A wonk test for Washington: Is the presidential election to blame for a box-office slump in capital area theaters? Are D.C.’s denizens so busy working on campaigns or blissing out on polit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48PMTHEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Richard the First, Central Works. By Sam Hurwitt William Shakespeare wrote plays about all the other Richards that served as kings of England, and even wrote trilogi…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 08:43PMSometimes mood can be everything. It is, for example, absolutely crucial to Jon Fosse's play A Summer Day, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMLegit News:
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SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PMFor quite some time, we at FootLights have been trying to find a way to help you, the audience, find shows. From the start we wanted to bring to light the vast opportunities that local theat…
SOURCE: Footlights at 08:00PMA BAD DAY FOR A GREAT PLAY It’s a problem when the most effective elements of a dramatic show are the sound and visual effects, but such is the case with Cherry Lane Theater’s production…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:00PMAccording to the London newspaper The Independent, as of May 2011 Jon Fosse was the most performed European playwright alive, with 900 productions in more than 40 languages, outpacing such n…
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SOURCE: Footlights at 07:42PMBrian Friel's "The Freedom of the City" is a meditation on how politics can crush innocent people in the pincers of absurdity.
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 07:38PMKudos to TheMASSIVE for providing a fresh new take on a story that has been retold thousands of times over the centuries. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 07:34PMEarlier today, the cast of BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL joined Serendipity 3 in launching their newest, exclusive sundae, Bring It On The Sundae on October 25th at Serendipity 3. Check out photos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:28PMThe multi-award-winning NoHo Arts Center Ensemble NoHoAce presents a world premiere play, ONE NOVEMBER YANKEE, written and directed by Joshua Ravetch and starring four-time Golden Globe nomi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:22PMBook of Mormon's weekly take of $2,246,093 sets a record...The Detective's Wife veers away from the Road...Long Beach Opera's season...Linda Gehringer discusses SCR's How to Write a New Book…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:16PM“House/Divided” splices together vignettes of the fictional suffering of the Joad family from John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” with a panoramic view of current economic troubles.
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Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes are currently in rehearsals for DEAD ACCOUNTS, the new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck, directed by three-time T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:51PMMichael Golamco's glossily directed play revolves around a gloomy video game designer living with his dead wife's computerized ghost. Will his mood ever lift?Gather round, 21st century drama…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:40PMSo here’s the deal. I didn’t believe it. From the minute Amy Morton opened her mouth and had trouble calling her husband a cluck in the offhand way that people did back then – I didn…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 06:36PM Playwright and screenwriter for film and TV Theresa Rebeck has a brilliant ear for realistic and witty dialogue and – more importantly – an eagle eye for observing the dynamics of…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:31PMGranted, the opening of the delirious musical "Sweet Tooth" and the arrival of a newly gussied up Blu-ray of "Sunset Boulevard" to my mailbox are purely coincidental. Yet, I can't help b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:28PMart party Mary Birnbaum, Artistic Director announced today that their latest theatrical experience How the Salts Got Down A Family History in Parties will play a limited seven-performance en…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMAt Jim Carusos Cast Party this past Monday, October 22nd, there was an autumnal cornucopia of talent, with impromptu performances by two original cast members of Sophisticated Ladies, Terri …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:26PMThe “Paranormal Activities” concert joins showings of “Nosferatu” and other events in Halloween activities geared to grown-ups.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PMSPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, the record-breaking Broadway spectacular, held a Halloween safety press conference earlier today at the Foxwoods Theatre. Hosted by Spider-Man Reeve Carney and …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21PMHello readers! My theater review this week for the LA Weekly is of The Doctor’s Dilemma, a production from A Noise Within, now playing at their theater in Pasadena. Click here to go to…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:21PMA remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship. The National Theatre of Great Britain's WAR HORSE is now playing at the Kennedy Center Opera House through November 11, 2012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMLandmark NYC dessert emporium, Serendipity 3, honors the cast of the high-flying, hyper-gymnastic Broadway hit, Bring It On- The Musical with an ice cream creation Bring It On The Sundae, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMProducer David Youse and Four Things Productions in association with L.A. Works has just announced a celebrity staged reading in celebration of The 25th Anniversary of Robert Harling's Steel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:11PMGolden Boy, Clifford Odets’ classic New York drama about a young musical prodigy who risks it all for the fame and fortune of boxing, returns to Broadway on November 8. Lincoln Center …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:07PMLong before "The Hunger Games" became a best-selling book and then a blockbuster movie, novelist Lois Lowry had already imagined a persuasively chilling dystopian future for young reader…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:06PMWHERE IS DR. STRANGELOVE WHEN YOU NEED HIM? The best thing about Joe Kern’s Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want To Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them is its title. And if it bears a cl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PMBonnie Metzgar, who has served for five years as artistic director of About Face Theatre (AFT) — one of the nation’s largest, not-for-profit “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, quest…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:06PMPreview performances are underway for "Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple Mcpherson," a musical that takes on religion, sex, drugs, music, and romance. The book and lyrics are b…
SOURCE: Ticket News at 06:03PMSubmissions Only, Broadway's favorite webseries has announced that all eight episodes of Season Two are now available on YouTube.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:02PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Thursday, October 25, 2012 Today’s Tweets from BBB Follow us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/BBBway Click on any hyperlinked item for more info…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:02PM"Cloud Atlas" is irresistible, a visual and sensory marvel with a winning mix of charm and humor to offset the darkest violence and mayhem within the sobering tale.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:00PMThe beauty, intelligence, charisma and singular silver voice of Melissa Errico has been wowing audiences since she was plucked out of Yale to star in the first national touring company of Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:00PM
A flock of fabulous women are assembling to gossip down at Truvy's beauty shop. Annie Potts, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tony winner Blythe Danner and more will take part…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:52PMReview of Philadelphia Theatre Company's World Premiere Musical Stars of David, based on Abigail Pogrebin's book of interviews with Jewish celebrities, reviewed by Wendy Rosenfield.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:51PMAs previously tipped::E8831349351351 by Whatsonstage.com, new page-to-stage musical From Here to Eternity will receive its world premiere at the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre next year, ope…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:43PMMelissa Errico, Michael Cerveris, Brent Barrett and more will offer concerts at the intimate 54 Below in the coming months. They offered a preview the morning of Oct. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:43PMBlythe Danner, Annie Potts, Margo Martindale, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Sarah Stiles will take part in a 25th anniversary benefit reading of Robert Harling's poignant comedy Steel Mag…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:39PMSOLD: ONE HOUSE. AT A DISAPPOINTING RATE. Since Daniel Fish has been certified a new genius by New York’s avant-garde elite, I am loath to label him a hoax on the basis of having seen ju…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38PMLincoln Center Theater previously announced that Michael Aronov, Danny Burstein, Sean Cullen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ned Eisenberg, Brad Fleischer, Karl Glusman, Jonathan Hadary, Daniel Jenkins,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:37PMDon’t have any Halloween plans? Want to do something festive but not too scary? What better way to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve Between Shows than with the ultimate cult classic mi…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 05:36PMAward-winning actress Helena Bonham Carter has revealed a new startling talent - becoming an expert pickpocket after starring in film version of Les Miserables.
