According to ThisIsTheWestCountry.co.uk, a Liza Minnelli shirt lost during a night out in Truro, Cornwall, UK, has launched a national search.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:40PMIf you've turned on your television in the past 48 hours, you've heard all about the 'perfect storm' that is heading towards the East coast as this weekend concludes. The combonation of astr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:31PMShort of setting himself on fire in the Royal Albert Hall, it’s hard to see what Jez Butterworth could have done as an encore commensurate with the stonking transatlantic triumph of Jerusa…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:26PMStill waters run deep, but that truism barely hints at the quiet power of The River, the eagerly awaited new play from Jez Butterworth (writer) and Ian Rickson (director) whose col…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:22PMTweetSo I kind of hate My Fair Lady, but at the same time I always end up singing a long with it whenever I hear any of the songs played at showtunes night at JRs. One song I never really …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 07:09PMGlasgow Girls, GlasgowDavid Greig and Cora Bissett join forces for this new musical, fronted by seven strong female leads and featuring a raft of original songs, that tells the true story of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMIndhu Rubasingham kicks off her tenure as the Tricycle's artistic director with a fascinating play by Lolita Chakrabarti. The piece begins and ends in a theatrical dressing room, where the p…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMI found myself wondering the other night whether a white actor will ever play Othello again. In the near future the answer to this question is obvious, I would have thought. Only last week t…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMHarold and Maude, Hal Ashby's 1971 dark comedy (below) about the relationship between a death-obsessed teenage boy and a 79-year-old woman who survived the Nazi death camps and lives life wi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PMKevin David Thomas was to have appeared on Broadway with fellow Baldwin Wallace University alum Jill Paice next month in the hotly anticipated Gothic confection "Rebecca." Instead,…
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HOUSE NOT AT HOME IN THE THEATER My theatergoing companion left the Duke on 42nd Street last night with tears welling in her eyes. She spent much of the subway ride home taking deep breath…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:53PMTHEATER REVIEW: SAN FRANCISCO And That’s What Little Girls Are Made Of, Diaspora Productions. By Sam Hurwitt Gender equality in the business world is a vitally important, touchy subject th…
SOURCE: The Idiolect at 06:39PMThe Tony-winning Jefferson Mays plays multiple members of a family, all doomed to die, in the premiere of the musical comedy “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMWhen an audience titters at a tragedy, it's usually a sign that something isn't quite right, either in the text, the acting or the production. I hesitate to give a definitive verdict on what…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:36PMTony nominee Patrick Wilson will star in the new sci-fi dramedy Space Station 76, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The cast also includes Broadway alum Jerry O'Connell and Matt Bomer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMA review of the touring production of "The Addams Family," making a stop at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre through Nov. 11, 2012.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 06:10PMThe National Theatres award-winning production of War Horse last night 25 October 2012 celebrated its fifth anniversary in London with a special performance at the New London Theatre, Drury …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:09PMSherie Rene Scott Everyday Rapture, Aida, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Last Five Years is back on The Graham Show to talk about her early years in the Midwest and finding the theater. Watch …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:03PMStarcatcher’s Celia Keenan-Bolger and Newsies’ Andrew Keenan-Bolger chat about bad auditions, laundry disasters and which sibling is the biggest “attention whore.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMBrought to you by Boneau/Bryan-Brown Friday, October 26, 2012 Today’s Tweets: click on hyperlinked items for more information Becoming CHAPLIN: Leading Man Rob McClure Talks About Creating…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 06:03PMBlack Women: State of the Union 'Taking Flight' arrives at the Skylight after success at Company of Angels in 2009. It's a series of six short plays written by, directed by and starring Afri…
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House for Sale, adapted from an autobiographical essay by Jonathan Franzen, is bringing bittersweet memories of home to off-Broadway’s Duke on 42nd Street. Broadway.com got the scoop o…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PMOn Monday, October 29, 2012 at 730 p.m., the 2012 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust will present the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award to David Henry Hwang at the Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMAccording to the New York Times, the Danish Royal Theater will soon present a musical based on the life of the late Amy Winehouse. Producers revealed that the show will focus on the enormous…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMBroadway News Review | Week of Oct 20 – Oct 26
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SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:48PMI OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES OUGHT TO BE BETTER You would be hard-pressed to find anyone proclaiming I Ought To Be In Pictures to be Neil Simon’s finest hour, but even with its shortcomin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:39PMIf you were to ask 100 random people to list the top 10 American actors of all time, Al Pacino would surely be included in a good majority of them, if not all. Even though this 8-time Academ…
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 05:30PMA new musical based on the life of late troubled British singer Amy Winehouse, whose voice captured a bygone era of '60s groove that meshed with contemporary R&B, will premiere at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:30PMPrincipal cast changes have been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webbers THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the longest-running show in Broadway history. Produced by Cameron Mac…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:29PMThe Phantom of the Opera star Hugh Panaro will stay on as the "Man Behind the Mask" during the musical's upcoming celebration of its 25th anniversary on Broadway. A specia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMLa Jolla Playhouse presents Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a world-premiere musical featuring a story by The Flaming Lips Wayne Coyne and Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff Jersey Boy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMThis is a delicate spider web of a play woven with silk that has the strength of steel. It has to be a strong web because this is the story of the man who never returned. Karen Allen (Olde…
SOURCE: Usher Nonsense at 05:24PM By Patrick Christiano"Piece of Meat" is the title of Sherie Rene Scott's marvelously sung new cabaret show at 54 Below, where the Broadway star of "Ai…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:21PMIf you’re too old to don Annie’s red wig and you’re looking for a little more glamour than Grizabella's whiskers, it’s time to consider a hot new Broadway costume…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PMTwo plays and a Sleep No More–type experience.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:13PMOn two Off Broadway plays that deal with Islamofascism and Islamophobia.-- Delivered by Feed43 service
