hosted Rockwell Table and Stage's monthly Broadway Barre show on Monday night, October 22nd. Performers included Euan Morton Taboo, Our Lady J, Todd Buo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:05PMManchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has announced a senior management restructure and a revamped artistic policy with an increased focus on new work and opportunities for emerging theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIn the past few years, without any fanfare, the veteran playwright Howard Brenton has not only made a comeback, but also become the chief chronicler of the nation’s past. One year he is te…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01PMCan a well-written autobiographical essay be translated into a vital theater piece? In the case of “House for Sale,” Daniel Fish’s adaption of Jonathan Franzen’s insi…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 07:00PM
The Casting Society of America CSA has announced the presenters for the organizations New Y0rk 28th Annual Artios Awards for outstanding achievement in casting given in 22 categories includi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMThomas Adès's "The Tempest" is one of the most compelling new operas of recent years, and the production by Robert Lepage matches it in imagination and originality.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 06:50PMOne of Broadways favorite leading men, Brent Barrett has delighted audiences of the Great White Way and Londons West End in Dance a Little Closer, Grand Hotel, Chicago, Candide, Kiss Me Kate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:41PMOn Monday, October 29, 2012, join us at 930pm for B.A.D. AT SPLASH as Neal Bennington amp Henry Ravelo present Broadway Sings for Prides Broadway After Dark at the legendary Splash in New Yo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMRyan Murphy, creator of such television shows as Glee, American Horror Story, and The New Normal, is hard at work on bringing the Tony-winning play The Normal Heart to the big screen. He tol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMTony amp Drama Desk nominated Gabriel Barre Lippa's Wild Party will direct and Louis Hobson will produce the developmental workshop of David Klein's new play, Synchro, with a invite-only rea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:35PMOn Monday, October 22, 2012, the Princess Grace FoundationUSA PGF-USA hosted the 30th Anniversary Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City and presented 25 Awards …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:34PMThe new Broadway production of the Tony Award winning play The Heiress stars Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner David Strathairn, the leading…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:28PMAl Pacino's aging salesman character in Glengarry Glen Ross might have trouble bringing in money, but the Oscar winner is doing just fine raking in dough on his own. Pacino is being paid…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PMLivent Inc. co-founder Garth Drabinsky has been granted day parole from prison following an emotional and at times confrontational parole board hearing.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:20PMNew York Theatre Barn will host An Intimate Musical Evening with NYTB, a benefit celebration of its first 5 years incubating the next generation of musical theatre writers and a launch party…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:15PMThis fall, Broadway veteran Michael McGurk brings his boyish good looks, award-winning talents and professional experience to Petaluma's Cinnabar Theater for the world premiere of So Nice to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:08PMTony Award winner Michael Cerveris, Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico, Award winning star Brent Barrett, multi-talented Broadway and television star Lance Roberts and MAC award-winning singe…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06PMPulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in the world premiere commission of a new seasonal classic opening at the Geffen Playhouse. Presented by…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:04PMThe Heiress is bringing a touch of 19th-century charm to the Walter Kerr Theatre, starring Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey. Directed by Moises Kaufman…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PM
The Markus Zusak novel “The Book Thief” has been adapted as a play, now running at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAfter a sold-out run at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London, Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall is heading to the West End. Directed by Trevor Nunn and starring four-time Tony n…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMAccording to the Globe and Mail, Livent Inc. co-founder Garth Drabinsky has been granted day parole after a parole hearing today, October 24, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:51PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more inf…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:51PMIf you think your mother’s a handful, check out the matriarch in David Silberg’s new comedy Oy, Vey! The Play. Tickets are now available for the limited off-Broadway engagement a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PMWith its new show, “Legendarium,” the Big Apple Circus continues to occupy Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center during the fall and early winter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMClass is in session for Jason Hite, Taylor Trensch and the hot new cast of Bare, who are currently in rehearsal for an upcoming off-Broadway production at New World Stages. Featuring music b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:44PMDrury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, makes a splash with the effervescent musical comedy SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, previewing November 8, opening November 15, and running through January 13, 2…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:42PMHenry Winkler is currently showing off his comedic assets as porn star Chuck Wood in the new play The Performers, which revolves around two high school buddies who run into each other in Las…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:38PMAn anonymous manifesto writer challenges the field to grapple with the contemporary performance marketplace
SOURCE: Culturebot at 05:37PMThe Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has shattered sales records around the globe with more than 32 million copies sold in the United States alone and a 2013 Universal Pictures feature film re…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:36PMThe new Broadway production of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's period drama The Heiress began previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre Oct. 6. Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("The Help") …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:33PMMichael Golamco depicts video game creators in Silicon Valley in his Build, opening tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. The LA-based Year Zero playwright uses a story similar to that of Pygmali…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:30PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Assassins" at the Viaduct Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Assassins" at the Viaduct Theatre ★★ ... With a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John W…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:22PMTom Hanks professed his love of the show 'Full House' by doing slam poetry on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.'