SOURCE: Daily Mail at 05:35PMAs the 75th anniversary production of Clifford Odets’ boxing drama Golden Boy gears up for Broadway, hear from director Bartlett Sher and his starry cast about what makes thi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PMInterart Theatre Development Series and MultiStages New Works Contests will present Fengar Gael's The Island of No Tomorrows, described as "an erotic, quixotic musical fantasy,"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMSignature Theatre has announced a one-week extension for The Piano Lesson by August Wilson and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The production will play through Sunday, D…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 05:22PMThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles will hold the 2012 Brittania Awards on Wednesday, November 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will host…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:17PMThe problem with This Must Be the Place is that this doesn’t have to be the place. Let me explain.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:15PMEver wondered what happened to the adorable orphan Annie after the musical ended? In a new YouTube sketch starring Cinderlla's Marla Mindelle, the red-head grew up to be Annie Warbucks-S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:14PMI'm Your Man – The Music of George Michael, an evening that celebrates the music of George Michael, will be offered Nov. 12 at SOB's 204 Varick in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMThe Ghost Sonata, Cutting Ball Theater. The Cutting Ball Theater is performing all five of August Strindberg‘s Chamber Plays in rep (the first time it’s been done in any language…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 05:07PMThe rock musical Bare, set to begin previews Nov. 19 at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, explores the wonder and angst of teens struggling with sexuality and finding their place in the world…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:02PMToday 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 05:00PM
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw will pen an untitled hour-long drama series for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. HBO has signed on to develop the new series…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:58PMAn extremely witty, fast-paced script and catchy songs help tell the story of slacker Duck’s increasingly burdensome struggles as he goes from leading the farm to running for governor and,…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 04:54PMAs BroadwayWorld first reported, a reading is currently taking place for SOAP DISH THE MUSICAL, directed by Rob Ashford, with a book by Robert Harling, music by George Stiles and Lyrics by A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:54PMPreliminary casting has been announced for a 25th anniversary reading of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias to be held at 7pm on Monday, December 3 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It will be di…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:54PMIn celebration of Halloween, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will give away tickets to the high-flying Broadway musical from Oct. 26-30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:53PMT. Oliver Reid, who appears in the New York City readings of Soap Dish, will make his Feinstein's at Loews Regency debut with his new show Drop Me Off In Harlem.
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SOURCE: Vulture at 04:52PMHe really wants to be on the Great White Way.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:52PMIf your Thanksgiving Week plans include taking in a Broadway show, please take notice of the special holiday schedule during the week of November 19-25. Many shows will take Thanksgiving Day…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:52PMIt has just been announced that the daughter of screenplay writer David Rabe, American Horror Story star Lily Rabe, is set to play a lead in and produce We're Just Married. Rodrigo Garcia ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:50PMNEW YORK (AP) — Look who's giving safety advice: None other than Broadway's one-time injury-happy Spider-Man.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:46PMWho's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? at Booth Theatre
Albee Damned! They changed Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?! How could they and, more importantly, is it better or worse for the edit? Find out…
SOURCE: Paper Mag at 04:45PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of four Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wings Tony Awards, pres…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:44PMFor Peggy Willens, being a pack rat has paid off. Years after working as a hospice volunteer, she still hadn’t thrown away the notebook filled with notes from her training. When taking…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:43PM“The Tempest” blew into the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday. From the get-go, it reminded us that a challenge of staging Shakespeare’s tale of revenge and reconciliation is conjuring the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:38PMExecutive Director Jan Kallish today announces plans for her departure from Victory Gardens at the end of November 2012. Kallish has been with Victory Gardens since February 2009. Genera…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:38PMA Summer Day is the touching story of love, loss and memory. We went to off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre to find out what joys and challenges were faced while bringing Norwegian playwr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:35PMEvery modern teller of scary stories owes a debt to Edgar Allen Poe, the master of intricate tales of blood and and betrayal that continue to resonate with contemporary audiences.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:34PMThe producers of Broadway's ONCE are seeking one five to seven year old girl to play IVANKA, the sweet natured daughter of GIRL. Actresses should be comfortable on stage and have the ability…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMMadison Dirks chatted with BWW about making his Broadway debut in Albees hilarious and provocative masterpiece.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:27PMThe Town Halls Eighth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes with The Best of Broadway By The Year on Friday October 26th at 8pm. The festival kicked off with Linda Eders, Linda Eder, A …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PM"Glengarry Glen Ross" has returned to the Broadway stage for a third time. Written by David Mamet, the dramatic performance has won Tony, Oliver, and Pulitzer Prize awards in the past.