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:13PMBefore we board up the Broadway.com offices to prepare for the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, it's time to revisit another exciting week on the Great White Way! In the past seven days, we cho…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMHere are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Oct. 14-21, 2012, as reported by The Broadway League.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:07PMGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The circus came to Gaza on Friday, but getting it there required its own high-wire act.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:04PMIn the spring of 2008 I finished graduate school at Boston University and had just gotten hired at New Repertory Theatre, right outside of Boston. Not really knowing anything about theater i…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:00PMThe Casting Society of America (CSA) has announced the host and presenters for the organization’s New Y0rk 28th Annual Artios Awards for outstanding achievement in casting given in 22 …
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As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the highly anticipated film adaptation of LES MISERABLES will be released in theatres on Christams Day, December 25, 2012. Check out a photo of some of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:58PMOn Saturday, October 27, Broadway veterans Ryan Silverman The Phantom of the Opera, Leigh Ann Larkin A Little Night Music and Don Stephenson Rock of Ages will debut a selection of musical nu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:56PMHugh Panaro will don the classic half-mask of The Phantom of the Opera a little longer, leading the company of the long-running Broadway smash when it hits its landmark 25th anniversary in J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:56PMAmerican Idiot alum Tony Vincent may not have won season two of The Voice, but the show's judge and mentor CeeLo Green is still a fan of the Broadway veteran. Vincent will reunite w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:55PMI quite often find myself wishing that curatorial statements could be excised from the walls of art museums. Or that they could be less pretentious.This feeling struck me palpably last week …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:51PMNew BroadwayWorld.com Poll - What other Downton Abbey star would you like to see on Broadway
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMKen Cheeseman and Cliff Odle wonder if they're up to the eightieth page yet at the New Rep.I can tell you precisely the moment I gave up on David Mamet's Race; it's the moment when one chara…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:42PMJohn Logan, Tony Award winner for his drama Red, is set to write the next two films in the 007 series, according to Deadline.com. The latest James Bond installment, Skyfall, was co-written b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:40PMAndrew Call, Kathy Fitzgerald and Joe Aaron Reid will take part in a New York industry reading of Bernice Bobs Her Mullet on Nov. 2. The musical comedy has been revised since its debut at th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:40PMTwo-time Olivier Award-winner Zoë Wanamaker will return to the West End for Peter Nichols' Passion Play, to be directed by David Leveaux at the Duke of York's Theatre. The production is set…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:37PMThe Building Stage has announced the return of Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Again., created and performed by The Building Stage’s Founder and Artistic Dir…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:35PMOn Thursday November 1st at 8pm, Broadway actress Jessica Snow Wilson brings Make Your Own Party to L.A. The concert will feature songs by composer team Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, curr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34PMComedian and actor Chris Rock will join previously announced members of the original Broadway cast, including Tony-nominated Bobby Cannavale and Elizabeth Rodriguez, when L.A. Theatre Works …
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:33PMThe Gift Theatre has announced its 11th season, beginning January 2013. The season opens with a celebration of short world premieres and then presents three radically different productions d…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:30PMThe life of Grammy-winning artist Amy Winehouse will be the basis of a new musical, according to The New York Times. The Danish Royal Theater will produce the untitled work at the Red Room T…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:30PMWill Act For Food will present the Chicago premiere of THE RECKLESS, RUTHLESS, BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT, or THE TRAIN PLAY, by Liz Duffy Adams, directed by WAFF Artistic Director Andrew Jordan, …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:26PMOn Thursday, October 25, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day opened Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre with Susan Cameron Sunde at the he
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:25PMCameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Group, Inc., the producers of The Phantom of the Opera, confirmed on Oct. 26 that the man behind the mask for the show's milestone 25th anniversary perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:24PMJust heard that Candy Johnson passed away. The Countess and I first became aware of her when we were paying attention to beach party movies for our reading of Beach Blanket Bluebeard. She w…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:22PMBring the entire family and join Annie, her canine companion Sandy, and her pint-sized cohorts, Nov. 21-Dec. 30, 2012 at the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora (now the…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:22PMAmerican Theater Company (ATC) presents the beloved holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play adapted from Frank Capra’s film and directed by ATC Artistic Associate Jason W…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:17PMMembers of the original Broadway cast of The Motherf**ker With the Hat will reunite for six performances of Stephen Adly Guirgis' dark comedy at L.A. Theatre Works. Chris Rock, Bobby Can…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PMThe Board of Directors of About Face Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar will be stepping down at the end of the theatre’s 2012/13 Season. During her fi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:11PMNo written description can do full justice to the spirit of actor-comedian-writer Mike Birbiglia and what he does in his winningly honest, ruefully funny, seamlessly performed show, “My Gi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:11PMSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the musical with the most famously complicated safety record in Broadway history, held an unironic press conference about Halloween safety on Oct. 25 outside
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:10PMMajestic, haunting and somber, Los Angeles Master Chorale’s new CD release, “Miserere,” features the sublime choral compositions of acclaimed Polish composer, the late Henryk Górecki.…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 04:05PMDEAR JOURNAL is an original musical centering around four teenagers' lives as they enter Middle School. BWW approached the musical's co-creator, Eric Gelb, to blog about the team's challenge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMRussian pianist will play Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.