SOURCE: www.enstarz.com at 05:12PMThe Howard Theatre is a somewhat incongruous venue for a raucous metal show, especially with its sharply dressed ushers with nametags like "my name is John, and my favorite artist is Chuck B…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:12PMHere, Melanie C, who plays Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar talks about how she's gone from Spice Girl to rock singer to theatre, how she's taking on the part, the cast and the show'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMHere, Alexander Hanson talks playing Pontius Pilate, seeing the original production, his theatre background, Mel C and the show's filming
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMHere, Andrew Lloyd Webber talks about how he's always intended the show to play arenas and why it's taken 40 years, his new views on filming shows, the cast, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee conc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:11PMTheater veterans Whoopi Goldberg, Adam Lambert, and Rosie O'Donnell will be among the special guests at Cyndi Lauper
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:04PMJeff Goldblum returns to the role he played on Broadway in the west coast premiere of Seminar at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Leonard is an international literary …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMDramaturg Jessie M. Baxter sat down with playwrights Lydia R. Diamond, Melinda Lopez, and Kate Snodgrass; all three writers bridge the space between practice and academia. At a recent repast…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PM
Today we are continuing BroadwayWorlds extensive coverage of the forthcoming Fathom cinema presentation of the epic brand new arena production Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices JESUS CHRIST …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:57PMThis morning, Sharon Lee Lau (pictured above) became a TKTS trendsetter. She became the first person to buy her Wednesday matinee and evening tickets at the same time at the TKTS booth in Ti…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:51PMNEW YORK (AP) — A producing team has won the theatrical stage rights to "Rear Window," the noir tale that Alfred Hitchcock made into a classic film.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:45PMPhoto/Benjamin Heller If How to Break were an actual hip-hop track, it would be defined by the solid chorus and rhythmic structure that bridges the dramatic beat(boxing) surrounding the…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 04:45PMMasterworks Broadway Releases RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: THE COMPLETE BROADWAY MUSICALS. 12-CD Box Set of the Legendary Pair's Broadway Musicals. Includes 100- Page Book. Available November 6, 2…
SOURCE: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at 04:44PMAlfred Hitchcock is having a moment. Just a month before the movie "Hitchcock," in which the director is played by Anthony Hopkins, hits theaters comes the news that Hitch's famous 1954 film…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 04:43PMJUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED Even though the legislation for a public health care option passed by Democratic majority in Congress, matters of wellness and proper treatment are anxieties tha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42PMTweetOne of my favorite things to watch growing up were the muppets. I actually still love to watch their movies today. The songs are great, the characters are awesome and the jokes are grea…
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 04:39PMGreat theater is happening all across America, and Broadway.com's new weekly feature proves it! We’ve sifted through dozens of offerings away from NYC and found excellent shows in …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PMCelia Keenan-Bolger, a 2012 Tony Award nominee for her performance in Peter and the Starcatcher, was among the artists performing at Colt Coeur's third annual Karaoke Classic Benefit Oct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:23PMThe Kennedy Center will present the world premiere of The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg in the Family Theater, November 17-December 9. Direction will be by Gregg Henry.Adapted by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMThe Kennedy Center will present the world premiere of The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg in the Family Theater, November 17-December 9. Direction will be by Gregg Henry.Adapted by …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:21PMVersatile London stage star Lloyd Owen is about to grab the spotlight as he steps into the role made famous by Kevin Costner in the eagerly awaited musical adaptation of The Bodyguard. Owen …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:19PMNEW YORK (AP) — O brave new opera that has such music in it!
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:19PMPeter and the Starcatcher closes on January 20th, and if you haven't had a chance to see this show I've one more free pair of tickets I'm giving away. You get:One entry if…
SOURCE: Broadway Abridged at 04:15PMTwo-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello is singing to the heavens as Aimee Semple McPherson in the new Broadway musical Scandalous. Broadway.com is teaming up with the actress for a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:08PMOne of the most eagerly anticipated plays of the year, starring Dominic West and Miranda Raison, has its official opening tomorrow night in the tiny Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court. Tick…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:00PM
Stephen Sondheim's celebrated 1970 look at the institution of marriage comes up for air in 2012.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:51PMWhen You Burn The Candle At Both Ends...you double your chances for getting burned and burned out.Perhaps you've noticed. Perhaps the fact I haven't been blogging as regularly as I have in t…
SOURCE: Variations On A Theme at 03:50PMCreating The Theater Bank Account. Is There An App For That?The mixed-but-very-vocal reaction in the blogasphere surrounding the concept of premium pricing for not-for-profit theaters (l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:50PMAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, Broadway production designer Derek McLane, who received the 2009 Tony Award for his scenic design for 33 Variations has been selected by producers Craig …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47PMPlaywright Glen Berger, who co-authored the script of Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMC. Evans Kirk tells us about directing The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s new production Cantorial - which opens this weekend. “Written by famed American dramatist Ira Levin (au…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMKINGSTON, Ontario (AP) — Former Broadway theater mogul Garth Drabinsky has been granted day parole and will be released to a Toronto halfway house to serve the remainder of his sentence fo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:45PMPeggy Pearlstein, head of the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, shares some of her favorite items from the library's exhibition, Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of …
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 03:39PMThe Video of the Week is Mary Poppins herself, Ashley Brown, singing “The Way We Were” at “Hello Gorgeous! A Salute to the Streisand Songbook,” a concert by Scott Nev…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:35PMThe Geffen Playhouse has announce casting for the world premiere production of Coney Island Christmas by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, playing November 20-December 30. Bart DeLore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMThe Geffen Playhouse has announce casting for the world premiere production of Coney Island Christmas by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, playing November 20-December 30. Bart DeLore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:34PMVocalists Brent Barrett, Michael Cerveris, Melissa Errico, Terese Genecco, and Lance Roberts took the stage at 54 Below on Wednesday, October 24 to offer short preview