The …
SOURCE: Ticket News at 04:18PMOnce upon a midnight dreary there came a production that spoke quite clearly of a haunted poet whose tale is known forever more; the madness of a man quite clearly haunted by his ending near…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMHarry Hamlin and Loretta Swit will co-star in the world premiere of Joshua Ravetch's One November Yankee, about two siblings who disappear in their single-engine plane en-route to Florid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:16PMBonnie Metzgar, the artistic director of Chicago's About Face Theatre, said Thursday that she plans to leave the theater next June, at the end of the 2012-13 season. "It's an organic time fo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:11PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee has handed down their first decisions on the eligibility for 2012-2013 season shows.They are recognizing Rob McClure in the category of Best Performa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:03PM
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time to decide the eligibility of four Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season. The four productions discussed were Harve…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:52PMSee the first eligibility determinations of shows and performers for the 2013 Tony Awards
SOURCE: Tony Awards at 03:48PMIt is rare that we ever can get a critical mass of Chicago theatre hoity toity together as we did on Monday. I’m sorry if you missed it because it was a blast. I don’t know why the Le…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 03:48PMThe film and stage veteran will reportedly make $125,000 a week plus five percent of profits during the 10-week Broadway run.read more
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:47PMThe Seattle Children's Theatre production "Danny, King of the Basement" by David S. Craig (through Nov. 18, 2012) gives young audiences a thoughtful yet entertaining look into the lives of k…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:47PMLearning to stand in another man’s shoes is no easy task as Harper Lee reminds us in the literary classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Brought to the stage through Christopher Sergel’s adaptat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:46PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met Oct. 25 for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of four Broadway productions for the 2013 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:46PMBroadway greats gathered at Joe's Pub to sing selections from Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. Anne Hathaway, Audra McDonald, Eddie Redmayne, Bryce Pinkham, Broadway legend and multi-award-winner L…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:45PMNEW YORK (AP) -- Look who's giving safety advice: None other than Broadway's one-time injury-happy Spider-Man....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:42PMToday I talk with my boss, friend, colleague, and mentor Rob Orchard, Executive Director and Founder of ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage. Rob has been a contributor to the Boston theater comm…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:40PMAdam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who originated the roles of Roger Davis and Mark Cohen, respectively, in the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, celebrate their birthdays Oct. 25 (Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:39PMDespite some flaws, Clockwise's Soul Sisters is a thought-provoking performance, well worth seeing. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 03:37PMFour-time Golden Globe nominee Harry Hamlin and two-time Emmy winner Loretta Swit will star in the world premiere of One November Yankee, written and directed by Joshua Ravetch. NoHo Arts Ce…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:33PMA Chicago theater that has seen a lot of staff turnover is going through more: Jan Kallish, the executive director of the Victory Gardens Theater, said Thursday that she is leaving the theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMA review of Caryl Churchill's "The Skriker," the story of a shape-shifting being chasing two teens in London, being staged at Erickson Theatre through Nov. 11, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:19PMCarrie Fisher will be presenting a new solo stand-up comedy show, October 25-28 at Brea Improv.The show, called Any Questions?, will feature Fisher in an unscripted performance, answering qu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:13PMMetta Theatre presents ARAB NIGHTS 21 November – 1 December at Soho Theatre £8 tickets for A Younger Theatre readers (normally £12.50) Shahrazad needs to survive for one more night -�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:11PMOpening Sunday at the MIA.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:09PMWalker Art Center gives a shout-out to the past 25 years in a new show drawn from its collection.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:07PMLegit Reviews||Regional:
Michael Golamco's "Build" is alarmed by, among other things, the Internet generation's tendency toward soulless solitude, and the programmer's potential…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMBest known from "Christmas Carol," Raye Birk revisits the tale of an arrogant man who loses everything in madness.
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Legit Reviews||Off Broadway:
Love must be blind. How else to explain Rattlestick's infatuation with "A Summer Day," a peculiar piece by Jon Fosse that returns Karen Allen, belo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:57PMArtists frequently support their art with day jobs -- and some of those day jobs can be found on the managerial side of nonprofit theaters. Here are stories of two such Angelenos, Diana Wyen…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:55PMDisney Theatrical Group president and producer Thomas Schumacher announced Oct. 25 that the new touring production of The Lion King, which is currently performing in Bristol, will play Dubli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:54PMOn October 1, 2012, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation in partnership with Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) held a conversation entitled "Directing Green" at the New Amsterdam Theatr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:53PMThree-time Tony nominee Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture) is ready to jitterbug. The actress will lead 20 musicians and singers in the one-night-only benefit concert I’m Your M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PMThe annual P.S. 122 event will feature the troupes Radiohole and Half Straddle, as well as a solo piece by Peggy Shaw.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:49PMMr. Schuester is getting into the holiday spirit! Glee’s resident choirmaster Matthew Morrison will perform a holiday concert on November 16 at Connecticut's Belding Theater at the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:47PMTheater fans know that the best breaking news, interviews, photos and star-driven features are available every day on Broadway.com. In case you missed them, click below to catch up on the mo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:46PMStage and screen favorites Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Krakowski, and John Stamos are among the cast of the cast of a reading of George Stiles, Anthony Drewe, and Robert Harling's musical Soap D…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:45PMJessica Chastain is in good company on Broadway this season. Not only is she taking the stage alongside Downton Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens, but film and TV favorites Al Pacino, Katie Holme…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:42PMThe hit series "Glee" continues its fourth season Nov. 8 at 9 PM ET on Fox. Here is a first look at the episode, titled "The Role You Were Born to Play."