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On Wednesday night, Broadway greats gathered at Joe's Pub to sing selections from Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. Anne Hathaway, who will be appearing as Fantine in the movie musical Les Miserable…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:55PMKnown for her credits as a Broadway producer (Spring Awakening, Magic/Bird) and for her many TV and film roles (including medical examiner Melinda Warner on NBC’s “Law & Order: Speci…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:55PMIn the midst of war and a future uncertain comes a story of bravery, loyalty and companionship as The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts proudly presents the National Theatre of Grea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMLeading man Matthew Holzfeind takes Playbill.com behind the scenes at the Bailiwick's Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-nominated rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He introduce…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMMichael Golamco's new drama
Build at the Geffen Playhouse deals with weighty subjects in the technological age: How we cannot engage with humanity but only with simulations; how we've strip…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:40PMThe play, based on published materials and public appearances, is to open in January at the Red Room theater in Copenhagen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:39PMWhen baseball manager Leo Durocher coined his famous "nice guys finish last" back in 1938 he wasn't thinking of nice nebbishes like Josh Cohen for whom Valentine's Day is the unhappiest day …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 03:31PMPoster artAlone, Togetherby Joe VermeulenBashir Lazhar, a franco-Canadian play by Evelyne De La Chenelière, is a fantastic exploration about racism, suicide and death, love and loss, and in…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:30PMFrom an an organic farm in North Dakota sprouted Damon Kirsche, the debonair musical theater and big-band star. He's currently playing Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, which is launching Musical…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:26PMThe 21st century re-invention of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar will be broadcast to select U.S. cinemas nationwide on Monday, Oct. 29 and again on …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:20PMChris Rock will join previously announced members of the original Broadway cast, including Tony-nominated Bobby Cannavale and Elizabeth Rodriguez, when L.A. Theatre Works presents Stephen Ad…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:17PMAn extraordinary show brings 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors, horses and artifacts from China to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 03:14PMChris Rock will join fellow original The Motherf**ker with the Hat Broadway cast members Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Annabella Sciorra for the L.A. Theatre Works production of t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMThe fourth season of the Fox hit musical series "Glee" will pick up Nov. 8. In anticipation of show's return, Playbill.com takes a look back at the musical performances from th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:10PMSignature Theatre Companys James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director Erika Mallin, Executive Director production of GOLDEN CHILD by David Henry Hwang and directed by Leigh Silverman runs th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07PMChris Rock will reprise his Broadway debut role in Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Mother.... With the Hat" for six performances at L.A. Theatre Works, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The production will be a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:07PMTheresa Rebeck’s new comedy DEAD ACCOUNTS, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, doesn’t begin previews until next Saturday, November 3, but you can catch the cast in …
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 03:06PMJennifer Mawhinney and Melissa Oei. Photo by David Cooper.She Stoops...SHE CONQUERS!!!by David C. Jones@iamdavidcjonesIt was tough going off the top of She Stoops to Conquer; written in…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 03:00PMWhen the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
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David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child is serving up a heaping dose of family drama at off-Broadway’s Square Signature Center, and we’ve got a colorful first look at the new revi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:59PMGet caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me tossing in my two cents. This week, by…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:58PMThe man who delivered a big "F**k You" to the world with his 2010 hit single is doing a Christmas special?According to TVGuide.com, CeeLo Green has recorded the new holiday-themed CeeLo's Ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:52PMThe New Group presents the first production in its 2012-2013 season, the world premiere of The Good Mother, a new play by Francine Volpe. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production features …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:47PMFrom its home in a lesser-known Washington — Washington Depot, that is, the small town in western Connecticut — the dance company Pilobolus has thrown itself into the election. Spelling …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:45PMChris Rock, who made his Broadway debut in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Motherf***er with the Hat, will reunite with his previously announced former castmates Bobby Cannavale and Elizabeth Rodr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:41PMOn Twitter Watch, Michael Moses wrote Time for a little clarity. End credits aren't on yet but the running time of LES MISRABLES without them is 232.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:40PMCyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays will be offered at The Beacon Theatre Dec. 8.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:36PMThe Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time of the season to decide the eligibility of four Broadway productions for the 2013 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards. The …
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 02:30PMDeadline reports that TV Land will soon play host to a 'Cheers' reunion. Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman, co-stars of the long-running NBC comedy will be joining forces on a new Broadway-them…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:27PMTHEATER REVIEW: Mike Birbiglia's "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" at the Biograph ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: Mike Birbiglia's "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" at the Biograph ★★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMThe lack of real drama on TV attracts eyeballs, performances reveal dangers
Precisely how much the four televised debates really influenced the 2012 presidential election remains to be seen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:26PMHere’s Part Three of meeting the cast of The Washington Savoyard’s The Rocky Horror Shows. Today: meet Ryan Patrick Welsh. My name is Ryan Patrick Welsh. I graduated from Catholi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMHarvey Fierstein, Audra McDonald, Linda Lavin, Eddie Redmayne and Raúl Esparza were part of Perfectly Marvelous: The Songs of Cabaret with Anne Hathaway and Friends Oct. 24 at Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:20PMAs five stagings of ‘Uncle Vanya’ hit UK theatres in a few months, why, asks Sarah Hemming, does its existential gloom speak to us so profoundly?
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 02:10PMThree shows I saw within a week or so of one another adapted literary works by well-known authors to the stage for the first time: Jonathan Franzen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rona Jaffe. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PMIn this week's edition, we caught up with J. Elaine Marcos, who is starring as 'Lily St. Regis' in ANNIE- currently in previews at the Palace Theatre, and opening on November 8.