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:31PMConey Island Christmas, billed as a "Jewish Christmas show" for people of all ages and all faiths, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, will star Arye Gross and Isabella Acre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMThis Thanksgiving, ENCORE LOVE will serve up several helpings of blockbuster and fan favorite films with a Tuneful Thanksgiving Marathon featuring the film adaptations of such Broadway hits …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:29PMMusic Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County's award-winning professional theatre company, opens their 20122013 Season with the area premiere of Next to Normal. This Pulitzer Pri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:28PMAmericans will be heading to the polls on Nov. 6 to cast their vote for the next President of the United States. Several Broadway productions are adjusting their performance schedules to ens…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:25PMThe Goodman Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming production of "Other Desert Cities," directed by Jon Robin Baitz. Tracy Michelle Arnold will play Brooke Wyeth (the role originated…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMOscar host Seth MacFarlane will have a fancy, Broadway style stage to sing and dance across when he hosts the awards ceremony next year. Tony Award-winning scenic designer Derek McLane has b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:23PMTentacle porn? Wacky sex farce? Steve Yockey (Heavier Than..., Very Still and Hard to See) is preparing us his quickly-written The Fisherman's Wife, in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Speakeasy in…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:20PMA slew of stage and screen stars are set to serve as presenters at the 28th Annual Artios Awards including Jeremy Jordan, Cheyenne Jackson, Nina Arianda and more. Victor …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:20PMBERKELEY REP HITS A HOMER It utterly astonishes that the epic tale of the Trojan War could be rendered with power and grace by a solo actor. The fact that one actor would have, and does have…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:19PMThe cast of the hit Broadway revival of Evita has announced new guest performers and celebrity judges for Broadway Scares Night of the Singing Dead, the first ever Halloween extravaganza to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMThe cast of the hit Broadway revival of Evita has announced new guest performers and celebrity judges for Broadway Scares Night of the Singing Dead, the first ever Halloween extravaganza to …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:11PMTheater fans too young to have seen George Hearn on stage at the height of his Broadway career can catch up via film versions of Sweeney Todd and Putting It Together. (Click below to savor H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMAfter several months playing adventurous tween Molly in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, Celia Keenan-Bolger is excited to grow up for her next role. The two-time Ton…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMAfter aan acclaimed run as adventurous tween Molly in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, Celia Keenan-Bolger is excited to grow up for her next role. The two-time Tony nomin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMChicago's Carol Woods has turned her cozy dressing room into her home away from home! With her trusty dog Fido, her grandchildren and a homecooked meal, Woods is always fixin' up som…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PM
Glen Berger's book, "Song of Spider-Man: Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History," arrives next year via Simon & Schuster.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:51PMThe 1996 musical “Rent,” will be staged -- free! -- by the Trinity College Department of Music and run Thursday Oct. 25 to Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7;30 p.m. in the Austin Art…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:50PMTony Award-winning set designer Derek McLane will be making his debut as Oscar set designer for the 85th Academy Awards telecast.McLane won the Tony for 33 Variations, and has been Tony-nomi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:49PM"Call Me Adam" chats with Kathleen McNenny about starring in Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "An Enemy of the People" with her husband four-time Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as well …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 02:45PMIt's safe to say that brothers Jacob Guzman and David Guzman are inseparable — not even Broadway casting directors could split them apart. After 17 years side by side — 15 of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMIf There Is I Havent Found It Yets Jake Gyllenhaal will appear on ABCs The Chew tomorrow, Thursday, October 24th between 100PM-200PM on channel 7.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMClick HERE for full article (Minneapolis/St. Paul) Michael Billington, longtime theater critic for the U.K.’s The Guardian newspaper, published an article on Monday, October 22 discussing …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 02:39PMIn case you missed it, Republican "pundit" Ann Coulter recently called our president "a retard," tweeting "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard."She rece…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 02:35PMBen Davis – a Tony winner for La Boheme – and Broadway veteran Elena Shaddow will lead the Paper Mill Playhouse cast of the Rodgers and Hammerstein favorite, The Sound of Music, as Capta…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:33PMWhen Orson Welles adapted Herman Melville's Moby Dick for the stage in 1955, Kenneth Tynan famously wrote: "It is absurd to expect Orson Welles to attempt anything less than the impossible. …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:33PMA controversial change to the judging criteria for the L.A. STAGE Alliance’s Ovation Awards is roiling the Los Angeles theater community and could lead to an “evolution” of…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 02:28PMSome of Broadways A-List celebs are taking a stand for their favorite nonprofits by hitting the auction block on Charitybuzz.com. Now through October 30, Broadway goers can bid on phenomenal…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMGolden Child scribe and Tony winner David Henry Hwang will be presented with the 2012 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award on October 29. The award, presented biennially, honors the arti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:23PMIt’s not a Halloween trick. Two theatre companies, facing opposition to their presence, are preparing legal defenses in order to protect their rights to remain in their DC locations. H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:21PMA FELLOWSHIP IN THE RING The Opponent is a play about the gritty world of small time boxing. Brett Neveu’s world premiere two-hander at A Red Orchid Theatre explores the relationship betwe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:16PMTony nominee Lily Rabe will star and co-produce We’re Just Married, a new film written by her Tony-winning father David Rabe, according to Deadline.com. Directed by Rodrigo G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PMI've been lucky enough to catch a performance of a new play at RADA by Jessica Swale, better known as the talented artistic director of Red Handed Theatre. This short run is effectively a pr…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 02:14PMThe Broadway production designer who won a Tony in 2009 for his scenic design for the play "33 Variations" has been selected by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron to design the set for the…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:10PMJill Paice and James Barbour may have never gotten the chance to share the stage in the now defunct Broadway musical Rebecca, but the pair will still perform together afterall. Paice will jo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:05PMA few weeks ago I was talking to three members of the Boston theater community about having a sector-wide conversation on best practices for stage combat. We moved onto how many shows they w…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00PM
If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’s Jake Gyllenhaal will appear on ABC’s “The Chew” tomorrow, Thursday, October 24th between 1:00PM-2:00PM on channel 7.
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 01:50PMObie Award-winning actor and director Matthew Maguire will return to The Wild Project this fall in his new solo show, Wild Man in Rome, for a two-week engagement beginning Nov. 14 in NYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:49PMWhat good is sitting alone in your room – especially if it's October 31, and you're dressed up like Charlie Chaplin, Elphaba, or The Green Goblin. Of course, you can join the millions of p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:48PMSilver anniversary production at the Fox expands on a crucial theme.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:43PMAnd…just like that, after months and months of waiting The Slipper Room is open again. Very sly, very sly. It’s a couple of levels high now, to accommodate sight lines and aeri…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:41PMTonight’s performance of “Sweet Bird of Youth” at the Goodman Theater has been canceled because of star Diane Lane’s laryngitis. Lane is expected to return to the show on Thursday. T…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:38PMBook Lovers' and Book Club Night is a big part of the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia's Jewish Book Festival.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 01:38PMRather than beginning the 43rd annual Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington (JCCGW) book festival with a book presentation, the festival program takes us to the J's exercise mats for…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 01:32PMName: Jeremy GorenHometown: La Habana, Cuba, centro del Caribe. (And Washington, D.C.)Education: Continuing. Favorite Credits: I can’t really answer this. I’m not trying to be difficult,…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:25PMThe Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village is set to host a unique gospel experience on Sunday night, courtesy of some Broadway performers.