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:40PMSeattle Repertory Theatre announces the works slated for its New Play Program, running Jan. 5-Feb. 3, 2013, and they include plays by Justin Huertas, Samuel D. Hunter, Robert Schenkkan and E…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:37PMOnly a handful of tickets are left for Roundabout Theatre Company's Dec. 3 reunion concert of the 2004 Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins. Ne…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:32PMTony Award winner Anika Noni Rose is slated to return to CBS’s legal drama The Good Wife during its current fourth season, according to TVLine.
Rose will reprise her role as Wendy S…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:22PMAn eloquent blend of wit and despair, served with a side of mayhem. (read more...)
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 02:12PMThe provocative playwright will develop a series about the first black president of a prestigious liberal arts college.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PMOn the Nov. 2 broadcast of Katie Couric's new talk show "Katie," the cast of the current Broadway revival of the Tony-winning musical Annie will chat about the family-friendly …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:07PMTony Award nominee Lily Rabe, who was last seen on Broadway in Seminar, will star in the upcoming film "We're Just Married," according to Deadline.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMStage-managing any job means three things (plus one):
1) There will be sweat.
2) There will be tears.
3) There may be blood.
+1) The wealth of information you will gain while on the job will…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:00PM
Lincoln Center Theater previously announced that Michael Aronov, Danny Burstein, Sean Cullen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Ned Eisenberg, Brad Fleischer, Karl Glusman, Jonathan Hadary, Daniel Jenkins,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:59PMEclipse Theatre Company will present the 2012 Corona Award to Goodman Theatre's Associate Producer Steve Scott on Monday November 12th at the Athenaeum Theatre Mainstage, 2936 N. Southport A…
SOURCE: Collective Leverage at 01:57PMAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Within a small rectangle of light, nearly a dozen dancers writhed and convulsed on the stage, pressed together by imaginary walls denoting some kind of death chamber.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:53PMHoward Brenton’s account of the political and legal battles between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I is rich and rewarding, writes Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 01:49PMBackstage at rehearsals for this weekend’s opening of Slow Burn Theatre Company’s Avenue Q, it was not unusual to find actors offstage talking to their puppets. Michael Westrich, who por…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 01:49PMI have to make a confession. Prior to seeing Facing Page Production’s No Fear Shakespeare’s Richard III, I had no prior knowledge to this Shakespeare play. Having never read nor seen a p…
SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 01:46PMAccording to a report in today's NY Daily News, Courtney Loves manager revealed plans for a Broadway play based on the rock singer's life's story.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42PMAge & Hometown: 37; Raleigh, North Carolina
Current Role: A divine Broadway debut as Sara, a devout Christian housewife who has a monumental change of heart in Grace.
Let the Sunsh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMJoin the press and comms team at WYP to talk Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the secret to marketing regional theatre• Ask the team any question from noon on Friday 26 October, or leave a questi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMFor one night only, twenty of New Yorks most fabulous musicians and singers will join together to present Im Your Man, a concert event celebrating the music of George Michael. Join Tony Awar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:40PMGretchen Egolf, Alan Cox and Mark H. Dold will star in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, staged by Tony Award nominee Maria Aitken. Performances will…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:35PMWe've got three discs on the CD player, and the name of composer-lyricist Irving Berlin is very much around. There's a London cast album of a production adding various Berlin songs to the sc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:34PMTwo 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: Broadway’s Best Shows at 01:31PMNorthern Stage, NewcastleReagan is an overworked social worker doing a late shift in his dingy office. It's a bit of a tip, otherwise everything seems fairly normal. Apart from a demonically…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMIn "Clybourne Park," playwright Bruce Norris takes a withering look at how Americans deal with racial issues.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:30PMMemories of the 2008 housing and banks crisis stir images of angry businessmen cursing in suits as foreboding numbers pile onto computer screens and corporate bigwigs sweat out backroom deal…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 01:26PMShow To Be Taped For CPTVEmmy, Tony, and Golden Globe-nominated star, Matthew Morrison, best known as the perpetually optimistic best know as high school teacher Will Schuester on Fox TV…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:25PMWhite collar criminal Garth Drabinsky — the theatre impresario who once ran the Broadway producing organization Livent, which collapsed in a $500 million financial scandal — has …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:22PMPriscilla, Queen of the Desert played its final performance on Broadway on June 24, 2012, after 23 previews and 526 performances. Now, according to an Equity casting notice, a national tour …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMChris Critelli, who stars as handsome Sonny in the Drury Lane Theatre's current production of Xanadu, offers an exclusive backstage look at the disco-era musical playing the Illinois ven…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:18PMThis season Target Margin Theater’s Lab is presenting an array of productions—plus a reading and a panel discussion—celebrating the legacy of Yiddish theater. “Dukus,…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 01:16PMAre theatre goers guilty of treating performances like a trip to the local Odeon? Rustling sweet wrappers, slurping on fizzy drinks, taking pictures and even answering calls – is our a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PMPlaywrights labor long and hard over the first words we hear; here they share how and why they begin the way they do.