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In the latest installment of The Road to Chicago, Billy Ray Cyrus gets ready to "Razzle Dazzle" as Chicago's new leading man. Watch him discover what it means to have a great s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PMWhen I first began my internship at The Culture Capital Exchange I didn’t expect to be exploring the history of Terezin concentration camps, or that my introduction to this subject would b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:53PMTwo 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 opened Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMFilm icon and best-selling author Carrie Fisher, who brought her show Wishful Drinking to Broadway, has returned to the stage with her new act Any Questions?, which is playing a limited run …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMA RUSH TO DOOM As the breathless title suggests, there’s nothing placid or contained about Liz Duffy Adams’ hyper-poetic hybrid of interior monologues and frantic dialogue. The metaphori…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46PMSo can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production? Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he wa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:45PMVineyard Theatre is extending its world-premiere run of Oscar nominee Douglas McGrath's play Checkers, about Pat and Dick Nixon, by two weeks, now through Dec. 2. The Terry Kinney-direct…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:41PMTony Award® winner Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles) dazzles Broadway audiences again in this delightful new production of the timeless classic Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Jamie Lloyd …
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:30PMA powerful and sexy new comedy from the creator of “Smash.” Jeff Goldblum is no “easy A”. When his Seminar turns writing into a contact sport, words and sex become in…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:28PMTom Hanks was the surprise guest on last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central. The actor stopped by to share some inexpensive Halloween costume ideas that would make for a 'spooktacu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:26PMPlaying at International City Theatre in Long Beach, CA October 9 – November 4, 2012 Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. & Murray Horwitz Directed by Saundra McClain Musical Direction…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:25PMMichael Attenborough’s final season at London’s Almeida Theatre will include Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, directed by Lindsay Posner. This new stage adaptation from Rebecca Lenk…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMOh, My Goddess, a new musical from members of the Brooklyn-based, doo-wop-style vocal group The Tokens, is given a New York City reading Oct. 26.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMHurricane prompts postponement of ‘Ask Chazz’ benefit Chazz Palminteri in his Bedford home office. With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the Eastern seaboard, Westchester Broadway…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:21PMCheckers, starring Tony winner Anthony LaPaglia, has extended its off-Broadway run by an additional two weeks through December 2 at Vineyard Theatre. The political drama is currently still i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:20PMDouglas McGrath's new play Checkers, starring Anthony LaPaglia as Richard Nixon, will now run an additional two weeks at The Vineyard Theatre. The production, currently in previews with an o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:18PMNY1's Frank DiLella recently stopped by the Halloween themed staple -- the "Nightmare" Haunted House -- which is back up and running on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
SOURCE: NY1 at 01:17PMVersatile actor who for many years was closely associated with Alan AyckbournElizabeth Bell, who has died aged 71 of cancer of the oesophagus, was an accomplished and versatile act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMSo you've already put on the mask as the Phantom, defied gravity as Elphaba, spooned out medicine as Mary Poppins and exhausted your silver shoe options as Velma Kelly. It's tim…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:05PMEmotional Creature, the new play by Tony-winning playwright, activist and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, begins performances on October 26. Playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:04PMThe Friday, November 9th performance of Broadways CHAPLIN at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street, will benefit the NYC Firefighters charity, Lil Bravest Inc., which raises money for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:02PMGreg Romero Hometown: Greenwell Springs, Louisiana. Current Town: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am cleaning up the Schuylkill River in Phila…
SOURCE: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ at 01:02PMTweetLast weekend was The Miss Adams Morgan Pageant that takes place in Washington DC each year. Unlike other drag shows or pageants, this one is a star studded event with over 1,000 people …
SOURCE: Broadway Reviewed at 01:01PMGlengarry, Glen Ross star Richard Schiff has gone mad with power...on Twitter.The award-winning actor, perhaps best known for his performance as Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, reportedly has…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00PMAcclaimed illustrator Ken Fallin's drawings of the greatest stars and scenes of the theatrical world are a recurring part of Playbill.com.
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Barbra Streisand, in town for her big concert Friday night at the United Center, took time out to catch daughter-in-law Diane Lane starring in “Sweet Bird of Youth” at the Goodman Theatr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:56PMWith over 50 professional stage companies and nearly 1,000 members in the Actors’ Equity union, theater in Philadelphia is undeniably booming. Proof? In addition to the Barrymore Award…
SOURCE: backstage.com at 12:54PMSinger and pop icon Barbra Streisand took in the Goodman Theatre production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" Thursday night, the theater confirmed Friday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:51PMThe scene is both iconic and misleading. The hats at Royal Ascot were rarely black and white. But when famed costume designer Cecil Beaton depicted aristocrats in achromatic ensembles for th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:45PMHalloween Haunted Houses, Village Halloween Parade, Halloween at the Bronx Zoo and Coney Island Ascarium
SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:45PMThe new Broadway musical Chaplin, based on the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin, will host a benefit performance Nov. 9 for the NYC Firefighters charity, Lil' Bravest Inc., which ra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMScandalous star Carolee Carmello kicks off her video blog series, Follow Me, with an inside look at the crazy changes, devilish temptations and backstage fracas of being in pr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PM- Best known in our area as the choreographer of those show-stopping numbers at Arena Stage for Oklahoma! and The Music Man, Parker Esse returns to give back to the talented students at Cath…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PMStage and screen star Gretchen Mol is heading to off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre on October 29, and we’ve got a sultry sneak peek of the actress in Francine Volpe’s new thrill…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PMChicago actress Natasha Lowe, acclaimed for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the David Cromer-directed revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Writers’ Theatre several seasons back,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:40PMWild With Happy, a new play by writer/performer Colman Domingo and currently in performances at the Public Theater, is a bit like Disney World, the final destination of the play’s road tri…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:31PMHelena Bonham Carter, who along with her on-screen husband Sacha Baron Cohen will belt out the showstopping number 'Master Of The House', revealed that one reason she took on the role was be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMThe producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play by Rick Elice which tells the back story of Peter Pan, announced today that the show will host a post-perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMTony Award winner Alan Cumming has been tapped to return as the host of the 2012 Britannia Awards when the ceremony is held in Los Angeles on November 7. Among the presenters at the event ar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:28PMAmerican Dance Machine for the 21st Century, an organization committed to preserving the heritage of musical film and theatre choreography, will stage recreations of work by Susan Stroman, J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:27PMSometimes you really do want to go where everybody knows your name. Former Cheers barflys Rhea Perlman and Kirstie Alley will reunite Alley’s previously announced TV Land sitcom G…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:26PMElection fever is sweeping the country - and it's also taken hold of Neverland You have until Monday to cast your vote in the Neverland Primaries. The candidates will then been narrowed down…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:25PMTheatre Royal Stratford East, LondonAlthough this is the third of Martina Cole's bestselling crime thrillers to be presented at this theatre, it is my first acquaintance with her work. While…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMThis was my first experience with Teatro de la Luna, which now celebrates its 15th year, and after tonight’s stunning performance by Noelia Fernández and Esther Aja in Cartas de las Golon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PMA SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Faith by Evelina Fernandez, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, is a sensitive portrayal of a Mexican-American family in the 1940’s. Good performances and a smart use o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:19PMHave you seen a Broadway production recently? Maybe it made you feel excited, teary, or nostalgic? Broadway’s Best Shows would love to hear your thoughts on shows you’ve seen in …
SOURCE: Broadway’s Best Shows at 12:17PMTheater Resources Unlimited TRU, now celebrating its 21st year as a not-for-profit service organization, has announced a lineup of Broadway stars performing at their annual TRU Love Benefit,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:15PMJan Kallish, who has served as executive director of the Victory Gardens Theater since 2009, and helped oversee a major period of transition at the organization, will be leaving her position…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:14PMGary Cole, who recently starred Off-Broadway in the Signature Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Sam Shepard's Heartless, will play a recurring role on the new season of HBO's Ve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:10PMSpending a solid 90 minutes perched on the edge of the brain of a genius might not be a restful exercise. But if the brain in question happens to belong to that highly original, playfully un…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:06PMBaba Israel has announced his resignation as artistic director of Contact in Manchester - he will be leaving the venue on 17 December 2012 for "personal reasons".
Israel has been in the pos…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:02PMOprah Winfrey's Harpo Films has teamed with playwright Thomas Bradshaw, whose Job was recently given its New York premiere at Off Off-Broadway's Flea, to develop a new hour-long HBO …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02PMHappy Birthday Anthony Rapp An actor since the age of six, Rapp has appeared on Broadway in Precious Sons Outer Critics Circle Award, Six Degrees of Separation and the revival of You're a Go…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMAustin Pendleton will step into the role of Lebedev beginning today, Friday, October 26, in his production of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov at Classic Stage Company. He will replace veteran ac…
SOURCE: Theater Advisor at 12:00PMThe sprawl of Edna Ferber's "Giant" — the character-rich novel of cattle, oil and race, best known as a movie — gets a Texas-sized musical makeover by Michael John …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMManuel HarlanLuke Treadaway as Christopher Boone, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Filming a staged production, such as a play, and then editing the footage into a "movi…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 12:00PMBroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ Rush, Lottery amp Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 10262012.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMStage veteran Grant Gustin will be reprising his role as Sebastian for a multi-episode arc on the FOX hit GLEE, according to TVLine.com.Gustin – whose credits include the national tour of …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM
The Friday, November 9th 8pm performance of Broadway’s CHAPLIN at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street, will benefit the NYC Firefighters’ charity, Lil’ Bravest Inc., which rais…
SOURCE: BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN at 11:56AMJust as there would have been a time that you would have never predicted that Roger Miller would win a Tony for Best Score -- or that Sally Field would take home a couple of Oscars -- you pr…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:55AMTwin Cities dance troupe explores human behavior and the psyche in a bold, smart world premiere.
SOURCE: StarTribune at 11:55AMNew Theatre is winding up its run of Willy Russell's Educating Rita at Miami's Roxy Performing Arts Center this weekend, with performances at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. …
SOURCE: Miami Herald at 11:52AMWhen you do high-intensity cheerleading stunts eight times a week, you deserve a little ice cream on your day off. The leaping ladies of Bring It On: The Musical took a much-deserved trip to…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:51AMLincoln Center Theater's 75th anniversary Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, starring Anthony Crivello, Seth Numrich, Tony Shalhoub and Danny Burstein, will begin previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:51AMLibra Theater Company will present Poems & Moon Songs, an evening of songs by composer Will Reynolds, Nov. 10-12 at New York City's Underground Lounge.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:45AMHayley Atwell is to star in a new three-part crime drama for ITV1. Life of Crime is being made by Ecosse Films and follows a policewoman over three decades working for the Metropolitan Polic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMThis week's topics Broadway shows became tourist attractions, Nudity on Stage, DROOD Audience Voting Result Chart, Best use of audience participation, miscasting that damaged a show, Anne Ha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:36AMDumbing down Shakespeare, cheap tickets for under 26 year-olds, not another Spooks and welcome return of Edna O'Brien
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMMiddleton's depraved and sticky mess of a play has here been well transplanted to the creaking beauty of a Hoxton Music Hall. Suba Das' vision of demented Victoriana, with sword-cane, white …
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 11:32AMAcademy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck," The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore) will star in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children for Sha…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:29AMOpera House, Wexford : Chabrier's 1887 comic opera has enjoyed a limited career inside his native France as elsewhere. Seeing Thaddeus Strassberger's busy production (shared with t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMHIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Broadway welcomes Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, theater stars bowl for charity, Avenue Q celebrates milestone anniversary and so much more
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMA new £10,000 writers prize launched by the BBC and National Theatre Wales earlier this year has been presented to playwright Katherine Chandler. The Wales Drama Award has been described as…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMWe knew it wouldn’t take long before the news of a single Blaine (Darren Criss) would bring Dalton Academy bad boy Sebastian (Grant Gustin) back to Glee. Gustin will return to the seri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:23AMHampstead Theatre Studio, London: At a time when journalists are thought as untrustworthy as politicians Blue Sky's premise feels idealised - an investigative journalist doing whatever …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMThe divine Bette Midler hasn’t been on Broadway since 1979, but all that could change if one Tony Award-winning playwright gets his way.