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:19PMBelgrade, CoventryAll great dramatists stake out their own particular territory; the problem with William Inge, who had four Broadway hits in the 1950s of which this was the last, is that he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMIt's likely that audiences exiting the Metropolitan Opera after Robert Lepage's eye-popping production of
The Tempest, based on Shakespeare's great drama, will be in a state of uncertainty …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:17PMBroadway Impact, an organization of theatre artists and fans mobilized in support of marriage equality, has teamed up with members of the North American touring companies of Wicked to promot…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMStage and screen star Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a birthday serenade from the Boston Gay Men's Chorus courtesy of his ABC Modern Family co-star Eric Stonestreet. Stonestreet asked the Boston G…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMInspired by true events, and laced with mystery and romance, this World Premiere production from the award-winning Labyrinth Theater Company, delves into the emotional fallout of an unwittin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:08PMTony nominee Colman Domingo’s new play Wild With Happy takes a dark topic (death) and turns it into a comedy with an uplifting message about finding happiness in some unlikely places. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMThe Guthrie Theater today announced the full cast and creative team for the Theaters 2012 production of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, presented by U.S. Bank. The perennial holiday favor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:04PMBucks County Playhouse has announced the initial casting of its much anticipated 2012 holiday production, It's a Wonderful Life A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry. Performances run from Thursda…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMI come back to my apartment around midnight these days exhausted, ravenous, a bit smelly, hair tussled with bits of makeup residue stuck on my face…and I love it! Okay, maybe not so much t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PM
The ever-popular Ted Talks is known for leaving no intellectual stone unturned, from why schools are killing creativity to writer Elizabeth Gilbert’s tips for respecting your muse. And…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:59PMBroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the Internet, is excited to announce a new feature to its comprehensive regional coverage - the Featured Regional Theater of the Week Each week…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:59PMIn the latest installment of Gotta Dance!, Broadway.com highlights Marcus Bellamy of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Before hoofing it in one of Broadway's biggest spectacles, Bellam…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMColeman Domingo has a huge heart, a wild imagination and a big mouth. The first two should continue on their unbridled journey that can only benefit all of us. The last could use a big dos…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 12:55PMPlaywright Jez Butterworth has revealed that he got offered "almost every West End theatre" for his new play, The River, following the huge success of Jerusalem.Speaking to The Times recentl…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:54PMJustin Guarini, Jill Paice and Lauren Molina have all signed onto celebrate the holidays in It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Pennsylvania's Buck…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMThis weekend and next, openings all over (The cast of Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing” at Axial Theatre in Pleasantville includes, from left: Sean Weil, Ann Gulian and Ryan…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:54PMLincoln Center Theater under the direction of Andr Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer has announced that two-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane will he…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:53PMI DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE TITLE MEANS Every once in a while, a theater company falls in love with a script and simply must stage it. I can’t imagine any other reason that Seanachaí dec…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PMLos Angeles theater executives are mulling whether a director’s artistic vision is compromised by a push for diversity.
Critics have said Asian-American, African-American, and Latino a…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:46PMThe National Theatre of Scotland has appointed Laurie Sansom, currently artistic director of Northampton's Royal & Derngate, to succeed Vicky Featherstone to lead the peripatetic com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:46PMIf you’ve exhausted your fishnet options as Chicago's Velma Kelly or run out of charcoal as Mary Poppins' Bert, it’s time to consider a hot new Broadway-themed costume! B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMCrystal Pite's "The Tempest Replica," performed by her troupe Kidd Pivot, reinvents Shakespeare's "The Tempest" with dazzling dance and stage wizardry. It's at On the Boards through Oct. 25,…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:42PMAasif Mandvi is giving an undeniably amazing performance off-Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater’s drama Disgraced, but that's not stopping him from fulfilling his duties as a regul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:40PMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe will be one of the stars and producers of the film, We're Just Married, a romantic drama penned by her father, Tony Award winner David Rabe, according to Deadli…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMBucks County Playhouse has announced that Broadway and American Idol star will join the cast of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry, which runs December 13-30. Gordon Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMBucks County Playhouse has announced that Broadway and American Idol star will join the cast of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry, which runs December 13-30. Gordon Gr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMTelevision producers in Wales have called for the editorial independence of Welsh broadcaster S4C to be protected under a new funding arrangement with the BBC. In 2010, a new BBC licence fee…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMThree ballets with scores by Brubeck, Grieg and Beethoven made for an oddly unattractive event, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 12:38PMThe sell-out production of Samuel Beckett's All That Fall, currently running at Jermyn Street Theatre through Nov. 3, is to transfer to the West End's Arts Theatre, beginning perform…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:38PMStage and screen legends Joan Rivers and Liza Minnelli headed to the Longacre Theatre for some risque fun on October 23! The Broadway vets took in the very first preview of the new comedy&nb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:37PMJustin Guarini, Garth Kravits, Lauren Molina, Jill Paice and Kevin Pariseau will star in Bucks County Playhouse's It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry, the com…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PMLegendary performer Barry Manilow visited VH1's BIG MORNING BUZZ yesterday morning to perform some of his greatest hits and chat about his exciting return to Broadway this January. Check out…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:35PMCurrent exhibit showcases fuel-efficient Crosley cars of the 1930s and '50s.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:32PMHave we lost touch with our bodies? Aaron Jafferis says we have—and hip-hop is the cure: “Hip-hop, by connecting the heartbeat of rhythm, brings poetry back to the body.” T…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:31PMNumerous cast members of the hit FOX show Glee – including Broadway veteran Darren Criss and hot young newcomer Dean Geyer – helped out the Young Storytellers Foundation in a special eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMThe move is part of an agreement under which the company will present two weeks of performances at the theater every fall through 2015.