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:13PMDisney’s landmark Broadway musical The Lion King is getting set to mark its 15-year anniversary on the Great White Way. Julie Taymor's groundbreaking production began performances …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMKevin Mambo plays Mafala Hatimbi, a Ugandan village chief, in The Book of Mormon national tour. Watch him talk about enjoying his character’s ease, his “great shoe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:11PMThere aren't many Commanders-in-Chief who fit the mold of rock star, but the SpeakEasy Stage Company's Boston premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson makes a very strong case that our seven…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMNot even a false fire alarm could apparently stop five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway and a host of their famous colleagues from burning up Joe's Pub on T…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04PMHere, Chris Moyles talks about the role of King Herod, what made him want to do the production, whether or not he had singing lessons, his appearances on the UK edition of THE X FACTOR, acti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:00PMGarland says she relished the chance to lead Canada's preeminent dance company.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:00PMThe One-Minute Play Festival & INTAR Theatre Present: The New York One-Minute Play Festival of Latino Voices livestreaming direct from INTAR Theatre on #NEWPLAY TV— Watch it live here …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:00PMHampstead, LondonAfter plays about Anne Boleyn and Abelard and Héloïse, Howard Brenton is turning into the history man. But I have no complaint about that, since he has chosen the best mod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Reviewed by Joe Regan Jr. *photos by Russ Weatherford Anna Bergman, who has performed several times in t…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:56PMANNIEs SEARCH FOR SANDY, a 30-minute television special about the nationwide search to find the canine star of Broadways new production of the Tony Award-winning classic musical, ANNIE, will…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:55PMSusan Blackwell, Tom Kitt, Kathleen Marshall and Matthew Broderick will be part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Nov. 11 gala honoring four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:54PMMatthew Morrison will perform standards and holiday music with his orchestra at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts' Belding Theater, November 16 at 7:30pm.The concert performance wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:46PMThe portrait walls at Sardi's are packed with theater stars, and now a behind-the-scenes powerhouse has joined their ranks: Lynne Meadow, Manhattan Theatre Club's Artistic Director. …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMEmmy, Tony, and Golden Globe-nominated star, Matthew Morrison, best known as the perpetually optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester on Fox TVs Glee, will perform at The Bushnell Cente…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40PMTalley's Folly takes place on the Talley family property on the evening of July 4th, 1944, in the small Ozark town of Lebanon, Missouri. It is the bittersweet story of two awkward and emotio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:39PMTracy Michelle Arnold, John Hoogenaker, Linda Kimbrough, and Chelcie Ross will join Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, to run January 12 - February 17…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMTracy Michelle Arnold, John Hoogenaker, Linda Kimbrough, and Chelcie Ross will join Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, to run January 12 - February 17…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:39PMNot much happens or is new here, but there’s nothing wrong with a strong play reinforcing life’s hard-won discoveries, especially when every minute rings as true as a fight bell. (read …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 12:32PMThe cast of Lincoln Center Theater's 75th anniversary revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy met the press on Thursday, October 25. Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher helms the drama, w
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PMA by-invitation-only reading of the new musical The Mudge Boy, based on Michael Burke's film of the same name, will be presented Oct. 30.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMAll four of my posts on the recent In the Intersection report about new American plays — all 4,100 bloody words of the thing — can now be found on a single page here (in reverse …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:26PMCan you imagine how excited the folks at the Public Theater must have been when Anne Hathaway signed on to headline a benefit concert of songs from Cabaret? On October 24, Hathaway was joine…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMMark Addy, Jimi Mistry and Alison Steadman are to star in the second series of The Syndicate on BBC1. Written by Kay Mellor, the cast also includes Siobhan Finneran and Natalie Gavin. Like t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMAs we know, all is not well in Broken Britain - which is why Ted (played by Adam El Hagar) has taken drastic action and moved to Sealand, an abandoned fort seven miles out at sea. Joined by …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:17PMWatching 9 to 5 the Musical at the Albuquerque Little Theatre, I was surprised by how much things really have changed in the last three decades.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:11PMThe revival of Boy George musical Taboo at Brixton Club House has extended its run by three months until 31 March 2013.Producers also announced today that Taboo will stage a special late nig…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:11PMAmbassador Theatre Group will trial autism-friendly performances at three of its regional venues with a view to bringing similar shows to the West End. The ‘relaxed performance’ pilot sc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMThe New York-based theatrical innovator, SITI Company, is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in the coming months.Among the featured productions will be a college tour of the company-created C…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:04PMIs Courtney Love coming to Broadway? Not quite, but her life story might be in the form of a musical about her late husband Kurt Cobain and his iconic band Nirvana.