John Logan, who won the 2010 Tony for Best P…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:22AMZoe Wanamaker will star in a West End revival of Peter Nichols’s black comedy Passion Play, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. The play will be staged by David Leveaux, who direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21AMSelf-proclaimed “living legend” (and soon-to-be Lucky Guy star) Tom Hanks made a surprise trip to The Colbert Report on October 25 in honor of Stephen Ghoulbert’s Spooky-Ti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:19AMThe new musical Soap Dish, featuring a score by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, receives a starry New York reading Oct. 25 and 26. Cast member John Stamos and director Rob Ashford posed for…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMNova Y. Payton will play Effie White, the most turbulent of the Dreamgirls in the Signature Theatre's holiday-season revival of the 1981 musical, in Arlington, VA. Associate artistic dir…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:18AMOctober 26, 2012 Xavier R., a student at High Horizons Magnet School, Keira S., a student at Discovery Magnet School, Angel P., a student at Nichols Elementary School, and Brenda Y., a stud…
SOURCE: Westport Country Playhouse at 11:16AMIn this week's edition of 'School in the Spotlight', we feature the Performing Arts Department at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMHow beatboxers, actors, dancers, choreographers, and composers are collaborating on an ambitious new hip hop play — How do seven people collaborate on a play and end up with a cohesive…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:11AMSelections from the Minnesota Opera production of Doubt, featuring a book by Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley and a score by Douglas J. Cuomo, will be presente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:09AMYesterday, I chatted about the next current generation of Broadway group audiences, aka The Party Market. Today I’m going to give you five tips about those party people that will hopef…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface of how we get our customers to think of Broadway as a party destination when they are looking to celebrate an event…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
I can’t think of a better place on earth to watch these horror classics than the atmospheric old Loew’s Jersey, in Journal Square (Jersey City). for full details go to www.loewsj…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:57AMDue to overwhelming demand, SILENCE! The Musical has just added two performances to the weekly playing schedule (as of October 23rd) at the Elektra Theatre in Times Square: Tuesdays at 7 PM …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMRattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long present the American premiere of Jon Fosses A Summer Day, translated and directed by Sarah…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:53AMAs Michael Morpurgo's War Horse gallops on to stages from Berlin to Melbourne, we are reminded of the great value of time, experimentation and supportive fundingWar Horse celebrates its fift…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMPOMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Box by box they arrived, the once glittering costumes of Broadway legends and theatre memorabilia, now dirty, tattered and forgotten. There were painstakingly ha…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:49AMStand Alone Songs About and Written By Losers, an evening of new songs by Sam Salmond, will be presented on Monday, November 12 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Show time is 930pm.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:44AMOn Twitter Watch, Jeremy Jordan wrote Another early morning at NBCSmash playing piano like a mad man. They keep making me do this, I may become half decent
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:37AMHere's my latest review for TheaterMania: Something's Afoot at the venerable Goodspeed Opera House. Did I find the comic murder mystery either funny or mysterious? Click here to find out.
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 10:36AMSomehow he went from being the most beautiful child in the world, to this man. Did he spit in the face of a witch? Today is the birthday of Star of Vaudeville #380: Jackie Coogan (see prev…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:32AMThanks to an extremely fortunate email on Temple University's ListServ, I was hired as the assistant stage manager for First World Theatre Ensemble's 2012 – 2013 season, and it has been su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:30AMDuring the unending hubbub and hullabaloo that swirled around Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark during its first, turbulent year of Broadway existence, it was easy to forget the playwright Glen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:28AMIt seems that any biographer of Lorenz Hart has to deal with a basic difficulty: relatively little is known about Hart's private life. Although his public life was well-documented, his priva…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:24AMGee, you folks really like lists, don't you? Well, I'm more than happy to comply. I recently posted this semester's list of the "most overrated" musicals, as selected and defended by my curr…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 10:23AMTony Award-nominated "Glee" star Matthew Morrison's Nov. 16 solo concert at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT, will be filmed by PBS for future airing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMThe French actress and model Clémence Poésy talks about growing up with “Cyrano,” life in New York and her unconventional beauty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:16AMNicole Parker, whose Broadway credits include Wicked, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and The People in the Picture, will go it solo Oct. 28 at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:16AMThe saying “The only way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” seems to have been tailor-made for American cooking icon James Beard. In Round House Bethesda’s newly opened…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMPhiladelphia Theatre Company's world premiere musical Stars of David, based on Abigail Pogrebin's collection of interviews, asks a whole lot of famous people a single question: How do you fe…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 10:11AMLast night (25 October 2012) stars were out in force to see the fifth anniversary gala performance of War Horse at the New London Theatre.Based on the best-selling children's novel by Michae…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 10:10AMThe revival of The Heiress, now in previews at the Walter Kerr, officially opens on Broadway Nov. 1. The production stars Jessica Chastain, David Strathairn and Dan Stevens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:08AMA musical about Nirvana and its frontman Kurt Cobain may be coming to Broadway. The news comes from a somewhat strange place: a courtroom. SPIN reports that music manager Sam Lufti revealed …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 10:00AMThese are the tweets of the week. Hilarious little gems and lovely notes from some of our Broadway favorites in 140 characters or less.