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMAmericans for the Arts Act Fund PAC has prepared the 2012 Congressional Arts Report Card as a one-stop guide that contains metrics and analysis based on official congressional voting records…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMTwo hit Off-Broadway shows are each currently offering dinner and a show for one low price in the heart of Times Square. HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER at Sofia’s Downstairs Theater offers dinner …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMLincoln Center Theater has officially announced that two-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane will head the cast of its upcoming production of The Nance, a new play by Douglas Carter Be…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:14PMCurrently a season regular on "The Good Wife," the two-time Tony Award winner will star in Douglas Carter Beane's new play as an effeminate burlesque performer in 1930s New York.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:13PMSignature Theatre is pleased to announce a one-week extension for THE PIANO LESSON by August Wilson and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The production will now play thro…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 12:11PMProducer Charlie Lyons The Water Horse, The Guardian, Ladder 49, director Jay Russell The Water Horse, Ladder 49, My Dog Skip and actor Tim Guinee NBCs Revolution, Showtimes Homeland, Iron M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:05PMDirector Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Signature Theatre Company staging of the late August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about family, legacy and ghosts, has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:04PMOctober 24, 2012 Jada A., a student at Multi-Cultural Magnet School, Maya B., a student at Discovery Magnet School, Milagros D., a student at Beardsley School, and Max G., a student at Blac…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 12:03PM
Two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane, who had been rumored to be returning to Broadway in Douglas Carter Beane's new play The Nance, is now confirmed as the production's star. Jack O'Brien…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:58AMProducers have annouced that the hit 1982 Tony nominated Best Musical Pump Boys and Dinettes will return to Broadway this spring. Concieved and written by the original company, John Foley, …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:57AMWhat if life were more like a musical? Here are 10 distinct ways my life has been improved by lessons learned from the Great White Way.
SOURCE: voices.yahoo.com at 11:57AMAfter much speculation, Nathan Lane is set to return to Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Douglas Carter Beane’s new play The Nance. Directed by Jack O’Brien…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMA stage adaptation of the thriller short story that inspired the film "Rear Window" hopes to raise a blind on Broadway, producers announced on Oct. 24. The Cornell Woolrich tale of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMCast members from CHAPLIN recently performed a selection of songs from the show at Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport as part of American Airlines JFK concert series on Octo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMTony Award winner Nathan Lane will star in the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Nance, a new comedy from Tony Award-nominated Little Dog Laughed playwright Douglas Carter Beane, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:52AMTom Hanks is a two-time Oscar winner, a multiple Golden Globe winner and an accomplished producer, but who knew he is also terrific slam poet? Hanks, who starred in some of the '90s most…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTony Award recipient Ben Davis, television star Edward Hibbert, "American Idol" finalist Anthony Fedorov and Elena Shaddow are among the cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's producti…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:48AMHow “The Performers” stages a risqué world For better or worse, Broadway currently has a reputation as the home of family-friendly musicals, film adaptations, and prestigious Br…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:47AMOn Tuesday, October 23, The Public Theater production of Colman Domingo's Wild With Happy opened at the theater's LuEsther Hall, where it is set to play through November 11.Opening
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:47AMThe Signature Theatre Company production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson has extended its limited run before opening. The revival, which was originally …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:44AMOn last night's LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON, actor Tom Hanks performed a spoken-word poem about the 1990's sitcom Full House. Check out his performance below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM(Photo of curtain call at COCK taken by Nilanjana Bose.) M You take it out that’s what you do you take it out first otherwise what’s the point? John alright M It’s not alright it’s a…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:39AMThe world premiere of Wild With Happy, a new play about family, death and healing written by and starring Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo, officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. 23 at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:37AMA bestseller (and the sale of 32 million copies of a book certainly qualities) invariably breeds parodies, as well as “a major motion picture.” And so it is with “Fifty Shades of Grey,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:36AMToday is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #379 Gilda Gray, whom I was first alerted to by the Countess. For my full article go here. Now here she is in later years talking about her charm…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:31AMThis spring, previously announced cast members Jessica Hecht and Judith Light will be joined on stage by Sam Robards, Jeremy Shamos and Mark Blum in Manhattan Theatre Club’s world prem…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 11:31AMRunning alongside the adventures of the Golden Age Green Lantern and Flash, Wildcat, the Ghost Patrol and the Black Pirate in this anthology comic, this story meant that Wonder Woman was now…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 11:30AMEvery fourth Wednesday of the month, the “VIP Access” column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:30AMTony Lo Bianco reprises his award-winning role as Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in THE LITTLE FLOWER, which opened last night, October 23, at the Dicapo Opera Theatre 184 East 76th Street bet…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:29AMThe Dramatists Guild of America has just announced the recipients of their annual awards, which will be presented at an awards ceremony hosted by Lisa Kron on Monday, November 5, 2012, at th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:23AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Snow sweeps across Matthew Lenton's new Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Lyceum. A blizzard, beautifully realised in Kai Fisher's austere design,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMRear Window, the short story by Cornell Woolrich that became the inspiration for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, is headed for the Broadway stage.Producer Charlie Lyons, director Jay Russ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:20AMLincoln Center Theater will present Mr. Lane in Douglas Carter Beane's new play, "The Nance," about a gay performer portraying a camp gay character in 1930s New York burlesque.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:17AMProducers Charlie Lyons, Jay Russell and Tim Guinee have acquired rights to Cornell Woolrich's 1942 noir short story and are in talks with top theater directors and playwrights on the projec…
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:17AMBargain Alert: Event Is Free!Need a brain escape after election day?