Music manager Sam Lutf…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03PMMax von Essen, who currently stars in the Broadway revival of Evita, publicly shared a letter — via Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr — that he wrote in response to a friend who expre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:03PMNatalie Cortez chatted with BWW about the exciting new American musical GIANT, beginning previews Friday, October 26 at The Public's Newman Theater.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMShe came back with a vengeance, that's for sure. From a blood-drenched and campy oddball to a triumphant and transcendent Prom Queen, Carrie White returned to the New York st…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMIn this interview, Ben Foster talks about playing the title role of Jesus, performing in arenas, his first experiences with the musical, the challenge of singing songs like 'Gethsemane', the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMJournalist Jacqueline Trescott started at The Washington Post in the 1970s, during a time of social and political upheaval. But she made her mark by covering the arts, theater and film. Tres…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00PMLoretta Swit and Harry Hamlin, who played to many millions of weekly television viewers when they were Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in “MASH on CBS and attorney Michae…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00PM
I’d like to go out on a limb and say that life without Minnie Pearl is not worth living, but I’m 16 years too late. But you know what I mean. I miss the world of human beings, wh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:57AMPerformances from Celia Keenan-Bolger, Greg Hildreth, Alysha Umhpress, Zak Resnick, Phoebe Strole, Taylor Trensch, Libby Winters and Ben Walker highlighted Colt Coeur's 3RD ANNUAL KARAOKE CL…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:57AMTim Minchin talks here about how Andrew Lloyd Webber and he met because of his musical MATILDA, why and how he wanted to take on this role and the challenge of performing someone else's mate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:56AMIf you’re familiar with NYC, you know it doesn’t lack in comedy, theater, and tours - they abound just as much as rats, Starbucks, and curse words. But what if you combined all three? No…
SOURCE: offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com at 11:55AMTV talk-show host and Oscar nominee Oprah Winfrey appeared as a special guest anchor on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC and revealed her plans to perform on a Broadway stage. My d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMLegit News:
McClure, Gaines among actors deemed leads
SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AMHouse For Sale, a new play adapted from author Jonathan Franzen’s essay of the same name, has moved into the Duke on 42nd Street, and on October 25, the cast celebrated their…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:49AMWestborough Ratepayers Club, Dewsbury: As social club representatives gathered for this Mayfare management showcase since 2008, the family feel of the agency business was evident, with all t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMI keep seeing this icky campaign propaganda insinuating that Betsy Butler enabled child abuse and I'm a little obsessed about it. She abstained from voting for a bill that would make it easi…
SOURCE: Frank's Wild Lunch at 11:48AMDespite the material's limitations, the stellar SpeakEasy Stage cast and designers nail "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"'s irreverent, over-the-top vibe, serving up plenty of humor and high am…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:46AMEntertainment union BECTU is calling on the BBC to ensure it has a management culture that “supports those who report wrong-doing” following the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal. Responding to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMI’m often asked when I decided to become a producer. The truth is, I didn’t find my true calling until after college. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been in love with musicals for as long …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:42AMHappy Birthday Adam Pascal Pascal received Obie and Theatre World awards and Tony and Drama Desk nominations for best actor for Rent. On Broadway, he also originated the role of Radames in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:40AMToday is the birthday of Stars of Vaudeville #67: The Dolly Sisters (for full article go here). Here is a clip from the preposterous, ahistorical film George Jessell made about their lives:…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:36AMWith three phenomenal pieces, the company’s year is off to a promising start. From the yearning “Forgotten Land” to the abstract “Pretty BALLET” to the disturbing “The Green Tabl…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 11:32AMMatthew Broderick Nice Work If You Can Get It, Tony Danza Whos The Boss, Kathleen Marshall Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Pajama Game, Greg Naughton Founder Blue Light Theater Company, Jam…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMThe national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is set to launch Jan. 8, 2013, at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, will bring added glitz to Las Vegas next summer for an 11-week…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM
Translated from Spanish by Maria Alexandria Beech
Luis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz MonasterioHometown: Guadalajara, Jalisco. Current town: Xalapa, Veracruz. Q: Tell me about "I …
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:31AMFind 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 11:27AM Today is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #251: Billy Barty (for a complete squib on him go here). In honor of the day (and in honor of the Halloween season) we present a clip fro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:25AM"LEO": If you think Fred Astaire's famous ceiling dance from "Royal Wedding" was awe-inspiring, imagine seeing such antics unfold live. This one-man gravity-defying acrobatic show uses stage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMBroadway favorite Max von Essen, who is currently starring in EVITA, recently spoke out about his feelings on equal rights and the importance of the upcoming election through an eloquent pos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:21AMLuis Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio
Adonde nacistes?
Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Adonde vives ahora?
Xalapa, Veracruz.
Háblame sobre "I Hate Fucking Mexicans."
En términos formales es…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 11:20AMLouis Zorich has withdrawn from Classic Stage Company's off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov due to a foot injury. Austin Pendleton, who also directs the play, will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMI only alert you to this now because it starts at dawn tomorrow. In honor of Jackie Coogan’s birthday (tomorrow) TCM is showing a bunch of his earliest pictures. The line up is: 6:00am…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AMThe cast of Playwrights Horizons' world premiere of Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan greeted the press with an Oct. 23 photo op.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AMBefore her new musical Kinky Boots hits Broadway, Cyndi Lauper will make a splash in New York with her second annual concert Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays, benefitting ho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth and "30 Rock" star Jane Krakowski are the daytime divas of the new musical Soap Dish, featuring a score by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, whic…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:11AMLegit Reviews:
To get much out of Howard Davies' production of Howard Brenton's "55 Days," you need to bring a thorough understanding of British 17th century religious and polit…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:09AMOn October 31, Cadavaret- Broadway's Halloween Cabaret, will be hosted by Lance Roberts Broadways Ghost, Sister Act, Jafar in Disney's Aladdin and The King of Cartoons in The Pee Wee Herman …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:07AM“Motown: The Musical” is wending its way toward us inexorably. A couple of weeks ago the producers of the show invited group theater bookers and advertisers to come see a little …