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 10:00AMMarc Bamuthi Joseph’s new theatrical work was inspired when he noticed that his students, who performed poems at environmental-movement events, were often the only black people there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMTony Award-winning playwright John Logan is developing an untitled, one-woman show about the late Sue Mengers, with hopes of Bette Midler taking on the role of the Hollywood agent, according…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:00AM
Talk about method acting! To prepare for playing the despicable Madame Thenardier in the upcoming Les Miserables movie, Helena Bonham Carter had to learn the ways of the wicked inn-keeper, w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:58AMAlright…this is the second time WordPress has eaten part of one of my reviews somewhere in the draft stage. I am attempting to recreate my brilliant post of 5am this morning from memor…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:57AMCatholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music mounts a fabulous production of Finian’s Rainbow for its fall musical, with additional actors from Howard University and Duke E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMAn evening of new songs by Sam Salmond will be presented Nov. 12 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:51AMSeveral camels, sheep, and a donkey are getting ready for their big debut in the 2012 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which plays Radio City Music Hall from November 9 to December 30.The an
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:50AMWhodunnit? Who cares?
That's the impression I was left with at the end of
Something's Afoot a a trifle of a musical murder mystery by James McDonald, David Vos, and Robert Gerlach, current…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:48AMA memorial service for Tony winner Martin Pakledinaz, who passed away from brain cancer July 8 at age 58, will be held in November.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:46AMThe lack of crucial chemistry largely dooms *Burn This*. Without the palpably sizzling sex (or threat thereof), this piece becomes a lengthy slog of dialogue that’s neither meaningful nor …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 09:43AMBaby Peggy (Peggy-Jean Montgomery, born this day in 1918) began her career as a child star in silent movies at the age of three (her father had been a stunt man and stand-in for Tom Mix). Sh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:35AMLondon's Almeida Theatre has announced three productions for the first half of 2013: The Turn of the Screw will be adapted from Henry James' 1898 novella of the same name by Rebecca …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29AMZoë Wanamaker will return to the West End in a new production of Peter Nichols' Passion Play, beginning performances May 1, 2013, prior to an official opening May 7 at the Duke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:28AMLilian Baylis Studio, London: I thought the best thing about the new programme of Jonzi D's work was poet and songstress OneNess Sankara, after she performed a work with incredible stru…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMAs Big, The Musical-TYA concludes its run this weekend at Adventure Theatre-MTC, I had a chance to interview the five talented young members of the cast: Brendan DeBonis, Marley McKay,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMA new musical version of “The Bodyguard” is set to premiere at London’s West End next month. The stage production, based on the 1992 movie of the same name that starred Whitney Houston…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 09:00AM
Michael Riedel reports in today's New York Post that Bette Midler is the top candidate to play legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers on Broadway in a new play by Tony-winner John Logan. Ried…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AM"The Sessions" quietly and lovingly engages humor, philosophy, sexuality, and spirituality to create a poetic meditation on the nature of physical love and emotional connection.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:53AMIf done properly the Scottish Play already is a gorefest. The Crook Theatre Company promises to dial that aspect up a notch in this “horror-inspired” production…and to do s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:47AMUnlike a recent commenter on this blog, I still believe in the necessity for the purpose-built structure for theatre, the stage; I even believe in the ability of the single-set, small-cast p…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AMTheatre Royal Haymarket, London : Performed in the afternoon in the public spaces of the Theatre Royal Haymarket - current home of One Man, Two Guvnors - in its opulent bars and corridors, o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMAt a time when we can create almost anything we can imagine through the wonder of CGI, it’s nice every now and then to get back to the basics of storytelling. And what could be more basic …
SOURCE: TheTheatreSource at 08:13AMThe stereotypical image of the English Civil War is that of clumsy Roundheads and graceful Cavaliers – when I think of this period, it’s Keeping Up Appearance‘s pageant, in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AMThe cast and creative team met the press earlier today and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say below
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMI have to admit it's been a busy last couple of weeks, with much busier ones on the horizon. I've been preparing for a reading of one of my own plays set for November, in addition to launchi…
SOURCE: Emerging Musical Theatre at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 26 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLondoners – or those willing to cross the pond – have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMGranite City native cobbled together clips of fan reaction.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 08:00AM
Are critics honoring "Disgraced"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:57AMNEW YORK (AP) — Internationally renowned Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse's circuitous, repetitive dialogue can leave an audience lost at sea. His memory play, "A Summer Day," i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:48AMThere's twisted music hall in London's East End to mark Halloween, while Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots meet at last on stage at the Arts Theatre
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMToday is the birthday of Margaret Wycherly (1881-1956). Born in London, she began her stage career in 1898. She made her vaudeveville debut in 1906 in a Protean act called “In Self De…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:38AMSam Lufti reveals plans for stage show about Nirvana frontman while under oath as part of lawsuit against Britney SpearsCourtney Love is allegedly planning a musical based on her relationshi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:35AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton: Kate Saxon first displayed her directing skills to Royal Theatre audiences with The Years Between, here she returns with Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMI was a bit startled to read in the program that John Fosse is considered one of the worlds finest contemporary playwrights, as I'd never heard of him before. I'm a little closer to understa…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:25AMTheatre Royal Stratford East: Martina Cole's uber-popular crime novels have spent more time at the top of the original fiction chart than the works of Dan Brown, John Grisham and Lee Ch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMLyric, Belfast: The haunting publicity image is of three faceless women, swathed in plastic raincoats, standing in a gloomy underpass. And now we understand why. Lynne Parker's fascinat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMBy Johnny Oleksinski In an bold move to engage with a broader constituency than the usual operagoing public, Lyric Opera will present the Midwest premiere of José “Pepe” Martí…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:14AMUstinov Studio, Bath: The third of artistic director Laurence Boswell's extended seasons of UK premieres at the Ustinov (this one branded 'The Transformation Season') hits its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMany theatergoers will remember the silver-haired gentleman in black who served as house manager for many years at the Prince Music Theater, 1416 Chestnut St., and greeted one and all with b…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:07AMPlaying the stylish but shallow Cher in “Clueless” made Alicia Silverstone famous as a film actress in the ’90s.