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AMLower your shades! A Broadway stage adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s iconic short story Rear Window could be heading to Broadway. Director Jay Russell, producer Charlie Lyons and actor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:13AMDance leaders have joined forces to speak out against the exclusion of arts from the government’s proposed English baccalaureate reforms. In an open letter signed by ten executives includi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMBarry Manilow (a.k.a. “the man who makes the whole world sing”) stopped by VH1's studios on October 23 to play a few of his greatest hits and talk about his upcoming trip to …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:08AMPaper Mill Playhouse has found its Maria to watch over the von Trapp children in the theater's upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical masterpiece The Sound of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMMargaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle are schooling Big Apple natives and tourists alike in "How to Be a New Yorker." Broadway.com headed to Sofia's Downstairs Theatre to turn the tables o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:07AMGlen Berger, the playwright who penned Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, has signed with Simon & Schuster to write a book about his experience with the Broadway musical that became media fo…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 11:06AMNEW YORK (AP) -- A producing team has won the theatrical stage rights to "Rear Window," the noir tale that Alfred Hitchcock made into a classic film....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:02AMStephen Karam, Alan Menken and Michael John LaChiusa are among the recipients of 2012 Dramatists Guild of America awards, which will be presented Nov. 5 at the Players Club in New York.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMTrevor Nunn's acclaimed production of Beckett's All That Fall, starring Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins, is transferring from Jermyn Street to the Arts Theatre next month.The radio play, wh…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:00AMLast week we talked about movies. This week, in the continuing epic of the Theater Season That Isn’t, we (naturally) lead with "Rebecca."
You know, the show whose spectacular, slow-mot…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 11:00AMHappy Birthday Raul Esparza Since making his Broadway debut, Esparza has become only the second actor to receive Tony nominations in all four eligible acting categories. Most recently he too…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMTalk to tourists about where they get tickets to Broadway shows, and a lot of them will say, “The Tickets Booth” or “That red place in the middle of Times Square” or …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Masterworks Broadway announces the first collection of definitive recordings of every Rodgers amp Hammerstein musical. Available November 6, 2012, RODGERS amp HAMMERSTEIN THE COMPLETE BROAD…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMThe Dramatists Guild of America announced the recipients of their annual awards, which will be presented at a performance-packed ceremony on November 5. Tony-nominated writer Lisa Kron will …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:56AMBREAKING NEWS Idina Menzel will be making her long-awaited Australian debut in 2013. On June 22, she will be performing in concert at the Festival Theatre in Adelaide.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:56AMFrom the sleep-deprived depths of daddy leave, I come to you with a ticket giveaway offer: two tickets to Lincoln Center's revival of Clifford Odets' boxing drama Golden Boy, which will star…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:55AMThe Siti Company ’s production “Trojan Women (after Euripides)” will be presented Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at Connecticut College’s Palmer Auditorium in New Lo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:53AMThe Sundance Institute has announced the creation of the Tennessee Williams Award, which will recognize the work of emerging playwrights who are alumni of the Sundance Theatre Program Labs. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:53AMRabbi Andrew Hahn, also known as the Kirtan rabbi or Reb Drew, will be speaking and performing as the weekend scholar-in-residence at Columbia's Beth Shalom Congregation Nov. 2-3.
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:53AMPremieres Artistic Director Paulette Haupt will present Inner Voices, an evening of three one-act solo musicals beginning Saturday, November 10 at 8pm, at 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMAfter topping box office charts with the original movie starring Will Ferrell in 2003 and then a musical adaptation on Broadway that also broke records in 2010, ELF is soon to be available f…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:51AMAsk David Broza if he's a wanderer and his rejoinder is quick, concise: "Why even ask?" These days the multiplatinum recording artist divides his time between homes in New York and Tel Aviv,…
SOURCE: Washington Jewish Week at 10:49AMPremieres Artistic Director Paulette Haupt will present Inner Voices, an evening of three one-act solo musicals beginning Saturday, November 10 at 8pm, at 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMLiza Minnelli, Joan Rivers and Michael Feinstein were in attendance for the Oct. 23 first preview of Broadway's The Performers. The new comedy by David West Read will officially open Nov. 1…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMThere are plenty of things about Yael Kohen’s new book We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy that seem almost calculated to bug me. One is the prejudice against old school va…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:45AMPremieres Artistic Director Paulette Haupt will present Inner Voices, an evening of three one-act solo musicals beginning Saturday, November 10 at 8pm, at 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AMRichard O’Brien’s garish and goofy cult classic The Rocky Horror Show is both a Bible and a coloring book. Any troupe playful enough to take it up must honor the show’s signature look,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMStephen Karam, Alan Menken, Michael John LaChiusa, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Micki Grant have been named the recipients of the Dramatists Guild of America's 2012 annual awards. A presentation …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:39AMThe Round House Theatre stage is currently a spacious kitchen, where the culinary advice being served by the jolly host includes this tidbit: better undercooked than overcooked. In the solo …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:38AMThe Gold Coast International Film Festival held a reception and screening of the original West Side Story last night at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMHi I am Molly Tynes from the cast of the upcoming production of Pippin at the American Repertory Theater. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be blogging about our rehearsal proces…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham presents the world premiere production of WILD WITH HAPPY, written by Colman Domingo, in The Publ…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMNational Theatre Wales executive producer Lucy Davies is to join the Royal Court Theatre as executive director. She will leave the company she co-founded with artistic director John McGrath …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMLegit News:
Lauper to present Fierstein with award