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:06AMThe high-energy Off-Broadway spectacle Fuerza Bruta offered 100 fans the chance to see the production for free on Oct. 24 at the Daryl Roth Theatre in honor of the production's fifth ann…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:06AM54 Below will welcome Broadway's own Michael Cerveris for two very special performances only on November 2-3, featuring him and his band, the magnificent Loose Cattle. Broadway was introduce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:01AMTraditional Group Sales for Broadway Shows accounts for about 9% of all Broadway sales, from what my statistical spies tell me. And when I say “Traditional Group Sales”, I mean…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMGeoffrey WadeJosh Clark and Jeremy Glazer in "You Can't Take It With You" at Anteaus CompanyStarting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, …
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AMDick Van Dyke never seems to tire. The 86-year-old actor will produce a revival of the musical "Cabaret" by the Malibu Stage Co. The production is scheduled to open Nov. 2 and run for five w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMSometimes it takes a particular role to allow you to see an actor you've watched for years in a way you've never seen her before. Sometimes it takes a character who taps into something parti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM
NINA METZ reviews "Urlakis & Cusick: Questionable Lullabies" at Stage 773 ★★½ and "In Pigeon House" at The Den Theatre ★½
NINA METZ reviews "Urlakis & Cusick: Questionab…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:59AMOBIE and Drama Desk Award-winning Transport Group presents the world Premiere of HOUSE FOR SALE, the first of any work by National Book Award novelist and Pulitzer finalist Jonathan Franzen …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMA foot injury has forced Louis Zorich to withdraw from Classic Stage Company's currently running production of Ivanov. His role as Lebedev will now be played by the show's director, Austin P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:57AMOpera company Glyndebourne has appointed its first ever dramaturg. Cori Ellison, who previously worked as staff dramaturg at New York City Opera for more than ten years, will join the Sussex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMTony winner Heather Headley is getting set to star as pop diva Rachel Marron in a new musical adaptation of The Bodyguard, which will begin previews at London's Adelphi Theatre on Novemb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:55AMDavid Walliams is to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance. The event, which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall and be attended by the Queen, marks the 100th anniversary of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMThe world-premiere stage adaptation of "Freedom" author Jonathan Franzen's autobiographical essay "House for Sale" officially opened Off-Broadway Oct. 24 after previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:47AMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVsTiNNJio by Michael Wheeler Tomorrow, The Theatre Centre will host an official TEDxToronto viewing party. This is a no-cost event with FREE LUNCH to watch a…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:44AMMenotti’s THE MEDIUM starring Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman October 25 – November 11 The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater 10 West 64th Street New York, NY Presented by P…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:38AMBased on Lawrence Kasdans 1992 Warner Bros. film, this brand new musical of The Bodyguard, with book by Alex Dinelaris will open at the Adelphi Theatre in Autumn 2012. Previews begin on 6 No…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMWhy Disgraced balances fiery debate with pleasant conversation — The politics are so volatile in Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgraced—the arguments are so intense as friends navigate t…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:36AMMolly Smith is helping to light the fuse of an explosive new play headed to Broadway. The Artistic Director of Arena Stage will be making her Broadway directorial debut with The Velocity of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMRattlestick Playwrights Theatre's production of A Summer Day, starring Karen Allen, officially opens on October 25 at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre.
Written by Norw…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:31AMLynne Meadow, artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, was honored Oct. 25 with a caricature to adorn the famed walls of Sardi's.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMSignature Theatre will present Dreamgirls, November 13-January 6 in the MAX Theatre. Matthew Gardiner will direct with music direction by John Kalbfleisch and choreography by Brianne Camp.I…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:18AMAcademy Award winner Olympia Dukakis will take on the demanding title role of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children for Shakespeare
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMBy Matthew Murphy (Photographer) Some of Broadway's brightest stars and biggest fans mingling under one roof all for a good cause? I wouldn't have missed the first Broadway for Obama phone b…
SOURCE: Crazytown at 10:11AMThe new musical The Other Josh Cohen takes a hilarious look at one good Jewish boy with not-so-good luck. We asked the show’s stars about its ‘Neil Diamond-esque’ score and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:03AMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s comic send-up of Chekhov's work, begins performances off-Broadway on October 25. Directed by Nicholas Martin and star…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:01AMOne of Broadway's more consistent box-office draws, Nathan Lane will return this season in a new play by Douglas Carter Beane. The two-time Tony Award-winning actor will lend his magical tic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:01AMWe’re asking Broadway Stars what their favorite moments were on the other side. That’s right, no more asking what they love about being on the stage, we want to know their favorite momen…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMNathan Lane is heading back to Broadway in Douglas Carter Beane’s play, “The Nance.” The Lincoln Center Theater announced Wednesday that Lane would star in the upcoming play, which is …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMJourney into the woods as we meet four cast members – Alexandra Pool, Matt Succi, Matthew Lincoln-Bugg & Rafael Medina - of George Mason University’s production of Into the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AM
Stephen Fry - enjoying a break before Twelfth Night transfers to the Apollo - and Zoe Wanamaker were among the guests at Hampstead Theatre last night (24 October 2012, previews from 18 Octob…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 09:55AMNCM Fathom Events, Omniverse Vision and The Broadway League present Jesus Christ Superstar UK Rock Spectacular in select movie theaters nationwide for two nights only on Monday, October 29 a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMNew York-based theatre writers Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (book and lyrics) will showcase their work in a one-night London concert, to be held Dec. 2 at St. Andrews in Hol…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:53AMLouis Zorich has withdrawn from the Classic Stage Company production of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov due to a foot injury.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:50AMNEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Chastain has been called many things. Time magazine declared her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Vanity Fair said she is among the Best Dressed…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:46AMJourney into the woods as we meet four cast members – Brittany Martz, Kate Merryman, Jacob Lash, and Miranda Carver - of George Mason University’s production of Into the Woods, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMMaybe it is my reaction to the rain pouring down outside my window. Perhaps it's because I am under the weather, sick, uncomfortably wrapped under the warm and protective covers of my bed as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:44AMStars including Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon and Jim Sturgess premiered the epic film CLOUD ATLAS last night at the legendary Grauman's Chinese theater. Check out photos from the e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38AM My View – written by Stephen Sorokoff I know it’s a very dangerous and sensitive subject in the cabaret/theater community. President Dwight D. Eisenhowe…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:35AMWhite Rabbit Cocktail Bar, London: It's safe to say Andy McQuade now reigns as Stoke Newington's resident theatrical sadomasochist.