But the 36-year-…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFaye Dunaway’s 1966 face, projected as big as a billboard, stares out, frozen, at the moment just before she’s killed in “Bonnie and Clyde” as part of the scenery in “House for Sal…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM
This 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 01:30AMThe Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis Executive Director Patrick Willingham will begin previews for the New York premiere production of GIANT, an epic love story with book by Syb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMJoin Tony Award-winning Broadway star Alice Ripley Next to Normal as she performs songs from her recent albums and more at White Plains Performing Arts Center tonight, October 26 at 8 p.m.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:30AMToday's Wall Street Journal drama column is devoted in its entirety to the Irish Repertory Theatre's off-Broadway revival of Brian...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMIn today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I consider what happens when modern-minded directors go too far in tampering with...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMJacques Barzun, author of Berlioz and the Romantic Century, The House of Intellect, From Dawn to Decadence, and many other...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AM"Everything comes if a man will only wait." Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred...
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00AMStarlight Theatre's 2013 will include two touring productions and four shows produced or co-produced by Starlight.
SOURCE: The Kansas City Star at 01:00AMChasing Handsome with 'Chasing Mavericks' Stars Gerard Butler & Jonny Weston
We're hangin' ten at the Studio as the devilishly handsome duo of Gerard Butler and Jonny Weston stop by to discu…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMThe "Bizarre" Culinary Adventures of Andrew Zimmern
You'd be hard-pressed to find someone with a more adventurous appetite than Andrew Zimmern! We sit down with the "Bizarre Foods" host in h…
SOURCE: Young Hollywood at 01:00AMOur staff recommends "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Wizard of Oz" and the Great Pumpkin Carve and Glow.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 01:00AM
One's relationship with God is a very personal matter. So it's only fitting that the best moments in Craig Wright's majorly misguided new play Grace occur in monologues. Karl, a German exter…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 12:41AMKatie Holmes made a public appearance last night for the new Broadway play in which she will shortly open, called “Dead Accounts.” Katie, playwright Theresa Rebeck and director J…
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:35AMPerformances begin on October 26 for the Public Theater’s Giant, a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name. Brian d’Arcy James and Kate Baldwin lead…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMA new stage adaptation of James Jones’ classic 1951 novel From Here to Eternity is set to open at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre in fall 2013. Featuring lyrics by Tim Rice, music b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21AMGreat works of art can profit from radical reinterpretations that fling conventional wisdom out the window. Playwrights and their posthumous representatives should lighten up and let directo…
SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:19AMTONY-winning playwright John Logan is at work on a onewoman show about Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers, who died last year.
And he wants Bette Midler to play her.
Midler hasn’t done a Br…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMYou have to hand it to Karen Allen: The once-heroine of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” made a brave choice for her return to the stage after an 11-year absence. Instead of a familiar vehicle …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:09AMRing 'Round RobertLepage's Wagner, Wagner's Lepageby Gaëtan L. CharleboisUnlike many proud Canadians, I am rarely delighted by two cultural icons: Cirque du Soleil and Robert Lepage. In bot…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMDastardly deeds! Shady Characters! Personal Attacks! Secrets! Lies! Mayhem! An unpredictable ending determined by democratic vote! The U.S. presidential election and The Mystery of Edwin Dro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEmotional Creature, the new play by Eve Ensler that had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in June, resurfaces Off-Broadway Oct. 26. Ensler, the Tony Award-honored playwright, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Town Hall's Eighth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes Oct. 26 at 8 PM with The Best of Broadway By The Year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAsk Playbill.com answers your (and sometimes our own) theatre-related questions. To ask a question, email [email protected]. Please specify how you would like your name displayed and …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAbingdon Theatre Company launches its 20th anniversary season of new American plays with the world premiere of Mike Vogel's March Madness. Performances begin Oct. 26, prior to an of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHalloween Hullabaloo, a holiday musical revue featuring a book, music and lyrics by Jennifer Winegardner (The Awesome 80s Prom), is presented Oct. 26-31 at the Joria Theatre in NYC.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOne Man, Two Guvnors cast member Brian Gonzales, David Coffee and Bryant Martin portray America's forefathers in the Lyric Stage production of the Tony Award-winning musical 1776, which …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award nominee Marin Ireland assumes the crown in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette, which begins performances Oct. 26 in New Haven, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGiant, the ambitious Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson musical based on Edna Ferber's sweeping Texas-set novel about love, greed and power that spans generations, receives its New Yo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMNews, views and reviews about the women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1844 William Harrigan, half of the iconic 1880s writing and performing team of Harrigan and Hart, is born today. He and Tony Hart will create the popular Mulligan Guards characters reflectin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMHow fitting that this week and next's HOT or NOT surveys celebrate Broadway's most democratic musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the same time that we Americans exercise our right t…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:00AMLegit News:
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