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMThe Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, which opens the MTC MainStage 2012-13 season, stars Juliet Lambert Pratt and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AMIs it just me or is the world a better place when Norbert Leo Butz is on Broadway? Starting on November 3, he will be starring in Theresa Rebeck's Dead Accounts alongside Katie Holmes, Judy …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:30AMApplications are now being accepted for college sophomores, juniors and seniors to coordinate the 2013 Pittsburgh CLO Gene Kelly Awards. The internship runs December 19 amp 20 and January 7 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:27AMThe Reclaim Shakespeare Company - which has already disrupted a number::E8831340986049 of Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions in protest against its affiliation with BP - struck agai…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:27AMThe second annual "Artists for World Peace on Broadway" will be held Nov. 4 at St. Luke's Theater, 308 West 46th Street, New York City, NY. The evening of song and dance includes performance…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 10:25AMColman DomingoHometown: Philadelphia, PACurrent Town: New York City
Q: Tell me about Wild With Happy.A: Wild With Happy is a zany, crazy, out of it's mind new play that I both wr…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 10:22AMA co-writer for the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has reportedly accepted a book deal to tell his side of the story of the troubled mega-production.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:21AMSamuel D. Hunter, whose play The Whale is receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, is among four playwrights to receive a $50,000 Whiting Writers' Award.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMNew Wimbledon, London: Now over 30 years old, the 20th Century Fox comedy movie 9 to 5 captured the zeitgeist of the 1980's and catapulted singer Dolly Parton into popular culture as an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMOn Sunday, October 28, stage and screen stars Carol Kane and Natasha Lyonne will take part in a benefit reading of Eugene Pack's Long Island Express Plays, alongside Noah Fleiss, Helen Hanf…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:12AMAnthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, announces the Midwest premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon), the world’s first mariachi opera…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:09AMLast season's critically acclaimed smash hit COTTON CLUB PARADE returns for a one-week limited engagement from November 14 to 18
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMKara Lee Corthron's
AliceGraceAnon now at the vast Irondale Center, is an appropriately sprawling piece of theater: part rock musical and part feminist mash-up. And even if it's only interm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMDerek Smith and Dionne Randolph will star in the upcoming San Francisco return engagement of Disney’s “The Lion King.” The production will debut at the SHN Orpheum Theatre on November …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMI hope that Scandalous the show isn't as much of an enigma to me as Scandalous the logo is. Logo-wise, this one is aesthetically perfect. But when you think about it, i…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 10:00AM
The Sheffield revival of A Taste of Honey should help us better remember an unfairly neglected playwright – but here's plenty of footage to be going on withAs a major of revival of Shelagh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMTicket sales on the Great White Way increased dramatically through the week ending October 21 as Broadway newcomers continue to draw packed audiences and limited engagements are bringing in …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 09:57AMHouse for Sale, the Transport Group's new drama based on Jonathan Franzen's essay of the same name, opens off-Broadway on October 24 at the Duke on 42nd Street. Daniel Fish directs h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:53AMDC is just the city for a company like Ambassador Theater. Home to a constant tide of diplomats, businessmen, and wandering tourists, this town must re-translate every day to keep the popula…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51AMThis company needs more than seven performances to display all the marvelous works it has accumulated over the years.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:41AMFrankie Valli and the Four Seasons The One. The Only. The Original. opened on Broadway on Friday night, October 19th and runs through Saturday, October 27, 2012. BroadwayWorld's Randy Rainbo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:30AMTroupe to stage "Anne & Emmett" to kkck off 36th season
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 09:30AMLucy Davies has been appointed the Royal Court's new executive director. She will take up her post in April 2013, joining National Theatre of Scotland's Vicky Featherstone when she succeeds …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:27AMBroadway's Carly Rose Sonenclar is among THE X FACTOR 'Sweet 16' finalists chosen by the judges. Carly, who is twelve years old, played 'Chloe' in Broadway's 2011 WONDERLAND- A New Alice. A …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMThe Flea, Off Off Broadway
By Molly Marinik
BOTTOM LINE: The American South at its absolute worst, in a very derogatory yet very engaging lyrical play.
How much racism can you cram i…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 09:15AMChatting up ‘X Factor’ phenom Carly Rose Sonenclar The World Series is booting “The X Factor” from its Wednesday/Thursday lineup on Fox this week (and possibly next),…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:06AMThe chairman of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has urged the government to continue specialist funding for such arts schools. In a House of Lords debate, Labour peer David Li…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMHost Michael J. Roberts and entrepreneur Michael Dorf discuss the opening of City Winery in Chicago. When Michael Dorf finds a new passion, he does more than enjoy it. He builds a business a…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:03AMDrew Gasparini is a musical theatre writer who you may have seen any number of places. He’s had songs featured in concerts at the Kennedy Center, NAMT, Fordham University, and i…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMJonathan Goad performs in Speaking in Tongues on Oct. 29, after three years away from the stage.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
It’s not easy to talk
honestly about race. And the fact that
it’s no longer just a black-and-white issue in this country ups the degree
of difficulty. Still, many of today’…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:48AMChloe Campbell is a British actress who succeded in many shows in the UK like On The Town, Mary Poppins, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shoes,... and last season she toured the States as part of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:47AMSixty-four organizations have applied for the grants of up to $5,000.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:46AMMarketing is storytelling. Price is a pivotal part of the story. In some cases, price is really the only part of the story. The airline industry learned this the hard way. Customer service w…
SOURCE: Mission Paradox at 08:45AMPastures Lodge Hotel, Mexborough: More showcase events than ever are becoming joint efforts these days, possibly due to a pooling of event expenses and/or a wider range of contacts. The clos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMFour years ago on this date my father died; in his memory I repost below a meditation on this written in August 2010 and which appears as the final chapter of Word Made Flesh under the title…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:21AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 24 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMRon Raines has been a musical theater stalwart for more than 30 years, playing such iconic roles as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat, Frederik Egerman in A Little Night Music, and Ben Stone in F…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMHere's the total disclosure: I learned American English by watching Sex and the City because it was surely, I naively thought, the cannon version of how New Yorkers talk and live. What I als…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