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Boeing Boeing is the sort of farce that, properly wound up, should move like clockwork through Bernard and Robert's frantic efforts to keep Bernard's thre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AM By Joel Benjamin October 19th, 2012 If I were a songwriter there would be nobody but Fred Barton I’d want on my side. Good looking, dapper and knowledgeable, he is a che…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 09:15AMIf you look through the circus sub-category on this blog you will find much kveching over the years about the art of modern circus, and some praise for Coles Bros.’ and Ringling Bros.&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:12AMMeet The Baker and The Baker’s Wife in George Mason University’s production of Into the Woods. My name is Kyle Imperatire. I am 19 years old and I grew up in the town of Mast…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMThis month marks the beginning of SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference) professional screening auditions. Being from Georgia and going to school in Alabama, I know that SETC is the most po…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMFran Lebowitz, author of Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, talks Romney, Obama and the trouble with New York
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AM
The full cast has been announced for the world premiere of Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness, beginning performances at London's Royal Court Theatre Dec. 6 prior to an offi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:38AMHampstead Theatre, London: Whenever one thinks of the parliamentarians who waged Civil War against their king, one never imagines them in 1940s get-up, tapping on typewriters and flicking in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMThe Transport group mission to explore the work of major American writers has produced a variety of hits. While this stage adaptation of Jontthan Franzen's essay is more miss than hit, it do…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:24AM Written by: Paulanne Simmons With the help of host Scott Siegel, Broadway fans had the opportunity to “relive and remember Broadway history” with Broadway Originals!, part of Th…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:19AMThe electronic glow of 21st-century stock market tickers alternate with sepia-toned film footage of the Depression-era Dust Bowl in The Builders Association's House/Divided, now at BAM Harve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:10AMFind 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 08:04AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 25 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMKate Baldwin's porcelain skin, flaming red hair, and silvery soprano have all helped make her a much-sought-after leading lady, having appeared in four Broadway shows in the past decade. So …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM
Wilton's Music Hall, Soho Theatre and the Royal Court in Liverpool are among the first theatres to benefit from grants awarded by the Theatres Trust's new small grants scheme.
The scheme, …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 06:59AMAbigail Kehoe , Alyssa Slotnick , Christopher Snow , Joe Buchek and Jonas Shivers are the winners of Hartford Stage's "Write On" contest, its annual young playwrights' competition fo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:55AMGala Theatre, Durham: The trademark style of north east playwrights Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood is to take an historical tale from the region and wrap it in comical modernism.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMGas & Electric Arts will bring Miller's amazing but tragically little-known story to the stage in "Behind the Eye," a Philadelphia premiere by playwright Carson Kreitzer. Director Lisa Jo Ep…
SOURCE: www.metro.us at 06:30AMTimothy West and Prunella Scales are to be recognised with The Stage award for outstanding contribution to British Theatre at this weekend’s Theatre Awards UK. The couple are to be rec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM02 Arena, London: John Bishop's press release describes him as 'an irresistibly charismatic performer'. Well it would say that. But, on this occasion, the hype is right. There…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMAs Timothy West and Prunella Scales prepare for recognition at the Theatre Awards UK, the couple relate how their long success has been nourished by regional tours
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AM"Call Me Adam" chats with Allee Willis, Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and Webby award-winning and nominated songwriter, performer, visual artist, multimediaist, director, collector, social artist, and…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 06:01AM
Last year my assistant theatre manager gave me a calendar of Japanese wood block prints from MFA Boston. Most of the works included are several hundred years old and have really enjoyed look…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AMHere’s the bad thing about experimental theater: It’s experimental, which means there’s a big possibility it will fail. Case in point: The Transport Group’s production of “House fo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:19AMLike the Shakespeare play it’s based on, Thomas Adès’ opera “The Tempest” is set on an enchanted island. But even with a starry cast singing its Met premiere Tuesday, this 2004 piec…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AMPlaybill.com's feature series asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMike Stack in David Cooper's deliriously silly photo from the cross-country phenomenon, The Number 14, now in Vancouver and then across the country, ending its tour in Montreal in the spring…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe new Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots, about two very different men who discover that expectations are made to be shattered — not met, will stomp its way to Broadway this spring. Pl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMLindsay Mendez, who recently starred in the Off-Broadway world premiere of Dogfight at Second Stage Theatre, and music director and jazz pianist Marco Paguia will play Feinstein's at Loe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the latest comedy from playwright Christopher Durang, gets its Off-Broadway premiere Oct. 25 at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, f…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMReadings of the Neil Bartram and Brian Hill musical Something Wicked This Way Comes, based on the atmospheric Ray Bradbury novel, are presented Oct. 25-26 at the University of Oklahoma.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMElla Minnow Pea, a new musical fantasy about disintegrating language on an island, by Larson Award-winning writers Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, gets private performances in Manhattan Oct. …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTwo old friends reunite in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, starring stage and film actress Karen Allen, which officially opens Off-Broa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMKnock Me a Kiss, Charles Smith's play about the brief marriage of Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, that features the original 2010 Off-Broadway cast, kicks off Cros…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMCity Theatre will present the world premiere of South Side Stories, described as "a vibrant, hometown adventure" written and performed by Tami Dixon, beginning Nov. 10, prior to an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA benefit reading of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest plays The Colonial Dames Museum House in Manhattan Oct. 25.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMActors Liev Schreiber, Raúl Esparza, Jordan Lage, William H. Macy and directors Gregory Mosher and Neil Pepe — artists associated with productions of David Mamet's plays &md…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1927 Birthday of Barbara Cook, sylphlike ingenue of the 1950s who created lead roles in Flahooley, Candide, The Grass Harp and The Music Man (as the original Marian the Librarian), and later…
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