The National Theatre of London’s acclaimed contemporary staging of William Shakespeare's “Timon of Athens” will be presented as a National Theatre Live in HD event …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:57AMHere’s Part Three of meeting the cast of The Washington Savoyard’s The Rocky Horror Shows. Today: meet Aaren Keith. I am Aaren Keith. I recently graduated and made the move to DC…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:56AMDr. Dennis M. Layendecker, director of the School of Music and University Heritage Chair of Music, will conduct the Mason Symphony Orchestra for George Mason University’s Departmen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AMThe National Theatre of Scotland has scored a coup by appointing the hugely talented Laurie Sansom as its new boss. Now, how about putting a Scot in charge of the Edinburgh festival?It's soo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMJermyn Street Theatre’s production of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall is to transfer to the Arts Theatre from next month. The show, which was originally created as a radio play, will run …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMLike a dinner with a good friend, Round House Theatre’s production of I Love to Eat is a savory and satisfying addition to their 2012-2013 theatre season. Producing Artistic Director…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38AMBelgrade Theatre, Coventry: American playwright William Inge (1913-1973) has been somewhat overlooked. He certainly saw the latter stages of his career that way, leading to his suicide in Lo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMBorough Theatre, Abergavenny: Shakespeare's classic fairytale forest farce is transposed to the home front during the Second World War. Air raid sirens sound as we join the cast in watc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMWilton’s Music Hall and the Soho Theatre in London, and the Royal Court in Liverpool, are among the first venues to receive grants totalling £24,500 from the Theatres Protection Fund. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFour playwrights have been named recipients of the 2012 Whiting Writers' Awards, which are given for "the abundant promise of future work."Each of the chosen writers receives a cash award of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMStratford Festival plans changes next season, including two-for-one Tuesdays and low-price transportation from Toronto
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMHotel Modern's Kamp and Bennett Miller’s Dachshund U.N. part of World Stage season
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM
The Royal Opera House is proposing an overhaul of its pension scheme for technical staff, citing a £16 million deficit and the projected cost of auto-enrolment. The company has launched a c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMThe timeless tale of appreciating kindness and inner beauty comes to life with beautifully stylized marionettes at the Puppet Co. In the loving hands of real-life husband and wife Christop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:53AMI’m so happy with the HowIBookedIt.com, our new side project that tells the success stories of some awesome theatre talents and shares their advice with the next generation of theatre …
SOURCE: www.vanpattenmedia.com at 06:38AMClare Bayley's new play Blue Sky premieres at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs from 24 October to 10 November 2012. Here, following director Elizabeth Freestone's blog::E8831341411075 for Whatso…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:28AMInspector Morse star Kevin Whately is to appear in a BBC Radio 3 Olympics drama that has been written by Simon Armitage and will be broadcast live. The cast of the 60-minute play, called The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMDon’t call Terri Girvin’s Last Call a solo piece when it returns to the Broward Center this week. She’s the first to say that the precisely timed sound effects ingrained into a comic m…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 06:14AMJessica Chastain’s go-to date has become her grandmother. After bringing her to the Oscars, Chastain brought grandma Marilyn as her plus-one to a Harry Winston and Leading Hotels of the Wo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:04AM
Al Pacino is Broadway’s $6 million man.
At a time when every producer is looking for money, when the desperate, pathetic producers of “Rebecca” have sold their souls to the devil to b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:46AMBased on its title, can you guess the subject of the new play “Wild With Happy”? More hints: Two people flirt in a very inappropriate setting, and there’s a high-speed car chase down I…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:45AMThe Puppet Co. presents Beauty and the Beast, an iconic tale performed in one of its lesser-known original versions, treating the audience with a different perspective in which to view one o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41AMThe four young and attractive singers who play the four young and attractive lovers in La Bohème, now at Vancouver Opera.
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMMarriott Theatre's revival of My One and Only, the 1983 Broadway musical comedy about an aviator and a lady endurance swimmer, will feature The Color Purple Tony Award nominee Felicia P.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThe Philadelphia world premiere of the new musical song cycle Stars of David, featuring musical contributions by major writers of the musical theatre, with a script by Tony Award nominee Cha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMOver the summer, Annex Theater artistic director Evan Moritz was in the Fifth Dimension—known more colloquially as the fifth floor—of the H and H Building, downtown, talking with some fr…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMA Behanding In Spokane
Written by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Howard Berkowitz
Through Nov. 4 at Fells Point Corner Theatre
Martin McDonagh is having a great month in Baltimore.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMRevealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
At the Walters Art Museum through Jan. 21, 2013
Anyone who’s taken a 10th grade American history class is generally familiar with…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMThe murder mystery spoof Something's Afoot concludes Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. Here, in a video distributed by the Tony-winning organization, cast member Bronson Norris M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFifty Million Frenchmen, Cole Porter's 1929 musical about Americans abroad — singing such lines as "do do that voodoo that you do so well" — enjoys a Manhattan revi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe world-premiere stage adaptation of "Freedom" author Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" officially opens Off-Broadway Oct. 24 after preview…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHarvey Fierstein, Audra McDonald, Linda Lavin, Eddie Redmayne and Raúl Esparza are part of Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret with Anne Hathaway and Friends Oct. 24 at Joe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe musical murder-mystery spoof Something's Afoot opens Oct. 24 following previews from Oct. 5 as the final mainstage show of Goodspeed Musicals' 2012 season. The riff on Agath…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski, of TV's "The Newsroom" and Broadway's reasons to be pretty and Other Desert Cities, stars with Laura Heisler and Peter Katona in the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMPlaybill.com's feature series asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1904 Birthday of Moss Hart, Broadway playwright who will write or cowrite The Man Who Came to Dinner, Once in a Lifetime, As Thousands Cheer, You Can't Take it With You and Lady in the Dark,…
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